A game that everybody else loves, but you hate? (Witcher 2)

[Antendo]

and clap trap to be annoying instead of funny.

I KNEW I can't be the only one that hates clap trap. I frankly can't understand how some people think he's funny! OH WELL!

Resident Evil 4
I tried, oh god I TRIED to like it but I just can't. I'm unable. Just no. I do see how it basically revolutionized the RE games, but goddamnit if it didn't piss me off most of the time. I tried to be open minded about it, I tried to like it after hearing all the praise from my friends but in the end I was just actively trying my best not to hate it. But the game won.

Final Fantasy X
Ehhmehmehmmhhemh... I don't have the slightest clue why people say it's one of the (or THE) best FF game. It barely kept my interest long enough for me to finish it, and I haven't even thought of replaying it [like I have the other FF games, the ones I liked (mainly VII and IX)] and it's been like 5 years since I played it.

 

[ledchicken]

Well I don't HATE them, but I can't stand to play any of the Mario, Donkey Kong and Kirby games for more than a few minutes before I just become too bored to continue playing.

Also metal gear solid 4, very enjoyable gameplay, but a story that was really not executed very well.

I also really disliked some of the elements of bioshock infinite, not enough to stop me enjoying the hell out of that game though, I just like the way Irrational makes games I guess.

clap trap to be annoying instead of funny.

Gosh darn how I hate that little shit

 

[Madame_Lawliet]

OBLIVION! I can't put into words how frustrating that game was for me, I played it because I'm a massive Fallout fan and a little birdie told me that it was allot like Fallout 3, which was partially correct... only I don't like FO:3 for the gameplay (I actually think it's a bit rubbish) I love it for the atmosphere, and the music, and the whole feel of exploring this ginormous world, not entirely sure what you'll find around the next corner! And while Oblivion has the (kinda) big world, it's setting and atmosphere was just unappealing to me (I REALLY hate the whole "orks and elves" setting, it's why I like JRPGs more then WRPGs 90% of the time) plus you're able to fast travel to all the big cities from the get go so... why should I even bother exploring exactly? Plus it has everything I hate about FO:3 in spades; only, being made first, it only intensified the terrible voice acting, terrible animation, and terrible bug testing. Wrap that all up in a combat system I could just never get used to, and I just couldn't be asked with that game.
I'm really glad I still decided to pick up Skyrim though, 'cause that game is INFINITELY better in my opinion, and the Nordic theming offsets the dumbass western fantasy crap just enough for me to enjoy it.

 

[John the Gamer]

for example, me and Witcher 2.(...)

First thing I thought when I played the Witcher II was: "If only this had Assassin's Creed's controls, combat and movement, it would be awesome." That is, AFTER I thought: "Why isn't the sound in this shitty tutorial working."

I picked it up on the steam summer sale and let's just say I'm glad I didn't buy it at full price.

So then I just went back to playing Dishonored. I'm trying to see just how many waves of guards I can survive in the Prison level after blowing the door.

I also didn't like Dayz all that much, nor Arma 2 which it is based on(mostly because the missions put you in command of a squad really quickly, and I just want to play as a common infantry soldier). I also never really got into Just Cause 2.

 

[Doomtrack]

Kingdom hearts, i feel that it butchers characters from other series i love.

 

[DSK-]

I have to say that I, too, wasn't keen on Witcher 2. A good friend of mine said he completed about 4 times, and I wondered as to why he'd put himself through so much hardship. The problem I had with the game was that I found it immensely boring.

Also, someone mentioned that you can be bro's with two people. Well, I did until the last part of the game when he practically branded me a traitor despite trying to do so much for him :/

 

[Evonisia]

Battlefield 3: It's a fucking massive downgrade from Bad Company 2. The graphics, destruction, gunplay, map design, class system are far fucking worse than BC2. The weapons are way too fucking floaty and inaccurate.

Saints Row the Third: To me Saints Row 3 is just fucking stupid. It's the kind of stupid that is not funny but just plain stupid. The fourth seems to be continuing this trend (dubstep gun? That isn't funny it's just stupid). Also the game world is boring and lifeless and the controls suck.

Halo 4: 343 Industries ruined Halo. The game used to be about team work and map control and now it's just future Call of Duty where whoever gets the best gun from the sky wins. They removed Halo's unique identity. My friends and I played Halo 3 for years and we played Halo 4 for about two weeks.

Oh it's nice to see hatred toward's Halo 4's multiplayer, and I fully agree on BF3. Whenever I say "Well I liked Bad Company 2" I get a "wurr you must be bad at BF3 to hate it then! You can't hate something unless you don't like the style or you're bad at it and you liked BC2".

Fully agree on Saints Row: The Third.

 

[Cybylt]

for example, me and Witcher 2.(...)

First thing I thought when I played the Witcher II was: "If only this had Assassin's Creed's controls, combat and movement, it would be awesome."

I'd rather the game not play itself. Platforming (and by platforming I mean holding forward and R or whatever the sprint button is now) has little to do with a witcher's work too.

Also, while Geralt is described as a superb swordsman the games rarely pitch him in fights where it's simply wave upon wave of faceless mooks, in a sense it's also much more realistic in that three or more guys at once is a very challenging fight.

In Assassin's Creed the key to winning combat is parry a highly telegraphed attack and then punish it with an insta-kill. In The Witcher, preparation is equally important to the sword swinging itself and while reading tells is a part of it since that's sort of inherent to real time combat, it is not the sole focus. AC's combat controls transitions pretty poorly to fighting anything other than humans as well, and it's kind of a witcher's thing to fight non-human entities, especially large ones with bounties on them.

 

[Ishal]

Zelda Ocarina of Time (Though it might as well be Zelda games in general)

The game that is legendary for some unknown reason completely beyond me. The camera is awful and so are the characters. The fantasy setting is boring and so is the gameplay. The graphics like in Super Mario 64 have not aged well at all. It's one of those Nintendo legacy games that I'll never understand the appeal of. Guess you had to be young and naive to have it capture your childhood to understand it.

 

[Lunar Templar]

One and two came bundled, 7 was morbid curiosity mixed with a very decently put together demo I played at Babbages (RIP), 10 I borrowed as part of a friend going "it's really great, look at the reviews. Tom wouldn't lie to you would he?"

Also that's when I learned that Tom (Toonami) could, in fact, lie to me.

should be noted, 7 was the start of the 'decline', and a lot of the problems with later games can be traced right back to it. But you should go back and play the SNES era ones,(4, 5, and 6) many consider that to be the best over all stretch of Final Fantasy games, though 5 is admittedly the weakest of the three plot wise.

more OT;

Notta fan of Half Life. Found it rather boring and ended up putting it down and never picking it back up.

FF7: don't really 'hate it' but I am tired of people acting like this utterly average game and its Villain are something special. They aren't, and Sepharoth was a pathetic villain, Exdeath was better. (yeah I said it)

Mass Effect/Dragon Age; Origin: in a word? Boring. Mass Effect lost me early in and while I've beaten DAO I don't actually remember anything plot wise about it, as for game play. More boring only reason I beat DAO is I had a mod that let me dual wield great swords so I just steam rolled everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) so while combat was dull, it didn't last very long.

Notta fan of CoD, but I tend to dislike FPS on the whole so moving along.

I don't like Bethesda for charging full price for what amounts to an incomplete game they expect the players to fix and finish.

honestly, this is a harder list for me to write then others, if I don't like a game I don't play it and eventually forget about almost completely save that I disliked it, and thats what generally happens unless people keep bringing the fucking thing up.

 

[Glongpre]

Final Fantasy 10, it just sucked in my opinion. The leveling up system was a mess, all but a couple of the characters were enjoyable to play as (Auron and Kimahri) and the ending to the game was just terrible. The second to last boss fight was amazing and beautiful and you really felt that you were facing impossible odds. Then the last fight happens and you feel as though you were cheated

Spoiler

At the end of the game your fighting Yu Yevon who is essentially a god, but the fight is way to easy and impossible to loose, so whats the point

It annoys me because this game could have been great, if they trimmed off a few of the characters or even made Auron the main character this game could have been something special. Instead we got Tidus. That's all I need to say

Leveling was linear actually, until the calm lands(roughly, or whenever you get lvl. 3/4 spheres) and then you can do whatever you want. The ending was good I thought, Tidus ends up dying and they don't pull any bs magic out of nowhere.

I don't think Yu Yevon is a god, isn't he just a summoner or mage from Zanarkand? He lives on through the final summoning and exacts his vengeance on Spira.

The final boss really is Jecht, but I think they made you invincible because you don't know he is going to take all your summons. If you power level then your summons would be hard as fuck.

I could get behind Auron as the main character, but I thought the love story was well done, and the ending q.q

 

[AidoZonkey]

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Leveling was linear actually, until the calm lands(roughly, or whenever you get lvl. 3/4 spheres) and then you can do whatever you want.

It was good how they allowed you the option to do anything, but it felt so needlessly complicated. The Spear Grid was a good idea really poorly executed. When ever I used it i didnt feel like my characters were getting stronger. It would of really benefited with a class specialization system.

I don't think Yu Yevon is a god, isn't he just a summoner or mage from Zanarkand? He lives on through the final summoning and exacts his vengeance on Spira.

Although technically not a God, he was worshiped by the people of Spira, had almost infinite power and had an entire religion built around him. He may have been a summoner a long time ago, he became someone who either was a God or equivalent of a God.

The final boss really is Jecht, but I think they made you invincible because you don't know he is going to take all your summons. If you power level then your summons would be hard as fuck.

I guess your right, but still I would of preferred more of a challenge in the final fight. The Jecht was so much fun and the highlight of the game, if they made that the last fight of the game it would have been so much more prominent. Maybe reverse the fights so you fight Yu Yevon first before Ject, I dont know, it might work

I could get behind Auron as the main character, but I thought the love story was well done, and the ending q.q

I can see the beauty in the story so as much as I say make "Auron the main character", I cant blame anyone for liking Tidus. He just gets on my nerves, but hey, I know people hate Cloud for the same reasons and hes one of my favorite characters so I cant complain too much.

 

[Mullac]

Red Dead Redemption. For most of the reasons Yahtzee points out in his review, in my eyes it's one of the most overrated games I've played.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

Red Dead Redemption. For most of the reasons Yahtzee points out in his review, in my eyes it's one of the most overrated games I've played.

Yes I forgot about Red Dead Redemption.

Incredibly boring world, bullshit load times, boring and repetitive missions (every single fucking one boils down to ride here, shoot guys, chase train, shoot guys, ride back), horrendous amount of bugs and constantly clicking A to make your horse go faster fucking kills my thumb after a few minutes.

Terrible, terrible game.

 

[White Lightning]

I've gotta agree with the Witcher 2, I mean I really tried but god it's boring. I'm at the part after the swamp town and I just can't think of a reason to play it.

The combat is crap. I tried a few different things but eventually I just spammed the shield spell and threw bombs at everything, no point to do much else because it isn't as effective or fun enough to try the other things.

I'm not far enough in the story to really judge it (I just got the gates in the area surrounded by the mist opened) but from what I've seen I'm not too impressed. The characters are all boring and most conversations are the same thing, a few sex or drinking jokes, complaining about politics and next thing you know you have a quest. Although like I said before I'm not very far so that may be why.

There are a few other complaints but those are the biggest.

I really wanted to like it too, I was dieing of boredom in the Swamp village but I said "Nah it's gotta get better..." but it never did.


Another one is the Fallout series, but that's mostly because I don't like the RPG shooters. I don't care if it's a higher level than me I shot it in the face goddammit.

I don't like Minecraft either. It depresses me. I look at what I spent the last hour and a half making and just say "why?"

 

[porous_shield]

Skyrim and Oblivion. A few of my friends love the games and have put hundreds of hours into them but having played them myself at least a dozen hours each and watched them play I just don't understand the draw to the game. I also dislike first person close combat but that just adds to the fact I find the games immensely boring.

Any modern military shooter. I hate just about everything about them. I hate having just two weapons, I hate the way the knife works, I hate regenerating health and the your vision getting bloody, I hate having to aim through the iron sights, and I hate head bob when you run.

 

[Anti Nudist Cupcake]

Dragon Age origins. It's bland, boring and....boring.

This, a million, million times this. Dragon age origins utterly failed to draw me in with its daudy selection of unlikeable characters. Completely generic world/story/visuals and tedious dialog

It's a wonder it got such good reviews...

When people said Dragon Age 2 was bland and boring my thought was "as opposed to what? The first one? I thought you'd be thrilled..."

 

[Glongpre]

Zelda Ocarina of Time (Though it might as well be Zelda games in general)

The game that is legendary for some unknown reason completely beyond me. The camera is awful and so are the characters. The fantasy setting is boring and so is the gameplay. The graphics like in Super Mario 64 have not aged well at all. It's one of those Nintendo legacy games that I'll never understand the appeal of. Guess you had to be young and naive to have it capture your childhood to understand it.

There isn't anything wrong with it to be honest. The combat isn't broken, the setting is pretty much the same as other fantasy settings. Of course the graphics haven't aged well, did you just play this game recently? At the time it was remarkable, and if you play it without comparing it to stuff we have today(which is unfair), then you would enjoy it a lot more. I only played it in 2010 and it was very good, the gameplay stood the test of time for sure.

I am mostly responding because your final sentence is really stupid.

 

[Ishal]

Zelda Ocarina of Time (Though it might as well be Zelda games in general)

The game that is legendary for some unknown reason completely beyond me. The camera is awful and so are the characters. The fantasy setting is boring and so is the gameplay. The graphics like in Super Mario 64 have not aged well at all. It's one of those Nintendo legacy games that I'll never understand the appeal of. Guess you had to be young and naive to have it capture your childhood to understand it.

There isn't anything wrong with it to be honest. The combat isn't broken, the setting is pretty much the same as other fantasy settings. Of course the graphics haven't aged well, did you just play this game recently? At the time it was remarkable, and if you play it without comparing it to stuff we have today(which is unfair), then you would enjoy it a lot more. I only played it in 2010 and it was very good, the gameplay stood the test of time for sure.

I am mostly responding because your final sentence is really stupid.

I played it twice. First when it was relatively new on the N64, then again when they had a release of it on the Gamecube along with Majora's Mask I think. When I played it on the N64, the gameplay felt boring and restrictive. I never said the combat was broken, just boring and unappealing.

I didn't mean that as a slight, but I meant what I said. It's one of these Nintendo games where it seems everyone praising it grew up with the early games on the SNES and have been praising every game since. I just don't see the appeal.