So I wanted to do the inverse ofHeimdall_Xtreme thread, but instead of focusing on what we hate, how about games we like? I know in my own experience I've played games that get a lot of hate, but have had a lot of fun with them. However, 15 answers seemed like a bit too much, so I lowered it down to just 5 choices. Here's some of my choices.
1. Final Fantasy XVI - I understand why people wouldn't necessarily love this game. I have my own issues with it as well. Playing it, the combat was definitely the worst part for me, but I still found the writing to be engaging at times. It dragged in some spots, and the side quests were pretty bad, but I still wouldn't call it one of the worst games ever like some people seem to think.
2. Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League - personally, even this answer surprises me sometimes. Normally I hate live services games, and I even hated the game when it first launched and tried playing it. About a year after launch though, I picked it up for $5 on sale and gave it another try, and found myself having a good time. The combat, and traversal aspect of the gameplay finally clicked with me. If I had friends to play with, I could see myself having a lot more fun with it, but even as a single player experience, I just found I enjoyed playing through the story, and early seasons for a good amount of time. Worth the $5 for sure.
3. Lost Planet 3 - I remember always hearing "oh, it's a shitty sequel made by a B tier western studio"...and it's kinda my favorite of the series. I really liked this game. I thought the characters and writing were good, and the gameplay was fun. It visually looked pretty cool to me at the time it came out too.
4. Gal*Gun - Oh yeah, there I am...I'm a pervert! Stupid lame pervert liking these games, har har. But ya know what? I don't care lol I'm too old to care if people think that of me. I've never grown out of pervert humor, and I'm not ashamed of it. The thing is though, the Gal*Gun games...they're pervy in the same way a teen sex comedy that they used to make is. That's why I find them amusing. I like the absurdity of the concept of having to literally fight off girls who are in love with you because you got hit with too many cupid arrows. It's silly, and fun. The actual gameplay can be pretty fun I honestly think too. Gal*Gun 2 especially is fun because it has VR support on PC, and I found it to be one of the more fun games to play in VR because you're looking around all the environment having to shoot. The only problem is the PC version is janky enough that it sometimes just doesn't run for me. The series also led to a great spin-off series with great 2D art with the Gal Guardians 2d action games.
5. Pokémon Scarlet/Violet - so this is a tricky one because I don't think everyone hates it since it sold well, but the conversation of how bad it looked and performed on Switch 1 really overshadowed it a lot. Even I agree, it ran like dogshit when I played it on Switch 1...however, beyond that...I really liked the game overall. I liked the ideas they came up with, and I liked their attempts to freshen up the formula for the series. It's not perfect, and I think a franchise that makes as much money as Pokemon can afford to put damn voice acting in their games already, but it was still a real good game in the series overall.
Honorable mentions of some titles that I think GAF hates...but are still pretty popular if sales are any indication. Fortnite, and Borderlands. I still haven't played Borderlands 3, so I can't say if I'd also hate it, but I love the series before that, and don't understand the rapid hate it gets on here.
Opinions, i'm not saying XIII is perfect but that are things that are clearly better than XIII-2. It got bashed at the time because for the most part it's hand holding, and open world was the thing.
Ah, good choices.
I love the DS Zelda games. They're always put automatically at the bottom of "every Zelda game ranked" list but I would put them much closer to the top.
Some of the other M complaints are valid and some were nonsense but at the end of the day it was a game that should never have been made because the amount of people who could appreciate the whacked out mix of ingredients that went into it was never going to be very big. I'm just happy that it did because it was a game absolutely made for my sensibilities.
Indeed. It's maybe the prism of Neogaf but I have the feeling the general feeling about the game is not so good.
We will have to agree to disagree. I just don't see what you see in it's story and level design (or lack thereof). Even the combat, which is the thing that 13 fans tend to champion over it's story, is done much better in 13-2, especially when you consider 13 has a secret time-based fail state even when you're doing good in a battle and are almost close to beating a boss fight. To me that's just horrible design and a waste of time.
Snow isn't even a main character of 13-2. He has a small section of the game dedicated to him in which they tell you what he's up to, and then he promptly leaves in a dumb way, but the difference is that the devs of 13-2 know he's dumb and treats him as such, with Serah even shaking her head at the things he's saying and his 'hero' shtick. He ends up having kind of a funny side story and Serah is like 'yeah, that's my goofball husband for ya
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I bought 13 day zero in 2009. 100% 13-2 too.We will have to agree to disagree. I just don't see what you see in it's story and level design (or lack thereof). Even the combat, which is the thing that 13 fans tend to champion over it's story, is done much better in 13-2, especially when you consider 13 has a secret time-based fail state even when you're doing good in a battle and are almost close to beating a boss fight. To me that's just horrible design and a waste of time.
Snow isn't even a main character of 13-2. He has a small section of the game dedicated to him in which they tell you what he's up to, and then he promptly leaves in a dumb way, but the difference is that the devs of 13-2 know he's dumb and treats him as such, with Serah even shaking her head at the things he's saying and his 'hero' shtick. He ends up having kind of a funny side story and Serah is like 'yeah, that's my goofball husband for ya
FF13 treats him seriously. Lightning Returns also treats him seriously. That's my issue. Both the first game and the third game are too far up their own asses to realize how silly of a character he is and how typical his dialogue comes across. That's what I mean by the game reminding my of older Square games. They knew when to be more lighthearted.
Noel's voice acting and story were good to me and much better than anything presented in 13. Serah was better written as well didn't meander with long speeches about L'Cie and Fal'Cie like the entire cast did in the previous game.
I don't know in what world anyone can reasonably think that Serah from 13-2 is more annoying/grating on the ears than 13's Vanille. Vanille was the epitome of 'cutesy baby anime voice' gone wrong.
I don't think it's wrong to like 13 more than 13-2, I just don't think 13-2 needs to be shoved down to prop up 13, and it doesn't help 13 because once someone tries both games out they realize exactly what I did last year, with 13's long list of what not to like, compared to 13-2.
