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[Glloyd]

Somehow this turned into "Games You Hate That Other People Love"

[Man of Paper]

Alas, they are two sides to the same coin. Without one, the other cannot exist.

[Sirus]

Somehow this turned into "Games You Hate That Other People Love"

That's no big mystery. Some folks just seem to have a physical allergy to being positive about things. Especially when other people are positive about those things.

[Gunner-Chan]

On that topic, am I literally insane for finding Corridor7 one of the better old FPS games? I seriously don't get the hate it got.

[nenjin]

On that topic, am I literally insane for finding Corridor7 one of the better old FPS games? I seriously don't get the hate it got.

I swear that looks like a 40k Imperial Aquila on the back of that dude's helmet in the title splash screen. And vaguely skull-like wallpaper backgrounds? *eyes narrow*

[RAM]

I loved Descent and it seems perfect to have been the future of F.P.S. but that never happened...

I also preferred Diablo to Diablo 2. Diablo seemed to have a varied flow of play and seemed to be more-or-less fair. I mean, sure, The Butcher was too fast, but basically... Diablo two was endless eons of chasing pygmies across grass while they steadily wore down your supplies from afar, often across rivers, and it just kept at it forever. Diablo had neat "secure the first room, explore the map, hunt down the stragglers, repeat and cycled through them satisfyingly quickly. Diablo also had the pleasant side-benefit of not making the plot-critical final fight provide no corpses for those skeleton summoning spells you spent the whole game levelling and could instantly erase the entire army that you brought with you, and any golems you summoned... But then again, I consider Diablo to be a roguelike so my opinion probably doesn't count...(To my credit, I hated the 'official' definition of roguelike long before it was an issue with a million games claiming to be roguelikes because they have their encounters in a random order and don't let you save...)

Sort-of on-topic. I love savescumming... I mean, I have played and loved rogue legacy, I get the no-save thing, but most of these games have some sort of long drawn-out epic quest or something and it rarely takes more than a brief lapse in judgement amidst hours of mindless grinding to reset your progress and send you to the junior-dungeon-for-babies for the millionth time...

Ummm, I liked Jedi Academy. I get a vague sort-of feeling that some people feel that it killed off the Jedi Knight series or something...

[itisnotlogical]

Jedi Academy was really fun, even if the plot was trash. Jedi Knight was killed off by forces beyond its control.

I just realize that I like a lot of foreign MMOs. Even I will heartily admit that some of them are pretty bad. There's something about them that I still really enjoy. I'll usually try out one or two each month, or come back to Flyff or Mabinogi once in a great while.

[Beggars` Sect]

Boiling Point (also Precursors, White Sands). It was slaughtered upon release as an unplayable mess, but I got it all patched up years later and it`s actually quite an impressive open world game. There is still certain crudeness all over the place, but nothing game breaking and the whole experience is just fun, in a C-movie style.

And some of the voiceovers are beyond hilarious.

[Sinistar]

Final Fantasy VIII and MGS2 are probably my favorite entries of their respective series.

You know, every since I remember I kept hearing people talking about FF8 in negative terms (MSG2 less so, only occasionally, got ~85/100 in computer mag I used to read so dunno), but every now and then I find a small but vocal group of people who say that 8 actually isn't so bad and it is in some ways even better than (supposedly over-hyped) 7. Makes me really interested in trying it. Not to mention the demo of it was my first ever FF experience.


But back on topic, I've been thinking about it and my first choice was a game I mentioned once in a similar thread (wasn't it something like "games that were bad but you still played them" or something?) and that was Star Wars: Episode 1 the game. That game had it all, weird camera, annoying bosses, being quite liberal with license it was using (Jedi with rocket launchers, hooooo) and platforming sequences that, as you neared towards the end, required near Jedi-like concentration and precision to pull of successfully. But oh boy was the game fun. I did play it when I was younger, sure, but something tells me playing ping-pong with lighsaber and laser blast, stun-bombing gungans to make it through to Boss Nass (at least on that level I never tried anything more harmful than that gungan stun bombs) and just being a Jedi with a gun? That shit never gets old, mang. Dunno how bad the game is supposed to be according to critics though, I remember it got ~74/100 or something somewhere.

Another Star Wars game I think was actually pretty damn decent but got pretty low score in that one mag I used to read (again) was Bounty Hunter. Dunno what the problem was, but I found the game terribly fun. Sure, the bounty mechanic was a bit wonky at the times and I never finished it so I can't judge it completely, but dangit, the game was solid. Not to mention you had nice amount of interesting unlockables.

But seriously, the game that is most fitting for this thread has to be: Two Worlds. Panned at it's release, still hated by some (even by people here, as I saw), and true, there are some parts where it could be better. But the polished, patched version (like the one from GoG) presents a pretty interesting, at times surprisingly in-depth game that, imho, saw a lot of love being poured into it's world building. Not to mention it's just pretty solid ARPG. Fight me if you will, but I can't see me hating on it any time soon.

There's this old-ish PC game called Urban Chaos

You can get it on GoG. I played demo, long time ago. While it was a tiny bit annoying, as you had this time-based mission with a mini-boss with a shotgun, it did intrigue me. There was a lot of stuff to like about it. I need to get it, one of these days.

edit:
Honorable mention. Dawn of War Soulstorm. Un-modded even. The game gets a lot of hate, some going so far as to call it utter shit, never-play-it-ever, worst expansion ever etc. But really, if one takes a few steps back, you could realize that while SS doesn't offer that much more content compared to Dark Crusade (2 new factions being the most obvious), there might be some bugs (never experienced one), some imbalance (never noticed one) and apparently some liberal interpretation of WH40K lore (which, tbh, even if you are hard-core WH40K fan should bother you that much because it's nothing compared to what GW does anyways) - if you can tolerate all that AND just roll with the hammy voice acting (why hate it when you can enjoy it, campy movie style?), the game is quite fine.

edit 2:
And if I'm talking about Final Fantasy - 10 was my first FF game that I played to a length (at least, I think I didn't get it before FF:TA...) and dunno, I like it. People seem to make fun of it due to story/voice acting? While it can be a bit silly at times, thinking about it, it kinda makes sense there are awkward moments because two most important characters are hella awkward themselves. Plus, it seem to me Japanese style of story-telling sometimes just doesn't translate so well into English. At least that's my opinion. *shrug*

[Nao]

+1 on the FF8, it may be not a good "FF game" but it is a rough gem. (It is actually my favorite FF game, yep better than FF7, i'm strange like that )
+1 also on the MoO3.   I probably spent more time on it's predecessor, but after enough patching/mods, it is amazing. The only game that might top it now is Stellaris.

Besides that i really liked Trucks and Trailers a precursor to euro truck simulator, that was a bunch of sometimes unfairly hard parking challenges. It had quite mixed reputation. And also i absolutely love VMO (vantage master online) which is free japanese turn based tactical battle game, with original "engrish" translation even, which nobody cares about so i guess it can fit the theme .

[Sirbug]

I just thought of another one: Sid Meier's Civilization Beyond Earth.
It's unabashedly Civ 5 IN SPACE, and that's what I love about it. I also really liked the fact that units morph based on what technological focus you go down (up to 6 different skins w/ the expansion!)
(Also, Purity4lyfe, praise the Emprah.)

I love this game, though Alpha Centauri was better. Kinda hate that they put some affinity onto branch tech in the expansion, ruined the whole purpose.

[EnigmaticHat]

Has anyone ever played LOTR: The Third Age?  Its a GBA game.  Its the only GBA game left that I'll fish my old DS out to play.  Its a turn based strategy where the battle is split into 3 flanks, each flank gaining command points randomly based on which heroes are in it.  You can only move as many units as you have command points.  The heroes are upgradable with some heroes being better at combat and some at leadership.  The battles are based on objectives rather than wiping out the enemy, and most try to capture the feel of a scene from the movies.  A lot of the graphics and sound were essentially taken 1:1 from the movie and then had their quality reduced to fit on the GBA, which is silly/impressive given how simple the system's capabilities were.

I've played this game from beginning to end probably a half dozen times.  Since I went to college I don't replay anything linear, except this one game.  AFAIK no one has even heard of this thing.

[Majestic7]

I liked Boiling Point as well! The annoying things were the animals that would spawn on your face while you were trying to sneak and the telepathic enemies. If it didn't have those, I think it could be a classic. I really got attached to that shitty car you get in the beginning.

[Zangi]

I've always liked FF10 and FF9, FF8 wasn't so bad at the time and I never got onto the FF7 train while my siblings did.

Star Ocean 2's battle system is awesome/different.  A pity I never finished Star Ocean 1, the save files corrupted on my emu and I could never bring myself to get back to it.  So many hours lost...

[Nighthawk]

People seem to hate Gauntlet (2014) since the Slayer update, but I'm still okay with it. Yeah, progression system was removed and the Wizard lost his magical bubble passive (which I truly am sad about) but the game balance is a lot better now, and it's still fun. I mean, come on - how many dungeon-crawl-hack-n-slash games out there actually encourage player skill the way Gauntlet does?