10 Video Games People HATED (Until They Didn't)
A crappy start doesn't always mean a crappy finish.
We've came a long way in the gaming industry.
From its humble beginnings with simple sprites, gaming has blossomed into AAA high budget gaming, and games are becoming more and more ambitious as time goes on.
With that happening, more and more pressure is mounting on developers to deliver the next big game that makes the Metacritic score rise as high as possible. You'd think that to make this happen, developers would get as much time as they need.
This isn't the case; publishers keep routinely pushing out games that just aren't ready for the public to view. It's happening time and time again, and as we live in an era of patches, there seems to be a 'release this now, fix it later' mentality going on.
That said, patches give games another chance to turn things around. There's been many examples of games that have been notable for an initial negative reception, but have gone on to turn it around later on and turned hate to love for many gamers.
10. Destiny
Although it released to critical praise, the original incarnation of Destiny didn't sit that well with players.
Here was the big, bombastic new release from Halo developers Bungie, a new, shared-universe multiplayer shooter. On the surface it seemed pretty good: the gunplay was tight and precise, and the movement mechanics and new world seemed fun to explore.
However, when you got to the end, Destiny had a real problem. The fun was gone. Instead you got quite a shallow endgame that was little more than a repetitive grind, and players rapidly started to become fed up with a game they were meant to be playing for years to come.
In response to this, Bungie made several expansions and patches for Destiny that slowly drip-fed new and exciting raids into the proceedings, meaning its reception over time got steadily better and better.
With the Taken King expansion, they also completely binned off Peter Dinklage as your AI companion Ghost in favour of Nolan North, which we're sure we can all agree on being a much better change and no longer having to listen to Dinklage waffling on about moons.