Things you thought you'd love forever...

[Erja_Perttu]

For me it's whiskey.

Oh whiskey, why are you so cruel to me? Sure, I chased you down too many times when I tried to out drink that biker, but is this punishment truly worth the crime? *sniffle* I can't even smell you without wanting to hurl.

 

[SquidVicious]

Video games. Not that I don't love them now, but I'm finding that as I get older... I just don't care that much any more. Occasionally something comes along that really gets to me, and there are a few games I am actually looking forward to buying on the release date (I think the last time I did that was for Bully (2006)), but for the most part I'm okay with being an outside observer. I'm 26, going on 27 so there's almost 3 generations of gamers who've come after me and these companies are going to vie for their attention, and the things I want to see in video games and the things teenagers want to see in video games don't really overlap that much. I still get at least 3-5 games a year that I really like and keep me connected to the medium, but I just really don't have that same love for it that I did back in my childhood and early teens.

 

[DFDelta]

Series that just go on forever.
It doesn't matter if it is a live action TV series that runs for 14 seasons or a 300 episode cartoon/anime/whatever.

When I was younger I loved it when things just went on and on and on and on.
Now I yell "just bring it to a ******* conclusion finally" at my screen whenever something lasts longer then 40 or so episodes and another season is announced, no matter how much I like it. It just feels so streched if it runs that long.

 

[Spider RedNight]

... which you now hate.

For me, it's Rooster Teeth, especially the podcast. I would always look forward to the next RT podcast, it was probably the highlight of my week. But recently I've really begun to despise the entire crew for reasons I will not mention here for fear of setting this thread off on the wrong foot.

I appreciate this; I've NEVER loved Rooster Teeth. And it pained me to have my friend keep saying "they're hilarious, watch them listen to them do this with them blah blah blah..."

I guess for me, it'd have to be Butt Stallion. It's along the lines of Homestuck where it was really great at first until everyone and their stupid PONIES decided to rape the joke with "RARITY AS A DIAMOND PONY OMGLOL". As an artist, I appreciate seeing ART instead of something funny like that with ponies slapped all over it. I have nothing against bronies, but you don't have to seep your fandom in EVERYTHING ELSE.

I'll go ahead and get booed for saying Skyrim. xD Again, nothing against Bathesda or anyone who likes the game or even the game itself, but no one seems to understand why I just put it down for no good reason and now refuse to play it. It's a timesink for me and I don't like going through this game with people backseat playing telling me I'm sneaking up on this guy wrong or I fight dragons in an unorthodox manner.

As far as food, I will never eat Dipping Dots so long as I live.

 

[floppylobster]

- Porn. (Don't hate it yet, but I hate a lot more of it than I used to).
- Video Games in general (I'm not completely out yet but with each generation I buy less and less games and the end is coming soon. (Though I may continue retro gaming)).
- A lot of music.
- Super sugary cereals.
- Meeting new people.

I guess it's called growing old.

 

[sageoftruth]

Countless TV channels (Especially MTV). At this point they have all become something completely different. I'm sure you've all heard about this already. At this point, I can't recall the last time I glanced at a show on TV for more than 30 seconds.

 

[T'Generalissimo]

Hate is probably an overstatement, but I was disappointed to discover that I now find KOTOR to be an uninteresting, poorly written game filled with incredibly tired characters. Jolee and HK-47 are still pretty great though.

 

[MrHide-Patten]

Pokemon.

Used to totally like the series, was practically the only reason I owned a handheld. Then I started to have less and less time on my hands, so I couldn't put up with Pokemons grindy bullshit. Then the new generation came along that was just as fuggly as fuck (the Garbage Pokemon looks like it was drawn by a 5 year old) and then sequels came out on a NEW handheld .

I could gives less of a fuck about X and Y, 5 years too late for an "innovation" to the series..

Also there's stuff like Kingdom Hearts and Bleach, but you could hazard why I would be completely over those.

 

[sageoftruth]

Games made by Blizzard. I used to love everything that they made and then... Well, if you're on the Escapist, you probably know.

 

[sageoftruth]

Fantasy novels, at least until I find one that feels fresh and new.

 

[mitchell271]

Screwattack is the first to come to mind. Used to like them, but I think they've screwed the pooch too hard now.

I love that this is the very first one. Nice to see a former G1 in these parts.

OT: I have to say Screwattack as well. I was following them for 4 years but then shows kept getting cut (Clip of the Week anyone?), Craig turned into a prick and the final straw was when Jared was fired. He was my favourite guy there and Newsroom was the funniest show that they had produced in a while. And it's gone. I don't have much reason to go back there.

The Sword of Truth books. First one was cookie-cutter fantasy, but very well written and readable. After that, the series became some of the best fantasy I've ever seen. But then it jumped the shark on a rocket-powered jetski and turned into total mush. I don't even enjoy high fantasy anymore as a result.

I hear you on that. Christ, those books got bad. After the first 2 they always follow the same plot too. Celebrate, "We fucked up", long journey, sex, cake.

 

[The Maddest March Hare]

Family Guy.

Jesus Christ Seth McFarlane has lost his touch, with his shitty spinoffs which work on the exact same formula, the increasingly predictable and unfunny cutaway gags and the degeneration rather than progression of all the characters. The further in the program has gone, the more extremely stereotyped each character and joke has become. They're just whaling on the same cliche gags that made the series funny each time.

RuneScape.

It started going downhill early last year when they introduced microtransactions following the introduction of a wheel of fortune clone which you could buy spins on through microtransactions. And this wheel could potentially award high-level gear.

That and the combat rework has finally cemented it for me that the shareholders are thinking "We want to be like WoW! Lets copy everything they do!" so most of the preached updates so far this year are new raid bosses, updates to existing raid bosses to make them relevant after being left behind by the rest of the game and new quests which will probably unlock more raid bosses.

Not my cup of tea, so my stomach turns every time i think of going back to it.

Also this, except the combat rework and animations actually partially revived my interest. But nothing will save it until they bin the fucking investors. What was originally a unique take on MMO worlds with a great quest system has managed to drop everything that made it special in favour of aping every other popular MMO. The website redesign, the latest models and armour designs, the animation styles, all ripped wholesale from WoW, Aion and other big names in the MMO business. It's being milked as a cash cow, and when it eventually stops increasing in revenue the investors will drop it, pocket the cash and leave it to flounder and die.

The microtransactions are genuinely sickening, and my final straw was seeing tons of concepts for what were actually pretty damn cool being released as Solomon Store merch for the low low price of £20! That and the fucking panda costumes. That just happened to coincide with the release of mists of pandaria for WoW. Fuck off Jagex, kindly let yourself die with your shreds of dignity rather than allowing the investors to continue with this disgusting mess.

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

Channel Awesome/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses
Used to be my No.1 spot for online entertainment. Now, with Spoony having jumped ship, I only go on there for Linkara and Oancitizen. Everything else just seems to have degraded and doesn't interest me anymore.

 

[an874]

Seriously though, I think That guy with the glasses.com. I always figured I'd grow out of watching their stuff, but now I can hardly go on that site without being annoyed by the obnoxious and unfunny videos that practically permeate from its content creators as well as the users who practically fellate these guys for every turd that they drop. The major exception I think is Oan citizen. That dude is the bee's knees.

I guess it doesn't help that most of their shticks went stale and they lost a lot of people along the way.

Same here kinda'. Nostalgia Critic stopped his show (which was by and large pretty good, save for a bum review here and there, no pun intended), and all his other content besides the bum sucks. Also Spoony left, and his sight started to suck, really the only one I still watch is Angry Joe, and he's shared with Blistered Thumbs and his own website, and hell I'm even starting to get tired of him.

 

[renegade7]

My high school girlfriend.

 

[anthony87]

College, or more specifically what I chose to do.

You have any idea how depressing it is to be a year and a half in and realise that you don't actually like what you do? That you're doing it not because you want to, but because you feel like you have to?

 

[Valkrex]

Call of Duty. I loved the series, I had fun with it since the beginning. Then Call of Duty 4 happened, and I loved it even more! Then Modern Warfare 2 came out, and the series began to decline in my eyes as I saw it having shorter and shorter campaigns, a lack of innovation, extremely unbalanced multiplayer, HORRIBLE business practices, an overabundance of DLC (most of which sucked) and many many issues besides.

That and almost every shooter now is trying to be CoD makes me hate it even more. I mean Dammit Crysis what happened? 2 was still fun, and better than a lot of other shooters that are coming out these days (I'M LOOKING AT YOU MEDAL OF HONOR) but I liked the open world of the first game SO much more than New York, which has been overdone to the point of Cliche.



And dammit Battlefield what happened? BF3 was supposed to be the best BF ever, but it ended up being a watered down version of BFBC2 AT BEST.

 

[Valkrex]

Family Guy.

Jesus Christ Seth McFarlane has lost his touch, with his shitty spinoffs which work on the exact same formula, the increasingly predictable and unfunny cutaway gags and the degeneration rather than progression of all the characters. The further in the program has gone, the more extremely stereotyped each character and joke has become. They're just whaling on the same cliche gags that made the series funny each time.

RuneScape.

It started going downhill early last year when they introduced microtransactions following the introduction of a wheel of fortune clone which you could buy spins on through microtransactions. And this wheel could potentially award high-level gear.

That and the combat rework has finally cemented it for me that the shareholders are thinking "We want to be like WoW! Lets copy everything they do!" so most of the preached updates so far this year are new raid bosses, updates to existing raid bosses to make them relevant after being left behind by the rest of the game and new quests which will probably unlock more raid bosses.

Not my cup of tea, so my stomach turns every time i think of going back to it.

Also this, except the combat rework and animations actually partially revived my interest. But nothing will save it until they bin the fucking investors. What was originally a unique take on MMO worlds with a great quest system has managed to drop everything that made it special in favour of aping every other popular MMO. The website redesign, the latest models and armour designs, the animation styles, all ripped wholesale from WoW, Aion and other big names in the MMO business. It's being milked as a cash cow, and when it eventually stops increasing in revenue the investors will drop it, pocket the cash and leave it to flounder and die.

The microtransactions are genuinely sickening, and my final straw was seeing tons of concepts for what were actually pretty damn cool being released as Solomon Store merch for the low low price of £20! That and the fucking panda costumes. That just happened to coincide with the release of mists of pandaria for WoW. Fuck off Jagex, kindly let yourself die with your shreds of dignity rather than allowing the investors to continue with this disgusting mess.

And this. I used to love Runescape. Sure the combat was weird, and the graphics meh at best, but the world was fantastic! The stories for the quests were some of the best I have EVER seen!

 

[Zeldias]

MMOs in general. When I was a kid reading PC Gamer, Ultima Online sounded incredible. I'd fantasize about it. I forced my computer to run EQ when Ruins of Kunark came out (had to turn off the damn sky to get an almost playable frame rate), and was all about AO and so on. Now I can only bring myself to screw around in GW2 once in a while, occasionally play Rift a bit, and that's it. Just hate them. Wish there was an MMO that didn't devolve into "kill tough monsters for better loot to kill tougher monsters" treadmill, or at least did it with some panache, like Monster Hunter.

Forgotten Realms. I guess I don't exactly hate it, but as I've explored other fantasy novels and stuff, it's become more and more stale. Some books can be really good and refreshing, but it's not often. Same with DragonLance. And damn, am I tired of beautiful white people saving the day (which is actually killing me with A Song of Ice and Fire and Wheel of Time, even though I still enjoy both).

Final Fantasy. I still love and froth at the mouth over FF6 (and adopted a stray cat that I've named Sabin), but FFX was the last one I could bring myself to finish; couldn't bring myself to try the sequels because I hate Yuna, I don't care much for Rikku, and don't care to meet Payne. FF12 wasn't as bad as I first thought, but it didn't hold my interest. FF13 was a crime against taste and decency.

Journalism. Maybe I was naive, but in high school, journalism seemed so bad ass and courageous. Now that I've peeled back some layers and seen the progression of both print and televised journalism, I'm sick of it. I still keep up with news, but I have to comb through shit to find something I find trustworthy.

Star Wars. I still love the original trilogy. And I love KotoR 1 and 2. But man, soon that cow ain't gonna have much milk left.

Dogs. I love animals, but cats are so much quieter and easier to deal with. And even though they might climb curtains and stuff, I've never had a cat eviscerate my things the way my dogs used to.

CAPCHA: Cupid's arrow. And yes, obligatory joke about ex-girlfriends here. Though I do miss my former fiancee.

 

[NiPah]

Yoohoo.
The drink Yoohoo...
As a kid I loved it for a few months, drank it when I had the flu or something and then hated the taste.
I haven't had it in ages tho, maybe I'll like it again, gotta find it one of these days.
To answer the question no, while I make grow tired develop a dislike for a flavor of something it has never lead to an actual hatred.