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Whether deserved or not Star Wars Jedi Knight Jedi Academy is always forgotten compared to its predecessor. But I don't care, it's the best one for me.

In the same vein The Force Unleashed II is the one I remember more fondly. It's worse than the previous one certainly, but the story does have some nice moments and playing it on the hardest difficulty makes you actually have to block correctly and plan your movement right to survive the onslaught of fire by the stormtroopers.

Vindictus, pre-2015

Age of empires 3 was good. The units were cooler, graphics were amazing and the gameplay was better placed than previous games. The only thing that sucked was grinding cards but bypassing that was as simple as changing a value in a text file.

Age of empires 3 DE moggs Age of Empires 4 to death.

Watch Dogs, the first one specifically. I know Ubisoft has had a pretty bad track record, especially in recent years, but I’ve played through that game a bunch of times and always had a good time with it. Even in its worse parts its still dumb fun.

The story honestly aged really well too for better or worse with how tech companies and governments are mingling now.

It's far from my favorite game, but I really really enjoyed the new saint's row. My only real issue with it was it was so buggy that when my SO and I played together, every session had at least two points where it either crashed outright, or broke in such a way we had to both relaunch the game.

And this is coming from someone who loves saints row 2.

The dot hack series on ps2

Oni.

In my most unpopular opinion, the only good thing Bungie ever made. Way more satisfying than console-friendly auto-aim shooting aliens without gore.

Oni has some great sci-fi details, even when missing a deep overarching story. And breaking people's necks with a cool 360 swing with proper sound effects of the neck bones being chipped is sooo satisfying. And that was an unfinished project by the way: you can notice there was no environment work done.

Resident Evil.......3

The one that as far as I can tell everyone hates I played the absolute shit out of as a kid. I remember speed running it before I knew that was a thing to unlock everything. Used to just do 2-3 playthroughs a week just vibin.

Anthem and Babylon's fall.. sadly.

Saints Row IV - I liked aspects of the earlier games, but I actually really enjoyed the meta silliness of IV. I accept that I don't have a lot of company in having this opinion 🙂

EDIT: I guess I was wrong! I swear every time I've seen SRIV mentioned, I've seen tons of hate directed at it. Glad to see there are a bunch of us! Dozens even 😄

I don't think anyone hated ~~either~~ any of these games, but they don't seem to have gained as much traction as they deserve.

Secret of Mana for the SNES is my all time favorite game.

Red Faction: Guerrilla is also a great game that few people remember.

Star Wars: Rebellion was possibly the first 4X game I played, before they were called 4X. Totally unbalanced in favor of the empire, and building a death star was just stupid, but it was still a fun game.