10 Awesome Video Games That Should Have Been Terrible
Shadow of Mordor is STILL the Assassin's Creed game Ubisoft wished they could make.
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. Outrage and video games go hand-in-hand like wizards and pointy hats these days, but much less attention has been given to the games that had no right to be good, yet against all the odds became sleeper hits - defying their dodgy licenses, weird premises or crappy predecessors to become all-time classics. Sure, we talk about the those games plenty now, but we'll never put our hands up and admit that when we first heard about them, we bought into the anti-hype and thought they'd be dead on arrival, or didn't give much thought to their existence whatsoever. So, between our waves of ire and pure rage at the games that have disappointed us over the years, let's tip our hats to those that we mocked or ignored before release, only to be proven wrong in the best possible way.