Do you enjoy any 'bad' or 'poorly recieved' games?

Post » Sun May 13, 2012 10:22 pm

Black on the PS2 is a fantastic game with a huge potential, but got woefully unoticed!
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 5:02 pm

Two Worlds (the first one) - liked that one quite a bit. Not for plot or story...just the action-rpg/items-loot/wandering a vast landscape.Whiled away a lot of hours roaming around, climbing hills & hunting/killing beavers for their fat. haha.
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 4:57 pm

Boy, I have played and loved a lot of terrible games over the years. My favorite "bad" game is Darkest of Days, where you play as a Union soldier fated to die at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, but you are saved by a time traveling agent and brought to the "present", where we have perfected time travel and use it for purely historical purposes, checking to see if the victor wrote the history books correctly. But why were you brought back, pray tell? Apparently this shadowy organization is messing up the passage of time (how they would detect that, I don't know) and you need to travel back in history to make sure that the people who lead great lives and were sent to the battlefield by the organization make a safe return. You see the Civil War, WW1, and even Rome for a bit and kill soldiers as well as selectively spare others who aren't supposed to die, with handouts in the form of modern uber weapons along the way. Mowing down the Confederates with an assault rifle never gets old. In the present, you report to a set of eyes on a television screen (named "Mother") and work with Dexter, a walking encyclopedia of meaningless swears and tepid wisecracks. Darkest of Days, a masterpiece from the minds of Monkey8labs, sold almost no units and was given a respectable score of 3.5 from IGN.

Other games I enjoy are Sneak King, a game where you stalk people as the Burger King mascot and give them sandwiches, and Duke Nukem Forever, a game lost in time that was collectively booed by critics, despite having a solid story and exciting multiplayer. As for less recent games, I happened to enjoy Shadow the Hedgehog, and I think they should make another. :tongue:
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 12:12 pm

I liked Dragon Age II more than most it seems, but I still consider it quite rubbish. The gameplay was just too painful and it overcame the decent plot and writing.
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 11:44 am

Since I like the Dynasty Warriors games that would be a yes.
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 2:13 pm

Turok for the Xbox I suppose, it was different and a good challenge at points, I just wished there was good servers and a nice amount of people still online.
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 9:29 pm

Two Worlds (the first one) - liked that one quite a bit. Not for plot or story...just the action-rpg/items-loot/wandering a vast landscape.Whiled away a lot of hours roaming around, climbing hills & hunting/killing beavers for their fat. haha.

How did I forget Two Worlds? That was pretty widely panned. I agree that the story was, erm, not the best, and its voice acting is legendary, but just for the game itself I really enjoyed it. The landscape was wonderfully constructed and I loved the cities, each with its individual character and soundtrack in many cases, and the gameplay was actually really pretty good: which isn't to say it's damned by faint praise, it was actually better than some of the better-regarded games out there, and I really liked little touches like being able to improve armour and weapons by "stacking" them. Spent many enjoyable hours just wandering about and exploring.
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 9:13 pm

I enjoyed the Dungeon Siege series and thought the second one had one of the best stories and lore ever.

Haven't played the 3rd one yet
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 3:57 pm

Lets admit it it, 'bad' games is a subjective idea. Even if a million people hate a game, there's sure to be at least a few hundred who enjoyed it.

So what about you ladies and gentlemen, have you ever liked a poorly reviewed game?

I do, for me Naughty Bear and the Godfather games are great games. (Despite the poor VA and clunky design of the Godfather games)

I played poorly reviewed games and watched movies with a "thump down".
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 11:15 am

Metro 2033 is one of my favourite games of all time.

Dark Messiah: M&M has the best melee combat of anything I've ever played.

Despite the disaster that was DA2, I did enjoy parts of it, and I got through it more or less on my own accord.

I've only played about 1/3 of Alpha Protocol so far, but I've loved what I saw. Stopped once I picked up Human Revolution, of course. :P
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 6:15 pm

Dragon Age 2. Admittedly it wasn't perfect and lots of things could've been done so much better, but in some areas, such as the party members (excluding Anders and Fenris) were better than any of the non-spoilery Origins party members.

Definitely not 'poorly recieved', but I thought Mass Effect 2 was better than the first one.
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 11:27 am


I've only played about 1/3 of Alpha Protocol so far, but I've loved what I saw. Stopped once I picked up Human Revolution, of course. :tongue:
Finish it. Also I assume you have only completed Saudi. If so thats 1/4 of the game. Still Taipei, Moscow and Rome. I liked Moscow best, aside from the boss fight.
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 12:53 pm

Pretty sure I've said this before, but the new Sonic games. Yup, I like Modern Sonic and all (most) of his friends. I freaking love Shadow The Hedgehog. The 2005 Shadow The Hedgehog game is probably my favourite Sonic game. Yes, I even got enjoyment from the 2006 Sonic The Hedgehog game. I am not ashamed.
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 7:58 pm

http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-3/way-of-the-samurai-3 is among my absolute favorite games this console generation, yet the metacritic score is only 58. I won't let some unpolish and stop me from having a good time. I'm looking forward to Way of the Samurai 4 a great deal ^_^

But I guess it helps being a relatively old gamer, who remember when 3D graphics ran about 10 FPS at best and various quirks were more common, so I belive I have more oversight for that kind of thing compared to a "new" gamer. But I find it funny when people complain about games running in "only" 20 FPS and I'm more like "whoa, 20 FPS, that's a godsend!" :P

Anyway, the lowest scored game I ever enjoyed is probably http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sword_of_Hope for the original Game Boy, I remember a swedish gaming magazine giving it 19 of 100 (funniest review I've ever read too), but I played thru it multiple times :P
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 7:30 pm

I seem to remember the King Kong tie-in game being pretty unpopular, but I loved it. The giant centipedes made me [censored] my pants though.
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 3:55 pm

Black on the PS2 is a fantastic game with a huge potential, but got woefully unoticed!
I loved that game so much, I'm still waiting for a Black 2.
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 9:17 pm

Tenchu Z. Pretty piss poor all round, but for some reason I loved playing it.

Is it? Awww..... I've been a fan of Tenchu since Stealth Assassins on the PS1. RIKIMARUUUUUU!!!!
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 2:40 pm

It's amazing to see that there are actually other Metro fans here. It does my heart good to see that.
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 12:19 pm

Two World
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 7:49 am

It's amazing to see that there are actually other Metro fans here. It does my heart good to see that.
When the game first came out we actually had a pretty active topic on the game, so it's safe to say it's well liked around here.
I seem to remember the King Kong tie-in game being pretty unpopular, but I loved it. The giant centipedes made me [censored] my pants though.
Yea I enjoyed it as well, unlike most movie games it's actually pretty good.
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 10:27 pm

Finish it. Also I assume you have only completed Saudi. If so thats 1/4 of the game. Still Taipei, Moscow and Rome. I liked Moscow best, aside from the boss fight.

I'm sure I'll get around to finishing it - but I have a lot of games on my plate at the moment. I can't remember how far I got, exactly. I finished Saudi, definitely, and then I started a mission in Moscow, IIRC. I stopped playing after getting ambushed by someone on a yacht, and I just left it at that.
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 3:56 pm

Prey had some really good location design but it just felt like it was wasted and would have been served better by being more open in how you progressed through areas as opposed to the corridor shooter it was.

Prey was the best thing done with the Doom3 engine if you ask me, it had portals before Portal!
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Post » Sun May 13, 2012 2:16 pm

I really liked Prince of Persia 3D as a kid, and that was pretty poorly received.

Because it's not actually a good game, as I found out when I tried to replay it many years later. :P
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