A game that everybody else loves, but you hate? (Witcher 2)

[ShinyCharizard]

Bioshock Infinite: Not nearly as good as it was made out to be. Combat was boring and limited with only two weapons, the powers were all rather crappy and there is never enough ammo. Also the story was rather shit.

The Last of Us: A typical Naughty Dog game where we have a good story combined with god-awful gameplay. It's a terribly sub standard third person shooter and that really prevents me from enjoying the game. I play a game to have fun first and foremost so I'm not sticking with gameplay that shit in order to see a decent story.

The Witcher II: Everything in this game is too fucking clunky, buggy and poorly explained. The UI is a mess and the gameplay is rather frustrating.

Fallout New Vegas: There is only one reason why Fallout 3 is a better game... The world. The world in New Vegas is boring as fuck compared to Fallout 3. I don't like how it forces you down one path at the start and there are too many fucking invisible walls. And half the bloody map is completely unused, just wasted space.

Skyward Sword: I couldn't play this game because of the frankly fucking shit controls. Felt like I was fighting the game to get it to work properly rather than playing it. (hell thats the Wii in a nutshell)

Uncharted series: Again Naughty Dog with their sub standard gameplay. The combat is so fucking annoying with it's poor controls and fucking bullet sponge enemies. Good cutscenes don't make up for the crap gameplay.

Battlefield 3: It's a fucking massive downgrade from Bad Company 2. The graphics, destruction, gunplay, map design, class system are far fucking worse than BC2. The weapons are way too fucking floaty and inaccurate.

Journey: Boring fucking boring. I don't care how pretty it is it's just fucking boring, same with Flower.

Saints Row the Third: To me Saints Row 3 is just fucking stupid. It's the kind of stupid that is not funny but just plain stupid. The fourth seems to be continuing this trend (dubstep gun? That isn't funny it's just stupid). Also the game world is boring and lifeless and the controls suck.

Halo 4: 343 Industries ruined Halo. The game used to be about team work and map control and now it's just future Call of Duty where whoever gets the best gun from the sky wins. They removed Halo's unique identity. My friends and I played Halo 3 for years and we played Halo 4 for about two weeks.

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

Halo 4. I got close to, uh, I think three hours into it and I was basically falling asleep. The story had me, but the combat was the same damn thing and I am just not a fan of that.

 

[The Madman]

I don't understand all the love for Bioshock Infinite, I can only imagine I must have played a different game than everyone else. It's a good game mind you, don't get me wrong, but the way some people talk about it and all the perfect reviews it got... yeah, I don't get it, it's nowhere near that good.

Can't say there are any games out there I really hate though. Generally speaking I tend to research games before buying them so it's rare if I buy a game I don't enjoy.

Fallout 3 maybe? But again like Infinite above I don't hate it, I just consider it... well... boring.

 

[Augie Bottorf]

I for one, dont get the love for half life 2. The shooting mechanics are in between good and mediocre, the guns lack impact, the story refuses to tell you anything, and you can trip up the AI easily.

Also Borderlands 2 has a bit too much bullet sponge for the enemies, and theres always a bit too much happening on the screen at once.

Lastly, Fallout 3, with one simple problem. When you're exploring a massive deserted world, and doing lots of walking, WHY IS THERE NO SPRINT BUTTON!? WHY?! GUFHGGGHGJGHGJGF

 

[Simalacrum]

Not so much 'hate' as 'dislike', but... LittleBigPlanet.

I love the art style and atmosphere of it, and it was one of the games that really caught my attention when the PS3 was in its early days, but I found the gameplay to be rather lacking, and the level creator, while very n-depth, to be far too confusing and very poorly explained, which I felt was meant to be the better half of the experience.

 

[William Ossiss]

Did I hear someone say the final fantasy series? Can't stand it. They're horrible...

 

[Mark Rhodes]

Skyrim. I want to get into it and roleplay like I can do with every other Bethesda game, but I just can't. It feels less like I'm playing a role that I choose and more like I'm playing a videogame. I'm actually installing it now to give it another shot.

 

[Azahul]

for example, me and Witcher 2.

As this thread has probably demonstrated, "everybody loves" is probably a bit of a leap for the Witcher 2. Personally, I love the game, but it's certainly not for everyone. It has a large following, but as it isn't a generic mass marketed game of some kind it actually has elements that sizeable demographics won't be able to handle. It's not a game for everyone to love, and you can see that by the number of people posting it in this thread. I'd go so far to say that it's divisive enough to not deserve a place in a thread like this. There are games that come much more closely to being unanimously adored and praised than the Witcher series (the people saying the Witcher 1 in this thread make me laugh, given that it was actually really poorly received and is something even Witcher 2 fans often criticise, although again, I loved it).

 

[MCerberus]

]Well, which ones have you played? 3,4,6 and 9 are the best IMO. Haven't played 5 yet.

1 (was alright, spoiled by Golden Sun though), 2, 7, and 10. Each I was able to take progressively less of.

Speaking of which, I can also understand people not liking GS, odd 'fff where's the guide' moments, especially Djin collection, sudden plot reversal in the second game, 16-bit rpg fatigue... but damn if I don't love those games.

 

[AT God]

TF2.
I put in over 500 hours as the scout before the class updates started rolling in and it wasn't until the Scout's update that I saw flaws. The item drop system made it worse and then the Engineer update that ruined 2fort made me quit completely and I haven't looked back.

For people who liked other maps, 2fort was ruined by the wrangler. 2fort had 3 ways to get into the enemy base, 1 was the main bridge, one was the water/sewer, and the third was reserved for Scouts and classes with explosives, which was running across the roof of the bridge, jumping straight up to the enemy fort's battlements. The Wrangler (could have been changed by now, I don't care) allows the engineer to use their extremely powerful sentry gun for long range attacks. Previously, the battlements were dominated by snipers because they could kill things at range, scouts were effective counters to the sniper due to their speed. Engineers would sometimes build sentry guns on the battlements, but sentry guns had limited range and wouldn't be able to target anything on the other side of the bridge, allowing people to destroy sentries from a distance, clearing the way for scouts to rush in and do their thing. When the Wrangler was released, 2 engineers could dominate the ENTIRE top area of the map, forcing anyone who wanted to actually do the mission objective, capture the flag, to go through the sewers, which is easily defended with a non-wrangled sentry gun. A single sentry gun could kill anyone who stepped out onto the battlements and usually also have time to clean out anyone who took the bridge as well.

TF2 has been ruined according to me, they have unbalanced and changed the game to the point where it is an entirely new game. They even made it free-to-play which was dumb. Release a free-to-play version and put all of your stupid pay-to-win weapons and accessories in that one, I cannot find a relatively unchanged 2fort server to play on and that is my problem with it. The one saving grace they have is that I got TF2 for free, in that I bought the Orange Box primarily for Episode 2 and Portal.


Also
I really didn't like Walking Dead. I liked the characters in it, I liked how the game presented itself, but I hated playing it because of what happens in the storyline. I don't want to put up spoiler tags so I am just going to leave it at that, I don't like what happens in the story.

And while I enjoyed some of my time with Skyrim and acknowledge it is a great game, especially for consoles, the combat is a boat load of garbage and I expected better since Fallout 3 had a better system (Fallout 3 had locational damage, shooting arrows into peoples heads should do more damage than shooting them into peoples torsos)

 

[Dr.Awkward]

Lastly, Fallout 3, with one simple problem. When you're exploring a massive deserted world, and doing lots of walking, WHY IS THERE NO SPRINT BUTTON!? WHY?! GUFHGGGHGJGHGJGF

Play Morrowind then. After you play that, you'll have a new-found love for how fast your character moves across the world in Fallout 3.

 

[Cecilo]

Final Fantasy 7, I got hung up with the Aeris thing, Tifa who was with him since Childhood, was there for him through everything, gets rejected and ignored for a character he meets, out of the blue, some how falls in love with in a relatively short time span. Who he promptly discards and then grieves over, possibly killing her in the process, (Corpses don't float).

That and the Materia System just was not to my liking, FF8's Junction system is a close second in level of dislike, FF10's Sphere Grid was neat.

 

[Arslan Aladeen]

Generally speaking, I really hate playing open world games. They mostly seem to have pretty bad gameplay, bland level designs and most of their stories I don't care too much for. Considering most of my time is spent going from point A to B rather than doing something actually worthwhile, they just seem like huge time sinks more than anything interesting or engaging.

 

[MCerberus]

Geez, it's like you purposefully avoided the good FF games.

And i love GS too.

One and two came bundled, 7 was morbid curiosity mixed with a very decently put together demo I played at Babbages (RIP), 10 I borrowed as part of a friend going "it's really great, look at the reviews. Tom wouldn't lie to you would he?"

Also that's when I learned that Tom (Toonami) could, in fact, lie to me.

 

[rednose1]

Any pokemon game. They're way too repetitive for me, why go out and collect infinity billion different pokemon when you'll never use even 1/32th of them? Plus, every fight seems like a rock/paper/scissors deal, no fun there.

 

[Nosirrah]

*Puts on flame suit and dives into bunker*

Skyrim.

Just, oh god where do i start? The cardboard characters, the wave your sword until it dies combat, the fact that it takes several hours of play for anything to happen, and the bugs. Oh god the bugs.

For example, on my first playthrough i made a merchant guy who made stuff and sold it to make money, and used a dagger and spells in combat. After taking a coach from whiterun to riften, i started to walk around, look for some bandits to kill, as a town of crime would probably be quite the ideal place for bandits to live next to. After walking around a bit i found some tree creature that after i charged in, swinging me dagger proceeded to tear me to pieces. i picked up what was left of me and ran. i then found a person walking towards me, thinking it was a guard i ran towards them, where it turned out to be aela, who proceeded to yell at me for not charging the f***ing giant several days ago, then engaged the tree thing. i healed up and rejoined the fight. and killed it, after stealing it's loose change i turn around and get an arrow between the eyes from aela. why? no idea, but it pissed me off so i deleted the character.

so yeah, all you fanboys can enjoy your plank communication simulator while i play something good.

 

[Tayh]

Pokemon.
For f's sake, it's a show/game made for selling merchandise to <10 year olds.
I'd love to dropkick that little yellow furball into a pit of lava.

 

[Nosirrah]

Battlefield 3: It's a fucking massive downgrade from Bad Company 2. The graphics, destruction, gunplay, map design, class system are far fucking worse than BC2. The weapons are way too fucking floaty and inaccurate.

Halo 4: 343 Industries ruined Halo. The game used to be about team work and map control and now it's just future Call of Duty where whoever gets the best gun from the sky wins. They removed Halo's unique identity. My friends and I played Halo 3 for years and we played Halo 4 for about two weeks.

Praise the lord, someone else knows how terrible those two games were.

 

[Glongpre]

Final Fantasy 7, I got hung up with the Aeris thing, Tifa who was with him since Childhood, was there for him through everything, gets rejected and ignored for a character he meets, out of the blue, some how falls in love with in a relatively short time span. Who he promptly discards and then grieves over, possibly killing her in the process, (Corpses don't float).

I think they are just friends, but ya I agree I always want to go with Tifa. He doesn't kill Aeris though, haha.

Bioshock Infinite: Not nearly as good as it was made out to be. Combat was boring and limited with only two weapons, the powers were all rather crappy and there is never enough ammo. Also the story was rather shit.

The Witcher II: Everything in this game is too fucking clunky, buggy and poorly explained. The UI is a mess and the gameplay is rather frustrating.

Halo 4: 343 Industries ruined Halo. The game used to be about team work and map control and now it's just future Call of Duty where whoever gets the best gun from the sky wins. They removed Halo's unique identity. My friends and I played Halo 3 for years and we played Halo 4 for about two weeks.

There is tons of ammo in Infinite, probably too much actually. You must not have liked Bioshock either, also every other shooter that only allows 2 weapons. Story wasn't that bad, I thought they did a commendable job not letting plot holes slip through.

I never had any problems with the Witcher 2(xbox). The ui is very organized, but I agree the gameplay can be hard sometimes, usually in tight spaces (goddamn rotfiends are bullshit, hardest enemy for sure).

Halo was totally butchered I agree. What the hell were they thinking adding kill streak rewards and shit, especially after Reach got so much hate for the COD elements.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

Final Fantasy 7, I got hung up with the Aeris thing, Tifa who was with him since Childhood, was there for him through everything, gets rejected and ignored for a character he meets, out of the blue, some how falls in love with in a relatively short time span. Who he promptly discards and then grieves over, possibly killing her in the process, (Corpses don't float).

I think they are just friends, but ya I agree I always want to go with Tifa. He doesn't kill Aeris though, haha.

Bioshock Infinite: Not nearly as good as it was made out to be. Combat was boring and limited with only two weapons, the powers were all rather crappy and there is never enough ammo. Also the story was rather shit.

The Witcher II: Everything in this game is too fucking clunky, buggy and poorly explained. The UI is a mess and the gameplay is rather frustrating.

Halo 4: 343 Industries ruined Halo. The game used to be about team work and map control and now it's just future Call of Duty where whoever gets the best gun from the sky wins. They removed Halo's unique identity. My friends and I played Halo 3 for years and we played Halo 4 for about two weeks.

There is tons of ammo in Infinite, probably too much actually. You must not have liked Bioshock either, also every other shooter that only allows 2 weapons. Story wasn't that bad, I thought they did a commendable job not letting plot holes slip through.

I never had any problems with the Witcher 2(xbox). The ui is very organized, but I agree the gameplay can be hard sometimes, usually in tight spaces (goddamn rotfiends are bullshit, hardest enemy for sure).

Halo was totally butchered I agree. What the hell were they thinking adding kill streak rewards and shit, especially after Reach got so much hate for the COD elements.

Yeah I always found there was tons of ammo when you didn't need it and not enough when you did. Especially towards the end of the game. Usually two weapon systems don't bother me too much but I prefer the original Bioshock where they let you have em all.