Everyone loves them but you.

[TheIceface]

Halo is so overhyped its sickening. I mean it's decent, but how could the gods conspire to make this so popular! Its like the planets were aligned the second it came out

If by planets aligning you mean : M$ has money flying out their ass, then yes, the planets aligned... right out their ass.

Unfortunately, when there is a rich company involved, the product will often get so over-hyped and pumped up by all the marketing that the initially buyout is huge. Then the company says "Look at how many people bought our shit in the first week( or saw our movie), it must be great. If you don't agree and join the revolution, than you are a fucking loser and will die a virgin!"

People then look at the stats: "A buttload of people bought this product", and then deduct that if it's really that popular, it can't be that bad. Then the cycle continues.

Oh, I just thought of a racing/sports game I do enjoy, one where you can beat the crap out of the other player even though it's against the rules. Like when you give someone a "torn retina" in MLB2k8, or when you kill like 60 people in Burnout by crashing into an intersection.

 

[lukemdizzle]

WoW

I don't know how so many people play this game. when I tried it it bored me to tears

 

[51gunner]

I can't get into Final Fantasy, the turn based combat irks me to no end. That, and the other cliches that accompany JRPG: ridiculous big weapons*, androgynous characters, endlessly long cutscenes, ect.

I never really touched the Metal Gear series, I tried the first one once on a friends console and found the controls irritating and the length of dialogue annoying.

Story in a game is good, but not when it's interrupting my fun and sitting me down on my ass to explain it. In my opinion, if you have to make cutscenes that long to explain things, you probably wasted a lot of good opportunities for exposition. Example, Final Fantasy again. All the junker random battle fights never expain dick, or squat. The enemies you fight are cartoonish and incomprehensible, and don't seem to fit in the employ of the evil villain. WHAT THE HELL IS A CACTUAR AND WHY IS IT TRYING TO KILL ME? WHO EMPLOYS THESE THINGS? Back on topic though, Yahtzee put it best: stop separating storyline from gameplay with a wrought-iron fence of tigers. Half-Life is amazing because you're never removed from your gameplay. At worst case do what Halo did: expose the surprisingly-well-done backstory in a book or four. It's merchandising and saves you hours of hard to animate cutscene.

... end rant.


(*There's big, and then there's physics-defying big. Big to the point that it would take a crane to pick it up. I can't believe a character that totes that shit around. I'm just a level one... excuse me while I hit you with my BOAT.)

 

[mwhite67]

Half Life 2 I don't see what the big deal is. It plays like a utterly average run and gun shooter I think halo's weapons and gameplay are better, but maybe not story.

 

[51gunner]

Halo is so overhyped its sickening. I mean it's decent, but how could the gods conspire to make this so popular! Its like the planets were aligned the second it came out

If by planets aligning you mean : M$ has money flying out their ass, then yes, the planets aligned... right out their ass.

Unfortunately, when there is a rich company involved, the product will often get so over-hyped and pumped up by all the marketing that the initially buyout is huge. Then the company says "Look at how many people bought our shit in the first week( or saw our movie), it must be great. If you don't agree and join the revolution, than you are a fucking loser and will die a virgin!"

People then look at the stats: "A buttload of people bought this product", and then deduct that if it's really that popular, it can't be that bad. Then the cycle continues.

Oh, I just thought of a racing/sports game I do enjoy, one where you can beat the crap out of the other player even though it's against the rules. Like when you give someone a "torn retina" in MLB2k8, or when you kill like 60 people in Burnout by crashing into an intersection.

I'd like to chip in that it was also sold with almost every Xbox ensuring huge numbers of people would have a copy.

While it's not the best game for the console, it's certainly playable and is damn good for a launch title. When it first started winning over the masses, it didn't have much in the way of competition.

Oh yeah, and I found that the books made the game more enjoyable, but most people probably never bought or read them.

 

[NKYJYB]

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[DeathWyrmNexus]

Oh yesss... I also forgot to add my vote to the tally of people who have no interest in Guitar Hero.

 

[CartoonHead]

I honestly cannot understand how anyone liked the Dynasty Warriors series, and I mean all the spin-offs as well. Honestly, I thought they were utter shite, and I like killing computer game enemies en masse.

OK on to PC games:

All, and I mean ALL of my close friends (seven of them) in Upper School got addicted to Ultima Online, which I wasn't into from the very beginning. They literally BEGGED me to buy, subscribe and play it. Luckily I resisted after having a go on a mate's account and thinking it was, well, exactly what I think of Dynasty Warriors.

As a result I hate every MMORPG (and yes, I have seen WoW, Tabula Rasa, Eve etc. etc.) and just cannot see the fun when I could be playing a decent single player RPG (like Vampire: Bloodlines for example).

EDIT: After seeing the above post: I add myself to the people who find Guitar Hero, and all similar games, obnoxious and frankly annoying.

 

[lukemdizzle]

Halo. The whole series. I utterly HATE Halo. I would rather play an FPS made back when they were GOOD and NOT trying to imitate Halo. Duke Nukem 3D >>> Halo. Goldeneye >>>>> Halo. Perfect Dark >>>>>>> Halo.

And Animal Crossing. I don't hate it like I do Halo, but I find it dull, uninteresting, and pointless...and am very curious as to exactly where its popularity comes from.

It really seems like more people hate halo than like it now which means your not standing out from any crowd..... so I am personally glad to be in he minority of halo fans

 

[NKYJYB]

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[friedmetroid]

And Animal Crossing. I don't hate it like I do Halo, but I find it dull, uninteresting, and pointless...and am very curious as to exactly where its popularity comes from.

Personally, I enjoy playing some Animal Crossing once in a while just to relax, since it takes no real effort to play and the music is kind of soothing. And keep in mind this is from a guy with nearly 300 hours of TF2.

 

[TheIceface]

Personally, I enjoy playing some Animal Crossing once in a while just to relax, since it takes no real effort to play and the music is kind of soothing. And keep in mind this is from a guy with nearly 300 hours of TF2.

Animal Crossing is pretty much the only game that I could get my mother to play. It was simple and peaceful enough that she would play it to relax when she got home. It was kind of interesting to log on with my character and see all the flowers she planted (I'd dig them all up) and long insulting letters she would send to the stupid animal.

Actually, I think I managed to get her to play through Zelda OOT. BTW getting your parents to play your console games is a good way to get them to buy addons and crap.

 

[bulletproof12]

oh this is easy...halo, CS, COD 4, GOW with a passion, FF and...wow i thought i would be able to come up with alot more.

 

[Anomynous 167]

For me it's not a game but a movie. Lord Of The Rings Return Of The King

 

[minignu]

The Legend of Zelda series.

THERE, I SAID IT.

Seriously, I never 'got' it at all, what's the big fuss?

 

[Nilles]

Quake, Counter Strike and HLeathmatch. Any of them - I'd rather play days of Serious Sam coop than another match of Quake on a Lan.

World of Warcraft. Let's face it, it's just like smoking. Either you're marrying it or you beat it.

Any RTS besides Company of Heroes and World in Conflict. Call me crazy, but they're just not fun. I suck at multiplayer in RTS and for all that's holy, until recently there was no single player RTS that ever fascinated me. Including Starcraft.

Honorary mentions go to Diablo 1 and 2 as well as everything with a GTA in the name past GTA3.

 

[shatnershaman]

By the way, for all of the Halo haters who aren't fond of the popularity that the game has, Call of Duty 4 did outsell Halo 3. I'm not a Halo fanboy (I bought the game and actually gave the copy to a friend for free) but it's not the most popular game of all time.

GTA IV is going to outsell Halo also. Hell, even Nintendogs outsold Halo.

The thing about COD4 is its on PS3 and PC Halo 3 out outsold the 360 version.

 

[Azazcyh]

the sims if i wanted a whiney guy buging me for food i'd have kids

 

[sicDaniel]

That new John Rambo movie. Usually i am a huge fan of violent one-liner movies, i loved Shoot ´em up, but John Rambo was the most boring and dull movie i have seen this year.

 

[Dark Shikari]

My list:

Oblivion was mediocre. It wasn't nearly as good as Morrowind. Stop fawning over it.

Bioshock was basically awful. After one hour of playing it I went back and played SS2 instead.

Warcraft 3 to me seemed like an pretty weak RTS, its only saving graces being the great backstory and DoTA.

Homeworld 2 I don't get the hype about--the original game was great, but the sequel had a miserably stereotypical storyline and the gameplay seemed less creative and interesting.