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I'm talking about games that you still like but you had no idea were criticized so much.

The perfect example for me is Sonic Unleashed.

I admit that the game has its bad things, but I would have never imagined that it was so hated at the time... Although, that could be extended to the entire Sonic franchise, since for many years I was not aware at all of that "Sonic was never good", "Sonic had a rough transition to 3D" nonsense.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Red Steel, actually. I'll admit to having fun memories of it from when the Wii launched.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Path of Exile

Good fun game, but online communities are committing to min/max the fun out out of it. I like blowing up monsters, I don't care about optimising my chaos-per-hour rate.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah it bothers me when the community for a game is like "{skill} is TRASH never use it" and when you do some digging you find it's like 2% less damage per second. Or it doesn't work well in NG+7. Some people are really obsessive about this stuff.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Unfortunately the game is specifically designed to waste your time if you want to see everything it has to offer. So it's not really the communities fault for pushing to maximize that time spent. Just a consequence of a deliberately slowed down system

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

But the point isn't to see everything. The feeling of FOMO is what's seems to drive people to madness. For a game that's been developed for over a decade with multiple cycles of content release every year; I'm not surprised that people don't get a chance to see everything. I see that as a positive and not a negative.

Other games do similar things. I play a lot of Dead Cells and can't get beyond 4BC. Most people will never get to end game content to see all bosses or unlock all items. Who cares. As long as the game is fun.

My first play through of PoE was with no guides. I made it up as I went along. Had a terrible "build". I enjoyed taking weeks to get through the campaign slowly and reading all the lore. Every league I played, I got deeper and deeper into the content....learning to make tons of currency, getting a character to lvl 100, etc. It has been great playing it off and on. The game is fun without experiencing "everything". But if I ever engaged with the online community, all I would hear is "I've played 3000 hours and this game is shit".

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Who told you this masterpiece of a game was bad?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Maybe they mean before the stealth rebalance.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II. Bought of for 9€ and had a lot of fun with it. Sure, the story was not as good as the first one and it's a lot shorter, but the new gameplay was great and it has a much better final boss than the first game.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I was just really really disappointed with the controls on the Wii. The first one was so intuitive and they just went and changed it for no reason.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

The GBA game for Avatar: the Last Airbender. Tried to revisit it as an adult, couldn't find any reviews for it online. Apparently it was so obviously shovelware thay nobody gave it the time of day.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Killzone. I really, really loved the story and level design, but everything was shit. Someone pointed it out to me and I suddenly seen everything wrong with the game hahha.

There was this one glitch where the first shot from the Helghast rifle was 100% accurate which I used and abused to absolutely destroy people in multiplayer games.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Industria, I really really love it but it turns out it's not particularly well reviewed. I've always wanted a game that felt like Simon Stålenhag's paintings and that game is actually specifically inspired by his work.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

call of duty world war 2. my favorite one (mostly cause its the only one im actually good at haha) but a lot of people hated it

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

That reminded me that Sonic Unleashed was the only game I ever got refunded.

I bought the game to play with my kids, expecting a colorful and fun Sonic game. I quickly realized it was quite different, much more violent than I expected. So I traded it for Sonic Colors, which was a bit more kid friendly.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The last actually ambitious Sonic game imo

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

If it was for me I'd welcome with the darker mood, but the game was for my kids.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Drakensang 1

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

On the topic of Sonic Unleashed, I played it as a kid on the Wii and actively disliked it because it just seemed sad and freaky to see Sonic effectively become mutated.

To give some idea, back then I had no internet so whatever games we had, I always gave a good go and I'd always play even the most mediocre of games.

We also had Sonic Colors and that game just felt the total opposite: very positive, lots of eye candy, arcadey, very much enjoyed it as a kid.

Some 20 years later and I'm speaking to a Sonic fan and they bring up how they've played every single game including Unleashed, and it was the only one they hated, which made me realise I'm not the only one.


To answer your question, I'd say Shrek for the Xbox - I did enjoy Shrek 2 more than the original game as a kid, but I also didn't mind the original either.

Once I had internet, I saw plenty of references to the original game as the butt of jokes and an example of what games should not be, and honestly those criticisms were valid.

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