Question What game did you really like that no one else did?

[January's Ghost]

Personally I have a few, but the one that comes to my mind the most is Murdered: Soul Suspect.

I think it's a great ghost story with a fantastic setting and I replay it every couple of years. One of the few "perfect" games I have on Steam. It has some interesting ideas and a few great plot moments.

It definitely has some flaws (the demons..oh the demons), but it really knows what kind of game it wants to be. Unfortunately it doesn't quite know how to get there. It's rated "very positive" on Steam, but outside reviews kinda hammered it (with PC Gamer giving it a 40) being typically called mediocre. And while I agree the game nowhere near lives up to its potential, I still find a lot of litle details and the overall setting quite enjoyable. Just not the demons.

 

[Pifanjr]

RIP 3: The Last Hero. I played it as a teenager with a friend of mine and we had a lot of fun with it. I doubt I would like it without the nostalgia factor, but nostalgia is a powerful force.

 

[isleepinabed]

I thought it was going to be easier until I realised that while I like games few people like, they usually are well rated, just underplayed.

The most obvious ones I can remember would be Deadly Premonition and Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy, although they were both notorious for that very reason so the arguments have been done to death at this point. As I haven't played them in a long time, my own personal opinion might have changed regarding both. I wince when I think of Deadly Premonition's combat and I did try to replay Fahrenheit last year but got a bit bored with it. Some games do not age well, not for mechanics or story but just because the context is different, be it personal or the state of games in general.

 

[Pifanjr]

I thought it was going to be easier until I realised that while I like games few people like, they usually are well rated, just underplayed.

Considering @January's Ghost's example game has a Steam rating of very positive over 10,000+ reviews, I think those still count.

My example was the only game I could find that I actually enjoyed quite a lot and which didn't have a positive Steam rating.

 

[Colif]

I don't know as I have never really taken notice of what other people think of the games I like. It doesn't make any difference to my enjoyment. Having said that, its clear I mainly play single player games where the opinion of others is less noticed, unlike an online game where if everyone else hates it, you soon notice from a lack of players.

About only online game I played that could be counted is TDU2 and I played it mainly as a single player game as my internet was really bad back then and I just couldn't really manage onliine. I persisted as I still liked game.

 

[BeardyHat]

I've enjoyed plenty of 6/10s and 7/10s, but by far the one game I really enjoyed that most people seem to absolutely dislike would be Natural Doctrine.

It's not a PC game, but I thought the battle system was extremely interesting and clever; my suspicion about all the negative reviews is that most people never really cracked it. The combat system is almost like solving a puzzle in itself, trying to figure out how to maximize your teams amount of turns, as there's methods for triggering extra actions for your team based on your other team members.

I did eventually hit a wall with it pretty far into the game, but I often think about going back to it to try and break past that point. However, it's been years at this point and I think I'd have to replay a lot of the game to remember how it works.

 

[January's Ghost]

I've enjoyed plenty of 6/10s and 7/10s, but by far the one game I really enjoyed that most people seem to absolutely dislike would be Natural Doctrine.

It's not a PC game, but I thought the battle system was extremely interesting and clever; my suspicion about all the negative reviews is that most people never really cracked it. The combat system is almost like solving a puzzle in itself, trying to figure out how to maximize your teams amount of turns, as there's methods for triggering extra actions for your team based on your other team members.

I did eventually hit a wall with it pretty far into the game, but I often think about going back to it to try and break past that point. However, it's been years at this point and I think I'd have to replay a lot of the game to remember how it works.

Heh, I guess that's a perfect example. Outside of the bad Metacritic scores I Googled the game and the first hit was a YouTube video titled WORST JRPGs EVER #4. So kudos for finding something within that the majority has missed.

 

[Zloth]

Three in the "started horrible then got better" classification:

X:Rebirth (metacritic 33) came out in horrible, horrible shape. Even for Egosoft. They did eventually get the game into good shape, but even then you needed some mods to make the game fun. I got the game late, used the mods, and had a lot of fun!

Sword of the Stars 2: Lords of Winter (meta 44) came out in even worse shape than Rebirth. It took months before you could even hope to finish a play-through without the game bugging out. After a year, it was fairly playable, though, and they even released a DLC. The DLC was given away for free as an apology. Then the publisher (Paradox) shut the whole thing down and development stopped.

Then there's No Man's Sky. It's well-loved now, but I even liked it when it came out.

 

[JCgames]

I thought it was going to be easier until I realised that while I like games few people like, they usually are well rated, just underplayed.

Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy,

I really liked this one until I got to the stupid quick time events made for a controller, but I used a keyboard which makes them 100x harder, so I gave up


I'd need to check some scores on games as I'm like you. Lots of very positive games bur only 300 people, heck some are closer too 100. So I'll add another post later.

Mass effect Andromeda, would be mine, though honestly it has pretty good positive reviews on steam though i think it would be a bit lower had it launched there but i think it would still be positive. It probably has more haters than any other game I loved outside of dragon age 2, though for some reason these days fans of that one seam to be far more common.

People also call thief 3 the worst of the trilogy, but it's my favorite by a good margin. These days I think it has more fans and the cradel is considered one of the scariest/best levels ever created. Still it took a lot of heat for a long time and tons of people say thief 1 or 2 are the best. For me 1 was interesting but, 3 was a game I liked enough to finish. I have to really love a game for that to happen, just liking it is not enough


I'll have to get back to you on one that's in the negative

 

[January's Ghost]

Mass effect Andromeda, would be mine...

...People also call thief 3 the worst of the trilogy, but it's my favorite by a good margin.

Yeah, I think I liked Andromeda and Thief: Deadly Shadows a lot more than the general consensus as well. Especially Thief 3. Its lore goes so much deeper into the Thief universe and, of course, Shalebridge Cradle.

 

[JCgames]

Thief 3. Its lore goes so much deeper into the Thief universe and, of course, Shalebridge Cradle.

Totally agree, the world feels so much more alive to me verse the others as more of a series of missions. In some ways it reminded me of a liner RPG.

When I was playing, I had heard nothing about any of the missions and never traveled to that games forums so it was a blind play. I also was a night time gamer most of the time and that one was a typical late night play and of course in surround sound. As you can imagine when I stumbled across that level I was in near terror. It's been 20 years and it's still one of my most memorable moment.

 

[January's Ghost]

Totally agree, the world feels so much more alive to me verse the others as more of a series of missions. In some ways it reminded me of a liner RPG.

When I was playing, I had heard nothing about any of the missions and never traveled to that games forums so it was a blind play. I also was a night time gamer most of the time and that one was a typical late night play and of course in surround sound. As you can imagine when I stumbled across that level I was in near terror. It's been 20 years and it's still one of my most memorable moment.

I followed a good bit of news on Thief 3 when it was coming out, but it was pretty much spoiler free so I went into it blind as well. One of the more memorable gaming experiences I have.