Games You Hate.

[Khazoth]

So, whats a style or genre of game you hate, and please explain why.

And is there a genre or style you could be convinced not to hate?


I hate turn based games and I really don't think any amount of awesome story could excuse just how boring it is. Turn based games to me feel as if i'm watching a movie that has been broken up by random segments in which the main characters line up and shadow box with enemies. It feels like a genre that doesn't think i'm good enough to actually play because I might cramp its style by not being artistic enough.

I hate Anime Games as well, their not bad, but most often then not its the same god damn story with new actors. I think I could be changed if an anime based off one of the three anime I like were created, but even then I doubt it could be done. I mean, there's only so much you can do with Ghost in the Shell as far as a game goes. It'd either be an FPS ala Half-Life or Thief with guns. I'm open to a good Ghost in the Shell game, I really am, I just don't see it happening. I suppose something could be done in the way of tactical squad based combat but unless you gave us Motoko and set us free in the world your really missing what made Ghost in the Shell interesting in the first place. You can pretty much copy and paste this arguement against a Cowboy Bebop game.

I'm afraid a good game couldn't be made from Hellsing either, I mean, really, you would spend the first half of every boss fight dieing, and then gain the ability to tear a new asshole into the current foe. I feel it would suffer from Assassin's Creed/MGS syndrome. Which basicly means stopping every quarter of an inch for a cutscene. You see, the thing that makes Alucard interesting isn't the combat, its the psychological drama of watching him go off into one of his arrogant tirades while breaking his enemies mind down into applesauce.

Sure, I'm opened to the idea of an anime game being good, but I don't see it happening. At this point there is only so much you can do. Most of the anime characters they make are so fucking obnoxious I can barely withstand the urge to drive an icepick into my ear canal, much less connect with them. Oho! A sexy anthro, a feminine male, a rugged male with a mysterious past, and some ninjas thrown in just incase we weren't being stereotypical enough!


So, list your hated games, and games you mind be persuaded not to hate. Please try to explain why you hate something and not just repeat the same tired "halo suks."


Edit: Let me clerify, I don't like Halo, but I am fucking sick of hearing about the game every other post... Between Halo, Final Fantasy, and Pokemon I fear my eyes will begin squirting blood at any moment.

 

[XUnsafeNormalX]

Turn-based games are boring as hell for me as well.
I tolerated that shit in Pokemon. But enough is enoguh.

I can hardly stand it in Pokemon anymore. I've never touched a Final Fantasy game for this reason.

And Halo 3 was boring, but you have to realize that Halo 1 completely redesigned the FPS when it was released though, so it still sits on my top 5 games of all time.

 

[B.cereus]

Any Tony Hawk Game or Midnight Club game
Just don't enjoy their style or game play.

 

[vultureX21]

Playing Shell Shock 2: Blood Trails was awful. Bad enough the game wasn't interesting, I kept getting shot from places I couldn't see by super-sighted marksmen from Hell. Terrible rental, swapped it out to finally try Ultimate Alliance, which was fantastic. Later bought Ultimate Alliance and Forza 2 in one box, used, for $12.99, so I guess a bad experience turned into a good one.

 

[blankedboy]

halo suks

Anyway, that. Halo sucks. The boring, linear level design, no creativity, generic, terrible HUD setup, only 2 weapons at a time, sheilds, virtually NO health, and unimaginitive, repetitive enemies.

 

[quack35]

I fear dolphins.

 

[RavingPenguin]

I dont think there is anything I hate persay, hang on let me go through my library......
Nope cant find anything (I did spend like 5 mins looking). The game I dislike the most is in my library is Too Human, The combats fast paced (sometimes) and its fun when you play with a freind. I just dont have the patience to work through the solo campaign again.

 

[Bob_Bobbington]

Mass Effect PC because it DOESN'T WORK!!!

 

[Fantastico]

MaMORPaGas. Games not only dedicated to the most boring aspect of RPGs, but also a genre dedicated to my least favorite aspect of Multiplayer games: the social interaction. Phantasy Star Universe was the only tolerable MMORPG I've ever played, and I still only plyed it once and never went back to it.

I also hate Anime games because I hate anime.

 

[Weaver]

I don't care that you told me not to do it, I dislike halo a lot. Do I hate it because it's popular? No, I hate it because it's a game not DESERVING of it's popularity. Console owners ate it up because apparently they hadn't played any FPS on the PC in the last 5 years from it's release. Now I don't want this to be taken as anything more than my PERSONAL opinion on the game, that's all it is. I played Halo and just thought... "meh".

A game I don't hate, actually I like it, but I thought was very overrated was Bioshock. The story was really good with some great twists but some of the mechanics just felt a bit weird in some places.

I didn't like the rainbow six games very much either, but I think that was just genre issues. It was an FPS but I disliked all the planning and just general incompetence from your teammates.

 

[Incompl te]

Fighting games

Street Fighter I can live with but Mortal Kombat is ridiculiously hard if you can spam the same 2 moves over and over and over...

Halo for the simple reason of better games that are very similar.

All games made by Imagine

Any game made from a movie (there are some exceptions)

Singing games (ie. Singstar, anything related to HSM)

 

[Markgraf]

Halo 2 and 3; I simply find them to be overly celebrated because of brand association with an above-average game (Halo) which merely simplified FPSs to be more console-friendly instead of revolutionizing the genre as many claim. These games, in effect, helped propel FPSs as this generation's over-saturated, over-hyped genre.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

any RPG that doesnt have enough action to balance it out, Oblivion is the most RPG-y I'll get. I just find them boring. To me, completing a final fantasy game is like doing grade school homework that takes 200 hours.

 

[klakkat]

While I used to love the genre, I now hate FPS games. Every FPS I've played since about Doom 3 and after has been exactly the same as a game I've played before, only with worse controls, guns, and combat and upgraded graphics. One of my biggest gripes is I love long-range combat and I have never seen a game that does that well except Farcry, and only the original; in most games, every gun you encounter is a massive pile of shitty accuracy and recoil, or it sucks for other reasons, and enemies hop around in completely unrealistic fashions. That and I hate regeneration when its not explained in some reasonable fasion (it never is; my acceptance of it is purely hypothetical). I know most games have a sniper rifle just to give a nod to long-range gameplay, but it usually either does crap for damage, requires a headshot to do anything other than alert the enemy to your presence, or ammo for it is ridiculously rare, especially if you can only carry a limited number of guns, or some combination of all of those flaws. Older games didn't seem to have this problem, though they did cause a lot more eyestrain.
The only FPS games I've enjoyed recently are Bioshock and Fallout 3, in part because I loved their precursors. Neither one was a particularly spectacular shooter, and gun combat got pathetically easy towards the end in both cases. Other than that, I haven't liked an FPS since System Shock 2, Deus Ex, Quake 2, Half-Life (the first one only), Counter-Strike, and Day of Defeat. I don't ask too much; mainly that the guns have good firing characteristics unless they're supposed to be shit, enemies can't take 10,000 hits each, and that the main character can't either so you have to use a LITTLE strategy.

The other genre I hate now would be the Final Fantasy series. Before you say anything, YES, I HAVE played most of them. I played through a good chunk of 12 and couldn't care about the story or any of the characters, so I just quit. On reflection, I went back and played 7 and 10 and found myself bored with the stories about half way through and disliking most of the characters. Basically, the games are repetitive, the story is cliched and uninteresting, and the characters often have no logical reason to be together or do what they do. It does get old. In fact, I've kinda fallen out with the whole RPG genre recently. FF series notwithstanding, KOTOR2 was probably the most recent RPG I've liked, and it still shits itself inside out at the end (trick is to stop playing about 80% through...). Fallout 3 and Bioshock were notably mediocre for their RPG qualities. The Xenosaga and ./Hack series both bored me pretty hard, and the Neverwinter Nights story was kinda lame (and mods were notoriously buggy) so much so I didn't bother getting the second one. Even Morrowind and Oblivion were pretty slow, and every RPG I've run into since Fallout 2 has been combat heavy; you CAN'T play a character that doesn't kill almost everyone he runs into in practically every RPG I've ever seen (obviously, not Fallout 1 or 2, though it is easier to kill people). So, bottom line, I don't give a shit about RPGs anymore. Maybe someday they'll change my mind, and maybe someday George Lucas will light himself on fire for no apparent reason.

Fighting games tend to get pretty repetitive and boring as well. They can be fun with a friend, I suppose, but since I don't often play multi-player unless its online, I don't give a shit about that, and I've never seen a fighting game worth trying to get friends over to play. Admittedly though, I do wish God of War had a multi-player mode... So I suppose I could be persuaded to play fighting games if they also had a good single-player mode (don't even mention SSBB. I've played it. It was fun for about an hour, if you already have a friend there. Otherwise, I couldn't like it).

Sports games, I will never care about.
Likewise for squad combat games, since all of them since the X-Com series have bored me out of my mind.

Turn-based combat I can do, but it needs another hook. Atlantica was decent here, in that it was interesting enough and the combat varied enough for me to play for about a month (hey, it was free). Squad combat games like the X-Com series also did good use of turn-based combat, though with Apocalypse they showed that they could do real-time too, and it was MUCH better.

 

[randommaster]

I hate all of the gritty, brown games. Real life is depressing enough, thankyouverymuch!

Turn-based games are fine if they require you to think about what you are doing. If you can just mindlessly attack away, then they become boring quickly.

I expect to see much more Halo hate simply because it is so popular.

 

[ShadowPen]

First person shooters in general.

I remember when the FPS genre was new and interesting. Wolfenstein 3D and Doom were new, innovative. Now, an FPS will rarely add anything. I only enjoyed two modern FPS titles. Bioshock, because they story and atmosphere (immersion in general) were so amazing. The other is Timesplitters: Future Perfect, because it never took itself seriously, and for an FPS, thats new.

Sports titles are basically the same deal. A new one is released every month, and it only has some minuscule enhancements that make it unnecessary. People complain about Dynasty Warriors? Complain about sports games in general, because they abuse the power SO much more.

Why do sports games have to be realistic, anyway? Mutant League Football on the Genesis was awesome, and it wasn't realistic at all. The Mario sports titles (I think) are amazing because of all the unreal crap that can occur. So why realism? If I want to play a realistic basketball game, I'll just go outside with my friends and play REAL basketball...

Say what you want about Dynasty Warriors, I think everyone should play at least ONE (I own 4) just as an outlet for frustration.

 

[klakkat]

I hate all of the gritty, brown games. Real life is depressing enough, thankyouverymuch!

Turn-based games are fine if they require you to think about what you are doing. If you can just mindlessly attack away, then they become boring quickly.

Definitely agree with the turn-based. A lot of 'RPGs' overuse turn-based combat. Most of the time, it isn't an interesting way to do a fight. But it can be, especially if movement is involved, and actual variation of tactics. Note, the tactics need to be based on real logic, if they're based on some psychotic rule system, especially if it isn't explained, then that's even worse than having no tactics.

 

[Christemo]

Puzzles. i HATE puzzles. love RPG and FPS.

 

[Christemo]

and 3-d figthing games like DBZ: Budokai Tenkaichi 3. <--- like.