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Games that are far better than the general consensus would have you believe
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I'll also state Arkham Origins. It was a great game and the story was probably the best of the Arkham series. The encounters with the assassin's were awesome also.
I really liked Far Cry 4.....a lot. Though that was my first Far Cry game and I think that's why I liked it better than others whose biggest complaint is that it was too similar to 3.
I really liked Far Cry 4.....a lot. Though that was my first Far Cry game and I think that's why I liked it better than others whose biggest complaint is that it was too similar to 3.
Army of TWO: The Devil's Cartel is a solid third person shooter. It's paced really well, the story is enjoyable and the shooting is great. It's also co-op!
Killzone: Shadow Fall is one of the best multiplayer shooters on PS4.
Silent Hill: Downpour is underrated. I really enjoyed the story, the puzzles and the overall atmosphere of the game. It could have been spookier though.
Killzone: Shadow Fall is one of the best multiplayer shooters on PS4.
Silent Hill: Downpour is underrated. I really enjoyed the story, the puzzles and the overall atmosphere of the game. It could have been spookier though.
I can also agree with this. It's not a great game at all, but if you love the subject matter it's hard not to have at least some fun with it. Definitely pretty feature deficient in some ways though, but it has that EDF vibe to it also.
oreomunsta
Banned
I'm enjoying Batman AK quite a bit
PetriP-TNT
Member
Hotline Miami 2 expands and improves on pretty much every single thing on HM1, all while throwing in a spin that brilliantly fucks over those who got little too comfortable with HM1.
AntiFacebook
Member
Sunset Overdrive was completely ignored by everyone, but it is one of the best games of the generation.
Getting attacked/aggro'd from enemies you can't even see is stupid in a game with OHKO
Jack Remington
Banned
Tripping though.
Guardian Monkey
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pete_townshend
Banned
Crysis 2
Is it, though? It isn't quite as bad as its ridiculous intro sequence and gunshot menu select would have you believe, but the controls are still super slippy, the "kill everything" missions are tedious and the level design in stages like The Doom and Lost Impact is just flat out terrible. I'd be lying if I said there weren't levels in there I like, but for every good level there's a bad one and honestly none of the missions besides variants of "get to the goal" are fun
Obviously it's far from what DX1 brought to the table, but the way people talk about it seems like it's a spawn of the devil. Which it's not. It's an okay game - in some regards even a great game, but it has the curse of being a direct sequel to one of the best games of all time.
semiconscious
Gold Member
nope! general consensus got that one right
...my vote:
2015 sleeper of the year. taking on convoys has never been more fun
...chronic_archaic
Member
Homefront - when it was still up on consoles anyway. Was the best COD rip off I've played and was genuinely a good shooter. A shame it only stayed online for two years before THQ died and the servers too - PC is still up but I can't play the game with a KB/M and it only has a few dozen people on at best.
The Lone Dragon
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SFxT.
I'd still be mourning the ridiculous treatment of that game if it weren't for the fact that SF5 is incredibly fun.
It's funny...the backlash over the SFxT DLC was so huge, yet if you look at DLC practices today, the prices per character are 4-5 times as expensive as SFxT. The characters were less than $2 per head. Nowadays, they can reach upward of $8 in games like GGXrd.
TFW the company that people accused of ripping us off was actually saving you LOTS of money.
I'd still be mourning the ridiculous treatment of that game if it weren't for the fact that SF5 is incredibly fun.
It's funny...the backlash over the SFxT DLC was so huge, yet if you look at DLC practices today, the prices per character are 4-5 times as expensive as SFxT. The characters were less than $2 per head. Nowadays, they can reach upward of $8 in games like GGXrd.
TFW the company that people accused of ripping us off was actually saving you LOTS of money.
BouncyFrag
Member
Once you get past the slow beginning of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, it's fantastic. I will admit Patrick Stewart's narration throughout is campy as fuck.
Okay, but general consensus doesn't say the consequences system is bad, only everything else. The C&C system of Alpha Protocol is only one part of the whole.
cryptosporidium
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Destroy all Humans 1&2. People pass them as merely good, but to me they embody the sci-fi B-movie's of the 50s. hell I went out and watched the majority of the the b-movies from the 50s after i played those games. it gave far more value to gaming experience going back as well as I can see this as Pandemic's passion product
Slamtastic
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It cost $20 per character for the player who wanted one of the characters offered.
diffusionx
Gold Member
Yes, this. I really enjoyed AC3. I feel like a lot of people didn't like it because they wanted Tokyo or something and got 'murica instead. It's a cool game though. I liked it a lot more than 2.
Also:
Bulletstorm - this is one of the best FPS games ever made and (almost) nobody cares.
B&K: Nuts & Bolts - This is a really amazing game. Looks great, world design was clever, challenges were really innovative, tons to do, fun just to mess around in. I feel like it was DOA just because it wasn't a clone of the old titles. Too bad.
Dark Souls 2 - If this game was named literally anything else it'd be held up as one of the best action RPGs ever. But because one guy didn't work on it's pooped on.
I remember not really looking forward to this even though I loved 6 and 7, and I actually did end up enjoying it. I don't think it holds up though. I give the team credit for trying a bunch of new stuff, but the mechanics have a ton of issues.
All three of those games got decent to great reviews. New Vegas would have scored even better if it worked at release. I think Alien Isolation got a GOTY or two.
I think you'll have a hard time finding anyone on GAF disagreeing with that. It's one of the very, very few things Alpha Protocol does right, and amazingly right at that. But unfortunately it does twice as much wrong.
pirateluigi
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Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts is easily my favorite game on the 360. I can spend hours just creating vehicles to try and beat challenges in the craziest way possible. The sense of humor is great too.
petethepanda
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It isn't a great game, but The Order 1886 isn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be.
From the remotely recent titles, Metroid: Other M.
IMO it doesn't have shit graphics, shit controls, shit story, shit characters, shit everything like majority of people here (and other places) say. I think it's a solid 7/10 game with lots of good things to offer, even if there's some lackluster stuff as well. The biggest downsides IMO are that the game is too short and it's too linear. But even the linearity isn't that big of a deal, as Fusion felt even more linear. Also the totally pointless find a clue by pointing at some very specific (and small) area on the screen. The game also didn't really try anything new. But as I said it's still a decent game.
IMO it doesn't have shit graphics, shit controls, shit story, shit characters, shit everything like majority of people here (and other places) say. I think it's a solid 7/10 game with lots of good things to offer, even if there's some lackluster stuff as well. The biggest downsides IMO are that the game is too short and it's too linear. But even the linearity isn't that big of a deal, as Fusion felt even more linear. Also the totally pointless find a clue by pointing at some very specific (and small) area on the screen. The game also didn't really try anything new. But as I said it's still a decent game.
Violence Jack
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I thought The Order was really good.
Waldo Lydecker
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Funny thing is that with some games, instead of becoming worse over time due to aging badly, there are some rare cases in which a game ONLY afterwards is being recognized as a masterpiece that it is.
I do firmly believe that The Evil Within is such a game that instead of being 70-80% game it now is, actually only afterwards is seen as the masterpiece it really is.
You know, like Van Gogh who almost never sold a painting during his life.
AntraxSuicide
Banned
Gotta go with Prototype. It's incredibly fun. Just that. You feel like a god, and the movement is Spiderman 2 tier good. Really great game. I always give Activision props for funding its sequel.
TharpDaddy
Member
Playstation All-Stars Battle Royal. I avoided it for a while based on hearing so many bad things about it on GAF. Picked it up when I saw it super cheap so my buddies and I could play it on a game night. We ended up having a blast. It's not super smash but I didn't mind the changes to the formula.
axisofweevils
Holy crap! Today's real megaton is that more than two people can have the same first name.
Was going to say this. I was shocked how much I enjoyed it, after I'd put it off for years due to people basically saying I'd get more pleasure burning the game box.
Melkezadek
Member
MGSV. You would think the game gave people cancer with how it's dumped on here.
The Order 1886. I liked it just fine. Reminded me of a game from the PS2 days. Not perfect, but far from terrible.
Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Subzero. Once you adjust the controls the game is actually pretty fun. Challenging but rewarding.
Unreal Tournament 3. Probably the only FPS I have ever dedicated my time to being any good at.
The Order 1886. I liked it just fine. Reminded me of a game from the PS2 days. Not perfect, but far from terrible.
Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Subzero. Once you adjust the controls the game is actually pretty fun. Challenging but rewarding.
Unreal Tournament 3. Probably the only FPS I have ever dedicated my time to being any good at.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
Arc Rise Fantasia is fun and has a pretty cool weapon and customization system. It gets relatively challenging too. After people saw how bad the localization was I think it largely got wrote off as being bad.
And probably Ys I and II, at least the Chronicles releases (only ones I've played). Ys II in particular is really good. I'd agree they aren't for everyone due to the aged mechanics, but they aren't bad games.
Not sure if it is the "general consensus" or just GAF, but NSMBW, U, and NSLU are all excellent 2D Mario games that tend to get overlooked or derided for their same-y presentation.
And probably Ys I and II, at least the Chronicles releases (only ones I've played). Ys II in particular is really good. I'd agree they aren't for everyone due to the aged mechanics, but they aren't bad games.
Not sure if it is the "general consensus" or just GAF, but NSMBW, U, and NSLU are all excellent 2D Mario games that tend to get overlooked or derided for their same-y presentation.
EricTheRed
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Sleeping Dogs is in my top 10 of last gen.
Muffdraul
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We're talking strictly about consensus opinions of us dirty unwashed rabble, right? Not professional critics?
GTA IV - It's completely stripped down and back to basics, and I can understand that would bother people after the ramp up to San Andreas' scale and feature set. Whatever. The core that remains is fucking fantastic. It's been years and I'm still not sick of it. I'm talking strictly single player. Even after GTA V, I find myself regularly going back to IV every few months.
AC Unity - Worst thing I can say about it is that it's a tad uninspired. Not a lot of innovation, I didn't like the way clothing equipment was handled. However personally I enjoyed it a lot more than AC3 or Black Flag. The bug and glitch factor was greatly overblown, it's well known now that most of the infamous glitch pics and gifs were sourced from pre-release un-patched copies, or dipshits playing it on PC without the necessary drivers. It's a solid AC that should appeal to fans of the franchise, but wouldn't change anyone's mind if they've already dismissed it as a piece of shit that should be cancelled. I'd lump Unity in with the better ACs, not the worse.
GTA IV - It's completely stripped down and back to basics, and I can understand that would bother people after the ramp up to San Andreas' scale and feature set. Whatever. The core that remains is fucking fantastic. It's been years and I'm still not sick of it. I'm talking strictly single player. Even after GTA V, I find myself regularly going back to IV every few months.
AC Unity - Worst thing I can say about it is that it's a tad uninspired. Not a lot of innovation, I didn't like the way clothing equipment was handled. However personally I enjoyed it a lot more than AC3 or Black Flag. The bug and glitch factor was greatly overblown, it's well known now that most of the infamous glitch pics and gifs were sourced from pre-release un-patched copies, or dipshits playing it on PC without the necessary drivers. It's a solid AC that should appeal to fans of the franchise, but wouldn't change anyone's mind if they've already dismissed it as a piece of shit that should be cancelled. I'd lump Unity in with the better ACs, not the worse.
I completely agree.
The boss fights were hit-and-miss, but loved the world - and the Christmas backdrop and winter setting was amazing. Best story of the bunch, too.
....Now you've made me want to go play it again....
paragonpro
Banned
Shadows of mordor is a great point, its a fantastic turn on a podcast and check off the collectables and sidequests kinda game
PanicFreak
Member
The game I'm going with is a game that was very highly reviewed but has a ton of shade thrown on it here:
BioShock Infinite.
Loved the setting, the combat and the last mission.
BioShock Infinite.
Loved the setting, the combat and the last mission.
Pejo
Gold Member
Asura's Wrath was the best anime game ever released. There were fights in that game that gave Gurren Lagann a run for the money for over-the-topness.
Spliter Cell Blacklist was also an amazing game, I would have put it at best in class action/stealth mix until MGSV.
fluxanimator
Banned
Dragon Age Inquisition. Heard how witcher made it seem like crap. Just started it and it's a totally different kinda game. Really enjoying it.
Breath of Fire V: Dragon Quarter. It has a sort of vocal defense force on gaf but outside of that it's easily the most underrated and unfairly bashed game I've ever played. It's actually my favorite out of all the BoFs I've played (beaten IV, played the beginning of III) and I think it'd be regarded as a cult classic had it been released at a different time under a different name.
I guess MGS V and 4 sort of qualify despite their critical acclaim. Much better games than a lot of people would have you believe, specially V.
I guess MGS V and 4 sort of qualify despite their critical acclaim. Much better games than a lot of people would have you believe, specially V.
Baron_Calamity
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Fallout 4
Came here to post exactly this.