demon souls - I respect the combat system, but it is an overly frustrating game, with a very uninteresting story to get involved in.
also COD. fucking cod. nuff said
also COD. fucking cod. nuff said
Games you hate that everybody else likes
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If you have to play a game to the end to get any kind of enjoyment That is like saying "Oh yay the game is over! I am happy cause I do not have to play this game anymore! WOOHOO!"ajemas said:
OT: The Half-Life games. I don't HATE them. They just feel... Insignificant to me.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Of the six hours I played: the single-player is crap, and the multiplayer has you as a small insect in something much larger than you that just doesn't feel big. At least Planetside 2 will have the appropriate scale for vehicle based, War-Like gameplay.
I hated Skyward Sword, myself. I hated Fi, because she was an irritating Parrot Exposition Captain Obvious. I hated the motion controls, because it added artifical difficulty to the combat, not to mention unnecessary physical strain. I hated the villain because he's treated as new and original because he's not Ganondorf when he's just another Sword-Licking Anime psycho Villain #51,427. The overworld is shallow with nothing to do or see compared to Twilight Princess, Wind Waker, or Ocarina of Time.
I also hated Final Fantasy XIII; I hated pretty much every character. And the story was horrible, partly because they start it In Medias Res and dump need-to-know information into the glossary and expect you to read it instead of weaving the need-to-know information into the narrative. FF13 looked great and sounded great, but I just couldn't get over the bad characters and story.
I also really didn't like Supreme Commander. Something about it just bored me and hardly seemed worthy of the praise that it got.
I also hated Final Fantasy XIII; I hated pretty much every character. And the story was horrible, partly because they start it In Medias Res and dump need-to-know information into the glossary and expect you to read it instead of weaving the need-to-know information into the narrative. FF13 looked great and sounded great, but I just couldn't get over the bad characters and story.
I also really didn't like Supreme Commander. Something about it just bored me and hardly seemed worthy of the praise that it got.
Mario Kart 64- some see it as the best in the series and while I agree it's better than the Karts that came after it, Super Mario Kart still just seems better overall, mostly because it doesn't only come down to the powerups you have. I found Diddy Kong Racing to be the best Cart racer of the 64, by a long shot.
Sounds exactly like my experience with it. After the sprawling giant battles of bf1942, each battlefield since has just got louder, prettier, and... smaller. BF3 is a bit of an exception, but still- 4 planes max in a map? Hello!?Triforceformer said:
I don't enjoy the original Starcraft in the slightest.
Maybe I just don't have the strategic mind required for it, but I could never wrap my mind around everything. I got up to the Norad II mission in the Terran campaign, but just couldn't make any meaningful progress in that, even with the strategy guide right in front of me.
Oh well, I'll stick with Frozen Synapse for my strategy gaming.
Maybe I just don't have the strategic mind required for it, but I could never wrap my mind around everything. I got up to the Norad II mission in the Terran campaign, but just couldn't make any meaningful progress in that, even with the strategy guide right in front of me.
Oh well, I'll stick with Frozen Synapse for my strategy gaming.
No, and I don't have any intention of doing so. I played through the first several levels, and the only thing I really liked about it was the music and the (admittedly beautiful) backgrounds. Aesthetic fluff isn't enough on its own to get me to stick with a platformer. Now VVVVVVV, there's an indie platformer for the ages. Not only is the gameplay as close to perfect as humanly possible, but the music is better, to boot XDajemas said:
Gears of war 1 and 2, never played the third. Short as buggery, some of the worst AI I've seen (That's saying something) and over the top characters who seem to be an attempt at seriousness. GeOW 2 was SLIGHTLY better in the AI department but failed worse due to the most pathetic, idiotic attempt at bringing some form of story telling into the game...
Oblivion. Sure a large portion of Oblivion love came from the standard fanboyism between PS3 and the 360 in their youth but for a time all I saw was mass praise of... emptiness, it always confused me once Fallout 3 came out how a lush green world has LESS life in it than a nuclear wasteland.
Diablo 3, also not a hate but damn are the characters stupid, the story was literally the most easily guessed story I have come across in a long time... a predictable story is ok if it's meant to be that way but coming into the end... ALL the NPC's and even my character were like "OMG WE HAD NO IDEA" And I guessed what would happen in ACT ONE!
Oblivion. Sure a large portion of Oblivion love came from the standard fanboyism between PS3 and the 360 in their youth but for a time all I saw was mass praise of... emptiness, it always confused me once Fallout 3 came out how a lush green world has LESS life in it than a nuclear wasteland.
Diablo 3, also not a hate but damn are the characters stupid, the story was literally the most easily guessed story I have come across in a long time... a predictable story is ok if it's meant to be that way but coming into the end... ALL the NPC's and even my character were like "OMG WE HAD NO IDEA" And I guessed what would happen in ACT ONE!
Oblivion: Blandest, most unoriginal fantasy world imaginable. Skyrim wasn't as bad, but I still had a nagging feeling that I've seen it all before.
Fallout 3: Oblivion with guns, without any of the charm of Fallout 2.
Limbo: First third was unique, then it turned into a bland crate and gravity 'puzzle' rehash that completely ruined the atmosphere.
Final Fantasy X: Main characters were insufferable pricks.
Fallout 3: Oblivion with guns, without any of the charm of Fallout 2.
Limbo: First third was unique, then it turned into a bland crate and gravity 'puzzle' rehash that completely ruined the atmosphere.
Final Fantasy X: Main characters were insufferable pricks.
Dragon Age: Origins. I don't know why, but it just bored and annoyed me. Maybe because the story and quests felt stale, but I couldn't enjoy it. What didn't help was that I hated every single character in the game. Yes, every single one of those smug predictable assholes.
Recently? Being dragged through the first chapter of Lost Planet 2 by a gaming buddy who was determined to show me that it was "the funnest thing ever" made me fairly hate it. It's just so... Japanese, and packed full of every worst and most tiresome Japanese trope going.
You play as a soldier with ridiculously over-designed armor (is that a ribbon/bow on the back, or is my armor powered by clockwork?). The enemies are "pirates" and "the elemental creatures of a planet whose ecosystem can take no more" - fuck sake, I can already see where this is going. Toward the end is there going to be a big reveal that says "LOL, you, the militaristic humans, were the monsters all along. FOR SHAME. Insert preachy pseudo-spiritual enviro message here"?
The design is grating. The story is trite and hackneyed in an overblown, try-hard way. The bite-size arcadey chapters rubbed me up the wrong way. The fact that my gaming buddy thought I'd be won over by Marcus Fenix pulling kawaii neko-ears poses made me want to eject the disk and eat it.
Probably I'm being unfair - I suspect most of my bad mood stemmed from the fact that the control system made me feel like a complete spaz whereas my gaming buddy was breezing through, backflipping off enemies and earning all the points/kills (and conspicuoulsy and patronisingly leaving the occasional one for me to get). I HATE being forced through a game at a pace that doesn't let me get to grips with the controls and gameplay mechanics.
Maybe one day I'll come back to it. I also have Lost Planet 1 - untouched - that I want to play through first.
You play as a soldier with ridiculously over-designed armor (is that a ribbon/bow on the back, or is my armor powered by clockwork?). The enemies are "pirates" and "the elemental creatures of a planet whose ecosystem can take no more" - fuck sake, I can already see where this is going. Toward the end is there going to be a big reveal that says "LOL, you, the militaristic humans, were the monsters all along. FOR SHAME. Insert preachy pseudo-spiritual enviro message here"?
The design is grating. The story is trite and hackneyed in an overblown, try-hard way. The bite-size arcadey chapters rubbed me up the wrong way. The fact that my gaming buddy thought I'd be won over by Marcus Fenix pulling kawaii neko-ears poses made me want to eject the disk and eat it.
Probably I'm being unfair - I suspect most of my bad mood stemmed from the fact that the control system made me feel like a complete spaz whereas my gaming buddy was breezing through, backflipping off enemies and earning all the points/kills (and conspicuoulsy and patronisingly leaving the occasional one for me to get). I HATE being forced through a game at a pace that doesn't let me get to grips with the controls and gameplay mechanics.
Maybe one day I'll come back to it. I also have Lost Planet 1 - untouched - that I want to play through first.
Call of Duty.
Battlefield.
God of War.
For the first two, I've never been fond of realistic military FPS games, and it annoys me when people try to get me to play it.
For God of War... I don't know, I have issues trying to like a protagonist who thinks its perfectly okay to shove a screaming, whimpering concubine into a gate mechanism just to keep it from shutting on him. He's grieving for his family, okay, but how is murdering innocent people HELPING that?
Battlefield.
God of War.
For the first two, I've never been fond of realistic military FPS games, and it annoys me when people try to get me to play it.
For God of War... I don't know, I have issues trying to like a protagonist who thinks its perfectly okay to shove a screaming, whimpering concubine into a gate mechanism just to keep it from shutting on him. He's grieving for his family, okay, but how is murdering innocent people HELPING that?
Ryan Minns said:
Dam it! ninjad on two fronts, ah well.GundamSentinel said:
I don't really hate any games but Gears 2 (never played the first) was just so boring to me, all the game had was a mechanic (cover based shooting), a very well built and polished mechanic but still just that one thing, I hear people say it was broke up by vehicle sections but as i remember them they where just rail shooters.
I got dragon age because it said 'from the makers of Mass Effect' on the box and I love that game, but the game play just isn't for me, I lack the patience to build a strategy and them manage each character.
The game I was the most disappointed with (and I hate it because I stupidly spent money on it) was Killing Floor. I got told to buy it by a mate so we could play multi-player and the game is just bad, if anyone likes it fair enough, to each their own, but its just not a very well designed game at all.
I would say Braid, except that I realised the other day that I don't have to read those stupid pre-level story bits. Since I began deliberately ignoring them and just getting on with the puzzles, I've been having a lot more fun.
Sorry to anyone who likes the Braid story, but the writing makes me want to punch small children. I actually started reading some of it out loud (misery shared is misery halved), but my boyfriend threatened to beat me over the head with his wireless keyboard if I continued.
The gameplay isn't half bad (I like the time-related tricks so far), although I still prefer Warp when it comes to puzzle-game-with-a-gimmick. For one thing, it doesn't take itself nearly so seriously!
Sorry to anyone who likes the Braid story, but the writing makes me want to punch small children. I actually started reading some of it out loud (misery shared is misery halved), but my boyfriend threatened to beat me over the head with his wireless keyboard if I continued.
The gameplay isn't half bad (I like the time-related tricks so far), although I still prefer Warp when it comes to puzzle-game-with-a-gimmick. For one thing, it doesn't take itself nearly so seriously!