6 is 10 is worth playing too, but that depends on individual needs, same applies to 5, but it's more of "if you a fan of the genre you can enjoy it". The 10 digit ranking system is useless when everything below 8 is treatead as garbage.
@@sinenomine8739 There are plenty of games considered horrible by fans of the genre that got 100 in some mags (DMC2 for example), and solid niche games that got far below 7 (KOEI slashers), then you get reviewers hate hack and slash games that are "repetitive" and don't have gameplay variety with puzzles and then you have AVGN screaming at Castlevania Lords of Shadow for putting filler minigames between combat the he wants to play. Reviews are supposed to tell you what the game is so you form an opinion not be quirky artistic evaluations.
I think hes referring to this prototype which was discovered semi recently th-cam.com/video/0Cv8CjMLTdc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=D3Y187tbEn0sp3Uz @@vlinnstone6919
@@vlinnstone6919yes it is before radical entertainment was making prototype 2 they were developing sam raimi spiderman 4 before that was canned they then transferred of that assets to prototype 2 if u don't believe me look up spiderman 4 leaked gameplay
I watched RDR2 trailers and gameplay back when it came out and was so jealous I couldn’t play it because I didn’t have a console or good PC. So I found out there is another western game Gun that came out in 2004 and my PC will run it with no issues. I played it and I was so satisfied even after I got console and PC I still want to find a time to play Gun.
I was surprised too, I think it having a bad reputation just kinda isn't true. You can go back and see it was pretty well received on release and even now people talk about it pretty fondly and praise it for what it did at the time. I think it's moreso it being outshined and mostly forgotten because of RDR as opposed to it having a bad reputation.
@@BtotheDon12 I think it was also a case where it came out on two platform generations and the version for 360 was quite a bit better than the PS2/Xbox version.
Being smart business wise and timing I think has a part to play. It could get a remaster or port when the remakes for 1 and 2 arrive, they are both getting remade right or at least the first one? It’ll probably get more interest when those arrive so they probably want as many people playing it as they can.
Remaster Max Payne 3? Like seriously? It has way better graphics than many AAA titles nowadays. Visually it's one of the best and most perfect games I've played in a long while. And I played it for the first time in 2023 so there is that.
@@matman000000 It wasn’t done by Rockstar, it seemed to be pushed by Take Two on another studio to make it cause Rockstar doesn’t look interested in making these remasters/remakes at the moment. It getting some nice performance and resolution upgrades and it being playable on PS5 would be good enough for it cause it’s already a good looking game, they can do what they did with RDR1 with it.
I've always had a theory that FarCry Primal was originally supposed to be a DLC (like Blood Dragon) but they saw it as an opportunity to charge $60 for a "full game" rather than $20 for a dlc.
which makes sense, fc3 and blood dragon. fc5 and newdawn. tho I understand why they didn't make a side game or just a game in the same map as 6 due to it being one of the weakest entries
Genuinely, I never in a million years thought I'd see someone mention DeathSpank in current year. I played it and it's sequel all the time when I was a kid, loved it to death.
One of my favorite lines ever is from that game. "You ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight? He does a mean Lambada." A batman reference and a clever callout to the Lambada being "the forbidden dance". God I loved this game.
Absolutely based take on Max Payne 3. Can't sing enough praise for the soundtrack, MP3 introduced us to HEALTH the same way Quake did for Nine Inch Nails (Would also recommend catching HEALTH live if you can).
@@skylerwilson5378did you play the originals? I enjoyed 3, but it doesn’t hold a candle on the storytelling and atmosphere of the first 2 games made by Remedy.
Mad Max and Max Payne 3 are amongst my favorite videogames ever I mean, Mad Max made me fall in love with the IP, and Max Payne 3 made me discover one of my favorite bands (Health)
Yeah, 100%. I'm almost kinda glad they're sorta "overlooked" because I can like them more for myself, but dammmmnn people are missing out if they've never gave them a chance. Love them so much.
Yeah i have no clue how Mad Max is considered bad. Its not revolutionary or a masterpiece but its a fun time ive been coming back to over and over for many, many years, and i think that's exactly what a game should be.
@@ZachSimplyZach the unwashed masses from which you are a part of only deserve so much of my attention. If you all act like sheep with no independent thought, you get the copy/paste treatment. Simple.
Thanks for including Max Payne 3. This game is so underrated and it definitely deserved more love, some critiques fans had on the game were fair and reasonable but for the most part a lot of the complaints seemed more like nitpicking to me cause overall even tho it had flaws that didn’t stop it from being nothing short of amazing. It’s probably one of the best third person shooters I’ve played in a while and such an perfect finale to Max’s story.
Mad Max was outstanding. No one I ever speak to about it has played it or wants to give it a try. I recently downloaded it again on my Xbox just to give it another shot after 9 years. I'd say an honorable mention would be Kane & Lynch 1 and 2. Both underrated.
I am someone who enjoyed both Mass Effect and Spec Ops: the Line for gameplay. I love third person shooters. I should play Kane & Lynch, they had ridiculous price on sales so I got both years ago on Steam.
I absolutely love this channel. The videos are so consistently good, well edited and funny. I genuinely had this channel confused with another channel with a larger subscriber count and when I saw this channel only has 8,000 subscribers I was shocked that it wasn't 800,000, especially since this channel is legitimately so much better. Just keep making videos consistently and when you have that one big video that hits everyone will go back and watch all your old content and your subscribers will skyrocket. I love your channel please keep doing exactly what you're doing
@@sklurg They just wanted to make the series more popular on console. Which was always going to be a hard sell because top down strategy on a controller is pretty grim.
Quake 4 deserved it. This was the only time in my life I had to return a game to the store for health reasons lol On X360, there was something VERY wrong and the game literally gave me a headache and sore eyes. It's as if there were subliminal white screens in between each frame. I physically couldn't play this game.
I need to get Remember Me, Tomb Raider Underworld was criticized justifiably, it's not a bad game but BOI the animations are broken like in Andromeda, and starting with the water level after tutorial was a horrible choice.
For FC Primal : Ubisoft games 'fans' are very often like this. For sooo long so many people cried and bitched and moaned about how Assassin's creed games were always the same, with just a few things tweaked here and there. Then they get genuinely overhauled, different games, and they complain that it's not like the originals enough.
It was written by Ron Gilbert, the writer of Monkey Island games, legendary for their humor. Deathspank received 2 sequels, in an era that digital console games sales were tiny, so it was obviously financially successful. The tangential reason for internet hate is it was published by EA, the company was heavily criticised by gamers at the time for killing off or subverting beloved game series like Command and Conquer and Dead Space.
Honorable mention: Need For Speed: ProStreet Just like Max Payne 3, the game got hate for being "different". NFS is well known for it's urban street racing theme so ProStreet seemed like the black sheep compared to the previous NFS games. Thankfully, the hate it got wasn't too harsh and people quickly realized that the game is actually good.
It was the lowest point of the series and a wakeup call for Capcom to stop poorly copying the action western market. All the monsters and characters were parodies of their former selves. It's funny in Co-op but awful in single player, completely opposite of what RE is meant to be.
Its my favorite game of the series (and now im not a fan according to everyone on the internet) With out a doubt it is just the absolute most fun game to play of the entire series. The combat mechanics are slick and extremely responsive.
@@King-ci8sk It's not my favourite, but it is still up there. I understand and agree with the lack of horror and how linear the game is. But like you said, the action and combat is amazing, has the best mercenaries mode because of it (even compared to RE4R), and it was great seeing a mix of familiar characters interacting and new ones. Definitely does not deserve the hate. In my opinion (and this will cause some hate from the internet), RE6 is miles better than RE0. I would rank it 7 out of 10.
Prototype actually aged better than inFamous. They both have very unremarkable cities. But the difference is that inFamous makes you slowly run through and climb around it's unremarkable city. As to where Prototype has you dashing and gliding everywhere and not having to do all the boring slow paced down time stuff. It makes the pacing difference favor Prototype to a very large degree.
Honestly I never got the hype around InFamous. Most of the powers are just reskinned conventional weapons, the game's pacing sucks, the open world is very monotonous and it's got one of the worst implementations of moral decisions of all time. I didn't get great until Second Son, which added variety with different powers and a more interesting city.
@@matman000000this game didn’t age well in some important aspects, but still I enjoyed it. First Infamous is too hyped and not deserve that level of trust immo. But I will say that Infamous 2 is a better game in all aspects: graphics, performance, story, characters, open world, abilities, sound design and on and on.
@@matman000000you say that yet infamous second son’s good/evil paths were literally the worst in the entire series. Compared to the first 2 games, especially the second, the different paths in second son were barely any different. Horribly designed game that served more as a ps4 tech demo than as a fully fleshed out next-gen follow up to the infamous franchise
Driveclub was such a beautiful looking game that I still think it is the peak of racing game visuals (despite Gran Turismo 7 looking more realistic). To me, the game almost perfectly captured the vibe of 90s era NFS games: driving the best cars down the most beautiful roads. All it was missing was police chases like Hot Pursuit. Imagine an alternate reality where the Driveclub and Project Gotham Racing studios didn't get shut down and instead continued to make games that competed with other.
No no no Max Payne 3 holds up to this day. The attention to detail with the environments is top notch, especially the office battle scene. Papers, glass flying everywhere. The music by HEALTH. Perfection.
@Paul-zx8fg i have played it. It's great. Idk how tf that game manages multiplayer with slomo. Im a max payne fanboy so i wouldnt exactly put that game over it but I had fun when i played double action
IT IS NOT THE BEST SHOOTER. The main reason you've never heard anyone call MP3 "bad" is because everyone agrees it's objectively decent. But people like you who have never played the game OR its predecessors, love to misrepresent the shit out of everything. Objectively, as a game, it's strong. As a Max Payne game, it's the weakest one by a landslide. And if you've actually played the game, you'd know this.
@@NebLleb never played the predecessors? I probably put in more than 1000s hours in Max Payne 2 alone. Just because MP2 is my all time favourite, and MP3 is nothing like it doesn't mean MP3 is a bad game. If you want more of the same, play the same. Why are people afraid of change and progression ? MP3 Max is in a very different place (literally and figuratively).
Your channel is a hidden gem, and a huge boon for me personally is your taste in games parallel mine (especially racing games). Hope you get the attention you deserve so you keep making videos.
Order was a great tech demo but really not ebough for a game. Mafia 3 was good but too bloated. Ryse was genuinely fun, never finished it but had a blast and dont know why people hated it. Days Gone is something that wrecks me, im so sad we'll probably never get a sequel, at least one woth Deacon.
For all of Agents of Mayhem's faults, I remember the dialogue during a few of the boss fights actually made me laugh. >"You'll never defeat these next guys" >Easily defeats them >"WELL SH*T!" Something like that.
Also want to say, I really appreciate you pointing out all these games that got kinda lost under middling reviews. The Bureau is one I got in an Xcom bundle years ago and never played. I just reinstalled bc I always meant to get to it, so I appreciate you talking about it! I think there are ideas in most games like this, and often they just need a little imagination to see what was good about them and you're doing that here. Cheers!
Huh, I had no idea Prototype had a bad rep? Loved it and everyone else who played it did as well and it's a game I still remember vividly more than 15? years later.
Probably more related to the second game and the fact that unless you have a physical copy of 1 it’s basically impossible to play because of how bad modern ports of it are (pc port is quite literally impossible to play)
Your videos are so well edited and the writing and presentation is so on point! Be ready to hit the big leagues soon. I hope the Algorithm Gods bless others also with your videos in their feed.
Max Payne 3 one of the best third person shooter ever made. The environment, story , music everything was perfect. I guess people hated it cause it ditched the snow for heat.
So glad to see some love for DeathSpank. That whole series was so much fun. All 3 of them. I genuinely think Heavenly Sword deserves a lot more love. The movie was garbage, but the game was honestly good.
Some people have really hard time letting go their hero syndrome, and enjoy games where protagonist is an objectively bad person. They feel "cheated" by game. Prime example is how people hate SpecOps the Line not for its generic, unremarkable gameplay, but because protagnist turned out to be villain of the story.
Well the "i was made for this" line has some extra context once you find out you play as the virus and the person you think you are is long dead and all that remains is his memories
Max Payne 3 has been top 3 since it released. It was so ahead of it's time, and still holds up next to these half baked games that get released these years
1080 Snowboarding on N64, and Winback 64, both of them were way ahead of their time and people said they hated them. I heard the same thing about Deadspace until I played it and realized it was a friggin' gem.
Max Payne 3 is actually great game, I don't and will never get the hate the game got when it got released. Also it's a damn shame of what happened to Driveclub.
Bruh, Dragon Age: Veilguard is getting ridiculous amount of hate, and that game is like a solid 8/10 possibly 9/10..the combat mechanics are actually good, its alot darker than people make it out to be and graphically its probably the best biowares engine ever looked..
Had to look into this because I was shocked to consider DeathSpank being panned because I loved all the games as a kid. Every aggregated score I've found the first two entries in the series sit at around an 8/10 with the third marginally though visibly lower, so I'm a little confused at its inclusion. Glad you enjoyed it though, ~12 year old me thought it was fantastic and I hope to revisit the games again someday.
This is my first introduction to your channel, can't imagine you could've expected DeathSpank as a proven engagement driver, but the second I saw that in my recommended I needed to see what's up. Cheers.
Idk where you ppl heard all this from but me personally i dont think ive heard a single bad word about any of these games,in fact ive played most of them as soon as a could and loved them.
Great editing, great personality, great video man. I’ve been really damn depressed lately, this video brought me some joy. Subscribed! Ps never even heard of Death Spank but looks good, think I’ll be checking it out
Doom 3, it's like with Max Payne 3 where the game feels too different from the rest, also add the fact it's the only doom game where you don't play as Doomguy But putting those aside, it's a great action horror game on its own
Hey there mate, first time viewer here. No idea how I've never once seen your content before seeing as how I'm an Aussie who playeth vidya games. Loved the video, very much agree with Max Payne 3, and to add, the amount of small world details and visual tidbits is astonishing (down to Max visibly sweating more and more after being shot at the stadium). I want to raise a banner for a very shat on title called "Rage". Rage 2 went all Doom 2016 meets Borderlands and found success, but Rage 1, in my opinion; was very special because it perfectly blended old school FPS (Quake, Unreal) with a semi-open world Mad Max style game that had Fallout inspired quests. Wingsticks are the greatest FPS lethal grenade of all time, and gaddamn if that shooting didn't feel spectacular for its time.
Maybe I was just in the right mood for this when I watched it, but the cutaway video clips in this were top notch! Very high chuckle per minute in this one.
Mirrors 👏 Edge 👏 Catalyst! The game got shat on when it released, and I can see why, since in 2016 I think people were getting sick of games being forced into an open world model, but I struggle to see why there wasn’t more love for it- its a pretty good game! And it follows the first one gameplay wise very faithfully and has amazing visuals and world design. Too much hate
This video gives me so much nostalgia. Im a so called "free thinker" and give my games a fair shot, ending up with a lot for love for many titles in your lineup.
mine is gotham knights, that game totally wasnt that bad. it looked gorgeous, loved the characterization, its great! specially compared to that god awful suicide squad game.
The first comment I actually can’t agree with those were some good parts of the game but the combat was slow and clunky the characters got the most part were bland bar a few line that got a chuckle out of me and the story was weak but I don’t think the game was godawful just mid
it’s madness that Sony still hasn’t released the infamous games on steam. Fairly sure that whatever it would cost to port would be made up quickly by fuckers like me wanting to relive their youth temporarily
I am in love with The Outer Worlds and I was surprised to find that the reception was pretty lukewarm. The DLCs especially elevate the game so much for me, it's the only game that gives me that Firefly/Cowboy Bebop Space-faring Captain vibe apart from maybe Mass Effect
Mad world, God hand, no more heroes, silent hill homecoming and or downpour as both have amazing atmosphere and soundtracks and all these games deserve so much more love!
I remember finding out a decade later that people thought Goldeneye: Rogue Agent sucked and I was so confused, it being one of my favorite games as a kid. Like, outside of some difficulty spikes that can seem ridiculous, I replayed it somewhat recently and it holds up pretty nicely as a console FPS. The multiplayer is a blast too if you can find a buddy to play with.
Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts comes to mind for me. I'd describe it as a physics-based vehicle sim collect-a-thon. I understood why people would be turned off by N&B being so different from previous Banjo games, but holy shit this game rocks. It's honestly a one of a kind game. I highly recommend.
I'm questioning how "bad" the reputation is from some of these games considering I played some of these and anyone else who did had mostly positive thoughts. Some I do think there's a reason for them. A lot of these things seem very subjective
Max Payne 3 is sooooo good. Doesn't deserve any hate
*yes it does.*
Absolute banger of a game. Id love to portray him in a film
@@NebLleb why
I love Max Payne 3. But the "noir psychology horror" theme being gone is definitely a disappointment.
@@PequodM4A1I feel like max payne 1 and 2 did all they could with the noir theme. If max payne 3 didn't try anything new I wouldn't have liked it.
We have become a culture where a 6 or 7/10 is bad. Its not.
6 is 10 is worth playing too, but that depends on individual needs, same applies to 5, but it's more of "if you a fan of the genre you can enjoy it". The 10 digit ranking system is useless when everything below 8 is treatead as garbage.
Yes it is lmao
@@grph1t3z 6 is kinda meh, but 7 is ok
It is, when games are priced $70 dollars on release
@@sinenomine8739 There are plenty of games considered horrible by fans of the genre that got 100 in some mags (DMC2 for example), and solid niche games that got far below 7 (KOEI slashers), then you get reviewers hate hack and slash games that are "repetitive" and don't have gameplay variety with puzzles and then you have AVGN screaming at Castlevania Lords of Shadow for putting filler minigames between combat the he wants to play. Reviews are supposed to tell you what the game is so you form an opinion not be quirky artistic evaluations.
Fun Fact: the New York from Prototype 2 is repurposed from the cancelled Sam Raimi Spider-Man 4 tie-in game.
no it's not? it's repurposed from Hulk: Ultimate Destruction... which was also developed by Radical; the same company that made Prototype
I think hes referring to this prototype which was discovered semi recently
th-cam.com/video/0Cv8CjMLTdc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=D3Y187tbEn0sp3Uz
@@vlinnstone6919
@@vlinnstone6919yes it is before radical entertainment was making prototype 2 they were developing sam raimi spiderman 4 before that was canned they then transferred of that assets to prototype 2 if u don't believe me look up spiderman 4 leaked gameplay
Youre thinking of the first game not the second one
Idk who to believe and I don’t care enough to fact check any of this, so I will move on forgetting all of this newly acquired information
I was genuinely shocked when Gun showed up on this list, I had no idea people dislike this game. Still holds up really well today imo
It was better than Red Dead Revolver
I watched RDR2 trailers and gameplay back when it came out and was so jealous I couldn’t play it because I didn’t have a console or good PC. So I found out there is another western game Gun that came out in 2004 and my PC will run it with no issues.
I played it and I was so satisfied even after I got console and PC I still want to find a time to play Gun.
I was surprised too, I think it having a bad reputation just kinda isn't true. You can go back and see it was pretty well received on release and even now people talk about it pretty fondly and praise it for what it did at the time. I think it's moreso it being outshined and mostly forgotten because of RDR as opposed to it having a bad reputation.
@@BtotheDon12 I think it was also a case where it came out on two platform generations and the version for 360 was quite a bit better than the PS2/Xbox version.
I remember that it used to be the most recommended RDR substitute for PC gamers until Call of Juarez came out.
It’s weird that Rockstar remasters L.A noire but refuses to remaster Max Payne 3 or at least port it to current gen consoles… same story with gta 4
Being smart business wise and timing I think has a part to play. It could get a remaster or port when the remakes for 1 and 2 arrive, they are both getting remade right or at least the first one? It’ll probably get more interest when those arrive so they probably want as many people playing it as they can.
Looking at how they massacred the GTA Definitive Edition, maybe it's a good thing
Gta4 can't be remastered because everyone's scared of the swing set physics.
Remaster Max Payne 3? Like seriously? It has way better graphics than many AAA titles nowadays.
Visually it's one of the best and most perfect games I've played in a long while.
And I played it for the first time in 2023 so there is that.
@@matman000000 It wasn’t done by Rockstar, it seemed to be pushed by Take Two on another studio to make it cause Rockstar doesn’t look interested in making these remasters/remakes at the moment. It getting some nice performance and resolution upgrades and it being playable on PS5 would be good enough for it cause it’s already a good looking game, they can do what they did with RDR1 with it.
Remember: As long as you have fun with it and you keep coming back. Its never a bad game.
I've always had a theory that FarCry Primal was originally supposed to be a DLC (like Blood Dragon) but they saw it as an opportunity to charge $60 for a "full game" rather than $20 for a dlc.
They would’ve made the dlc 60 bucks anyways.
Having played both games, Primal feels way more like standalone title than Blood Dragon
which makes sense, fc3 and blood dragon. fc5 and newdawn. tho I understand why they didn't make a side game or just a game in the same map as 6 due to it being one of the weakest entries
Genuinely, I never in a million years thought I'd see someone mention DeathSpank in current year. I played it and it's sequel all the time when I was a kid, loved it to death.
One of my favorite lines ever is from that game. "You ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight? He does a mean Lambada." A batman reference and a clever callout to the Lambada being "the forbidden dance". God I loved this game.
It's nice to see a fellow DeathSpank fan
Absolutely based take on Max Payne 3. Can't sing enough praise for the soundtrack, MP3 introduced us to HEALTH the same way Quake did for Nine Inch Nails (Would also recommend catching HEALTH live if you can).
NINE INCH NAILS MENTIONED
I'M GOING TO BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS
Extra funny considering health are frequently an opener for nine inch nails @@PequodM4A1
Wrong
@@dannyd4339 l bait lol
@@icravedeath.1200 just because the truth hurts your feelings, doesn't make it bait
Max Payne 3 literally one of my favourite games ever made
Never understood the hate since it released
@@skylerwilson5378 It was “different” I suppose
Same
@@skylerwilson5378did you play the originals? I enjoyed 3, but it doesn’t hold a candle on the storytelling and atmosphere of the first 2 games made by Remedy.
Well that just shows your IQ level doesn't it
Mad Max and Max Payne 3 are amongst my favorite videogames ever
I mean, Mad Max made me fall in love with the IP, and Max Payne 3 made me discover one of my favorite bands (Health)
Yeah, 100%. I'm almost kinda glad they're sorta "overlooked" because I can like them more for myself, but dammmmnn people are missing out if they've never gave them a chance. Love them so much.
Yeah i have no clue how Mad Max is considered bad. Its not revolutionary or a masterpiece but its a fun time ive been coming back to over and over for many, many years, and i think that's exactly what a game should be.
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames. It's a broken mess in many ways, but the mayhem and the level of destruction in this game is just *chefs kiss*
Dont listen to the internet. Most of the time they don't know what they're talking about. Make up your own mind.
Max Payne 3 is one of my favourite third person shooters by far.
You are so quirky and original
One of the best. Perfect gameplay.
@dannyd4339 coming from the guy that copy pasted the same comment in several different threads, this is hilariously ironic
@@ZachSimplyZach the unwashed masses from which you are a part of only deserve so much of my attention. If you all act like sheep with no independent thought, you get the copy/paste treatment. Simple.
@@dannyd4339 You are so quirky and original
Thanks for including Max Payne 3. This game is so underrated and it definitely deserved more love, some critiques fans had on the game were fair and reasonable but for the most part a lot of the complaints seemed more like nitpicking to me cause overall even tho it had flaws that didn’t stop it from being nothing short of amazing. It’s probably one of the best third person shooters I’ve played in a while and such an perfect finale to Max’s story.
Definetly NOT underrated at all
Mad Max was outstanding. No one I ever speak to about it has played it or wants to give it a try. I recently downloaded it again on my Xbox just to give it another shot after 9 years.
I'd say an honorable mention would be Kane & Lynch 1 and 2. Both underrated.
Both Max Payne and Kane and Lynch are favourites of mine
I am someone who enjoyed both Mass Effect and Spec Ops: the Line for gameplay. I love third person shooters. I should play Kane & Lynch, they had ridiculous price on sales so I got both years ago on Steam.
I absolutely love this channel. The videos are so consistently good, well edited and funny. I genuinely had this channel confused with another channel with a larger subscriber count and when I saw this channel only has 8,000 subscribers I was shocked that it wasn't 800,000, especially since this channel is legitimately so much better. Just keep making videos consistently and when you have that one big video that hits everyone will go back and watch all your old content and your subscribers will skyrocket. I love your channel please keep doing exactly what you're doing
The creator I had him confused with was Eddie burback believe it or not
Finally someone else understands that The Bureau was an unpolished gem.
I mean, people mainly hated it because they really wanted turn-based tactical XCOM, and thought that they were never going to get it.
@@sklurg They just wanted to make the series more popular on console. Which was always going to be a hard sell because top down strategy on a controller is pretty grim.
I thought The bureau was really great. I loved babysitting my crew and microing them in real time while shooting aliens. I had a blast with it.
@@sklurg but there are like dozens of turn based tactical XCom games and only one that is a cover shooter.
2008 Prince of Persia, Remember Me, Tomb Raider Underworld, Quake 4, Killzone 3 comes to mind
Quake 4 deserved it. This was the only time in my life I had to return a game to the store for health reasons lol
On X360, there was something VERY wrong and the game literally gave me a headache and sore eyes. It's as if there were subliminal white screens in between each frame. I physically couldn't play this game.
I need to get Remember Me, Tomb Raider Underworld was criticized justifiably, it's not a bad game but BOI the animations are broken like in Andromeda, and starting with the water level after tutorial was a horrible choice.
Gun is a severely underrated game! Got it from Toys R US on my birthday when it released.
ALPHA PROTOCOL
Alpha Protocol was really underrated. I liked it's Mass Effect style branching dialog options.
Absolute peak obsidian goodness
For FC Primal : Ubisoft games 'fans' are very often like this. For sooo long so many people cried and bitched and moaned about how Assassin's creed games were always the same, with just a few things tweaked here and there. Then they get genuinely overhauled, different games, and they complain that it's not like the originals enough.
I think the point is that people expect something new from a new IP
@@AdrianCuyubambaDiazAnd then they complain when things actually change. 🤦
Only in Far Cry Primal can you sneak into a tent and find two people ACTUALLY BONING and then BONE THEM TOGETHER FOREVER WITH A SPEAR
Wait, DeathSpank had a bad reputation? I thought it was very well received. Also, it's really good and really funny.
It was written by Ron Gilbert, the writer of Monkey Island games, legendary for their humor. Deathspank received 2 sequels, in an era that digital console games sales were tiny, so it was obviously financially successful. The tangential reason for internet hate is it was published by EA, the company was heavily criticised by gamers at the time for killing off or subverting beloved game series like Command and Conquer and Dead Space.
Honorable mention: Need For Speed: ProStreet
Just like Max Payne 3, the game got hate for being "different". NFS is well known for it's urban street racing theme so ProStreet seemed like the black sheep compared to the previous NFS games. Thankfully, the hate it got wasn't too harsh and people quickly realized that the game is actually good.
ProStreet is a top 5 NFS game for me
tbf most NFS games since have bad reputation no matter if they're good or not
Resident Evil 6, I think, is really underrated. Yeah, there's practically no horror, but man, was it fun as an action game.
It was the lowest point of the series and a wakeup call for Capcom to stop poorly copying the action western market. All the monsters and characters were parodies of their former selves. It's funny in Co-op but awful in single player, completely opposite of what RE is meant to be.
Its my favorite game of the series (and now im not a fan according to everyone on the internet)
With out a doubt it is just the absolute most fun game to play of the entire series.
The combat mechanics are slick and extremely responsive.
@@King-ci8sk It's not my favourite, but it is still up there. I understand and agree with the lack of horror and how linear the game is. But like you said, the action and combat is amazing, has the best mercenaries mode because of it (even compared to RE4R), and it was great seeing a mix of familiar characters interacting and new ones. Definitely does not deserve the hate. In my opinion (and this will cause some hate from the internet), RE6 is miles better than RE0. I would rank it 7 out of 10.
If they had marketed as a spinoff and not a major sequel it probably would have gotten a better rep
@@adamsarufan2656With so many of the old characters interacting with each other, do you really think they would've done that?
Those airport and police station missions in Max Payne 3 are some of my favorite levels in just about any game I've played, love it
Max Payne 3 was fantastic, still replay it to this day, RIP James McCaffrey
Prototype actually aged better than inFamous. They both have very unremarkable cities. But the difference is that inFamous makes you slowly run through and climb around it's unremarkable city. As to where Prototype has you dashing and gliding everywhere and not having to do all the boring slow paced down time stuff. It makes the pacing difference favor Prototype to a very large degree.
Honestly I never got the hype around InFamous. Most of the powers are just reskinned conventional weapons, the game's pacing sucks, the open world is very monotonous and it's got one of the worst implementations of moral decisions of all time. I didn't get great until Second Son, which added variety with different powers and a more interesting city.
And I'll still pick Infamous over prototype.
X-Men cliche tropes or .... It's a Activision game auto skip that shit
@@matman000000this game didn’t age well in some important aspects, but still I enjoyed it. First Infamous is too hyped and not deserve that level of trust immo.
But I will say that Infamous 2 is a better game in all aspects: graphics, performance, story, characters, open world, abilities, sound design and on and on.
@@TheSecondcitysaintInfamous is a cliche as well. Story is just…there. It’s hard for me to call it good. Just an excuse for gameplay.
@@matman000000you say that yet infamous second son’s good/evil paths were literally the worst in the entire series. Compared to the first 2 games, especially the second, the different paths in second son were barely any different. Horribly designed game that served more as a ps4 tech demo than as a fully fleshed out next-gen follow up to the infamous franchise
I loved Gun. Great memories.
Fun fact, there was a copy on display at The Royal Armoury in Leeds for some reason when I went years ago
We now need a video of highly praised games that don't deserve the "hype" behind them
That would be a list to long basically all the new games like God of war etc.
Red dead redemption 2. GTA 5 and 6, nu God of war, last of us, horizon.
@@enclaveofdoom lol no
@@enclaveofdoom well atleast you tried
Black Myth Wukong comes to mind
One man's trash is another man's treasure
Driveclub was such a beautiful looking game that I still think it is the peak of racing game visuals (despite Gran Turismo 7 looking more realistic). To me, the game almost perfectly captured the vibe of 90s era NFS games: driving the best cars down the most beautiful roads. All it was missing was police chases like Hot Pursuit. Imagine an alternate reality where the Driveclub and Project Gotham Racing studios didn't get shut down and instead continued to make games that competed with other.
😮
Wwwwww
No no no Max Payne 3 holds up to this day. The attention to detail with the environments is top notch, especially the office battle scene. Papers, glass flying everywhere. The music by HEALTH.
Perfection.
Max Payne 3 is literally the best third person shooter ever made. No hyperbole
Max Payne 3 is top tier, but you've obviously never played Double Action Boogaloo.
@Paul-zx8fg i have played it. It's great. Idk how tf that game manages multiplayer with slomo. Im a max payne fanboy so i wouldnt exactly put that game over it but I had fun when i played double action
@@FlameOfRoyecapc player? Add me
No it's not. It's a great game, but the originals are much better. If you actually PLAYED the game, you would know this.
@@NebLleb so does personal opinion not exist to you?
I have never heard anyone call Max Payne 3 a bad game at all.
It's a damn good game, and probably the best shooter
IT IS NOT THE BEST SHOOTER.
The main reason you've never heard anyone call MP3 "bad" is because everyone agrees it's objectively decent. But people like you who have never played the game OR its predecessors, love to misrepresent the shit out of everything.
Objectively, as a game, it's strong. As a Max Payne game, it's the weakest one by a landslide. And if you've actually played the game, you'd know this.
@@NebLleb never played the predecessors? I probably put in more than 1000s hours in Max Payne 2 alone. Just because MP2 is my all time favourite, and MP3 is nothing like it doesn't mean MP3 is a bad game. If you want more of the same, play the same.
Why are people afraid of change and progression ? MP3 Max is in a very different place (literally and figuratively).
@@NebLlebto be fair it’s an opinion so before you start blurting out shit realize that it’s an opinion!
@@NebLlebplayed mp3 first then played the previous games, could not get into them at all but 3rd is awesome
@@NebLlebBro doesn’t know what the word “objectively” means.
Your channel is a hidden gem, and a huge boon for me personally is your taste in games parallel mine (especially racing games). Hope you get the attention you deserve so you keep making videos.
The reason max payne fans feel that Max Payne 3 sucks is because Sam lake didn't write it and it feels like a completely different character and story
I didnt hear a single person thinking Prototype was bad lol
What?
Well if you never heard it then it must never have happened!
@@GreatBlueWorld what you are saying makes sense,tho prototype was a really loved game lol
@@GreatBlueWorld this isn't a good comeback when the vid also doesn't have any sources on the games reputation.
Days Gone, The Order 1886, Mafia 3, Ryse: Son of Rome
Order was a great tech demo but really not ebough for a game. Mafia 3 was good but too bloated. Ryse was genuinely fun, never finished it but had a blast and dont know why people hated it.
Days Gone is something that wrecks me, im so sad we'll probably never get a sequel, at least one woth Deacon.
Dude, you deserve so much many more subscribers and views! I know for a fact that you’re gonna blow up soon. Glad to be here at the beginning!
Seeing Death Spank on a TH-cam thumbnail in 2024 is awesome!
this is why i tend to not listen to reviews much, sometimes you end up finding something you actually really like
For all of Agents of Mayhem's faults, I remember the dialogue during a few of the boss fights actually made me laugh.
>"You'll never defeat these next guys"
>Easily defeats them
>"WELL SH*T!"
Something like that.
The peter griffin falling clip just destroy me. Love your videos keep it up!!!!
Also want to say, I really appreciate you pointing out all these games that got kinda lost under middling reviews. The Bureau is one I got in an Xcom bundle years ago and never played. I just reinstalled bc I always meant to get to it, so I appreciate you talking about it! I think there are ideas in most games like this, and often they just need a little imagination to see what was good about them and you're doing that here. Cheers!
Finally. Someone who doesn't say 'mid' or 'for real' every two seconds. Great content and most importantly comedic. Easy sub
Huh, I had no idea Prototype had a bad rep? Loved it and everyone else who played it did as well and it's a game I still remember vividly more than 15? years later.
Same. Loved Prototype as a kid. Had no idea it wasn't super well received.
Probably more related to the second game and the fact that unless you have a physical copy of 1 it’s basically impossible to play because of how bad modern ports of it are (pc port is quite literally impossible to play)
Your videos are so well edited and the writing and presentation is so on point! Be ready to hit the big leagues soon. I hope the Algorithm Gods bless others also with your videos in their feed.
like 60 percent of these are games i love that i had no idea other hated
First video of yours that was recommended to me by TH-cam.
After watching it, I will predict it will go viral!
I subbed as soon as you gave MP3 some love, then followed up by Gun.
EZ sub
Any Olympic game that has CURLING is automatically a classic!
Max Payne 3 is the Die Hard game we needed
It's also the With a Vengeance game of the Max Payne franchise.
Max Payne 3 one of the best third person shooter ever made. The environment, story , music everything was perfect. I guess people hated it cause it ditched the snow for heat.
the story hahahah
So glad to see some love for DeathSpank. That whole series was so much fun. All 3 of them. I genuinely think Heavenly Sword deserves a lot more love. The movie was garbage, but the game was honestly good.
Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days
I'll take the first one.. but Dog Days...?
It has a better gameplay compared to the first game, a unique style and a crude story. I didn't dislike it
Some people have really hard time letting go their hero syndrome, and enjoy games where protagonist is an objectively bad person. They feel "cheated" by game. Prime example is how people hate SpecOps the Line not for its generic, unremarkable gameplay, but because protagnist turned out to be villain of the story.
@@kireta21 I've never heard anyone hating Spec Ops The Line for the story, and imo the gameplay is superior than most Gears of War clones of the time
AGREE
Well the "i was made for this" line has some extra context once you find out you play as the virus and the person you think you are is long dead and all that remains is his memories
That Elvis "too much" got me laughing way too hard 😂
Was not expecting some love for agents of mayhem XD I felt like I was the only person to enjoy it.
Max Payne 3 has been top 3 since it released. It was so ahead of it's time, and still holds up next to these half baked games that get released these years
i am such a car nerd and didnt even know that drive club existed🤣
Max Payne 3 does not deserve any hate badass soundtrack, amazing gunplay, and it ends the series on a good note loved MP3
Great video mate! Part 2 please!!
1080 Snowboarding on N64, and Winback 64, both of them were way ahead of their time and people said they hated them.
I heard the same thing about Deadspace until I played it and realized it was a friggin' gem.
Since when is Max Payne 3 a bad game. I loved gis story from detective to alcoholic to being clean in the end.
No one said it was a bad game???
Max Payne 3 is actually great game, I don't and will never get the hate the game got when it got released.
Also it's a damn shame of what happened to Driveclub.
Bruh, Dragon Age: Veilguard is getting ridiculous amount of hate, and that game is like a solid 8/10 possibly 9/10..the combat mechanics are actually good, its alot darker than people make it out to be and graphically its probably the best biowares engine ever looked..
Had to look into this because I was shocked to consider DeathSpank being panned because I loved all the games as a kid. Every aggregated score I've found the first two entries in the series sit at around an 8/10 with the third marginally though visibly lower, so I'm a little confused at its inclusion. Glad you enjoyed it though, ~12 year old me thought it was fantastic and I hope to revisit the games again someday.
This is my first introduction to your channel, can't imagine you could've expected DeathSpank as a proven engagement driver, but the second I saw that in my recommended I needed to see what's up. Cheers.
This channel is really underrated. Keep up the good work.
Good list and great montage. Very funny cuts that are just spot on!
Idk where you ppl heard all this from but me personally i dont think ive heard a single bad word about any of these games,in fact ive played most of them as soon as a could and loved them.
I didn't know gun had a bad reputation
Maxpayne 3 is one of the best TPS games of all time. It's like Last of us 2 some may not like it but objectively it's a well made game.
Well, Max Payne 3 has everything right, story and gameplay are amazing, meanwhile Last of Us2 has great gameplay, but awful story
Honestly MP3 had gameplay abd story, TLOU2 only has one, both well made.
Great editing, great personality, great video man.
I’ve been really damn depressed lately, this video brought me some joy.
Subscribed!
Ps never even heard of Death Spank but looks good, think I’ll be checking it out
Doom 3, it's like with Max Payne 3 where the game feels too different from the rest, also add the fact it's the only doom game where you don't play as Doomguy
But putting those aside, it's a great action horror game on its own
No
Absolute gem. Live this channel ❤️
Hey there mate, first time viewer here. No idea how I've never once seen your content before seeing as how I'm an Aussie who playeth vidya games.
Loved the video, very much agree with Max Payne 3, and to add, the amount of small world details and visual tidbits is astonishing (down to Max visibly sweating more and more after being shot at the stadium).
I want to raise a banner for a very shat on title called "Rage".
Rage 2 went all Doom 2016 meets Borderlands and found success, but Rage 1, in my opinion; was very special because it perfectly blended old school FPS (Quake, Unreal) with a semi-open world Mad Max style game that had Fallout inspired quests. Wingsticks are the greatest FPS lethal grenade of all time, and gaddamn if that shooting didn't feel spectacular for its time.
Maybe I was just in the right mood for this when I watched it, but the cutaway video clips in this were top notch! Very high chuckle per minute in this one.
just found this channel and subbed cause this was a super great video man your awesome ! ❤
I loved Sands of Time so much when I was a kid. It was a surprise for me when I learned that it isn’t loved.
Mirrors 👏 Edge 👏 Catalyst!
The game got shat on when it released, and I can see why, since in 2016 I think people were getting sick of games being forced into an open world model, but I struggle to see why there wasn’t more love for it- its a pretty good game! And it follows the first one gameplay wise very faithfully and has amazing visuals and world design. Too much hate
This video gives me so much nostalgia. Im a so called "free thinker" and give my games a fair shot, ending up with a lot for love for many titles in your lineup.
I also really liked MP3 Mad Max and Prototype too
mine is gotham knights, that game totally wasnt that bad. it looked gorgeous, loved the characterization, its great! specially compared to that god awful suicide squad game.
The first comment I actually can’t agree with those were some good parts of the game but the combat was slow and clunky the characters got the most part were bland bar a few line that got a chuckle out of me and the story was weak but I don’t think the game was godawful just mid
Damn dude, what a fun and positive video this was. Loved it.
Prototype feels so much like Spiderman web of shadows.
I’m so happy you put Max Payne 3 on here. It was great seeing him grow as a character. I loved this game and for some reason people didn’t .
Max Payne 3 is a perfect game with a perfect ending to a perfect trilogy
This was almost a complete list of my favourite games. lol
hey, you're probably the first person that doesn't shit on The Bureau and for that I give subscription. Thanks
These videos are WAY too good. Where are your millions of subscribers? Get to it algorithm!
@T.E.X.T-ME-WimpWilson omg omg omg what'd i win? shut up scammer.
it’s madness that Sony still hasn’t released the infamous games on steam. Fairly sure that whatever it would cost to port would be made up quickly by fuckers like me wanting to relive their youth temporarily
A man can dream :(
One day, maybe...
I am in love with The Outer Worlds and I was surprised to find that the reception was pretty lukewarm. The DLCs especially elevate the game so much for me, it's the only game that gives me that Firefly/Cowboy Bebop Space-faring Captain vibe apart from maybe Mass Effect
Mad world, God hand, no more heroes, silent hill homecoming and or downpour as both have amazing atmosphere and soundtracks and all these games deserve so much more love!
I remember finding out a decade later that people thought Goldeneye: Rogue Agent sucked and I was so confused, it being one of my favorite games as a kid. Like, outside of some difficulty spikes that can seem ridiculous, I replayed it somewhat recently and it holds up pretty nicely as a console FPS. The multiplayer is a blast too if you can find a buddy to play with.
i love the giantbomb clip, rip ryan davis you beautiful man
Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts comes to mind for me. I'd describe it as a physics-based vehicle sim collect-a-thon. I understood why people would be turned off by N&B being so different from previous Banjo games, but holy shit this game rocks. It's honestly a one of a kind game. I highly recommend.
Max Payne 3 is up there with Metal Gear Rising for being FUN VIDEOGAMES.
I'm questioning how "bad" the reputation is from some of these games considering I played some of these and anyone else who did had mostly positive thoughts.
Some I do think there's a reason for them. A lot of these things seem very subjective