Games you really, really hated

[mada7]

One that stands out to me is Darksiders. The game was truly maddening because it had so much potential to be awesome but it was completely ruined by a slapdash effort in making the game. The first and biggest problem which is the source of almost all my other problems is that your character walks around extremely slowly. There is no good reason for having a character traverse their world so slowly while on foot. The solution to this that was put in was that you have a dash button but multiple times while I was playing I dashed past an autosave point and the game could not load the area fast enough so the game crashed. Doing anything while the game is autosaving is a huge gamble as one time it crashed while pausing while I was autosaving. Another time while dashing at the beginning to get to my sword I fell through the stairs to the pedastle where my sword was sitting. So in short it was a very buggy game in a way that was very disruptive.

My second problem with the game came in the form of balance. There were lots of upgrades and new skills one can get over the course of the game but the game difficulty is not designed in a way that acknowledges that youll get more upgrades as time goes by instead the boss of the first dungeon is very hard and the rest of the enemies and bosses get progressively easier because you get more and more stuff which would mean that the difficulty curve for the game is a straight line instead of a parabola

The whole thing was such a frustrating boring mess to play through

 

[muskrat_love]

Dragon Age Origins. I've stated it before, I'll state it again.

Making a single player game with MMORPG point and click controls, is NOT a good game.

 

[Gorilla Gunk]

Mass Effect.

Enough to turn me off of the entire franchise. Shame because I loved KotOR.

 

[Erana]

So many good memories with the first game...

WHY?!?!?!

[sub]Glad I only played this on my sister's PSI for a bit before she tossed it.[/sub]

This I can see people hating and seeing no redeeming qualities in. Its just plain unpleasant and difficult to look at.

That being said, I despise when people confuse indifference to hate. I didn't find Yoshi's Island to be the least bit fun, but its an objectively great game and there's no reason for me to go about hating it.

 

[bitCrusher]

I got Final Fantasy XIII a while ago because I'd never played a JRPG before and I absolutely hated every second of it. Do any of you have a game that you honestly couldn't find any good points whatsoever in?

Gonna agree with FFXIII. While I REALLY enjoy the battle system, I hate everything else. The writing, the characters, oh the characters...

 

[jacobythehedgehog]

How did I know this would be a bash Final Fantasy thing FYI I LOVED Final Fantasy XIII.

Anyway Mine is Duke Nukem Forever, the game was just brutal. Mass Effect 1 was really bad too, I hated that game with a firey passion

 

[OdyCay]

lost planet, every final fantasy / most JRPG's and Duke nukem forever

 

[Slaanesh]

Lost Planet is really the only game that comes to mind. Bought it for the 360 at $40. Boy was I pissed.

 

[bushwhacker2k]

Final Fantasy XIII and also Alpha Protocol, that game was buggy as all hell.

I didn't like Alpha Protocol, but I definitely feel like it was going in the right direction in some ways, it's just that in nearly every one of them it ended up at the wrong place in the end : /

Hated both FFX and FFXIII. 13's gameplay was kind of interesting, but that's only because it had kind of a semi-twist in that there was a spatial aspect to the combat, but it was difficult to control directly, other than that the characters all sucked, I really, really did not like them. 10 was just meh, the other interesting thing I saw was being in a furutistic city and then having it wiped out and ending in what is apparently a post(semi-post, considering 1000 years) apocalyptic future, which sounds interesting but once again all the characters sucked.

Trying to think of a game that hasn't been mentioned...

Lost Planet is really the only game that comes to mind. Bought it for the 360 at $40. Boy was I pissed.

Got Lost Planet for 8$, good deal I really liked the game and the premise, my biggest complaint was when all of sudden there's some evil guy with his face frozen in one weird look who is behind everything... which was quite a let down.

 

[Falcondynamite]

Quest 64, Halo (in general, yet I enjoy the books), CoD, FFIIX & FFIIIX (awful storytelling), Xenosaga episode 2, Mind Jack, Bioshock 2, Resident evil (up until 4), and finally El Shaddai (It doesn't matter how beautiful/gorgeous a game looks when it's overall gameplay is atrociously shitty). More the rest of the games I've played and just haven't gotten into. It really does sometimes take a lot to detest a game enough to say you "hate" it.

 

[Rylot]

I disliked Too Human with a fiery passion. I got it used when I bought my 360 so I had few things to play (Had to play the shit out of Dead Rising and Mass Effect just to keep sane) After beating it I have never nor will I ever go back.

 

[Drummie666]

Metroid: Other M

Do I REALLY have to go into detail?

 

[Redem]

Oblivion: boring enviroment, about five ennemy none of them look cool, you feel as weak when you started and a storyline that is less than five lines

 

[chaosyoshimage]

Xenosaga: Episode 1, after about an hour I was like "Where's the gameplay and why has the story not gone anywhere?"

 

[Awexsome]

Hate's a strong word... everyone has the games they didn't care for like for me the FF games mentioned like 13 and 12 to a lesser degree along with the Half-life series.

But the only game I remember getting a while ago and just regretting it so much was an RPG called The Last Remnant. I was feeling like an RPG so the last time I felt like picking up a random one was back last console generation which got me into the Tales series and that led into it being my favorite RPG series.

So I'm like, "It worked last time, why not this time?" Yeah. Sometimes things in a multiplayer game can get me near raging but single player games usually are much more relaxed. Not this one. Oh god the battle mechanics seemed so good right off the bat but then... SHIT.

You form these small squads for your party and if the leader in that particular squad goes down (say from a monster's insta-kill attack. Not a big deal to a group but if they just happen to randomly hit the leader...) the whole squad is just now useless. They have no idea what to do and end up getting picked off one by one by any monster no matter how easily they could take care of them if they remembered they were holding weapons.

Grr... Didn't help the story was very uninteresting and near impossible to follow for at least 4-5 hours into it.

 

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

Brink, Too Human, Two Worlds, Assassins Creed, Halo ODST, Lost Planet.

Some of the worst games of the last 5 years right there. I think the only one there that really gets disputed is AC, but that was one of those games that you either loved or hated. I HATED it.

 

[The_Deleted]

I can usually find something about most games, but if a control system renders the game unplayable, that pisses me off.
However, one game that played perfectly well, but bored the shit out of me to the point where genuine hate dribbles from my ears is Enchanted Arms.

What the everloving fuck?!?!?!

 

[Farther than stars]

Morrowind. I just mentioned it on another thread and now I'm going to tell you why. The enviroments are boring and repetitive, the combat is boring and repetitive, the dialog choices are boring and repetitive (can you see a common theme here?). It's just all those blocks of text that the game makes you read. I'm sure it would have made a fine book, but just not this. Not to mention that the plot didn't seem to go anywhere after serveral hours of gameplay. No, Morrowind is unequivocally the worst game I have ever played. (I am going to submit myself to FF 13 in a while though, so wish me luck.)

 

[Gennaroc]

Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon. Got it as a bundle with my wii ages ago and it was the most contrived, pointless arduous experience; an incredibly lacklustre game vainly attempting to masquerade as something epic. Bad and very, very temperamental controls, horrible story (some weird dragon Lord of the Rings knockoff), repetitive combat, lack of interesting puzzles, and just on the whole incredibly boring.
Oh and seriously, bloom lighting does not mean your graphics will suddenly look good Activision. So Fucking stop using it. 0_0
Honestly you don't know how ridiculous it looked.

....

Good music though.

 

[Azaradel]

Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean

I used to merely dislike it, but after playing it through to the end (a gruelling forty-something hours, I'd guess), I hate it with the burning intensity of a thousand suns.

The only reason I even played through it in the first place was because I have a compulsory need to play through all games I own at least once. Now I look at my collection of games and it looks unclean because Baten Kaitos is among them, mocking me.