Thirith on 1/12/2015 at 10:57
I've just finished Assassin's Creed Unity and got started on AC Syndicate straight away. While I think that a lot of the things the series is criticised for is accurate - they are extremely repetitive, Ubisoft doesn't seem to know what to do with the present-day storyline, the games' stealth mechanisms are often laughable, combat is overly frequent but simply not as well done as in, say, the Arkham games - I still enjoy them a lot. (I do think that the criticism is partly exaggerated because of people's out-of-proportion dislike of Ubisoft.)
Do you have games that are roundly criticised, and you may even agree with the criticism to some extent, but damn it if you don't actually enjoy playing those games? I'm less curious about instances where your solitary tastes are vastly superior to those of the unwashed masses, than about those where you understand why a game is panned, and what it is about those games that you appreciate nevertheless.
henke on 1/12/2015 at 12:09
Not me, buddy. I only play games that everyone agrees were great. Like Watch_Dogs and Thief.
icemann on 1/12/2015 at 12:14
7th Guest + The 11th Hour.
I seem to be in the minority when it comes to this game series. And I'm not generally one for 100% puzzle oriented games, but I dunno I just love these games to death. They certainly have a B-Grade style to them (especially with the FMV bits), hence the hate, which I get, but I dunno I still love them. Much more the 1st game than the second. Plus the music is awesome in them.
For something alittle more recent:
The Bureau XCOM Declassified.
Now I can COMPLETELY see why people hate this and prejudged it (as did I). But I dunno, the game DEFINITELY has it's flaws (eg really bad squad mate AI), but I still very much enjoyed my play through of it.
Harvester on 1/12/2015 at 14:14
As a teenager, I liked Phantasmagoria. It's not a very good adventure game and only in the last chapter can you actually die. Until then there's no real sense of danger. But as a horror experience for my impressionable teenage self, I enjoyed it.
Malf on 1/12/2015 at 14:46
Wet.
Loved it, had a really good score-attack style gameplay, and rewarded a varied approach to combat. Some great Matrix-style parkour bullet-time stunts that rewarded risk-taking flashy moves with high scores were the icing on the cake.
One of the level designers is a Quake3World veteran, and even he says the game's shit, but I really liked it.
Plus, the soundtrack was killer, featuring some great psychobilly tunes.
Eliza Dushku really did phone in her performance as protagonist Rubi Mallone though.
The ending was also a pretty shit QTE, and if I'm honest, there were a few too many QTEs throughout the game.
Even transitional loads were covered up by button-bashing door opening sequences.
But for some reason, the overall style just gelled with me. I think it's the closest we'll ever get to a Kill Bill computer game.
Jason Moyer on 1/12/2015 at 18:18
Thief 4
Judith on 1/12/2015 at 18:27
Velvet Assassin. It's rather poor stealth game, and it seems unfinished, but the atmosphere is brilliant. Audio guys did a great job here, and I like the artistic direction as well.
Muzman on 1/12/2015 at 19:04
It's a bit of a cult game or sleeper hit or whatever and it's got some artistic merit that gets the attention. But Mirror's Edge is arguably one of these. I think its average was about 6 out of ten. And it's not like it doesn't deserve a fair bit of stick.
Probably more controversial would be, I kinda like Deus Ex: Invisible War. That deserves almost everything it gets as well.
Sulphur on 1/12/2015 at 19:25
I was just arguing with someone over their liking PoP 2008. I believe the rant I went on was, 'At least Ubi should have used another name, and I'd've be fine with it. If it doesn't have a Prince, and it's not set in Persia, then for the love of fuck DON'T CALL IT Prince of Persia unless you want me to stab you so hard you'll skip your next three afterlives.'
Having said that, we did both agree it was pretty, at least.
TannisRoot on 1/12/2015 at 20:11
The Stalker: Shadows of Chenobyl games. They're unpolished and incomplete, but have hands down the best atmosphere of any games I've played if you can look past their many flaws. It's a real shame the series died before reaching its potential.
Also Diablo 3. Hated softcore mode, but once I got into hardcore mode it got awesome. The community was better, the economy was more reasonable, and the strategy of survival was exhilirating. The feeling of hitting 60 with a demon hunter was awesome. That said, I was disappointed to find that the auction house was eliminated as that made hardcore much easier (because you needed all your equipment to have +life).
