Games you hate that everybody else likes

[JoesshittyOs]

]So wait, you feel the need to critically evaluate my opinion of a game you yourself haven't even played yet?

Prepare to be surprised by a truck load of "I told you so" when you finally do, because this game is dogshit.

Well seeing how you're one of the few people who's actually hated that game, I really doubt he's gonna end up agreeing with you.

Edit: Oh... uh, the Witcher's like ten different kinds of boring, but from the way I understand it not many people really cared too much about the original.

 

[CaptainMarvelous]

All of the CoD. I'm pretty lukewarm to most shooters but the dire lack of changes, the fact it's a mildly modified texture/skins pack for each new release and perhaps most importantly has LEGIONS of people proclaiming how each game is innovative while knocking Zelda for having the vague connections of a princess and Link just... yeah.

While I don't hate it, I never found any reason to play Batman Arkham City after my first play of it.

It wasn't nearly as engaging as EVERYONE says it is. Granted I only played until the game enters open world territory. But I found the open world to be terrible and the combat was awful, even though it was exactly as I had expected from what I had heard. I thought I would love it, but I just didn't...

I... have a difficult time reconciling the view Arkham City's open world and combat was terrible o.o. It's weird, I can't even imagine this being an opinion. Clearly it is one but still mind=blown

 

[ABLb0y]

Dear Esther. Sweet Celestia, Dear Esther. Where do I begin...

It has the exact same problem as Homefront (Without the compensation of guns) in that you're only there to look at very pretty scenery and not interact with it any. All you do is walk down a linear corridor and listen to some wanker talking.

Say what you like about COD, but at least stuff happens.

And, yes, before anyone says anything, I do get all the deep, artistic stuff. It's just that as a game Dear Esther is barely worth ten pence.

 

[Patrick Buck]

Oblivion. I had fun until I got out of the sewer, and then everything was buggy and horrible. I droned on through the first Oblivion gate, and quit right after it. I haven't played a more bug-ridden game in my life.

Slightly off topic: I foresee a lot of Gears of War answers, which irks me a little. People are always wanting unique shooters, and last I checked, Gears is more unique than most.

Yeah, but unique doesn't mean good.
Also, there have been at least 3 games. So it's not actually that unique.

 

[Aurora Firestorm]

Anything with Batman in it. This extends to movies and whatever else. I don't like Batman; he's not interesting; he doesn't focus on story. He doesn't have powers, and he doesn't even do no-powers in the awesome Tony Stark way. He's just lame.

I have not enjoyed any Final Fantasy enough to finish it or even start it. Yes, this includes 7. They're just boring, unremarkable games. Why do I care about their stories?

Chrono Cross. Whoever made that stupid spell-equip battle system, and whoever decided to rip the "sequel" out of the Chrono Trigger sequel, and whoever didn't let you level up until boss fights, and whoever took Magus out, and who turned Schala into a stupid blonde chick, has a place in the Special Hell alongside people who talk in the theater.

Kingdom Hearts. Anytime Goofy or Donald talk, I want to rip my ears off. NO DISNEY IN MY JRPGS. NO DISNEY IN MY SERIOUS GAMES. GO THE HELL AWAY. Mickey Mouse is not a badass; he's a walking legal case.



Day-um, I have never seen anyone hate on Chrono Trigger before. I am so sorry.

 

[Shadow Humper]

kotor. everyone talks about it like it can cure cancer but i found the combat boring, the dialog pointless, the story predictable, and the characters unlikeable or boring (i hear the battle droid was entertaining but why would i ever choose blasters over lightsabers?)

Dude,I totally have to agree with you.

 

[PPB]

I don't care for most shooters. I just don't see the point and I'm always surprised at how series like CoD can still sell ridiculous amounts of copies. I tried some of the more "refined" shooters, such as Half-Life (2) and Max Payne (1) and found them equally boring. Incidentally, Half-Life 2 is probably the game that baffles me the most. I really don't understand what's so great and special about it.

I'm also not fond of the whole "MOBA" genre. DotA was a fun thing to play between rated games in Warcraft III but nothing more.

Then there's a whole bunch of games that I find decently enjoyable, but become somewhat irritated when I see how overrated they tend to be. Examples include the aforementioned Braid and Skyward Sword.

 

[shrekfan246]

I've heard people say this. I slogged through DA:O because the characters were quite charming and the story was just about interesting enough to keep me going back, despite the fact that I found the combat unbelievably dull. But it still took me over a year of playing-here-and-there to get to the end.

Does Dragon Age 2 improve the gameplay? After Origins taking me so long, I haven't dared to try the sequel!

To expand on what Pohaturon has already said, the combat in DA2 is... much quicker paced, than Origins, and all of the classes have been flip-flopped so that they don't do Friendly Fire damage anymore (which makes Mages a lot more fun because you don't need to worry about destroying your stupid warriors/rogues who like to charge in and get surrounded by enemies).

DA2 stumbles pretty heavily in using far more recycled assets than Origins did and has a terrible time with teleporting in waves of enemies after you think you've cleared out an area. But, speaking for my own personal experiences, the story is more interesting (because Bioware finally elected to move away from "YOU are the ONLY ONE who can SAVE THE WORLD!") and the characters all feel just as well characterized (Merril, Isabela, and Varric alone are probably worth it, at least if you like snarky, sarcastic Hawke - Which I did).

OT: Can't we all stop being negative for once? Sheesh. I'm going to post a game I liked that everyone else seems to either ignore or dislike.

Prototype. And by extension its sequel. The story is a little better in the first one, but better written in the second one, and the gameplay is largely unchanged but further refined in the sequel. EDIT: Oh, but in the sequel they actually let you pretend to be stealthy while doing some of the missions. I got the AI of an entire room to start freaking out because the game expected me to just go Alien-Wolverine on their asses and destroy them but I shapeshifted into a military officer and stealthily took down my target to continue the mission.
And I don't care what you have to say against it, absorbing and assuming the body of a little old lady, running up the side of a thirty-story building, and then elbow slamming the pavement and sending a whole ton of people flying to their dooms is still some of the best fun I've ever had in a game.

 

[WanderingFool]

The Half-Life series in general. Dont see whats so amazing about it.

Also, the first Crysis. I havent played it for the most obvious reason (PC not powerful enough), but from what I watched from youtube videos, its just a basic shooter that looks pretty. I keep hearing that its open-ness in how you want to tackle an objective is unmatched, but I havent been able to find any examples of that.

 

[The Last Nomad]

All of the CoD. I'm pretty lukewarm to most shooters but the dire lack of changes, the fact it's a mildly modified texture/skins pack for each new release and perhaps most importantly has LEGIONS of people proclaiming how each game is innovative while knocking Zelda for having the vague connections of a princess and Link just... yeah.

While I don't hate it, I never found any reason to play Batman Arkham City after my first play of it.

It wasn't nearly as engaging as EVERYONE says it is. Granted I only played until the game enters open world territory. But I found the open world to be terrible and the combat was awful, even though it was exactly as I had expected from what I had heard. I thought I would love it, but I just didn't...

I... have a difficult time reconciling the view Arkham City's open world and combat was terrible o.o. It's weird, I can't even imagine this being an opinion. Clearly it is one but still mind=blown

I didn't imagine I would have that opinion either, but after about an hours worth of play I stopped and have never played it since.

EDIT: I didn't really get a chance to explore the world too much, but the little bit I did was just bland and confusing and didn't feel at all alive in any way.

 

[Mortamus]

Diablo 3- Played it from start to finish, and I just can't will myself to go through it again (which is the point of a dungeon runner.) I liked the gameplay, don't get me wrong. The visuals and story were just too big of a disapointment for me to want to play again. The immersive music was gone. It felt less like a dungeon runner, and more like an arcade style approach to it. This is the undead level. This is the cult level. This is the manor level. This is the desert level. This is the sewer level. See where I'm going with this? No consistent tone.

Call of Duty- I just don't get it. It has the whole leveling and perk system but it feels horribly unbalanced in every game. The campaigns are always the same story as well. Not getting it. If I wanted to play a great multiplayer shooter experience, I'd go play Team Fortress 2, not this.

God of War- I understand that this series really kind set the standard for many other games, but I just don't see the appeal in it. I played through Chains of Olympus and enjoyed it, but I still don't like the game itself. It just feels like a hack n slash. I honestly had more with Lord of Rings: Conquest.

 

[TwiZtah]

I don't hate Skyrim but I found it awfully boring. I couldn't stand more than a few hours. It wasn't very fun and it didn't even have the cheese that oblivion had and it was even more "streamlined".

Judging from the circlejerk that took place after launch, I'm in the very small minority.


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why...?

ninja me will you....

you know what my problem with the few bethedesa games Ive played it?...its like they just don't [i/]get[/i] it

like they think its enough to just stick you in a big world and say "here you go, your playing an RPG now" and for some it is, but for me it really isnt

to try and explain...I recently dusted off Fallout 3 and while I like that game and think its a million times better than oblivion (*hurk!*) I noticed some of those old bethedesa things creeping in

like the minute I step out of the vault and enter megaton...everyones more than willing to get me to do jobs/run their errands when it makes no logical sense other than "well...your the PC arnt you? and this is an RPG?" for crying out loud I'm fresh out of a vault and already discussing disarming megatons bomb....I mean its like they have the basic parts for an RPG but don't bother fitting them together

compared to Fallout NV on the otherhand...everything makes sense and gels together, the side quests are all conected to the grand scheme of things (not to mention the charachters are better) THAT is a shining example on how to make an RPG... and it makes sense for my charachter to do all thease things

You should try Morrowind. The quest lines make a lot of sense, they're given to you because of who you know, not because of who the character is controlled by. Guild membership, that sort of thing. Daggerfall had a lot of people offering random quests, but they really were random oddjobs, and you got the feeling that the world was crawling with adventurers who were willing to do things like kill tigers that had gotten into people's apartments or go into some old ruins to retrieve a specific item for money.

Problem is Morrowind has the worst combat mechanics in known history.

 

[malestrithe]

Oblivion. It bored me just as much as Skyrim did.

 

[Eamar]

I don't think Bioshock is anything like as mindblowing and intelligent as people think it is. Hammering on about Ayn Rand does not make it clever. And yeah, the "would you kindly thing" was kind of neat, but honestly, who didn't see something like that coming a mile off?

Gameplay-wise, it just got dull once the creepiness wore off (which was admittedly very well done for the first hour or so). It actually felt like a chore towards the end.

Oh, and here's the kicker for the fans: I much preferred Bioshock 2. Sorry!

And just to jump on the bandwagon, the writing in Braid is so bad I wanted to gouge my eyes out rather than read another sentence. Honestly, it's the sort of overblown crap I used to write as an angsty 14 year old, when I thought I was "deep" and "sophisticated" and "complicated." Talk about purple prose...

 

[WanderingFool]

I don't think Bioshock is anything like as mindblowing and intelligent as people think it is. Hammering on about Ayn Rand does not make it clever. And yeah, the "would you kindly thing" was kind of neat, but honestly, who didn't see something like that coming a mile off?

Gameplay-wise, it just got dull once the creepiness wore off (which was admittedly very well done for the first hour or so). It actually felt like a chore towards the end.

Oh, and here's the kicker for the fans: I much preferred Bioshock 2. Sorry!

You know, funny thing, after having to read a book of Ayn Rand's for this one college course, and having played the game, I realised something. The game was set in a world that fallowed Ayn Rands philosophy, and look what happened to it.

Maybe its just me, but it seemed like Bioshock was basically saying the Rand's ideas werent all they were cracked up to be.

Also, with the "Would You Kindly", if you dont pay attention, it could come as a interesting twist, but if you do pay attention, you can actually start to see the truth to it.

In all though, I though Bioshock was pretty good, up until the Training grounds and the boss fight, than it went down faster than the Titanic...

 

[Seef]

Borderlands. It was just bland and repetitive to me. Grinding works when you have numerous different ways to kill people. Not when all you can do is shoot.

 

[The Wykydtron]

Maybe Dark Souls...

It's just terribly frustrating with an extremely broken and surprise gangbang heavy PVP system.

The story is so out of the way you'd need to read the Wiki to even half understand any details (a failure on the game's part if i've ever seen one) and fuck whoever keeps going on about every death being "fair" bullshit. Mimic in Sen's Fortress, Snipers in Anor Londo, Frame rate issues in Blighttown and much much more!

Plus they make the difficulty hard in some terribly predictable ways, see a doorway ahead of you? There's an 85% chance that enemies are waiting just to the side of the door to punish those who just rush right in. That's just lazy.

It's still sort of fun when the PVP actually works though. I just love lvl 1-5 PVP with those few PVP items you get at the start and I don't mind being invaded that much. Until the Twinks show up anyway. You see a guy with the endgame gear in your lvl 3 world you are officially allowed to quit to dashboard with zero ethical issues after waving at him for teh lulz.

Also Skyrim, for obvious reasons. Funny how i'd have loved that game if Fallout:NV hadn't had shown me what a truly great open world WRPG is like beforehand. There is literally no RPG in Skyrim, you have zero dialogue choices at all. Why even bother pretending to have one if it's only the continue quest button 99% of the time?

Yes I know some people count building your own character with an imaginary backstory and roleplaying said character as RPGish enough. I'm not one of those people though and NV had endless roleplay potential within both the open worldy stuff and the plot/side quests itself

 

[BlueKenja]

Final Fantasy X - Hateful characters except Auron and Seymour. Story was meh.
KOTOR 1 - gameplay was dull as was the story. KOTOR 2 - hated the gameplay still but the story was excellent and Kreia is one of my favourite characters ever.
Dragon Age - Slogged through the godawful combat to see how things ended, I was underwhelmed but at least my decisions had some minor effect on things.
Mass Effect - Same old Bioware tropes and cliches, same old characters, cover based shooter gameplay...meh.

On a different note, a series I've had an on/off relationship with was Kingdom Hearts.
I played the first one when it first came out so I was younger and less worried by the whole Disney character thing then left the series behind after I beat it.
Last year my then boyfriend got me back into it, bought KH2 off ebay for about £5, bought 358/2 days and Birth By Sleep, beat BBS, almost finished 358/2 days...still slogging through KH2. When he ended things (in a pretty nasty and callous way)I just couldn't bring myself to pick up the series again, inextricably linked to him in my mind...especially can't go near 358/2 days cause he was big into Roxas and I was an Axel fan.
Oh well... : (

 

[Rariow]

Games that follow one of the latest, and in my opinion, most obnoxious "trends" - the creator congratulating themselves on their work. Sonic Generations and Skyward Sword. In both I just feel like it's the developers patting themselves on the back going "Yeah. I'm awesome", and I've just payed money to see them do it. It's just uncomfortable and irritating to me.

Mount & Blade. Whilst not neccesarily everyone loves it, and I don't HATE it as such, I just feel bored when playing it. Whatever I do every single battle feels the same and pretty much inconsequential. The fact that it tries to be an RPG and doesn't really have a story per say just rubs me the wrong way. It's not the game's fault, it just doesn't work for me.

Finally, and this is going to cause quite a bit of fanrage, Left 4 Dead (Didn't play L4D2). I don't like zombie shooters, and VALVE (Whom I freakin' love) somehow managed to multiply my dislike by 10 with these ones. When someone asks why I like VALVE so much, I'll answer one of two things: "Team Fortress II" or "They make game games". Every single VALVE game feels like a pure game to me. It's a hard thing to describe, but I imagine most people who frequent a site like this will understand. L4D just doesn't feel like a game game to me. It's what you get when you remove the VALVE charm from a VALVE game: Nothing.

 

[Raika]

I think Heavy Rain is irredeemable, pretentious, terribly written garbage. Aside from the pinkie-cutting scene, there is seriously nothing good about it.