Games that you like, that many people hate

[ThePenguinKnight]

Duke Nukem Forever, I'm pretty sure everyone forgot what previous Duke Nukem games were like because they sure act surprised when Duke starts being sexist.

Silent Hill Homecoming
Silent Hill 4
Dead Island
Dark Sector
Jericho

 

[Iwata]

Dark Sector
Jericho

I love those games!

Dark Sector is just fun as fuck, that glaive makes it bloody amazing!

As for Jericho, I'm a huge Barker fan, and I like the story and setting a lot.

 

[SilverBullets000]

Most Sonic games that reveiwers and fans alike bashed because of supposedly bad controls and the side characters that were annoying. Then again, I am a massive Sonic fan, so I say that murks up my judgment on that topic a bit. I will say that 06 was definetly the worst one, though the bugs were actually a source of entertainment for me.

That's all I can think of at the moment. I can think of other games that were overrated (ironic considering the above paragraph), but none that I particularly enjoyed that many others consider bad.

 

[ThePenguinKnight]

Dark Sector
Jericho

I love those games!

Dark Sector is just fun as fuck, that glaive makes it bloody amazing!

As for Jericho, I'm a huge Barker fan, and I like the story and setting a lot.

Dark Sector was just shrugged off as being generic, but that doesn't take away how damn fun steering that glaive around was and how cool you felt wearing the suit.

Yeah, I really enjoyed playing the girl who could spot weak points and manipulate time. Found the game very interesting and wish it was popular enough to get a sequel.

 

[ninjapenguin1414]

Prince of Persia (2008)
The graphics were amazing and the story was great too bad it will never get a true sequel.

 

[IrateDonnie]

Chromehounds, I was sad when they shut the servers down.

 

[JasonKaotic]

Ooo. Links in to a discussion I had earlier. Final Fantasy XIII got a lot of undeserved flak, but I guess I can understand why, I wasn't exposed to Fable 1's hype so I loved that, I have no idea why Black & White 2 is so unpopular, I really loved that, Brink isn't as bad as people make it out to be, it can be quite enjoyable, and my mind's blank so I can't think of any others at the moment.

Captcha: "Oh, lord". Touché.

Edit: I'll go with Silent Hill 4 too, although it was never really 'hated', just not liked much. It's true that it doesn't feel like Silent Hill, but good god is that game brilliant. And easily the scariest in the franchise.

 

[Genixma]

American McGee's Alice and the sequel Alice: Madness Returns.

Yes American McGee's Alice wasn't all that great, the base of it, Wonderland being messed up, had been done plenty of times and Wonderland was already a pretty messed up place. The platforming was like they were made of Ice and Marbles. But there was a enough weapons, enemies, and story to make it interesting.

While Madness Returns was short, in some aspects, had more puzzles and collectibles then action and not much of a storyline, it looked grand graphically and there was enough in it to make it work for me.

But nowadays I hear people hate them both, and I don't mean hate as a term of thinking they don't like what I like I mean HATE it, and I can partially see why. But they worked for me. Plus many of them just dismissed it as bad because it was an "EA title"

I'm sure it isn't completely hated but I live around quite a few people that hate the two titles.

CAPTCHA: Technicolor Yawn... now that does sound very Wonderland-esque.

 

[Del-Toro]

Mobile Suit Gundam CrossFire is, actually, a fuckton better than everyone has heard. I'd actually argue that the Newtype Magazine's rating of it, which was highly positive, was quite accurate.

Although the western press shitting on it did mean I got it nice and cheap, so there's that.

 

[Arina Love]

Had many fun hours with these:
Hyperdimension Neptunia
Ar Tonelico Qoga
FFXIII
Warriors games (orochi included)

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

I have a fondness for the way of the samurai series that befuddles many. There's a new one coming this year, and they've actually updated the graphics! Still not spectacular looking, but definitely better than PS2 circa 2002.

 

[Eamar]

Bioshock 2. One of my favourite games... and I didn't think the first one was all that good. So shoot me

 

[dragonswarrior]

While I had alot of problems with DA 2 I actually quite liked it, enough to play it several times.

Even more shocking, I actually REALLY like the plot of that game. Of all its faults, I have never thought the plot was one of them.

 

[Lugbzurg]

I was actually thinking of making a thread like this, myself. But, since you've already gone and done that for everyone, there is one game I've been meaning to bring up.

Zapper: One Wicked Cricket.

It came from Blitz Games and Infogrames back in 2002. The reason a lot of people seem to really hate it is because they somehow think it's a Frogger ripoff. It's nothing of the sort! You hop around tile-based maps and collect... stuff. That's about it. It was certainly inspired by Frogger, and it's sort of the spiritual successor to Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge, which was developed by a lot of the same people as Zapper. But, even that game was rather a far cry from the traditional Frogger formula.

Frogger has broad, open maps. Zapper has more "Get from here to there" maps. It's like Serious Sam vs. Doom. However, Zapper also has puzzles in it, crates to smash, a lot more things to collect and the character himself can actually kill stuff, which is something Frogger just can't do. Or Chip, the star of Chip's Challenge, which I think is a lot more like Zapper than Frogger would ever be.

A lot of people also hate it for being short. Portal was short, too. And it was almost exactly the same as Narbacular Drop. Yet, people praise it for being "original", and hate on Zapper, when it's hardly anything like Frogger to begin with. On the surface, one might remind you of the other, but the similarities you come to assume start to disappear when you actually play the game. Comparing Zapper and Frogger is essentially like comparing inFAMOUS and [Prototype]. They're both sandbox games that give you superpowers to play with. But, when you actually do, you realize these games have almost nothing else in common.

If one game is inspired by another, is it really that bad if it's more advanced, puzzling, challenging and just overall better?
Plus, the soundtrack is just all kinds of awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxFnIVTe4fM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zI9C7N-bTk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUY4k-MGM3g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPJQ1_6b2Hw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8EpN9YS5G4

 

[Praetox]

Another vote for Duke Nukem Forever. Just bought it and really enjoying myself

 

[DoctorSun]

Alpha Protocol
Dead Island
Too Human

Err...thats all I got for now.

 

[axlryder]

I was actually thinking of making a thread like this, myself. But, since you've already gone and done that for everyone, there is one game I've been meaning to bring up.

Zapper: One Wicked Cricket.

It came from Blitz Games and Infogrames back in 2002. The reason a lot of people seem to really hate it is because they somehow think it's a Frogger ripoff. It's nothing of the sort! You hop around tile-based maps and collect... stuff. That's about it. It was certainly inspired by Frogger, and it's sort of the spiritual successor to Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge, which was developed by a lot of the same people as Zapper. But, even that game was rather a far cry from the traditional Frogger formula.

Frogger has broad, open maps. Zapper has more "Get from here to there" maps. It's like Serious Sam vs. Doom. However, Zapper also has puzzles in it, crates to smash, a lot more things to collect and the character himself can actually kill stuff, which is something Frogger just can't do. Or Chip, the star of Chip's Challenge, which I think is a lot more like Zapper than Frogger would ever be.

A lot of people also hate it for being short. Portal was short, too. And it was almost exactly the same as Narbacular Drop. Yet, people praise it for being "original", and hate on Zapper, when it's hardly anything like Frogger to begin with. On the surface, one might remind you of the other, but the similarities you come to assume start to disappear when you actually play the game. Comparing Zapper and Frogger is essentially like comparing inFAMOUS and [Prototype]. They're both sandbox games that give you superpowers to play with. But, when you actually do, you realize these games have almost nothing else in common.

If one game is inspired by another, is it really that bad if it's more advanced, puzzling, challenging and just overall better?
Plus, the soundtrack is just all kinds of awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxFnIVTe4fM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zI9C7N-bTk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUY4k-MGM3g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPJQ1_6b2Hw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8EpN9YS5G4

Woah, Chip's Challenge. I haven't heard about or seen that game since Windows 95 was still prevalent.

OT: uhhh, I actually liked Hyperdimensional Neptunia. I know it's awful, I just don't care. Oh, and I don't know if this counts, but I actually enjoyed the cutscenes in MGS4.

 

[velcrokidneyz]

dante's inferno, and kayne and lynch 1. idk i had fun robbing a bank and stuff