GBA port of Munch’s Oddysee
it’s an objectively very meh game, so compared to the rest of the rockstars that make up Oddworld it’s crap lol.
but it was one of the first video games I ever played and completed, so I love it unconditionally
What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ??
Submitted 4 hours ago by 64bithero@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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janus2@lemmy.zip 8 minutes ago
Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 10 minutes ago
I genuinely think Daikatana is a decent (but flawed) game.
plutopos@lemmy.zip 11 minutes ago
Salt & Sanctuary
plutopos@lemmy.zip 11 minutes ago
And also SMTV
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 23 minutes ago
Final Fantasy 8
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 13 minutes ago
I was a fan of No Man’s Sky on release. It played a lot like a 3D version of Out There, which was a game that I liked, so I found it fun.
LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social 22 minutes ago
Donkey Kong 64 is a game I see constantly criticised but it was always one of my top N64 games.
frank@sopuli.xyz 2 minutes ago
Totally agree. It has a LOT of problems obviously. But what an ambitious game for the time, even if it’s collectathony as heck.
So many levels, characters, skills. Why, I dare say it’s a perfect randomizer game ;)
Auster@thebrainbin.org 36 minutes ago
Ah, another game that comes to mind: Persona 3 FES
Dunno how not liked it is, but I always see people getting scared away because of the difficulty, and that trying to convince people to play that version for the good part of a decade now.
But just saying, learning the ins and outs of the game makes it far more manageable, and even gets mechanics of P4G and Persona 5 to make sense.
Also, pinning a god-like being to the ground for ~50 turns and making another god-like being slap itself to death thanks to marakarn and tetrarn, both due to exploiting mechanics to my benefit, were certainly high points of the game. =D
Even Mitsuru was useful for a single battle in my whole 170h save because of having to exploit the game's mechanics
ThoGot@feddit.org 47 minutes ago
Dark Souls 2 at its release
(even before the “Scholar of the First Sin” Remake)I just liked the more fluid combat mechanics compared to Dark Souls 1 and as far as I remember it didn’t have this weird Windows Live thing
geekwithsoul@piefed.social 3 hours ago
Saints Row IV - I liked aspects of the earlier games, but I actually really enjoyed the meta silliness of IV. I accept that I don’t have a lot of company in having this opinion 🙂
phailhaus@piefed.social 1 hour ago
Underneath the silliness, SR4 had a good story and great performances. I remember tearing up a bit during the car segment of the final mission.
It is one of the few open-world sidequestapaloozas I have ever beaten because the story and insanity kept me coming back.
cobysev@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I LOVE Saints Row IV! It’s my favorite of the entire franchise. Yes, it’s extra campy and over-the-top, but that just makes it more enjoyable.
Probably my favorite mission of Saints Row III was where you took an experimental drug and it gave you super-speed for a little while, so you could sprint across the city faster than if you were driving a car.
Saints Row IV just gives that to you as a permanent upgrade at some point. You don’t need cars later in the game, you can just run ridiculously fast and leap skyscrapers in a single bound.
I can’t remember if you can fly too, but I wanna say you can. It’s been quite a long time since I played that game.
I had so much fun in Saints Row IV, most of my playtime is just running all over the map and dicking around with NPCs once I was too OP for them to do anything to me. It’s hard for me to go back to the other games after that.
LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Im glad Im not alone here! I loved the shit outta Saints Row IV
Thassodar@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
I fell for APB: Reloaded and Rogue Company. APB was lauded for it’s customization and open world cops and robbers situation, but fell flat graphically after GTA V came out and hasn’t offered much new.
Rogue Company, IMO, had legs but it never caught on to the Twitch streamer following they wanted; Dr. Disrespect got into hot water a few year after launch and they had a whole map dedicated to him. Severs are still up but they announced no more updates, sadly.
Oka@sopuli.xyz 1 hour ago
I cant think of any. Im typically the person that hates games that most people like.
grill@thelemmy.club 3 hours ago
Resident evil 5, probably mostly because of coop.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
i love starfield, despite its flaws. the public opinion was very… 😬
krashmo@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I have been meaning to go back and give it another chance. I played it on launch and got to some place like 30 minutes in that they clearly wanted to be some big “ooo, ahh” moment but I just felt bored. I shut it off and never played again. I do enjoy Bethesda games though so it’s possible I would like it if I pushed through.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
if you treat more of a meditative exploration rather than dungeon crawler (like skyrim or fallout excelled at) you may like it
7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Unreal
The original one. Not tournament.
I have a fear of sentient silver metallic blobs because of that game. Lol
Ascendor@discuss.tchncs.de 37 minutes ago
What? Who didn’t like Unreal? It was groundbreaking, a milestone of its time. In my area and peergroup, everybody loved it.
newtraditionalists@kbin.melroy.org 2 hours ago
I have very vivid memories of my brother purchasing a new graphics card, installing it and running this game. He hyped it up so much. The intro cinematic blew our minds. The game even more so.
AnalogRegression@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Catacombs 3d
orenj@leminal.space 3 hours ago
Pyre by Supergiant. I have no idea how a mystical basketball slash visual novel with RPG elements clicked with me but WOW did it. Its the first game I ever platinum’d too.
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 16 minutes ago
I’m a fan of most of Supergiant’s work but Pyre just felt so boring and repetitive to me
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 31 minutes ago
Pyra was really unique and fun! I‘m not sure if it‘s something people actually dislike, though. It‘s more so that nobody knows about it, I think.
eupraxia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
I was just about to say this too!! Seriously so good. The gameplay is an understandable turnoff, personally I love it but RPG NBA Jam probably won’t do it for everyone. but WOW the story is incredible. The personal stakes of each liberation rite make each feel like a must-win; the fact that the story continues if you lose makes it all the more nerve-wracking.
And that’s not even considering the revolutionary bent of the whole thing, too, or the beautifully realized world with deeply strange history, or one of the best goddamn soundtracks I’ve ever heard… deserves some more love as a cult classic imo.
JTskulk@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I liked Duke Nukem Forever, I kept waiting for it to get awful and it never did! Surprisingly fun game.
Ascendor@discuss.tchncs.de 36 minutes ago
soulmate. I liked it as well. Of course it wasn’t groundbreaking, like Duke3D was, but it was fun. And it made fun of itself - I like that trait.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
Depends on how long you waited for it and what expectations you had. “They demonstrated the first Duke Nukem Forever trailer at the E3 convention in May 1998”… and reading in Wikipedia to look this up, I just by accident saw there was/is a Doctor Who themed DLC! Wow I think I need to get into it again (never finished it however).
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
I enjoyed Zelda Skyward Sword upon release, despite having to get the new controller that supporter more motion on the Wii for it. The dungeon on the ship in the desert that involved time travel was a standout level and i really enjoyed it at the time. Granted I haven’t played it in 10 years, it’s a good game. I am glad though that the backlash resulted in Breath of the Wild, and without Skyward Sword, Breath of the Wild would have never happened.
rafoix@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
I enjoyed the game but it frankly proved that motion controls create a constant hindrance to smooth play sessions.
I never want to recalibrate my controller when I’m playing. I want to play and not be the console’s tech support.
cobysev@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Despite being an old guy who was around for the original Zelda game, Skyward Sword was actually the first Zelda game I ever sat down and seriously played. I really enjoyed it!
And as a completionist, I appreciated that it’s canonically the first game in the franchise. It gave me a foundation for the lore of the series, so I have a better understanding of every other Zelda game I’ve played since.
If there’s anything I didn’t like about it, it was that there was a borderline romance subtext going on between Link and Zelda at the beginning of the game, which doesn’t ever go anywhere. I half expected them to fall in love by the end, but they kept it strictly platonic once the plot started rolling. I learned later that that’s pretty much par for the course in Zelda games. Link is always the protector, not a love interest.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 2 hours ago
Of course shippers are always going to do their thing but really Skyward Sword is basically the only game in the series with actual hints of those two being in love.
Some others have them at most good friends, and in a few they barely meet at all. Including one with a way more credible potential love interest.
The first Hyrule Warriors is based on the premise that all Links and Zeldas through time and space (being basically reincarnations) are destined to be together, but, it’s not canon and written like an insufferable fan fiction, original Mary-Sue character very much included.
master_of_unlocking@piefed.zip 2 hours ago
I like that one too and never really got the hate. The bosses made good use of the motion control upgrade and the final boss sequence might be my favorite of any Zelda game.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
Unirally in PAL / Uniracers in USA, 1994 on Super Nintendo: It’s a side scrolling racing game, up to two players. There are regular races and stunt points races. Unfortunately no interaction with the other player, its only about time. So its one of those two player modes that wasn’t super fun for us, but we loved playing fore highscores. Game is super fast, imagine Sonic as a racing game. What most people get it wrong is, they think they have to react to the changing course parts instantly. But in reality the course parts are color coded and you know in advance what is coming.
The game is from DMA Design, who also made Lemmings and later GTA; the company you know as Rockstar today. Also they got sued by Pixar. Yes that Pixar, making films. Because the pre-rendered unicycles were looking similar to the Pixar film. What an incredible dumb lawsuit, as this is how unicycles look like in general. But Pixar won and the game had to be taken from shelf quickly before it could sell much. Game didn’t even make it to Japan. It’s a rare game most people didn’t play on original hardware!
MimicJar@lemmy.world 58 minutes ago
I can only assume anyone who doesn’t like it hasn’t played it. It’s a platformer racing game, which is rare, but excellent.
Jarix@lemmy.world 27 minutes ago
I remember playing it. Was fun. Didn’t know all the story behind it though. Thanks for sharing
bmebenji@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
Lawbreakers.
I swear, people wanted that game to fail because everyone thought Cliff Blezinski was too full of himself when he was advertising it. The main gripe people seemed to have with it was that it was “too much like Overwatch.” That game had less in common with Overwatch than Titanfall has in common with Apex Legends. The other most-repeated gripe was that people were fatigued with the “hero shooter” genre. Well here we are 9 years later and every “new” FPS is some new remix of a hero shooter, so obviously that wasn’t the case.
This game single-handedly convinced me that I grew up too late to experience what would have been my favorite era of multiplayer video games - the golden era of arena shooters. This game was balls-to-the-wall fast with a ridiculously high TTK in the best way possible. To win a gunfight you had to be dead-on precise with your aim while your target was slingshotting, kicksliding, or literally jetting through the sky, and the zero-G zones of the maps meant you could never predict the path they were going to follow.
The only other game that I thought ever came close to being similarly fun was Titanfall 2, but that game suffered a little from the CoD-inspired blink-and-you’ll-miss-it TTK for the pilots.
Lawbreakers never got its chance thanks to all the misguided hate. The devs and designers were incredibly talented and deserved better than for their studio to go out with the whimper that was Radical Heights
iamthetot@piefed.ca 3 hours ago
Among hardcore original Monkey Island fans, the third one (Curse of Monkey Island) was pretty liked when it was new, and the original writer, Ron Gilbert, even kinda disowned the game (he was not involved with it).
It’s my single favourite game of all time.
Vanderdeckenscopilot@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I loved that game. Hello brother.
Auster@thebrainbin.org 3 hours ago
Final Fantasy II, though from what I talked with people, it suffers more from bad reputation than people actively playing it and not liking.
aGenitalBreeze@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I enjoyed it on GBA
Auster@thebrainbin.org 3 hours ago
Arcane Labyrinth is fantastic. Adds much to the game, both in lore (which the base game barely has so it needed) and in challenge. 👌
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 hours ago
NES 2 or SNES 2, which was actually 4?
Auster@thebrainbin.org 3 hours ago
NES FFII.
tuckerm@feddit.online 1 hour ago
Unreal 2, which is a very boring singleplayer game. But then, a year after its launch, they released a multiplayer addon for it, and it’s still the best multiplayer FPS I’ve ever played. Most people remember it as “that disappointing, singleplayer-only sequel to Unreal.”
Also, VR Troopers, a fighting game for the Sega Genesis. OK, in hindsight, this game is actually terrible. But we played it all the time in elementary school. I mean, it had the VR Troopers in it! From TV!
affenlehrer@feddit.org 2 hours ago
Sleeping Dogs
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
It’s a game that you liked that most people didn’t, Sleeping Dogs was very well received so I don’t think it qualifies.
jarvis@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I came to post this.
keimevo@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I don’t know if it’s my favorite, but Prototype (and its sequel) comes to my mind. It wasn’t that badly received, but most people liked Infamous more, in the same generation.
FatVegan@leminal.space 37 minutes ago
I loved prototype so much. I couldn’t wait for the sequel. I felt like firever until it came out. Like i moved twice or something. And when it finally came out, i couldn’t wait to play it, but kinda didn’t care anymore. I still don’t know if prototype was a let down, or i just stopped caring.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
How is Terranigma mentioned here? It’s one of the most beloved Action Adventure RPGs on the system and to my knowledge, most people who have played it liked it. I also had the game back then, purchased it randomly because Lufia 2 wasn’t released yet (in Germany). Honestly, I think Terranigma is one of those universally loved games, never heard anyone disliking it.
teft@piefed.social 2 hours ago
Kingdom Come 1 & 2. They’re really good once the combat clicks but most people don’t like it because until the combat clicks it’s fucking brutal especially since the save system is ridiculous in those games.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
its definitely a game better suited for teens who dont have a job yet 😂
Peffse@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Coming in at a 45 rating on Metacritic: Hyperdimension Neptunia.
Is it a bad game? Yes. It’s really bad. It’s an ugly game for PS3 standards, and the battle mechanics are borderline insane. It’s a JRPG where you can’t manually heal, but instead set a % chance to heal automatically in battles… which means sometimes you game over because RNG wasn’t going to let you heal. But regardless it’s one of my favorites. I’m a sucker for the core concept of the schoolyard console wars, with little gaming references everywhere and silly humor. I also love the theme songs for each console nation. It really drives home how different the console cultures are supposed to be as you are traveling around solving their problems.
And I mean, come on… When you first start the game and you are in the tutorial dungeon it plays this song during exploration and this song during battles. Games today would never do something that silly.
The later games polished the gameplay, expanded the character rosters, gave more depth to the story, and dealt with some very dark topics (Gehaburn trauma)… but to me none of them captured the lightning that the first one had.
krashmo@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
It sounds terrible. I’m glad you liked it
Davel23@fedia.io 2 hours ago
While not hated, most fans of the series prefer Darksiders to Darksiders 2. I personally prefer 2, I love the loot system.
roadrunner_ex@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
I wonder if it would still hold up to me, but I really liked True Crime: Streets of LA on the Gamecube. I’m led to believe it was not well received, and is derided as a bad GTA clone
Thassodar@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
If you haven’t yet: Check out Sleeping Dogs. I think it’ll scratch the itch for a True Crime game. I think I recently saw it on sale for $3.
Goodeye8@piefed.social 29 minutes ago
That’s probably because Sleeping dogs started as a True Crime game but due to circumstances ended up releasing as Sleeping Dogs.
iamthetot@piefed.ca 3 hours ago
The True Crime games are great, and just in case you’re not aware, Sleeping Dogs is a spiritual successor.
KubrickFR@lemmy.world 2 minutes ago
Rayman M or Rayman Arena in North America. A PS2 era multiplayer 3D Rayman game with only 2 game modes, battle and racing. Most people hate one of the game modes, so half the game and are disappinted but the lack a content. Some critic said that the senses of speed is dull and the level design can be flat-out horrible.
I guess like all multiplayer games it’s easier to have fun with friends, but I liked the challenging and sometimes cruel level design that forced skill and reflexes in rcing mode.