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>play game as a kid
>love it
>get internet access years later and look up for the general consensus on the game
>It is either "polarising" or downright hated by most people
Have this happened to you with certain games? For me finding out about the general opinion on Yoshi's Story and Donkey Kong 64 on the internet truly was something for someone who loved both games as a kid.

>> No.8747880

>>8747838
>Have this happened to you with certain games

Every day, at Sonic fandom.

>> No.8747913
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>>8747838
Have you replayed them recently? I had a similar experience with Bomberman 64: Had nothing but fond memories of the game and recently revisited it a few months back only to realize how much of a ball ache the single player can be at times with those asinine bomb jump puzzles.
Sure, you don't need the gold cards to beat the game. But you need them if you want to get to the proper final stages and boss battle. The multiplayer is still excellent at least.

I wouldn't mind revisiting Yoshi's Story though, the game still looks and sounds amazing to this day.

>> No.8748035

Yoshi's Story was a great game with a shit structure. They should have had you play every level in the campaign, instead of having to do multiple run throughs to see everything. As a retard kid I didn't understand the hearts opening more levels in the next world, and I imagine many other retard kids felt the same. So I'd be like "why are there 4 levels in this world but only 2 in next then 3 in one after".

DK64 is tedious busywork, but presented very well.

>> No.8748047

>>8747838
Yeah, with medievil 2. It wasn't as fun as the first game, but still very good.
Then I looked it up, and found out it was as hated as the Star Wars prequels that I prefer to the original trilogy.

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I was in a similar boat with Yoshi's Story, even after playing Yoshi's Island, I still had a huge soft spot for it. DK64 I went from liking, to listening to what internet critics were saying, to actually replaying it and finding out that I still like it despite a lot of the flaws.

The GameCube in general I figured people really loved since all the kids in my neighborhood had one and not a PS2 for a certain period of time, but sales said otherwise.

>> No.8748082

Somewhat. I remember kids loving Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2 but apparently it's just our demographic; critics who were adults at the time and kids playing them for the first time today think they're bad.

>> No.8748090
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8748090

I've finished Chrono Cross a couple of times as a teenager and enjoyed the game despite its flaws. I go on 4chan years later and EVERYONE brings up how bad the battle theme apparently was whenever a thread about the game appears which baffles me because I've never had issues with it.

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8748131

>play game as a kid
>hate it
>get internet access years later and look up for the general consensus on the game
>See how many people lavish praise on it and am confused because pretty much everyone agreed the game was shit when it came out.

>> No.8748142

>>8748131
No they didn't. It was a beloved final Swan song for the snes. I was alive, read mags and played the game on release

>> No.8748176

>>8748090
when did all of /vr/ become Pat?
The battle theme is fine

>> No.8748308

>>8748090
I can’t even recall the battle theme, but I can remember the boss theme vividly and even chunks of the final boss theme. Game had generally very good music, it couldn’t be that bad.

>> No.8748337

>>8747838
I never unlocked purple Yoshi. It was just too daunting.

>> No.8748363

>>8748131
>>8748142
>Let's put the world's most annoying sound (a baby crying) in 100% of the game, that'll be fun
Always thought it was shit back then and so did everyone I ever knew.
I liked the N64 Yoshi game a lot though, it was easy to beat it in one sitting

>> No.8748367

>>8747913
Yeah I have replayed bktg, funny enough I like them more these days, specially DK64.
I like doing lucky fruit runs on Yoshi Story, not as demanding as melon runs yet still enjoyable.

>> No.8748372

>>8748367
>bktg
*both

>> No.8748482

As another anon said, Yoshi's Story is a good game with a weird structure.
Japan loved it, though.

>> No.8748718

I can't hate Yoshi's Story at all. It's too charming. Everything about it is so animated and alive. It is kind of all over the place though. Would have been better if the levels were all just played in a straight forward line, and you were required to reach the end of the level to actually beat the level.
If you like the more exploratory adventurous elements of games like Mario World or Yoshi's Island though, Play Yoshi's Story. It's a game made just for you.

>> No.8748732

Alternately, they could have gone all in on exploration, and made the game a kind of Metroidvania. It's one of those games like Sonic CD, where it kind of want to be both things, but it isn't enough of one thing or another.
Could someone just romhack Yoshi's Story? It can't be that hard, surely.

>> No.8748749

>>8747838
Sonic Adventure on Dreamcast. Loved this game as a kid, still think it's a masterpiece. Everyone shits on it.

>> No.8748789

>>8748363
>the crying is your only criticism
Git gud, scrub.

>> No.8748834

>>8747838
It's a quite ok game but it's definitively very weak if you compare it to Yoshi's Island
I'll have to play it again as it might actually beat Crafted World in what it wanted to do. Crafted World is absolutely boring and a damn shame as Wooly World was actually, finally, a decent Yoshi's Island sequel
>>8747913
Funny enough I played it recently and absolutely LOVED Bomberman 64. The bomb puzzles were kinda bullshit but I was in awe at the requirements for the Rainbow Palace. Probably less than 5% of players reached that, and probably even less finished that
>>8748090
You really gotta go into CC with the expectation that it's going to be wildly different from CT and that the plot connection to CT won't show up until around the end of the game and most of it will be lost in very obtuse storytelling
>>8748749
>>8748082
It's kind of a mixed bag. Became hated as it became popular to shit on Sonic. I still don't understand how Sonic Generations is regarded as better as I absolutely loathe that game and the rest of the boost bullshit

>> No.8748854

>>8747838
The vast majority of games I like are not especially praised or are even reviled on 4chan's gaming boards.

>> No.8748887
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No game is safe. There are games you can't hate yet theres some idiot out there crying about it

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In the early to mid 2000s I didn't get why I was the only one who was blown away by it

>> No.8749157

>>8748131
Mario Kart Double Dash by far, hated it back then, still dont like it now and I still don't get why people praise it so much.

>> No.8749316
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>>8747838
yeah, pic related, I had no idea the grappling hook being the select button filtered SO many people. I alway thought it was good, challenging and cool-looking like MK2 and 3.
A friend of mine's most favorite game of all time was chrono cross, he loved it like crazy, but once I knew what the consensus online was, it was like night and day. Shit, people really HATE chrono cross online

>> No.8749324

>>8749157
the co-op is godlike. When you drive and p2 just shoots stuff, you can get your gf, or lil sister, or whoever you want and they'll have fun.

>> No.8749327

>>8748887
Metal Slug is cool and all, but the fanbase making a sacred cow out of it is really annoying.

>> No.8749469

>>8749316
I remember a friend of mine wholeheartedly recommending Rise of the Robots. Apparently it's one of the worst games ever? I don't know.
I had Blues Brothers 2000 for N64, which is honestly just fine. People seem to want that game to be awful, firstly because it's Titus, and secondly because it's Blues Brothers 2000, but mostly it's just kind of fine. It even has some fun ideas, here and there.

>> No.8749475

Legend of Dragoon

>> No.8749479

>>8749327
Well, it's quite easily one of the best run and gun games. I can think of very little I would criticise the first three Metal Slugs for, and even the later ones are mostly very fun, and better than people think they are.

>> No.8749483

>>8749469
BB2000 is average, not a bad game but not a good one either.

>> No.8749492

>>8749483
I'd defend the first level as being legitimately good, with all of the different gameplay concepts it throws at you. After that it kind of trails off, and it's also very short.

>> No.8749494

Shadow the Hedgehog. All of my friends and even my uncle thought the game was bad ass and at times funny. Wasn’t till 10 years after it’s released that I found out that people either hate it or just don’t care for it. It genuinely has some of the best music in the franchise.

>> No.8749669

>>8749324
Or you could play smk which has both good single player and co op or Mk64 which has the best battle mode.

>> No.8750038

>>8749324
i keep hearing about the coop but id rather race against others than do that.

>> No.8751058

>>8749324
>play co-op with family member with them as a team member
>get bored to death
mario kart just works better when it is competitive

>> No.8751060

>>8747838
sega touring car on saturn

>> No.8751067

>>8747838
every game, i hate this site especially this board

>> No.8751363

>>8747838
Megaman X3. I thought it was the most badass game ever when it came out. But apparently everyone hates it

>> No.8751509

>general opinion on Yoshi's Story and Donkey Kong 64 on the internet truly was something for someone
There is no 'general opinion'. Sure, it can be an indicator of what is supposed to be good or not, but in the end you have to develop your own, authentic, taste. Liking or disliking stuff because others do so is just weak. You like Yoshi's Story, so you disagree. What's the issue? Be more confident, anon!

>> No.8751529

>>8751363
Production values feel a little lower, and it's sloppier than the first two overall. The reason most people hate it, myself included for awhile, is that it's much harder. It's the one that demands you start using R to dash, and that the default controls have always been shit. The others were just too babby for it to matter.

>> No.8751541

>>8747838
when i was little i didnt like the game and thought it shouldn't exist because you didn't play as mario

>> No.8751785

>>8751363
i don't think people hate it, just don't like it as much as the first two. maybe it's out of having a lot of useless powerups. but i don't mind since the music is great. i mean it's great in every game but damn literally every song rocks it's crazy man.

>> No.8753357

>>8748749
I did not play the original Dreamcast version, but I did play the GC port. Like you, I definitely enjoyed it, but it turns out that it was poorly received overall.

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>>8747838
I had lots of fun with pic related, and to this day I still think it's a pretty solid 3D platformer. The internet keeps shitting on it, but they can go fuck themselves.

>> No.8753362

>>8751509
Just because we shouldn't be influenced by other people's opinions about things that are purely subjective such as tastes in games doesn't mean we can't discuss them.

>> No.8753365

>>8748090
I don't know what you saw on 4chan, but the internet in general seems to love Chrono Cross.

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As a kid I loved Bubsy on SNES. Still love it. It's a great game. The sequels are trash however.

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>>8747838
yeah this guy right here.

I had no internet back then, and was a fan of the matrix. Playing this game for the first time and using the slow-mo option was the coolest shit ever. Also the fact they hired the actors from the movie to do the voices, and the wachowski brothers directed the game or part of it I don't know, was also cool. I finished it at least 3 times and then replayed some missions and used the "hacking" option which was also nice.

fast forward a few years ago when I suddenly remembered the game and watch some reviews. Turns out it was a shit game because of the glitches, specially on the PS2. Load of BS dude, I've got some glitches not gonna lie, but the game was still fun, or maybe it looked fun because I was a kid and fan of the matrix? Whatever the reason this game is in my book for giving me lots of hours of fun.

>> No.8754508

>>8747838
the internet is filled with fucking dicks
yoshi story was a good game
its still pretty good and, dare i say it C O M F Y