Your Arch-nemesis Game
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Gears of war, the only fun I had in it was was from playing coop with a friend while making fun of the game. Even then we still got mad over certain parts. Playing the multi-player only made it worse once I realized that every match just came down to who ever grabbed the sniper rifle or managed to get off the melee kill first. I mean for gods sake it's a shooter yet I could unload an entire clip into an enemy as he's charging me and still lose because he threw his chainsaw into my face.
Final Fantasy VIII. I'm a big fan of the series, but I do not like this game and I will never like this game
This. So much. It's sad too, because I love Final Fantasy in general, but Final Fantasy XIII just dropped the bar in every way. The combat is annoying and finnicky, the story makes no sense, the music is decent at best, and boring at worst, the characters are a bunch of anime stereotypes and the pacing completely sucks. It's just... bad. Very. Bad.shrekfan246 said:
If I had to choose... It'd probably be Ratchet and Clank. I don't hate it, but it's basically my biggest opposing force. The story is bland, Ratchet is completely unlikable, Clank is not that great as well. The Gameplay also leaves a bit to be desired. It's just an overall Blandwich with only a few good spots in it. T
Before anyone tries to pick apart my statement, please remember this thread is based on Opinion.
Before anyone tries to pick apart my statement, please remember this thread is based on Opinion.
Doesn't work. For someone to hate a game, they will have had to play that game, which means they'll have already purchased said game. Can't refuse to buy something you already have.Sp3ratus said:
Also, the whole point of this thread is to ask people's opinions, so it's pretty lame of you to try to say that someone else's opinion is wrong.
Oh yeah, Final Fantasy IX is pretty much my favorite game of all time. Just makes it all the more disheartening that all of the things XIII does that are like earlier games in the franchise, it does so much worse than previous games in the franchise.theemporer said:
For instance, I'll wrap the story/characters/pacing all together and compare them to IX:
In both games, the story proceeds in a linear path with very little openness of the world around you for the first 10-20 hours. However, in the first ten hours of IX, the Queen of a kingdom has gone mad with power, tried to kill her daughter and overthrow the entire continent, spurred on by the words of a "weapons dealer" who is providing her with all of her power. In the first ten hours of XIII, everyone gets magical abilities and then splits up into pairs because of reasons, and Snow ends up getting kidnapped. And Lightning fights Odin.
In the first fifteen hours of IX, we've seen Vivi the black mage start questioning his origins and his future as a result of meeting lifeless drones that look like him, we've seen Princess Garnet get crushed by the weight of
the death of her mother and the destruction of her kingdom,
In XIII, we see Hope vow to get revenge on Snow for something he couldn't even change, we see Snow act like a cocky douche or get flashbacks of him with Lightning's sister in which he exhibits barely any personality, we see Vanille act all happy and cooky to Sazh's sober apathy, and we see Lightning grimace until she tells Hope to stop whining so much. But there's no weight behind any of their interactions, because they never exhibit any other personality traits. Sazh is the only one who even comes across as a normal human being.
Even the forced character changing segments were better done in IX, because they don't generally last all that long. You're not spending two and a half hours running down a corridor as a character you can't empathize with, before quantum leaping into the body of another character who has no personality for two and a half hours.
Ech, I knew this would happen. And it's only Final Fantasy XIII that makes me get this way.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Its just so difficult to enjoy or get into. Ive taken several cracks at it, and just never got the will to see it through. Stealth and precision require finesse, and you can't achieve it with the horrible tools and controls it sticks you with. The only good thing that can be said for it is the central theme of human augmentation.
Oh, and Dark Athena takes second place.
Oh, and Dark Athena takes second place.
And calling someone out for arguing with opinion in an opinion-based thread isn't a waste of time? And besides, sometimes you spend the money on what you think is a good game only to find out it was bad. Doesn't that validate the feeling of hate? Or you could just hate what a game represents, which i think was Yahtzee's reasoning for hating CoD: MW3 and BF3.Sp3ratus said:
OT: I have a strange relationship with Saints Row: The Third. I loved Saints Row 2 so when it was sequel time i was really hyped to get back in the sandbox. The game seemed fine then and there, already then it felt like a downgrade from SR2 but i was still having fun so i brushed that niggling doubt under the mental carpet.
It wasn't really until a while later i realized how hollow the experience had really been, and i'd say that hindsight disappointment was even more bitter than if i'd realized it when i was playing the game.
So i guess Saints Row: The Third takes the crown, because it's a game i'll never return to because it tricked me into trusting it, only to later let me realize how poisonous the relationship had been.
I don't really have a game that I hate more than any other, but I do have a certain disdain and loathing for modern military FPS games, or as Yahtzee calls them, spunkgargleweewee. What bothers me the most about them is how bland, brown, and samey they've become lately. Sure, they have different stories and some might be interesting, but most of them have you feeding a bunch of turbans a fresh bowl of lead salad for dinner with virtually the same guns in very similar wrecked environments. Even the strawberry jelly smearing across the screen looks the same in all the games. There's also the fact that any deviation from the set path is often met with a swift death is, in my opinion, irritating and stupid. It's as if game publishing companies don't want to risk ANYTHING at all when making a profit and just resort to the same formula that they know works every time.
Either way, it doesn't matter what I say. The public at large will still gulp down this homogenized swill with a smile without a care for what's actually good.
DISCLAIMER: This is my opinion. Deal with it.
Either way, it doesn't matter what I say. The public at large will still gulp down this homogenized swill with a smile without a care for what's actually good.
DISCLAIMER: This is my opinion. Deal with it.
Pretty much most (not all) things made this gen. I am not a big fan of the direction games went. I thought every generation before this one was spectacular in every way, even if the last gen wavered somewhat. But now I only see homogenized garbage made to sell as many copies as possible. Rare is it you find a game made for the people who actually like that genre. Hell, most genres don't even exist anymore! (R.I.P. horror) And as much as I like FPSs, I didn't like them near enough to be as prevalent as they are now. Even people at 2012's E3 were yawing from the FPS fatigue going around. If it wasn't for Dust:an Elysian tail's gameplay and Borderland's 2 humor, I would have sold my 360 this year. Hell, considering what a snowball effect this seems to be, I think I'll probably be lucky to find ONE game I like on the Xbox next year.
We also lost way too many developers in the last transition, and I just don't think it was worth it. (R.I.P. Sega, Rare, Capcom, etc.) Oh sure, they are still alive... if you call that living.
We also lost way too many developers in the last transition, and I just don't think it was worth it. (R.I.P. Sega, Rare, Capcom, etc.) Oh sure, they are still alive... if you call that living.
Mario Strikers Charged Football. The online community used so many cheap tricks and when the basic premise of the game is to play dirt then it's pretty hard not to be annoyed. It's the only game that's made me tru to throw my controller in rage but sadly the Wii remote wrist strap stopped me in my tracks.
Really? I never knew you could take double damage without your hat. I always thought it was cosmetic. :/
OT: Sonic 06. That game. That FUCKING game.
I was a huge fan of the Sonic Adventure series. I even enjoyed Sonic Heroes and (to a much lesser extent) Shadow the Hedgehog.
When I first heard of Sonic 06, I was pretty excited. When my dad, my brother and me flew down someplace for a tae-kwon-do tournament, I went to a local GameStop at a mall and bought the game. At the tournament, I saw a little kid there who also happened to like Sonic. I dug out my copy of 06 and showed it off to him. From what I remember he was awe-struck.
When I finally got home, I rushed to my room, placed the game in my 360 and I got excited. This was going to be the birth of the next generation of Sonic the Hedgehog! What could possibly go wrong?
...
Yeah you know the rest.
The sad thing is, that kid I mentioned probably went and bought the game because of me. And I probably crushed his childhood and his innocence.
Final fantasy 13, I really do hate this game, everything about it. I like final fantasy a lot and 12 was my favorite, then this thing comes out.
It even started my horrible habit of me not beating games.
It even started my horrible habit of me not beating games.
I feel for you the same thing happened to me nothing worse than finally clearing a difficult section and then having the game freeze on you. The game was hard enough in parts but battling the game and Xbox was too much I changed mine eventually before finishing it, at least the game gets significantly easier after the first Alma battle though.Void Bringer said:
Dont know what my Arch Nemesis game would be but maybe Street Fighter 2 I mean I love it and am pretty good at it after the thousands of hours I have wasted playing it in my youth but no game has pissed me off as much and kept me coming back, goddamn Sagat I hate you so much I can still hear him now hyper hyper hyper uppercut goddamn so annoying. (Im pretty sure its Tiger but always sounded like Hyper to me)
Saviordd1 said:
i wont dismiss this by saying its your opinion. what i will argue is the "objectively" bad when alll you listed were opinionated complaints. show me how tis objectively bad and that statement has merit. I'm not saying you are wrong to hate it. Im saying you are wrong to call it objectively bad without proper proof.
OT: Majora's mask.... i want to love you...i want to believe the hype.. I want to say your uniqueness for a Nintendo game is good..... but...you just arent in my eyes.... I HATE YOU WITH A PASSION YOU PIECE OF SHIT. You're a terribly unfun, Horribly designed (in my eyes here), overhyped trash....and you are my most hated game.... please...die in a fire. Ocarina of time you can join him.
It would be nice if you explained your opinions a little more.Saviordd1 said:
Like. "Gearbox stealing shit" What do you mean with this? From where they "Stole all that shit"? "The loot system literally tricks players into liking it" What the fuck? How does it Trick us then?
Mainly those two. The others are a little more understable... somewhat.
And I honestly dont get how you dont like the Humor at all. I thougt it was actually pretty funny and friendly game at times, and that comming from me is just not something that happens everyday...
That begins said, Borderlands 1 is better than 2 is some aspects... but I dont think thats relevant right now.
Oh yeah, as for myself... I will take this opportunity to nominate Dragon fucking AGE as my nemesis game. It just fits so much... The worst of the very worst is in that fucking game. I will add additional details, but I am pretty sure most people already know why I hate it so much...
Dragon Age is my ultimane game nemesis. I just dont know how it even exists.
It was the other way around for me. The nerfing of Shadow's character growth from Adventure 2 aggrivates me in retrospect, but the new team-based gameplay mechanics was what made me dislike Heros as a kid. Add that onto the fact that the ring-collecting minigame had come back in the form of balloon-popping madness, and it was the perfect recipie for disaster for me.scorptatious said:
Admitidly, it did have a better story than Shadow the Hedgehog did...I still say they need to hire better writers, though.
He was already a fan, so he was going to get it sooner or later with or with out your help. Don't let it get to you.The sad thing is, that kid I mentioned probably went and bought the game because of me. And I probably crushed his childhood and his innocence.
OT:
Real Answer: Dream TV for the SNES.
As a child, there was a locally owned game rental store that I visited from time to time to rent videogames. When it went out of buisness, it began to sell the videogames dirt cheap. For some reason or another, I chose to buy games I was unfamiliar with. This led to me buying Super Metroid, Dr. Mario (I...think), and Dream TV.
It so happens that Dream TV wasn't only the blandest game I had ever seen, it was one of the worst ones I had ever played. The story is as nonexistant as the tutorial, the mechanics were terrible and frustrating, the music looped from the second the title screen appeared, the goal was unexplained, and weapon changes did nothing but change the pixels. I left the game on the title screen once and the credits started rolling to reveal that only eight people actually worked on this game. I'm still annoyed that this turd still sits in my cabinets today instead of some other great game.
Alternate/Somewhat False Answer: Demon's Souls for the PS3.
In all honesty, I don't hate this game per say, just certain things about it.
-Halfed HP when you die in body form. Why?
-Experience points as currency. I suppose that would be fair if I didn't need 24 strength to equip the best armor that you sell to me, you old git. It ensures that you'll have to go back and grind. A lot.
-You drop souls when you die in a level, making said grinding even more of a chore, particularly when starting a new game.
-Enemies in levels actually get stonger when you die in body form as opposed to only doing so when you manage a perfect run. That makes no sense. If a player is having a hard time going through a level with full life, what makes you think they'd want to do it with half!? (Yes, Cling Ring, but that's still less than full)
-Speaking of stronger enemies, why is it such a pain to change the world tendancy in offline mode? I suppose that offering to brighten it by offering souls would've made for more grinding, but still~
-Certain bosses are easier with help from NPC characters...and almost impossible without them.
I love the gameplay. I love the minimalistic approach to storytelling with the emphasis on atmosphere. I even love the idea of leveling the character one stat at a time so that he can be either perfectly balanced or a juggernaught in both offense and magic while being able to be cut down by a paper sword. However, everything else in the game makes the legendary difficulty that it's known for feel cheap.
EDIT: I somehow managed to forget the thread title half way through typing the post. Demon's Souls would be the only answer since it's the only game I keep coming back to, whereas Dream TV has collected enough dust to be a miniature litter box.