Here are 9 games reviewers took a critical dump on, yet went on to make giant piles of money anyways...
VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Upon finally finishing Devil May Cry 5 recently - after it spent several years on my “I’ll play that soon” list - I considered giving it a fittingly-named Late Look article. However, considering that this was indeed the final piece I was missing in the DMC puzzle, I decided to instead take this opportunity to take a look back at the entirety of this genre-defining series and rank the entries. What also made this a particularly tempting notion was that while most high-profile series have developed fairly evenly over time, with a few bumps on the road, the history of Devil May Cry has, at least in my eyes, been an absolute roller coaster, with everything from total disasters to action game gold."
Me leaving it out should be telling of my thoughts on it. Better than 2 as a DMC game.
Still a good game though.
Best to good for me: 3, reboot, 1, 5
2 and 4 are trash, didnt like any of them.
5 has very good gameplay variety but i hated the foes.. it is just insects the whole time. Reboot has the best foes for me
3,1,4,5 to me, never played 2. 5 gameplay is amazing but level design was really disappointing to me, just a bunch of plain arenas, the story felt like a worse written rehash of the 3rd and the charater models looked weird ( specially the ladies ). Another problem with 5 was that there was not enough content for 3 charaters so I could never really familiarize with any of them
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God DMC2 was an awful game.
And in case this isn't obvious it goes worst to best
Order changes depending on your focus. I tend to focus on gameplay/fun factor, so...
5, 3, 1, 4, 2.
I really didn't like 4 but commend Dante's weapon diversity. The retreading of old ground was pretty unacceptable to me.
But even then... Still more enjoyable than 2 for me
This right here is my order as I thought DMC 5 was amazing and obviously 3 comes after 4 was great and 1 for the nastilgic value it holds 2 was so terrible that my local GameStop gave full refunds to people who returned it.
The popular Sega franchise, Sonic the Hedgehog, has been really successful in recent years, forging paths for the recent upcoming titles.
These sales surged by 150 million compared to last year.
we need a new sonic pinball, with boss battles / hidden stages / 1 sec load times
Definitely agreed. I loved Sonic Spinball back on Genesis. I want a new Mean Bean Machine too, while we're at it!
Still need to check out Frontiers at some point. Just waiting on a really good Steam sale for it.
Because a 71 meta critic is such a huge dump.... please, star wars the force unleashed should not be on the list. 0_0
Even worse, dead island has an 80! 0_0
Just because RE6 currently is happily/unfairly being subjected to the same treatment as DMC 2, of course depending on your personal opinion?
DMC2 sold just as much or just about the same as the original DMC and the superior DMC3: Dante's Awakening. (DMC4 was the worst, on any console, so we'll just leave that out of the equation altogether).
DMC was great, it entered into a big slump with DMC2, and then it became a big core-gamer franchise again with DMC3. Capcom apparently learned their lesson with DMC2, so who can legitimately say that all the passionate haters of RE6 are right and that Capcom will not mend its ways with an appropriate Resident Evil 7 entry for long-time fans?
I admit that I was confused and disappointed with the RE6 demo, but does this game really justify the complete shutdown and disintegration of Capcom? As so many fervent, anti-RE6 fanboys on N4G have wished for?
I don't think so.