Games everybody loves but you can't see why

[MetallicaRulez0]

Half-Life 2
Fallout 3
Zelda series
Grand Theft Auto series
Team Fortress 2

None of them are bad games, they just aren't anything special. Especially Fallout 3. Most bland, lifeless RPG I've ever played.

 

[Z(ombie)fan]

Shadow of the colossus.

why in the name of Jesus H tap-dancing christ is there a fucking wastleand WITH NOTHING GODAMN IN IT!?!?!?!?!?

I Mean what the hell, the Exploring is so goddamn BORING. the fights themselves were awesome. but damn it, you need SOMETHING else.

 

[astrav1]

Any and all Final Fantasy games, I have attempted to play a wide variety of them but I really don't see what is so awsome. I like RPGs but their is something that throws me when it comes to FF. That and after I beat fallout three my opinion of it dropped. Also I found red dead to be painfully boring. The one saving grace of that game as I dragged itself to the end was hunting bears that was like a survival horror game.

You didn't even like FFVII or FFVIII? That's just not right.

 

[York_Beckett]

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
I just don't get it. I've played it for quite a long time, but I constantly failed to see why people love it so much. For me, it was just an average RPG.

Also;

Grand Theft Auto 4
The Halo-series
Every single Final Fantasy game ever made.

 

[Mariakitten]

MW2... actually all Call of Duty. Oh and all Zynga games.

 

[Lordtommy]

Battlefield Bad Company 2. It's like a poorly made rip-off of Modern warfare two, except it's more frustrating (I didn't think that was possible either). The only good parts of the game are the cut-scenes... which don't show nearly as much of the plot as they should.

I regret the $30 I spent on it :\

 

[Sakurazaki1023]

Fallout 3 and Mass Effect

Ridiculous technical errors and load times
Utterly arbitrary "Karma" meters
The shooting aspects in both are completely arbitrary and lack the any visceral feedback
Horribly designed menues
Boring exploration element

Fallout 3 also wins an award for brown and muddy graphics and uninspired art.

 

[Dead_Man]

World of Warcraft. all you do is click attack on someguy and wait until somebody dies. doesnt sound too fun to me

 

[Shining_Pyrelight]

Facebook games, never saw the appeal and thankfully never got addicted.
Call of Duty(entire series)
Sports games (entire genre)
Rock Band
Guitar Hero
Halo
God of War series
Fallout 3
Fable (hopefully 3 will change things)
Demon's Souls
Grand Theft Auto series

 

[tehannihalator]

(Flameshields up)personally I have never really liked any rpg I just find them slowpaced
EDIT:I hate social games. My sister comes into my room and asks to play a game. I say sure and then I lose my computer to petville.>:{

 

[Formica Archonis]

System Shock 2. It's regularly praised and I absolutely hated it. The plot was a long series of fetch quests given by an incredibly grating woman whose directions mislead me more than helped me. Most of the "ghosts" failed miserably at doing anything but breaking my immersion. The low-level fodder monsters were annoying and didn't make up for the good higher-level baddies. SHODAN's introduction was supposed to be impressive but left me asking why there was a cube-shaped movie theater on a space ship. The secondary "lovebirds" plot had the dumbest ending ever. And then there was that done-once-and-never-again random fade-to-black that came across as a cheap shot to make me waste ammo and not a genuine attempt at psychological horror. The best part was when I did the math and figured out that for the plot to be possible the grove jettison systems in SS1 have to be light-speed-capable engines with equivalent braking systems.

Part of the reason I've never played Bioshock. Pay for more of that? No, thanks, I can get my annoyance quota filled by riding the bus for 2 hours.

 

[DoctorWhat]

Minecraft and Half-Life 2

Minecraft because I prefer the actual tactile feedback of REAL Lego, and Half-Life 2 because most of the time is spent travelling, from the few hours I played...

 

[megapenguinx]

I didn't like Oblivion. To me it was boring and the world felt empty.
Gears of War is meh to me as well, and Geometry Wars doesn't live up to the greatness that is Gridwars.

 

[GonzoGamer]

No More Heroes: it's got an interesting visual style but the tedious open world and the mundane minigames (based on jobs we make immigrants do) made the whole thing feel like a boring grind.
I just don't get the appeal.

 

[sir.rutthed]

Mario. I really don't understand his cult following. Sure he was one of the first popular video games, but honestly it's gotten to the point where any company that actually respected their franchises and fanbase would have put him to pasture long ago.

 

[fgdfgdgd]

Racing and sports gmaes...it isn't something i can get into, my friend loves the need for speed series, i just cusomised cars that i like to look what i beleived to be attractive, i never raced them, mind you, just car perved on them.

 

[Canid117]

This thread has a high danger of turning into a flame war.

 

[JoshGod]

Half life

 

[TomLikesGuitar]

Reading over these, I didn't even think of StarCraft 1/2. Both are terrible terrible games. Blizzard has yet to make a good RTS in my opinion, though I grew up steadfast in the Command and Conquer

Gears of War. I bought it for me a and a friend to play through, and though we managed to blast through it in only about 4 hours, I was still so utterly bored of the constant, unchanging and repetitive fire-fights that made up almost the entire game.

You can judge a game however you want, but just know that Gears was NOT popular because of the single player.

I got the notice of a quote and was confused. I was like "I didn't write anything about Gears, why is that quoted as me?" lol.

Nonetheless, not sure why I was quoted on that to begin with. I agree that Gears is a dull game (single and multiplayer). Honestly it is only really popular because of the chainsaw assault rifle.

Listen you, I don't know what kind of conspiracy shit you got goin on, but you and some other guy definitely edited each others posts right before I quoted you and then hacked my computer... or something...

Lol, yeah I misquoted sorry.

The multiplayer was fun as shit though, and if you played a lot, you'd know that it was popular because of how much fun shotgun battles were. The chainsaw was just for show.