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What are some good games that have a bad reputation due to unreasonable expectations? (midwest.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For consistency sake, let's say that any game that's >or=7/10 at what it's trying to do while having a popular perception of being a <5/10 game in general would count. Want to specify that this is more about the perception of the game compared to, say, a game just being really niche.

My personal Go-to for this would probably be the Callisto Protocol, because while it certainly did have some troubles at launch they were massively overblown. IMO most of the hate for it comes down to people expecting it to be Dead Space 4 with a new name, ignoring the devs the multitude of times they said that it's something else before release, and then getting mad when it released and wasn't dead space 4 under a new name.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Cyberpunk 2077 is the poster child for this. That game was easily 7/10 even when it came out as a buggy mess. Now that it's had a few years of polish, it's much better than 7/10.

But the public perception was bad mostly because of unmet expectations. I don't know if I'd call them "unreasonable" a they were set by the devs themselves, but either way, the game was and is much better than a lot of people think.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

The problem is that they advertise it a certain way and sell preorders, and then the game doesn't live up to what they advertised. Worse, they didn't allow anyone to review the console versions which were so unplayable that Sony removed it from the store. It would have been fine if people knew exactly what they were paying for, but they were misled.

Sure, it was unmet expectations but even if the expectation was just 'it works", they still didn't meet it. And that's kind of the bare minimum to even be legal when you're charging money for it. I disagree that the console versions were 7/10 on release - more like 1/10.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I recall it being hyped up as a Cyberpunk GTA, which is very much wasn't and by the time I bought it and played it I knew that. I also waited until the first major patch and played on PC so overall my experience was pretty solid. I beat the game and enjoyed it, and I rarely make it all the way through a game these days.

I think for anyone who was expecting it to be a sci-fi open world sandbox it was probably a huge disappointment, but after that the only thing I felt let down by was just not enough interactivity with the world, which is something a lot of games don't do well anyways.

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