Games that you like, that many people hate

[AngleWyrm]

The Witcher 1
I liked the collectible sex cards.
And I liked brewing potions of awesome.

 

[Boone]

I really liked Silent Hill Shattered Memories on the Wii. I went into it with the mindset of it being it's own thing and I think that's what helped. Sure, it wasn't scary but it was an excellent story that gets better with an extra play through or two.

Spoiler

I love how the the entire game is pretty much you playing through Cheryl's life . I especially liked how HS was represented.

 

[DementedSheep]

Bioshock 2, yeah I agree the plot could a use some work and Lamb isn?t as awesome as Andrew Ryan but the gameplay was much better (still not great tho), I love the Big Sisters, I liked defending the little sister and I liked the ending.

Bulletstorm, sometimes I just want to shoot some guys in the dick ok?

Mirrors edge also but I don?t think that was really ?hated? just ignored.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

^This.
Also, Sonic Unleashed. The night stages were bad and there were too much of them but the day stages were good.

Thank you. That is exactly what I tell people when they ask me about Sonic Unleashed.

 

[skywolfblue]

Bioshock 2: I looooved this game and disliked the first. The majority opinion is the other way around, and a lot of people called Bioshock 2 a terrible sequel.

Dead Space 2: Same thing. Most people say that Dead Space 1 was more "scary" and 2 was too "actiony", hell I LIKE actiony then.

Mass Effect 3: It was an awesome game, even the end that people like to rage over so mch.

Gears of War 2/3: I really don't know why so many people associate Gears with Call of Duty. One's a first person shooter set in modern times, the other has you chainsawing giant monsters in half.

The hate train is strong against most of my favorite games.

 

[King of Asgaard]

Final Fantasy X
Easily the best in the franchise for me.
Yet, because of one scene (you know the one), which was purposely corny and embarrassing, people avoid it like the plague.

 

[Bertylicious]

Far Cry 2.

A lot of people say the game has no point.

I think that kind of *IS* the point, seeing as it's about nihilism.

Could it have done with a few less "checkpoints" you have to drive through? Yeah. Was it still fun? Heck yeah.

I'd forgotton Farcry 2. Fucken loved that game.

Fallout 3. The hardcore fans think it's the worst in the series, but it's my favorite.

It was far superior to New Vegas in atmosphere and scale.

[small]But the characters in New Veagas were better by a long shot.[/small]

I'll do you one better. I loved Fallout Tactics. Sure, it didn't get the setting quite (or even close to) right, but it is a solid strategy game that is as fun as it is challenging and it uses the SPECIAL system.

Also, I preferred New Vegas too, but Fallout 3 was still great, with the exception of Little Lamplight.

Aww yeah! Tactics was ace! At least till you got energry weapons and power armour because then you just ran your team around in a big block murdering everything. kind of like how in DoW2 as soon as you unlocked terminator armour you just group selected your guys and attack-moved across the map.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

Both the Force Unleashed games. I thought they were awesome.

Also, a lot of movie games years ago.

 

[Iwata]

Both the Force Unleashed games. I thought they were awesome.

Also, a lot of movie games years ago.

Good movie games:

Tron: Evolution
Captain America: Super Soldier
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Watchmen: The End Is Nigh
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

 

[Sean Hollyman]

Both the Force Unleashed games. I thought they were awesome.

Also, a lot of movie games years ago.

Good movie games:

Tron: Evolution
Captain America: Super Soldier
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Watchmen: The End Is Nigh
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Heh I loved every Harry Potter game up to Goblet of Fire. That one sucked.
Spiderman 1,2, and 3 were fun.
And I enjoyed Disney Pixar cars too

 

[Kiardras]

Too human was an amazing setting, an amazing story, and some glorious set pieces and character design.

The controls were designed by a lobotmised, inbred cockroach however, which killed the game for me. But I loved the setting.

Can't say for sure if Timeshift gets a lot of hate or just gets ignored, but its a game I really enjoyed. Slowing, stopping and rewinding time as part of gameplay was brilliant, it had some great sequences, some interesting combat. Story was average, but mostly it was a lot of fun.

I played Timeshift as well. I really enjoyed the whole time manipulation thing and thought it was done fairly well. I didn't even know it was somewhat disliked before ages after I finished it. Only thing I didn't like about it was the ending....

Also PS: where is that avatar from?

Yeah, the ending was a bit of a let down.

Avatar is just some stock image from the internet, I've been using her for years on nearly every forum I'm on. Always loved me a red headed vampire chick

 

[thespyisdead]

It was hated? I always heard that it was really good, so I bought it myself. It was a really good game, and I love the black/white transition into colour thing. it was awesome.

well it must have gone wrong somewhere, cos it was the last thing Pandemic ever did, as EA (curse them) dissolved it... i guess that Battlefront 3 will never be as good as it's prequels... if it ever gets made :/

 

[Amaror]

The Witcher 1
I liked the collectible sex cards.
And I liked brewing potions of awesome.

People hate that game? yathzee was the only one i noticed, but yeah i loved it and the second one,too.
Also really liked Prototype and Bulletstorm.

 

[Xaio30]

I liked The Last Remnant, but I bet you've never heard of it.

 

[greyghost81]

I'll join the chorus of those saying Dragon Age 2 is good. In fact, it's better than Origins.

I don't know if Prototype and Lord of the Rings: War in the North are hated, exactly, but I recall them getting bad press that doesn't seem at all deserved.

Similarly, I think people cry over Fallout 3 and New Vegas too much. Those games are fantastic and aside from the technical problems they had (especially NV on PS3, seriously, that and Skyrim on PS3 were valid examples of fully justified complaint against Bethesda) the games themselves are fun, engaging, and create world worth exploring. I'll put Mass Effect in this category, too, but even as a long-standing apologist for the series, I think that ending was not well done, especially given how Bioware had talked about the series as a trilogy from the start. That surely cannot be the best you can do, Bioware. Ending aside, those games are worth the investment of multiple play-throughs.

I'll also say Final Fantasy 12 is good.

 

[chuckdm]

Bulletstorm :/ I love it but I can see why so many people didn't, the main meat of the game was really chasing the top scores on the Echoes as that was really the only game mode that required you to get to grips with the kill system. I strangely treated each Echo as a puzzle which is far more apt than just a straight shooter and as such I got huge amounts of playtime out of it by analysing each stage and trying to slot all the skillshots together in a lovely display of violence and mayhem.

Agreed, I thought Bulletstorm was awesome. It was the first (and really so far only) game I've played that manages to add a level of actual strategy to the excessive-carnage end of the shooter spectrum. I think the reason nobody liked it was mainly the lack of competitive multiplayer, but the thing is, with the godlike mechanics the way they are, to balance multiplayer you'd have to disable the thumper, probably put the leashes on a very limited timer, and take out about half the guns while limiting the other half. The weaponry is just to overpowered to make competitive multiplayer work, so I totally understand why they didn't bother. That said, this combinded with the fact that almost nobody plays single player shooters (not to be confused with single player RPGs that use gun combat, I mean more or less a bunch of moving targets and a dude with a gun, period) means it never really had a market.

But the world was beautiful, the combat was beautiful, it was the greatest spectacle in gaming I've seen in years. It's not the shooter you play every day, but when you come home after being screwed out of Saturday overtime yet again, Bulletstorm was freaking AWESOME.

 

[bobmus]

Mirror's Edge, absolutely adore that game. One of the only campaigns I've replayed.
Enjoying playing Call of Duty now, despite my previous allegiance to Halo. Halo lost my trust with Reach, and now
I shall eat Cod.
Also my favourite Elder Scrolls game is Oblivion. Yeah, you heard me.

On the counter, Mass Effect 1 is the dullest Xbox game I own. Got bought as a gift, just can't play through it at all. Utter tedium.