(oh the deep schadenfreudic joy I have, knowing that when I start up a new save file on one of those games and play in casual mode, one of the old guard gets deeply pissed off and doesn't know why.)
BR 3 of course does... Does not have very good voice acting, let's get that out of the way right now. And TBH didn't take as many risks as it could've, it's kind of clunky with an odd set of fightin' mechanics... BUT. You get to play as werebeasties. That's kinda neat!
Maybe FF15 which isn’t objectively a bad game but it’s definitely considered not very complete and very much suffers from What Could Have Been but even then, I deeply enjoy what we got.
As games the gameplay does improve with each installment of FF13, it’s the story that gets shittier because we didn’t ask for time travel or a sequel Square, what’s wrong with you?
I also liked Lightning Returns as a sort of turn your brain off and play dress up thing. But I wouldn't say I have a deep affecting for it, or anything
I'll argue that Fates has far, FAR too many characters for its own good and the whole "baby dimension" is utterly bonkers and full-blown fridge horror if you think about it any longer than 2 minutes
I could say the same for Persona 5 actually. Deeply flawed if you think about it for more than 5 minutes. A smashing first act that the rest of the game did not live up to. But by GOD it's some flashy and beautiful and COOL.
Honestly, P4 and P5 are the worst offenders of that lol P3 to a degree but I’d argue it’s not as bad as 4 & 5 when it comes to the flaws of the games when thinking about it for more than 5 minutes And I say this loving all the games and I may be biased since I love 3 a lot but... well 1-3 don’t make me as annoyed as 4 & 5 do haha. That being said
Also tbf I never had a MarinKarin issue because one, she was never in my party but two, even if she was I used the Tactics and would have set her on Full Assault (I think) and she wouldn’t use it
There are people in life you don't want to piss off, people you don't care if you piss off, and people you actively enjoy pissing off. The old guard neck beards very much land in that last category.
the rumor has it they only tested for specific (read: shipping-oriented) matchups and never bothered with the rest and as the result the game balance is completely out of whack
I'd also like to add in... Psychic Force 2012 with a couple of MASSIVE CAVIATS. I don't feel it's a shitty game so much as a clunky game with some really neat ideas, and a couple of stumbling points.
The biggest stumbling points being the plot; you could sort of tell that the story team had decided that GRIM AND EDGY was the way to go and... Pretty much wrote themselves into a corner because of how they killed off or voided a lot of the cast in the process.
And the basic idea of 2D hover fightin' in a 3D floating space with projectiles as a main, followed by basic melee is a neat one! I just wish the melee was a little less basic and clunky feeling.
And also that whoever wrote the plot was given a quick spritz bottle spray and told "NO! You just did a Soul Calibur 5! You NEVER do a Soul Calibur 5!"
I can believe it because Capcom knows SenBasa's popularity is 90% motivated by shippers... and supposedly they mostly tested out how characters do against each other in pairs, i.e. Masamune/Yukimura, Motochika/Motonari etc and the balance outside of that is non-existent
die mad, neckbeardsI still bought a Japanese PS2 just to play it"yes. Rival Schools spoiled me on that."