Games you like that nobody else does

richymcdermott

I thought it be fun and interesting that people would name games they enjoyed but people seemed to dislike at the same time. A few games for me that come to mind are


Resident evil 5:


I played through the campaign twice and the dlc with my cousin and sure it was not perfect with the annoyance of Sheva A.I but I still thought it was a solid game.


Fallout New Vegas:



The game felt like an expansion pack towards alot of people I talked to but that is not necessarily always a bad thing. The addition of companions also made people feel the game was too easily but I thought it was a nice addition . Sure the game was still buggy mess but it did not stop me from putting over 50 hours into the game.

Paper Mario:Sticker Star/U]



I thought this game was great fun but it seemed peoples opinions on the game were very mixed. I liked the humour,gameplay and presentation of the game. Sure the game left you abit in the dark at times to know where some of the stickers were that you really needed a faq but besides that I truly enjoyed it.

Hitman Absolution



This games really had split the fanbase down the middle and while I did not appreciate the linear gameplay or the more story driven at times the developers decided to take the game I still loved it. The new engine is just glorious and beautiful and the environments never felt so real. I thought it was great ana a perfect start to start a reboot for a new generation of people to get into.

Retr0gamer

Castlevania Adventure.

Far and away the worst of the castlevania games until Mirror of Fate came out. There's only 4 levels, it's unfairly tough, really slow and has terrible level design. I still manage to enjoy it although I can see why people hate it. The music is excellent.

Josey Wales

Assassin's Creed III



One of the best games of last year was Assassin's Creed III. I put about thirty hours into that game and enjoyed every bit of it. A lot of people complained about the first few hours of the game and that it was too slow. I enjoyed that part of the game. Playing through that opening was well rewarded by Hatham's revelation at the end. It might just be that people lack a little patience these days with games and need instant gratification. ACIII was a slow burn and there is nothing wrong with that.

The homestead missions and building up that community was a great addition. It had more depth than simply buying up buildings and land like in ACII. And lets not forget the naval combat was very good, which to be fair most people seemed to enjoy.

K.O.Kiki

Melty Blood.

To my mind, the most fun fighting game made. It's pretty easy to pick up too (but ofc hard to truly master), has good character variety, isn't ever "slow" or unfair.

What killed it are: slightly too "Japanese", and being PC-only (for most releases).

VenomIreland

Dwarf Fortress


Probably one of my favourite games of all time, I've tried convincing my friends to give it a go, but they didn't stick with it.

MitchKoobski

Dynasty Warriors in general. Sometimes it feels like just me and Jim Sterling.

Elmidena

Has to be this game. It took a different veering and was more of an RPG/RE type game than a regular TR but I loved it

CastorTroy

James Cameron's Avatar. Not sure how it was received but don't think I heard good things before I got it as a present. Tried it and liked it.

MadYaker

I loved Hitman Absolution! Did most people not enjoy it? It was a bit linear yeah but the gunplay was fantastic. Looks really nice too.

Gunmonkey

Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, sure it wasnt exactly like the original two games but had the same concepts (wander round a region and gather up hundreds of notes and puzzle pieces) but building an insane car/helicopter hybrid with a crane to pick up a statue, have it fail and then tweak/scrap it and start gain a couple dozens times was fun. Pity the mission variety wasnt that great for the most part, some of the events in the colosseum level were great.

Mr E

Retr0gamer wrote:

Far and away the worst of the castlevania games until Mirror of Fate came out.

Mirror of fate would be on my list for this thread. Finished it 100% and really enjoyed it. Paper Mario Sticker Star was great too (as long as you had a Faq for the really obtuse puzzles).

Another would be X-Men Origins Wolverine... Got fairly average (to good) reviews and I loved it.

ancapailldorcha

Final Fantasy XIII: My favourite entry in the series with a great battle system and a decent story. Too linear and an over abundance of hand holding aren't enough to sour such a wonderful game.

Resident Evil 5: Yeah, it's not the most popular Resi but I had a lot of fun with it. I didn't find the partner AI that bad at all but this was a fun shooter once you removed any expectations of horror.

DmC - Devil May Cry: Finished this literally seconds ago. A lot better than I expected. Battle system needs a bit of ironing and platforming isn't great (I hate platforming anyway) but I had a surprising amount of fun with this. New Dante isn't that bad at all and it was nice to see a more down to earth take on the series. Also, killing Bill O'Reilly Bob Bardas was awesome.

Pushtrak

Infinite Undiscovery: This got a lot of middling reviews. Now, I'm not going to say it's a 9/10 or a 10/10 game, and it has been years since I played it, but I thought it was a good game. I can imagine it has dated pretty badly. It wasn't great graphically. The best thing about the game was how the main character matured. It felt very well done.

The Saboteur: I had more fun with this one than I was expecting. It isn't top quality entertainment, but did have a good bit of fun with it.

LA Noire: This one got a lot of negative backlash. In some ways it was predictable. Certainly those people who went in expecting a Grand Theft Auto style game were never going to be happy. Personally, as soon as I knew there was a film noir based game in the works, I went looking for news on it a lot. Kept going to the Team Bondi site which looking back, probably got updated 3 or 4 times in 6 years. Lots of people weren't happy with the ending. It worked for me. Film noir often has a particular style of ending, and I felt it worked in the game. Would love to see more done with the franchise.

Not The Real Scarecrow

Always really liked Clive Barkers Jericho ( every one else I know absolutely detest it), I though the squad based system was really different from anything else I had played and I though the story was fairly good as well. At the time ,when I originally got it, I was pissed off with how short it was and there being no multi-player. Went back playing it a few months ago and even though it can get a little bit samey, I think the squad system in it is still fairly unique.

Zero-Cool

Dead Island

It got a lot of backlash for not living up to the trailer and bugs but I loved it. Thoroughly enjoyed it all the way through. Actually might give it another go before ps4 is out.

The One Who Knocks

sheehy83 wrote: »

Dead Island

It got a lot of backlash for not living up to the trailer and bugs but I loved it. Thoroughly enjoyed it all the way through. Actually might give it another go before ps4 is out.

I was enjoying it until I was near the end and my save game got corrupted

Might give it another go too

MadYaker

Anyone remember Driv3r for the PS2? Undoubtedly awful but I loved it! Never finished it either, that last mission was impossible. There something about the way the cities were designed, especially Miami, that I really liked for some reason.

Stylesclash07

Alpha Protocol I loved that game but anyone i talked to about it hated it. Thought it was a great rpg that was different to everything else i had played

uberpixie

Stylesclash07 wrote: »

Alpha Protocol I loved that game but anyone i talked to about it hated it. Thought it was a great rpg that was different to everything else i had played

As an RPG it was excellent, shame the controls could be a little wonky.
Very ggod game for replay value: had two very different endings when I played :-)

Another for the list is XCOM APOCALYPSE, fans of original XCOM deride this game as it had an optional realtime mode and it didn't have the same scale as the other games as you protect a city.

It is an excellent entry in the series, the real time mode works really well and I have never played a realtime squad based strategy to beat it. Fantastic game.

Pushtrak

Stylesclash07 wrote: »

Alpha Protocol I loved that game but anyone i talked to about it hated it. Thought it was a great rpg that was different to everything else i had played

It's an excellent game, and didn't sell nearly as much as it deserved. I've only really seen positive things said about it online by people who've played it, and wishes for a sequel.

dor83

Really liked Dead Island and Alpha Protocol myself. Another one for me is BulletWitch, it was by no means a good game but I enjoyed playing it.

Forgot about the Kane & Lynch Games, I really liked both of them.

o1s1n

VenomIreland wrote: »

Dwarf Fortress

Probably one of my favourite games of all time, I've tried convincing my friends to give it a go, but they didn't stick with it.

Is that a Nethack rip off? That was the game I was going to come in and mention. Absolutely love it. Hardest game of all time I reckon.

sarumite

Stylesclash07 wrote: »

Alpha Protocol I loved that game but anyone i talked to about it hated it. Thought it was a great rpg that was different to everything else i had played

It was a game I always planned on getting and then completely forgot about. I love obsidians approach to RPG's. I prefer FO new fegas compared to FO3. I must see if I can pick this up for cheep.

Tubbs4

Wheelman the game with Vin Diesel. Enjoyed it with jumping from car to car. Didn't do too well with the sales.
Resident evil 6 I didn't think was too bad and the last Silent Hill game.

CrinkElite

o1s1n wrote: »

Is that a Nethack rip off? That was the game I was going to come in and mention. Absolutely love it. Hardest game of all time I reckon.

It's nothing like Nethack apart from the ASCII tile set.

It's more of a micro-management game like Theme Park/Hospital or
the more recent and popular Prison Architect.

Nether of those examples could do it justice though,
you'd just have to play it to get an idea of the scale and depth of it.

learning curve is an absolute bitch though and even when you know
what you're doing you're almost bound to fail eventually.

check it out!

http://www.bay12games.com/

DesperateDan

Bloody loved this game. Some of the best graphics available on the original Xbox, story was written by the Wachowskis and tied in really brilliantly to the events of the trilogy. A different game all together to the woeful Enter The Matrix that had so much more publicity.

The combat system was very deep and incredible. Excellent boss fights, and the surprise ending was very cool. No-one I know liked this game

Zero-Cool

Path of Neo was brilliant, never finished it as my disk got damaged but would love to play it again.

Pushtrak

RopeDrink wrote: »

Currently Resident Evil 6 - I don't know why people are mentioning RE5 - Sure, it's reknowned to have earned a divided playerbase after RE4 but ultimately it was still a success that people still happily play today in big numbers.

I wasn't a fan of RE5. Everything I read about ORC in the build up, everything I saw and read before and after was something I wasn't interested in. I tried the demo to Revelations and 6. Neither won me over. The series is essentially dead to me at the moment. If they come out with a game with a demo that makes me inclined to want to play more, I'll buy it, but I don't expect that to happen.

RobbingBandit

Tales of the Abyss 3D, anyone I ever spoken to about it found it either too stupid or too strange, loved the music.

Also obligatory Legend of Dragoon post seems to belong here, too dark too confusing too weird, but I liked it god damn it.

Cravez

uberpixie wrote: »

Another for the list is XCOM APOCALYPSE, fans of original XCOM deride this game as it had an optional realtime mode and it didn't have the same scale as the other games as you protect a city.

It is an excellent entry in the series, the real time mode works really well and I have never played a realtime squad based strategy to beat it. Fantastic game.

Apocalypse is my favourite of the series, I don't know how anyone could dislike it! It might not have had a scale as a world but the diplomacy/raiding elements made it (in my opinion) a far more in-depth experience.

Pushtrak

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Tales of the Abyss 3D, anyone I ever spoken to about it found it either too stupid or too strange, loved the music.

I haven't gotten to play it yet. I bought it when it first came out, as I know if you wait it'll be a nightmare to find. I didn't have a 3DS at the time, only got a 2DS when that came out. Tales has made the move with me to 4 different places I've moved to in that time. Two of those places I can't go back, but I know I got everything from them. It's in one of the other two places. One in Limerick and one in Cork. No idea where it is. I've given a good look in both places, and have pretty much left it to a "I'll find it eventually" thing now.

Pushtrak

RopeDrink wrote: »

It's been hinted that Capcom are starting to finally realize that if they want to stop their sales declining per title, they need to get back to roots, or at least involve the roots in their new 'action formula' - Though whether they follow that through remains to be seen. I can't see RE7 (Action Game) living up to their own expectations anymore, let alone the players.

RE7 will still be an action game (as you say) at the very least. Seems work started on it before 6 had even come out. Course, they could scrap all that and start again. But assuming they did that, it remains to be seen they do it well. I know people putting a lot of hope in The Evil Within. I'm withholding judgement on that till its out.

Still, the RE4,5 and 6 games have their moments and Mercenaries alone made my 15euro worth the spend - RE6 was on sale recently for 7euro and will likely continue to be sold cheap in more sales on Steam - But I bet bugger all people bought them even at that price.

Have a friend who got it. I was offered a loan of it, but haven't been gaming of late, but will do during Christmas, and get a lend of it then.

It's funny, though, I was hearing months of how bad the game is, and then a reversal, and that 6 is better than 5. Would you agree with that? Do you think 6 is better than 5? Not even thinking genre, just think in terms of games.

RobbingBandit

Pushtrak wrote: »

I haven't gotten to play it yet. I bought it when it first came out, as I know if you wait it'll be a nightmare to find. I didn't have a 3DS at the time, only got a 2DS when that came out. Tales has made the move with me to 4 different places I've moved to in that time. Two of those places I can't go back, but I know I got everything from them. It's in one of the other two places. One in Limerick and one in Cork. No idea where it is. I've given a good look in both places, and have pretty much left it to a "I'll find it eventually" thing now.

Funny thing on what you just posted I have two copies of the game one opened and used quite a lot and another I am keeping for a present for someone I haven't seen in the last year, over the weekend I kinda left home and both copies are probably gone now so I feel your pain, if and when you do find it treasure it.

Mario95

Starhawk (PS3) is possibly the best shooting game I have ever played.
The graphics may not be fantastic but it is really fun. I really don't know why barely anyone plays it.

Retr0gamer

Pushtrak wrote: »

It's funny, though, I was hearing months of how bad the game is, and then a reversal, and that 6 is better than 5. Would you agree with that? Do you think 6 is better than 5? Not even thinking genre, just think in terms of games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08i9kvCJvJ0

3wayswitch

Bionic Commando (The 2009 re-imagining of the game). Really enjoyed that game, was shocked to see it averaged 69% on Metacritic.

GTR63

How popular is Civilization Revolution? (I imagine its frowned upon by fans of the deeper more complex PC titles). Fúcking love that game, always have it next to my Xbox so I can enjoy playing a game of it & just relax doing so(not enough games designed to do just that imo).

blaa85

I really enjoyed that Game of Thrones rpg from last year. Thought the story was fantastic.

cloud493

Sonic 06. I know its awful, I get so frustrated at it, but god help me I love it.

krudler

Pushtrak wrote: »

It's funny, though, I was hearing months of how bad the game is, and then a reversal, and that 6 is better than 5. Would you agree with that? Do you think 6 is better than 5? Not even thinking genre, just think in terms of games.

The biggest crime of 6 was that it felt so generic. Running around with soldiers in a warzone isn't the setting for a Resi game, could be any cut n' paste 3rd person generic shooter.

richymcdermott

cloud493 wrote: »

Sonic 06. I know its awful, I get so frustrated at it, but god help me I love it.

ya I feel the same way. its like watching street fighter movie. It sucks but its a misunderstood classic :pac:

Retr0gamer

richymcdermott wrote: »

It sucks but its a misunderstood classic :pac:

Comparing SF the movie to Sonic 06 is an insult to street fighter the movie.

richymcdermott

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Comparing SF the movie to Sonic 06 is an insult to street fighter the movie.

cloud493

Oh it is though. There's something about sonic 06. I can't put my finger on it, but its compulsively playable.

penev10

Bladestorm!

abbir

Mr E wrote: »

Another would be X-Men Origins Wolverine... Got fairly average (to good) reviews and I loved it.

I loved that game. So much fun. Much better than the movie.

Also liked one of the Spider-man games that got very poor reviews. Can't remember which one though.

Enjoyed Super Paper Mario on the Wii, even though it wasn't as good as the previous two. Couldn't stand the 3ds Paper Mario.

I played through Duke Nukem Forever and enjoyed it somewhat. Now it wasn't a great game or anything but it was a short game that had its moments (when patched up a bit and the 2 weapon limit was gone). Not as bad as people say.

Ross_Mahon

Alien and Predator games. Because i love the franchise. And the latest Resident Evil games because i only started on Resident Evil 5. But i am collecting the older ones to make up for it!

Cokeistan

I loved a FPS called Singularity on the PS3. I don't think it got fantastic reviews but I had great fun playing through it at the time

ancapailldorcha

Ross_Mahon wrote: »

Alien and Predator games. Because i love the franchise. And the latest Resident Evil games because i only started on Resident Evil 5. But i am collecting the older ones to make up for it!

AVP and AVP2 are very well thought of. It's the latest incarnation that people have a problem with.

ShadowHearth

Heroes 5 and 6 - Those two brought back the good old Heroes Games. Its a shame series are not popular. I doubt we will see 7

Settlers 7 - Fantastic game, again, brought back fantastic feel and art of 3 and 4.

Penn

Devil May Cry 4: Okay, obviously not a patch on DMC3, had pretty big character and story problems, and reused too many of the same levels (though you're going though them in the opposite direction with harder enemies etc). But the gameplay was absolutely terrific. The story, while flawed, was still pretty good with moments of brilliance. Enemy design was great and varied. The graphics were glorious at the time. It undoubtedly had its flaws, but it was still a fantastic game. I still much prefer it over the recent reboot.