Games you loved but people hated you for liking

[Diablo2000]

Red Dead Redemption. The twits at my school are the type of idiots that hate anything that isn't a call of duty shooter; they couldn't take the freeroaming aspect of it, it crushed their narrow little minds. I may sound a bit pretentious, but these guys have no appreciation for gaming as an art medium, and wouldn't know the difference between static death animation and ragdoll physics if you asked them, never mind graphics engines. They hated Borderlands simply because "It looked all weird and everything has an outline and stuff, it's SO glitched."

They though that Borderland's cartoonish art style was a glitch. It just infuriates me how ignorant they are. This is what happens to people who are exposed only to Call of Duty.

Your school mates have poor taste in gaming, not you... Even though, Borderland IS very glithy and annoying at times.

I got hated for play Phoenix Wright, but fuck those people... And where the fuck is Ace Investigations 2, Capcom?

 

[mikev7.0]

I dunno if I'd go so far as to the "hate" but I get some odd looks for being a gamer chick to start with. I guess to build on that, there are some of my gaming loves I get it over.

I Do Not give a hoot about-
HALO- ANY of 'em
Legend of Zelda- Anything after about, oh... Link to the Past
Final Fantasy 7 and on
Splinter Cell- Any of 'em
Call of Duty- Any of 'em

I Enjoy Dramatically-
Bioshock 1+2 (Yes, 2. I frakking loved it!)
Castlevania games(Anything except that ridiculous new one, UGH. Death to all reboots!)
Splatterhouse (except this one...I love this reboot enough to fuck it.)
Disgaea, all of them.

Oh, and just to add, I don't dislike FPS's as a rule. Some of my favorites were Shadow Warrior, Blood and again, Bioshock. I just can't get over how un-fun the whole "Ultra-realistic" garbage is in most FPS's these days. Just gimme a thick-jawed bad-ass with WAY too many guns to carry, preferably a chainsaw and at least one or two shotguns, and a mess of weird monster-people to waste and I'm right as rain.

I agree with you about the Castlevania games my own favorite is Order of Eclesia, and I agree the previous attempt that I played (Castlevania 64 which you may have liked for the fact that it had shotguns and chainsaws but not in a good, or even playable, way. Ahhhhh Castlevania on the 64.... Come for the chainsaws and shotguns, stay for the well, you won't.) so I understand the caution. I just bought the game and have only made it to act II but so far it really is excellent. If any part of your love for Bioshock has to do with atmosphere Castlevanias levels (at least so far) are breathtaking. The combat is intuitive and fun, and the puzzles and secrets have been a couple of head scratchers and one "Wow, that is one Dead already dead lady. Well on the bright side the game has two discs and now they can tell her story in two parts....." However for the difficult puzzle there was an option to just get the solution. Which then costs you any xp you would have earned for solving it. Anyway it's a great game that finally feels like Castlevania to me so if you get a chance to borrow or rent it, you may surprise yourself!

 

[Veldel]

Red Dead Redemption. The twits at my school are the type of idiots that hate anything that isn't a call of duty shooter; they couldn't take the freeroaming aspect of it, it crushed their narrow little minds. I may sound a bit pretentious, but these guys have no appreciation for gaming as an art medium, and wouldn't know the difference between static death animation and ragdoll physics if you asked them, never mind graphics engines. They hated Borderlands simply because "It looked all weird and everything has an outline and stuff, it's SO glitched."

They though that Borderland's cartoonish art style was a glitch. It just infuriates me how ignorant they are. This is what happens to people who are exposed only to Call of Duty.

Im nota major fan of Borderlands but thats becouse the gameplay bored me Not a major multiplayer type person

RDR was a pretty damn fun game I wish they had made it so you could do train robberies like in westerns tho but I did get so wasted in game for lolz

also the cartoonish style called Cell Shaded

 

[NeonAnderson]

i loved Black Ops the most from any CoD game and yeah, most of my friends for some reason either prefer MW2, WaW or CoD 4 and some prefer the older ones still, CoD 2 the most for example...

So yeah... no idea why and don't much care as I love Black Ops by far the most, but some of my friends seem annoyed that I do. Some because they are angry about the poor performance on their systems and such.

 

[Veldel]

Red Dead Redemption. The twits at my school are the type of idiots that hate anything that isn't a call of duty shooter; they couldn't take the freeroaming aspect of it, it crushed their narrow little minds. I may sound a bit pretentious, but these guys have no appreciation for gaming as an art medium, and wouldn't know the difference between static death animation and ragdoll physics if you asked them, never mind graphics engines. They hated Borderlands simply because "It looked all weird and everything has an outline and stuff, it's SO glitched."

They though that Borderland's cartoonish art style was a glitch. It just infuriates me how ignorant they are. This is what happens to people who are exposed only to Call of Duty.

Your school mates have poor taste in gaming, not you... Even though, Borderland IS very glithy and annoying at times.

I got hated for play Phoenix Wright, but fuck those people... And where the fuck is Ace Investigations 2, Capcom?

Phoenix Wright is such a awsome game and I constnelty shout OBJECTION! xD

 

[hopeneverdies]

Stat heavy, turn-basedRPGs. I'm sorry I like number-crunchy RPG's over skill-based, action RPGs, they're just more fun to me.

 

[Veldel]

I dunno if I'd go so far as to the "hate" but I get some odd looks for being a gamer chick to start with. I guess to build on that, there are some of my gaming loves I get it over.

I Do Not give a hoot about-
HALO- ANY of 'em
Legend of Zelda- Anything after about, oh... Link to the Past
Final Fantasy 7 and on
Splinter Cell- Any of 'em
Call of Duty- Any of 'em

I Enjoy Dramatically-
Bioshock 1+2 (Yes, 2. I frakking loved it!)
Castlevania games(Anything except that ridiculous new one, UGH. Death to all reboots!)
Splatterhouse (except this one...I love this reboot enough to fuck it.)
Disgaea, all of them.

Oh, and just to add, I don't dislike FPS's as a rule. Some of my favorites were Shadow Warrior, Blood and again, Bioshock. I just can't get over how un-fun the whole "Ultra-realistic" garbage is in most FPS's these days. Just gimme a thick-jawed bad-ass with WAY too many guns to carry, preferably a chainsaw and at least one or two shotguns, and a mess of weird monster-people to waste and I'm right as rain.

Play Duke Nukem 3D you will be in Love with how awsome it is and its anything but realistic lol I hate realistic stuff also >_>

 

[pyrosaw]

Team Fortress 2 since the Mann Co. update. It's still balanced.

 

[repeating integers]

I can't remember getting hated on for hating any game in real life. I once got hated on for liking Star Trek, but it didn't really matter much and the conversation lasted about a minute, so that doesn't count. I get hated-on-but-not-really by my friends for liking Naruto. Other than that... nah, I can't think of anything. I mean, me and my friends occasionally joke about another friend of ours playing World of Warcraft and thus "having no life" (which is of course untrue), but that's died out now.

At school, the people are surprisingly tolerant. All they play is Call of Duty (except in a few notable cases - I know a few people who play and like Mass Effect, wahoo), but they don't talk about it all that much, and about the most I got from them once was one single "Call of Duty is a million times better than Halo" one-liner. You can't really call that hating.

Red Dead Redemption. The twits at my school are the type of idiots that hate anything that isn't a call of duty shooter; they couldn't take the freeroaming aspect of it, it crushed their narrow little minds. I may sound a bit pretentious, but these guys have no appreciation for gaming as an art medium, and wouldn't know the difference between static death animation and ragdoll physics if you asked them, never mind graphics engines. They hated Borderlands simply because "It looked all weird and everything has an outline and stuff, it's SO glitched."

They though that Borderland's cartoonish art style was a glitch. It just infuriates me how ignorant they are. This is what happens to people who are exposed only to Call of Duty.

I think you're being a bit hard on them, to be honest. I can see how it would get extremely irritating, but you have to remember that these people aren't really "gamers" (in the dubious sense of the term that means "people who play truckloads of games and see the medium as an art form", or something thereabouts). They just play CoD with their friends, because it's something they can do casually to have a good time. The rest is the typical bravado, and irrational need to defend their position, that you'll typically encounter in people around my age group.

They also don't go on the internet, like you, meaning they probably haven't had any practice in intelligent discussion and debate. The reason I am able to justify my love of Halo is because of all the debates I've had on the web - otherwise I'd be another one of those people who defended it with "but dude, it's HALO!"

 

[MegaManOfNumbers]

well, I'm a Nintendo and a Megaman fanboy, my best friend is a 360 nerd, and my second best friend is a PC elitest.

interpret that as you will.

 

[Tim_Buoy]

Final Fantasy XIII. People still make fun of me for actually beating it. >_>

wow you actually got through it you should be praised and given some sort of medal
OT: i guess the only one that would qualify for me was typing of the dead my friends didnt see why i liked a typing game with zombies

 

[ShadowsofHope]

Final Fantasy XIII, Star Trek Online (before I got every elite ship in the game and all my characters to VA..) and the Halo series, evident on their own merits.

 

[MageMaster]

One of my friends.

Sometimes he asks me what game should he buy, and I tell him: "You should buy Assassins Creed/2/AC: Brotherhood"(I'm a huge AC fan!XD). But, he oftens shouts at me to stop suggesting him that.

On other occasions, when I talk to my other friends about AC, he pops up next to me and says to that friend: "Did you know that Renaissance Italy had tanks?(Talking about AC: Brotherhood)"
And I shout at him: "What do you want from me?! It's inspired by historical events, but it's still a game!"

Damn it, I wish he would just shut up.
Yeah, I know it sounds pathetic...

 

[Anarchemitis]

Team Fortress 2.

Bunch of luddites.

 

[ProtoChimp]

Sonic games. I adored unleashed and yet it's just too "kiddy". I get that but they can hardly talk because when they look at my games history and say "Ha Ha Sonic, what the fuck." I can just say "Ha Ha Viva Pinata, what the fuck." They stop talking then. (They all love Viva Pinata)

 

[Veldel]

Final Fantasy XIII. People still make fun of me for actually beating it. >_>

wow you actually got through it you should be praised and given some sort of medal
OT: i guess the only one that would qualify for me was typing of the dead my friends didnt see why i liked a typing game with zombies

I enjoyed it and beat it but I found alot of HP amounts for enemys was way to abusrd

 

[Tim_Buoy]

Final Fantasy XIII. People still make fun of me for actually beating it. >_>

wow you actually got through it you should be praised and given some sort of medal
OT: i guess the only one that would qualify for me was typing of the dead my friends didnt see why i liked a typing game with zombies

I enjoyed it and beat it but I found alot of HP amounts for enemys was way to abusrd

i couldnt finish mostly because i found the characters unlikeable normally in any jrpg there is that one character that i despise but in 13 that was all of them except for the baby chocobo that lived in the guys afro

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

My friends used to tease me about how 'bad' TLOZ Wind Waker looked.

Reminds me, the entire Legend of Zelda series earns you ridicule here.

 

[-KC-]

Well In my place(my city) only games which are considered as real games are CoD, CS and DotA. My friends only see fun in those three games, they think im crazy because I play WoW, DAO or any other RPG (though WoW is mmorpg). Even when I played Sillent Hill:Homecoming, they said:"There is no point in that game, you only run around and click". It's sad how some people are retarded but unfortunately I know most of them :I

Lol...

 

[Veldel]

Final Fantasy XIII. People still make fun of me for actually beating it. >_>

wow you actually got through it you should be praised and given some sort of medal
OT: i guess the only one that would qualify for me was typing of the dead my friends didnt see why i liked a typing game with zombies

I enjoyed it and beat it but I found alot of HP amounts for enemys was way to abusrd

i couldnt finish mostly because i found the characters unlikeable normally in any jrpg there is that one character that i despise but in 13 that was all of them except for the baby chocobo that lived in the guys afro

I couldnt stand Hope and found it offensive he got my fav summon in Final Fantasy