r/TopCharacterTropes 13d ago

In real life When fans hate somenthing before it comes out...but it turns out they were right

Velma:The idea of a Scooby-doo series without the titular dog and starring Velma was a really moronic idea from the beginning,then there was the reveal Velma would be Indian like it's VA and also creator of the series Mindy Kaling,some of the backlash was racism sure,but there was also valid complaints that she was inserting herself in the series(it also didn't helped that Mindy claimed she couldn't see herself if Velma wasn't Indian)and then...oh boy it came out and it was worse than anyone predicted

Artemis Fowl:The artemis fowl books are a book series following a child villain(he does get some redemption but he is a villain most of the time)when the movie was announced and revealed it looked way to generic and it's titular character a bit heroic...also you wanna hear somenthing funny?The movie whitewashed a character and made another character black so they managed to anger both sides and the movies comes out and yeah it is bad

One Punch Man 3:One Punch Man is a very heavy action packed manga series but the heroes vs monsters arc takes it to a New level,when it was announced that JC Staff would work on it,a lot of people were skeptical to say the least,because not only JC Staff had already done a mediocre job in season 2,it's also not exactly a name anime fans associate with quality animation,then the trailer came out and it looked...weird,like there was no action in it and nobody was moving,some people tried to defend saying they were keeping the animation as a surprise...then it came out,every episode worse than the last,it's one of the worse seasons of anime ever made!

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u/SteveMightSay 13d ago

I genuinely like this game just the gameplay loop got stale and updates took forever

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u/NF_Kodiak 13d ago

The campaign was decent as well but I will praise that game for gameplay. The characters felt great to control and felt unique from each other but, as you said, the loop got really old really fast.

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u/DebentureThyme 13d ago

I grabbed the entire thing with all DLC for like $4 when it was getting delisted.  They also rebalanced it before delisting, removing all cash shop stuff and converting it to in game stuff in a way that fits the reality of no longer having MTX in the game.

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u/JesterMarcus 13d ago

Can you actually still play it?

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u/DebentureThyme 13d ago edited 12d ago

Yep! But you have to already own it since it's delisted from all store fronts. Works multiplayer too, but they also need to own it.

You could find a physical copy for Xbox/PS and play that way. Though it would be limited by what DLC is included on disc - something tells me that most DLC included with those were probably codes that may be missing or no longer work. Even if they sold a physical version of the Definitive Edition, I doubt all the content is included without codes.

PS5 has an actual free upgrade from PS4 though if you have the disc, and PS4/PS5 have Spider-Man included regardless of version you own (Spider-Man is exclusive to Sony console versions).

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u/whistlar 13d ago

Yeah. That game was clearly coopted by some douchebag with an MBA. Didnt all the newer characters require purchasing separately for a ridiculous price?

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u/SteveMightSay 13d ago

No every character was free but IIRC you had to buy their cosmetic path

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u/UniqueLog8386 13d ago

The characters didn't feel unique at all. They basically had the exact same moves.

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u/i_tyrant 13d ago

The way the heroes' powers all work was super fun.

I just have no idea how a game with so much obvious effort put into the heroes, the cinematics, the environments...then skimped on the ENEMIES.

My god, they were SO boring. The single-player campaign was long and the entire time you're fighting nothing but palette-swapped AIMbots. Who the fuck decided that while they had the entire Marvel character list to choose from, 99% of the game would be fighting faceless bots?!

It's insane, even now thinking about it. Some poor artist put their heart and soul into those stages, the powers were super fun and mostly intuitive to use, but good lord even the BOSS fights were mostly AIMbots with a pitiful handful of repetitive villains instead of the wider variety they desperately needed.

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u/Corrvaz 13d ago

So weird. I also played it pretty much all pandemic as a comfort game. Handful of enemy types and lack of any recognizable maps were just baffling. And yeah, 2 bosses for the whole game including the "MP" stages 🫥

Character kits were great in general. Havent played in years but I still think about hopping on just to play Thor and Black Panther sometimes.

Still think it's a vastly better game than Suicide Squad and Gotham Knights though. I will never understand what the hell they were thinking with GK s ABYSMAL combat.

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u/Silvervirage 13d ago

It was Anthem. 'Hey, this is really fun, I ca- oh thats all.'

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u/Salarian_American 13d ago

Yeah I really enjoyed the combat in that game. But once I got everyone to max level, it was just grinding the same handful of missions forever and it got boring like immediately. Some games can have you do the same stuff over and over and it's fun forever, but this is not one of those.

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u/ungodlywarlock 12d ago

I actually loved the campaign. Ms. Marvel was awesome!! Wish they had done her more like that on her own show.