Anthem is a goddamn masterpiece, and I will die on this hill. The graphics, the combat, and the traversal were all AAA quality. There just wasn’t enough fodder for the internet hate machine that month, so Anthem got tossed into it for some reason.
What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ??
Submitted 1 month ago by 64bithero@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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moakley@lemmy.world 1 month ago
wirelesswire@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I certainly wouldn’t call it a masterpiece, but It was fun as hell and I was really bummed when their overhaul bid was shot down by EA.
needthosepylons@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Have my upvote good sir
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I played the beta. I was tired of it before I finished, and I really wanted to like it. It looked great, and the traversal was a cool idea. It was just boring. There was almost no reason to do anything. It’s the same reason I hate the open worlds of Warframe. It’s cool that they did it, but it doesn’t actually benefit the gameplay loop. It just makes it take extra time to do the thing you want to do.
M137@lemmy.today 1 month ago
I absolutely loved Star Wars: Outlaws and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Two of the most gorgeous games ever made along with being fun and not too long. They nailed the feeling of being a Na’vi, you really feel very tall and nimble.
Katana314@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Is Avatar basically Far Cry 7? I never played it but wasn’t sure how fun it would feel to throw little wooden spears at giant armored mechs.
DamienGramatacus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Essentially yes but they balance the wooden weapons against the mechs so though it feels a bit silly, it’s really good fun. It’s super pretty and I myself do not mind a map collectathon game now and again.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think the follow up question to your adoration of these two games is: how many Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, or recent Ghost Recon games have you played?
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I’ve tried NMS like three or four times at this point, at launch and a few months ago notably. It’s never clicked with me. I think it’s made for someone who likes the imagery of a space sim but hasn’t played one. I’ve played too many space sims that the fairly constrained and bland interactions of NMS don’t do anything for me.
For example, you aren’t really flying your ship. Your somewhat pointing it where you want it to go, but you can’t crash, so what’s even the point? If you can’t fail an interaction, there’s no input the user can give that’s wrong, so why should the user even care?
Oka@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I cant think of any. Im typically the person that hates games that most people like.
bonzo22@lemmy.world 1 month ago
roadrunner_ex@lemmy.ca 1 month 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 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
The True Crime games are great, and just in case you’re not aware, Sleeping Dogs is a spiritual successor.
valtia@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Vindictus, pre-2015
eldebryn@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Holy ball knowledge. I used to play a little of that in the early 10s, what an insane combat system for an MMO.
I regret being distracted with other stuff because when I checked it again much later it seemed to be going… As most other mmos where going.
valtia@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I really miss, unfortunately, as you said, it’s pretty terrible now. The sequel/remake is shaping up to be just as terrible as the modern version
RadDevon@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I don’t know what the reception was at the time, but people seem to hate Stuntman, at least in retrospect. I loved it though. It’s a driving game in which you play the part of a movie stuntman, driving through a movie set as the director barks orders at you, telling you live how to drive the scene. It has a nice variety of movies, and the scenes are actually cool to drive and to watch.
It tickles a part of my brain that loves repeating a task until I perfect it… and boy, you get to do a lot of repetition.
The one thing I don’t like is that you suffer a PS2 load time with each failed attempt. We’re talking minutes between attempts. Loved it apart from that though.
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I really want to downvote you because Stuntman…fucking…sucked!
But I upvoted you because it is certainly in alignment with the post!
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
people hated stuntman? i LOVED stuntman ignition as a kid, and the getting close to objects to increase score mechanic actually ruined how i walk because i just do that now, to this day
LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social 1 month ago
Donkey Kong 64 is a game I see constantly criticised but it was always one of my top N64 games.
frank@sopuli.xyz 1 month 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 ;)
ClipperDefiance@piefed.social 1 month ago
I love the game, but hate the part where they make you play through the original arcade Donkey Kong on a single life to get a Golden Banana. Then they had the audacity to make you do it again for the Nintendo Coin.
LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social 1 month ago
I never got past this part as a child. That and the cardboard cutout K. Rool boss fight were as far as I got.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Oh, that’s a good one! I’ve always liked it as much as Rare’s other collect-a-thons. I didn’t know until years later that it got so much hate.
Thteven@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I play a lot of Helldivers 2, whether people like it or not depends on what the devs just did on the latest patch lol
Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
It’s still a great game - it has a whole bunch of issues, but a fraction of the online community is making it look like playing it will burn your house down and frame you for the assassination of JFK.
binux@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Maybe not burn your house down, but for a while it would have filled your house with piles and piles of useless garbage.
That’s to say it took up an insane amount of storage to have installed until they fixed it a while back. It was apparently because they had some bizarre idea of duplicating files over and over to make load times faster for hard drive users. It went down from something crazy like ~150 gb to around 30 lol.
QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Too damn real. XD
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Deep cut: World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor
This expansion represented a huge shift in playstyle and made questing much more cinematic. Everyone was pumped after the huge success of Mists of Pandaria.
But Blizzard bit off more than they could chew and this expansion has the biggest laundry list of cut content ever. Particularly, the endgame content was far less than what was expected. Blizzard promised to re-add stuff as they had time… they never found the time. Raiders and competitive players were furious. A lot of people quit WoW because of this expansion.
I was not a raider, nor a competitive player, I was a solo quester. So I had a blast in what is still called one of the worst expansions in the game’s history.
The Garrison missions did get old after a while, but I still fondly remember logging in to the sound of Rescue the Warchief.
IWW4@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I loved MoP and WoD. I had played WoW since vanilla. I did a some raiding during vanilla, but just didn’t have the time. So i was a filthy casual and it was great. I played vanilla for a while and then quit. That was the pattern I did until MoP. When MoP was released my kid was in the 11th grade and my work had changed so I had more free time. I started raiding in MoP and continued that into WoD.
I loved those two expansions.
wirelesswire@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I agree with most that garrisons were ultimately detrimental to the game, but they were goddamn goldmines. WoW tokens were introduced in the same xpac, and I was making enough gold via garrisons to pay for over a year of game time, plus Destiny 2 and Diablo 3 DLC.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I quit in Cataclysm and hopped back in for WoD. The garrisons were a great concept and I enjoyed sending expeditions. But I just didn’t have the time for WoW anymore and my community was gone, so I only played a month.
plutopos@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Salt & Sanctuary
hakase@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Wait, what? Who doesn’t like Salt and Sanctuary? One of my favorite games of all time.
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 1 month ago
People didn’t like it? It was great.
plutopos@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
And also SMTV
zerofk@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Mass Effect Andromeda. It’s a lot better than people give it credit for. Sure it has its issues, but no more than the original trilogy which is so revered. And the game is gorgeous, definitely the best looking ME to date - even with the trilogy legendary edition. The story was good too, it could’ve been the start of a great new trilogy. It doesn’t have Shepard, but female Ryker was a lot of fun.
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Evolve. Even just against bots without any DLC characters is still a ton of fun. I recently replayed it on PlayStation and had a blast getting all the base game hunters and monsters.
VonReposti@feddit.dk 1 month ago
It saddens me that they killed the game, at least on PC. Would have been a great LAN party game with their 4v1 mode.
Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 month 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
bmebenji@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month 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
Katana314@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I was never enthused about the game, but I definitely hated how investors wanted every game to be a mega-hit, and anything else meant it needed to be deleted. It’d be far more healthy to leave it running on life support and see if the community ever has it bounce back.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I played Lawbreakers back then, and it was neither too much like Overwatch nor representative of the arena shooters that came before it; there wasn’t a plethora of characters to choose from like the former, and there wasn’t an even playing field with power weapons to fight for control over like the latter. The thing that baffled me about the game was its objectives design. There’s a capture the flag mode where the flag is a battery, but due to the way you have to charge it first, it renders the entire match pointless except for where the battery is when it reaches 100% charge. There’s a point capture/domination game mode where the capture points stop and start for minutes at a time, and I don’t understand the point of that either.
bmebenji@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Sounds like you’re part of the “most people” to which the question is referring
bmebenji@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Burnout Paradise is the first that comes to mind. In my head it’s the best racing game I’ve ever played. Whenever I see discussions of the Burnout series on the internet, everyone raves about the series but noone mentions Burnout Paradise.
I imagine it’s because they just liked the older ones more, but I never played them so ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Quazatron@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m not a racing game person but I love this one. You can just run around doing stupid stuff. I find that very liberating.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Paradise is a crappy shadow of the older ones. I will agree that Burnout was a neat series, but it wasn’t so much f a racing game, as it was a physics simulator that allowed you to crash cars.
bmebenji@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I take it you’re part of the “most people” to which the title question is referring
riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Yeah! Go fast and try not to crash! Whee! Oh no I crashed… Whee! Everything is whee! Car go brrrrr!
Yup. Monkey brain loved it. That and trying to get to all the red billboards.
teft@piefed.social 1 month 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.
Davel23@fedia.io 1 month ago
While not hated, most fans of the series prefer Darksiders to Darksiders 2. I personally prefer 2, I love the loot system.
HarryOru@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Forspoken has one of the best battle and movement gameplay systems in gaming, or at the very least in the “power fantasy sandbox” genre. Its story and dialogue are also a very cute, earnest take on Isekai that didn’t deserve the backlash they got. It has its flaws but it’s absolutely nowhere close to being the utter cringe-fest and terrible game that people like Asmongold successfully convinced the rest of the internet it was (because it has a female POC protagonist, basically). Personally, as someone who wanted to live the ultimate elemental wizard power-fantasy in a game since I was a child, Forspoken gave me everything I wanted and more (like cats! Lots of adorable cats).
felc_mgR@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Dark Souls 2
LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s far from my favorite game, but I really really enjoyed the new saint’s row. My only real issue with it was it was so buggy that when my SO and I played together, every session had at least two points where it either crashed outright, or broke in such a way we had to both relaunch the game.
And this is coming from someone who loves saints row 2.
needthosepylons@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Anthem and Babylon’s fall… sadly.
HubertManne@piefed.social 1 month ago
mmos are not especially popular and I just returned to sto and champions online. I would play them all the time if I could. I like hanging out in virtual worlds with a little gameplay to make it interestin.
cristo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Lost Planet 2 was the shit when I was a kid
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
X-Com: The Bureau Declassified
Its fatal flaw was simply that the A.I. squadmates would far to often make suicidal decisions unless you micro-managed then, which made winning far more about luck than skill.
But the setting, the writing, the story were all super interesting to me. And the graphics hold a special charm for me (I still say the facial animations were better than LA Noire)
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My games are less “nobody liked it” and more “a lot of people have never heard of or tried it”:
Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps
They’re absolute masterpieces. It’s like playing a video game version of a beautiful oil painting with incredibly tight movement controls. And the soundtrack…MY GOD is it good.
It’s one of those game series that I wish I could memory wipe to reply again. Sure, the story is a bit simplistic, but it hits the notes it needs to without dragging.
It’s one of the best Metroidvania games ever made, but it kind of fell into obscurity similar to other masterpieces like Titanfall 2.
tuckerm@feddit.online 1 month 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!
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t want to go back into the depths of time to try to remember an obscure game I played decades ago. So I’ll do a recent one that people didn’t necessarily hate, but didn’t like as much as it’s predecessor and were pretty open about it.
Doom: The Dark Ages
I ended up liking it more than Eternal. It wasn’t as fast paced, even though it was still fast, but you could FEEL the combat more in Dark Ages. The devs made the movement and hits FEEL more substantial. I was skeptical about the shield, but ended up loving it. Chaining together the shield attack, melee attack, and gunplay felt great. I liked the levels more than Eternal too. And they added a lot of lore to deepen the Doom universe. Main story was whatever, but that’s typical for the Doom franchise.
orochi02@feddit.org 1 month ago
GTA. Lotta haters Here on lemmy even though it is one of the AAA games that hold up unlike bland and boring stuff like cod
Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 month 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.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
NES 2 or SNES 2, which was actually 4?
Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 month ago
NES FFII.
Katana314@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is my main issue with the early FF games. The numerical fiddling makes it impossible for me to follow which one the conversation is even about.
aGenitalBreeze@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I enjoyed it on GBA
Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 month 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. 👌
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 month ago
FF2-NES, suffered from comparisons to the first FF. I personally think that’s an unfair comparison, though I will admit that visually the two games share a lot. That’s kinda where the comparison ends though. The gameplay was a considerable improvement, just allowing your characters to retarget on the fly was a huge improvement.
The other complaint I have heard is that it’s grindy, and that one is completely fair.