Games you thought you'd love but you turned out hating them.

[Blemontea]

Even though it got bad reviews i was still looking forward to Alone in the Dark... and its obvious how that ended.

But other than that i guess i was overhyped for Crackdown it was still fun it wasn't as fun as i thought it would be.

 

[Sarkule]

L4D2. I mean, I didn't really think I'd LOVE it. But I thought it'd at least be half decent

 

[Cryofthewolf]

I thought I'd enjoy Final Fantasy XII, but the change in the battling system and the linearity drove me to dislike the game.

 

[The_ModeRazor]

Fallout 2. Thought it was pretty shit (not that I'm an avid Fallout 3 fan, but I liked it).
Baldur's gate. Uninstalled after 5 minutes. Didn't even bother trying the second.
Morrowind. I don't get it how could people say it's better than Oblivion. Though it does have a better landscape.

 

[T-Bone24]

Spore

what a piece of crap

I waited so long for that game that the card I used to preorder it expired before it was released. Piece o' shit.

 

[xXAsherahXx]

I didn't think I would LOVE Too Human, but it looked interesting. The combat system is just the worse I have ever encountered.

 

[xXAsherahXx]

I thought I'd enjoy Final Fantasy XII, but the change in the battling system and the linearity drove me to dislike the game.

Do you mean FF XIII? XII is very open with it's hunting system and other quests. XIII is the one criticized for linearity.

 

[estoria-etnia]

Final Fantasy XII. I played for about ten hours, still had no idea what the hell was going on and stopped. The ten hours that I did play were just tedious, painful, and stupid since I didn't really understand anything.

I didn't like Silent Hill: Homecoming either. I got bored too quickly with it and it failed to scare me at all. I got through the first hour or so wondering when it was supposed to start scaring the pants off of me ? and I'm relatively easy to scare ? but it never happened and I just wound up chucking it into a corner and moved on. I had a similar problem with Origins; neither of them were scary nor were they as good as SH2 or SH4; even SH3 which I didn't like all that much was better.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I tried to enjoy Splinter Cell. I really wanted to test the waters of stealth gameplay.

I wasn't impressed. It has been gathering dust for a few months now.

 

[pauloalbatross]

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. I did not like it and the fact that it's getting a sequel confuses me. I thought that the controls were clunky and the lightsaber, the ideal weapon for a Star Wars game, was underpowered. Still, I did enjoy throwing a Stormtrooper a hundred feet into the air.
[sub][sub]Whee! [/sub][/sub]

I thought I was the only one - the point where I realised that I should just get rid of it was when I was stuck in a hole, trying to get out by stacking boxes and jumping on them, and the mechanics just failed. Also, the plot was rubbish and the return to planets showed laziness from developers.

 

[pauloalbatross]

Borderlands is good, but the time it takes to get going is way, way too long - I was level 20 before I left Fyrestone, and seeing as there are 4 characters, the urge to do it all 4 times is overpowering yet the grinding is boring. There are too many irrelevant and repetitive missions early on, although the various DLCs are very good and offer variety

 

[veloper]

No, I use the internet first or I may impulse buy a game from the bargain bin I vaguely recall having good reviews.

So I own some cheap turds like Oblivion, but there's no hate.

 

[notsosavagemessiah]

oblivion. I simply couldn't do it. But on that note, while i couldn't really get into oblivion, fallout 3 was addicting as hell.

 

[S_K]

There's only a small number of games that fall under the HATE category for me, most of them I just get bored of. Here's all I can think of right now

games that bored me

brutal legend (sorry jack I really tried to like it, but you never said anything about clusterfuck real time strategy)

pokemon

Zelda (I dunno everythings too child friendly I guess, twilight princess was ok on the handful of genuinly difficult fights xP)

games I hate

krustys fun house

Magic Carpet (OMFG HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GET STRONG ENOUGH TO DEFEND MYSELF IF YOU ASSHOLES ARE CONSTANTLY GANGING UP ON ME)

Ragnarok online (wow that was an abusive relationship I played that game for at least a couple years... )

solomons key (why so serious with that game over music? WHY?!)

 

[silasbufu]

FF13, Bioshock , Aion, Sniper: Ghost Warrior, Red Dead Redemption, even WoW at some point.

 

[Vhite]

Oblivion. I spent months waiting for this game, when I finally got it I spent about an hour or two playing it before I realized that it will not get fun all of a sudden if it hasn't that far.

Fallout 3. Same thing basically.

Thats why I dont like any Bethesda game, they are good at first but more you play them, worse they become. At least those two.

For me Its Broken Hearts. Probably best RPG maker game I ever played, great combat, great story. I havent finished it first time I played it and then I was trying to finish it some time later but I actually finished it about 5 year after I played it first time and what I got was shittiest ending ever which was so bad that it made me hate whole game.

 

[JEBWrench]

Well, this could be a long one. Guild Wars, Knights of the Old Republic, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Dragon Age for the most part (it got better, thankfully. And my wife really liked it), Mass Effect is getting to that point rapidly, Darksiders... Hell, take a look at my recent games list. Most of them.

 

[Zblade495]

Transformers: The Game (2007): Yes, it's a movie game. Yes, movie games tend to be quite mediocre. But I thought: You know what? To hell with that! It's Transformers!
Boy was I wrong.......

Ninja Gaiden (2004): I was quite young back then, but after having played the demo I was completely hyped because of the awesome combat. (Which I thought I was good at) So I borrowed the game and didn't get past the second boss that rides the horse. I remember how I kept on trying but kept on failing over and over. I hated the game.

Four Years later I downloaded Ninja Gaiden: Black for the Xbox 360 and completed it on Dog Ninja. (Dog Ninja was the easy setting in NG:B for the "wussies" acording to the developer Itanagi) After that I got Ninja Gaiden II and managed to beat it on normal. On mentor(hard) difficulty I never managed to get past the second boss....

 

[TerribleAssassin]

Halo 3, I thought it was going to be an epic adventure through space, I found a generic FPS that any other dev could have poo'ed out in bout a year and a half.


MW2's multiplayer, broken and not as fun as World at Wars or Call of Duty 4's.