Dumbest Reason(s) for Hating a Game?

[Smooth Operator]

"Its not realistic"

Also: "It's too realistic"

Too realistic is a valid complaint in my book, can you imagine a game like CoD where you have one single life(and when you lose it you cannot play that game ever again), and when you get hurt it takes months or even years to heal?
Realism hasto have it's limits.

 

[s0nic_al]

because it's popular.

That's at the top of my list as well. I mean come on, there are so many people who really behave like sheep, it's just sad. I can understand when something gets over hyped that it can be disappointing but COME ON!!! Hate!?

Some of these complaints seem pretty reasonable if explained a little more.

My favorite part of the "because it's popular argument" is that by hating a game just because it's popular, you are still being a sheep, just following another herd.

 

[Dys]

Bad graphics

How is bad graphics a reason for hating a game? If the graphics are objectively bad (which is different from not being photo realistic) it renders the game near unplayable, it's hugely important to be able to clearly and easily identify what's happening ingame. This whole attitude of "I hate good graphics because they detract from gameplay" is stupid, if the quality of the graphics falls low enough, the gameplay becomes very, very bad very, very quickly.

I think the "because it's on console x" or "because gaming reviews scored it poorly (or highly in some cases)" are both incomprehensibly stupid reasons to hate a game.

All I said was that bad graphics are a stupid reason to hate a game. A game should be able to stand up on gameplay, if nothing else. Story should also be good, but it's forgivable if gameplay is good. I never said graphics can't enhance a game, and if the graphics are so horrible you can't see shit, then yeah, they do detract from the game. I don't think that's the case very often, though.

"I hate good graphics because they detract from gameplay"

Were you implying that I thought that? That's just crazy. I said two words: "Bad graphics". Graphics can enhance a game (see: Crysis) or bring it down; Star Wars Battlefront 2 had a horrible draw distance on PS2, and therefore lost a point in my book. It was still a good game, though, and it proves my point - games don't need mindblowing graphics to be good.

In the end, graphics fall in the same bucket as story. Story can make a game better, and it can even almost completely rely on it (see: Mass Effect), or a game with minimal story can still be good (see: Timeshift, the original Half-Life, Doom 3). Exact same argument with graphics.

Oh, yes, and ever heard of Megaman Legends? Fucking awesome game when I was a kid. It also had fucking horrible graphics, and even then I knew it did. I didn't care. It was great.

You've missed my entire point. Pretty does not equal "good", as pretty is a subjective term. For graphics to be objectively bad, they must be (at least to some degree) ineffective, and ineffective graphics detract from gameplay, hence they are a reason to hate a game (especially if an otherwise good game is ruined by them).

Star wars battlefront 2 had awesome graphics, however the PS2 port was relatively poor and the game was apparently considerably worse on that platform than others, so the poor graphics detracted from the game. I'm not saying the game, on that platform, was terrible because of it (the graphics weren't so bad that the game was unplayable), but that's a relevant (however relatively mild) example of objectively poor graphics (though I stress, the graphics were quite good, I never had any draw distance issues on PC so I can't comment as to how poor it was on PS2 but the PC version has fantastic graphics).

 

[PureChaos]

because they sucked at it. a friend played Killer7 for 5 minutes, got killed and decided the game sucked. the game is awesome, he sucks!

 

[Omnific One]

Because it's not Morrowind.

 

[SageRuffin]

A friend of mine won't even consider looking at the L4D games because there's no real story.

This one can pertain to the game though it's really about its animated predecessor of the same name: Afro Samurai...

Only gay thing. and Reason i never watched this is because He's black. Wtf. Samurai is Jpn tradition. Japan is an island. Where the f this black weirdo come from?

That lovely piece of blasphemy up there is courtesy of YouTube. And he's referring to the titular character of Afro. I called him out on it, and... let's just say his response damn near gave me a brain hemorrhage (then again... YouTube...).

 

[Terminate421]

Halo is so stupid because it trys to rip off Space Marines!


Wow, just wow....

 

[SageRuffin]

Another thing, being in the military, I was pretty insulted when I read that a lot of people didn't like the ME2's Normandy Crash Site side mission since "you didn't shoot anyone". Granted, it's only a small piece of the overall game but the point still stands.

Disrespectful motherfuckers the lot of them. ¬__¬

 

[LightOfDarkness]

It looks like "a fucking cartoon" (TF2) or it's teeny tiny textures aren't in 16:9 1920x1200 res or it doesn't feature "realistic" weapons (SPAS-12 being carried by vietcong? yeah right)

 

[Dexiro]

Shamus Young wrote an article a few weeks ago about how he hated The Witcher solely because he hated the main character.

That's a dumb reason if ever I saw one.

I can't play a game if I hate the character I'm playing, it just breaks any hope of immersion completely.

 

[itsnotyouitsme]

"Because"

No argument, no discussion, nothing to go on at all. No reason to hate, no reason to like, no reason to play, no reason not to play.

 

[Jake the Snake]

"KOTOR was stupid, you don't get to be Jedi from the very beginning! And its so old, the graphics are terrible!"

I just glared at the person and said "It takes seriously takes maybe 2 hours to get off that starting planet, how long did you play for?"

"...15 minutes"

Jesus fucking christ.

 

[GamemasterAnthony]

In regards to the people that complain about not liking a game because of characters in it...I've actually seen a few complaints from people who hate a game because of characters NOT in it.

Those of you who remember all the people asking for certain characters to appear in Super Smash Brothers Brawl know what I'm talking about.

 

[Diligent]

Buddy of mine made my eye twitch with "Mass Effect just seems too story driven to be good."

In a certain context I agree with him. There was just so much bloody story content that I didn't really want it to be a game, I wanted it to be a novel, movie or TV series. I didn't really enjoy the game-play, but the writing was just so bloody good and I think it was made worse by the fact that it was a game... did anyone notice the way every time a character finished a sentence there was always a big pause before they started the second one? It's like they'd finished talking and then they just go talk more. There's nothing wrong with too much talking as I love storylines, but I think there wasn't really enough focus on the gameplay.

It's not that you're wrong, but it's his complete refusal to even consider the idea of playing it, and passing that judgment about the game without having seen it in action.
At least you played the game, and therefore your criticism about it is totally valid.
To deny yourself an awesome story because it looks like an awesome story doesn't make much sense to me.
At least if he played like 30 mins of it and decided it wasn't for him that would make sense.

 

[coolicus]

Hating a game because its not on your system(s) of choice.

I can understand being disappointed if a really anticipated game isn't on your system but that has no bearing on the game itself.

Being that I have a Computer + PS3 I generally don't suffer too badly . But I have no ill will towards X Box exclusives.

The whole reason for the console wars is that generally its young people without their own money so they only have one system so they must fanatically defend their system so avthey can partially blind themselves to envy.

Honestly I remember the hate directed towards Heavy Rain (great game!) by Xbots .

 

[SergeMC]

"Contra sucks because it is in 2d"
...says the guy that played it to death himself when he first got it... yeah, my father is kind of a dick sometimes.

 

[varulfic]

"Its not realistic"

Also: "It's too realistic"

Too realistic is a valid complaint in my book, can you imagine a game like CoD where you have one single life(and when you lose it you cannot play that game ever again), and when you get hurt it takes months or even years to heal?
Realism hasto have it's limits.

No, it's still a stupid argument because obviously the player has misinterpreted the point of the game. If CoD had a system like that, than CoD would be a wholly different game, I'd imagine more stealth based or possibly psychological horror (a realistic horror game would KICK ASS, could you imagine?)... but it would still be a damn good game if the realism was implented right.

IF THE REALISM WAS IMPLENTED RIGHT is what you should take away from this post. Obviously it won't work in every fucking title, but then again why does every game have to play the same way? To say realism automatically makes a game worse is very close minded.

 

[Frangster]

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[CAPTCHA]

I won't play Halo because its designed by white supremacists for racist bigots.

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