Games you hate that everybody else seems to love.

[II2]

There are very few games I truely hate (that would be silly), but...

I strongly DISLIKE the entire Call of Duty series. Reason being that it's very good at what it does: bombastic, cinematic, action packed rail shooter, with FAST deathmatch oriented MP. Because it's become so popular, a lot of shooters try and emulate this, to my distaste.

Now, I've nothing against fast paced deathmatch OR military oriented shooters (or single player being on the rails, for that matter). I grew up on LANing Doom and Quake 1 (w/ Team Fortess Mod) and 2, before graduating to Tribes and Battlefield, but here's the problem:

I sorta feel like - however deserved it may be on its own merits - the CoD franchise is, the emulation in trying to 'get in on' that formula is dissuading developers and investors from creating games that are more feature rich in the elements that attract me:

- 64 or greater player maps, big arenas.
- Vehicles in plenty to move around those maps
- Other "outlandish" (but undeniably fun) freedom of movement mechanics like jet/jump packs and hookshots
- Coupled with the above elements, a strategic emphasis on both deployables and forward bases.
- AI Bots to beef up teams even further than the player max.

So, no, I don't HATE CoD or the people who enjoy it, but what I'D like to see is the above with honorable mention to some of the new titles that tried to embrace at least some those ideas, recently, as well as some old standbys:

New:
- ARMA 2
- ET: Quake Wars
- Section 8: Prejudice
- Global Agenda
- Just Cause 2 / Saints Row 2 (Sorta?)
- Nuclear Dawn
- APOX (again, Sorta)

Great Oldies:
- Tribes 1, 2, Vengance
- Battlefield, perticularly 1942, 2 and 2142
- Battlezone 1, 2 (the FPS/RTS one)
- Team Fortress / Weapons Factory
- SCARAB (nobody will remember this one, but it had some cool ideas)

TL;DR I got sick of running around shooting dudes in a confined space in the 90's deathmatch craze with Quake 2-3arena Unreal Tournaments and Counterstrike. Want more feature rich FPS, COD popularity seems to be slowing down development of such.

 

[Eldritch Warlord]

I don't really hate any game.

Though for the sake of contributing I will say that I didn't find BioShock to be nearly as impressive as many people seem to. Same goes for Grand Theft Auto IV, though it's really just the critics who seemed to "have an accident in their trousers just thinking about it".

Don't get me wrong though, both are good games.

 

[WildSeraph]

Wow, so many Valve haters in here.

I've never liked the 3D Zelda games. I've tried every one of them from Ocarina of Time to Twilight Princess, and I've hated each and every one of them. How is Ocarina so widely-considered the best game ever made? I thought it was awful! This is made even weirder because I love the 2D ones, and Link's Awakening is one of the best handheld games I've ever played.

I'm not a fan of CoD (Outside of Nazi Zombies) and Halo (Outside of Combat Evolved), but I'll play them if a friend is playing. They're fun, just not worth the $50-$70 to buy them in my opinion. I've bought Modern Combat: Domination (basically a condensed version of CoD's multiplayer and only 8 bucks on PSN), and that's good enough for me.

While I haven't played too much of it, I'm getting really sick of hearing about how amazing Mass Effect 2 is. Alright, people. I understand it's good. I've played a bit of it, and I've been told so a million times. Please leave me alone.

 

[Bags159]

I think a lot of people are confusing dislike with hate. It's pretty hard to hate a game, IMO.

 

[Mallefunction]

Final Fantasy. Enough with the teenage angst drama bullshit and cutscenes!

 

[cp.06]

The World Ends With You. Terrible generic story, horrid uninteresting characters and the music... dear god the music...

 

[MechanicalMusic]

Early resident evil games. I f-ing LOATH fixed cameras. There was also something stiff and unreal about in-game movement. Even in res evil 4 Leon would ponder along slowly with his gun lowered while bag-head is barreling down on him, swinging a chainsaw. HEEEEEEELP... LEEEEEEEEEEON!!!!

 

[Jazoni89]

Okay, i might be needing a flame shield for this but...

Minecraft - To me its just a lego builder for 15 year old ADD kids.
Gears of war - playing as grizzly strong men in a cover shooter just isn't my forte.
Portal - I don't hate it, but the amount of praise it gets is rather perplexing to me.
Dragon Age - I really wanted to love origins, but i couldn't bring it on to myself to.
Saints row - GTA, but with more glitches, and a crap story.

I like most games, and are very open minded to gaming as a whole, but i just don't get the love, and praise for these games at all.

 

[Yellowbeard]

Mario anything.

Smash Brothers anything.

Warcraft III.

 

[NicoDK]

Dragon age and Mass effect comes to mind.
The story may be good, i wouldn't know, but the gameplay is just as important and quite frankly i hate both games gameplay.

 

[ToAzT]

Call of Duty/Killzone/modern FPS: all of these feel so mediocre and bland and blargh to me, and they're just annoying.

Early Resident Evil games:The camera sucks, it's only scary because you can't see anything and it's more annoying than scary anyway.

FF7:I played this, and felt absolutely nothing special or unique or anything. It felt generic and even the Aeris scene didn't do anything for me.

 

[letfireraindown]

I'd have to say sports games overall. Having a mini-game in a game that is a sport I can get. But the "real" sports games that are to make it seem and function like a real sporting event kinda baffles me a bit.

 

[Malfy]

The one that turned me off from certain magazines was an old game called Maximo. Everyone gave it glowing reviews, and I couldn't stand that game at all. Difficulty is one thing, bland platforming is another.

Also, games I dislike: Halo series, Smash Bros, Final Fantasies, Gran Turismo, The PS Move games my friends go on about.

On the flip side, I am a bit ashamed to admit I enjoyed Wheelman.

 

[The_ModeRazor]

Not hate, just dislike.
Baldur's Gate 1 and 2.
Couldn't get into them, got bored after 10 minutes. And I've tried both twice. And not just 'cuz they're old, because I also played Planescape: Torment, a game that is about the same age and has a supposedly inferior combat system, and ended up deeming it one of my favourite games ever. I also think that the same people worked on both... more or less? Something about Black Isle and Bioware. Whatever.
Minecraft.
I got bored really quickly. I guess I just lack creativity.
I'm sure there's more. No point listing, noone gives a fuck.

 

[Joey245]

Personally, I don't hate games. Hate is a really strong word, and one that I reserve for the Westboro Baptist Church, bad parents, and the Jonas Brothers.

Generally, I form opinions on games based on gameplay videos I watch, reviews I read, and demos I play. If I like what I see, read, and play, then I'll get the game. If I don't, then I don't get the game. Plain and simple.

I don't play games that I'm not sure that I'll like. Time and money are both finite resources, and I'm not going to waste time and money playing a game I can't get into.

That being said, I fail to understand why Dragon Age is so popular...

 

[ThisIsSnake]

The entire Legend of Zelda franchise, it seems that Shigeru Miyamoto might be the most half arsed game designer out there after having made the same 5 games repeatedly for the last 25 years.

 

[KingofallCosmos]

Uncharted. Can't stand it.

Also I tried playing Darksiders last two days. I threw it out. Somehow it got to me, all the gameplay was from other games mixed into this bland and generic game. I mean, you can have fun with a bad game. I managed to play a good 6 hours of it when I noticed I was just going trough motions, cursing the game under my breath.

 

[Saviordd1]

Do you have a game that you just can't stand or just don't get? Yet it seems that every critic and man on the street has an accident in their trousers just talking about it

If so let us know what it is.

For me it's Portal, I could never really find anything I liked about it, Even the "humour" didn't really appeal to me.

League of legends and Call of duty

 

[Jodah]

inFamous and Prototype. For me the problem is two fold. First I am not a huge fan of sandbox games. Thats not to say I don't like all sandbox games, rather it is a point against a game not a nail in the coffin. Other things can overcome it for me such as Fallout 3, Oblivion, and Red Dead Redemption.

The other is I'm not a huge fan of action adventure games. Again its not a final thing, I enjoyed the God of War series and many of the "GoW Clones".

I've tried both inFamous and Prototype and just can't get into them.

 

[Kimozabi]

Fallout 3 (and generally any newer Bethesda game). I can never get into them, when yet another woodden doll walk out to me, freeze in place and talk.

Bioshock. The Andrew Ryan plot twist was irrelevant, forced on you and the game would have been the same without it. Plus, almost everything good, they just carried over from System Shock 2. Plus, to me it felt like the missions were about returning to status quo, not going foward, be it reopening a door, that locked itself right in front of you.










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I mean, really - what difference did it make, that you met and killed Andrew Ryan? What if they had put the machine you shut down in an empty room - how would it have affected the story ultimately and your confrontation with the end boss?
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