I just played a demo for a new release called Captain Blood. What a pile of shit. I get it's a nod to 360 era games in marketing but in reality it's a PS2 GoW clone. As much as I think that series sucks. This is poor game by any standard. Enemies are total sponges that don't react to attacks at all. Smaller enemies you can just execute with 1 button willy nilly. You don't even need them to get to a state to execute them. You do for tougher enemies. Gun guys stunlock the shit out of you. Awful awful game with poor combat.

It made me want to fire up a good game. Ninja Gaiden II Black. One of the best action games. I already loved the game. Now I appreciate it much more after one bad demo.

Noice. An invert to the thread I put up. Yes. Dragons Dogma 2 and final Fantasy 16, not bad game but they are so mediocre that they are worse than bad, Terminator Resistance is bad, terrible in places but it was more interesting than those two games. I'd rather play a 4 out of 10 with some edge to it than average in every aspect.

Yooka Laylee 2, I wanted to like it but Its just so mid that I kept going back to other platformers.

Tales of Zestiria was so bad that I immediately gained a big appreciation for other Tale games - which I was usually very critical of.

Not a bad game, but it took me a while to get into MH Rise because I considered it (and still do) a big downgrade from MH World. So I kept going back to MH World for a long time.

I went back to Homeworld 3 recently trying to see if there's shred of the real Homeworld present after a year of support, and.....NOPE! The game is just as disappointing and lackluster as it was at launch. One of the most disappointing games I've played in a long time. Over 20 years of waiting just to get that pile of crap.

But, I had just started Tempest Rising a couple days before, and what an amazing experience it has been! Granted not a 1:1 comparison, but they're both RTS games at their core, and Tempest Rising is everything and more out of what I would want from a modern C&C game and is already up there as a GOTY candidate for me. I already finished the pretty epic campaign, and I intend and playing skirmishes for a long time.

Wii Sports vastly improved my appreciation to standard joystick controllers 

Most modern games, and GOD 6th gen games where and are so awesome

The first example that comes to mind are various games I played/reviewed after Gollum.  Even the "okay" titles during that stretch felt like a warm blanket; some of their mechanics were a tad stale or unpolished, but at least they functioned.

I played an indie game a few years ago called Shadow Blade: Reloaded. I like Ninja games, and I'm a fan of the Strider series. I played a little bit of it and made me want to go back to Strider 2014. A great game.

I thought it was amazing. Same with Wii Play. The games Nintendo made just for motion controls weren't the problem, imo. The problem was forcing us to use them on Mario and Zelda etc. That is when I realized how much I missed real controls.

They were perfect for Metroid Prime 3 tho.