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Name some games that get hated way too much
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LaughingStock
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Destiny. Most people still hate it based on the D1 release.
It survived many "destiny killers" and it's still going strong. Best fps coop in the market.
It survived many "destiny killers" and it's still going strong. Best fps coop in the market.
Imp the Dimp
Member
Sounds like delusion, mate. Both main characters were multiple orders of magnitude more interesting than Joel.
Azurro
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Sounds like delusion, mate. Both main characters were multiple orders of magnitude more interesting than Joel.
Oh please tell me how fantasy hulk testosterone "lady" that had an oppressed trans friend as companion and edgy lesbian that acts like a man Ellie with her bigot sandwiches are such great characters that totally make up for the ridiculous assassination of Joel's character in this game.
Come on, it's an lgbt game and that's why you like it. There's no merit to it, just "mah representation1!!!!". I'm surprised you have such a high opinion of the game, do you also have blue hair and are confused sexually?
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I think sony owns the i.p. and the recently renewed it so they can have another development studio make a sequel. Like you said facebook bought rad so any sequel to me wouldnt feel the same. That doesny mean whoever develops it wont do a good or better job though. This game interests me much more that gears of war at this point.
makaveli60
Member
I enjoyed DmC Devil May Cry the most in the series and although I’m not a hardcore DMC player I feel it got a lot of undeserved hate.
Dick Jones
Gold Member
Returnal
- Blamed it for being not worth the money (game not released when this was raised so how do they know?)
- game is too long to have to finish a run (why buy a game that is explained it is one long run? Later fixed and people now saying they try to cheese the saving to progress so it had nothing really to do with long runs)
- why do I want to play as a grandmother? & she's a bit too ugly for me. (You want to fuck a character? Seek help)
Returnal got so many bullshit negative comments that didn't relate to the actual great gameplay and well thought out story. Even here there is still a thread going about how Selene is so ugly, a sniper wouldn't even take her out. Returnal came out in April 2021 and people are still complaining about looks. Housemarque you are an incredible games developer and I hope others on the fence give this game a chance.
- Blamed it for being not worth the money (game not released when this was raised so how do they know?)
- game is too long to have to finish a run (why buy a game that is explained it is one long run? Later fixed and people now saying they try to cheese the saving to progress so it had nothing really to do with long runs)
- why do I want to play as a grandmother? & she's a bit too ugly for me. (You want to fuck a character? Seek help)
Returnal got so many bullshit negative comments that didn't relate to the actual great gameplay and well thought out story. Even here there is still a thread going about how Selene is so ugly, a sniper wouldn't even take her out. Returnal came out in April 2021 and people are still complaining about looks. Housemarque you are an incredible games developer and I hope others on the fence give this game a chance.
AmuroChan
Member
Chrono Cross - Yes, it's not Chrono Trigger 2, but IMO it's a great game in its own right. Also, the soundtrack is incredible.
Watch Dogs Legion - I came into this game late because I've heard mostly negative things about it, but I actually ended up having lots of fun with this game.
Watch Dogs Legion - I came into this game late because I've heard mostly negative things about it, but I actually ended up having lots of fun with this game.
Azelover
Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.
Shenmue.
I never understood the hate. I remember back in 1999 when I first got the game, I showed it to my sister. And then at the scene in the beginning with the cat and the little girl, my sister started screaming at the top of her lungs. Like "ahhhhhhhhhh!!!".
The game was so boring and frustrating to her. I never got it because to me it was perfect.
I never understood the hate. I remember back in 1999 when I first got the game, I showed it to my sister. And then at the scene in the beginning with the cat and the little girl, my sister started screaming at the top of her lungs. Like "ahhhhhhhhhh!!!".
The game was so boring and frustrating to her. I never got it because to me it was perfect.
BusierDonkey
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Crackdown 3, Recore and Rage 2.
I had a ton of fun with all three.
I had a ton of fun with all three.
Ultra Donny
Member
A lot of first party exclusive, often with good review scores seems to trigger a need to explain to the rest of the world how bad they really are.
Ezekiel_
Banned
Lost Planet 3 : I really liked this game. I found the blue collared main character and the world building was good. Great graphics, voice acting (Troy Baker) and gameplay (mech travel sal and fights) too. I understand that the game is less fast paced than 1 and 2, but was still very good.
TLOU2 : The story elements can be a bit hit or miss for some, but everything else is a step above the first one and basically a masterpiece. Some set piece moments had my heartrate going and once I started playing, it was hard to put down the controller.
TLOU2 : The story elements can be a bit hit or miss for some, but everything else is a step above the first one and basically a masterpiece. Some set piece moments had my heartrate going and once I started playing, it was hard to put down the controller.
Fredrik
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Rise of the Tomb Raider - I’m guessing people originally hated on it because Xbox had a timed exclusivity, and later because they haven’t played through them back to back, I replayed them all awhile back and Rise is by far the best in the new trilogy.
Cyberpunk 2077 - It’s a great game with among the best and most immersive story telling the industry has seen. Play it on PC, crank up the visuals, add some mods and enjoy.
The Ascent - It’s simply awesome. The 68 Metascore is among the most flawed scores ever. There is nothing more to add really.
Cyberpunk 2077 - It’s a great game with among the best and most immersive story telling the industry has seen. Play it on PC, crank up the visuals, add some mods and enjoy.
The Ascent - It’s simply awesome. The 68 Metascore is among the most flawed scores ever. There is nothing more to add really.
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Ezquimacore
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Fallout 4 is fkn amazing.
TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
Resident Evil 0. Last classic fixed angle, tank control title in the series. Item management is much more convenient if you know you need the hookshot. Story is bonkers, but it always is.
Resident Evil: Code Veronica/X. It's brutal, it's unforgiving, it's legit Survival Horror. Good shit. Story is bonkers. See RE0.
Resident Evil 6. Game is fun as hell, long as shit, and has some of the best TPS mechanics I've ever seen.
Final Fantasy XIII. Tight ass combat system with a lot of nuance hidden under the hood. Almost every fight feels like a boss encounter. Great music. Graphics hold up even today. Story isn't nearly as confusing as people make it out to be.
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. Great game. Pseudo open world. Evolved but engaging version of XIII's battle system. Incredible level of fanservice, not just for XIII but for the entire series. Examples include The Warrior of Light from FFI being featured on the Coliseum posters, the bards that play Eternal Wind from Final Fantasy III. All the garbs that reference FF titles from I-XIV. Good shit.
Final Fantasy Type-0. Really, awesome story about war and the cost of blindly following orders from a "higher power,". Bit confusing, bit janky, but lots of good music, lots of good callbacks, and a lot of customization and ways to get stronger without grinding solely.
Resident Evil: Code Veronica/X. It's brutal, it's unforgiving, it's legit Survival Horror. Good shit. Story is bonkers. See RE0.
Resident Evil 6. Game is fun as hell, long as shit, and has some of the best TPS mechanics I've ever seen.
Final Fantasy XIII. Tight ass combat system with a lot of nuance hidden under the hood. Almost every fight feels like a boss encounter. Great music. Graphics hold up even today. Story isn't nearly as confusing as people make it out to be.
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. Great game. Pseudo open world. Evolved but engaging version of XIII's battle system. Incredible level of fanservice, not just for XIII but for the entire series. Examples include The Warrior of Light from FFI being featured on the Coliseum posters, the bards that play Eternal Wind from Final Fantasy III. All the garbs that reference FF titles from I-XIV. Good shit.
Final Fantasy Type-0. Really, awesome story about war and the cost of blindly following orders from a "higher power,". Bit confusing, bit janky, but lots of good music, lots of good callbacks, and a lot of customization and ways to get stronger without grinding solely.
OmegaSpirit32X
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Honestly I think this applies both ways. Some people hate the game JUST because it's LGBT, while others only like it JUST for that reason. Truth is that doesn't matter, the game sucks eitherway, end of argument.
Halo is Back
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Evolve, Fallout 4, and Mass Effect 3 all come to mind.
cartman414
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This game hated on/underrated simply because it didn't come to the west back in the day its better than most of the FF Series
A true game-ass game.
SteelCurtain 59
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Gaming is a hivemind so there are definitely lots of games that I think get way too much hate or way too much love, but I'd say the most is Mass Effect 3 or Mass Effect Andromeda. Until like the last half of the last mission I was enjoying Mass Effect 3 more than I even enjoyed 2, yeah the ending sucked but people need to learn to not just overreact to the ending of things, the dozens of hours of enjoyment don't disappear just because the last 30 minutes were bad. It's like how people talk about Game of Thrones now like it was a terrible show just because they didn't like the last season. As for Andromeda, I thought it was a really good game, the biggest issue being that it wasn't as good as the original trilogy, which is an insane expectation
Imp the Dimp
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nush
Gold Member
It was a game that played at a real world pace, you can just chill with it and take your time. Most other games are rush rush in your face keep busy. It subverted the expectation of a console videogame.
JLB
Banned
maybe i should give it a second try, but played it 10 mins and looked like complete shit.
JLB
Banned
the finale of 1886 is a complete travesty though.
Kokoloko85
Member
Nah. It totally missed that special miyazaki sauce. Even playing Sekiro you could tell its a Miyazaki game.
As soon as I rolled, walked around and spoke to an NPC in Dark Souls 2 I knew it was the same as Dark Souls, Demon Souls and Bloodborne
Calling 911 Melts Beams
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Sex with hitler
Fare thee well
Neophyte
I can't think of any game I love that receives a large concerted amount of hate. I think it's because a lot of what I love isn't on the top mainstream. And due to preferences, everyone is going to have different tastes.
I tend to be the one disliking games that get decent praise; usually games where they went all out on graphics but left little for actual deep mechanics and/or challenge.
I tend to be the one disliking games that get decent praise; usually games where they went all out on graphics but left little for actual deep mechanics and/or challenge.
OuterLimits
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Elder Scrolls Oblivion. Yes, the level up system is kind of bonkers, but the guilds and side quests have far more interesting plots than Skyrim. It's not even close.
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
Mass Effect Andromeda. Not a great game by any means, but not as bad as other had made it out to be. When it was fun it was very fun.
Efren is G.O.A.T.
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Final Fantasy X-2 : If people look past the Charlie's Angels atmosphere, they will find a great battle system, some great musical pieces and I also think the story is very worth experimenting if you like FFX
Efren is G.O.A.T.
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Original Xbox version of Splinter Cell Double Agent is really good.
Tschumi
Member
Okay, more thoughtful than my previous post.
Deus Ex: Invisible War. In many ways it was the sequel fans wanted: globe trotting, aliens, multiple paths through a level, very long... Interestingly the graphics got better the further you got into the game, i thought.. some good technology behind it.. small levels to work on xbox, so too Fable, Deadly Shadows... many good looking games of that time suffered the same fate...
Pillars of Eternity 2... I can't fucking stand how people write off an epic like this because of poor optimisation for consoles and an OPTIONAL ship to ship battle system that i have never once played in my hundreds of hours in this game.
GT6. I dunno, for me this is the best car racing game i ever played. A few cosmetic issues.. released for ps3 after ps4 launch, long loading times, no multiplayer (i don't care), fine, but those are skin deep and the racing, cards, graphics, it was all fantastic. I can't wait for GT7, I want to roar around Bathurst in the evening in my F1.
Dungeon Siege. I have no godly idea why this isn't considered, alongside Diablo, as an elemental progenitor to Action RPGs. A different, more story driven and linear experience; carefully tailored, seamless, long as one could hope until it ended... Just legendary.
Deus Ex: Invisible War. In many ways it was the sequel fans wanted: globe trotting, aliens, multiple paths through a level, very long... Interestingly the graphics got better the further you got into the game, i thought.. some good technology behind it.. small levels to work on xbox, so too Fable, Deadly Shadows... many good looking games of that time suffered the same fate...
Pillars of Eternity 2... I can't fucking stand how people write off an epic like this because of poor optimisation for consoles and an OPTIONAL ship to ship battle system that i have never once played in my hundreds of hours in this game.
GT6. I dunno, for me this is the best car racing game i ever played. A few cosmetic issues.. released for ps3 after ps4 launch, long loading times, no multiplayer (i don't care), fine, but those are skin deep and the racing, cards, graphics, it was all fantastic. I can't wait for GT7, I want to roar around Bathurst in the evening in my F1.
Dungeon Siege. I have no godly idea why this isn't considered, alongside Diablo, as an elemental progenitor to Action RPGs. A different, more story driven and linear experience; carefully tailored, seamless, long as one could hope until it ended... Just legendary.
Vaelka
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I'd agree with Dark Souls 2, it's not as good as the others but it's still a good game.
It's also not the original devs so I am more forgiving towards it I view it as a spin-off of sorts.
Other than that I'd say the Dead or Alive games.
They're actually good fighting games main flaw with them is a problem most fighting games have/ have had which is the netcode.
A lot of the hate and negative attitudes really feel like it's just a bandwagon and circlejerk thing, and people basically turned the game into a meme because of an unlockable thing you quite literally had to go out of your way to get ( the OMG breast physics ) and the volleyboll spin-off which isn't even the same game.
DoA5 actually had an almost 50/50 roster of male and female characters and the game was full of skimpy outfits for male characters too including literal stripper outfits and speedos.
But all people ever focused on was the female characters and talked shit about it ( yes there's more of it, but it's actually more equal than most games and you have all kinds of options for both genders ).
The thing that kinda baffles and annoys me too about it is that there are a lot of fighting games that have way more sexualized default costumes than in any DoA games and yet DoA is the one that turned into a meme and people basically just dismiss as the '' fanservice fighter ''.
KoF and Street Fighter characters have way skimpier default outfits, the outfits in DoA are overall not even that skimpy it's all optional stuff and those games also have it too.
It also never stopped Mortal Kombat, MK9 was still very popular and so were the past games.
It's kinda sad and childish imo that people basically allowed an optional physics mode that was basically there for fun to derail the entire franchise.
It's not even uncommon for fighting games to begin with either they're full of half-naked men and women.
I do think it deserves a lot of the hate, there was some really shitty marketing too ( Joel in scenes he's not even in ) that obviously was going to anger people.
But I'd agree it doesn't deserve as much hate as it gets.
It's kinda the problem with hype tho and underdelivering.
Same with Dark Souls 2 it's not as horrible as people say but it had a lot to live up to.
It's also not the original devs so I am more forgiving towards it I view it as a spin-off of sorts.
Other than that I'd say the Dead or Alive games.
They're actually good fighting games main flaw with them is a problem most fighting games have/ have had which is the netcode.
A lot of the hate and negative attitudes really feel like it's just a bandwagon and circlejerk thing, and people basically turned the game into a meme because of an unlockable thing you quite literally had to go out of your way to get ( the OMG breast physics ) and the volleyboll spin-off which isn't even the same game.
DoA5 actually had an almost 50/50 roster of male and female characters and the game was full of skimpy outfits for male characters too including literal stripper outfits and speedos.
But all people ever focused on was the female characters and talked shit about it ( yes there's more of it, but it's actually more equal than most games and you have all kinds of options for both genders ).
The thing that kinda baffles and annoys me too about it is that there are a lot of fighting games that have way more sexualized default costumes than in any DoA games and yet DoA is the one that turned into a meme and people basically just dismiss as the '' fanservice fighter ''.
KoF and Street Fighter characters have way skimpier default outfits, the outfits in DoA are overall not even that skimpy it's all optional stuff and those games also have it too.
It also never stopped Mortal Kombat, MK9 was still very popular and so were the past games.
It's kinda sad and childish imo that people basically allowed an optional physics mode that was basically there for fun to derail the entire franchise.
It's not even uncommon for fighting games to begin with either they're full of half-naked men and women.
I do think it deserves a lot of the hate, there was some really shitty marketing too ( Joel in scenes he's not even in ) that obviously was going to anger people.
But I'd agree it doesn't deserve as much hate as it gets.
It's kinda the problem with hype tho and underdelivering.
Same with Dark Souls 2 it's not as horrible as people say but it had a lot to live up to.
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Chiggs
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One of the most interesting things about that game was a side mission where you could give this business owner the worst day of all time:
- Sabotage his business
- Get him in trouble with the authorities
- Kill his wife
- Kill his kids (!)
- Kill him, if you wanted to.
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Guileless
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Yes. X-2 is the poster child for this thread.
Gamerguy84
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Days Gone. Everyone that tries it, especially on PS5 loves it. Well most
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Amiga
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Final Fantasy Stranger in Paradise, persistent overaction to a trailer.
Death Stranding, a GOAT candidate but reactions made out to be Kojima's Devil's Third.
Destiny, it's the biggest FPS world that is still going in. probably my most played game in 3 decades of gaming. did get burnt out, but it was after 6 years and thousands of hours.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. for me it was a deep adventure game(old point and click) with action. Something I always dreamed of playing. It just needed a bit more creativity to pull everything together. CDPR tried to fulfil the potential of this franchise with Cyberpunk before their technical failure.
Death Stranding, a GOAT candidate but reactions made out to be Kojima's Devil's Third.
Destiny, it's the biggest FPS world that is still going in. probably my most played game in 3 decades of gaming. did get burnt out, but it was after 6 years and thousands of hours.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. for me it was a deep adventure game(old point and click) with action. Something I always dreamed of playing. It just needed a bit more creativity to pull everything together. CDPR tried to fulfil the potential of this franchise with Cyberpunk before their technical failure.
The_hunter
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AC3 was good, the deep snow was so cool, and the tree parkour. They re-did all the animations. The tomahawk was so satisfying to use. The story in the beginning was freaking great, but it becomes a beat weak near the ending. I enjoyed playing as a templar, the native main character, and the showdown between the assassin and the templar father. My favourite ac games are 2 and then 3.