Games that are popular and loved, but that you can't understand why.

[Julianking93]

GTAIV

Seriously, why is that game so widely loved yet I've never met one person who said they like it any more than just "eh, it's okay"

 

[DividedUnity]

i dont get the point with heavy rain, 4 people dieng for one kid?!

You know that there is more than one ending right?

 

[Sigel]

Final Fantasy- I like the cover art work and that is about it. My husband and friends though LOVE it.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

Half-Life 2

Proof that taking a nerd and making him the hero of an otherwise generic shooter will earn it undying praise as one of the greatest accomplishments in game design.

 

[Tharwen]

To the people who posted about WoW: It's as fun as the people you play it with. If you play it with good friends or find a good, friendly guild, you will almost certainly have a good time. This shows that, in fact, you might as well be doing something better with these friends, as it is nothing more than a medium for you to interact through while pretending to do something else.

 

[xDHxD148L0]

The MGS series, I can't see why people like them so much, they go from ok to bad imo.

 

[TAGM]

I don't understand why a GENRA is so popular nowadays - FPS's. Why is it that EVERY SINGLE TIME a FPS is releaced, Everyone feals the need to call it either the best game evar or a compleate and utter turd that's a knockoff of another FPS? Why does every single developer besides Nintendo and a few other people who I can't think of at the moment feel the need to release a FPS? and why does every FPS need at least 3 sequals, if not more?
It's not that the idea of an FPS is bad - It's just all this wanking over it like nothing in the world could interest us as much as the majestic and totaly perfect idea of controling an armyman in an army in a war, through his eyes.
(And I realise that some of you - The ones that regularly get accused of eating shoes for a living - don't like FPS's that much either, in which case I appologise for lumping you with everyone else and saying that people say you eat shoes. And people who do support FPS's, I'm sorry if it sounded like I thought you were a twat - I'm calling all the stupid developers who play "Simon Says" with each other twats, but not you.)

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

portal, half life, portal, half life 2, portal, ghost recon, portal, metal gear solid, portal, little big planet, portal, starcraft, portal, and portal.

uhm...are you my clone?

i would have to agree on all of those

for my own personal preference i would like to add quake, it can be kinda fun but besides the fun level for the multiplayer it is horribly horribly over rated

 

[Rewold]

Modern Warfare series. Can't really find anything good about them.

 

[RanD00M]

Fallout 1.I loved the second one.And three was fairly good.But the first one sucked for me.Now there have been some years since I played it.And I was young then,so I din't really know what I was doing.But having such a short time limit for someone like me sucks.I din't know where to go,nor what to do.And I just ended up dying a lot.

 

[Tarquinius Superbus]

The Sonic Adventure games.

Oh sure, I can understand why the games are popular and loved (brand name of famous mascot and attracts furry fans) but the games still weren't very good.

 

[NoNameMcgee]

Any MMO games.. I just don't see the appeal, I can't even understand the mindset needed to enjoy one.

I dislike strategy games, JRPGs, and Flight Sims, but I can understand how someone could enjoy them. I don't understand how anyone can like MMOs or why people get so addicted to them. I just don't get it. I've tried many of the popular ones and they all feel unfinished to me, like there are so many things missing. And all the quests are boring with little-to-no point and the whole purpose of everything is to grind and grind like its a second job. Yet some people level their characters up for years and put thousands of hours into these bland games when there's basically no incentive to do it, and plenty of the people playing them even admit that they don't find them fun they just find them addictive like some kind of drug.

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Also, Deus Ex. I'm sure it was a great game when it came out, but it has NOT aged well. I was recently told to buy it by, like, I dunno, every nostalgic PC gamer ever on the internet... Only to find it boring, bland and unintuitive. Surely these people can't honestly say that if this game was never released but came out today with modern graphics but the same gameplay it would actually be well received? Because no it fucking wouldn't, it would be viewed as mediocre and rightly so. People need to take off their nostalgia goggles before they say how great something old is. The standard of gameplay has increased a hell of a lot since then.

 

[PeterStarr]

I've been thinking about this a lot recently as I've started to become really disenchanted with games in general.

Mostly RPG games. Western ones in particular, Baldur's Gate, Fable, Oblivion; they just seem to all have the same world and really boring combat systems. I mostly play them for ages, grinding away without realising there's no fun. I just can't understand why no-one seems to have made a really detailed RPG with a decent combat system. JRPG's used to be my poison, I had something like 140 hours on FFX and 60+ on 7, so obviously I enjoyed something about them (story, world and character development), but the combat system is, in retrospect, zzz. So I guess the answer is: Western RPGs for being entirely generic in story and world, and nearly all RPGs for tricking me into believing the actual combat gameplay was fun. The only one I can really think of that I've played that does this is the Kingdom Hearts series, even though the story made soul cry and the characters made my fingers itch.

(On another note, why do nearly all fighting games play like your characters are glued to the floor? OK SSBB I guess. But all the other big ones (Tekken, SC, Street Fighter, etc) make me feel so limited and immobile. The most fun fighting games I've played are the damn Touhou ones. That shouldn't be true.)

It's not like I even want to attack these Genres though. The RPG genre in particular is the game type I would most like to enjoy, and I can see what a good RPG would be like in my head. I just can't believe that it doesn't seem to exist. I guess action adventures with a few rpg elements are the closest I'm ever gonna get. Please do point out any glaring omissions I've missed, so that I can play them.

 

[NoNameMcgee]

Half-Life 2

Proof that taking a nerd and making him the hero of an otherwise generic shooter will earn it undying praise as one of the greatest accomplishments in game design.

Except that many people who enjoyed Half-Life 2 including myself are not nerds in the traditional sense like Gordan Freeman is, or even think he's a good character. Gordan Freeman is not supposed to be a good character he's supposed to be an empty shell for you to project yourself into. The supporting characters are the heart of the game, and fans of Half-Life 2 know this.

Anyway I don't care that you didn't enjoy the game, that's all cool, but surely you can't say that you don't understand how people can love it. I would say that if you can get some, even very mild enjoyment out of a game, even if you really do find it generic; then you should be able to understand other people really liking it. Usually "not being able to understand people's love for a game" would be reserved for games that you feel have hardly any redeeming qualities at all and it baffles you how people can think so highly of it. If that's the case then fair enough, but I'd like to say I don't understand how you can think that way about my beloved Half-Life!!

 

[Slaanax]

Bioshock was always for me, I didn't find the game that much fun. The game got repetitive, its also the same with Elder Scroll games they get stale after a while.

 

[almostgold]

Portal. I could type out why, but if this post angers you then what I say really won't make a difference.

 

[PeterStarr]

FF7: My friend is a big JRPG fanboy, and he wanted me to try it out, I played it for like 15 minutes and then got off, why the fuck is cloud so popular? hes just a whiny little shit with an stupid haircut.

Yeah... the thing with Cloud is that his past is slowly revealed. Playing for 15 minutes and deciding you don't like the character so won't play the game just sounds like you decided before you played it that you were going to have a problem with it. I didn't, I played the game about 8 years after it was released, on an emulator, and found the story to be brilliant, especially the character development. I'd say it's the only game I've played where I thought the story concept and world were interesting enough to keep me playing despite being fairly bored with the combat about halfway through the second disk.

And tbh does Cloud even whine that much? Certainly not in the first 15 minutes. He might be kind of a dick, but I wouldn't say he 'whines' at all.

 

[blankedboy]

Mario. hmm.. run along, jump on things, rescue retarded woman.

It's pretty awesome to greedrun though.

OT, FFX. I played it a fair way through, the appeal faded quickly.