But you absolutely love.
Title says it all. This was born of an argument with an old friend over the virtues of my first suggestion, Far Cry 2. Everyone else I know hated the game. It was boring, it was too different from Far Cry, it was brown (It's bloody Africa, it's supposed to be brown!), enemies respawn too quickly and take half a mag to kill! Whatever. The game had some really, really glaring design flaws, I'll admit, but I always was able to overlook them and see this absolute gem of a game, and one of the best portrayals of the abstract idea of "Africa" in any medium. And it was free of the [censored] annoying kids that populated Far Cry 3 and the ridiculous mutants from Far Cry. It felt like a real place. It was a genuine (conflict) diamond in the rough.
As far as movies, I'll keep with the Africa theme. Blood Diamond. I loved it, nobody else did. Don't know why, it had a decent story, good acting, fantastic camera work and direction. Of course, I find that Ed Zwick's style of moviemaking seems to be a bit out of style. Nobody liked the Last Samurai either, when that's a decent film if you can ignore the whitewashing of the Samurai and the odd reverse-ethnocentric "White people are so corrupt" theme.