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When I discovered Digimon World 3 had such horrible reviews as it does I was shocked.

It's honestly one of my favorite games ever up to this day. There are many people that also love it tho.

LoD is also kinda like that, some people even hate it, but the reception was mostly mixed not bad back then, even as it always had a fanbase.



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Alex_The_Hedgehog said:
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I feel like there will be a lot of licensed games lol. First one that comes to mind is Emperor's New Groove on PS1. To this day, I'll occasionally replay it lol fully understanding that as a game, it's not that good.

The Emepror's New Groove on PS1 is amazing. One of my favorite 3D platform games. I played it on PC back in the late 2000s with PT-BR voice acting. Such a cool experience.

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BraLoD said:

Many.

When I discovered Digimon World 3 had such horrible reviews as it does I was shocked.

It's honestly one of my favorite games ever up to this day. There are many people that also love it tho.

LoD is also kinda like that, some people even hate it, but the reception was mostly mixed not bad back then, even as it always had a fanbase.

I never understood the critic reviews for the Digimon World games.



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Alex_The_Hedgehog said:
BraLoD said:

Many.

When I discovered Digimon World 3 had such horrible reviews as it does I was shocked.

It's honestly one of my favorite games ever up to this day. There are many people that also love it tho.

LoD is also kinda like that, some people even hate it, but the reception was mostly mixed not bad back then, even as it always had a fanbase.

I never understood the critic reviews for the Digimon World games.

DMW2 looked boring as f so I can understand that.

But DMW was so unique and loved by most people that played it and DMW3 is still the best Pokémon ever, it beat Pokémon on its own style of game, and people love it too. Those games scoring as low as the 40s is criminal.



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Not sure if this counts, but Starfox SNES was my favourite game as a kid, and while it was very well received at the time, 16 odd years later when I joined the online gaming community, sentiment had shifted to viewing it as outdated and unplayable.

I disagree, and I still revisit it now and then in the modern day and find it enjoyable.



Digimon World, Digimon World 2, Digimon World 3, Digimon Card Battle.

Fantastic games, even today. Were they reviewed by Pokemon fans?



The old GTA games come to mind. I liked GTA 1 and GTA 2. Still play the second game sometimes. Don't know if many compare it to the later installments that most seem to love. But even revisiting reviews from back when the second game released it seemed to just rate so-so. To me the old top-down GTA games had something the later games lack, charm. Not enough to bump it to legendary status, but enough for me to revisit and have fun.

Donkey Konga is another one that come to mind. To me it was on par with the likes of Guitar Hero, and actually released before it. But it lacked the cool factor I guess.

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Farsala said:

Digimon World, Digimon World 2, Digimon World 3, Digimon Card Battle.

Fantastic games, even today. Were they reviewed by Pokemon fans?

I was a massive Pokémon fan and to me DMW3 was even better than the also masterpiece that Gen 2 Pokémon was.

Knew you would come to talk about PS1 digimon as well xD