Personally never had a problem with Victoria 3. A bit buggy on release but nothing game breaking
I really like the first Watchdogs, it’s by no means the game that was promised but it’s still great.
Watchdogs didn’t stand a chance trying to be a GTA competitor. That said being able to “hack” NPC’s and get a little blurb about their secrets was hilarious.
I agree, people focus too much on the gfx downgrade controversy.
Elite dangerous. When you look past a lot of flaws, is just a very beautiful game
Postal 2. I mean, it’s not a great game by most metrics, but it’s stupid fun. Also the fact that it was basically made as a middle finger to Congress for being blamed for the Columbine shooting because their obscure PC game Postal (that would have otherwise died in obscurity because it was legit pretty lame) happened to feature a gunman in a trench coat. So at the same time everyone was clutching their pearls over the ability to pick up prostitutes in GTA, I was peeing gonorrhea pee on cops and then shooting them in the face with a shotgun on which a live cat acted as a silencer, and getting into machine gun fights with Gary Coleman.
Man, Postal 2 is such a great time. I always start out with the best intentions of being “good”, but by the Wednesday level I’m robbing the bank and breaking into every house that I can.
Games are bad, they make you mad!
I’ve enjoyed No Man’s Sky since day 1. I didn’t really follow the game or any of the major hype behind it, I just saw a cool space game on ps4 and played the hell out of it. Fell in love with the music, the setting, and just walking around weird landscapes, flying to different atlas stations, and just enjoying being alone.
I still play it, and am so happy HG continues to give the game constant love and attention, but there are days I turn networking off on my ps4 and play the 1.0 version again, just to go back to that part of my life for a little bit.
I was 13 and still had a childlike sense of wonder when Spore came out so I have tons of nostalgia for it
Beyond: Two Souls. I think the biggest issue was the marketing. They tried to pretend that it could appeal to a wider audience, but I knew what I was actually signing up for based on who made it. If you didn’t like Heavy Rain or Indigo Prophecy (aka Fahrenheit) then you also weren’t gonna like that one. It’s more of an interactive supernatural movie than a game. The gameplay is little more than QTE and wandering, but the story, acting, cinematography, and mocap are all really good or at least uniquely interesting for the medium, especially at the time. I still need to play Detroit too.
Fallout 76. Granted, I played it almost a year after release.
I found it to be a very good game overall. Not as good as New Vegas or FO3, but I thought it was better than FO4.
Not a specific game, but Ive had this discussion before and been downvoted to shit for my stance. Ive bought plenty of not great games on extreme steam sale and I cant help but mentally review them on a dollars to enjoyment over time scale.
Was it a great game? Not really. Did I play it for 3 weekends? Yes. Did I get $10 of entertainment value out of it? Absolutely, it seems like I cant leave the house without spending $10. Thats significantly better value than how I feel about buying D4 at launch.
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Has Been Heroes. It’s a rougelite where you have to control three heroes across three lanes of action. You have to juggle skills and lanes by rotating the heroes to time attacks and perks. It may be more that it went notices than reviewed poorly.
One that definitely was reviewed poorly that I loved though was Advent Rising. It’s a scifi 3rd person shooter with the story by Orson Scott Card. It ended up in legal trouble due to a botched prize they did on release. Worst part is it ends on a cliff hanger and they never made the sequel or released the comics that were supposed to add to the story.
I looked at the metacritic page and it was tbd, like no outlets even rated it… And it’s a console and pc game with a physical release!
Anyway it’s Bullet Girls Phantasia, an even lower budget EDF like game, but in a Isekai setting and the girls have their clothes ripped when they suffer enough damage, beat it multiple times.
King’s Bounty 2. It’s not an amazingly well made game, and it lost a lot of the fun goofiness of the other games, but I do love the combat and think the story was underrated.
Silent Hill Origin and Downpour.
Bracing for impact… The new Suicide Squad game.
I had a ton of fun with it. It probably isn’t worth $70 yet, but there’s a good foundation of a game there. The combat is a ton of fun, it just needs more content.
