Games that took you five minutes to realise you hated.

[Sprizmo]

Fallout 3.

As soon as I set foot outside of the vault I just knew that this wasn't going to be fun in any whatsoever way.

Man you people who couldn't get into Fallout 3 or Mass Effect boggle my mind. Those games were utterly fantastic and had more substance than sooo many other games combined. I just can't get my head around it.

For me it would be Borderlands, because after playing with so many random douchebags armed with way better weapons running ahead of me and killing everything and grabbing loot before I got the chance, I knew that it was going to drive me crazy.

 

[Cronky]

Dynasty Warriors.

Give the Player a weapon, some skills, an Army, then tell them to go kill everything on the map. Sounds like a good premise.

Use basic combos to kill everyone, Army is useless because you kill everything yourself, then never change the objective.

Rinse and repeat till you can't take it anymore.

...Then release 15 more versions on it that never change the formula.

(Just my take on the series)

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Probably MAG.

Yes, it can have over 200 people in one game, but the game is unbalanced, unfair and pretty mediocre.

 

[HT_Black]

Let's see...I knew I'd hate Twilight Princess as soon as Link walked onscreen; I knew I'd hate Lost Odysssey as soon as the combat tutorial started; I started hating ME2 as soon as I met Garrus; and it took me a record-breaking six and a half seconds to start hating Lair.

 

[Mesca]

Final Fantasy Tactics: Advance. Which is really, really weird, considering I love Disgaea and Fire Emblem to death. I can't even really think of a reason WHY I hated it... I just did.

The horrible main character, the overall thin plot and low difficulty, or the ridiculously luck based combat system. Honestly, not that bad of a game, but the computer fucking cheats so hard. When it says I have a 90% chance to hit, it's lying. The computer has a 90% chance to hit, I have about half that. FFTA2 fixes most nearly all of the problems A1 had.

On topic: A LOT of mmos. There have been ones where I've logged in, looked around, and realized what a mistake this was. I think it was.. Metin where I didn't make it past character creation. When it comes to free mmos, I think it's probably better to realize how crappy it is early on. There's nothing worse than getting into a game an realizing you've wasted an immense amount of time doing something you hate. (FLYFF, level 59.)

 

[Dfskelleton]

Fatal Inertia. I heard it was good, but that's a reason why I don't listen to Gameinformer.

 

[Legion]

I hate these threads because nobody ever gives reasons for why they hate them apart from "It sucked" (if that).

What's even more daft is hating a game in the first 5 minutes and giving up on it. I absolutely despised Fallout 1 as soon as I started playing, I almost logged off and never touched it again. I stuck with it for a bit longer and still wasn't enjoying it much. A couple of weeks later I felt the urge to play it again, played it to completion and bought Fallout 2. I am now playing Fallout 2 and getting pissed off with me AI companions killing Brahmin we are supposed to be protecting.

For me I didn't even need to play Lord of The Rings Conquest to know it was bad. When a friend brought it round all my suspicions were confirmed.

The defence of Helms deep consisted of the players plus around 5 or 6 AI (no exaggeration) defending the walls from about 10-20 or so enemies at a time. When they breach the defences you then get considerably more enemies, but due to spacing they again only come at you in waves of about 10.

There was no sense of "Epicness" and the fact that you lose the walls despite slaughtering everyone who gets within 10 feet of it is one of those things I hate about games such as these: If you are going to make us "overwhelmed" then make sure it actually happens as oppose to just telling us it did.

Commandos 3 and Grand Theft Auto 4.

Commandos 3 because I died so much on the first mission.

That almost happened to me, although I stuck with it and eventually figured out how to do each mission. Those games were harsh.

HALO
MW2

If you think I am "trying to be cool", you can eat a bowl of shit. I honestly hated both of these games within five minutes of first playing them.

Well how about arguing your point rather than just telling everyone to fuck off? Personally I don't give a damn who likes what, as long as they can say why.

That's the main reason people get pissed off when people insult popular games. They usually just go "Halo sucks nuff said".

 

[Woodsey]

Metro 2033 - I'm so uninterested I can't even finish it, and I ALWAYS finish.

There are some flaws (like the bullet-economy, nice idea, awful implementation when you throw endless enemy waves at me in some section) that just make it un-enjoyable as well.

 

[RIOgreatescapist]

Elder Scrolls Oblivion.
After 5 to 15 mins of gameplay I was smashing my head against the keyboard while trying to shoot adrenile directly into my bloodstream from the tiring little shit I found that game to be.

 

[Eternalsun]

too human,

 

[Kevlar Eater]

Dragon Age: Origins. Okay, I like the voice acting and whatnot, but the overly complicated armor and stats system is killing the game for me. I will admit my lack of knowledge of the system because I've never played Baldur's Gate. Then I get my blood armor code redeemed, and I learn the hard way that the only way to use it is to: A) Play as a human warrior so it would look better, and B) Buy the limbs of the armor in the game. Couldn't see why there couldn't be... blood mage robes (white robe with the DA:O logo splayed on it and with a little power sprinkled on them) and something for the rogue. Oh, and the story so far is a yawn-fest. Dark fantasy my ass. I hate it, but I'm gonna trudge my way through and hope I can like it enough to warrant me replaying it.

Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2. I could try to appreciate the whole "tactical" part of the game, but the AI isn't competent enough. Then there's the part where I can't adjust the X/Y axis sensitivity, so I'm forced to play the game with sluggish aiming controls, and the most complicated tutorial to boot. Seriously, I'm not even out of the tutorial and I already hate this game, and I bought it recently.

Those games are what I most recently bought.

 

[adamroberthenry]

I recently borrowed Dragon Age: Origins off a mate to have a go on, after an hour installing i chose to start as a human noble, 2 minutes later the game was un-installing.

About a week later i thought that i had been a bit harsh and that i should really play a bit more, so i installed it again and chose to start as a wood elf, im still playing it!

 

[themilo504]

well 5 is too short but a game i gave up on quick halo.
my friend sayd it was the best thing ever and i wanted to check it out.
after the firsht mission i said.can i stop playing this is boring.
then he showed me the multiplayer i joined a match and i got sniped like the very seconde i spawend.i did some more lost intrest.i am not sure why i dident like it i yust found the shooting boring i prefer half life 2 with its awesome setpieces fun vechile sections and the gravity gun o and good story or atleast not as bad as halo.

 

[Royta]

Resident Evil Zero.
I am a DIEHARD fan of the series, so when a prequel was announced I ofcourse cheered.
But man was it horrible. The buddy system hardly worked and your AI buddy ended up either wasting health or ammo. It was also impossible to avoid Zombies because he'd constantly get grabbed.
The story was a insult. I offered more questions then anwsers and most of it made no sense even by RE standards.
Worste was the gameplay / enemies. Every enemy felt like it was a design for a previous game that didn't make it to the final product because it wasn't good enough. Zombie monkeys? Zombie Giant Bat? What? Why? Giant zombie Catterpilar?

The only good thing about that game was the first stage, because it was original. Trainstages = awesomeness.

Close followups are Dead Space, Halo and Pokemon Colleseum.

 

[ZombieGenesis]

Final Fantasy X - XIII
From open world fun to linear boredom, I don't really have to elaborate on that.

 

[Stormz]

Lunarragon Song.


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

Its a HORRIBLE game.

Agreed. Not only the gameplay, but man those graphics were some of the ugliest I have ever seen ever, and it's 2D!

two worlds...I stilled played it for 30+ hours before selling it though.

 

[Drakmorg]

Bomberman: Act Zero. It took everything that made bomberman what it was, and threw it all out the window.

Instead of cutesy cartoon characters juxtaposed against the fact that they were all trying to kill each other with explosives, we get ugly cyborgs in some kind of battle royale to determine whose the strongest for some unknown reason.

Not to mention that in some possible attempt to lure in the FPS crowd they included a god awful first-person camera and a life bar. At least these two features were optional though.

I only even played this game because a friend of mine found a copy and bought it purely out of curiosity, since neither of us heard about it before.
From what I understand it's actually pretty difficult to buy a copy of this. Maybe someone gathered up most of the copies and buried in the same desert with all those cartridges of ET.

 

[AVATAR_RAGE]

Genji Day of Blade, simply filled me of hate and failure

 

[Stormz]

Fallout 3.

As soon as I set foot outside of the vault I just knew that this wasn't going to be fun in any whatsoever way.

Man you people who couldn't get into Fallout 3 or Mass Effect boggle my mind. Those games were utterly fantastic and had more substance than sooo many other games combined. I just can't get my head around it.

For me it would be Borderlands, because after playing with so many random douchebags armed with way better weapons running ahead of me and killing everything and grabbing loot before I got the chance, I knew that it was going to drive me crazy.

People have different tastes.

I couldn't get into Mass effect either. It felt to much like a crappy fps with a watered down skills system to make it look like it's an rpg.