Personally never had a problem with Victoria 3. A bit buggy on release but nothing game breaking
I really like the first Watchdogs, it’s by no means the game that was promised but it’s still great.
Watchdogs didn’t stand a chance trying to be a GTA competitor. That said being able to “hack” NPC’s and get a little blurb about their secrets was hilarious.
I agree, people focus too much on the gfx downgrade controversy.
Agreed I really loved that game as well
Beyond: Two Souls. I think the biggest issue was the marketing. They tried to pretend that it could appeal to a wider audience, but I knew what I was actually signing up for based on who made it. If you didn’t like Heavy Rain or Indigo Prophecy (aka Fahrenheit) then you also weren’t gonna like that one. It’s more of an interactive supernatural movie than a game. The gameplay is little more than QTE and wandering, but the story, acting, cinematography, and mocap are all really good or at least uniquely interesting for the medium, especially at the time. I still need to play Detroit too.
I wrote enjoyed that game! Didn’t know the reviews were not good.
Detroit Become Human is awesome
Elite dangerous. When you look past a lot of flaws, is just a very beautiful game
Postal 2. I mean, it’s not a great game by most metrics, but it’s stupid fun. Also the fact that it was basically made as a middle finger to Congress for being blamed for the Columbine shooting because their obscure PC game Postal (that would have otherwise died in obscurity because it was legit pretty lame) happened to feature a gunman in a trench coat. So at the same time everyone was clutching their pearls over the ability to pick up prostitutes in GTA, I was peeing gonorrhea pee on cops and then shooting them in the face with a shotgun on which a live cat acted as a silencer, and getting into machine gun fights with Gary Coleman.
Games are bad, they make you mad!
Do you wanna sign my petition?
I read this as Portal 2 and was really confused
I was 13 and still had a childlike sense of wonder when Spore came out so I have tons of nostalgia for it
Currently playing Redfall coop on Gamepass and am enjoying it. Level design is beautiful and fighting mercs and vampires is good fun. It’s set in a cozy New England seaside town that was taken over by vampires.
Remember Me
I guess barely anyone did
It’s a very pretty game set in cyberpunk Paris. The story is a bit shaky but it’s overall fun. Most of it is a combat based platformer, but it also has puzzle scenes where you have to go into people’s memories and manipulate them to cause a butterfly effect
Fallout 76. Granted, I played it almost a year after release.
I found it to be a very good game overall. Not as good as New Vegas or FO3, but I thought it was better than FO4.
Not a specific game, but Ive had this discussion before and been downvoted to shit for my stance. Ive bought plenty of not great games on extreme steam sale and I cant help but mentally review them on a dollars to enjoyment over time scale.
Was it a great game? Not really. Did I play it for 3 weekends? Yes. Did I get $10 of entertainment value out of it? Absolutely, it seems like I cant leave the house without spending $10. Thats significantly better value than how I feel about buying D4 at launch.
Star Wars Rebellion (or Star Wars Supremacy in Europe) had a GameRankings score of 50 but I had a blast with it. I must have had 200 hours in it over the years. As a 4X game, it’s definitely below average, and there’s zero challenge once you figure a few things out.
Where it succeded was by being a bit of a sandbox with a fun license. The soundtrack is phenomenal, there are recognizable names everywhere, and the moment when you get to go toe-to-toe with the Empire after scrapping together a fleet big enough is great. Problem is, it had a rough interface, obtuse mechanics, glacial pacing, and that epic fleet battle looked so bad it probably would have been better off being icons on a star field.
I also think Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (72) and Rune Factory 4 (79) were underrated, especially the latter. I think to this day, RF4 is the best game in its genre (and that includes Stardew Valley).
Has Been Heroes. It’s a rougelite where you have to control three heroes across three lanes of action. You have to juggle skills and lanes by rotating the heroes to time attacks and perks. It may be more that it went notices than reviewed poorly.
One that definitely was reviewed poorly that I loved though was Advent Rising. It’s a scifi 3rd person shooter with the story by Orson Scott Card. It ended up in legal trouble due to a botched prize they did on release. Worst part is it ends on a cliff hanger and they never made the sequel or released the comics that were supposed to add to the story.
I enjoyed Starfield. It’s not perfect, but I like space battles.
I liked Mass Effect Andromeda enough to play it 3 times. And I’m still enjoying Starfield very much.
I looked at the metacritic page and it was tbd, like no outlets even rated it… And it’s a console and pc game with a physical release!
Anyway it’s Bullet Girls Phantasia, an even lower budget EDF like game, but in a Isekai setting and the girls have their clothes ripped when they suffer enough damage, beat it multiple times.
Silent Hill Origin and Downpour.
