What games do you adore despite finding them to have significant faults?

Tera
Bound By Flame
The Surge
Neverwinter

There are so many...

ReCore

game looked like ass at times graphically, animations were awkward and sometimes just bad, long loading times, game clearly needed more time in development and it's smaller budget was immediately evident

had a good story, gameplay concept, and soundtrack though which I think made up for a lot of the flaws and was the game's saving grace 

I still loved it regardless, and the definitive edition at least seemed to improve on a lot of the original problems it had

You are not alone!  I got Bound By Flame due to a drought in RPGs during the first year of the PS4's life, and I enjoyed it quite a bit.  Its flaws were in my face, making it evident why it scored as low as it did...but I liked it anyway.

But to add to the topic, my actual pick would have to be...

XEdge on PS3.

This crossover JRPG had a plot that was a complete mess, ridiculous conditions to obtain the "true" ending, and no explaination of how to use the wonderfully deep battle system aside from a lot of trial and error, with quite a few accidental discoveries.  It was so flawed, and so addicting at the same time for those who allowed themselves to dig deeper into the mechanics.

You know, I feel Knack was overhated and The Order 1886 was great, but too short with untouched potential.

White Knight Chronicles was great, but they released half the game by itself, then released the whole thing as White Knight Chronicles 2.  I beat the first one and was really getting drawn in, but right when the story hits the climax, it ends.

By the time the full game came out (and yes, it included the first game so I consider White Knight 2 the full version), I had forgotten half of what happened and the high had passed.  I linked my save data and gave it a shot, but there was just no getting back into it at that point.  Shame because I feel if they had just waited to release White Knight 2 out of the gate, the whole experience would habe been much more enjoyable.

Was so thoroughly disappointed in White Knight. The only game that treats your created character as a support character lol. 

To add to mine. Mass Effect Andromeda. It’s actually the only Mass Effect I love.

Etrian Odyssey 5 could use more diversity

Thief Gold has an amazing first level and then a meh second level (I've heard that the levels in general are quite mixed but I got it when GoW came out so I wouldn't know)

Swat 4 has pretty inconsistent AI on later levels

Pokemon Red/Blue is my obvious pick. I can rant for hours about what's wrong with those games.

Xenoblade Chronicles 2. The UI is crap. The map is ABSOLUTE TRASH. The lack of english lip sync is EXTREMELY noticeable, often to the actual detriment of cutscenes. The animation for said cutscenes is often stiff. The audio mixing is garbage. The amount of the damn Tiger! Tiger! mini game the game wants you to play to satisfactorily upgrade Poppi is absolutely disgusting (and that's WITH the season pass that cuts that SIGNIFICANTLY. While it wasn't a significant problem for my personally, the fact that the game doesn't let you reread text tutorials is dumb for a game this complicated and dense. All of this in mind, Xenoblade 2 is still one of my favorite games of all time, my GOTY for 2017. I love the combat, story, world, and characters that much.

Sonic Generations. It's poorly optimized on console. It's short as hell with boring to atrocious padding in the form of side levels. The final boss sucks. Classic Sonic does not control anywhere nearly as smoothly as he did in the originals (though far better than Sonic 4 or Forces imo). The story is undercooked to put it mildly. All of this in mind, the modern Sonic level design and controls are the best they've ever been, and classic Sonic's good fun once you get used to it. I'll happily admit nostalgia bias is probably another big reason though.