Everyone loves them but you.

[TheIceface]

Epic, legendary, the best game ever, I've heard it and you've heard it. Obviously game companies like to hype-up their own games, sometimes the hype spawns a large fan-base. Either way there are tons of games that people claim are immaculate, games that people are willing to brawl for the honor of.

A while back, I though I was the only one on the planet who hated the Halo series. It turns out that I wasn't but the fan group (and parent company) is so large and powerful that many of the anti-Halo sentiments get deemed unpopular and ignorable. I admit, I would have simply disliked the series, but the rabid media (lining their pockets from M$ no doubt) along with a die-hard group of fans opposed me so vehemently that it drove me to disdain the game and everything it stood for.

I can't possibly be the only one who feels this way about a game; a dislike despite popular opinion.

Some other examples: Kingdom Heart; everyone I knew who played it love it, I thought it was boring and a disgrace to the Final Fantasy series it incorporated.

FFVII; Really not that impressed with the game, the characters were not that extraordinary, and the fan obsession with that evil dude irks me to no end. Plus they're swords are stupidly large, I can understand artistic expression, but give me a break.

Psychonauts; It really wasn't that great of a game, get over yourselves. To those of you that picked up fervor for the game after the Zero Punctuation review: Yahtzee may make some good points in his reviews, but that doesn't mean everything his says is gold.

So, what games do you dislike that many people idolize?

 

[zirnitra]

the Final Fantasy series any of them just can't stand it.
Oblivion it's just everything just felt so vague and bland, the combat was atrocious.

 

[Johnn Johnston]

Final Fantasy. Turn-based combat leaves me with boredom juices running out of my eye socket. (That means bored to tears)

 

[Auron555]

Halo I just never got into. I've only done the PVP aspect, and it's not that appealing.
That and my one time playing Brawl; it wasn't fun at all.

 

[Lvl 64 Klutz]

FFVI: People who want to sound more "oldskool" and mature than the FFVII Fanboys say that this one is the best in the series... I say it did nothing new for the series OR the genre

Ocarina of Time: I thought it was a great game the first time I played it, but it's the only game in the series I couldn't play through a second time for boredom.

 

[Thais]

Final Fantasy. Turn-based combat leaves me with boredom juices running out of my eye socket. (That means bored to tears)

LOL! "Boredom juices"!

For me (and I know I'm going to get crap for this) it's well...pretty much any FPS. I can get a migraine all on my own, I don't need help, Activision.

As for what started the thread:

Some other examples: Kingdom Heart; everyone I knew who played it love it, I thought it was boring and a disgrace to the Final Fantasy series it incorporated.

FFVII; Really not that impressed with the game, the characters were not that extraordinary, and the fan obsession with that evil dude irks me to no end. Plus they're swords are stupidly large, I can understand artistic expression, but give me a break.

Ye gods, do I agree with you about Kingdom Hearts! The game's so deep in it's own pool of suck that you can't even have fun mocking it!

And RE:FFVII...for a lot of the generation that missed Zelda, FFVII was thier first introduction to that type of game, a game with a real story that expected the player to feel the emotions of its protagonist, to take the emotional journey along with him. That's why it gets deified by it's fans. BTW, if anyone has a copy in playable condition with the original booklet...I'll happily buy and add it to my nearly complete collection. *grin*

 

[Jumplion]

SSB Brawl. I loved the Melee, but for some reason i was skeptical about the ravings that my friend said. Every weekday he would go crazy about a single item introduced that does almost nothing. Still a pretty good game IMHO but i think Melee was better.

I have no idea why, but i think i'm becoming more bitter now.

 

[Fronken]

i really did not like Bioshock or Gears of War, didnt find them fun at all, sure, they both looked great and got great reviews, but i failed to see what was fun/good about them except the graphics, and dont misstake me for just another ps3 fanboy, the only next gen console i own is a 360, so if anything im a 360 fanboy cause of Halo, but still, i just dont get whats fun about those games...

 

[snuffler]

Portal (i don't mind it, just don't see why everyone is raving about it), any halo game (again same thing as before, the first one was enough), the sims (worst game ever, ruined sim city tyvm) and any expansion pack, etc, etc..

 

[Conqueror Kenny]

Half life. All of them. I don't know what it is I cant find anything Wrong I just don't seem to e having fun whenever i play one of them.

 

[Galduke]

I feel exactly the same way about Penny Arcade as you do about Halo!

FF7 was great, but Sephiroth and Cloud have the largest fan-base and really Seph could be replaced by any random monster, and Cloud... I liked him better after he fell into the mako stream, he was like an in-game bobble head.

Hmm... Summon Night on the GBA got good reviews, but I thought the combat got dull VERY quickly.

Grand Theft Auto always was and always will be a jump in and jump out game, not at all engrossing.

I never got into Loco Roco even though I really thought I would.

ANYTHING with bandicoot or Spyro in it's title, even the early ones.

Disgaea was fun at first until you realize how generic the plot is and that you'll soon encounter enemies leveled in the quadruple digits after the standard ending (fighting them with the SAME attacks you already learned), plus the majin class makes all of the other classes obsolete, killing your team's diversity.

 

[fix-the-spade]

All the obvious stff seems to have been covered, so I'll just have be really obvious, repetitive too, which is somewhat pertinent when I say...

Gears of War.

It's basically a rip off of Kill.Switch off the PS2, but with the swearing and blood turned up, mercenaries replaced with aliens (who seem to really, really need moisturiser) and tons of shaky cam effects.

I didn't like the controls in Kill.Switch, so how does giving me motion sickness intend to rectify this?

 

[Gooble]

LEGO Star Wars, and probably any other Lego games. It was just boring as hell to me.

 

[Starke]

I'll back up on Halo because it's a convenient punching bag.

But, also, every MMO I've ever played has provoked this kind of a response from me.

With Bioshock, I know it's because I played System Shock 2 back in the day and wanted it to be a continuation of that.

 

[KMD]

I'm not a big fan of big tough manly games like the Crytek series and GoW; and most of the Final Fantasy games (sans JIII, V, VI, IX, and Tactics) crumble under the weight of their own fanwank powered pretention and JRPG cliches.

Call me a plebian if you must, but Dwarf Fortress doesn't tickle my fancy either; the video game board from which I hail (starts with an F and rhymes with BourBhan) loves it but I'm nonplussed.

 

[brabz]

I'll go with "Gears of War" as well. Nothing wrong graphically or control-wise, but I just couldn't get into the story or understand the crazy amount of hype.

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

anything related to harry potter

the names of places and things are just to juvenile to take seriously. the whole thing is like a bad interpretation of Disney-esque witchcraft (see Bed Knobs and Broomsticks) and old fantasy literature where everything bad has a negative pun in the name and everything else is a referrential cliche.

 

[Danny Ocean]

I back up Halo, especially 2 and 3. I often play till my eyes hurt, but halo was just something beyond that, the bloom was awful.

 

[Darksparda]

SSB Brawl- Played it a few times with my friends but really, I just wanted to get the hell out of the living room, go back to my room and play a game that was actually fun, not something that feels like torture.

Halo- I can't really find something wrong. It just bores me and I can't get rid of the feeling Iv played better(oh wait theirs half-life and even that sometimes bores me)

Gears of War- It was fun for a little while but then the fun disappeared.

Grand theft Auto- The series never really appealed to me. It just bored me to tears within the first 10 to 30 minutes of gameplay and I just stopped their and put another game in(like DMC4 or MGS4).

Last but not least is portal. It's not bad but I just can't find what exactly is it, that makes people go crazy about(it's really nothing truly amazing in my eyes).

 

[Drbog]

Gears of war...