Speaking of Sonic, Sonic Adventure 2. The level design is mediocre and completely undermined the openness of the first one, but even if you take the entire main quest as a mildly-fun series of mini games through which you collect things for your Chao, it's worth the money. I've played Sonic Adventure 2: Battle more than most games, I think. Couldn't get enough Chao.

(And the fact that we haven't gotten another Chao game baffles me to this day.)

Sleeping dogs. Finished it a few weeks ago. Dispite playing GTA V before it I enjoyed it.

Sorry, I think I should have been more specific, I don't prefer all the gameplay of PSABR, I wouldn't want the finishers as only way to win in SSB or some of the decisions. The gameplay elements of PSABR that I would like to see on SSB are: 

- Faster gameplay: Brawl strikes are generally slow, it feels almost like input lag (it isn't, but is almost as bad).

- Combos: not KoF ones, but at least the possibility of chaining strikes like in PSABR. Probably would be solved by the above.

Both games have balancing problems. In PSABR, the level 1 special for Raiden and Cole is easy to hit, while it's much harder for Drake or Nariko. In SSB Brawl, Samus is too slow and has weak finishing attacks, it's not at the same league than Fox. But a lot of fighting games suffer from this problem (MK, Injustice, Tekken in a lesser degree). KoF is one of the few that does it spot on.

Playstation All Stars is a good game if it's just a bunch of casual gamers with friends.  If you're not very good at games, it's a unique experience that is very fun.  If you put any amount of time into it and get on an intermediate or pro level, that's where the  problems lie.  The game has major balancing issues. Half of the roster is useless against the other half when played on a competitive level.  Too many fighters are no win situations against certain fighters, etc.  The balancing issues ruin the game.

To be fair, people have made Smash Bros tier lists because some are more competitively viable than others - although I'll admit I haven't played PSASBR so I don't know if the problem is worse there.

I am glad I've just now changed my avatar to agree with this.. ha.

Critics were quite just. Gamers? Not so much.

I would add Musou in general as well. Of course I love those two genres so bit of a disclaimer there.

^That reminds me:

Anything Neptunia got unfair critic treatment.

I agree on both accounts. 

Final Fantasy 12's problem wasn't its explorable world, the massive amounts of quests that can be taken, the great story, great music, etc.  It was the pos battle system paired with massive amounts of grinding for money that made the game suck.  Elemental magic was practically useless even when you hit the enemy with a weakness because melee damage almost always took off the same or similar amounts.  The best magic spells in the game were spells like slow, blind, and demi which were pretty much required to assure less grinding for gil than would have otherwise been required.  Pretty much setting your entire party on doing melee and then controlling spell casting manually was required because too often allies would cancel out their commands to do do a gambit setting, instead of completing the attack and then doing the action afterwards.

For Final Fantasy 10, I pointed out it was a straight hallway long before Final Fantasy 13 came out.  Battles were too easy where except for boss battles, you had to do very little other than switch characters to one who was strong against one of the random enemy types and then attack, which would one shot them.  Elemental enemy?  Switch to Lulu and cast a spell.  Flying enemy?  Switch to Wakka and attack.  Armored enemy?  Anyone with weapon that has pierce, pretty much making Auron just as useless as Kimahri outside of boss battles. 

Now.  I've played and finished a lot of RPGs.  Well beyond the range of 100, so when the PS2 was current gen, I thought Final Fantasy 10 was bad and while pretty, it was one of the worst console RPGs I've played.  There are RPGs released last gen that make Final Fantasy 10 look good.  That's how bad JRPGs have got. 

I agree, but it's not like the game hasn't gotten a majority of positive reviews. Just a few meh to negative ones to bring down the score.