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
I thought Cyberpunk 2077 was super engaging and thrilling. I definitely don't want to downplay the bad experience people had with last gen consoles, but if you can run it well on a PC it can be great.
The thing with Cyberpunk is not that the released game is bad, it's alright if you want a linear game in a beautifully made setting.
The problem is that they marketed a game that was going to rival what Rockstar make and yet Cyberpunk doesn't even contain basic features that have existed in GTA since GTA3 let alone things that would make it rival the likes of RDR2 etc. The world isn't really a sandbox it's more like a diorama unfortunately.
And unlike No Man's Sky which actually HAS gone on to deliver what they promised in all the marketing, Cyberpunk probably won't deliver anything they promised. It's pretty clear that there's like 3 people working on it now.
I got it second hand for $20 on ps4 and didn't keep up with hype, played it a year after launch. I thought the story was only okay, the shooting was fun, the city was pretty gorgeous, it was still pretty buggy Id crash every hour or two, the city was pretty sparsely populated and the racing gigs with trans icon Claire was bad because you can outdrive the AI and loading on last gen pretty easily. It would have sucked to have payed full price for it at launch, but I liked it overall for $20 I guess.