I suppose a broad reading is a less well-known game. Giants: Citizen Kabuto. Great, great game.

Anthem is a goddamn masterpiece, and I will die on this hill. The graphics, the combat, and the traversal were all AAA quality. There just wasn't enough fodder for the internet hate machine that month, so Anthem got tossed into it for some reason.

Resident evil 5, probably mostly because of coop.

Unreal

The original one. Not tournament.

I have a fear of sentient silver metallic blobs because of that game. Lol

Fallout 4 is, by far, the best Fallout game.

Yes, having dialogs limited to 4 simplified options is unfortunate. Doesn't matter, the rest of the game and gameplay makes up for that ten times over.

And yes, I am including New Vegas in the comparison.

Also there's a game called Valfaris that I think is rad as hell. It wasn't disliked so much as completely slept on. Definitely worth looking at if you like tough retro 2d shoot & platform games

I enjoyed Zelda Skyward Sword upon release, despite having to get the new controller that supporter more motion on the Wii for it. The dungeon on the ship in the desert that involved time travel was a standout level and i really enjoyed it at the time. Granted I haven't played it in 10 years, it's a good game. I am glad though that the backlash resulted in Breath of the Wild, and without Skyward Sword, Breath of the Wild would have never happened.

I still think about Battlerite from time to time. Very fair high skill arena fighting game that's faster and more to the point than MOBAs that were dominating the PvP scene at the time. It had a great launch then everyone stopped playing it.

I play a lot of Helldivers 2, whether people like it or not depends on what the devs just did on the latest patch lol

The Guild 2 is a janky, buggy mess that I love.

Among hardcore original Monkey Island fans, the third one (Curse of Monkey Island) was pretty disliked when it was new, and the original writer, Ron Gilbert, even kinda disowned the game (he was not involved with it).

It's my single favourite game of all time.

Edited, typo

Dark Souls 2 at its release
(even before the "Scholar of the First Sin" Remake)

I just liked the more fluid combat mechanics compared to Dark Souls 1 and as far as I remember it didn't have this weird Windows Live thing

Unirally in PAL / Uniracers in USA, 1994 on Super Nintendo

It's a side scrolling racing game, up to two players. There are regular races and stunt points races. Unfortunately no interaction with the other player, its only about time. So its one of those two player modes that wasn't super fun for us, but we loved playing fore highscores. Game is super fast, imagine Sonic as a racing game. What most people get it wrong is, they think they have to react to the changing course parts instantly. But in reality the course parts are color coded and you know in advance what is coming.

The game is from DMA Design, who also made Lemmings and later GTA; the company you know as Rockstar today. Also they got sued by Pixar. Yes that Pixar, making films. Because the pre-rendered unicycles were looking similar to the Pixar film. What an incredible dumb lawsuit, as this is how unicycles look like in general. But Pixar won and the game had to be taken from shelf quickly before it could sell much. Game didn't even make it to Japan. It's a rare game most people didn't play on original hardware!

• Wikipedia
• Manual PAL, Manual USA
• GameFAQs

I fell for APB: Reloaded and Rogue Company. APB was lauded for it's customization and open world cops and robbers situation, but fell flat graphically after GTA V came out and hasn't offered much new.

Rogue Company, IMO, had legs but it never caught on to the Twitch streamer following they wanted; Dr. Disrespect got into hot water a few years after launch and they had a whole map dedicated to him. Servers are still up but they announced no more updates, sadly.

Deep cut: World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor

This expansion represented a huge shift in playstyle and made questing much more cinematic. Everyone was pumped after the huge success of Mists of Pandaria.

But Blizzard bit off more than they could chew and this expansion has the biggest laundry list of cut content ever. Particularly, the endgame content was far less than what was expected. Blizzard promised to re-add stuff as they had time… they never found the time. Raiders and competitive players were furious. A lot of people quit WoW because of this expansion.

I was not a raider, nor a competitive player, I was a solo quester. So I had a blast in what is still called one of the worst expansions in the game’s history.

The Garrison missions did get old after a while, but I still fondly remember logging in to the sound of Rescue the Warchief.

I love all 3 main series Fable games. I know many people like 1 or 2, but usually I see a lot of people shitting on 3. Each one is good in different ways, but I will admit that 1 and 2 are definitely better than 3.

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