Was thinking about Lost Planet 2 the other day by Capcom and how much I enjoyed it. I didn't get the chance to play it co-op or multiplayer but Lost Planet 1's multiplayer was fun, especially the mode where you can be an alien and fight snow pirates. I think the west just wanted another Gears Of War clone, and even though 2 took a lot of inspiration from Gears (it even featured it's hero as an unlockable character) wasn't enough and critics and players panned the game. It's hard today to find anyone even playing it anymore and it seems to be dead. Shame.
Shadow The Hedgehog
The game is short, so you can use it to kill an hour or two, but it still has enough levels for some decent variety and the branching path structure lets you stick to playing levels you like
Also, it's trying so hard to be edgy and serious within the constraints of an E10+ rating that it's honestly kind of adorable
Gotta play that someday. I skipped it back when because of the bad reviews, go figure.
I played the new and ever-living fuck out of No Man's Sky, starting on release day and continuing all the way through until after they made it a video game. It was pretty, it was atmospheric, it was super chill and I was listening to a podcast for most of it anyway.
Lichdom Battlemage
Even I critically pan it, it's shit, don't play it. Yet I keep coming back to it every few years because I have a brain disease that makes me obsessed with over-complicated spellcasting systems
I will always maintain that Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts was a good game, and would have been received much better if it just wasn't marketed as a Banjo-Kazooie game. Nuts & Bolts walked so Tears of the Kingdom could run.
This is me with some of the older Dead or Alive games. It's basically a dumbed-down Tekken with some genuinely amazing arenas. I don't play it for the boobies. If that were my reasoning I'd be playing more Soul Calibur or even pick up Rumble Roses.
I love DOA on the dreamcast. It's pretty deep tho with the counters and juggle strings.
Fallout 76
For all the egregious monetization, dearth of NPCs, and hamfisted live service gameplay, there is a good ~20-30 hour Fallout game in there with the Wastelanders update
I enjoyed Back 4 Blood's little campaign mode and card collecting/deck building. Apparently others didn't. :/
I don't know if it was critically panned, but people complained about Bioshock 2 when I thought it was a great follow up to the original.
Wasn't that the one that went all enlightened centrist with the message of "Actually socialism is bad too (also we got our definition of socialism from Ayn Rand)"?
It was Bioshock Infinite that played the enlightened centrist card. At least the first game was very anti-Randian
Bioshock 2 also had like, "Ooooh we did individualism in the last one but now this villain wants to do collectivism instead!!!"
I don't play videogames for good politics. I just enjoyed having a drill hand and also shooting lightning from my hands. It's been a decade since I played it I couldn't even tell you what the message was.
I wonder if I'd been less tankie if I hadn't played anti-communist propaganda "Command and Conquer: Red Alert" as a kid. shrugs
Really? I thought it was considered a good sequel, hm.
Probably? I think people really had high high hopes for it. I just remember people being harsh on it because it didn't capture the magic of the first game and the multiplayer felt tacked on. Which it definitely was tacked on, but I enjoyed it just the same.
Driver 3. It's a broken mess of a game, but it was really impressive for the PS2 and Xbox, the way the cars broke and crash. Too bad the on foot stuff was broken and weird.
When I was a kid I spent so much time on Driver 3 and Shrek 1. Definitely not good games but there was a glimmer of something in them. I also liked the music in both of them but more so Shrek 1.
Elder scrolls oblivion and skyrim. Not critically panned but I feel like the TES community doesn't like these games. Thankfully I don't give a shit about the TES community. Modded oblivion and skyrim are fantastic comfort games I can always return to.
Need for speed most wanted 2012. Probably gets a lot of hate for not being like the OG most wanted, but it's a fun game nonetheless, and one where I can turn off my brain. Always trying to see how many police vehicles I can take down before I make my escape from the infamous SWAT truck.
Pokemon omega ruby/alpha sapphire sun/moon, let's go pikachu/eevee and scarlet violet. 3D/modern pokemon gets a really bad rep for some reason but I loved and enjoyed all the above-mentioned entries, especially sun and scarlet.
"That's good!"
But as a horny teen I was so there for it.
