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CollectiveCynic on 15 May 2010
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richardhutnik said:
CollectiveCynic said:

What games do you think receive a lot of undeserved negative feedback from the majority of gamers?

Here are my picks:

 

  • Halo (Despite the fact I'm only a fan of the first Halo)
  • Final Fantasy (Not a big fan of the series outside of VI, VII, and IV)
  • Call of Duty 4 & Modern Warfare 2 (Despite my disdain towards Modern Warfare 2, the hatred it receives is ridiculous)
  • Resident Evil 4 & 5
  • Gears of War 1 & 2
  • Crysis & Crysis Warhead
  • Street Fighter IV
  • Grand Theft Auto IV (Overrated by critics, underrated by the gaming community)
  • Chrono Cross
  • Far Cry 2

In regards to the above, I have some questions and also comments:

* Halo seems to get fragged due to its popularity and resentment by the PC and the Playstation community that the game helped make Microsoft a competitor in the home console business.  Final Fantasy and a number of others fit into the same way.  I think most of them are like that.

* Grand Theft Auto IV attempted to be more serious and the fans of the series hates that the single-player went in that direction, complete with the micromanagement life stuff by Nico.  The multiplayer probably was where Rockstar expected the mayhem to begin.

* I am not sure what it is with Far Cry 2.  It looks awesome on paper, and I know of how the story unfolds, and I REALLY wanted to try to like it, but man, it left me SERIOUSLY flat.  I don't want to hate it, but it didn't do much to get me interested.

People just hate change, as for Far Cry 2:

The story was quite good (Although, poorly told and presented) as it expresses the amoral intent of war and killing, how it spreads and affects it's enviroment. A theme inspired straight out of the book Heart of Darkness, for te 3 out of a thousand who have read that book.