Critically acclaimed games you didn't like.

[Sonic Doctor]

all popular console FPS games.

FPS without mouse and keyboard = inferior

It all comes down to what a person finds more comfortable and what lets them feel like they do better in a game.

I grew up with both a computer and a console in my household and for many years in the early years of my gaming, all FPS games I played, I played on a PC. But when it got big on consoles and I tried it out, I found I did much better in shooters with a controller than a mouse and keyboard(just too many buttons to keep track of and they are positioned so close together, I frequently would make button press mistakes).

Superior and inferior only come from opinion in the comparison of the two ways. There are no facts in the matter.

I can say that a console controller is superior for FPS games, but I know that it is just superior for me and my play style.

Mouse and keyboard is best for you.

The whole war of the control set up for FPS games is just stupid. I also hate how it colors how developers make games.

Example: How one of the main guys at Gearbox said that holding 10 guns at one time wouldn't work for Duke Nukem Forever, because it wouldn't work for a console controller. Pure bull, XBLA release of the classic DN3D works just fine with ten guns. Gearbox just made up stupid excuse after stupid excuse because they didn't want to have to do any of the work involved that would have saved DNF and actually made it a good game, instead of the piece of trash it is.

 

[Rolf]

Dragon Age origins.
Sure i only played the first 2 hours of the game, but i was so bored that i just could not bring myself to play it any more. And the worst thing is i don't know why. I Love RPGs and the combat worked realy well and the story seemed interesting, but i still did not like it. This has almost keept me awake at nights as i try to figure out why i hated it.

 

[idarkphoenixi]

I have a lot to get through here so let's just get it over with:

- Borderlands
- Call of Duty (all of them after the first Modern Warfare)
- Batman: Arkham Asylum
- Dragon age 1 + 2
- Assassins creed Series (good game overall but it's just piss easy, I get so bored playing it)
- Fable 2 + 3 (First one was a lot of fun)
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution
- Fallout 3 + New Vegas
- Splinter Cell (Mostly just the latest one)
- Medal of Honour (all)
- EVERY SINGLE SPORTS GAME EVER MADE
- Saints Row (It was okay but I dont get what all the fuss is about)
- Dead Island (Overhyped and just boring to play)
- Dead Space (Too boring)
- Mafia II
- L.A Noire (Again, I just found it so boring to play, the face animations were interesting)
- All racing games. Period.

Maybe I'm just being picky though...I'm sure I could double that list given enough time.

 

[Shockolate]

All of them

Critically acclaimed games are too mainstream for me.

/hipster

 

[marcooos]

Every final fantasy game and the fucking elder scrolls.

 

[Lataziba]

Rift...i dont need to say anymore than that

 

[Xmaspast]

- Demons's / Dark Souls -
Believe it or not, there are people who DON'T like absurdly crushing difficulty. Fuck those games.

I can see where you're coming from, can't say I agree with you, but I see where you're coming from. I love them, personally. But everyone's always like 'they're so hard and it's so great!' and it's like the difficulty isn't what makes them great games. They'd be good games even if they were significantly less difficult. I got into them I think because I don't have much money to buy games, so I like games that I can play for extended periods of times, and a game with 90h playthroughs on the normal setting definitely meets that criteria. But even such, they are NOT games everyone should play.

 

[Xmaspast]

I have a lot to get through here so let's just get it over with:

- Borderlands
- Call of Duty (all of them after the first Modern Warfare)
- Batman: Arkham Asylum
- Dragon age 1 + 2
- Assassins creed Series (good game overall but it's just piss easy, I get so bored playing it)
- Fable 2 + 3 (First one was a lot of fun)
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution
- Fallout 3 + New Vegas
- Splinter Cell (Mostly just the latest one)
- Medal of Honour (all)
- EVERY SINGLE SPORTS GAME EVER MADE
- Saints Row (It was okay but I dont get what all the fuss is about)
- Dead Island (Overhyped and just boring to play)
- Dead Space (Too boring)
- Mafia II
- L.A Noire (Again, I just found it so boring to play, the face animations were interesting)
- All racing games. Period.

Maybe I'm just being picky though...I'm sure I could double that list given enough time.

And you, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. You really just made my post for me.

 

[critanime]

Every Halo after the first one. It's just an irrational hatred that grew as the series progressed.

GTA IV. This is a simple one really. I hated been a sodding taxi for useless missions when I could have been running people over.

HL2 EP2. I got half way through and thought why the hell am I playing this. It just seemed bland.

FF XIII. If I wanted to feel like I was watching a really long movie I would have gone out and bought the extra special, extended directors cut, just for the sodding fans version of Avatar. The amount of times the battles were nothing more than tapping a single button meant I lost interest somewhere towards the end of disc one.

 

[Aidinthel]

Beyond Good and Evil. Uninteresting characters, repetitive gameplay punctuated by frustrating insta-kills, and a cliche-ridden plot that was completely predictable right up until it simply stopped making sense.

 

[thom_cat_]

As for me? I don't get Halo. The level design is copy-pasted metal hallways (or at least was, I haven't played the latest ones). I dunno, it just annoys me so much.

I don't get it when people say that; I've played them all and I never noticed anything repetitive about level design.

The only people that could possibly complain or see fault are people that seem to think that each level has to have all different things from the last level. Oh no, those trees look like the ones in the second level, oh no that rock is the same color and texture in level 3. Oh no, this structure looks similar to the last one(ignoring the fact that both structures were made by the same race of people).

Though I have to say, out of all the games Reach is the best campaign. I'm also partial to ODST, it changed things up story wise and somewhat play wise, and it did it in a good way. Reach was the best because the story was incredibly poignant and nothing like I had ever experienced in gaming.

Really? I'm a level designer and it sticks out like a sore thumb. When you enter a segment of the game they take a corridor unit and then they re-use that unit over and over to create a long corridor. Then the joins use another unit, and they just use the smallest possible amount of unique mesh that they can. I love the exteriors though, and the driving was great for the most part. But the interiors pissed me off to no end.

 

[stefman]

Morrowind. If i'm 2 inches from my enemy swinging my sword at blazing speed how the fuck am i missing?! On a side note skyrim is as amazing as i hoped and more!

 

[MisterDyslexo]

Half-Life.

Don't get me wrong, I see the greatness, I understand its importance, but I just never really liked the game.

 

[mariofan1000]

Deus Ex.

WELL BYE GOTTA RUN

 

[Puddleknock]

Well I feel compelled to mention Gears of War. Normally with critically games I don't like I at least see the game as being average or trying an interesting idea. The Gears series is one of the poorest excuse for games I've played, didn't find them fun on any level. To me it was the only critically acclaimed game I can think of that had no redeeming aspects.

An example of a critically acclaimed game that I didn't like but also didn't hate would be the Legend of Zelda games. I can see why they are fun but can't see why they are so celebrated. Certinally good games for some but the way they are treated is baffling to me. I always found the games to be rather bland.

 

[tkioz]

Bioshock, I'm sure it's got a great story and the intro is awesome... but the game play made me want to stab myself.

 

[ResonanceSD]

Dragon Age 2. I'm looking at you, Greg Tito. Seriously, I still reckon the Escapist was paid to write that review.

 

[Mallefunction]

Bioware, I'm sure it's got a great story and the intro is awesome... but the game play made me want to stab myself.

Think you mean Bioshock hon. Bioware is a developer.

 

[JokerCrowe]

I didn't really care for Deus Ex: Human Revolution. But I think I'm just a little tired of stealth games. And despite being given the option of not stealthing, having a "reward" in the form of a lot of XP called "Ghost", I get the feeling you ARE supposed to be stealthy.

Maybe I'll play it later when i'm done with Infamous 2, ICO and Fallout: New Vegas.

 

[tkioz]

Bioware, I'm sure it's got a great story and the intro is awesome... but the game play made me want to stab myself.

Think you mean Bioshock hon. Bioware is a developer.

Yea, brain isn't working