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.

People love to rag on it but there's nothing that quite compares to just fuckin around in the Mirror's Edge Catalyst open world

Sword Art Online: Lost Song.

Total weeb game with a whisper of a story and super grindy, but it has some of the best flight and 3d mobility controls I've ever seen.

Metroid other m. Far from best game in the series, a lot easier than the other games, but i found the presentation really fun.

The dodging and kill moves i found satisfying and the boss fights were. The cut scenes were a bit too long buy i enjoyed the game

Die Hard: Vendetta on the GameCube. Never seen the Die Hard movies but I received this game as a kid and my brother and loved it. It’s bad in a goofy way but it was fun.

Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days. The game was a commercial and critical bomb, but it's the only cover shooter I've ever enjoyed. It's just such an unrelentingly visceral, disorienting, harsh game, with one of the main aesthetic gimmicks being that it emulates the look and feel of a late 2000s amateur video. It's hard to describe without seeing it in action, but it was audacious as shit for what was meant to be a big budget, AAA title.

I enjoyed Spore when I was a kid. It was legit fun evolving and designing your creature.

I was always a massive fan of the Lost Planet games on Xbox 360. Mixes up my childhood favorite things, giant monsters and mechs.

I really enjoy enter the matrix, it's a little janky but it's got some pretty cool for the time set pieces and I think the entire idea of the hacking mode is interesting, if very weird. For a licenced early 2000s video game I thought it was a step above most of the stuff in that field.

The driving sections are... Not very fun though.

The original Secret World is still my guilty pleasure. It was the only MMO I ever got to endgame on. It's shame what they did to it when they tore out all of it's uniqueness and went FtP.

Dirty Bomb. Think Insurgency/TF2 Payload map but with Valorant playstyle and graphic. This works surprisingly well and create a lifelong communities that still active to this day despite the game is unsupported by dev years ago. On top of that, the maps layout are memorable, something that TF2 Payload map and Insurgency Capture lack.

Not necessarily unpopular in general, but unpopular within its own series are the DS Zelda games, Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks. These games have some great dungeon design and I really liked most aspects of the touch screen controls (except blowing into the DS). These games used the DS to its fullest and will sadly be locked there as a result. I might have been one of the only people disappointed with Link Between Worlds for adandoning the touch screen for traditional controls.

AI War 2. It is a strategy, 4X, tower defense light game where the AI already won the war and conquered the galaxy. You have to fight your way to the AI home world to win. The game is very well optimized and designed for multithreaded CPUs. The more threads the better. The late game can have 10s of thousands of ships on the map or more.