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What are some good games that have a bad reputation due to unreasonable expectations? (midwest.social)
submitted 10 months ago by Catastrophic235@midwest.social to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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For consistency sake, let's say that any game that's >or=7/10 at what it's trying to do while having a popular perception of being a <5/10 game in general would count. Want to specify that this is more about the perception of the game compared to, say, a game just being really niche.

My personal Go-to for this would probably be the Callisto Protocol, because while it certainly did have some troubles at launch they were massively overblown. IMO most of the hate for it comes down to people expecting it to be Dead Space 4 with a new name, ignoring the devs the multitude of times they said that it's something else before release, and then getting mad when it released and wasn't dead space 4 under a new name.

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[–] Lemvi@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I really enjoyed Watch_Dogs, despite the shit it got at the time.

[–] Berttheduck@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I got it for free and really enjoyed it. The main character is the epitome of beige and bland generic gruff white dude but the game did quite a lot new and had some good ideas.

The second one was even better, it's very meme heavy in its characters but if you can tolerate them the gameplay is even better and the story is better too.

[–] EvaUnit02@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

I thought the protagonist was great. It was a man coming to the realization that he wasn't so much a heroic renegade as he was a malicious bad guy.

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