Games you hate that everybody else likes

[Lt._nefarious]

Mario or Sonic... I like platformers its just that all of these ones' are soooooo bad...

 

[kortin]

Chrono Trigger.

Unbelievably dull game with a time jump for no reason other than "the game wills it". The characters annoyed the hell out of me, the combat was unnecessarily complicated and gimicky, the story itself was simple (hero attempts to save princess). I cannot see how anyone could like that game.

 

[Squidbulb]

Psychonauts. It's just a terribly broken, boring platformer with mediocre humour. It's difficulty is only because of awful level design. I have no idea what everyone sees in it. It's one of the worst games I've ever played.

 

[kortin]

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.

*ahem*

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That sums up, quite literally, the combat in Morrowind. It was an abomination and nowhere near "solid".

 

[VeryOddGamer]

I'm going to go with JRPGs in general. I don't know why, but they really turn me off.

 

[Mouse One]

Another vote for Skyrim. Honestly, I kept wondering "Why don't I like this game?" for twenty odd hours before I gave up. Beautiful graphics, open world with lots of exploration, a cute action based combat system. But the clunky AI, bland NPCs and a lack of a strong driving narrative eventually just made me yawn. Also, Dragons that were stupidly easy to beat-- I mean, come on, the game was centered around these Big Scary Things, but you quickly discover they're more bark than bite.

 

[kortin]

*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

Wait a second. You used "good old days" to describe the horrible game that is "Team Fortress 2". I bought TF2 several years before it went free to play along with the Orange Box. I mostly got the Orange Box for Half Life 2 (having loved Half Life 1), but it came with Portal and TF2. Portal was fun, I suppose, the story was sketchy at best, in my opinion, but it was fine. Then I played TF2. Oh. My. God. That game was horrible. Now, I'm no shooter-hating kind of guy. I enjoy Call of Duty (on the type of day where I want some mindless lone-wolf shooting), Battlefield, Tribes Ascend, and I'm really liking how PlanetSide 2 is looking.

Anyways, back on topic, TF2, a complete horrendous pile of shit. I played the game for some 61 hours before I realized that I was not having fun. At all. I had kept telling myself, It will get better once you play for a while. It didn't. Game after game, server after server, dumbass after dumbass, I was not having fun. Most servers have a horrible gimmicky plugin to them, which takes out quite a bit of servers. Then there are the ones with the horrible admins. Then, in the last 2% are the actual servers that don't have that sort of stuff. Even on THOSE servers I wasn't having fun.

 

[LetalisK]

Morowind(surprise surprise) and Final Fantasy 7. I don't actually hate them*, I just think they're vastly overrated.

*Morrowind is currently testing this, however. Fuck Bloodmoon, you're not allowed to actually be the most interesting place with the most interesting quests in the game and be unstable as shit.

 

[kortin]

I want to drink your bath water.

I'll be honest. I'm unsure if that's a good thing or a bad thing...

 

[Aeonknight]

Chrono Trigger.

Unbelievably dull game with a time jump for no reason other than "the game wills it". The characters annoyed the hell out of me, the combat was unnecessarily complicated and gimicky, the story itself was simple (hero attempts to save princess). I cannot see how anyone could like that game.

I want to drink your bath water.

And you're both officially broken without hope of repair. But that's just me.

I do agree with his analysis of TF2. Yours on Dead Rising being racist against "americans" on the other hand....

OT: I'm more of a "glass is half full" individual when it comes to judging a game's worth. If I were to pick out every single flaw in any game ever and fixate on it, I'd have given up gaming a long time ago. So to me, this thread just stinks of "call out mainstream titles and say they suck with little to no justification behind said opinion". I'll pass on this hipster circle jerk of a thread, thanks.

 

[Alternative]

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you and me have very different experiences with TF2, i started playing it roughly a year before hats and i had tremendous fun, played it for a couple of hundred hours before various circumstances caused me to quite just after the engie update.

 

[kortin]

Sounds like a tabletop RPG to me.

Protip - actually put points in what you want to use. You can have level 45/50 in anything from the word go.

I'm sorry, we must be playing radically different games. If I wanted to use swords and I put points into swords, the previous description of the game I used should not fit the game. BUT IT DOES. That shows a significant amount of poor design on Bethesda's part. There isn't a game out there where you should miss THAT much. Except for maybe Tribes, but that's different because that requires aim and not a dice roll.

 

[blaqknoise]

I don't really like the GTA series

 

[mrdude2010]

The Uncharted series. Neither the gunplay nor the platforming were good enough to carry the game, and the set pieces felt poorly supported to me.

Also, Morrowind. I didn't love the story and the combat was awful.

 

[Squidbulb]

Sounds like a tabletop RPG to me.

Protip - actually put points in what you want to use. You can have level 45/50 in anything from the word go.

I'm sorry, we must be playing radically different games. If I wanted to use swords and I put points into swords, the previous description of the game I used should not fit the game. BUT IT DOES. That shows a significant amount of poor design on Bethesda's part. There isn't a game out there where you should miss THAT much. Except for maybe Tribes, but that's different because that requires aim and not a dice roll.

I have to agree with this. I miss so much, and it's difficult to tell when I do hit. It feels like I'm hitting them with a plastic sword.
I didn't like Skyrim much either. I've heard it described as "a mile wide and an inch deep" which is certainly an apt comparison. It's massive, but the environments are all the same (forest/mountains) and all the dungeons I tried were the same. I feel the game would have been much more enjoyable if Bethesda focused less on making it big and more on improving what they had.

 

[TKretts3]

The game Catherine for one. I honestly just cannot get passed the style and animation.

Second, any Real Time Strategy (Yes, that involves Starcraft). I just don't find them fun. The entire concept of RTS games is just so detached and unexciting. To me it feels like I'm Bart in The Simpsons, when he has to study or has a broken leg, and looks out his window to watch everyone else having fun. I'm watching other people engage in combat, I'm watching other people play the game - I'm just telling them where to play.

 

[Moderated]

I didn't like the assassins creed games.
I don't like the 2D Zeldas.
Or the first final fantasy.
Or Comix Zone.

 

[Lovely Mixture]

I consider Portal 2 to be highly overrated. I mildly disagree with Yahtzee on some points, but I was shocked when he named that game of the year.

The humor is ok, nothing special, but the gameplay is what I take issue with. It's really too damn easy. Someone else said "it's as if Valve got worried if someone spent more than 10 seconds on a puzzle."

Aaaaanyway, LIMBO and BioShock. LIMBO just seemed like a watered down and more frustrating version of 50 billion free indie platformers I'd played before, and BioShock threw me off with all the repetition, the horrible feeling combat and mediocre story. I can kinda see why people like these games, but they are not for me.

I agree with these. The problem is that Limbo is more an experience than a game (not that this justifies it in anyway), it has good atmosphere but nothing else to keep it going.

People laud Bioshock's story, it has good themes sure, but what are themes if you don't expand on them and instead opt for the usual "YOU WERE CONTROLLED ALL ALONG" twist.