Games you hate that everybody else likes

[00slash00]

Well it's kind of unfair to mention entire series which aren't even trying to placate me to begin with, so my big one is probably Final Fantasy X. I don't just hate it. As opposed to the way I feel about many games I hate, I honestly think it's a shit game. Namely because the story is awful, which is a shame because the soundtrack and gameplay are both really great.

i loved the story. you are, of course, entitled to you opinion but i got far more emotionally attached than i did with final fantasy 7. at the very least i found it much better than final fantasy 12

 

[Scarecrow1001]

I really hated Fallout 3, I got so bored less than 4 hours in, I just stopped playing it. In fact, I'm pretty sure I traded it in for L.A. Noire....

 

[prophecy2514]

demon souls - I respect the combat system, but it is an overly frustrating game, with a very uninteresting story to get involved in.

also COD. fucking cod. nuff said

 

[Chris Terrell]

Any Zelda Game or Final Fantasy(with the excepion of 7), and any MMO

 

[Chris Terrell]

Any Zelda Game or Final Fantasy(with the excepion of 7), and any MMO

 

[Solo-Wing]

Braid. I really don't get what everyone sees in it -- it's Mario with a shoehorned in reversal mechanic. All flash and no substance.

Did you play it through to the end? If not I highly recommend it.

If you have to play a game to the end to get any kind of enjoyment That is like saying "Oh yay the game is over! I am happy cause I do not have to play this game anymore! WOOHOO!"

OT: The Half-Life games. I don't HATE them. They just feel... Insignificant to me.

 

[Triforceformer]

Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Of the six hours I played: the single-player is crap, and the multiplayer has you as a small insect in something much larger than you that just doesn't feel big. At least Planetside 2 will have the appropriate scale for vehicle based, War-Like gameplay.

 

[Batman]

I'm about to piss a lot of fans off.

Bioshock. A shitty first person shooter with an average story that is mainly told by audio logs scattered about. The game is nothing but fetch quests, an escort mission and then a shitty boss fight complete with three shitty endings.

Half Life 2. I bought the Orange Box due to people demanding I should. This game also featured average shooting with a shitty story as well. Turok Evolution managed to have a better gravity gun than this as well. The only decent game on the box was TF2.

Those 2 seem be to praised as shining examples of FPS titles on the internet. I found them to be some of the worst that I played.

Here ya go, take have my shield. You'll nee...

Also Mass Effect (the first anyway). I bought it after I enjoyed Dragon Age. I'm still not seeing why it was so great. The story was rubbish, Sheppard has a horrible voice actor. I never felt like any of my decisions mattered and most of the galaxy was a bore to explore.

wtf give me my shield back. Have at him fans.

On topic, I never understood the hype behind blizzard games.

 

[Zaydin]

I hated Skyward Sword, myself. I hated Fi, because she was an irritating Parrot Exposition Captain Obvious. I hated the motion controls, because it added artifical difficulty to the combat, not to mention unnecessary physical strain. I hated the villain because he's treated as new and original because he's not Ganondorf when he's just another Sword-Licking Anime psycho Villain #51,427. The overworld is shallow with nothing to do or see compared to Twilight Princess, Wind Waker, or Ocarina of Time.

I also hated Final Fantasy XIII; I hated pretty much every character. And the story was horrible, partly because they start it In Medias Res and dump need-to-know information into the glossary and expect you to read it instead of weaving the need-to-know information into the narrative. FF13 looked great and sounded great, but I just couldn't get over the bad characters and story.

I also really didn't like Supreme Commander. Something about it just bored me and hardly seemed worthy of the praise that it got.

 

[Bordersane]

All that COD modern warfare / blackops crap....

 

[Squilookle]

Mario Kart 64- some see it as the best in the series and while I agree it's better than the Karts that came after it, Super Mario Kart still just seems better overall, mostly because it doesn't only come down to the powerups you have. I found Diddy Kong Racing to be the best Cart racer of the 64, by a long shot.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Of the six hours I played: the single-player is crap, and the multiplayer has you as a small insect in something much larger than you that just doesn't feel big.

Sounds exactly like my experience with it. After the sprawling giant battles of bf1942, each battlefield since has just got louder, prettier, and... smaller. BF3 is a bit of an exception, but still- 4 planes max in a map? Hello!?

 

[onewheeled]

I don't enjoy the original Starcraft in the slightest.

Maybe I just don't have the strategic mind required for it, but I could never wrap my mind around everything. I got up to the Norad II mission in the Terran campaign, but just couldn't make any meaningful progress in that, even with the strategy guide right in front of me.

Oh well, I'll stick with Frozen Synapse for my strategy gaming.

 

[ThePenguinKnight]

We get one of these once a week.

Final Fantasy
Gears of War
Journey
Limbo
Halo

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Braid. I really don't get what everyone sees in it -- it's Mario with a shoehorned in reversal mechanic. All flash and no substance.

Did you play it through to the end? If not I highly recommend it.

No, and I don't have any intention of doing so. I played through the first several levels, and the only thing I really liked about it was the music and the (admittedly beautiful) backgrounds. Aesthetic fluff isn't enough on its own to get me to stick with a platformer. Now VVVVVVV, there's an indie platformer for the ages. Not only is the gameplay as close to perfect as humanly possible, but the music is better, to boot XD

 

[phatty500]

with everyone clamoring over how good half life 2 is i couldn't get past the hour long vehicle segments where you do next to nothing but drive, get out to do some awkward feeling shooting and/or a simple but annoying puzzle.

 

[Ryan Minns]

Gears of war 1 and 2, never played the third. Short as buggery, some of the worst AI I've seen (That's saying something) and over the top characters who seem to be an attempt at seriousness. GeOW 2 was SLIGHTLY better in the AI department but failed worse due to the most pathetic, idiotic attempt at bringing some form of story telling into the game...

Oblivion. Sure a large portion of Oblivion love came from the standard fanboyism between PS3 and the 360 in their youth but for a time all I saw was mass praise of... emptiness, it always confused me once Fallout 3 came out how a lush green world has LESS life in it than a nuclear wasteland.

Diablo 3, also not a hate but damn are the characters stupid, the story was literally the most easily guessed story I have come across in a long time... a predictable story is ok if it's meant to be that way but coming into the end... ALL the NPC's and even my character were like "OMG WE HAD NO IDEA" And I guessed what would happen in ACT ONE!