Hearts of Iron/YMMV
- Broken Base: Hearts of Iron 3 seems to have done this; people either admit that there are flaws, but say it's a vast improvement over HoI2, or say it's the worst thing ever.
- The Semper Fi add-on has won most of the base in terms of being a good game and fixing most all of the problems, but a few fans object that a 'complete' version of the game should not cost more money to get.
- Evil Versus Evil: Depending on the course of history, it's entirely possible for the game to end in a final showdown between an alliance of fascist dictatorships and their conquered puppet states and an alliance of equally repressive Stalinist dictatorships and their puppet states.
- Game Breaker: The United States is pretty much considered "easy mode," and for good reason, particularly in III. They start off with the largest amount of IC in the game, the biggest knowledge pool, and a very powerful navy - and it only gets bigger and meaner as the game progresses. Ironically, this is toned back compared with how powerful the US economy was in World War II. The only weaknesses the US has is that starting out, they have a weak army and air force and low technology, so using that knowledge pool is essential to catch up with the rest of the world. But by '45, the US will almost always be in a dominant position, as the only other economic powerhouse, the USSR, will have almost certainly spent a lot of resources and taken a lot of damage fighting Germany.
- Good Bad Bugs: A recent DH patch had instances where after the Soviet Union lost a war against the axis and accepting the bitter peace event, Lenin would take over as Head of State of the Soviet Union, cue jokes about Zombie Lenin coming back to Set Right What Once Went Wrong