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.







