Games you Loved, then learned to Hate

[Zhukov]

Fallout 3.

At first I was pretty happy with it. The combat was alright, VATS was awesome, the story was fairly interesting and the setting was bloody amazing. I was content. This game was going to be good.

But as I played all the appeal just bled away.

- The combat is painfully shallow. Just click on the enemies and occasionally tap the 'stimpack' button.
- VATS is only cool after the first 30 times you see it. And you will see it hundreds, if not thousands, of times.
- The game is horribly easy, and the harder difficulty settings only affect the amount of ammo and stims you need to carry around.
- None of the characters receive any real characterization or depth because you never get to spend any time with them.
- The setting is still cool but the maps are copy-pasted to hell and back, just endless repetitions of the same house and subway.
- Lastly, it is the most brown-and-grey game I have ever seen. Sure, the colour scheme kind of suits the setting but that doesn't make it any less boring to look at.

 

[Mr Pantomime]

This did happen to me with inFamous (i like to spell it like that ok). I played through it as an evil guy, then when I went to play through as good, I just got sick of it. I pick it up every now and then, but I just get bored

 

[Geekosaurus]

I can see the words call, of and duty being thrown around in here. Although I did slowly get pissed off by MW2's multiplayer.

 

[NeutralDrow]

I occasionally get bored with a game I like after a while and move on to another one. And then get back to it after a while and enjoy it. My primary MMOs (City of Heroes and World of Warcraft) are like that, as are a few things with major replayability, like the Devil May Cry series, God Hand, or Metroid Prime.

That's as close as I get. If a fanbase even comes close to poisoning a game for me, I start ignoring them. If individual voices try to convince me otherwise, I usually come away with a greater appreciation of a game, instead. In any case, I don't "learn to hate" games I already like. Mercifully, since I find the concept discomforting.

 

[RuralGamer]

Jade Empire
I played through it twice and although the plot and some of the characters didn't entire sit right with me (although the overall plot was fine, the subplots often annoyed me), overall the atmosphere and the combat system were pretty good. Then it started crashing and glitching and the sheer dullness of certain quests started to irritate me and I began to find parts of the game felt rather shallow which I hadn't before.

Dragon Age
I wouldn't say I hated it, but as I progressed through it, there just felt less and less to it; combat became repetitive and the quests started getting dull. what made it feel worse was that the game had started of so well for me and I had really enjoyed quite bit of it.

MW2
MP was great for the first week until the noobs realised what all the OP weapons and perks were and then it became a camp/launcher-spam/spawn-kill waste of time.

 

[SckizoBoy]

AC, the first one.

Great premise, but about three hours in... my god! I've done this *enter task name* how many times?!?!

Just let me kill a character already... final fight was a pain in the butt as well (I've already done this twice already, and thank you, I do know how to counter-attack!)

Second one comes out, I forget about first one.

 

[L3m0n_L1m3]

Bioshock 2, I guess. Never even completed it before I sold it, I was tired of all the fetch quests.

 

[Anti Nudist Cupcake]

Mass effect 1.

Played it way too much, now it's a chore.

 

[Geekosaurus]

I can see the words call, of and duty being thrown around in here. Although I did slowly get pissed off by MW2's multiplayer.

The only thing about Call Of Duty that has let me down was the unbalanced MP (though, that is fixed in Black Ops...mostly) and the fact that I don't have Special Ops and Zombies on the same disc.

MW2's multiplayer wasn't so much unbalanced, it was just easy for the better players to rape the rubbish ones. And I still think Black Ops needs a few patches before I'd call it balanced.

 

[JemothSkarii]

Dark Void and Haze

Dark Void started off as pretty fun, innovative and everything; vertical combat was fun and the ability to use the jetpack whenever was also good. But then I started to see the limited weapons, the annoying controls, and the horrendous shortness of it all and crappy ending, I just HATE IT NOW.

With Haze, I decided to give it a chance since I like to try obscure or poorly reviewed games. In the beginning I found it to be good, the Nectar being pretty cool and fun for an FPS (I suck at FPS and therefore don't like them very much) and the rebels was fun....but there was something lurking in the game that didn't seem right. Maybe it was the atmosphere, or lack of immersion, but something made me begin to resent it and just overall not like it.
I'm not sure what it is.

 

[Geekosaurus]

I can see the words call, of and duty being thrown around in here. Although I did slowly get pissed off by MW2's multiplayer.

The only thing about Call Of Duty that has let me down was the unbalanced MP (though, that is fixed in Black Ops...mostly) and the fact that I don't have Special Ops and Zombies on the same disc.

MW2's multiplayer wasn't so much unbalanced, it was just easy for the better players to rape the rubbish ones. And I still think Black Ops needs a few patches before I'd call it balanced.

Compared to MW2, it's much, much more friendly.

And I wouldn't say that about MW2. In my first match of Black Ops I was up against Level 40s and up, and I came first by about 20 kills...
MW2 rewarded those who wanted to completely ruin the fun for others, not those who wanted to have a fun, balanced shooter.

Oh yeah, Black Ops is definitely more balanced than MW2. Black Ops has that COD4 feel where anybody has an even chance* whereas MW2 just felt...unfair?

*[small]Assuming of course your opponent isn't using the FAMAS or the AK74u.[/small]

 

[Cowabungaa]

Mass Effect 2

I don't hate it, but the community just killed it for me somehow.

How does that happen, it's a single player game.

I know right?

Its mainly the hardcore fanatics constantly saying how damn good it is, how its apparently so fucking perfect when it still has flaws,
(mining, space exploration, repetitive combat and enemies and bunch which are personal issues with it). While its undeniably a great game I just got fed up with the sheer fanboyism and stupidity of at least a segment (a very...vocal segment) of its fanbase.

Also I agree with Modern Warfare 2, mainly because of the epic lag I was always getting because I could never find local matches, but thats a personal gripe. Whats not a personal gripe is the ridiculously unbalanced and F'ed up nature of the game.

Ah yes, fanboys. I never understood why people hated games for their fanboys, or anything for their fanboys/fanatical minority. It's not like they actually have something to do with the content of the game, and they're so easily ignored to boot. One can hate pretty much everything then.

And yeah, I got quite a few connection troubles with MW2 as well. You're finally doing well, only to be ruined by a "Host migration" which ultimately fails. Funny thing is that the exact opposite happened to me with Black Ops. First I hated it for simply not working on my computer, but then when I got a new one and I could finally install and play it, I loved it.

 

[ChipSandwich]

Grand Theft Auto IV. Cool story (bro), but, and I'm sure a lot of people have said this before, there's something about the game which sucks all the fun out once you've completed the story. It's not so much GTA as it is a movie played on the GTA engine.

Half Life 2's singleplayer. Once again, cool story bro, nice experience if you played the first game (hopefully you did), but severely lacking in challenge and replay value (on the hardest difficulty). Combine Soldiers and headcrabs don't have much in the way of AI or any other "dynamicness", with the exception of poison headcrab zombies, which were also a little overused in HL2E2. As an aside, one moment I really did like was a sewer in the level "anticitizen one", where if you break a plank the roof above it falls off and 5 poison headcrabs fall down in front of you.

Spoiler

They're all dead

 

[migo]

Banjo Kazooie - Nuts & Bolts, when I realised I would have to slog through a bunch of crap to eventually get the good stuff. Just let me customise to my heart's content already, that's what's cool about the game.

 

[Savagezion]

Oblivion. That was my first 360 game, and I was really impressed with open world, and of course the graphics, and it was kinda fun starting out. Then I just slowly realized that the world wasn't actually very interesting, and it was too easy to get away with doing just about anything, and there's really not a lot to do that doesn't involve fetch quests in boring caves, and the combat got old fast, and all the people in the game shared the same three voices, and most of them have no personalities anyway, and the whole thing is really just an awful game with a pretty coat of paint. I'm not a big fan anymore.

This. Pretty much word for word outside of the 360 part.

In addition, they did absolutely zero to fix the screwball level system from Morrowind.

 

[Koroviev]

Oblivion sounds really fun when described by friends, but I haven't had any fun actually playing it. I'll give it another hour or two of play time, but at this point, I can't really say I like it.

 

[archvile93]

This has to be Bioshock for me. It started nice and Rapture certainly has a destroyed beauty to it, nicely representing the inevtable decline and ruin of a location governed by a fundamentally flawed ideolegy. Then the gameplay parts started and it lost all the wonder because I was too busy being frustrated by the shit gameplay to pay attention to the world anymore.

 

[BlastedTheWorm]

Probably Final Fantasy. I only played 8, and watched someone play 9. I just kinda grew up and began to feel...opposed to the style, shall we say.