consider this a counterpart to the post made by @GuyWTriangle
i have a few but this is my best example:
driv3r. i played the absolute hell out of it back in the day. the first two driver games are ps1 classics but the third game nearly killed the series entirely. atari forced the devs to release it several months before it was finished in order for it to compete with gta san andreas, but the game was very glitchy and a tacked on third person combat system was no match for what gta had to offer. there was also a scandal called driv3rgate (very original) related to atari giving early access to a couple of gaming magazines in exchange for positive reviews, which ended up being the final nail in the coffin for the game.
i still like it a lot. the driving in it feels really good, and i honestly prefer it to san andreas in that respect. the car destruction in the game is also really impressive for ps2, even though car explosions could bring the game down to like 5fps due to the amount of physics objects flying around. also, the three cities in the game (miami, nice and istanbul) have their own distinct atmospheres, cars, and soundtracks. speaking of soundtracks, there were some really good songs on it, my favorite being this. the story mode had some fun missions, but also some really brutal ones. i feel it relied way too much on the third person shooter combat that just wasn't very good. however, the driving missions were mostly fantastic in my experience. it's kinda what the series was known for.
it'd be nice to hear about any negatively received games that are near and dear to you. i love to hear people being passionate about the things they love
Sid Meier's Beyond Earth
I wouldn't say I LOVE the game, but I have immense respect for any game that tries to do something interesting and fails. SMBE is full of potentially really interesting mechanics that on their own I think are really good but ultimately don't really fit the game that the fans thought it would be
I would also add Civ:Rev as a console prole, myself. Yeah, it's not real Civ and a lot of people shit on it for that, but it was the closest we got on console until the latest game. Viewed on it's own it's a fun little strategy game with one benefit over real Civ: fast games!
Also i could fucken destroy the ai on the hardest difficulty once i figured out how op Leonardo's Workshop was, along with the one Wonder that built free cathedrals in all of your cities if you built a temple before you discovered it
I would start every game once i got sailing tech just searching like mad for that thing, and if i found it my new priority was settling EVERYWHERE and building a temple before i would let my unit "discover" it, culture flips for days lmao