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I'm talking about games that you still like but you had no idea were criticized so much.

The perfect example for me is Sonic Unleashed.

I admit that the game has its bad things, but I would have never imagined that it was so hated at the time... Although, that could be extended to the entire Sonic franchise, since for many years I was not aware at all of that "Sonic was never good", "Sonic had a rough transition to 3D" nonsense.

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[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

How old were you when you played Sonic Unleashed? I thoroughly played and enjoyed Sonic Adventure 2 for the Gamecube when I was in middle school, but revisiting it as an adult, it was so hard to envision how I ever enjoyed the way that game controls. However, even though my muscle memory was totally gone, since all the levels I knew from SA2 were remixed, Sonic Generations was good even as an adult.

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[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Every Ubisoft game since Assassin's Creed 2

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To be fair to Ubisoft, the newest Prince of Persia game was a great metroidvania game.

To be fair-er to Ubisoft, they can go fuck themselves for closing down the studio that made said game only a few months later.

They can make good games. They just clearly would rather rehash the same tired formula that they've been running with for the past decade while unreasonably expecting to make more money each time.

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

To be even more fair-er still, They didn’t fire everyone who worked on their best game in decades, they remain with Ubisoft just moved to separate projects. Still a shame, but you know, could always be ~~like everyone else nowadays~~ worse

This is an oldie, but Lords of the Realm II. I loved the first two, but had trouble with the third and ended up giving up, assuming it was a me problem.

Nope, the community pretty much unanimously hates it. It's not a terrible game per se, it's just very different from the first two, throwing out everything most people liked about the predecessors and not exactly succeeding at the new mechanics.

I've decided to build my own take on the best parts of all three, we'll see if I ever finish it.

[–] AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

Final fantasy 13. Rented it as a kid for the 360 for a week and loved it. Didn't get to finish it, but as soon as it released for PC shortly after I built my first PC I played it and loved it. I now have over 300 hours in the game on steam and have beaten it 4 times. One of my favourite FF games despite how much the fanbase shits on the game.

I also don't care for the 2nd game in the trilogy despite that being the fanbase's "preferred" game of the trilogy. Did not like the "monster as a 3rd party member" thing at all. Lightning returns is also amazing and I've put a couple hundred hours into that game and beaten it 3 times as well.

Love the FF 13 games even if they get shit on a lot by FF fans. 13 will always be one of my favourite games.

[–] rockyracoon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I spent a lot of time playing Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts alone and online with friends. A lot of people I've talked to view it negatively and are surprised when I say it was one of my favorite 360 titles. It's one of the main reasons I want to try out Xbox 360 emulation.

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[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The first Call of Duty game I played was Ghosts, and it may have coloured my perception of what the series is about. Bombastic popcorn munching action that goes in one ear and straight out of the other. I was like "eeeeh it's okay". After playing some older ones I was like "well I'm sure it was groundbreaking at the time". (Hm. Did I ever finish MW2? And I think I put Black Ops 2 on hold after the first mission. Loved Advanced Warfare tho!)

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I hated ghosts but also enjoyed the bots that learned from actual players so they would behave like how players online would....and you would get XP too

Soon I saw them corner camp or even dropshot.

I cannot believe (actually I can since bots can't monetize) that the idea of playing against bots where they would get smarter was never used again

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