Games you loathe, not just dislike

[Volafortis]

Infamous and Heavy Rain. Both are just really bad games. Infamous has really nearly broken gameplay because of how absolutely horrid the ledge detection is, and you never actually *feel* powerful. Even with everything maxed out, you still seem extremely weak, which is not what you should feel like in a sandbox game. It also has the worst moral choice implementation I've seen to date.

Heavy Rain just tells a generic predictable crime solver story, with non-dramatic drama, and outside of the lackluster story, you really don't get anything. Also, it has no replay value, which is insulting, considering that it took me a little over 7 hours to beat. I can't believe they expect people to pay 60 bucks for that.

 

[bladeofdarkness]

farmville

 

[Daipire]

Don't hurt me, but mass effect.

I just wanted a hella cool game where i can kill some hella cool aliens, in a hella cool manner.

I do not want a game, where i need a bloody alien to english dictionary.

 

[rium125]

(flame shield up) almost all Nintendo games, they haven't changed for over 20 years!

 

[rium125]

Don't hurt me, but mass effect.

I just wanted a hella cool game where i can kill some hella cool aliens, in a hella cool manner.

I do not want a game, where i need a bloody alien to english dictionary.

I've said this before and I'll say it again, you're missing the point!

 

[TheJakester16]

Not just hate, but actually despize with a passion. Games that make you see red. For me, that would be Tomb Raider, the Last Revalation. The controls are like trying to defuse a bomb using an instruction guide written during the Crusades. I'll give you five seconds to guess what the button for jumping was.

Spoiler

CTRL! WTF?!

surely you could have remapped the key? and thats what you get for gaming on a computer.

 

[GamingAwesome1]

Sonic Unleashed.

My cousin is convinced it's the best game ever. That makes my blood boil.....

 

[Wuvlycuddles]

Hmmm, where to start?

The Sims, all that crap on facebook (basically any game thats free to play but ya either need to rope in your mates or pay real money to actually get anywhere), Gran Tourisimo, Burnout Paradise (Why did they ruin the most awesome thing about burnout, the crash modes!), World of Warcraft (although this is a love/hate relationship, love the game, hate what it does to my free time), The sims (again), Final Fantasy X-2, every x-com and ufo game released since Terror from the Deep, Enchanted Arms, The Sims, Tetris, The Sims and Lineage 2.

 

[MONSTERheart]

Bad Company 2 is on my shitlist.

I'm going to assume that Modern Warfare 2 is on your golden list, then. (Seeing as how they're pretty much complete opposites, gameplay-wise).

For that matter, MW2 is on my "shitlist" and BC2 is on my "golden list".

It's not on my Golden List, but I do like the MW2 single-player campaign considerably better than the one in BBC2. I don't do much multiplayer, so I wouldn't know even if it is better in that respect (not to hate or anything, I genuinely don't know).

Heh. What a coincidence. I hated the MW2 single player and thought the BFBC2 one was decent.

I think were polar opposites or something.

Just online I hope!

Let us agree to disagree, no?

Fair enough.

 

[ConfusedCrib]

I. LOATHE. HEAVY RAIN. (but for a good reason)

Erm, why?

OT: I loath the Fable games, TES games, MW2, Fallout 3 and GTA.

You best back those up foo

When Devil May Cry on the Xbox was like "OMFG NOW DO BACKWARDS" I got mad enough to stop playing and return it.

 

[VivaciousDeimos]

I loathe the concept of guitar hero and all its derivatives, though I've come to terms with its existence as a vehicle for entertainment at parties and such.

 

[SecretAlienMan]

World of Warcraft by a long shot... its like a second job... that you have to pay for.. and everyone who plays it won't shut up about it.

 

[ManaAdvent]

Sonic Shuffle - A Mario Party like spinoff/ripoff that seems to signal the the start of Sonic's downfall. The AI was cheap, the graphics weren't good, loading times were long and many, and I didn't like most of the minigames.

Unlimited Saga - Yeesh the pacing for this game was terrible and sluggish, one of the worst RPGs I've ever bought. Though some aspects of the battle system were pretty neat esp. the whole roulette and mixing moves.

Mario is Missing, nuff said.

FF12 b/c I really didn't like the battle system, and I really don't like MMORPGs either.

 

[Steppin Razor]

Infamous and Heavy Rain. Both are just really bad games. Infamous has really nearly broken gameplay because of how absolutely horrid the ledge detection is, and you never actually *feel* powerful. Even with everything maxed out, you still seem extremely weak, which is not what you should feel like in a sandbox game. It also has the worst moral choice implementation I've seen to date.

With everything maxed out you have a shield, force push, grenades, missiles and the freaking lightning storm. I felt plenty powerful when I was running around blasting hundreds of guys away with electricity. Sure you can get killed straight away by a rocket to the face, but it wasn't supposed to be the same as Prototype. Despite all his power, Cole is still mostly human, not an immortal being of destruction.

Edit
Liking or disliking the moral choice system is entirely subjective. Out of interest, what is a moral choice system that you actually liked?

Final Fantasy 8, Final Fantasy X, Final Fastasy X2, FF11, FF12, FF13. (9 is exempt, i didn't like the art stlye that much but at least it tried) . LOATH what they did to JRPGs and peoples perection of JRPGs and also the fact that you get called "Teh Haterz!" if you call out their bullshit.

Of all the FF games, you include VIII in your list of games that people call you a hater for not liking? Apparently you've missed all the hate that FFVIII gets by a large number of people in the FF community. Those of us that do love VIII are pretty rare compared to the other games.

And what exactly did they do to JRPGs other than make them popular in the west (with the help of VII)?

 

[War Pony]

I absolutely hated Final Fantasy X-2 and Final Fantasy XII. I have to use the past tense because I have a vague reason as to why I hate them now and can't remember the rest, but oh, do I remember the mouth-frothing rage while playing them. I would have snapped FFX-2 over my knee if I wasn't borrowing the game from a friend of mine.

I can only think of a few examples with FFXII since it was the last one I played, and it's the only one of the two I unfortunately own. I think it being over-hyped might have been a good reality check for me. I was expecting a decent RPG, something that I might eventually like in the PS2 generation of Final Fantasies. Instead what I got was a game where the person you play as is "along for the ride" with virtually no story to it, and what little there is is displayed in short cutscenes of Stuff Happening Far Far Away between being thrown from one dungeon to another. It was the first game that made me cry, and it sure as shit wasn't from anything story-related: it was from the exhaustion of being thrown from a mine dungeon I was thoroughly unprepared for to a cock-blocking boss that was half dragon, half malboro to a treacherous mountain with the barest of settlements and back into the mountain to get to another mind-numbingly lengthy dungeon.

And the only interesting (when his past is revealed) character to me in the game is snuffed out. At the end of a FOUR HOUR TOWER ASCENT. AND TO SEE SAID TOWER BLOWN TO SMITHEREENS IN THE FOLLOWING REQUISITE CUTSCENE drove me up a frothy wall.

Also, I'm throwing Bradygames into the mix even though they're not a game. They're a great deal responsible for why I suffered through those two games.

 

[DannibalG36]

I. LOATHE. HEAVY RAIN. (but for a good reason)

It had potential, but there were so many plotholes. My god, it's like David Cage was so sure of himself he decided not to hire a story editor.

The plotholes were just part of what made Heavy Rain so abominably bad. It wasn't fun in any sense of the word, substituting emotionally draining tactics for gameplay. Come to think of it, Heavy Rain is not a game proper. It's an interactive film, but thank heaven it was released in the comparatively lenient game world. Yahtzee himself noted that if a film critic reviewed Heavy Rain, he or she would wonder why on earth the film was nine hours long and why he or she had to hold a Y-shaped piece of plastic for that long.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

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surely you could have remapped the key? and thats what you get for gaming on a computer.

We don't like those kind of remarks 'round here. Be nice.

OT:

Farmville, due to extreme Facebook spam.

 

[acklumos]

Any Spyro or Crash Bandicoot games after the first 3 of each series.