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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Maybe No Man's Sky. I'm not too sure what people think of it now a days but it had a massive turn around since launch

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Absolutely

To be fair, originally it utterly failed to do most that they promised and I don't blame anyone who felt burned because of that and gave up on it,

But today, it does some of the craziest stuff that it promised that at the time sounded like pipe dreams. The planets are some crazy and different some of them seem downright surreal. I made a base on a planet with a landscape made of stained glass crystals. The animals are wild and weird. Getting to learn to communicate word by word with multiple different alien species is pretty cool. The dynamics of trading are pretty interesting. Raiding derelict freighters is creepy. And you can play all of it with your friends.

When people say it's shallow, I wonder if they didn't even try to bite into it or they are expecting custom story content in every planet. I have played it for hundreds of hours and I didn't even finish the main story quest. Each aspect of the game has a lot to offer.

Because of that I'm also really looking forward for their new game.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes, NMS was overhyped and completely failed to meet expectations. But it was also complete garbage on release. 7/10? Not even close. It's one of the only games I ever bought on physical disk that I returned because it was so bad when it wasn't unplayable. That wasn't a problem with expectations, that was a terrible fucking game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Sure, but this post is not about 7/10 games on release, it's about 7/10 games now vs their perception now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Eh. NMS is unfair because it is literally a different game today then when it launched.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Sure but still today there are people who say it is too shallow and dull, and at that point I think they are just expecting it to be fundamentally different.