Let's see.
Final Fantasy 4. I love me some pre-X FF, don't get me wrong, but 4 is the one I really can't get into. There's something really off with the storyline, and I just hate the way the game kills off characters to make room in your party, only to have most of them "get better". I mean one of them fucking
explodes while falling from the air, and then turns up alive and well. It was really hard getting emotionally attached to those characters. It also means you always have to work with the characters the game gives you, you never get to customize your party. This absence of choice, combined with a very linear grind (you just level, and never get to choose skills/materia/magicite/whatever), is what kills the game for me.
Dragon Age: Origins. It's the video game equivalent of the kid who brags on the playground that his trainer calls him one of the best players on the soccer team, and then when everyone shows up to watch him play, he loses his shoe while making an own-goal. Spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate, my ass. It's not the worst game ever, but after beating it, I felt no compulsion to replay. I sold it, and haven't missed it since. It feels stiff, contrived, and endlessly padded. And Awakening was just awful. I'm not gonna bother with Dragon Age 2. Bioware has lost its mind.
And as for Fallout 3, which has some of the most annoying fanboys in the world, I'm just going to agree with this guy:
mastiffchild said:
Anyway, Fallout3 is definitely the one that annoys me most when people can't believe you don't agree that it's the bestest thing ever. It led me on for years and I got no closure on my dreams-it left me with blue balls for s series that I know will never be back in a form I can love. It was cruel.
Also, GTA IV. Remember GTA 1? It was fun and silly. IV is boring and pretentious.