Benjamin Yoder from gamrFeed writes:-
"We live during an amazing time when it comes to video games. Most months of the year we see triple-A releases across multiple platforms. It's less of a question of if there are titles you want to buy and more of what title you would rather have over all the other releases. And in this day and age where each title is polished to a shine, it's easy to ignore all the other titles that release throughout the month, titles that are lucky to even make an 8 rating. Sure, it makes sense on paper – the higher the score the better the experience. But constantly honing in on only the best of the best can limit the types of experiences you have."
Plenty of games have made a name for themselves as being proud of the fact they’re not to everyone’s taste over the years.
I mean I can do without nintendo games if given the choice. They are not nearly as mature rated as the average.
Yeah but I use my Switch OLED primarily for anime booba style games (visual novels and JRPG's) and ultra violent FPS's. Far from kid friendly, lol
The problem with that line of though is that games have never been as much "for everyone" as in 2025.
The only thing that's not for everyone in gaming lately is the gatekeeping. Devs will try to appeal to as many people as they can, but if you dare have your own tastes and prefer something a bit more obscure, then you have "L takes" because at the moment, popular opinion equals right opinion.
So devs should simply own the fact they water down their games and go Hollywood to please everybody. Then indies will go back to being trendsetters that are different from AAAs, instead of being roguelike and gacha copycats.
Okay, but "games I'm not meant to love" means I won't play them.
Games are for fun. They're their own art, it's a disservice to reduce them to interactive stories. You can focus on making your audience entertained on a positive way and still stand out.
No game is for everyone. Some games are more mainstream or casual friendly but there is always someone who won’t like it. Same with anything else
The early 2000s was a crazy, weird time of defeating dystopias with karate, sending texts via Microsoft Excel, and ignoring your pets so you could look at jpegs of pets. As its adverts might have suggested, the PlayStation 2 was no stranger to getting a little bit freaky either.
..that article /list is only scratching on the surface of the weirdness on ps2. There are way more obscure games on that console.
I would go alone with SOME on this list but a few arent even exclusive.. in fact the PS2 version of GIANTS is an after-thought and considered bastardized compared to the PC version.
The free visual upgrade for the PC version of Killer7 appears to have added AI upscaled cutscenes and textures.
1. No
2. Hell No
3. if they are Free maybe
4. too busy playing good games
5. No again to make sure i said No
Average games maybe. But bad ones can f**k off.
i have no time to give bad/average games my money
If average games appeal to me then possibly.
Bad games, hell no!
whats this guy smoking?
Theres less unoriginal, generic dribble than ever
Its hard to find anything thats not action or shooter on a console