Games that receive a lot of undeserved flak

What do you personally think receive a lot of undeserved backlash from the gaming community? 
 
Here are several that comes to my mind: 
   
Crysis: It's really easy and shallow to dismiss this game as nothing more than just "eye-candy". I could go on what so special about this game outside of the visual department, but I'll allow this guy to explain why instead:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyQTCeobZlg 

The Dig: Sure, it's not one of the LucasArt's best efforts, but it's still a captivating and compelling adventure game. It arguably has the best storytelling out of any LucasArt's adventure game, and it even has one of the greatest musical scores for gaming to boot. 

Final Fantasy XII: I found this to be one of the best games in the series. I thought the story was intriguing and well written, it was filled with political intrigue, instead of bunch of angsty teenager anime archetypes saving the world crap. Even the characters had depth to them and weren't anime stereo-types, apart from the primary protaganist of course. The battle system was a lot deeper than previous games and there were no random battle encounters, about time for that. 

Alpha Protocol: It's actually a very deep and well designed RPG, it's choices actually have real impact to the narrative unlike most games do. The combat is poor, and the game is rushed. However, the game is well designed enough to be decent experiance 

 Chrono Cross: A lot of Chrono Trigger fanboys are just being too harsh to it because it doesn't have much ties to the original. Chrono Cross is in a league of it's own, it's still a fantastic JRPG. The storyline is actually engrossing if you pay attention to it and it has the turn-based best battle system I've played in it's genre. I actually like this a bit more than Chrono Trigger, while I loved Chrono Trigger, the game was WAY too easy. 

Halo Franchise: *sigh* Yup, THAT franchise. It's been attacked by a lot of assholes and idiots (Like 98.99% of Gametrailers.com's userbase) on the net. I have played many bad games in my life, and the Halo series are not one of them and nor are they close. The first Halo was an amazing console FPS, that in my opinion, outdid many of the PC offerings. The sequels weren't as good, but they're still solid games and don't deserve flak either. Even ODST was good game despite it being an overpriced expansion pack. Yes, the Halo fanboys are annoying (Though they're a dying breed right now), but the Halo haters are even worse.

I stopped at Alpha Protocol's "well designed"...
 
You also spelled experience wrong.

"   Even ODST was good game despite it being an overpriced expansion pack. Yes, the Halo fanboys are annoying (Though they're a dying breed right now), but the Halo haters are even worse.
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I definitely agree with Crysis, The Dig and Halo, haven't played the other games on your list.

GTAIV

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" @DoctorOptimist said:

"   Even ODST was good game despite it being an overpriced expansion pack. Yes, the Halo fanboys are annoying (Though they're a dying breed right now), but the Halo haters are even worse.
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I still don't get the whole "this is just an expansion pack, blah-de-blah" thing about ODST. It was bigger than Halo 3 in all respects (new campaign, Firefight, complete multiplayer). I thought it was a great deal, not a ripoff. It's my favorite Halo game,actually. But then, of course, I'm not a rabid fanboy who buys all the map packs day one of their release and then bitches because Microsoft decided to release them on a disk as well.  "

FFXIII gets alot of flak for being FFXIII. I thought it was an acceptable game.

Resident Evil 5  
While it doesn't follow in the survival horror legacy set by the previous games in the series, I still had a blast playing RE5. What it lacked in scares, I thought it made up for in sheer fun-factor. I played through the game solo and co-op. I never had a huge problem with the AI Sheva. I just thought it was a really great experience that got a lot of crap from people. I think RE fans want something more traditionally Resident Evil while shooter fans wanted better shooting mechanics. I don't know, I mean, I love Resident Evil but to me this worked too.
 
Resistance 2 
I have no idea why the general consensus of this game is so low. Whether or not people loved the single-player is understandable but my god the multiplayer is so addictive. The co-op missions with the class-based stuff was great I spent a lot of time in that and really enjoyed it. I always said if R3 turned out to be just something like the cooperative modes of R2 but expanded upon, I'd be one happy duder. 

I agree with the Halo.  But it just gets flak because of popularity.  People like to just rebel to stand out.  Halo is a great series with exception of ODST and Halo wars.  Hopefully Halo Reach is good.  I don't own a xbox 360 but I find a way to play it. 

FF12 had some pretty big flaws personally.  Note, I'm not saying that my problems with the game are necessarily problems for the game for anyone else, but, you know.  For one, the game wasn't memorable - due to the fact that they decided to try and play on some sort of crazy political intrigue thing rather than on the characters, at all, none of the characters felt as interesting as they did in past FF games.  Most of the characters just felt like some minor played out stereotype character that even the developers didn't care about.  Second you have the combat in the game.  On one hand they took a chance at something new, on the other hand they made it frustrating for some, too automated for others, and for me - too easy for everything but a boss fight (and even then, only some.)  The Quickening attacks were way too easy to exploit for general purposes.  Also, 12 was kind of the game where they straight up said "yeah, we're not going to try and do anything to make individual characters stand out that much in combat and let you just pick and choose what skin you want and then customize what you want them to be good at afterwords without having to wait too long."  (While yes this also appeared in FF10, in FF10 it took you considerably longer to reach the point of being able to do that.)  Now, again, note that I'm not really saying that FF12 was a 'bad' game, and it certainly did do some things pretty well and it took a considerable number of chances, but I think for a lot of people the chances they took either didn't pay off or weren't chances that they wanted them to take in the first place.
 
The only other game I'd comment on really is Chrono Cross.  Chronos Cross was a pretty good game, even if the graphics have aged horrendously.  I have two major gripes with Chrono Cross though - 1) The fact that, at least in the U.S. they tried selling the game off as "the sequel to Chrono Trigger!" which was only a part truth, and a very small part at that (which bugged me a whole hell of a lot more at the time the game came out than it does now) and 2) the story for the game gets way too convoluted for its own good.  Maybe I'll go back and play the game again sometime and try to figure out the story again, but I remember playing through it the first time constantly seeing stuff and going "what purpose does this serve the story AT ALL?" or wondering why they felt the need to make some things more complex than they actually needed to be.  That's not to say that a story can't take twists and turns, but the story felt like it was trying to do too much at once at some points, or was trying to throw in twists just for the sake of trying to have a twist, regardless of whether or not it actually made any real sense.  I will agree, however, that the combat system from the game was pretty enjoyable and I liked the 'character collection' aspect of the game, and I rather enjoyed most of the settings in the game.  I may try and give it another go some time if I can get myself accustomed to the graphics.

Chrono Cross for sure, I played that years before I ever touch Chrono Trigger and having never played the first or ever heard of it at the time (was a Genesis owner) I never was the wiser that it didn't live up to anything.

Most wouldn't say Halo is bad but just mind numbingly average.

FF12 deserves all the flak it gets. Never before have I seen a game that invites you into the room just so you can watch it jerk off. As for games that don't deserve all the flak they get, I'll go with FF7. Yes, it's the most overrated game in history, but that doesn't mean it's bad. Hell, it's actually pretty good. Also, Metroid Fusion, since it was the first 2D Metroid game to follow Super Metroid.

what u said with crysis is so true 
ive always said that once i actually got into the game and am pumped for crysis 2 
alpha protocol i never played but pretty much it seemed the same as u said it 
halo is also true  
it'll still get flak tho lol

Final Fantasy VIII gets crap because it isn't VII. ]
 
Also, Left 4 Dead 2 prior to its release.

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Final Fantasy XII: I found this to be one of the best games in the series. I thought the story was intriguing and well written, it was filled with political intrigue, instead of bunch of angsty teenager anime archetypes saving the world crap. Even the characters had depth to them and weren't anime stereo-types, apart from the primary protaganist of course. The battle system was a lot deeper than previous games and there were no random battle encounters, about time for that. 

 

Alpha Protocol: It's actually a very deep and well designed RPG, it's choices actually have real impact to the narrative unlike most games do. The combat is poor, and the game is rushed. However, the game is well designed enough to be decent experiance 

 

Halo Franchise: *sigh* Yup, THAT franchise. It's been attacked by a lot of assholes and idiots (Like 98.99% of Gametrailers.com's userbase) on the net. I have played many bad games in my life, and the Halo series are not one of them and nor are they close. The first Halo was an amazing console FPS, that in my opinion, outdid many of the PC offerings. The sequels weren't as good, but they're still solid games and don't deserve flak either. Even ODST was good game despite it being an overpriced expansion pack. Yes, the Halo fanboys are annoying (Though they're a dying breed right now), but the Halo haters are even worse.

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GTA IV and Final Fantasy 13.

Monster Hunter Tri... Or even the PSP one.
 
From complaints on the fact that the game doesn't have lock-on to people going all PETA over dinosaurs, Monster Hunter Tri ate a ton of shit from the GB community. 
  
To be fair I hated the original MH because I didn't get it. But once I gave it a try years and years later, it's one of the greatest series I've ever played in my gaming history.
 
The comments on the QL are pretty frustrating for that reason. It also shows how much people like to mirror the GB staff opinions fairly easily. Seen it on Demon's Souls too.

Everything I like, of course. Center of the universe over here, I can't conceive of people not liking what I like.

Modern Warfare 2 is the first that comes to mind, but feel free to replace that with any popular game ever and it probably still rings true.

Left 4 Dead 2 for sure.

" Most wouldn't say Halo is bad but just mind numbingly average. "

" @DoctorOptimist said:

"   Even ODST was good game despite it being an overpriced expansion pack. Yes, the Halo fanboys are annoying (Though they're a dying breed right now), but the Halo haters are even worse.
"

I still don't get the whole "this is just an expansion pack, blah-de-blah" thing about ODST. It was bigger than Halo 3 in all respects (new campaign, Firefight, complete multiplayer). I thought it was a great deal, not a ripoff. It's my favorite Halo game,actually. But then, of course, I'm not a rabid fanboy who buys all the map packs day one of their release and then bitches because Microsoft decided to release them on a disk as well.  "

In Mirror's Edge, the shooting parts are so few and don't last long, yet people kept getting hung up on it.
 
I also found the 'bullet sponge' complaint about Uncharted 1 to be way overblown. Didn't really notice it. I'm sure head shots were still insta-kills for the most part.

ff12 was one of the most disappointing games i ever played... fist ff game for me and i really dont want to play any of them now.
also;
MW2: every hates this game because it is one of the most popular games of all time.
Starcraft 2: damn am i tired of people who hate just because people like this game!

Dragon Age II, oh wait. Hang on, I'll be back in a year.

Crysis and GTA4 for sure.