Enter the Matrix was dope. Fuck the haters.

I enjoyed Dragon Age 2 as well. It's just that it's an action movie to Origins' House of the Dragon. It's just different genres.

I enjoyed the hell out of that game. My only complaint was that the loot lacked variety, and it was a bit more on rails than what I think of as a proper open world RPG.

Agreed. I thought it was a competently made game, even if not groundbreaking or best in class for shooting. I think people's expectations are often their biggest obstacle to enjoyment.

It still has a 9/10 on Steam despite all the flak it took. I think it's a classic. To me it's similar to the backlash to Fallout 4 from purists, which I also feel is a classic game

Me too, didn't even know people thought it was a bad game until recently. Honestly I don't get why, I wasn't expecting anything different from what I got, there were definitely some dialogues that made me chuckle, and a lot of storylines were very tongue in cheek, and while gameplay was nothing to write home about neither is fallout and this was sold as "fallout in space", and definitely delivered on that.

Right there with you! I preordered it, played at launch, loved every bit of it, and love the expanded updates its gotten even more. Its like taking the world of Final Fantasy and turning it into an open, monster hunter life sim with the bros with a solid story on top of it all. People love to hate modern Final Fantasy imo rather than accept the newer directions just aren't their cup of tea.

I've probably talked more about XV than any other supposedly bad game, so maybe I've developed some sort of Stockholm Syndrome. But for an objectively pretty bad game I enjoyed parts of it and it did elicit emotions out of me at times.

The game has many problems, but maybe the biggest is the huge overambitious "multi-media experience" they attempted. The game itself suffers because its content is spread so thin as it's stretched out over a movie and a comic and the DLCs and I don't remember what else. An anime? Even the Royal Edition still suffers for not integrating the DLCs, and it's kind of awkward to have to stop playing at the appropriate times to go so the DLCs for the maximum impact. And even then the planned Lunafreya DLC would have added so much to the story, but they never got around to that as the game flopped (in large parts because crucial story elements were scheduled for fucking DLCs instead of included in the game!)

I do agree that the combat is fun, and they did have a really good vibe going with the bros and the road trip. There are some really nice heartfelt moments where the game shines. And the fishing minigame is absolute top drawer, one of the best in gaming. But ultimately I look at it as a huge pile of wasted potential.

Absolutely gorgeous music though, some really powerful leitmotif work like Sunset Waltz/Valse di Fantastica and Ardyns themes.

Harold Faltermeyer made some nice music for the game. Opala is still stuck in my head.

Finally, someone else who remembers these games! They weren't as polished or impressive as others, but they were fun and had lots of challenges.

I am willing to bet that people who chose the female main character enjoyed this game more.

Odyssey was really good in a vacuum. Ive heard it described best as that it was a good action RPG set in Greece, but not a good Assassins Creed game. The main issue being that stealth was usually a huge focus in previous titles, but this one seemed to favor general combat and didnt even have the signature wrist blade until the DLC. Also a bunch of the story seemed to return pieces of previous lore, some setup in just the previous game that came out a year prior. Overall though I did enjoy the game!

I also loved FF8. I'd be more interested in a remake of that one than 7 tbh.

FF8 has been going through a bit of a resurgence lately where it does seem to be getting a fair amount of praise. It used to get slated though.

8 is a very solid game. The issue is that it was always compared to 7 and 9