Games you love that most people don't seem to

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the opposite to the thread "games you hate that everyone raves about"

for me its games such as: Street fighter 5, dawn of war 1 soulstorm (it was poorly recieved because people couldn't work out how to deal with air vehicles and so blamed the game), chaos reborn and Dead or Alive dimensions

TRAVELLER

"Science-Fiction Adventure In The Far Future"

The game was inspired by such classic science fiction stories as:

• The "Dumarest Saga" series by E. C. Tubb
• "The Foundation" stories of Isaac Asimov
• George Lucas' "Star Wars" saga series
• H. Beam Piper's "Space Viking"
• Larry Niven's "Known Space"
• Jerry Pournelle's "CoDominium"
• Poul Anderson's "Polesotechnic League"
• Alfred Bester's "The Stars My Destination"
• And several other works of science fiction literature.

Characters typically journey between various star systems and engage in activities such as exploration, ground and space battles, and interstellar trading. Traveller characters are defined not by the need to increase native skill and ability but by achievements, discoveries, or obtaining wealth, gadgets, titles and political power.

I have sure taken a beating reccommending Fallout 1 to people. "This looks like s**t", etc. Some people imagine me to be some kind of hipster elitist: "You couldn't possibly really enjoy something that slow and ugly".
"No dude its really a good game, I promise!"

Gearbox Software's Battleborn. Being one of the few games that literally promises to NOT include microtransactions in any form, shape or way, as well as making all of its unlockable content available just by playing the game, I think the game has every right to overshadow the microtransaction infested Overwatch.

Radiant Historia, Rune Factory 4, Pokemon Explorers of Sky, and Okami are on my list.

....Overwatch has microtransactions?

I play it, and I've never seen the- oh, you mean the loot boxes.

....but nobody actually buys those.... besides, all of that IS unlockable by playing the game.


Anyway though, it is kinda a shame that Battleborn happened the way it did; it seemed to get stomped before it had a chance to really do all that much. I thought it looked pretty darn interesting, but as soon as I saw their "brilliant" decision to release when they did, I knew I probably shouldnt buy it (I mean, really.... releasing around the same time as a competing game from Blizzard? what giant ball of brain cells thought THAT was a good idea? Some corporate idiot, I bet...) because the playerbase just wasnt going to be there. Which on PC is true. Supposedly the console version is different about that. The PC version is dead, unfortunately. The only way they could save that is by making it F2P.

I don't really think Overwatch and Battleborn are competing as much as people think they are. One is clearly more of a team based FPS whereas one is far more of a MOBA. And Overwatch is most certainly not infested with microtransactions.

I'm a big fan of Elite: Dangerous. This isn't really a clear case of loving a game 'everyone hates', because there was a time for a while it was at the top of the Steam charts. But reviews of the title, particularly since the release of their first expansion have taken an enormous nosedive, to the point where the Steam reviews consensus is that the game has a 'thumbs down' rating. And even though I love the game, I can agree with all the criticisms of the game levelled by all those 'thumbs down' reviews. But for me those negatives aren't outweighed by the positives of the game.

I'm also unsure how representative Steam reviews are of the actual engagement people have with games, because most of the people saying they hate the game on Steam have upward of hundreds or even thousands of hours logged. I mean, I can't really understand why you'd continue playing a game for hundreds of hours if you truly hated it. But it is frustrating particularly because I have been recommending the game to friends so I can play with them, and they've all been turned off by the overwhelmingly negative reviews.

They're competing in terms of sales. Their differences aside, what people look at is: "class/character-based team shooter with skills/spells and/or ultimates". Which both of them are. Youtube and the communities for both of these then just push that competition further... I cant even count the number of comparisons I've seen at this point (even when they dont make sense).

Not that it matters in the end, Battleborn seems pretty dead by now (on PC). It'd take quite the effort from the devs to bring it back at this point. A shame, really... Though the game's high price point probably didnt help. When you've got two competing games, having one of them be $20 less than the other (Overwatch's base price is $40, though not on consoles, and Battleborn's base price is 60) is also going to have a big effect.


Also, it turns out that Battleborn DOES have microtransactions now. Skins and such, you can buy the currency used to unlock them. This was only added like, at the end of last month.

I personally dont have a problem with microtrasactions IF they dont actually have gameplay effects (like buying equipment that DOES stuff). But I still fully understand why others hate any form of those.

These days though, it seems to just be par for the course. Irritating, but... cant do much about it.

I'm kinda tempted to try the game out myself, but on console, at some point here. It really does look interesting.

People can say what they want but here they are. Mercenaries (1 and 2) Spectrobes (all of them) and several mmo's i won't list as well as a relatively old pc game nobody seems to remember: Nerf ArenaBlast.

personally i respect battleborn as a different thing. if i want pvp in this style, ill play overwatch, if i want great pve content with other people, battleborns my guy

Wait... it does?!



...Oh s**t! I stand corrected then. *nervous laugh*

I guess I can add Pokemon Pearl to my list, since it's not really a Pokemon game that people these days play, but it was my first video game ever, and for that I love it to bits. Isn't nostalgia fun?

isn't it though? i still play The Simpsons Hit and Run, a childhood classic for me that never gets old. its aged beautifully and i have a pc copy of it that i got a few months back. originally when i was a kid i had it on ps2. ahhhhh nostalga

Yeah.

Apparently, they actually announced that this was coming WAY ahead of time, like back during beta and at release.... but they seem to have done so in that "quiet" way, you know, when a company knows they HAVE to say something (usually for legal reasons) but doesnt really WANT to for fear of pushing away consumers. So right now, when people say "but you never said that was happening!" they're just pointing to that over and over. It's irritating whenever a company does this.

Fortunately for players though, it's all just cosmetic stuff that you can get from it. You cant buy characters or equipment with stats or anything like that. So, players that dont like the idea can safely ignore it. Which, to the developer's credit, is the RIGHT way to do it (well, as "right" as you can get with this sort of thing...).

That being said, I personally do think that microtransactions should only be used in free-2-play games (where they really do make actual sense instead of being a cash grab, which is what they are in a full-priced game). It is possible (maybe probable) that Battleborn may actually go free-2-play at some point here though. Frankly, I think it'd be a really smart move on their behalf. Would make it really easy for new players to try out the game and get into it.

Oh boy! You don't know how wrong you are!

I think this video explains my point about Overwatch as well as prove how microtransaction-infested it actually is:

LoZ: Windwaker. Everyone i know whos played said it was boring and "too much sailing"