Games that "journalists" hated but geek audiences liked

[Delphik]

My guess is only journalists who were antiquated with Pathologic played it this time.

 

[Max Damage]

To be honest, I dropped Alien Isolation because it's too repetitive. Feels like one of the cases where concept doesn't translate from one medium to another, unlike, say, Alien versus Predator games. Isolation playthrough is times longer than Alien movie, and instead of scared you're just bored waiting for RNG take mercy on you and let you move to the next section of same hide and seek game.

 

[Ezekiel]

Six hours into Days Gone, the praise for it as some kind of outlier to the modern open world formula is baffling. It is an algamation of all of them, complete with all the crafting, tiresome crouching and general busywork. Doesn't even get the shoulder swapping right, once again blinding the player when moving around a corner without the gun up. If I were given a AAA budget to make a game, I would never choose open world. Much too hard to keep them interesting throughout.