10 Awesome Video Games That Should Have Been Terrible

One of the most noticeable patterns in the online video game community is what I like to call the ‘hype-outrage paradigm’. With a little push from AAA publishers’ marketing departments, we buy into a game’s hype and build astronomical expectations for it, which means that should a game be anything other than perfect, the internet explodes into tribal warfare, opprobriums against publishers and general cynicism about the industry as a whole.