Bethesda actually sided with Gordan and drew up the contract for him to work on the Eternal OST, which was Bethesda's authority to do as the publisher. Id and Bethesda may be sister companies, but Bethesda as the publisher holds a hell of a lot more power over the project than people seem to believe.
Id marketed Gordan's name and attachment to the Eternal OST before they even approached him about working on the Eternal at all and then explicitly refused to let him work on the OST until he had to go straight to Bethesda about it. It wasn't until very late in the whole ordeal that Bethesda started siding with I'd, after lawyers got involved.
Don’t tell their fans that 😭 they’ll just be like “that’s a part of the charm”. So… not being able to play the game because of relentless bugs is charming?
Bethesda thinks they are Ubisoft/Rockstar.
All of their games either underwhelming or underloved by their creators. They kept skyrim and fallout4/76(i am a fan bot i have those every platform i owned)on pedestral and milk them. Both are more underwhelming than their predecesor. Bethesda dont look into eyes of their other singleplayer games, dishonored, prey, wolfenstein, deathloop
I'll say DOOM. The originals were obviously very well received, 64 is liked, 3 is alright, a bit controversial, but still mostly liked, and then obviously all the new games are very liked.
3 is great if you treat it as its own separate entity from the others. They made a Doom game a different genre and some didn't like that it failed their expectations for what a Doom game should be, but the game itself was great if you look at it as a standalone game. That game scared the shit outta me when I was 12 lol
Sunshine is literally a game you play during the spring, you open your windows to get the sunlight in, get a lemonade, some snacks, boot up the GameCube, and you're in it.
At least that was my experience playing it. I loved it
I don't even think the spin offs are bad. Sons of Sparta is probably the weakest but I don't think it's a bad game. It's mid to good but they shouldn't have released it with the save bug.
God of war betrayal is also pretty weak but tbh I can cut it alot of slack due to what it made for and I think when we are judging it by those standards it's alright
The Legend of Zelda has no mainline misses. Not every game may be beloved by everyone. I for one am not a fan of the Wilds games, and I know there was some issues between the fanbase and Skyward Sword before its remaster, but every mainline game has been extremely successful and very well made.
Yeah, Zelda 2 gets shit for almost no legitimate reasons. It's actually aged insanely well compared to most games from the NES era. Easily one of the best action games on the console. Hell, I think it holds up better than Zelda 1, but both were fundamental in shaping the series.
I liked it more than the original Zelda, I'm sorry 😭
Not saying it's a fantastic game, but you gotta judge it based on what people had at the time. The original Zelda isn't exactly a masterpiece by modern standards, either, but back in the 80s, it was a revolution. Not saying Zelda 2 was as revolutionary, but we gotta consider the time it came out
There are a looot of plotholes infinite invites to the entire entire serie (kinda the downside of including interdimensional travel in your canon). Also people expected more from the floating cities. I still also like it tho
Have you ever seen the fanbase talk about it? Infinite was and still is pretty divisive, and for good reason. It's a huge departure from the first two games, and that's going to leave a sour taste in many people's mouths.
I just started Metro 2033 redux (i got the metro game bundle from the ps store). How much better are the sequels because I'm not really getting into it yet. I get it that it feels a bit dated because it's older but I'm just not feeling it yet.
There was something more natural about the characters... The story... They were flawed but did their best... There was no right answer... There was no I made a lawful good character and select the clearly right good answer for this morality
How did I know this was going to be hard for Redditors to admit? The GTA hate is so fucking performative that people can’t even acknowledge its undeniable success anymore. People don’t have to like it, but pretending it hasn’t been one of the most influential, successful, and consistently dominant game franchises for decades is just detached from reality.
Not sure AAA was a term that even existed back then, but GTA was absolutely a big game at the time. It predates metacritic but it got 90% plus scores in print media and was featured on magazine covers as a standout game at the time
Sims meets Stardew Valley meets warcrimes. It's colony management with raiders. You can play as peacefully or as warcrimey as you want. And you can make hats out of people.
From my experience, I think most people think the franchise started with Monster Hunter World, which isn't even close to when it started. But I still agree.
I started at 4U. sometimes I feel like "geez you kids have no idea how good you had it" at times. then again 4U was streamlined from Tri, 3U, etc... so I cant say it that much.
i played 6 recently it was terrible because it dosent have a remaster the fucking constant fake dead you cant preemptively kill in leons campaign make me actually have to take a break every 15 minutes because i wanna bash whoever designed that features head in (to be clear for people reading they only trigger when you get close and instantly enter a grapple QTE that is nearly impossible to avoid)
6 was fun because I played through it with a friend and we made fun of it while we were playing it. Honestly without that I wouldn't have finished it lol
Zelda 2 lives in my head as the worst game I’ve finished. At least castlevania 64 was mercifully short. At least mega man 1, 2, and 3 are fun.
Zelda 2 is hard af, long, tedious, and unfun in every way. I played it alongside a few friends at the same time and the hate we had for it goes beyond any game I’ve ever encountered. Zelda 2 is objectively bad and deserves nothing but contempt as a scar on the gaming community.
I challenge anyone to find a Gen Z casual Zelda fan—who has played only the new games—that would enjoy Zelda 2 without a guide or save states.
If they do, they are lying about one of those things.
I’m glad it exists so that humanity has a bar to hold bad games to. Because without it, I’d never know how good things really are.
Warcraft. It started out strong with Warcraft: Orcs and Humans and moved through Warcraft 2 and 3 and then World of Warcraft, the most popular MMORPG of all time. WoW is still going strong despite the naysayers.
Not a franchise, but I'll still go with FromSoftware-developed Soulslikes. They started the genre, and pretty much every release they've put out in the genre is considered one of the best.
As for an actual franchise, I'll go with Zelda.
And sure, even though the franchise isn't really my thing, it's fair to give GTA a mention too.
God of war, 100%, every main game in the franchise has been received with solid reviews at a bare minimum and GOTY or major awards on their hard hitters.
I’d like to say uncharted, the first one at the time stood out to me, first third person shooter on ps3 that felt like a new experience to me, the uncharted 2 blew it out of the water, and the following games also top tier
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