Games you really, really hated

[instantkarma5]

Final Fantasy 13. Lost planet and Halo. Couldnt get into any of those games.

 

[Gunner 51]

Borderlands - I know I'm going to get pilloried for my opinion. But I just really hate that game with a near perfect hatred.

 

[TerribleAssassin]

Seconded, worst £5 spent ever.

Probably FIFA Street 3, just silly, wasn't as good as the first 2.

 

[LogicNProportion]

Fable 3.

So much hope...so much...dashed...

Well, to make it more clear, I LOVED it first play-through, but then I realized because the way the game and plot was built, it always boiled down to the same bit. No interesting choices...just always two...with usually similar outcomes that is simply a way to record how much of a **** you are.

 

[LordRoyal]

Dragon Age 2.

After getting a headache from the combat and hating the characters I never ended up finishing it

 

[Captain Hat]

Hah, I bought Sherlock Holmes Vs. Jack the Ripper for kicks and giggles. After the first ten minutes of the horrible voice acting and gameplay, I took it to a pawn shop and sold it.

Does it seem like a big deal? No. But I'm an avid fan of Sherlock and have the book collection to prove it...so it was pretty dang offensive how they could take such an awesome idea and throw up their chuke all over it.

Lesson learned, kiddies: If it's in the discount bin at the store, it's usually for a good reason.

 

[Soxafloppin]

Mirrors Edge, I know people will defend it to death, but i really hated it.

The controls just seemed awkward to me, and the gameplay was far to Trial and Error.

 

[Iron Mal]

Call me out on this if you like but I just loathe and despise F.E.A.R.

I just thought it was awful, bland and (worst of all) wasn't even scary, I'll admit I'm a movie chicken so me turning around and saying something isn't scary should clue you into how weak the horror is.

 

[Sizzle Montyjing]

Legendary.
I had a better time with Catz!
Oh and the late spyro games.

 

[Senaro]

Also Duke Nukem Forever, I really wanted to like it, and I love dick jokes, but even they couldn't hold it up [forgive the pun]

I think you just made me giggle more than any joke I've heard in DNF.

I can't think of too many games I absolutely hate, but there are plenty of things I hate about some. I hate most of Dragon Age: Origins. The story and character interactions are the only thing that keep me moving forward. The find the gameplay tedious, which is strange, considering I usually love RPG combat. Loved the hell out of KOTOR, but DA:O is just something I can't usually take.

 

[Mandalore_15]

Final Fantasy X. After about 45 minutes of cutscenes and 5 minute of actual gameplay I threw this shitload in the trash. (People actually heard me scream at the protagonist because he is such a twat).

I really, really hate this abomination of a anime-soap-movie. I refuse to call it a game.

Agreed 100%. It was at the point when I realised that actually playing the Blitzball game was completely optional that I dropped it like the brick turd it is. Who wants to watch the computer play the fucking game for them?

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

I hate Too Human with a passion, so much that I actually snapped the disc instead of getting my money back. I thought of it as me saving the poor soul that could have bought it pre-owned if I handed it back.

 

[Soggy Toast]

Hah, I bought Sherlock Holmes Vs. Jack the Ripper for kicks and giggles. After the first ten minutes of the horrible voice acting and gameplay, I took it to a pawn shop and sold it.

Does it seem like a big deal? No. But I'm an avid fan of Sherlock and have the book collection to prove it...so it was pretty dang offensive how they could take such an awesome idea and throw up their chuke all over it.

Lesson learned, kiddies: If it's in the discount bin at the store, it's usually for a good reason.

That game is really easy for gamerscore though. Bad move.

 

[Ubermetalhed]

Mass Effect.

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

Yeh same. It felt like everything good about KotoR was removed for that game. Although I didn't really hate it, it was just ball achingly average.

Final Fantasy XII however was a game that I despise to death. Damn that game was so so bloody dull and I usually love final fantasy games.

Terrible plot, awful characters, mind-numbingly boring combat, a mess of a combat system and what I'd say was a step down in graphics from previous games like FFX.

 

[band43seat]

just the halo series entirely, only because of the fans, for 3 years, i knew fans who thought that master chief could defeat everyone. from optimus prime, to darth vader, to satan

 

[iLeikHip]

2001, Playing Sonic Adventure 2 Battle.
Holy shit, nothing will ever be as good as this game.
I fucking love it.
I just know Sega will make even more AWESOME games after this!
2011.
Lolnope.

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

Saints Row 2. I played through a minute and turned it off, the only reason I know so much about it is that my brother plays it regularly. I can't find a redeeming quality in it at all, it's just a generally awful game.

The story is just a shitty attempt at revenge and rising up to where you once were.
The gameplay is, at the very best, mediocre.
The camera angling is shoddy.
The way they approached the game with a 'lets just take the piss' attitude really pisses me off.

And while this isn't that much of an issue, if I hear 'just let me in' in that God awful, whiny accent again I swear I will knife the developers.

All round awful game. Shouldn't have been made.

 

[TheTim]

Bioshock 1 and 2.

I just don't see how people think those games are so good, they just seemed like pure crap when i tried playing them

 

[Zarkov]

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

Well, with a video game you want a graph of difficulty to resemble something much more like sine wave. A parabola would make the beginning and end easy, while the middle being them most difficult part of the game.

Anyway, I just got a captcha saying "Borner" and you know what I thought of it at first.

Okay, so technically it said Börner but that's beside the point. Most people don't know what an umlaut is anyway

 

[Scrythe]

Red Faction: Guerrilla
Don't have a physics engine if it goes out of it's way to ignore it. Also, the game was a buggy piece of shit, and didn't have enough to keep me from getting bored at it

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
Honestly, I wouldn't know how bad this game truly was, because it's biggest feature was the frequent crashing. What I did get to play was boring as shit, though.

Oblivion
You know when you watch an internet review about a movie, and the critic complains about unnecessary padding? Imagine if they took all of that "padding" and made an entire game on the concept. Oblivion was just directionless, pointless, dreadfully slow, and easily broken.

Every Bioware IP that I've ever played so far
I can't name just one, because they're all exactly the fucking same. To this day, I still regret paying full price for the two KOTOR titles, Jade Empire, Dragon Age: Origins, and I'm sure I'm going to regret this copy of Baldur's Gate that a friend loaned to me, and it's the same reason why I have yet to play Mass Effect. So far they're all the same exact game with a different flavor of setting dressing. Same recycled characters, same recycled engine, same recycled morality axis, same shitty combat system, same horrendous inventory system, and they all have some kind of hamfisted M. Night Shyamalan twist ending.

Fuck Bioware.