Starfield, which I don’t get the sheer magnitude of rancor it gets… It’s not perfect, but it’s still a good game, and none of its issues are “unfixable”, no matter how much its haters want to believe they are
Genuinely had a lot of fun with it and looking forward to content updates, as well as yes bug fixes and gameplay improvements (I did say it’s not perfect, but none of Bethesda’s games were really better at launch and most of them got slammed initially too)
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.
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.
Mass Effect Andromeda. I’d never played any of the previous ones so went in with fresh eyes. Enjoyed the combat and world design. And the ship you live on is incredible. I was sad to see it being dragged so much.
Later on I got around to playing the earlier games and enjoyed them too. I can see why people didn’t like a lot of the changes but I got my money’s worth.
I played the demo for this game so many times and was very hyped and then when it released reviews were so awful I ended up not buying it. I kept meaning to pick it up cheap but never got around to it.
It really had a lot of potential. I kind of want to go pick it up now.
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.
Just cause 4. I loved fooling around in JC3 and almost 100%ed it a couple of years back, barring some challenges I couldn’t find. I’ve read so much about 4 being a downgrade that i didn’t bother.
I had it on gamepass though and tried it a week ago. The cut scenes are atrocious but the story is compelling enough, and the villains actually seem more interesting. Other than the graphics, the actual art design is pretty good and it’s a good change of pace through a South American setting.
I started playing Immortals Of Aveum before watching any final review of the game. Finished it and then watched the reviews.
Honestly, loved the game, and the reviews seemed to be negative from the get-go with the main point of having “nothing particularly new”. Yeah probably but that doesn’t make the game bad lol. It was actually fun and engaging, at least to me.
I stopped trusting reviewers long time ago and just watching em for kicks and giggles. Everyone has a different taste and that’s okay.
Star Wars Rebellion (or Star Wars Supremacy in Europe) had a GameRankings score of 50 but I had a blast with it. I must have had 200 hours in it over the years. As a 4X game, it’s definitely below average, and there’s zero challenge once you figure a few things out.
Where it succeded was by being a bit of a sandbox with a fun license. The soundtrack is phenomenal, there are recognizable names everywhere, and the moment when you get to go toe-to-toe with the Empire after scrapping together a fleet big enough is great. Problem is, it had a rough interface, obtuse mechanics, glacial pacing, and that epic fleet battle looked so bad it probably would have been better off being icons on a star field.
I also think Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (72) and Rune Factory 4 (79) were underrated, especially the latter. I think to this day, RF4 is the best game in its genre (and that includes Stardew Valley).
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.
Back when Spore came out, I was too young to know about most of the hype around it. It was short, yeah, and the end game was odd, but otherwise I remember really enjoying it.
Man I loved Spore!! Some of the later parts are not as detailed as I’d hope for, but the space segment nearly makes up for it!! Never fully finished space though as a kid… Need to go back and finally do it haha.
Sidetrack: I loved it so much I bought a preorder for Spore: Galactic Adventures, yet my attention span hadn’t grown enough and I forgot to ever redeem it 😔
Hah, I remember the space end game seeming like an endless slog of fighting the intergalactic evil race that occupied all the systems surrounding the center of the galaxy. Rather than spend forever slowly taking each and every system over, I just made a mad dash for the center to see what was there. I think the strategy was to take my ship into a system as I’m being chased by enemies, down to a planet, lay down a respawn point without dying, then leave the system and race closer to the center, and repeat. I eventually made it there with this strategy. I won’t spoil what’s at the center in case you don’t want it spoiled but…I found it underwhelming lol.
The problem with that one was that they overhyped it so much. It was supposed to be an everything simulator, and it just wasn’t (although I never actually played it).
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