Battlefield 1, I liked its slower-paced combat and need for teamwork for things like ships and the heavy bomber (original, not the super heavy).

It was different than almost all contemporary shooters, and I really found that refreshing. It also had a strong art design and really looked the part for WW1, even if some of the weapons were prototypes or team weapons (which should have been cut, imo) or vehicles were tweaked for gameplay (understandable, the German tanks were extremely tippy, and the French tanks were slower IRL)

The first Deus Ex game I played was Deus Ex: Invisible War on the original Xbox, which I loved. It's the first foray into cyberpunk for me and sparked a love of it I've had since. It was not well received, and considered a dumbed down version of the original game.

Still love it. The Arcology in Cairo was my favorite part.

Unironically ET on the Atari 2600

Had a lot of fun as a kid, sure it wasn't Pitfall or F1 Racing but it was one of the few adventures on the 2600 and it wasn't terrible

RuneScape 😅

Dark Souls 2 was the first and only Soulslike game I played... Was a great experience and a good time killer during my summer break (when I still had one). Only later did I learn how poorly ppl thought of the game

Mass Effect Andromeda. I plaid it well after launch after the initial "problems" were fixed, and I think it's a good game. I just wish we'd get a sequel.

None. I couldn't care less about people hating the games I enjoy.

The Sniper Elite series, and to a lesser extent the Sniper Ghost Warrior series. Also, the True Crime series. I think all of those games are a ton of fun, I enjoyed playing them all and still do sometimes but they had very mixed reviews.

Fallout 4. game was pretty decent but the pacing was weird. by pacing I mean the game seemed like it was set out in a way that you wouldn't complete the game until you were many levels up from what I was, so many upgrades that took a lot of caps left unlockable, and by the time I felt I was really starting to get somewhere, the game ended with the Institute ending

Digimon World 4.

Granted, I was a child when I played it, and I remember having a grand whole time.

Years later I found a few YouTubers shitting on it due to bugs, recycled assets, lack of digivolutions, shitty camera angles, spammy gameplay, etc etc.

I agree with all of these criticisms and in hindsight yea that game was really lazy. However, I still had a good time.

Sonic Adventure 2

I remember some people in Reddit not being too happy with It Takes Two.

We loved it and look forward to playing Split Fiction when we find the time.

The original iteration of no mans sky. Absolutely lied a shit ton about what was in the game but I really enjoyed my initial time with it.

Watch Dogs 1. It was quite fun for me, but quite a lot of people expected it to create a spark like GTA 5 back in the day, so when it didn't; they all criticized it to hell.

Mass Effect: Andromeda - I knew 1 & 2 were held in high regard, but I hadn't played them. Actually, I'd played about 10 minutes of one of them a couple years before and it just wasn't what I was in the mood for at that time. So, I went into Andromeda without any expectations really and thought it was a perfectly fine game.

Interestingly, the two example you shared (Sonic Unleashed and the whole Sonic franchise being bad) are likely a good example of "hanging with the bad crowd". Unleashed is… not great, in my opinion, but the whole franchise? Please. We're not talking Sonic06 level of horrible decisions.

Another view on this is, if you enjoy something, and people have to tell you it's bad just so you know, it can't be that bad. People enjoy different things, and seriously, the toxicity of large communities is the worst thing ever. At this point, even with what seems to be "unanimously loved", you'll be able to find a large enough group of people happy to tell you it's shit.

With that said, some games are really, really bad. But these games usually don't need to be pointed out for people to know.

edit: dang, that was full of typo.

COD Ghost. I loved the singleplayer storyline. Everyone hated the game for the storyline.

Breath of the Wild. It is such a good game and I really love it and I only have ever heard possitive things about... but than I met a bunch of old school Zelda fans and they don't like the game that much. They say it's a great game but not a Zelda game. Maybe they just wanted to be contrarian but I can also understand where they are comming from.

I am one of the 10 people on earth who really enjoyed playing Starfield. The space combat seemed like a love letter to the old Wing Commander series, the art design was beautiful, there was a lot of fun content. I think i made it to NG7 before they took it off the free to play. When it's on sale i can't wait to grab it.

by comparison i hated The Outer Worlds which was the first 'it's like fallout in space!' that was promised so i was tickled when Starfield actually was like fallout in space.

There's a lower budget game by Spiders called Technomancer that came out in 2016. It came up in my XBox game pass, so I played it before I read any reviews on it, and I honestly enjoyed the hell out of it.

I didn't find the combat stilted. It felt quite fun to work between three different fighting styles. The storyline was interesting and (to me anyway) original. And the Universe was pretty fun to play around in.