Games that took you five minutes to realise you hated.

[Nulien]

Just thought I'd register to add my response to this thread.

I'm in agreement with a few others here about Black & White. For the first few minutes, it was just "Hurr hurr, he's flinging villagers around!" and then, it was just "Ok... I've taught my creature how to throw people, there's really nothing else I want to do here..."

The other major one I can think of would have to be Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Ok, I have to go see the Deku Tree... what do you mean I have to arm myself first? *sighs* Ok, found a shield in the store, but I can't afford it yet. *runs around town gathering rupees for several minutes* Great, now I need a sword... where do I find a sword? Bah, going to put Mario Kart 64 in again.

Later on, I got into Majora's Mask pretty easily, and had a lot of fun with that, and later still gave OoT another chance, and now I consider it to be one of my favorite games ever... it just didn't grab my attention quickly enough the first time.

 

[CKalvin]

Red faction was a huge disappointment for me. Sloppy controls, very VERY strange movement, guns that were as accurate as throwing a cat at a plane and poor level design.

 

[miscelaneous]

Halo 3

 

[Alex The Rat]

Whatever the last Metal Gear Solid game was... I'd say it took me about 5 minutes of play time, which probably amounted to about 45 minutes when you include the cutscenes and dialogue... :S Plus I spent a good amount of that 5 minutes trying repeated, and failing, to drop a grenade on an enemy below the balcony I was on...

 

[shticks]

Driv3r

 

[Wayneguard]

Kengo and Way of the Samurai. That whole series is awful. I really really wanted to like it but it just wasn't happening.

 

[Deofuta]

Ridge Racer....4 was it? It was a ps2 launch title, and god did it put me off playing realistic driving games for a LONG time. Midnight run was excellent though

 

[Lord Of Cyberia]

Mine would be "The Da Vinci Code The Movie The Game" Game. Bad graphics, stupid puzzles, terrible combat, and of course plot holes you could drop Mount Everest into without scraping the sides.

 

[Meteor4118]

Final Fantasy 13 was one of the worst JRPG's i've ever played. The lack of anything but linear gameplay and the cut scenes where I would watch characters do cool things while I should have been doing those cool things. The voice acting was good, but the characters themeselves were just irredeemably inhuman, and unrelateable.

Plus, going through a few hours going.. "What's a L'Cie? What's a Fal'cie? What's pulse? Got even more annoying until finally they gave me the codex entries when I finally reached Gran Pulse.

 

[WorldCritic]

Too Human and Fallout Tactics. Couldn't get used to the controls on the latter. And yes I have played Fallout 1 & 2.

 

[Hawk eye1466]

too human i knew i would hate it but i was determined to finish it was a painful 2 days and the developers knew it would suck because they put in an achivement that you would earn if you died 200 times!
also civilization 4 i wanted to like it but no matter how big of an army i had the enemy could hold me off with one squad god that one ticked me off

 

[Mr. In-between]

Final Fantasy 13 was one of the worst JRPG's i've ever played. The lack of anything but linear gameplay and the cut scenes where I would watch characters do cool things while I should have been doing those cool things. The voice acting was good, but the characters themeselves were just irredeemably inhuman, and unrelateable.

Plus, going through a few hours going.. "What's a L'Cie? What's a Fal'cie? What's pulse? Got even more annoying until finally they gave me the codex entries when I finally reached Gran Pulse.

That sounds absolutely fucking horrible. Almost as bad as playing through its predecessor and wondering when any of the espers I had to fight will become useful to me.

 

[Jnat]

Killzone 2
(haters gonna hate)

 

[skywalkerlion]

Assassin's Creed 2

There's something about changing from a third person stealth into some type of RPG that sets me off. I loved the first one and was massively disappointed by the sequel.

'BUT SKYWALKER! DID IT STILL TAKE YOU ONLY 5 MINUTES TO FIGURE OUT YOU DIDN'T LIKE IT?!'

Yeah, actually, probably because they went from Lucy being a side character into Lucy being this "*****-azz-ho" of Desmond, and is always saying something that makes me embarrassed to be playing the game.

Dawn of War 2

The first dawn of wars were wonderful, and the battles always epic (WHICH EVERYONE LIKED), and for some reason they just decided to make it so you can only control about 20 people at a time? No. Not only is it a clone of Company of Heroes (it's by the same people, I know), but Company of Heroes is so much more tactical and fun compared to Dawn of War 2. The first thing I played was the campaign and it sucked too.

Half Life 2

To me the story is very uninteresting, I can't stand silent protagonists (How depth-ful, a character with no development or dialogue at all), and I hate puzzles. Took me a bit more than 5 minutes though.


Fallout 3

I bought it twice (I sold one so I could get a cheap copy of Dragon Age [best game ever]), and even though I enjoyed it a bit more the second time I just can't stand how mind numbingly boring the open world is. And it's really hard to feel any type of accomplishment in a world where nothing matters since about everyone is dead. Let's not forget the beautiful aiming system of VATS. Seriously? Bethesda, I love Oblivion, but you have just made an aiming system that does all the work for you. The thing that really gets me is people support this game and then ***** about how games are getting too easy.

After I jumped outta Vault 101 I realized the world wasn't for me.

Wow, that was a mouthful.

I also like how on the very first page people are pissing themselves because of other people's opinions on their favorite games.

EDIT: How could I forget SPORE, the shittiest game I think I ever wasted my money on. Within 5 minutes we were *gasp* eating bacteria with my cute little baby bacteria. And even when you're an animal it's so awful.

 

[uptofortissimo]

I have a weird compelling feeling that I have to finish something I pay 60 bucks for, and I have a lot of really negative feelings about some games, but I've never really HATED every part of all of them. Except for Just Cause 1. God, that game was terrible. Horrible graphics, unpredictable physics, terrible story, terrible guns, jesus. I left that game after about half an hour. But I got that for free when I bought Arkham Asylum. Which I didn't really care for either, unfortunately. I despise, DESPISE the way Batman talks in everything. It just makes him sound retarded. Plus, the fighting didn't actually flow the way everyone said it did. You couldn't counter another attack while you were attacking, which was all the time, so I ended up getting raped by tons of easy enemies. Plus the vision filter in that was stupid. You could see people and points of interest through walls, see if they're armed, what their alert state is, and some other shit. That took a lot of the fun of the game away. And the stealth kind of sucked. Whenever you were spotted, all you had to do was mash the F button until they lost you. Gah. When I first played Spinter Cell: Chaos Theory years and years ago (2006 xD) on the xbox, I hated it. I played literally the first five minutes and returned it shortly after. Years and years later (2009), I bought it on Steam for really cheap, like five bucks or something. I intended on buying it mostly as a novelty, since there aren't many games that have night vision, thermal vision, and some retarded EMF thing in one goggle set. Again, didn't really touch it for a while. But one day I decided to try it. Of course, me being the stubborn person I am, I refused to look at the tutorials. I had no idea how to slow down, so I took out my gun every time I needed to be silent. xD EVENTUALLY I figured out that the mouse wheel controlled your speed around the third level, which is pretty fail, but still. I loved loved LOVED the game. After I finished it, I played all the others. I still play MP on Chaos Theory, which just goes to show you really should see things through, you might be surprised.

EDIT: Also Super Smash Bros. Brawl. That game is just stupid.

 

[sanezombie]

Lunarragon Song.


That game deserves to be in that E.T. landfill in Arizona.

Its a HORRIBLE game.

Same for me. I had it for less than a day and I returned it.

Mostly it was the fact that running consumed your hp, but the runner up was that you either got exp. or money/items, can't have both.

 

[Mr. In-between]

Unfortunately, it took me too long to figure out that I hated Star Ocean: Till the End of Time.

"Gravitic"... what a joke! A very horrible, unfunny joke.

 

[AMMO Kid]

Half-Life 2.

I like my games to be cinematic(like Mass Effect 1, SC: Conviction, and Dead Rising,with the exception of P0RTAL and Left 4 Dead), and the game just felt really really boring and uncinematic(because it is)...


EDIT: Oh, and AVP(the new one). It was a genuinely crappy game, and I paid $60 for it...

 

[liquidocelot201]

Final Fantasy XIII. Not so much that I hate it, it's just that every time I play it, after 2 hours I think, "There are other games I could be playing right now." I don't really know why either. Maybe it's the battle system.