Games You Didn't Know People Hated Until The Internet

@mikey87144: I've actually gone back to play those because of a recommendation from a friend. It's a great game, if a bit repetitive. I had no idea there was a group of people that hated it, but i guess there's will always a group of people to dislike anything.

@nasp: I don't think there has ever been a video game as hyped up as Doom 3 was right before it came out. It got the type of hype that you just can't possibly live up to. People got disappointed that it was different from the old games and couldn't "live up to the legacy". Eventually it just started getting hated on by word of mouth alone.

I loved it. People who hate it can go to hell........ <_< >_> <_< See what I did there? -_-

NEWS FLASH: PEOPLE HATE EVERY VIDEO GAME IN THE WORLD

yeah it was super hyped.kinda glad i havent played it till now so i can experience it and have a opinion not swaded by the super hype or the haters.its kinda funny that most games that are hated i end up liking.maybe its because the real bad games dont get talked about as much as games that are hated on as bad.

Hey man. It's not my fault that once Donatello is gone it's pretty much game over. Everyone knows Leonardo should be the best... Leonardo IS the best. Turtles on the NES is a pile of poo, and factually inaccurate.

i would say.., Mario Kart on the Nintendo 64.

Super Mario Sunshine is the best Mario game.

Look into your hearts, you know it to be true.

Remember the roller coaster boss? Shit was sick.

@ajamafalous: Fuck that Game! yah same here maybe got past the underwater 2 or 3 times in all the years.

Pilotwings 64. I fucking love that game, and I think it's a lot better than the SNES game. I don't care what the GB guys say.

I think Nintendo in general gets a lot of hate, whether its games or the systems, which I just don't understand. I can understand being disappointed by Nintendo but to just hate whatever they do right out of the gate boggles my mind.

@castiel said:

Some more than others. Like, if someone who really liked Aliens: Colonial Marines and had never engaged in online internet game discussion were to ask on a forum "How awesome was Aliens: Colonial Marines?" He/she would be shocked at the near universal negative opinion of it.

A fairer example might be Mass Effect 3. I can see how someone can love that game and then be surprised at the general consensus of the game. It's a well crafted, well playing game that's marred by the fact that it has an incredibly disappointing ending and is regarded as the most inferior in the series. Every game has its detractors, but again, some more than others.

Another game for me is Halo 2. Ending left me as blue balled as anyone else, but I was surprised to hear so much hate toward the campaign. I guess part of the reason I liked it so much is because I couldn't spend as much money on games and so I played the fuck out of Halo 2's campaign, finding new ways to beat a level, keep all NPCs alive, or just break the game with grenade jumps and finding hidden skulls.

I liked Superman 64 as a kid. I don't think I ever made it past the second flying rings mission in that game, but I had a lot of fun just being Superman. Flying around above ground and underwater, shooting lasers from his eyes for a very brief amount of time, and just generally not doing the actual objectives in that game; I thought it was cool at the time (≤6 years old). I also remember renting Gex: Enter the Gecko and Glover multiple times.

It's trash compared to the 360 pad. The Dualshock has a much better D-Pad but that's it. The triggers are so shit, most shooters still use L1 and R1.

Man, I rented all of those games too. Superman was so bad; rented it at the recommendation of my dad.

Somehow I own a copy of Glover, but I never made it past the third or fourth world I think.

Gex (and 2 and 3) are sick as shit though. THOSE POP CULTURE REFERENCES.

It was different in a way I didn't enjoy. The loot system felt pointless, Death wasn't a very interesting character, the story just plodded along and the fetch quests within fetch quests just grated me too much for me to really enjoy it as much as the first. Is that fair for me to say?

@mrcraggle: I wasn't commenting on the premise that your blog wasn't fair from your point of view. Just sharing my opinion on it.

Turok

Kingdom Hearts for me.

A game I really enjoyed as a kid was bomberman 64. Thought it was a good entry into the series. Until I spoke with some guys online and came to the conclusion nobody else liked bomberman 64.

I loved Twilight Princess as a kid and see a lot of hate for it now. I had never played anything like it when it came out, and it was my first 3D Zelda game.

@trusty_spoon: I think bomberman 64 has a following and some think it's the best bomberman game

Mega Man Legends. I loved it as a kid and was really surprised to see everyone hated it. Even as a kid I was like "yeah, it's not Mega Man but I still like it."

I think most of the wider audience disagrees with Jeff on that though. Among people in my age range that is your Mario Kart. I know people who had N64's still hooked up in college exclusively to play that (and they did quite often).

Maybe it has something to do with the "Your first Mario Kart" theory but regardless, it's just how it is. People love that game.

I'll join the TMNT support group, i remember getting into an argument with a kid at school who thought the game sucked.

Also, I'll add The Simpsons Bart vs The Space Mutants , vs The World, and whatever the Gameboy version was.

Super Mario Sunshine. How the mother puppying hell could that game be considered anything other than great. I finished it only a few months ago and it's better than anything on them hundrid and twenty eighty eight meggy-bit boxes.

And Yoshi's Island. Amazing game. Please let somebody else say they've thought "Do yourself a favour, be a liquor saver" when the level select menu plays. Please. "Liquor save at Kwik Save" also counts. You're dead inside if you hate Yoshi's Island.

I remember reading only negative reactions of Resident Evil 4 when it came out, but once the later games came out, it was suddenly regarded as a classic. I wasn't sure whether people had re-evaluated the game and realized they didn't hate it as much as they initially did, or if I was seeing the reactions of a totally different group of people, or if it was out of the realization that however bad they thought it was, RE5 was worse. I don't think "well, there are worse games than this one" makes a game (or anything) good.

Super Mario Sunshine was one of those Catch-22 games for me. People complained about Mario having no personality, and that the games ran on an excuse plot rather than an actual storyline, then people complained about the game having an actual storyline and dialogue. It reminded me of when Final Fantasy X came out, and it seemed like the same people who complained about Cloud and Squall being too angsty also hated Tidus for being too cheerful.

Wait, how did golden eye change the fps genre at all? I played it alot on my n64 back int he day too, but it didnt change or influence shit. Other than perfect dark, no other shooter is remotely like it (because it controlled like garbage). What exactly did it change or influence at all? I'm not hating, i just find it extremely silly that you're calling it one of the most influential games ever....

Halo 2. I loved playing as the Arbiter and fist pumped the universe when Master Sheath him said "Let's furnish the pipe!" but later I heard some grizzling (do Jeff's hillbilly voice) "I bawt that game tah play as Master Chief, nawt some damg space squirrel!" or something like that. That game tried to offer some maturity of story and show war has many faces but Joe Monkeywrench was too stupid to understand anything where he wasn't pulling a trigger.

I didn't know that the GameCube in general was so widely disliked until the Internet. I freaking love my GameCube and still use it.

Drakengard, from what I have seen, most people do not like this game, probably due to the repetitive feel similar to Dwarriors. I for one, loved the crap outta Drakengard 1, not so much 2, wish I had the chance to play 3

Black and White. I was only about 11 or so when it came out and wasn't following any video game news. Apparently it didn't deliver on what it promised. What it promised, to this day, I don't know and I don't care.

Agreed. It was one of the best shooters at the time it was released. That's for sure. But it didn't have influence on other console FPS games much. It's Halo that popularized console shooters and it wasn't based off the Goldeneye blueprint.

Goldeneye was a good game at the time, but it wasn't influential.

I remember people complaining for awhile after halo then Modern Warfare came out with iron sights and people stopped complaining for about year.

In general you will find hate for any game, most of the games I see people posting I don't think the general consensus was negative.

The only game no one has a negative opinion of is Kirby Super Star.

The Legend of Dragoon. I love that game to death!

@corruptedevil: Hating kirby super star is like kicking a puppy. It just isn't done.

I feel like I've heard more praise for Gex than negativity. Glover though... I didn't realize how people felt about that game until I saw it on the AGDQ schedule, got hyped up, and realized it was in the Awful Games block :(

The Bouncer is the game for me. I loved that game, bunch of my friends played it too and we played vs mode and 3v3 with each other tons (PD-4 top tier). It's the game that made me want a ps2 when I played it at someone else's house. Apparently we were the only ones, everyone I've talked to about that game with in the last few years thinks I'm joking about liking it.

Devil May Cry 2. I missed the first one, so when it came out for PS2 I went ahead and bought it. I liked it... Later I find that most people remembered it as a pile of shit that people should never, ever mention again. Tho the reviews painted it as an "OK" game.

Not the same, but some games I absolutely loved that I later found nobody knew or cared about where Demon's Crest( NES) and Azure Dreams ( PS1)

Far Cry 2. SO what if the outposts respawn all the time? You'd rather the game be empty vast amounts of wilderness? On a side note, I hated Far Cry 3 because I thought it was too linear, the story sucked, the AI was inferior compared to FC2, the graphics were inferior compared to FC2, and it felt like there were less options all around when it came to dealing with enemies. Pretty much every option in FC3 made you lean toward "just blow everything up because it's faster," whereas in FC2, if you tried that you would be in for a world of hurt. You actually had to think very tactically in FC2 if you wanted to succeed.

I honestly can't think of any games I like where I'm surprised someone else thinks its shit. My guilty pleasure game was Bloodrayne. I knew it wasn't great, but for some reason, I played the crap out of it when I was around 18. I can't imagine why...

But even 18 year old me knew that the game was shit.

I've heard people don't like Contra 3 on the SNES.

I don't really understand why people seem to think everyone hated Chrono Cross. Seemed to have been reviewed extremely positively: http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation/chrono-cross.

Kingdom Hearts. I was a teenager when that came out so naturally didn't give it the time of day. Since then I played and enjoyed it.

I don't if hate is the right word but a lot of people say MK: Double Dash! is a bad game. I think it is by far the best MK.

Super Mario Bros. 2 for obvious reasons related to Doki Doki Panic but I really liked this game as a kid.

Mission Impossible on N64/PS1 - I have a huge amount of nostalgia for that game.

On the opposite end of that I thought Zone of The Enders on PS2 was pure hot garbage but the internet and people in general seem to revere that game.

GTA IV: me and all my friends played the fuck out of that game, and pretty much considered it a blast. Internet seems to consider it bowling simulator, though.

Couldn't disagree more. You could also look up the numerous publications that say otherwise including EGM who ranked Goldeneye over Halo in their list of most important games ever. 1up, Gamepro, gamesradar, ign, all have featured it in most influential games ever polls. I think you're seriously forgetting what consoles were like back then. There wasn't anything close to Goldeneye. Nowadays we're used to FPS dominating home consoles but then they barely existed, Goldeneye proved you could do it successfully...you realize Halo only started development a year after goldeneye came out right? It's move to console was directly the result of a game like goldeneye and eventually perfect dark....otherwise it would've stayed a pc/ Mac game.

What I've learned from this thread: Everybody thinks the internet hates every game.

I mean, seriously? I've never seen any hate for GTA4, Ocarina of Time, or Kingdom Hearts. Did you guys read one bad review and assume the entire internet thinks that way?

I mean it's good but it's no Tails theme. The first Sonic Adventure was awesome with every character having their own theme, it's perfect.

@counterclockwork87: Are you really citing those complete bullshit and arbitrary top 100 lists?