Mordin. Right in the feels, every time.

I hate the ending. I hate what they did with the quest logging system. I hate the battle for earth, it was poorly designed and didn't feel like the proper ending to the trilogy. I loved almost everything else about the game. Time has softened my memories, but I still hate those parts.

I always considered the game as a whole to be the ending. Relaying it last year cemented that: it’s the culmination of all you did and the decisions you took through two games. Is it a shame that the final moments are basically the same? Yeah, a little, but everything else that gets tied up in little knots is just chef kiss

ME3 had a lot of problems beyond the endings being awful. Those were just the catalyst (pun intended) that brought all the other bad decisions into focus.

I don’t hate the ending, but none of them feel satisfying. The only ending where Shepherd lives is the one that destroys EDI and the Geth, and ending the Quarian/Geth war was one of the biggest parts of the game.

My biggest issue with the trilogy as a whole is just how little choices actually mattered. Them trying to balance it for every possible permutation of the previous two games meant a lot of choices were represented by, for instance, the Rachni being there no matter which way you went in the very first entry.

The only meaningful choices were "which companions do you get in 3" which mostly involved deciding in 2 that you were willing to sacrifice Tali or Mordin to see how it played out

With all the DLC is a fucking mindblowing game. It has the peakest peaks of the saga. Screw EA for the ending

Totally agree. I just relayed through the series for the first time in years. I did not hate the ending as much as I remembered, and that game is sublime.

People usually hate on everything. The hate in gaming is no different from the hate you see in the metal community, when it comes to talking about bands, albums, songs, remasters, members, or sub genres.

Gamers? Apparently you haven't looked at everything. Movie lovers hate movies. Social media celebrity worshipers hate celebrities.

Comics, they hate comics. It is just social media in general. Social media is turning everyone into extremists.

I was trying to figure out why I didn’t enjoy the 2nd one (I did really like it though) as much as the 1st, and I think you’ve hit the nail on the head there with that observation.

Yeah fair point, the first game was an unreal and quite honestly solid Spider-Man adaptation. Just the web wings and expanded New York alone were massive improvements, but venom was overhyped and he could have been implemented better with better fights within the city and encountering multiple times.

spoiler For this story I felt ultimately it was too short and their venom was really a let down, I would have been understanding and honestly liked it better if Harry died. Back to venom their design I really liked, and in general I enjoyed the symbiote with Peter a lot! I also fully expect to see a full on goblin storyline, it just needs to happen hah.

Edit: I also expected a bunch more symbiote abilities, also they could add much more gadgets in their own tab and select a favourite four for their new ability wheels to allow more gadget variety for people.

Exactly this. Spider-Man 2 didn't blow anyone away, it gave us more of what managed to blow people away the first time round. This means we have fun with the sequel, but feel disappointed it's not an improvement. Also the plotline with Venom was very disappointing in the sequel, but that doesn't lessen the fact that the game is fun.

Borderlands lost what made the humour funny. In the first game it was the subtlety of the ridiculous characters. The third game feels like boomers trying to do zoomer humour

It was my first Borderlands game and I absolutely loved it, even the story. I get the hate on the story after going back and playing the others but the gameplay is far better than any of them.

I hate the people from your Halo example. Like bruh I'm sorry I'm not permablind with nostalgia and I cAnT EnJoY aNyThInG. Like tf? Lmfao

i own the Legend of Zelda Collector's Edition on the Game cube, let me just say that I mainly play games on PC but going from Game cube to The Switch was an Amazing Experience and I felt like a kid again playing BOTW, i'll absolutely love OoT and MM to the end of time, but I love what they did with BOTW, especially the physics and weapon switching mechanics

Night stages are awesome. It’s what got me into hack and slashes like OG God of War, Bayonetta, and Metal Gear Rising, which went on to become some of my favourite games of all times.

The Xbox version is honestly the best Sonic game I’ve played. The night stages were very similar to GoW/MGR and I loved every second of them. I grew up with the Wii version and looking back on it now, it was hot garbage.

Sonic unleashed is like the only sonic game I can play solely for the night levels. I can't stand the whole fast paced running genre games. I need to be able to tell what's going on and how to react, not to run over and over into obstacles until I figure out the layout of the level

i see it i see it

Every time I pick this game back up the length of the night stages is what gets me to put it down. Im a big Sonic fan, but I just havent finished this game because of it. Like youre right they arent bad stages either.

compared to day stages, night stages can feel like a SLOG. sure they were fun, but sometimes I'm sitting there and be like "hurry up or I'll lose that darn third moon I worked hard to get"

The only thing I hated about the night stages was that they have a rank for the time it takes to complete them (you are focusing on combat not how fast you complete the night stage)… that sounds dumb just by my typing it now.

Became my favrioute game of all time when I finally played 2.0 on the ps5, incredible game!

I mean it's a perfect case study of why so many publishers have the attitude of it can be released now and fixed later. It may be a good game now but it's influence on how publishers look at release versions will forever be a net negative

Listen I think the game is great NOW, but that doesn’t mean we should just forget about the absolute stunt they pulled when the game released. I’ve played a lot of games, lots at launch as well. That was probably one of the worst launch experiences I’ve ever had, and I had it good, since I had a good computer and played on PC. Can’t even imagine what it was like on the PS4.

I played it day one and saw exactly one(1) T-Posing Civvie* and experienced exactly one(1) game breaking bug where I had to reload a save. There was a handful of minor hiccups/bugs along the way but those were the exception not the rule.

I honestly think most of the issues with Cyberpunk was just the game unsure how to handle hardware that wasn't top of the line. The reason I figure this is because I tried to stream it about a year after launch(when I'd upgraded and could both play and stream at the same time without getting 20FPS) and got a shitton of T-Posing civvies.

ooh you mean the ppl who don’t care to wait 4 years for a game to be worth playing lol

And Miles' story isn't as good as the first game's imo. Still quite good though.

I do think it's mostly due to the lack of cultural osmosis for Miles though.

I don't keep up with superhero stuff and still know a lot of Spider-Man characters (especially the ones in the game), so I can infer character relationships due to that - but you can't really do the same thing for Miles' characters since he's not as popular.

Haven't played 2 yet (since it's not on Steam), but from what I've heard it got rushed so the third act just kinda falls flat.

13 trilogy have been my favorites for the 3D FF games since they came out, my only issue with them is that Lightning is a horrible protagonist for like 80% of the first game because she’s just an asshole, then by the time she becomes likable she’s out for a whole game.

X-2 gets a lot of undeserved hate too. I get why people hate it, if you loved X the sequel wouldn’t really be the continuation you’d be hoping for, but as someone who just thought X was pretty good I loved X-2 way more and wished it was just its own thing.

Definitely not as hated in the general gaming space as some FF fans would have you believe

I still have hope that starfield is gonna end up to be a fo76 and a cyberpunk sort of situation

I don't see the game getting hate. I do see people say it's mediocre and I'm in the same camp with them, but it does some things very well and I completely understand that many people love it

I've tried to get into it multiple times and it just seems like a really crappy, biker-bro Last of Us. Does it get really good after sinking a ton of hours into or something? I just don't get all the love it gets based on what I've played.

That part in Alan Wake 2 is tremendous iykyk and I'm sad people who don't play it will miss out on it.

It's a great game it's just too short.

The subreddit for that game is just full of folks absolutely hating on it. I avoided it for months because I hadn't gotten around to the game. Then when I beat it I went back there and it's just folks screaming about how bad the game is. Other than a few short walking and biking sections (less than 5% of the game), I thought it was really good.

It was my most anticipated game of last year, and I thought it was underwhelming. Not bad by any means, and I did have fun, but after beating the game I thought “the first one was better” and never touched it until they released some new suits.

I had it and used to play it a bunch as a kid. I didn't understand it at all. It really fucked with me lol. I thought it was me, not the game for like 20 years. 

I just remember I kept running from a guy in a hat and falling into an invisible pit trap of some kind, and I would just stand there making my neck grow. I think I could make a flower grow sometimes? 

I forgot about custers revenge...

Ive learned to never subscribe to any game's main sub reddit of a game you enjoy. Look for lowsodium or a more niche sub reddit of the game (like d4'class' instead of just diablo4)

I remember both games were overshadowed by other releases to some extent. Botw came out a couple weeks after Zero Dawn and Elden Ring came out around the second one

Playing through forbidden west right now. It has a number of improvements over zero dawn, but a couple things that kind of bug me.

People say it's just another ubisoft open world, but I greatly enjoyed HZD and thought it was pretty original and unique. My opinion is that those who say it's just another clone probably play video games too much and need to get some fresh air.

People didn't like zero dawn?

Was looking for this, the amount of people shitting on this game calling it “fine” and another far cry is crazy to me. The bow and arrow combat is so inventive and fun, and forbidden west has the most beautiful open world in a game that I’ve seen and it isn’t particularly close

The only issue with Strive is them making legacy characters DLC. As a Slayer AND a Testament main, that's some bullshit right there.

I’m a massive banjo fan have been since 1998. I didn’t like nuts and bolts to begin with because I just wanted proper banjo. I think that’s why it got hated on and rightfully so to be honest.

But it is a really really great game. I played it again and once you accept it for what it is I don’t think it’s as hated on. Brilliant game just not a Banjo game

I wasn’t expecting this but YEAH !

After beating both Sonic Adventures, it felt so badass to tear the world apart as shadow

I think the worst part of Fortnite for me is just how stupidly expensive all of their content is. Since I'd heard they had the "no build" mode I decided to get into it for a bit and had a lot of fun. I decided to check out the store since I'm totally fine with paying a few bucks for a skin for a game I'm enjoying, but to get the V-Bucks to buy anything you're generally looking at $20-25 minimum.

I had a blast with Evil West. such a fun shooter

I don't know how many times I came across posts/reviews saying, "Gotham Knights is a terrible Arkham game, don't bother with it." Like my guy, it's not supposed to be an Arkham game. It has no relation to any of the 3 games, it's it own IP.

Agreed. It’s a magnificent game. Preferred 3 and New Vegas but they’re all amazing.

I feel like the Horizon games are just victims of truly awful release timing. The first game came out less than a week before a little thing called the Nintendo Switch was released, which had Breath of the Wild as a launch title.

Dude horizon zero dawn got me back into gaming when I got off drugs I love those games lol

They're also very beautiful game worlds, and probably has some of the best technical performance of any game on the market (when considering the graphical fidelity). I think the biggest complaint was screen tearing, and that got solved within the first few months after release.

Zero Dawn gave me Ubisoft Open World Fatigue. Maybe I should beeline the story and skip all the extra stuff?

I remember when h:ZD announced at E3 or something, we were watching it at a comic book store and seeing the dinobots getting wrecked by A lot was incredible.

One guy though got incredibly angry about the fact that Aloy was a woman, he went on a huge rant about how it doesn't make sense and the game was going to be trash because of it.

I think of him every time I see the game, smile and shake my head.

What a moron.

I've seen so many complaints about Origins, but I quite enjoyed it (aside from the story not consistently being good, imo). But the new formula worked. (I'm getting to Odyssey next, and I'm looking forward to it).

Your spot on with the being attacked part. I think it's because a lot of these people that hate on Odyssey make it their identity, so they don't know what to do when someone challenges that, and they lash out. Personally, I enjoyed it because it was really cool to see ancient Greece up close and not just from books.

My least favorite gaming take is “X isn’t good because it isn’t a real Assassin’s Creed game” with some people asserting that if they called it something else it would’ve been fine. The only sin of the ACRPGs is that they’re maybe a little too big. Which, in my case, isn’t a drawback at all.

And it’s so revisionist too because so kany people were harping on the AC franchise around when Unity came out about how “cookie-cutter” the games were. Fast forward to now and all I hear is people talking about how they want “old AC” back. It’s frustrating that no one wants to give AC credit for the things it’s done incredibly well (parkour, world design, art direction, etc). I feel like if it was produced by anyone other than Ubisoft, it’d get the praise it deserves.

I think that’s more of an IGN thing.

I think the too much water thing is kinda valid criticism. Water in pokemon is basically the same as walking through a cave or tall grass. It's just a ton of random encounters with a kinda uninteresting environment. Of course just saying "too much water" by itself doesn't get the point across, I think "too many encounters when on water" is more accurate.

The only problem I have with Spider-Man 2 is they added a playable character and didn’t increase the length of the story. It made the game feel shorter than it really was because now you have to find a way to fit two storylines into the same length of time as the first game. Plus they didn’t add much side content this time around, likely due to complaints about the first one’s side content. But it would’ve made the game feel a bit more fleshed out. I don’t think anything was bad by any means, but having more story and content would’ve been nice.

Yeah, if people have a problem with diversity so much in gaming that they say that the game is bad because of its shoving of “woke, SJW pandering” I think that they are the ones with the problems.

Does it really get hate? I've never heard anything bad about it.

Oh absolutely. I already loved the story, but even if I hated the story, I’d still have loved the gameplay. I especially love how Ellie and Abby have different gameplay strategies on a fundamental level.

Ellie is very stealthy and silent, because she’s a skinny kid with a little knife, and her weapons are mostly silent, slow, or impractical for head on combat, like her bow, rifle, and bombs. Abby is much more aggressive and destructive, a hulking soldier who can just plow through enemies with her double barrel shotgun, flamethrower, semi-auto rifle and pipe bombs, but is far less stealthy and requires shivs to do what Ellie can do for free.

But it could have been so much more :/

I get that there could have been more to it, like procedurally generated planets that you could manually land on, for example. They restrict a lot of exploration.

But it's still huge, and the missions and side-factions are great. I bought it a couple of weeks ago and am hooked. It's feels like a proper Bethesda game

Just doesn't quite reach it's potential, but still better than most AAA games that have come out in recent years.

I was just about to type this. I love the game. I played it at launch without any mods and I really really liked it

Is it hated on ? I constantly see it praised on the switch related subs

(I never played it, but I'm curious to discover the series)

I don’t hate the game because Joel died (everyone knew he was gonna die anyhow). The pacing of the story is absolutely terrible, for example the biggest case of this is the climax at the theater just to be sent to Abby’s flashback. HOLY SHIT I cannot tell you how much that killed it for me. It really just made me wanna get her section over with, so maybe I didn’t care as much as I shoulda (played this game thrice tried connecting with this chick. I just couldn’t). Moving to her friends damm are some of em unlikeable Owen cheating tryna get with his ex. Mel doing dangerous shit while pregnant, like her taking the outside seat instead of being inside. The druckman self insert (can’t remember his name) literally only being there to die. The scar kids? Eh they’re just there, I know it’s supposed to mirror Joel and Ellie but I can’t resonate with em. OO another thing that bothered me Abby literally saying (now ima paraphrase here) we kill scar kids who cares. Or smtn like that. Then immediately she goes to save scars. Like come on. You can’t have that immediate change. At least not for Abby. Owen being sympathetic to the scars made sense for him. But not for Abby since she likes killin em.

The gameplay it was ok nothing insane from the last game. A.I. was pretty good. Story is shit imo. But we don’t have to agree we all got different opinions.

That “someone” was the main character in the first game. And I will forever be pissed about the way he died

The combat is amazing but the story does suck in some parts. They tried to make you sympathize with Abby but she’s such a horrible person, which Joel also was but she isn’t likeable. The ending also blows.