Nice things about games you don't like

video games
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Xenoblade Chronicles 1 has a lot of very cool visual variety.

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(most of) the wayforward games have real nice art!

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The first couple worlds (Bob-omb Battlefield and Whomp’s Fortress) of Mario 64 are really breezy and fun.

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I like that I can drive a 1986 Honda Accord in a nice enough rendering of London in those Getaway games.

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The ones they developed, published, or both?

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Doom 3 allowed the series to continue after it.

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I liked the character designs in Astral Chain

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The Legend of Heroes: Trails megaseries has got a ton of hours of gameplay!

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Metroid Dread had some shinesparking parts that were pretty fun for someone like me who’s actually good at Metroid instead of Dark Souls.
Half-Life 2 has that level near the end where the gravity gun actually works, which is a good proof of concept for the game they should’ve made instead.
Basically everything in Death Stranding that’s not a cutscene is great.
All game remakes and remasters at the very least help bring awareness to the original in a roundabout way.

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And the cutscenes transcend greatness.

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Kojima makes a story about ghosts once and immediately goes “what if you had a miscarriage and the baby was a ghost?”

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A singular genius

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The sound design in A Link to the Past was so good, it established the way sound works in Zelda games (and many others) afterwards.

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The flute boy part of A Link to the Past is still good and delivered with a subtlety we need more of in games.

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I don’t have anything nice to say about games I don’t like because I don’t play games I don’t like. Are folks playing games they don’t like for some reason?

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You’ve never played a game you didn’t like? Ever?

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I do this often enough, yes, because I’m interested in looking at games critically even if I don’t (yet?) do it professionally. Sometimes my thoughts about a game don’t fully calcify until I’ve had a lot of playtime or I’m interested in how they tie up the narrative or I’ve put so much time into a game that I decide to finish it to have the complete picture

My primary interest in terms of critique is also games as a narrative medium, and I prefer to have the compete picture when examining a work in that way

Edit: Of course, as a few others have said, I’m not specifically looking for games I don’t like or things like that. But sometimes I’ll pick up or receive a game I should otherwise like, and after some time, find I don’t care for it. Sometimes when that happens, I’ll decide to spend more time with it to try to understand it better or get a fuller picture of the why I don’t like it

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Truth be told, I had to think long and hard to even come up with any at all.

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I play games I think I’ll like, and sometimes I find I don’t like them after all, and stop.

So far this year I’ve done this with:

  • BIT.TRIP Presents… Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien
  • Pathologic 2
  • Signalis
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I have a pretty strong sense of my own taste and I tend to know going in about things I pick out for myself, but even still, friends recommend stuff, things hit in the wider culture or in certain communities that make them worth a shout, etc

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