My Biggest Rating Differences
Basically this list is any game that has a significant difference between my score and the general average on Backlogged.
18 Games
This feels like a game specifically made for sadists. I guess the score difference is literally because most people who dont care for this genre wouldnt even give it a second look and the ones who do are mostly up for that brick wall of a challenge. I just am not one of those people.
I knew damn well I am in the minority here but this plays out like a 4kids hackneyed anime id watch back in the late 90s. Its just not very intresting.
I dont know why theres a disconnect here. I find the game way too grindy and repetitive in nature thanks to it sticking too close to the 'fetch me 50 bear-butts' nature of MMO questing.
A close one but I feel while a lot of Nancy Drew fans hold nostalgia for this, I just find it to be an endless string of boring conversations over phones and thats never fun.
I dont get it. I dont. Why is 3 hours of childrens games before any plot a good thing. Its not character building. Its filler.
I literally have NO idea why the average here is so low apart from people just dumping 0.5/1 star scores on it because its popular to do so. Is this a good HD remaster? No. Is it an appalling pile of buggy shit? Absolutely not.
This game just sets me off so fast its unreal. Its just total and complete sensory overload and I cant deal with it at all.
Fun bosses but as an actual Metroidvania it just fails completely for me thanks to everything being so linear.
Far too up its own arse overall.
I dont know why I dont gel with this game at all. I just really dont like it and find the hidden collectables and the unwanted assistance from other players more aggravating than helpful.
The reset mechanic I get is a very love/hate thing and sadly I fall on the hate side. It just feels like artificial lengthening and I dislike that.
It feels like a good joke dragged out too far. It also makes the brutal mistake of being the things they are parodying.
Its just a rather clunky brawler, the sort I can find anywhere really. Its a bit dull.
Just a trial to get through with enemies that like to scan you through walls. Unfair.
I get the ambition but this is full of sierra style gotchas where you can easily screw over your game because you happened to miss a key conversation, something VERY easily done in this game.
Awful characters, boring dungeons, annoyingly high encounter rates. Its just bad and dated JRPG tropes throughout.
I do not get the hate behind this one. I found it to be really fun. I had a great time when this landed on NES online and played the heck out of it.
WHY ARE YOU NOT UNREAL TOURNAMENT. Boo. (yes this is a bad reason for not being into a game but I cant help it)
7 Comments
So for the SH HD Collection (and remasters in general), different factors come into consideration when rating and reviewing (for me at least). It's playable for sure and a lot of the good bits about the originals are there still - but as remasters they're very poor, partly due to what little Konami were able to hand over to the dev studio tasked with making these. So from that perspective, the 1 star reviews and similar make sense.
I think its also because I often reserve 1 star ratings for the dreck of the dreck and while I dont think the HD collection is great, I also dont think its an unplayable stinkhole.
Have you ever played Silent Hill 2 and 3 in their original formats
I have yes, I have both on Ps2 and I agree, if you want to play the games, you're much better off getting the games on PS2 or the OG Xbox in the case of 2. I just dont think the HD collection is as much of a garbage fire as some people say it is.
K just checking
No problem. I did give both higher scores than the HD pack btw. I have adjusted it to 3/5 though. 3.5? Bit too much. 3/5 is perfect. (I gave SH2 a 4/5 and SH3 a 4.5/5 btw. I will also say I very rarely use my full 5/5)
Jamesbuc
2 years ago