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What are some good games that have a bad reputation due to unreasonable expectations? (midwest.social)
submitted 10 months ago by Catastrophic235@midwest.social to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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For consistency sake, let's say that any game that's >or=7/10 at what it's trying to do while having a popular perception of being a <5/10 game in general would count. Want to specify that this is more about the perception of the game compared to, say, a game just being really niche.

My personal Go-to for this would probably be the Callisto Protocol, because while it certainly did have some troubles at launch they were massively overblown. IMO most of the hate for it comes down to people expecting it to be Dead Space 4 with a new name, ignoring the devs the multitude of times they said that it's something else before release, and then getting mad when it released and wasn't dead space 4 under a new name.

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[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't know what to tell you, I played it on Xbox just fine. Played the whole game through from start to finish and had fun. I believe the issue was with last gen consoles specifically.

And again, I think a lot of the criticism was reasonable. But my point is that the game itself was and is fun, but suffers because of the bad reputation it got at launch thanks to some ill-advised (intentional understatement alert!) decisions by CDPR.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, the issue was with last gen consoles. I don't think that matters to the point I am making, nor that it worked for you personally on your setup. It worked okay for me too, but I was on a high-end PC.

[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Seemed to me you called the console version unplayable. You said they didn't work. I was just correcting that statement for anyone who wasn't aware that your were bending the truth to make a point.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Sony literally pulled the game from the PlayStation Store because of the low quality. At that point it's not just a subjective opinion but fact, so I resent the claim that I'm bending the truth.