Critically acclaimed games you didn't like.

[Zetacross]

Mass Effect: impact-less moral choice system made shepard feel like a soulless puppet, very stiff conversations, and 2d moral choice. Combat got down to chest-high walls in second one though.
Dragon Age: sluggish-combat, and stiff characters, you can't speak(soulless main character), clusterF battles.
(yay! other people do hate this game too!)

Dragon Age 2: Commander Shepard 200BC! :|
KOTOR: stiff-combat, stiff characters, animations are bland.

Black ops: I actually dozed off through the non-stop explosions and screaming people.

Fallout: stiff-emotionless characters,non-existent main character, difficulty drops too much as the game progresses, even on padded very hard mode.

Sims: how can you play this game for more than 20 minutes? Zombies have more personality than those sims( at least you don't have to make them use the toilet every 5 minutes )

Angry Birds: good replacement for sleeping pills!
zombies & plants : repetitive gameplay. One of the few zombie games i don't like

 

[DSK-]

Red Dead Redemption, Halo, Black Ops, Bioshock, Battlefield BC2, Borderlands, Brink, Bulletstorm, Crysis 2, Dragon Age 2, Dawn of War 2, Gears of War 1 and 2. I expect 3 would be similar for me.

 

[neil1990]

I find it funny that the things people say the didn't like in games is often what reviewers praised. It seems that people just are being deliberately contradictory

 

[Nami nom noms]

ok, quite a few leap to mind!

the halo series,
The elder scrolls games (the ones I've played anyway)
Half life series,
Call of Duty series,
Fallout 3, (I like it, but i get bored quickly)
Majora's mask,
Soul Calibur series.

 

[Yopaz]

i have honestly never been on board with the zelda series ever
the gameplay and puzzles are simply mundane (completely un-interesting)

the story.... it seems too childish for me

will i get torn apart? find out after this

The Zelda series isn't for everyone. Like Susan Arendt mentioned it her review of Skyward Sword things get a bit samey and makes it feel worn out and that you can easily figure out the puzzles. Now I haven't played them all, but the two I enjoyed the most are Majora's Mask and Wind Waker. Mostly because those two can't really be compared to anything. As far as story goes in those I've played through I am not sure I would agree. The story isn't that childish. It's just not very well written. Also I don't think you will be torn apart over this opinion because you actually gave good reasons for not liking it.

Now I don't like Bioshock. I don't know why. Seriously. Everything is great! The graphics, the atmosphere, the story and the biologic engineering is great. I laugh when I burn a crowd of enemies to crisps. However I am unable to hold any love or interest for it. I have played 75 minutes and I bought that game when it was new.

Mass Effect series. Yeah I really don't like it. I got through the tutorial and some of the opening story on both games. Mass Effect's tutorial and opening story took me 2 hours and at some point I realized I was just skipping every wall of text that appeared on the screen. That's when I realized I was playing a dating sim with a combat system. When I was skipping every part of the story in a game that fans love for its story not for its gameplay and I hated the story's way of presentation then I figured it wasn't the game for me.

 

[mgirl]

Hmm, I think I have a fair few.

Halo series: I've honestly just always found those games tedious and with poor gameplay.

Call of duty series: see above

Dead space: I'm sure I've said this before but it's just the most predictable non scary, badly paced game with the most over powered weapons.

Dragon age: Origins: It bored me, which was a shame, since I loved mass effect.

Oblivion: Again, it just bored me, which probably doesn't make sense, since I also loved fallout 3. Also, this is why I'm not buying skyrim, to the horror of many of my gamer friends...

The Witcher 2: not sure why i disliked this one, then I didnt get very far in either. I'll probably give that one another chance at some point.

Crysis: see above. I expected to like this one, and to its credit I think the game itself looks incredible. As I said, I'll probably give this one another chance at some point

Borderlands: just....eugh

Gears of war: I didnt even like the camera angle on this one, I mean, I've played 3rd person shooters before, but something about it really annoyed me. And yeah, standard boring shooter to me.

That'll do for now I think

 

[Michaelis96]

Final Fantasy XIII. For a game that comes on multiple discs, it should have been more than walk down corridor, beat enemies repeat. I just can't quite get into it.

And Bioshock 2. I'd completed the first one within days of getting it, but the second one...meh...I'm up to the bit where you hae to find three Little Sisters and I just don't have the motivation to go back to it.

 

[Whyso]

the second one actually is nowhere near as good as the 1st

so you're opinion is justifyable

 

[Hylke Langhout]

Duke Nukem 3D
Any Sonic game ever
Majora's Mask
Star Fox 64 (To be fair, it's a good game, but it lacks replayability.)
Any Call of Duty game after 3
Braid
Fallout 3
Mortal Kombat
Arkham Asylum
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story

I await the flaming. COME AT ME BRO!

 

[Yopaz]

FF7: Am I the only person that was glad to see Aeris get stabbed? She was sooooooo boring and useless.

You know I thought Aerius was introduced to the game just so she could be killed later and create a sad scene where she dies, but without removing anyone important to enjoy the game.

Borderlands, monotonous drivel, the loot system sucked, way too few slots and the abilities given weren't hugely interesting. Couldn't even be bothered getting to the vault though I heard it as a huge letdown.

Now personally I liked Borderlands despite the repetitive gameplay, but if you didn't like it then I advice you to not bother trying to finish it ever. The Vault really isn't worth it.

Spoiler: The Vault

You get to it just in the nick of time and the guys who tricked you into gathering the key to opening it are just opening it to reveal a monster that has been trapped inside to guard the treasure. After you kill it the time to get into the vault has passed and it can't be opened in your lifetime. So basically everything you were supposed to look forward to just crumbles between your fingers and it all seems like a waste.

I find it funny that the things people say the didn't like in games is often what reviewers praised. It seems that people just are being deliberately contradictory

And sometimes people love what the reviewers love. It's crazy that people often have different opinions.

 

[RipperSU]

All Zelda titles aside from Majora's Mask,
Dragon Age (I usually love BioWare games),
Team Fortress 2
Counter Strike
Modern Warfare 2
All the 3D Mario games.
Shadow of the Colossus (Although I love Ico)
Final Fantasy VII, X and XII
Metal Gear Solid 4 (Love 1,2 and 3 though)

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

Fallout 3 and/or Fallout New Vegas.

I can't stand thoughs games!!! They are annoying, the voice acting is insanely stupid, the combat is never fair if your not using VATs, and the leveling up is annoying as shit.

Also the story. I hate how much it's praised and it's not even worth it :|

 

[AnarchistFish]

Bioshock and Red Dead Redemption. Even though I actually do like them, I think they're really overrated

 

[ultimateownage]

GTA IV, COD Series. There are a lot of games that aren't actually good but reviewers all say it's good because they can't say a big game with lots of money behind it could ever be bad.

 

[TorchofThanatos]

Half-Life.
I really just hate the "old school" shooters. I spend most of my time running around trying to find ammo and at some points I had to complete restart at a checkpoint so I had more health. The Gravity Gun is also really week.

 

[darthmj94]

I did not think halo was fun. when the game came out I did not have an Xbox. and remember hearing a whole lot about the game. I was not able to play a halo game until halo 3 and found it incredibly boring, while also being hard to follow.

 

[JasonKaotic]

For me the main one that comes to mind, aalthough that may be because a load of other people are saying it too, Dragon Age: Origins. Bland story, copies shamelessly from Warcraft, I never cared for any of the characters, it bugs you to buy it's criminally overpriced DLC almost the whole way through (putting NPCs in places you'll most likely be going and having them shove DLC in your face that's pretty much just small bits of game content cut out from day one being charged for half the price of the game is unforgivable)... I could go on.
I was playing it yesterday, so my rage over it is newly-recovered. Friggin'...

 

[Titan Buttons]

Eldar Scrolls games, for some reason they can't get my attention long enough for me to finish one.

 

[Yegargeburble]

FF7: Am I the only person that was glad to see Aeris get stabbed? She was sooooooo boring and useless.

No. No you aren't. I kept her out of the party unless I was forced to put her in. I was totally fine with her stabbing.

As for a game I didn't like, I will go with the Mass Effect series. Yes, it is well written. Yes, I can see it is a good game. However, it does not draw me in. I beat the first game, but have no real will to carry on to the second.

 

[JackandTom]

Twilight Princess was awful. It was just so boring and bland. I'm not too sure about others in the series, but Twilight Princess put me of ever trying them.