Games You Like But Everyone Else Hates

[moocow]

I liked Fallout 4 for what is was: an open world shoot & loot with very light RPG elements.

I really had a great time playing Fallout 4. To this day nothing cracks me up quite like taking an overpowered shotgun that doesn't need reloading plus the Bloody Mess perk in for close range combat against super mutants. They modeled the gibs right down to the eyeballs.

The Nuka Cola expansion was also really good, especially the hacked mascot tour guide robot that would periodically spout edgy anti-corporate drivel and the ability to bring gangs into the commonwealth to seriously piss off that Preston Garvey asshole.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

NightCaster on the original Xbox has been mostly forgotten, and not well liked by those who do remember it. It's not a great game, but I had fun with it.

Speaking of old Xbox games, the first Buffy game wasn't bad, it was part of the games that evolved from the 2D brawler into the 3D Character Action Game that DMC defined a year before that.

It wasn't great, it's clunky, it seemed like it should have more environmental interactions than they could fit in. When the environment works for the player it is awesome, like managing to launch a vampire at a wooden coat rack for an instant kill instead of having to beat them down and stake them. It happens rarely but it was a glimmer of the idea of zoning in a 3D brawler.

 

[Francis York Morgan]

The one game I get the most heat from people on is Chrono Cross. The soundtrack is spectacular, one of the best in gaming, and I feel that the battle system is pretty good once you get used to it. I also like the oddball cast (even with only a handful of them getting anything resembling development). I get that the story is a ridiculous mess but I feel like there's some interesting ideas there.

I think a lot of the hatred it gets is because it's not Chrono Trigger 2 (and it does shit on Chrono Trigger a bit). But that never bothered me much.

Another one that gets me grief is Star Ocean 3. I kind of like it for being a big, dumb, playable anime (and boy does that game get dumb).

 

[Dom Cruise]

I don't know if this is a game everyone hates so much as it's just been forgotten, but I am probably the world's biggest fan of Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko on the PS1.

For whatever reason it was one of the games I played on the PS1 that captivated me the most as a kid, maybe because all the level themes were cool and pretty atypical for the platformer genre at the time, you really didn't know what to expect, which created a great sense of discovery.

And I just loved Gex's wisecracks, some of which I didn't get until I replayed the game once as an adult.

I think it's a pretty decent 3D platformer of the era, though maybe not objectively great, but it's still one of my favorite games on the PS1.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

The Catwoman movie adaptation games weren't that bad. The level design was pretty creative, if not confusing sometimes for a movie adaptation, and the power, and move upgrades were a nice addition (even if some of them seemingly did nothing).

Don't get me wrong. They're not good games. They're really, really not. But for a game based on a movie, it's one of the better ones out there. I remember enjoying it when I was kid, and looking back at it now, I really don't think it deserves all the hate it gets. Especially when there's much, much worse movie adaptation games out there.

 

[BisquitDoughHandsMan]

Geist was fantastic. It's been so long since I've played it, I can't write my thesis on it, but I know I was pretty confused when I found out that everybody on the Internet hated it. Being a dog food bowl was cool!

 

[Niggernerd]

Caligula: Overdose
Chibi robo
Children of mana
Arc the lad

 

[The Great Chandler]

Geist. Their only complaint was that the controls were "clunky" even though 10 year old me was already used to it. Plus, a game were they try to weaponize ghosts is pretty damn metal!

 

[I can't imagine]

The one game I get the most heat from people on is Chrono Cross. The soundtrack is spectacular, one of the best in gaming, and I feel that the battle system is pretty good once you get used to it. I also like the oddball cast (even with only a handful of them getting anything resembling development). I get that the story is a ridiculous mess but I feel like there's some interesting ideas there.

I think a lot of the hatred it gets is because it's not Chrono Trigger 2 (and it does shit on Chrono Trigger a bit). But that never bothered me much.

Another one that gets me grief is Star Ocean 3. I kind of like it for being a big, dumb, playable anime (and boy does that game get dumb).

I feel like people are starting to turn around their opinions on Chrono Cross as time has passed. It's a lot easier to divorce it from Trigger now that it's been decades since either were released.

I've never really understood the hate for SO 3. Yes, it does affect the plots of the past and future games in a way that could rub people the wrong way, but at least the game managed to have something slightly different from the standard JRPG "big bad" at the end. And I probably had more fun with the item creation in it than any of the other games in the series.

One game that I do like that's generally hated is Too Human. The game is genuinely bad in multiple ways, but I actually really enjoyed the right-stick attack system, and the visual style was appealing. Whoever decided on that death cutscene can die in a fire, though.

 

[TrippinKahlua]

I really loved Bubsy when I was a kid, even though the whole internet doesn't.

My sister even recently told me she'd like to play it again and she's far from a traditional gamer.

 

[Ambidextype]

I liked Star Ocean 4 enough to finish the game and re-buy the game on the steam. Maybe it's because I played the game with Japanese voice on. I remember most of gamers trashing on the game for tired anime tropes.

 

[Someone in a Tree]

I enjoyed Yooka-Laylee for the most part. The people who disliked the game seem to fall into two camps: those who always hated collectathon style 3D platformers who see YL as the ultimate example of why the genre sucks, and Banjo-Kazooie fans who have let nostalgia cover up the flaws from those games. Yooka-Laylee is far from perfect, but I thought it did a solid job delivering what it promised. I haven’t played The Impossible Lair yet, but people seem to be more satisfied with it. I’m a big fan of the two recent Donkey Kong Country games (even more so than the ones Rare made), so I have no problem with someone shamelessly ripping them off if they do it well.

 

[kiwifarms]

Dragon City apknite - maybe I sent too many invitations to get gems and send eggs for my friends haha

 

[Webby's Boyfriend]

2D strategy games, flightsims and puzzles.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

I like MUDs.
Apart from actual fun(roleplay/gameplay) it's also a perfect source of potential lolcows because the semi-chatroom environment leads to people oversharing to their internet friends.

 

[Most Dumbest Bitch]

Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness - The gameplay mechanics are fucked, and the controls are so shitty it's downright unplayable - but I can't help enjoying the darker story and the feel that the game was going for. If it hadn't been rushed to market, I truly think it could've been one of the best Tomb Raider games ever.

The Sims 4 - Apparently, a lot of people consider it one of the worst games in the series, if not THE worst, but I actually think it's quite high up there due to its better graphics, pretty fantastic customization, and how involved the gameplay itself is. Granted, it has a LOT of problems, like the shitty optimization and the fact that basic game features like pools and TODDLERS were originally omitted, but I still think it's a far better game than Sims 3.

Smash 4 - This one may be a bit dicier, since it is, at the end of the day, still a game under the Smash title, but I often hear this game cited as the worst Smash game for being too easy. I personally don't really care about that, since I think the game's main purpose is to be playable and fun, which it was. It also fixed a lot of the problems from Brawl (NO MORE TRIPPING, thank god), and had way cleaner graphics and less clunky movements which streamlined the gameplay. It's my second favorite game in the Smash series, next to Smash Ultimate.

 

[Super Color Up]

Battleborn, it's only real crime being that it was Not-Overwatch and questionable character unlocking methods. (Which changed with the Winter update and made every character available from the start.)

Metal Gear Survive, because I had genuine fun with it, and I remain slightly salty that literally every reviewer spouted lies or presented disingenuous information regarding it. Because agenda's and "Not muh kojimbles" i guess.

Sonic Forces. Shit, I'm even in several Top Ten world records. It's decent. Not great, but not horrendous either. Perfectly serviceable 2-5 hour time waster.

No Man's Sky. Its literally much better now and what it should have been at launch, it's just unfortunate that once someone has an idea bout something, they hold onto that notion until the bitter end.

Crackdown 2. AKA "but i dont WANNA be evil!" fuck you, we never play evil factions enough. I'm tired of being La Resistance.

 

[Kulee Baba]

If you get past that it totally shits on the Hitman formula Hitman Absolution is actually a very polished enjoyable stealth game. And its framework gave us the Hitman soft reboot which I'll argue surpasses the prior highpoint Blood Money.

 

[Bluey]

I have a soft spot for DKC3.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

I like the FF7 remake. I know the game's not really a remake and is a sort of sequel to the original, or whatever, and that Square lied to us, but I still like it. I had fun.