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
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.
Just finishing about a new playthrough of Andromeda and I think it's larger problem is that the good content doesn't open up until a third of the way through the game. For the first third, you have very little to do except follow the Kett and the Angara storyline, and those are the absolute worst parts of the game.
It doesn't actually get good until it opens up and you're dealing with Outlaws, Collective, internal politics of the Nexus, the Krogan rebellion, etc... and your (admittedly pretty lame) companion quests. But at least it's something more than just two new species that aren't nearly as fleshed out or complete as what already existed.
By the time the game opens up and you can do more than just the main quest, you're already friggin bored.
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.
Overall, I enjoyed my experience with Starfield. I just wish I didn't spend half of my time trying to build the optimal bases for trading hubs. Apart from that, everything was good
I can understand someone complaining that it wasn't Fallout 5, but I definitely think it deserved a higher Steam rating.
The bases were interesting! Getting an interplanetary production system going took some figuring and i never got an inter-system network up. If the mod scene keeps going for it they sure have a lot to work with!
I really like it until I started having problems with what I think must have been save bloating, making it more and more difficult to save. Which in turn made me quite until a possible fix as I didn't want to risk the save becoming unplayable.
Then I played other things and sort of forgot to check if it was fixed, but I still really liked the game.
I tried The Outer Worlds but couldn't stand it.
I felt that Starfield was good with the potential to be great (with enough added content, which they haven't done yet, but here's hoping).
The Outer Worlds, on the other hand, feels like it pretty much reached its limit. It's a better game vanilla, since it has more content and far less empty space, but I don't think that there's any more they could really have done with it. Not quite great, but definitely worth playing.
And the "Fallout in space" line references the overall vibe of TOW, with '50s-'60s style culture and advertising. Starfield has Fallout's mechanics, but it's more of a Star Trek or Firefly aesthetic, depending on where you are.
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.
Same. I think "No Man's Sky" syndrome turned people off, but I thought it was really innovative, and I liked the PC being broody and driven, but not dramatic.
Same and for me watch dogs 2 wasn’t as fun anymore.
COD Ghost. I loved the singleplayer storyline. Everyone hated the game for the storyline.
I'll upvote for the honest answer, but that game is what made me quit CoD lol
The next few games were bad, so you didn’t miss out on anything
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.
A lot of games like that end up min/maxed like that, it sucks even more when developers start exclusively catering to the min/maxers forcing everyone min/max or gtfo.
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.
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.
Funnily enough, I heard a lot of people saying that they specifically liked it because it was a "return to classic, retro Zelda." The difference being that their idea of retro Zelda was the original rather than Link to the Past or Ocarina of Time.
Interestingly, the two example you shared (Sonur Unleashed and the whole Sonic franchise being bad) are likely a good example of "hanging with the bad crow". 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.
Jumping on your last point, I was in a local Game store and a woman who clearly knew nothing about games was birthday shopping for her son, she asked the owner what if he thought Superman 64 would be a good gift.
To the man's credit, in complete deadpan, he said "that game is absolutely terrible, it's the worst game on the system"
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.
I remember some people in Reddit not being too happy with It Takes Two.
They’re just mad they don’t have any friends or a partner to play it with.
Loved playing It Takes Two with my wife, such a great game I wished they made another one. The more couch coop games the better.
People don't like it takes two? Was the book too over the top or what?
IIRC it was a minority, but the critique was gender stereotypes and misogyny.
They are entitled to their opinions, and I'm glad I read it after playing the game so it did not affect my experience.
My kids played this co-op and loved it
Seemed like a pretty solid coop game to me!
I don’t want to dissuade you, because Split Fiction is just as fun, game-play-wise, as It Takes Two.
But the story is not as good. And the characters are even more teeth-grindingly frustrating sometimes.
But still play it, it’s a lot of fun.
Cheers mate, appreciate the advice!
Red Steel, actually. I'll admit to having fun memories of it from when the Wii launched.
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.
Digimon World 4.
Granted, I was a child when I played it, but it was fun.
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
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.
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.
I have to admit, I never tried the Wii version of either game. Only PC and Xbox.
I tried the PC version the other day for the first time, to finally see what the real game looks like. Might be nostalgia, but I thought the Wii version is actually better. I should install a Wii emulator to properly compare them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Shadow the Hedgehog
Megaman X7
Looking back, I know why. I was just so happy to play as Shadow/3D Zero, I really didn't care about the many faults these games have.
None. I couldn't care less about people hating the games I enjoy.
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
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
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