Games that EVERYONE loves but you don't?

[LightspeedJack]

Halo. I just don't like the way it controls and the layout and health systems, I too used to COD to enjoy Halo.
GTA IV. Loved the old GTAs but I HATED this one. To much messing around driving around the city, the cars all handled too realistically (I prefer the arcadey style) and it was just a real bore to play.
Final Fantasy XII. Easily the worst in the series.
Every sports game ever.

 

[Captain Pirate]

Mass Effect. I just... no, simply no. Dunno why, but it never made me tick, even though I could see how good it was.
I won't mention Oblivion because for once my friends agree with me that it's utter shite.

 

[Yureina]

Halo, Grand Theft Auto, Mario games, Sonic games, Zelda games, and Metal Gear Solid. Many more as well, but this list could go on to be a little too long.

 

[TUCKER95 x]

Battle field bad company 1&2. I realy hate both of them.
And all the new final fantasy's that aren't turn based.

 

[Qwezz]

every shooter in general tbh. I don't like that whole 1st person view 'pew pew pew' thing the whole world seemingly love.
though the exception to that rule is Mass Effect 1 & 2. but thats in 3rd person...and with a major dosis of RPG

 

[elcamino41383]

As far as which ones I dislike that everyone loves?
Name any major FPS.
I can't stand First-Person Shooters.

This. Only one I could ever truly stomach was Goldeneye (yeah I'm on THAT bandwagon.)
Also any of the war games, doesn't matter which. Metal Gear Solid games, and fighting games are being added to the list. King of Fighters 2006, Marvel Vs. Capcoms, and the first Guilty Gear X2 (never played the original sadly) are about the only exceptions there.

 

[Blizzarded Soul]

Halo....just never got into it. I tried but it was just so boring, I cannot understand how it has such a religious following.

Religious? Most people I know hate it, especially on this site.

OT: Fallout 3, I don't HATE it, but it's certainly not as good as some people had previously made out.

There are people who will defend it with their lives. Remember the shitstorm some of those tards kicked up when they accused James Cameron of copying the dropship design from the Halo saga and using it in Avatar when in fact it is the opposite way round. Yeah those are the kind of people im talking about.

 

[Centrophy]

- Gears of War
- Halo
- COD4: MW and MW2
- Bioshock (I tried liking it... I really did.)
- Stalker
- GTA4 (Screw your 'realistic' drive like a brick driving mechanics)
- All Sport games after NBA Jam and the old Monster League games from the 16 bit generation
- All JRPG's after FFIX
- All MMOs
- Dragon Age: Origins (According to Steam, I've played for 77 hours and I haven't beaten it. Probably never will.)

I'm sure there are more...

 

[The Maddest March Hare]

Morrowind. Call of Duty series. WoW. Final Fantasy games.

Any and all competitive multiplayer games such as Halo multiplayer, CoD and so on. I despise FPS multiplayer with a passion.

 

[GuideBot]

Any football game, pretty much.

 

[Enigma6667]

Mass Effect (Haven't played the second one yet), and GTA IV. Mass Effect has good writing and all, but the story didn't really keep me emotionally interested. And GTA IV is boring as fuck. Why would I want to watch a TV and go on a computer when I can do that in real life, and with better entertainment value.

 

[jpoon]

Every single Zynga game I've seen. They suck monkey balls but people play that stupid shit all day long.

Farmville is the one that comes to mind first...

 

[Kajt]

Dragon Age: Origins was just boring. The Elder Scrolls and Fallout are the RPGs for me!

 

[A Pious Cultist]

Mario Galaxy:

Now I'm not going to put my opinion as some universal fact that everyone else is blind to. The game isn't bad. I just didn't like it.

In order of observation:

Mario doesn't seem to have the fantastic acrobatic controls that he had in Sunshine, but with the lack of suitable levels I guess it's not that huge a loss.

Mario is really fucking small. I mean SERIOUSLY. Even looking at this game being played in 1080p through Dolphin he still looks about 100 pixels wide.

The camera: Lemme have some control please. Probably a side effect of the wii having crappy controls when it comes for traditional platforming.

The hub world looks really Mario-Partyish and is really quite dull.

The colors are often over saturated, I like the rim shading and over all look but I could swear Mario's had is pure 255,0,0 grade red.

The planets are too small: It's so confusing to navigate such small planetoids, having actual full sized planets would hardly break the game and it would be a nice change.

Not enough stars in the bigger worlds: I'd have loved to collect more stuff in the wonderfully Mario-64esque Bee Galaxy (why do galaxies consist of single measured-in-metre asteroids anyway?) but there were only two measly stars? Sure you may not want them to be essential but you're really wasting the potential for extra content.

The Co-Op: Really frickin' pointless. You could have secret areas that can only be unlocked by team-cooperation, you could have the extra player stun/kill enemies and deflect projectiles out of the path of the player. You could them give Mario a little boost when he's messed up a jump. But no, wasted potential and an entirely useless feature.

 

[black orchid1]

half life just dont like it, never could relate to the charactor, a scientice who fights that well and is a mute. also the other characters are just anoying
the call of duty franchise (its the same damm game!!!)

also world of warcraft because its not a game its a second job

 

[SangRahl]

I'm pretty slow to jump for a new game... Heck, after I got out of WoW (still feel the odd twinge to want to play, but it's subsided a LOT over the last year or so) I spent a few months playing old "classics" that I'd never touched because the lack of "free time".

But, last November brought a new PS3 and a tv to make it worthwhile. Immediate purchases ALL fit the "holy mother, that was worth it" catagory: Uncharted 1 & 2, MGS4, Arkham Asylum, Assassin's Creed 2 (played the first on PC and enjoyed it up until the last missions)... All proverbial works of gaming art.

Then came the one game MOST recommended by the friends who got me to try out Modern Warfare and World at War (which I enjoyed the heck out of for the writing and gameplay), BioShock.

I seriously can't figure out what the unbelievable, mind-blowingly awesome appeal is for this game. The environments are "okay", the color palette is almost glaring, the "RPG elements" have no more depth than any other 'AAA' FPS I've seen, and the moral choices appear to come in the usual black/white variety... save or kill the poor children. Sure, there are a lot of character development/upgrade decisions to make, but after years of playing RPGs, it doesn't strike me as all that groundbreaking. In the end it still ends up being rock/paper/scissors regarding your opponents. Maybe it's just that playing it for the first time so late has tarnished the luster that would have shone through years ago? Either way, I'm going to keep on keepin' on and finish it before turning it in at the local Play'n'Trade for credit towards my next purchase... just not worth it to me, yet, to keep it in my collection.

 

[DeathWyrmNexus]

All FF games after Tactics and especially including FF7 in case the release dates are wrong in my head. Halo series. Um... Most Jrpgs... I also can't get into the idea of playing Mass Effect 2 even though I loved 1. :/

There are more but I can't think of them.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Nazi Zombies

Running around the same map shooting endless enemies and boarding up windows over and over and over and over... ugh. Hated it.

 

[Sephychu]

Final Fantasy XII.

There were people who liked that game?

Yes, quite a few actually. I suppose there were many that disliked it as well though.

Wow. I sure as hell haven't met any.

 

[Fat Hippo]

The Half Life series: I find both the puzzles and the combat utterly boring and I don't see what's supposed to be so great about the story either. Overall, they just seem terribly mediocre.