Games you hate that everybody else likes

[Alternative]

I don't think Bioshock is anything like as mindblowing and intelligent as people think it is. Hammering on about Ayn Rand does not make it clever. And yeah, the "would you kindly thing" was kind of neat, but honestly, who didn't see something like that coming a mile off?

I thought the writing and voice acting in Bioshock was good enough that i didnt pick up on it.
the phrase "would you kindly" seems to fit into Atlas's speech and mannerisms quite well

 

[Eamar]

I don't think Bioshock is anything like as mindblowing and intelligent as people think it is. Hammering on about Ayn Rand does not make it clever. And yeah, the "would you kindly thing" was kind of neat, but honestly, who didn't see something like that coming a mile off?

I thought the writing and voice acting in Bioshock was good enough that i didnt pick up on it.
the phrase "would you kindly" seems to fit into Atlas's speach and mannerisms quite well

I guess we'll agree to disagree. This thread is all about unpopular opinions after all

 

[baddude1337]

Skyrim. As much as I want to like it, I just can't get into it. I find the setting boring as fuck and the combat feels too similar to Oblivion, a game I have already sunk too many hours into. Not to mention the supposed awesome interface and inventory is, to me, terrible, ugly nd clunky.

Mass Effect. Granted, I have only played the first, but it was utterly underwhelming to me. I don't understand why the story is so talked about, it seems pretty standard and by the numbers to me. The actual gameplay was a bit boring too, as was any side quests. Yes, I know there are another two games, but why bother continuing in a story-focused trilogy if you don't like the first one?

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

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.


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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

You should try Morrowind. The quest lines make a lot of sense, they're given to you because of who you know, not because of who the character is controlled by. Guild membership, that sort of thing. Daggerfall had a lot of people offering random quests, but they really were random oddjobs, and you got the feeling that the world was crawling with adventurers who were willing to do things like kill tigers that had gotten into people's apartments or go into some old ruins to retrieve a specific item for money.

Problem is Morrowind has the worst combat mechanics in known history.

No, Morrowind has solid combat. It's just that the first three TES games were esentially turn based RPGs that didn't stop between turns -- they were honest to goodness RPGs, not action games with stats.

 

[Austin Howe]

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

Damn near everything is better than FFXII. Of course, unlike most bad FF's, it's not a travesty of design and writing, a spectacle of bad decision making, it's just ridiculously boring. And it ends in the middle of the story.

 

[Iwata]

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?

I'll answer this:

Because it's fun. I enjoy it. I have fun playing it. I like following the plot. I like the gunplay. I like the setpieces. And most importantly, have I mentioned I have fun while playing the games?

Hope that answers that timeless question.

 

[Cranky]

Half-Life was rather bland and Skyrim bores the living shit outta me after 2 hours a sitting. Also any "hardcore multiplayer" FPS like CoD, BF3, etc

 

[noble cookie]

I wouldn't go so far to say I hate it because I've never played it and that'd be unfair. However Final Fantasy VII is my choice.

I think it's not as good as everyone makes it out to be. Maybe it is but from my point of view it's overrated (and it pisses me off when I see people begging for a remake for the umpteenth time when FFVII has enough games about it. As well as a film and an anime.)

Agree or disagree I don't mind but thats just my point of view as someone who has never played it.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Most shooters since they just bore me to tears and I really don't find them to be particularly fun. Games like Halo, Gears of War, and CoD did nothing for me and what little of multiplayer I've touched it was an exercise in patience.

The only two shooters that I've enjoyed were Borderlands and the Resistance series, I haven't played Mass Effect yet so I can't comment on that.

Smash Brothers is another one, I've really tried to like it, but in the end I found it to be bland.

Can't say I didn't try.

 

[loudestmute]

Final Fantasy VII.

It combined the glacially paced combat and leveling systems of JRPGs in the mid-1990s with the disc swapping of FMV adventure games...in the mid-1990s. And you can cry all you want about Aeri(s/th) dying, that still doesn't change the fact that she had a noticeable lack of personality. Nor does it forgive the crossdressing scene about thirty minutes prior.

 

[loc978]

There are a number of popular games that I dislike, but each of them has a bandwagon in this thread already. Nothing is universally liked. There are even people who hate breathing.

That said, those games on my shit list include the Halo series (for terrible gameplay that was copy/pasted throughout the FPS genre) the Elder Scrolls series (for terrible game mechanics and predictable lore that feels copy/pasted from half of the novels I read in middle school), the full 3D TPS Grand Theft Auto games (I actually still love the top-down ones... so gameplay again)... and every Final Fantasy game after VI (not that they're all terrible games, but VII represents a shift in the series that led quite logically into what the series is today... dead).

captchasolve: boom stick... I never did find an Evil Dead/Army of Darkness game that was worth a damn... but they're not lauded games anyway, and the movies were only good for the over-the-top cheese that is Bruce Campbell's specialty.

 

[Scrubiii]

I genuinely don't understand what people see in Bioshock. Part of it is probably that I'm awful at shooters, but I seemed to die every five minutes. Even the most basic enemies seemed to be able to take me down in two shots. The game's way of getting around this is the 'vita-chambers' which just respawn you into the game without removing any progress, but that just seemed to remove all the significance of a death mechanic.

I reached the first boss (the crazy plastic surgeon) and bullshitted my way through it by running in, shooting him twice, getting one-shotted, respawning and doing the whole thing again. After doing this about 10 times he died, and I put down the controller and haven't played it since.

Also *raises flame shield* Team Fortress Two. As I said above, I'm not a big shooter guy, but I found it mind-numbingly dull. I played about six hours of it, and every game just seemed to be a war of attrition, with each team throwing themselves at the other in an attempt to gain ground and never really getting anywhere.

 

[Matt King]

red dead redemption, i don't hate it per-say but i find it boring and i can only play for maybe 30 mins before losing interest

i loved the zombie version though it was great
(unrelated i've always wanted to see a zombie film set in like roman times with a full blow army fighting against them)

 

[templar1138a]

Platformers. Any side-scrolling platformer. I never saw the appeal of them as a kid, and I despised the few I tried, mainly "Hocus Pocus" and "Jazz Jackrabbit." The controls never seemed to let me run, jump, and/or attack at the same time when I really needed to, the field-of-view was far too small, the lives system made me nervous, the lack of save-any-time pissed me off, and the boss fights were stupidly hard.

Yet for some reason, so many gamers of my generation think of side-scrollers as the apex of video games and that it's all been downhill ever since. And because of this mentality, Nintendo keeps spitting out reincarnations of old Mario platformers.

I've played both the original Mario and Super Mario 64. Guess which one I thought was better. I'll give you a hint: The one where you could move in more than two directions (not counting jumping) and punch the crap out of enemies if you didn't feel like jumping on them.

Captcha is "two cents worth". Indeed.

 

[Fenra]

red dead redemption, i don't hate it per-say but i find it boring and i can only play for maybe 30 mins before losing interest

i loved the zombie version though it was great
(unrelated i've always wanted to see a zombie film set in like roman times with a full blow army fighting against them)

I'd watch that film in a heartbeat!!!

As for me, the l4d games, dont know about out and out hate, the 1st was intersting the first time I did each campaign with friends I'll give it that but never enjoyed the VS mode or random multiplayer and, just never saw the appeal I guess. To this day I've not finished each of the campaigns for l4d2

 

[TheTim]

Bioshock, screw that game it was extremely boring. But apparently i was the only one of my friends who thought that.

 

[Aprilgold]

Well I got a few in here somewhere.

Skyrim or any Elder Scrolls game: It just isn't very good since its first DoS game, always been more ambition then anything else.

Killer 7: Love the style, hate the gameplay.

Cod / Battlefield / Halo / any FPS that isn't either Indie or going under people's radar: Why, because they created the Modern Military Shooter craze along with Regenerating health which are now part of my 7 deadly gaming sins.

Dead Rising (Racist against americans even though nobody wants to admit it)

Wait what? Where the hell did you get that? If anything it is completely racist against Mexicans because of the main villain.

Also, were used to it.

 

[Alternative]

Also *raises flame shield* Team Fortress Two. As I said above, I'm not a big shooter guy, but I found it mind-numbingly dull. I played about six hours of it, and every game just seemed to be a war of attrition, with each team throwing themselves at the other in an attempt to gain ground and never really getting anywhere.

*puts on glasses and pulls out walker*
back in my day Tf2 was a great team based game that was fun to play, well ballanced and didnt have many douchy players or noobs. Then they introduced HATS ad it all started going downhill.
first came Mountains of hats, then they added an ingame store so you could by hats (and otehr things) then they made the game free to play, allowing any hat obcessed noobs cloging up our once proud servers.

drifts of into further rants about "the good old days" then falls asleep

 

[Pirakahunter788]

Does Call of Duty count?

Probably the game in recent memory for me would be Morrowind. I just found the combat and animations ugly, and it felt too overly complicated. And this is coming from someone who grew up playing aged games like Morrowind.