Critically Panned Games You Will Defend to the Death
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Bulletstorm. I know it wasn't 'panned' but it met a lot of crticisim and didn't sell well. Still I find it to be one of my favorite shooters, there's a lot of fun to be had shooting at dudes and kicking them into cacti so I hold onto it and play it from time to time.
Good to see so much Alpha Protocol Love here.
So much.
Cruel, Merciless Gods, I've played through AP at least half a dozen times and I STILL adore it.
So much.
Cruel, Merciless Gods, I've played through AP at least half a dozen times and I STILL adore it.
That game had great ideas. I loved the world and the ideas. Two Worlds 2 was also really good.nikki191 said:
The game I want to defend though, is Too Human. I love that game. Camera's not the best, the the world and characters are amazing. I love the nice, fluid combat, and the Diablo style looting. It was a great game, and I loved it.
God, it seems like 90% of my posts refer to this game, but...
Operation Darkness. Just an awful, awful game, and rightly panned by 'critics'...yet somehow it milked 200+ hours out of me, and I would gladly do it all over again.
Operation Darkness. Just an awful, awful game, and rightly panned by 'critics'...yet somehow it milked 200+ hours out of me, and I would gladly do it all over again.
i do not kmow why but i liked the wanted game it was bad but to me it was a so bad it was good thing a lot like the film
hey you can not go bad with a game that says on the back of the case that you can punch people in the faceIrridium said:This. Good fucking god THIS.Tanis said:
God Hand
Slammed by critics, but one of my Top 25 (so sue me I've played a LOT of) PS2 games.
I don't care what anyone says, God Hand is amazing. One of the best games from the last generation.
I never had many problems in that respect. There were some design quirks that I couldn't figure out at first, but the only big problem for me in that game is the sections that are indoors and have you casually walking around rather than the balls-out running and panicking in the first mission.The Wykydtron said:
Jaws for the PS2. It's so bad it's good, but It's like a GTA: shark edition. Also, It's ridiculous. Jaws has to blow up an oil refinery in the game.
Mashed: Drive to survive. Critically slaughtered in the US, but the rest of the world saw it for the multiplayer darling that it was. Best damn couch multiplayer game in years
I loved those games!Terminate421 said:Although the combat wasn't stellar this game is a masterpiece in my eyes:
I'm not lying to you when I say this:
There are interesting characters
The Writing is on level with Mass Effect
The Darkness level, for a pokemon game, is perfect
Pokemon actually die
Seconded, people seem to hate DNF despite it being everything that a real fan of Duke Nukem would expect a Duke Nukem game to be. In fact, I'm willing to say that Duke Nukem Forever is one of the best games in the series.Triforceformer said:
Oh, and to the death? NO!
In alphabetical order?
Alpha Protocol
Bayonetta
Final Fantasy X-2
Final Fantasy XII
Final Fantasy XIII
There are probably more but I can't think of them off the top of my head. Going in order: I'm glad to see all the love for Alpha Protocol which I feel was a highly underrated game that gave lots of options if you were awake enough to see them. I have never really played a game with that much raw choice laced with actual in game effects of even minor choices, to the point of NPC's remembering your actions. Bayonetta got a lot of flak for being 'Overly Sex-driven' but I always find it useful to point out that this is entirely Hideki Kamiya's style, Dante in the Devil May Cry games was larger-than-life machismo on steroids and so much man that even the devil couldn't take him down. Essentially he was the 'Male Video Game Archetype', not AN archetype, but THE archetype for male protagonists. Bayonetta is just the other side of the gender coin, she's the Female Video Game Archetype, I know it's essentially semantics but I appreciate the style and flair that the game had while not-so-subtly lampooning the overused archetypes of the games industry all without sacrificing an actual story for the sake of satire. The laundry list of FF's up there I defend because regardless of how hinky the story or the characters or the combat got they were still fun to play. I honestly don't like FFVII or VIII because their stories were nearly impenetrable and the characters were actually kind of bland. I'm not saying all three of those games were gems through and through by any means, all games have their weak-points like X-2's fanservice costumes or XIII's abominably long intro time. The point is though that all of the characters in those games feature actual growth in their character while Cloud turns out to have been out of his gourd insane from the trauma of Zack's death and other factors, and Squall basically just cranks his natural dickishness down from 11 to a meagre 8. On the flipside in XIII the character Hope is initially introduced as a whining bag of irritation who it turns out is struggling with an intense hatred for another character in your party who was responsible for his mothers death and trying to deal with both his feelings of rage conflicting with his passive and somewhat cowardly nature eventually growing as a character and become much more defined.
So there it is, a vomitous wall of text. Enjoy?
Alpha Protocol
Bayonetta
Final Fantasy X-2
Final Fantasy XII
Final Fantasy XIII
There are probably more but I can't think of them off the top of my head. Going in order: I'm glad to see all the love for Alpha Protocol which I feel was a highly underrated game that gave lots of options if you were awake enough to see them. I have never really played a game with that much raw choice laced with actual in game effects of even minor choices, to the point of NPC's remembering your actions. Bayonetta got a lot of flak for being 'Overly Sex-driven' but I always find it useful to point out that this is entirely Hideki Kamiya's style, Dante in the Devil May Cry games was larger-than-life machismo on steroids and so much man that even the devil couldn't take him down. Essentially he was the 'Male Video Game Archetype', not AN archetype, but THE archetype for male protagonists. Bayonetta is just the other side of the gender coin, she's the Female Video Game Archetype, I know it's essentially semantics but I appreciate the style and flair that the game had while not-so-subtly lampooning the overused archetypes of the games industry all without sacrificing an actual story for the sake of satire. The laundry list of FF's up there I defend because regardless of how hinky the story or the characters or the combat got they were still fun to play. I honestly don't like FFVII or VIII because their stories were nearly impenetrable and the characters were actually kind of bland. I'm not saying all three of those games were gems through and through by any means, all games have their weak-points like X-2's fanservice costumes or XIII's abominably long intro time. The point is though that all of the characters in those games feature actual growth in their character while Cloud turns out to have been out of his gourd insane from the trauma of Zack's death and other factors, and Squall basically just cranks his natural dickishness down from 11 to a meagre 8. On the flipside in XIII the character Hope is initially introduced as a whining bag of irritation who it turns out is struggling with an intense hatred for another character in your party who was responsible for his mothers death and trying to deal with both his feelings of rage conflicting with his passive and somewhat cowardly nature eventually growing as a character and become much more defined.
So there it is, a vomitous wall of text. Enjoy?
HOLY S**T SOMEONE ELSE ACTUALLY PLAYED THAT GAME!?Phlakes said:
I loved the hell out of that game, it was one of my first N64 games and I still remember sitting in front of the TV as a kid and trying to beat it.
Final Fight: Streetwise. Not merely panned, but critically reviled.
Unfortunately for game journalism as a whole, reading all the negative reviews of it (after having played it several times) reveals just how many reviewers either didn't actually play it, weren't paying attention, or were just plain stupid.
One reviewer, for example, complained about being frustrated after spending half an hour on a light puzzle. Said "light puzzles" are basically Lights Out on a 3x3 grid - every one in the game can be solved in three moves (and in fact the game imposes a 3-move limit), and if you fail three times (which takes only a minute or two) the game TELLS YOU the first move you should make. If you're stuck on a puzzle like this for over half an hour, the only possible reason is because you are an idiot.
Another reviewer complained that even though there was a light attack combo and a heavy attack combo, there were no combos that used both light and heavy attacks, which is provably wrong - as can be shown by simply trying all the different patterns of light and heavy and noting that each one does a different combo. This can even be done at the very start of the game, since all the basic combos (i.e. involving only the light attack and heavy attack buttons) are available from the very beginning.
The gameplay is fun, the story is enjoyably stupid, and I love this game.
Unfortunately for game journalism as a whole, reading all the negative reviews of it (after having played it several times) reveals just how many reviewers either didn't actually play it, weren't paying attention, or were just plain stupid.
One reviewer, for example, complained about being frustrated after spending half an hour on a light puzzle. Said "light puzzles" are basically Lights Out on a 3x3 grid - every one in the game can be solved in three moves (and in fact the game imposes a 3-move limit), and if you fail three times (which takes only a minute or two) the game TELLS YOU the first move you should make. If you're stuck on a puzzle like this for over half an hour, the only possible reason is because you are an idiot.
Another reviewer complained that even though there was a light attack combo and a heavy attack combo, there were no combos that used both light and heavy attacks, which is provably wrong - as can be shown by simply trying all the different patterns of light and heavy and noting that each one does a different combo. This can even be done at the very start of the game, since all the basic combos (i.e. involving only the light attack and heavy attack buttons) are available from the very beginning.
The gameplay is fun, the story is enjoyably stupid, and I love this game.
My copy is still in the mail (watching a Let's Play sold me on it), but I suspect that Alpha Protocol will be one of those games for me, as well.Paladin2905 said:
