Games you like (Or even love) that everyone else hates. - by Bucky Seifert
PigLick on 1/12/2016 at 08:16
Invisible War and Deadly Shadows for me as well. I played IW for the first time only a few years ago, and while I can see how flawed it is, there are some really cool moments.
Malf on 1/12/2016 at 09:50
Postal 2 for me. It was politically incorrect, juvenile and crass, but I loved it. The core concept was actually quite good I thought, even if they made it almost impossible to stick to later in the game.
Basically, the idea was that you should be able to complete all of your tasks every day without actually killing anyone, but the NPCs would all be assholes in irritating situations, provoking you to lash out.
Postal 3 mind you is quite possibly the worst game I have ever even attempted to play.
Then there's Breed.
It was supposed to be the PC's Halo-killer, but was released pretty much unfinished. It had poor scripting, awful voice acting, muddy, fullbright textures (seriously, the publisher mistakenly released the final beta instead of the gold disc version, and the proper textures weren't included), and an incredibly weird structure.
But it dreamed BIG.
You could start in a mothership in orbit, fly down to the planet, engage in dogfights, land and take control of a squad, jump to control any member of your squad, drive combat vehicles, plan and execute tactics on an interactive map, use jetpacks, a whole bunch of interesting things.
It basically tried to deliver all of the things that the original Halo spec (when it was Mac only) promised, and it mostly succeeded, but was incredibly janky and buggy.
[video=youtube;NrTS8vU3L5U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrTS8vU3L5U[/video]
What's not shown in that video is that you could also fly the dropship, and the flight model was actually pretty cool.
demagogue on 1/12/2016 at 12:35
I thought the Atari game ET was fine as a kid, not the greatest but I liked it. Didn't have any idea it was on a lot of people's "worst game ever" list until much later.
More recently... dunno. I like a lot of obscure indie and homebrew games that are too unknown to be hated maybe. Maybe X3, for major games.
marbleman on 1/12/2016 at 15:33
I enjoed True Crime: New York City back in 2005-2006 even though it was always considered an absolutely awful game.
McTaffer on 1/12/2016 at 16:26
Deadly Shadows would be my obvious choice, since I love it to death (though I would agree that of the 3 games it's easily the weakest gameplay-wise). I also only just found out here that Dawn of War: Soulstorm also qualifies. Dark Crusade is certainly better (especially the campaign), but there are many things I like a lot about it. As someone who's primarily a Chaos player I do hate the Chaos Lord model (and the campaign voice acting *shudder*) but love the fact that the vehicles were rebalanced to allow a full vehicle cap, since that was one of my pet peeves about Dark Crusade.
froghawk on 1/12/2016 at 16:47
I'm very curious to know if daikatana is on anyone's list.
Bucky Seifert on 1/12/2016 at 16:48
Oh I forgot to mention this one
Master of Orion (2016)
I know it's not the deepest 4X game, or even the deepest MoO game (Yes I have played the originals), but the game has a strong sense of personality to it and has enough well designed mechanics to it (in my opinion, at least) that I find it to be a fun and satisfying 4X game. Also the Mrrshan are hot.
Pyrian on 1/12/2016 at 17:07
I finished Duke Nuke 'Em Forever. I have to admit, it was kind of a slog. I want to say it had some clever bits, but honestly most of the clever bits weren't even as fun as the shooting. Still, I finished it. It wasn't that bad (unless you're sensitive about misogyny, I suppose).
Atari 2600 Pac-Man was fine. Yeah, yeah, the Atari 2600 couldn't render the arcade game properly, so the maze is a bit smaller and in different colors, and the ghosts flicker (hilariously it could only render one ghost per frame), but it was basically pac man and fun to play.
