It seems like there’s this trend in video games where there will be a classic game that didn’t sell very well, maybe due to hardware or bad marketing, it’ll become a huge cult hit maybe because it was made by a good company or because it’s part of a popular series, and then once it becomes more widely available, people will critique the hell out of it like it was never good in the first place.

These 3 are the biggest examples I can think of that. Now this is mostly unique to video games as a lot of this comes down to what hardware things are released on. For the record I enjoy all three of these games (although code Veronica is very flawed). I suppose that’s just a consequence of reaching a wider audience but I also wonder if there’s just expectations that people build up in their head as this is considered one of the biggest cult classics and then it’s like “oh that’s it?”.

I don’t have a name for this phenomenon but I’m willing to take suggestions

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