Everyone loves them but you.

[j1-2themax]

Tetris. This may just be because I suck at it and will most likely always will, but I can't play it for more than 5 or 10 minutes at a time. (Strange thing is, I enjoy Hexic.)

 

[Strafe Mcgee]

Shadow Of The Colossus. The one game that seems to unite this whole forum into general agreement on it's greatness really leaves me cold. I played through the first 9 Colossi(?) waiting for it to grab me, but it really never did. The gameplay's stale for me:

Find Monster
Find way to climb on Monster
Stab Monster in blue bits

Ico's a far better game in my opinion.

 

[Thais]

Pretty much any racing game that does not allow you to blow up the other cars. Honestly, the only time I have fun in a car in a videogame is GTA or Twisted Metal. Part of this is my inability to be good at racing games, but then a big part of it is my anger at the fact that people can get their jollies by watching cars go in circles really really fast. Waste of fuel and time, in my opinion.

Great call, I used to love Twisted Metal! Something about killing a guy in a monster truck with an ice cream truck...still gives me goosebumps!

 

[SteinFaust]

Stab Monster in blue bits

sounds like what happens when a guy wanders into a feminist convention.

 

[Prozoquel]

I seem to be one of the only ones here who finds MGS overrated. All my friends did nothing except rave about the storyline after they beat it, but to me the plot twists just seemed stupid at times and not at all believable at other times.

The original Halo was a great game in my opinion, but the sequels were overrated pieces of trash.

I guess FPS's in general I find overrated, they're all the same and they get repetative.

Also, this isn't a game, but I thought the movie 300 sucked and I don't know how my friends all think it's one of the greatest movies ever.

 

[Xhumed]

Total Anihilation. I tried to like it, I really did. I love big stompy robots. But somehow it just felt...meh.

 

[chimmers]

Resident Evil 4. Could never really get into it to play it for long periods of time. Sucking at it probably didn't help though

 

[some random guy]

Silent Hill 2 is flawed in so many ways.

 

[huntedannoyed]

Sure everyone is saying it, but Final Fantasy. I just don't get it.

 

[Nickolai]

World of Warcraft. As I mentioned a short while back, I loathe MMOs. Just pointless time sinks you have to pay for in my book. Wow is so bad for this as it's so addictive that everyone sinks so far into it, losing money and their lives in the process. I played Wow, and apart from the human male dance animation upon which upon viewing I nearly died of laughter, it was shit. Just shit.

Team Fortress 2: The classes are nice, but it's so freakin' hard to get used to nine different, unique play styles that I just stopped playing. Oi vei.

 

[-Seraph-]

pokemon, enough said

 

[ElArabDeMagnifico]

That Arab dude made a good point too about gaming consoles; i thought the Xbox consoles as well as the dreamcast were overrated.

Well I'm not exactly sure what point I made, I was just stating my hatred towards those two consoles and being somewhat vulgar, even though I just can't stand the 360 it's all a matter of preference, I mean, I can see why people like it, it's just that I don't know why it keeps them hooked, especially the Wii, that thing has cut so many corners that it's pretty much useless for me >_> - and, I'd say the dreamcast is an overrated underrated system. Mainly because people didn't appreciate what they had until it was gone.

I also think it's funny that XBL is getting dreamcast titles.

EDIT: Oh yeah, not to mention that since I'm highly in favor of my PC that in general I think most consoles suck, but I still respect them enough to actually buy them and...you know..use them, unlock most of those elitists out there. I'm biased, not completely blind but still biased. I respect the 360, I like the Wii but still can't believe there is a shortage of it, but I didn't really give many reasons why I don't like the 360 and Wii, mainly because I didn't have to prove a point, I just had to come in here and "hate something popular".

(Sorry about the delay of the edit but I just don't want to turn this into a console war, since what I said can be taken very much out of context without all the backstory.)

 

[shatnershaman]

Blu-ray: I got a HD-DVD player for $50 it up converts DVDS and I can buy from a few hundred HD-DVD's for a couple of bucks each OR Pay $300 for an old shitty Blu-ray player or $400 for a PS3 that up converts as well but You pay for the few hundred more titles (HD-DVD $10 Blu-ray $25-35)

 

[mark_n_b]

GTA - I do not get it... AT ALL. I know, it has to be a really good game, millions of people buy and play it.

But I can't see why anyone over seventeen would actively purchase this unless they are the type to buy hip hop albums just to look "cool".

The under seventeen crowd, I get it, it's got drugs and stealing, mum and dad don't get it and because of the M rating all your under-aged gaming friends think owning a copy makes you super rad...

The rest of the world... ?

 

[Sub_par]

I too cant stand the grand theft auto games. i get so bored i just find my self stuffing as many motorcycles into a garage as i can just to put off actually doing anything. and that gets boring after about the fifteenth bike.

 

[HizerKyte]

Grand Theft Auto: Steal car, shoot hooker, run away from cops, repeat. At least...that's what I see of it.

could SOMEONE tell me where this "GTA tells people to kill hookers" shit came from?? with the permanent exception of children, you can mow down everybody from hobos to white-collar buisnessmen in that game, but why does everybody bring up hookers? since when has society valued hookers so damn much, and why are people so mad when a cloud of ones and zeroes
-resembling a hooker- gets cut down by indiscriminant weapon fire?

I'm glad someone else gets this... Well spotted my friend. I'd agree with the suggestion of Diablo because [click... click... click... click... click... click... drop magic bomb... click... click... take potion... click... click... click... click... click... click...] is not good gameplay. For me though it's Prince of Persia: Warrior Within that takes the prize here. I believe it outsold Sands of Time on its release, but removed most of the acrobatic free-running from the original and replaced it with a clunky method to find the best weapons to dual wield. They grafted the time-shift powers in poorly and finished off the insult with a long-winded, badly matched boss-fight with the lady in the metal thong (using the phrase "metal thong" in a sentence without a word of irony is usually a bit of a clue that someone has lost the plot). It's not good design for a game to have a boss-fight that takes 15 to 20 very repetetive minutes to get through, with the bonus that your first mistake will probably get you killed and force you to sit through the unjumpable cut-scenes again.

One day I will pick this game up again and get past this scene, but not today, and not soon.

 

[defcon 1]

I didn't hate Halo. I just found it decent. Good enough for the $20 I paid for it but not deserving of the massive hype nor did I feel any need to rush out and buy the sequels.

FEAR. Not particularly scary, and the gameplay doesn't make up for the lack of scariness(which is obviously the games main selling point).

What he said.

Silent Hill 2. I actually thought that game was kind of boring. That and the stupidity of the protagonist angered me to no end.

I'm not really a huge TF2 person to be honest. It's just that I can't stand the load times and the incredibly large patches that get released. It's a grand game but when factoring in the wait, it's not a shimmering gem for me.

 

[Prozoquel]

Silent Hill 2 is flawed in so many ways.

But just because a game is flawed doesn't necessarily make it bad if it compensates for its flaws in other areas.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

Silent Hill 2. I actually thought that game was kind of boring. That and the stupidity of the protagonist angered me to no end.

Did you stick it through til the payoff near the end? You'll then understand the "stupidity" of the main character. SH2 has one of the best plot twists ever IMHO, but I guess if you aren't into the series the game could be seen as boring.

 

[ElArabDeMagnifico]

Blu-ray: I got a HD-DVD player for $50 it up converts DVDS and I can buy from a few hundred HD-DVD's for a couple of bucks each OR Pay $300 for an old shitty Blu-ray player or $400 for a PS3 that up converts as well but You pay for the few hundred more titles (HD-DVD $10 Blu-ray $25-35)

50 bucks? You must have gotten it when they lost the format war and everything was on clearance. I remember before that everything was around the same price. I think HD-DVD players cost less but it was mainly competing against the PS3.

If you didn't you are incredibly lucky.