Games that took you five minutes to realise you hated.

[The Shade]

Resistance: Fall of Man.

Five minutes into the game play, I knew that was one of the few games I would never bother finishing.

 

[Broady Brio]

Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers

Brother thought £2 was a good idea for a game.

2 hours later after he gave it to me. I demanded he returned such a putrid cockup of a game.

 

[laggyteabag]

Risen, Mass effect 2,Fifa (any), GTA 4, Kane & Lynch

 

[bobknowsall]

Call of Juarez: Bound In Blood was one of those games. Just didn't feel right.

 

[SilverUchiha]

Halo (any I've played), Sims 3, Yugioh Falsebound Kingdom, Mario Kart Wii, 007 Golden Eye, and there are others. In most cases, I just get bored with them fast enough where I don't see the appeal to them (Halo, Sims, YGO:FK, etc).

Games like Mario Kart Wii suffered (for me anyway) with controls I didn't especially care for. I have found some Wii games to work well, but I just couldn't get Mario Kart to work at all. So I switched to a gamecube controller after a while to find that all of the buttons had been rearranged to make it feel like I'm playing some weird thing from hell.

Golden Eye is just one of those games where you hear all these great things about it, so when you try playing it, you do your damndest to like it. End result, massive headaches and nothing but eyestrain for me. It might have been the best FPS at the time, but compared to more modern titles, it's aged terribly and deserves to stop being talked about... besides, we have a remake coming soon and maybe I'll change my mind on the idea when that is released.

 

[Glover09]

In the interest of time and patience, I'll only list ones I have played myself:

Juiced-no explanation needed
Uncharted 2-Drake is an idiot
Star Wars:Battlefront-harder than it should have been(love battlefront 2 and on)
Twisted Metal series-tried different ones, hated them all
NFL Head Coach series-a half-ass time wasting simulator
Powerdrome-Wipeout rip-off
Corvette,Ford Racing, or anything brand specific-worthy of the sun cannon
EA Nascar after 2005-"How could you screw this up any worse". repeat for each year.
NFS:Undercover-made Pro Street look better
NFS:Shift-made me rethink Undercover
blur-bland
MK vs. DC-bullshit AI and I've never liked fighting games(except Smash Bros.)
Mario games-die you irritating bastard
Sonic games-the only time I enjoy running into spikes
Guitar Heroost Harmonix-screw you Activision
IHRA games-finally loads after two weeks
SIMS-8th circle of hell

Any questions?

 

[antipunt]

Sonic Chronicles.

I was like "nooo...my faith"

 

[Antidrall]

Sonic and the secret rings. first of all, I love my boy sonic, so I thought it'd be interesting on the Wii. when I sat down and finally found out how the hell you were supposed to hold the controller, I was plain pissed about the mere fact you basically had no control over your movements

 

[tjcross]

Fusion Frenzy?

god that game was horrible control wise plus it doesn't help that it's a collection of boring and samey minigames can't believe anyone else bought that (i bought it as a present for my family as a christmas present since i'm cheap)

In my defense, I played it at a friends house. I guess it's also a candidate for 'Worst Christmas Present Ever' .

yea i almost lost my present rights for that one my thought process for buying it was my family loves mario party but we're an xbox household well this kind of looks like mario party for the xbox so whats the worst thing that could happen last time i impulse buy a video game (i've only impulse bought 2 games lost magic and fusion frenzy and they both suck)

 

[Skops]

Devil May Cry 2.

It just felt soo slow.

 

[wickermole]

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[Cheefa_Da_Reefa]

halo....i ran it on my pc and it crashed... not to mention is an average shooter at best...also i hate the fanbase

also WoW i hate it so much ima play i AGAIN ugh

to each his own

 

[elcamino41383]

Hmmm, no one ever mentions Golden Axe: Beast Rider in threads like this. I guess because no one else was dumb enough (like myself and a friend of mine) to try it and hope for good things. I did play for more than 5 minutes, but wow this game was pretty bad. So unbalanced and sluggish! Quite a few games out there I just did not like very early into playing it, but I always gave them a shot for about an hour...this is probably the one I hated most.

 

[boyvirgo666]

halo. when i saw what they did to shooers i hated them

 

[Cheefa_Da_Reefa]

Hmmm, no one ever mentions Golden Axe: Beast Rider in threads like this. I guess because no one else was dumb enough (like myself and a friend of mine) to try it and hope for good things. I did play for more than 5 minutes, but wow this game was pretty bad. So unbalanced and sluggish! Quite a few games out there I just did not like very early into playing it, but I always gave them a shot for about an hour...this is probably the one I hated most.

dude i bought that game to...for 5 bucks lol
its not a golden axe game without co-op!

 

[D_987]

Lost Odyssey. I stuck with it for a while, because I'm not giving up on something after 5 minutes. But good lord, that game does nothing to make you like it. The protagonist is a tosser, the combat system is awful, it barely explains half of what it is trying to do (the "combat ring" drivel is just nonsense of the highest order), the art design just looks stupid to me, and the story is just stupid.

I'm not going to bother refuting your points - after all it's your opinion and no matter what I say it won't change your mind, but I will say that even if you didn't like the opening quarter of the game, it changes pretty substantially (bar the combat system, and that's really a love it or hate it scenario) about half-way through. The only thing I don't understand your complaints on is the ring-system. Not only was that the games core-innovation compared to most turn-based games, it was actually extremely easy to understand - there's even a lengthy tutorial you can repeat until you understand it so I'm not sure why you'd call it "drivel". It doesn't even effect the game if you understand the core combat mechanics.

LO was just produced by the guy who created FF. It was developed by Mistwalker and published by SE but you always want to do research with this sort of thing with games and movies.

Wrong - Square-Enix had nothing to do with the game - it was published by Microsoft - and the box states "From the creator of Final Fantasy". As Hironobu Sakaguchi is the commonly recognized creator of the Final Fantasy games; and the person that turned the series into the world-famous brand it is today I think that's a pretty fair description.

Furthermore, the game was designed by Mistwalker - they are a game design company, primarily focused on the art, story and music of the game. The game was actually developed by FeelPlus.

If it says "from the people who brought you" or "brought to you by" then be suspicious. These are industery buzz words to make you think that the same people who worked on the other thing that you liked worked on this as well. Be cautious friend and be informed.

Ironic, considering you just made a pretty massive error in your other paragraph...

As for my game : Ghost Recon : Advanced Warfighter 2: The controls were poor, the gameplay boring, and the overall experience just left me wishing I'd not bothered. I bought the game because I had enjoyed Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and heard this was of a similar breed, but the game just felt extremely unintuitive and gave the player little help, or motivation; I had other games to play, and just abandoned the game extremely quickly.

 

[Woodsey]

Oh, and just to continue the trend: Two Worlds.

I knew as soon as the game started that I was going to hate it. Christ, I think I knew whilst it was still in the fucking box. And I know what I think of the sequel already.

Two Worlds 2 (seriously?!) my arse.

 

[LostProxy]

Man, the sheer gall of that guy to try and explain to you the immediate logical and logistical problems of your poorly-thought-out, poorly worded deluge at a game you clearly didn't quite grasp. He must be a real jerk.

"Whats that poppa?"

"My boy that's a wild fanboy, stay clear before he marks you as his territory and fanatically defends you."

The guy gave an opinion, whether it's a good or bad one doesn't really matter. It's a thread about things you don't like. Not why you don't like them and why every fan within a 5 thread radius should collectively take a dump on your thoughts. For the sake of proving me wrong agree to disagree.

Personally I didn't like HF2 either. It had the loneliness of Fallout without the vast amount of options to make up for it. To me the only redeeming quality would have to be the COOP servers I play on which made me so happy for playing it on PC instead of console. Do I think it's utterly a waste of money? No I don't. But neither do I believe it's a classic. It's a matter of taste and opinion because no matter how good something is there will always be people who look at it and go meh.