Games you like that everyone hates

[Chutzpar]

I really like Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines.
NOBODY IS SURPRISED.

I mean, apart from the fact a lot of people will hate it off the bat because it's V:tM (and who can blame them, really? All of the cool ideas in WoD are ruined by all the goth fetish shit in the sourcebooks), it's buggy as shit, you're pretty much forced to use melee combat rather than being able to use guns, and it feels tremendously unfinished. I had a lot of fun with it, though. It's got a lot of cool ideas even if it's pretty hammy (best/worst quest: the snuff porn ring that turns out to be a clan of vampires who do weird horrible body modification with magic, scared the fuck out of me). There's a lot of interesting and long quests that interlock, and a lot of the dialogue is very well written. Ultimately where it shines, apart from a few areas feeling unnecessary, is in the depth of the world and the interactions with characters. If you can forgive parts feeling rushed and can stomach goth shenanigans, it's a pretty solid RPG.

I might just have my judgment coloured because I still have kind of a soft spot for ridiculous goth wank. x:
Also a lot of the soundtrack is really cool.