What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ??
2026-06-01 03:22 UTC
Replies (24)
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@roadrunner_ex@lemmy.ca 2026-06-01 03:37
I wonder if it would still hold up to me, but I really liked True Crime: Streets of LA on the Gamecube. I’m led to believe it was not well received, and is derided as a bad GTA clone
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@7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-06-01 03:42
Unreal The original one. Not tournament. I have a fear of sentient silver metallic blobs because of that game. Lol
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@grill@thelemmy.club 2026-06-01 03:52
Resident evil 5, probably mostly because of coop.
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@geekwithsoul@piefed.social 2026-06-01 03:53
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 😄
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@iamthetot@piefed.ca 2026-06-01 04:02
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
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@orenj@leminal.space 2026-06-01 04:17
Pyre by Supergiant. I have no idea how a mystical basketball slash visual novel with RPG elements clicked with me but WOW did it. Its the first game I ever platinum’d too.
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@ohlaph@lemmy.world 2026-06-01 04:18
Earthworm Jim
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@Davel23@fedia.io 2026-06-01 04:23
While not hated, most fans of the series prefer Darksiders to Darksiders 2. I personally prefer 2, I love the loot system.
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@zewm@lemmy.world 2026-06-01 04:25
Most Funcom games. Anarchy Online is my favorite game but had an abysmal launch. Secret World Legends (fka The Secret World).
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@Peffse@lemmy.world 2026-06-01 04:27
Coming in at a 45 rating on Metacritic: Hyperdimension Neptunia. Is it a bad game? Yes. It’s really bad. It’s an ugly game for PS3 standards, and the battle mechanics are borderline insane. It’s a JRPG where you can’t manually heal, but instead set a % chance to heal automatically in battles… which means sometimes you game over because RNG wasn’t going to let you heal. But regardless it’s one of my favorites. I’m a sucker for the core concept of the schoolyard console wars, with little gaming references everywhere and silly humor. I also love the theme songs for each console nation. It really drives home how different the console cultures are supposed to be as you are traveling around solving their problems. And I mean, come on… When you first start the game and you are in the tutorial dungeon it plays this song during exploration and this song during battles. Games today would never do something that silly. The later games polished the gameplay, expanded the character rosters, gave more depth to the story, and dealt with some very dark topics (Gehaburn trauma)… but to me none of them captured the lightning that the first one had.
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@teft@piefed.social 2026-06-01 04:28
Kingdom Come 1 & 2. They’re really good once the combat clicks but most people don’t like it because until the combat clicks it’s fucking brutal especially since the save system is ridiculous in those games.
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2026-06-01 04:31
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
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@BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 2026-06-01 04:32
i love starfield, despite its flaws. the public opinion was very… 😬
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@affenlehrer@feddit.org 2026-06-01 04:35
Sleeping Dogs
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@JTskulk@lemmy.world 2026-06-01 04:52
I liked Duke Nukem Forever, I kept waiting for it to get awful and it never did! Surprisingly fun game.
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@keimevo@lemmy.world 2026-06-01 04:58
I don’t know if it’s my favorite, but Prototype (and its sequel) comes to my mind. It wasn’t that badly received, but most people liked Infamous more, in the same generation.
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@Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2026-06-01 16:05
X-Com: The Bureau Declassified Its fatal flaw was simply that the A.I. squadmates would far to often make suicidal decisions unless you micro-managed then, which made winning far more about luck than skill. But the setting, the writing, the story were all super interesting to me. And the graphics hold a special charm for me (I still say the facial animations were better than LA Noire)
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@Vespair@lemmy.zip 2026-06-01 10:59
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
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@nullify3112@lemmy.world 2026-06-02 04:01
No Man’s Sky. I don’t like it that much either. I just don’t hate it as much at other people. It’s ok. Easy to get bored after a while. Feels like a AAA blended with a phone game it’s weird, but sometimes smooth brains like me need some simple games to play.
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@Cethin@lemmy.zip 2026-06-02 02:13
Everyone is just saying actually popular games, but ones they don’t think are popular enough. If people don’t have to look up the game, it’s probably not answering this question (with a few infamous exceptions maybe). Mine would be Stationeers. There’s no real action or anything. It’s a game about designing, building, managing, and automating a station on another world. Each world has its own issues, be that Luna with a vacuum, Mars (the easiest) with storms, no breathable atmosphere, and cold, Venus with all the Venus issues, or some made up planets with crazy problems. It simulated gasses and liquids, replicating the refrigeration cycle so you can make your own heat pumps for cooling. It’s really cool, but complex and potentially boring for most people. It’s made by the studio making Kitten Space Agency. It’s a studio created by the DayZ mod creator, and they seem really cool. They’re very much not profit motivated, and I think they’ve said developing Stationeers is costing them money, at least at one point, and KSA is planned to be free and donation supported.
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@needthosepylons@lemmy.world 2026-06-01 20:30
Anthem and Babylon’s fall… sadly.
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@AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2026-06-01 15:37
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.
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@biofaust@lemmy.world 2026-06-01 13:18
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.
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@forestbeasts@pawb.social 2026-06-05 06:11
Zelda Twilight Princess may not have been exactly hated, but nobody really seems to love it. They all go gaga over Ocarina of Time instead, which just feels like a worse Twilight Princess in just about every way. Nostalgia I guess! Also, you know, Twilight Princess has you be a wolf (in sections for part of the game, and then later you get unrestricted wolf mode (but it keeps kicking you out of it grrr!)). Huge therian feels. That’s a big part of why I love it. – Frost