Which gaming classics do you loathe?

[bojac6]

Oh my god I am going to be hated.

Deus ex.
I just don't.
I'm sorry.

Agree. I just can't get into it. I've gotten as far as the inside of the statue of liberty but the stealth is just awful.

same here ... i genuinely tried to like it ... but couldn't stomach the first level ... **activates flame shield** ... i think invisible war was better

The first level is painful, I'll admit. You gotta push past it though, it's truly a masterpiece (with a hiccup at the beginning). You haven't really gotten through the tutorial level yet and you've judged it as a poor game.

Sorry, I'm rather passionate about this because I too gave up on the first level the first time I tried to play it. And years later pushed through it and now I consider it the best game ever made. I don't want other people to fall into the same track.


Either way, I can't hate you for it. I didn't like Half-life 2. I thought it was boring, had bad gun play and hardly any story. I thought it was just a decent game, but not great by any means.

 

[Legion IV]

I'm Prolly going to be flammed for this but
it is my opinion

I just don't care for the Half-life Saga, I have played them all and I just cant get into them, I dont think they arn't worthy of respect they just dont do it for me

FINNALY am not alone.

 

[theSovietConnection]

Half-Life 2, in my opinion. There wasn't much along the line of story (and before anyone says anything, I did look for it, harder then you should have to for a story), I didn't find many of the characters likeable, the vehicle segments were terrible, and the game spent a good amount of time wanking off it's physics engine. Having said that, though, I never played the first, so maybe I''m missing something, but unless the game delivers me chocolate covered bacon on a silver platter, it has quite a bit to make up for.

 

[Crispee]

The Metroid Prime Trilogy, I really did try but I just couldn't get into it, I'm gonna try Metroid: Other M because I hear it's more like the side scrollers.

 

[StriderShinryu]

Well, Half Life doesn't even come close to appealing to me.. but if you're actually talking games really considered as classics, I've gotta go with Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Pitfall, etc. Sure they may have been groundbreaking games at the time but they have not stood the test of time in terms of fun and playability.

 

[Wolf Devastator]

KotOR and Metroid.

KotOR probably because I found it late and I didn't like the mashing of the genres.

Metroid because... there is nothing good about it? Unless you like sub-par arcade shooters I suppose. Seems too narrow of an audience for how much I hear about it.

 

[repeating integers]

...Wow. I came into this thread expecting one hundred million billion trillion etc. posts proclaiming how Halo: CE is the worst thing ever and how it should be destroyed. I did NOT expect to see such a Valve-aligned community (for the most part) dishing out so much hate for Half-Life 2. By the gods, it is glorious to watch.

I tried KOTOR for a while, found it annoyingly difficult to navigate through and the voice acting to be too cheesy. The last straw came when it froze and forced me to restart the Xbox. At that point I realised ho much more awesome Mass Effect was and went to play that instead.

 

[Glaive_21842]

Wizardry 8
Supposidely a masterpiece oldschool RPG, but just a confusing and boring piece of WTF for me...

and the list goes on!
Neverwinter Nights...
Icewind Dale II...
Freaking Dragon Age...
The Witcher (more for the fact that it wont stop F***ING CRASHING ON ME)...

Sure i should probably stop trying to like these games since i clearly despise them, but i play F***ing D&D for gods sake! How the hell do i not like these games >_<!?!?

 

[Raijha]

I still think the only GTA I fully enjoyed was vice city, so, all other GTA then that.

 

[WaysideMaze]

the racing genre, except for those games that consist of trying to destroy the opposition.

I used to be awesome at crashing everyone elses car in burnout 3.

 

[irishstormtrooper]

I can't enjoy playing Half-Life 2. The fact that no one really clues you in on anything gets on my nerves, the shooting isn't satisfying at all, and the vehicle controls suck donkey balls. I know it's supposed to be TEH GRATEST GAEM EVAR, but I just don't find it any fun.

 

[s0m3th1ng]

Edit: Also the whole viewing of old games with expectations of new games.

This this this this this. OF course Ocarina of Time looks like shit now. But back then, it was gorgeous (If you had the expansion pak...a whole 4 more megs of ram)

And I know this is subjective, and my young mind may have had something to do with it...but I'll never look back on the time I played Dragon Age with as much nostalgia as when I was playing Chrono Trigger or Goldeneye. Modern games, while very entertaining in every aspect, just seem to lack something that I can't put my finger on.

But OT... any of the resident evil games.

 

[Vrach]

I still think the only GTA I fully enjoyed was vice city, so, all other GTA then that.

Tried San Andreas? Not pushing ya to like it, but it's basically same as Vice City expect bigger and better, follows the same formula, improves and adds more vehicles, adds a body mod shop etc. Few RPG elements that might not appeal to everyone but you can just max the muscle in a few game days, eat a few pizzas for a bit of fat and ignore it for the rest of the game if you want. Only pain in the ass for me was the gang wars near the end (grindtastic to take over the whole city >.< ), but can easily ignore that as well except for the one mission. Fantastic voice actors though, Samuel L Jackson ftw

But anyway, OT: Hmmm... Diablo (and it's clones) I guess. I played it as a kid on my mate's computer, but it never really appealed much, was a way to kill time and a lousy one at that.

 

[Lordmarkus]

Fallout 2.

Which is kinda strange since I completely adore Fallout 1. For me they changed to many things to the worse. Tribe (wtf?), pretty much no Brotherhood (WTF?) and the sudden forced grimness (slavers, prostitiution, kid killers).

I really have to replay it someday - with patches and music.

Half-Life 2, in my opinion. There wasn't much along the line of story (and before anyone says anything, I did look for it, harder then you should have to for a story), I didn't find many of the characters likeable, the vehicle segments were terrible, and the game spent a good amount of time wanking off it's physics engine. Having said that, though, I never played the first, so maybe I''m missing something, but unless the game delivers me chocolate covered bacon on a silver platter, it has quite a bit to make up for.

Read 1984 and you got the complete story of Half-Life 2. The game borrows so much from the book it's not even funny.[footnote]Still best game EVAR![/footnote]

 

[Mr Waffle]

I think the RE4 completely changed the series. It wasnt the same kind of game as the other 3. They really could have changed some names and called it something else, and noone would link it to Resident Evil. But you know, franchises.

I think you're right. If RE4 had been called something else- I don't know, "Joey Joe Joe Jr Shabadoo's Wacky Spanish Vacation" or something- I'd probably have enjoyed it more. It was just too different from the RE games I loved and it drove me crazy.

 

[subject_87]

I'm not exactly euphoric over MW2 or Halo, and I didn't really like Gears of War 2.

 

[TerranReaper]

What is exactly defined as "classic"? I wouldn't consider COD1 or the first Halo old enough to be classics. Of course, anyone just starting to play classics in these days will obviously find it underwhelming due to all the advancements that have happened, which is obvious.

In any case, the Monkey Island games never really appealed to me that much, just didn't like the whole point-and-click kind of gameplay.

 

[FaceFaceFace]

Oh my god I am going to be hated.

Deus ex.
I just don't.
I'm sorry.

Don't feel bad. While I like it, I see where people wouldn't. I almost hate it at certain parts. The (by today's standards) horrible weapon interactions with the world, like how people take a sniper round to the neck and don't even flinch, really get on my nerves.

OT: NES games. Nostalgia doesn't affect me, so I just see them as, well, bad. If they were hacked with characters who weren't slugs and some sort of workable continuing/saving system, maybe.

 

[imaloony]

I didn't care much for Half Life 2 or Oblivion. Half Life 2 was okay but the level design was horrid and some of the enemies were pretty cheap. Oblivion was bad in nearly every definition of the word, other than the fun guilds and side quests.

 

[pwnzerstick]

FF7, its mainly the problems I have with JRPGs and turn based combat in general, mainly because the begginings of most JRPGs are very monotonous, due to you just hitting attack, every round of combat.