Gaming

I just loved the gameplay in Anthem. Not particularly the loop, the grinding, the enemy "variety" or mission design. But the base of it all, the flying and hovering and fighting. Especially the idea of turning the common formula around by making the combat ability focused with guns being more like support items, instead of focusing on shooting and using your abilities in between (like in Destiny 2 or The Division, for example).

The game really is the prime example of "wasted potential" when it comes to video games.

I just wish it would've been developed by a company with more experience in online multi-player games and released by a publisher that's less egregiously openly focused on maximizing profit above everything else like EA.

I actually really enjoyed playing Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex. Maybe I just first played it when I was too young to notice differences with it compared to the previous entries. Grew up loving it and didn't learn how generally hated it was until a few years ago.

I think Overwatch is the best game in it's genre. Right now it is the most balanced has the most composition variety the game has seen since before Brigitte was added. Other games like Paladins or Gundam Evolution don't even come close.

The scaling back of the planned PvE content was disheartening and incredibly frustrating, but it doesn't change the fact that the game we have right now is really fun.

TimeShift never felt as bad to me as a lot of people said it is. Was pretty good actually and I had fun playing it.

Also Bionic Commando didn't score that high on metacritics but I liked it very much and played it like 3 or 4 times (completed it).

Back in the days of C64 I had those two games called "Ace of Aces" and "Wings of Fury" which most of my friends hated. I didn't understand the topic or why I had to shoot others, but I played those games over and over again.

The first Nier and Drakengard, games that showed Taro's genius despite the mechanical limitations. And any No More Heroes game. Mechanically uninteresting but full of style and heart and interesting concepts.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is my favorite game:

• Best name.
• In development since the 90s, still looks like the 90s.
• Played hundreds of hours, still never finished it (cause I'm shit).

Salt and Sanctuary (more for it being unpopular vs bad hivemind).

I love Metroidvanias, but combined with Souls-like elements makes for a very fun concoction. This one in particular I have so much fun exploring. The story telling and world building adds to the mystery and the fun of unraveling the story. It has a very good variety of enemies/bosses/items. It also oozes so much atmosphere. One of the better Metroidvanias (I played a fair number of them).

Another one is Dark Souls 2. I get it being disliked; can't be helped as it had a lot of departures from the first. But out of all 3, this one I played x3 as much. I absolutely love the sheer variety of locations (it's ridiculous); exploration is super fun and rewarding.

Love loved loved Battleborn. Nothing like it to my knowledge other than Gigantic which also died. The combo FPS / Moba was super fun. RIP Battleborn you died before you even took off.

Phantom Doctrine. It's essentially Cold War X-Com with spies. Bunch of problems with it, including a bug that stopped me from being able to progress after being dozens of hours in. But I love that era of spycraft, and sending in units in multiple different ways to cover each other in case one was about to get caught.

And I don't know why, but I loved having a unit or two decked out with heavy armaments outside the building (since they'd be caught immediately inside) ready to rock and roll if things go sideways so my agents could get out.