Games you hate that everybody else likes

[Zaltys]

Oblivion: Blandest, most unoriginal fantasy world imaginable. Skyrim wasn't as bad, but I still had a nagging feeling that I've seen it all before.
Fallout 3: Oblivion with guns, without any of the charm of Fallout 2.
Limbo: First third was unique, then it turned into a bland crate and gravity 'puzzle' rehash that completely ruined the atmosphere.
Final Fantasy X: Main characters were insufferable pricks.

 

[GundamSentinel]

Dragon Age: Origins. I don't know why, but it just bored and annoyed me. Maybe because the story and quests felt stale, but I couldn't enjoy it. What didn't help was that I hated every single character in the game. Yes, every single one of those smug predictable assholes.

 

[Batou667]

Recently? Being dragged through the first chapter of Lost Planet 2 by a gaming buddy who was determined to show me that it was "the funnest thing ever" made me fairly hate it. It's just so... Japanese, and packed full of every worst and most tiresome Japanese trope going.

You play as a soldier with ridiculously over-designed armor (is that a ribbon/bow on the back, or is my armor powered by clockwork?). The enemies are "pirates" and "the elemental creatures of a planet whose ecosystem can take no more" - fuck sake, I can already see where this is going. Toward the end is there going to be a big reveal that says "LOL, you, the militaristic humans, were the monsters all along. FOR SHAME. Insert preachy pseudo-spiritual enviro message here"?

The design is grating. The story is trite and hackneyed in an overblown, try-hard way. The bite-size arcadey chapters rubbed me up the wrong way. The fact that my gaming buddy thought I'd be won over by Marcus Fenix pulling kawaii neko-ears poses made me want to eject the disk and eat it.

Probably I'm being unfair - I suspect most of my bad mood stemmed from the fact that the control system made me feel like a complete spaz whereas my gaming buddy was breezing through, backflipping off enemies and earning all the points/kills (and conspicuoulsy and patronisingly leaving the occasional one for me to get). I HATE being forced through a game at a pace that doesn't let me get to grips with the controls and gameplay mechanics.

Maybe one day I'll come back to it. I also have Lost Planet 1 - untouched - that I want to play through first.

 

[Jack Nief]

Call of Duty.
Battlefield.
God of War.

For the first two, I've never been fond of realistic military FPS games, and it annoys me when people try to get me to play it.

For God of War... I don't know, I have issues trying to like a protagonist who thinks its perfectly okay to shove a screaming, whimpering concubine into a gate mechanism just to keep it from shutting on him. He's grieving for his family, okay, but how is murdering innocent people HELPING that?

 

[Vegan_Doodler]

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...

Dragon Age: Origins. I don't know why, but it just bored and annoyed me. Maybe because the story and quests felt stale, but I couldn't enjoy it. What didn't help was that I hated every single character in the game. Yes, every single one of those smug predictable assholes.

Dam it! ninjad on two fronts, ah well.
I don't really hate any games but Gears 2 (never played the first) was just so boring to me, all the game had was a mechanic (cover based shooting), a very well built and polished mechanic but still just that one thing, I hear people say it was broke up by vehicle sections but as i remember them they where just rail shooters.
I got dragon age because it said 'from the makers of Mass Effect' on the box and I love that game, but the game play just isn't for me, I lack the patience to build a strategy and them manage each character.
The game I was the most disappointed with (and I hate it because I stupidly spent money on it) was Killing Floor. I got told to buy it by a mate so we could play multi-player and the game is just bad, if anyone likes it fair enough, to each their own, but its just not a very well designed game at all.

 

[MetalMagpie]

I would say Braid, except that I realised the other day that I don't have to read those stupid pre-level story bits. Since I began deliberately ignoring them and just getting on with the puzzles, I've been having a lot more fun.

Sorry to anyone who likes the Braid story, but the writing makes me want to punch small children. I actually started reading some of it out loud (misery shared is misery halved), but my boyfriend threatened to beat me over the head with his wireless keyboard if I continued.

The gameplay isn't half bad (I like the time-related tricks so far), although I still prefer Warp when it comes to puzzle-game-with-a-gimmick. For one thing, it doesn't take itself nearly so seriously!

 

[Deadyawn]

I don't hate Skyrim but I found it awfully boring. I couldn't stand more than a few hours. It wasn't very fun and it didn't even have the cheese that oblivion had and it was even more "streamlined".

Judging from the circlejerk that took place after launch, I'm in the very small minority.


EDIT Your username.



why...?

ninja me will you....

you know what my problem with the few bethedesa games Ive played it?...its like they just don't [i/]get[/i] it

like they think its enough to just stick you in a big world and say "here you go, your playing an RPG now" and for some it is, but for me it really isnt

to try and explain...I recently dusted off Fallout 3 and while I like that game and think its a million times better than oblivion (*hurk!*) I noticed some of those old bethedesa things creeping in

like the minute I step out of the vault and enter megaton...everyones more than willing to get me to do jobs/run their errands when it makes no logical sense other than "well...your the PC arnt you? and this is an RPG?" for crying out loud I'm fresh out of a vault and already discussing disarming megatons bomb....I mean its like they have the basic parts for an RPG but don't bother fitting them together

compared to Fallout NV on the otherhand...everything makes sense and gels together, the side quests are all conected to the grand scheme of things (not to mention the charachters are better) THAT is a shining example on how to make an RPG... and it makes sense for my charachter to do all thease things

I have to agree with you on the whole bethesda thing. They can make big interesting worlds filled with stuff to do and a lot of them are fun games. But they can't write for shit is what it basically comes down to. Which is a shame, because as obsidian demonstrated with new vegas, if you do have good writing in a open world sandbox type bethesda game, it's really damn good.

Which brings me to what I wanted to say, which is that your avatar is fucking awesome. I think I am jealous.

 

[K84]

Gears of War, it plays so strange (to me, dunno why)
Kingdom Hearts, just because of the fanbase, though....the games suck pretty bad too.
Mario Kart, a game which relies heavily on luck rather than skill is no game, that's gambling.

 

[Deadyawn]

Hitman and Assassins Creed.

Now, in fairness, I only played the first of each series, but I just thought they were garbage.

The first games of those series were garbage. They got better, I think.

 

[MiskWisk]

I don't have any games I hate, more just do not like. Every COD game after the first MW (which for me was average) I feel has been severely over-hyped for what is little more than a few patch jobs and some copy pasted maps.

I also take offence with FF XIII which in my opinion was just awful in terms of story and gameplay.

 

[Infernai]

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.

Wait, people actually LIKED FF XIII? 0o I mean, don't get me wrong it wasn't the worst game in the series (That honor belongs to FF XII) but last i checked it wasn't all that well liked by either by most others. Myself included.

 

[blackrave]

Once again "hate" is far too strong word, but a lot of games have "meh" reaction from me

CoD and recent BF
I don't care for present military setting
Only BF2142 got my attention (one word: Titan)
Anyway I prefer futuristic setting for my FPS
(Still Halo isn't my cup of tee)

Dragon Age O&2 (why they skipped DA1?)
I prefer Witcher series (while Bioware pretends to have balls, CD Projekt have balls)

Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo
Warcraft and Diablo- because I find these settings boring
Starcraft- because I find Warhammer 40K games far better
(also Warcraft and Starcraft- while I can tolerate knockoff, knockoff of the knockoff is simply too much)

 

[Deadyawn]

Hitman and Assassins Creed.

Now, in fairness, I only played the first of each series, but I just thought they were garbage.

The first games of those series were garbage. They got better, I think.

Well, that's what I'm told, but in truth, those two made such a bad impression on me, that I have no motivation to play their sequels.

Yeah...I can't really blame you for that.

 

[piinyouri]

Every RTS game that has ever been made.

 

[Rastien]

Call of duty #insert military cool name here#

I just find the whole COD series... Dull : / and full of pseudo manly bullshit, the multiplayer imho leaves alot to be desired. Also the mass following it has now they are at a point where they can repackage the game give as much content as an expansion or DLC and people lap it up, why?

Also World ends with you, as JRPGs on the DS go its just bad :/.

Kingdom hearts... i just could never get over the disney characters... i'm sorry thats just not my cup of tea.

 

[iseko]

The GTA series. Seriously, F that sh*t! They try to do so much and they fail at everything. It's mind numbing how you can suck at so many things at once.