I’m talking about games that you still like but you had no idea were criticized so much.

The perfect example for me is Sonic Unleashed.

I admit that the game has its bad things, but I would have never imagined that it was so hated at the time… Although, that could be extended to the entire Sonic franchise, since for many years I was not aware at all of that “Sonic was never good”, “Sonic had a rough transition to 3D” nonsense.

    • Halosheep@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      6 hours ago

      I had the opposite for this one, heard it was good and really didn’t like it when I gave it a try.

    • Soapbox@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      7 hours ago

      I enjoyed the hell out of that game. My only complaint was that the loot lacked variety, and it was a bit more on rails than what I think of as a proper open world RPG.

    • CarnivorousCouch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 hours ago

      Agreed. I thought it was a competently made game, even if not groundbreaking or best in class for shooting. I think people’s expectations are often their biggest obstacle to enjoyment.

    • Nibodhika@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 hours ago

      Me too, didn’t even know people thought it was a bad game until recently. Honestly I don’t get why, I wasn’t expecting anything different from what I got, there were definitely some dialogues that made me chuckle, and a lot of storylines were very tongue in cheek, and while gameplay was nothing to write home about neither is fallout and this was sold as “fallout in space”, and definitely delivered on that.

    • dantheclamman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 hours ago

      It still has a 9/10 on Steam despite all the flak it took. I think it’s a classic. To me it’s similar to the backlash to Fallout 4 from purists, which I also feel is a classic game