Games you're tired of hearing praise for?

[jimduckie]

gee lets piss off some fanboys eh ? ...lol ...halo , mw2 and black ops ,any wii games , ps3 move , xbox360 kinect ,mass effect , pc gamers and especially phone games ... oh yeah almost forgot multiplayer games too but the worst of all ea games... yeah that just about covers it ... retro games ? yeah them too

yeah that is alot but their are some good ones out there i just don't care for them ... sry

 

[JuryNelson]

FAAAAAABLLLLEEEE!!!!!!

How are all of these other people able to ignore the fact that, in Fable II, FARTING was made a core aspect of gameplay? How do you pretend that a game takes itself serious when you are able to vomit, and have people applause?

 

[Armored Prayer]

Many (if not all) of Valve's games. I have no problem with games themselves but I pretty much sick of everyone getting a hard on and praising them like some sort of God. This also pretty applies to almost every game as well.

But I have nothing against those who play and enjoy any game. Just please try to done down on the praising and fanboyisim a bit?

 

[TehAudioSurfer]

Whole lotta hate in this thread. Well, to be frank I'm moderately annoyed by the arrogant Final Fantasy VI fanboys who claim everything after it was utter fecal matter. I strongly yet respectfully disagree with their sentiments.

EDIT: And I forgot to mention that I thoroughly enjoyed FFVI.

 

[York_Beckett]

Oblivion, and the entire Halo-franchise. Also starting to get quite tired of Red Dead Redemption, and that was a pretty decent game.

 

[repeating integers]

Anything that beings with "Final" and ends with a Roman numeral of some kind. (Final Fantasy, in case you had figured it out).

Halo makes the list too. Played some. Not fun. Stop saying it's solid gold gaming, please.

OK, I will stop expressing my own opinion and bow down to yours.

Also, both Halo and Final Fantasy (which I've never played, btw) are hated all the time on these forums. We don't go on about how awesome and deep and godlike and perfect they are (unlike fans of a certain FPS sequel made in 2004, featuring mute scientists and zombies), and if we do, we get burned to death by Valve fanboys (and, I would assume, Bioware/Obsidian/Bethesda fanboys when it comes to Final Fantasy).

 

[Omnific One]

I like how 95% percent of the people posting in this thread failed at reading the OP's topic:

I'm wondering are there any games that you DO think are worthy of all the hype, praise and/or sales BUT are mentioned so often that even though you'd admit they were great games that the constant praise of the years is starting to become an annoyance?

Seriously, Escapist readers should be better than this.

OT: My choices would probably be HL2 and Portal. I love the games, and I do think they deserve every amount of praise they've gotten, but I think all the hype around them has spoiled the games for anyone just getting to them now.

All of Valve's stuff. It's all pretty good, but I don't think it nearly deserves the huge amount of praise tossed at it.

Minecraft, for the love of God.

Half-life 2. I have absolutely no idea how this game got so popular. I'm not saying it's bad, but some people make it sound like it's the quintessential shooter. In my opinion, there's nothing special about that game. It's solid, but it remains just a linear shooter with a wobbly story. over

Half Life 2. When it came out I disliked it. The background dystopian world was pretty well developed, and a couple characters were interesting, and I even got into the story of it... But it was way to watered down otherwise.

Half-Life 2 is praised so much because it basically showed people how to tell a totally linear story without limiting interactivity by using cut scenes, text dumps, etc. It basically opened the floodgate for better storytelling in action games, especially first person ones.

Well, I ADORED the storytelling in Half Life 2. If it wasn't for that and the characters, it would be an above average FPS. Still, it receives an annoying amount of praise.

 

[Stabby Joe]

EDIT EDIT: the OP fails at getting his point across.

None. If a game is good enough to get my praise, it will continue getting my praise from then on.

I like how you tried to cover your reading fail by trying to blame it on the OP =)

Good writers get there point across simply.

O...k... so what part did you not get?

I know there are plenty of threads on the topic of some games being too hyped, overrated or just not being that good but what I'm wondering are there any games that you DO think are worthy of all the hype, praise and/or sales BUT are mentioned so often that even though you'd admit they were great games that the constant praise over the years is starting to become an annoyance?

I'm not sure how that could be interrupted as popular games you hate since I mentioned you liking the game multiple times in the original post.

However at this stage in the thread, trying to sway the topic back is like peeing on a giant oil fire.

hey, i reread it and got it eventually.

Well then, only 12 more pages to go.

 

[Kiju]

Half Life.

...I played it. It sucked...horribly. I wouldn't sell it to anyone for a nickel; I'd feel too guilty afterwards.

I think you misunderstood the point of this topic but what didn't you like about half life? im not a fanboy or anything but i do think its a sold fps and im just curious

Ah! Right, sorry 'bout that.

Well, lets see...where do I start? I got it in the Orange Box bundle, and decided to download/play it after I'd finished (and loved) Portal and gotten tired of sucking at TF2. So, I tried Half Life 2. About ten minutes in, I was completely confused as to what was going on, there was no storyline elements to tell me what was actually happening, and I felt like I should have played the first game before even attempting to comprehend the second one. It was like I was listening to an inside joke; I got the gist of it, but I was missing the larger picture. I'd expected to be wow-ed by the storyline that the game is praised for, not the horribly one-sided drivel that it was made up of.

So, I tried out the combat: All in all? Bland, boring, and I discreetly felt like I was playing a James Bond FPS, except with a protagonist that had all the charm and charisma of a cardboard cutout with a bag of sick taped to it (Yahtzee reference aside). The gunplay was un-inventive, the physics puzzles were better portrayed in Tomb Raider, and the vehicle sections were laughably unoriginal. I expected the James Bond theme song to come on while I was trying to defeat a helicopter on a jetski.

The "zombies"? ...reminded me of the Flood from Halo, only a little more stupid and easy to kill. Only thing I found was interesting about the game was the Gravity Gun, Dog, and maybe the concept of it all: People being put in cities under some sort of all-powerful dictatorship, like they're lab-rats or something. That's...about it. After two hours of playing, I got sick of the mediocrity of the game, and uninstalled it. I didn't even want to finish it to see if it got any better.

Perhaps my view was somewhat jaded. When I started playing the game, I already wasn't really interested in it. I also had never played the first Episode of Half Life, nor did I have any real love for Valve's products. I play them because by game standards, they're good...but never have I ever found a Valve game that I could label as phenomenal. Even Portal had it's faults.

So...maybe I was a little prejudiced towards disliking it, I don't know. I did however expect that, with the game being so highly praised by critics and fans alike, that it should have changed my views. Not make them worse.

 

[SonicKoala]

Seriously, this whole thread is just a continuous series of people whining needlessly.

Like how you're doing, for instance?

No, I wasn't whining, I was making a valid point. But hey, thanks for your incredibly insightful and necessary reply.

 

[Dommyboy]

Modern Warfare 2. Also, Halo from my neighbours kid because he's obsessed with it and finds the series to be the best games ever.

 

[Crystalite]

Portal, mostly.
I love the game to pieces and am partially very guilty of this myself ;-)
But enough is enough!
And the cake was nothing but the truth!
(Really, I don´t understand "the cake is a lie". There was a friggin´ cake!)
And it gets soooo old.

Won´t keep me from debasing myself in front of Portal 2, though.

 

[00slash00]

Half Life.

...I played it. It sucked...horribly. I wouldn't sell it to anyone for a nickel; I'd feel too guilty afterwards.

I think you misunderstood the point of this topic but what didn't you like about half life? im not a fanboy or anything but i do think its a sold fps and im just curious

Ah! Right, sorry 'bout that.

Well, lets see...where do I start? I got it in the Orange Box bundle, and decided to download/play it after I'd finished (and loved) Portal and gotten tired of sucking at TF2. So, I tried Half Life 2. About ten minutes in, I was completely confused as to what was going on, there was no storyline elements to tell me what was actually happening, and I felt like I should have played the first game before even attempting to comprehend the second one. It was like I was listening to an inside joke; I got the gist of it, but I was missing the larger picture. I'd expected to be wow-ed by the storyline that the game is praised for, not the horribly one-sided drivel that it was made up of.

So, I tried out the combat: All in all? Bland, boring, and I discreetly felt like I was playing a James Bond FPS, except with a protagonist that had all the charm and charisma of a cardboard cutout with a bag of sick taped to it (Yahtzee reference aside). The gunplay was un-inventive, the physics puzzles were better portrayed in Tomb Raider, and the vehicle sections were laughably unoriginal. I expected the James Bond theme song to come on while I was trying to defeat a helicopter on a jetski.

The "zombies"? ...reminded me of the Flood from Halo, only a little more stupid and easy to kill. Only thing I found was interesting about the game was the Gravity Gun, Dog, and maybe the concept of it all: People being put in cities under some sort of all-powerful dictatorship, like they're lab-rats or something. That's...about it. After two hours of playing, I got sick of the mediocrity of the game, and uninstalled it. I didn't even want to finish it to see if it got any better.

Perhaps my view was somewhat jaded. When I started playing the game, I already wasn't really interested in it. I also had never played the first Episode of Half Life, nor did I have any real love for Valve's products. I play them because by game standards, they're good...but never have I ever found a Valve game that I could label as phenomenal. Even Portal had it's faults.

So...maybe I was a little prejudiced towards disliking it, I don't know. I did however expect that, with the game being so highly praised by critics and fans alike, that it should have changed my views. Not make them worse.

i can understand that. half life 2 is my favorite fps, but you definitely need to understand the story of the first game. sounds like your experience was a lot like my experience with kotor. everyone talked about it like it was the best game ever, and then when i finally played it i was just like, "THIS is the game everyone loves so much? this is garbage!"

 

[bl4ckh4wk64]

Halo series and pretty much every BioWare game. I am so fucking sick of hearing about how they are the "greatest writers ever" and the "best RPGs ever". If they really were, why were the characters so damn bland and boring in Dragon Age, and it actually took me cheats, music, movies, and the X-Games to actually manage to get through the game without dying of pure boredom? Even the "combat" was putting me to sleep. I'm not buying any more BioWare games.

I also forgot to add Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas. New Vegas is merely a glorified expansion.

New Vegas is as much of a "glorified expansion" as every single Halo game after CE was.

One major difference, New Vegas was made off the same buggy engine Fallout 3 was made on, thus the same problems and pretty much the same feel in the game. Each Halo game was, I believe, made on different engines, thus many of them have different feels, Halo 2 was very different from Halo 3, which was extremely different from Reach. ODST didn't happen.

 

[bl4ckh4wk64]

Half Life.

...I played it. It sucked...horribly. I wouldn't sell it to anyone for a nickel; I'd feel too guilty afterwards.

I think you misunderstood the point of this topic but what didn't you like about half life? im not a fanboy or anything but i do think its a sold fps and im just curious

Ah! Right, sorry 'bout that.

Well, lets see...where do I start? I got it in the Orange Box bundle, and decided to download/play it after I'd finished (and loved) Portal and gotten tired of sucking at TF2. So, I tried Half Life 2. About ten minutes in, I was completely confused as to what was going on, there was no storyline elements to tell me what was actually happening, and I felt like I should have played the first game before even attempting to comprehend the second one. It was like I was listening to an inside joke; I got the gist of it, but I was missing the larger picture. I'd expected to be wow-ed by the storyline that the game is praised for, not the horribly one-sided drivel that it was made up of.

So, I tried out the combat: All in all? Bland, boring, and I discreetly felt like I was playing a James Bond FPS, except with a protagonist that had all the charm and charisma of a cardboard cutout with a bag of sick taped to it (Yahtzee reference aside). The gunplay was un-inventive, the physics puzzles were better portrayed in Tomb Raider, and the vehicle sections were laughably unoriginal. I expected the James Bond theme song to come on while I was trying to defeat a helicopter on a jetski.

The "zombies"? ...reminded me of the Flood from Halo, only a little more stupid and easy to kill. Only thing I found was interesting about the game was the Gravity Gun, Dog, and maybe the concept of it all: People being put in cities under some sort of all-powerful dictatorship, like they're lab-rats or something. That's...about it. After two hours of playing, I got sick of the mediocrity of the game, and uninstalled it. I didn't even want to finish it to see if it got any better.

Perhaps my view was somewhat jaded. When I started playing the game, I already wasn't really interested in it. I also had never played the first Episode of Half Life, nor did I have any real love for Valve's products. I play them because by game standards, they're good...but never have I ever found a Valve game that I could label as phenomenal. Even Portal had it's faults.

So...maybe I was a little prejudiced towards disliking it, I don't know. I did however expect that, with the game being so highly praised by critics and fans alike, that it should have changed my views. Not make them worse.

i can understand that. half life 2 is my favorite fps, but you definitely need to understand the story of the first game. sounds like your experience was a lot like my experience with kotor. everyone talked about it like it was the best game ever, and then when i finally played it i was just like, "THIS is the game everyone loves so much? this is garbage!"

Which KOTOR? 1? Because in 1, they explain everything about 50-60% of the way through. You just have to trudge through Taris, which was the worst planet, then it starts to pick up and get interesting. Before you know it, BAM, you've spent 15 more hours and you're only 40% done. I haven't played 2, so I can't say anything about that. Also, I've never really heard people saying anything about KOTOR recently. The last time I heard about the game was when Steam had it on sale and one of my friends told me to get it on PC.

 

[00slash00]

Half Life.

...I played it. It sucked...horribly. I wouldn't sell it to anyone for a nickel; I'd feel too guilty afterwards.

I think you misunderstood the point of this topic but what didn't you like about half life? im not a fanboy or anything but i do think its a sold fps and im just curious

Ah! Right, sorry 'bout that.

Well, lets see...where do I start? I got it in the Orange Box bundle, and decided to download/play it after I'd finished (and loved) Portal and gotten tired of sucking at TF2. So, I tried Half Life 2. About ten minutes in, I was completely confused as to what was going on, there was no storyline elements to tell me what was actually happening, and I felt like I should have played the first game before even attempting to comprehend the second one. It was like I was listening to an inside joke; I got the gist of it, but I was missing the larger picture. I'd expected to be wow-ed by the storyline that the game is praised for, not the horribly one-sided drivel that it was made up of.

So, I tried out the combat: All in all? Bland, boring, and I discreetly felt like I was playing a James Bond FPS, except with a protagonist that had all the charm and charisma of a cardboard cutout with a bag of sick taped to it (Yahtzee reference aside). The gunplay was un-inventive, the physics puzzles were better portrayed in Tomb Raider, and the vehicle sections were laughably unoriginal. I expected the James Bond theme song to come on while I was trying to defeat a helicopter on a jetski.

The "zombies"? ...reminded me of the Flood from Halo, only a little more stupid and easy to kill. Only thing I found was interesting about the game was the Gravity Gun, Dog, and maybe the concept of it all: People being put in cities under some sort of all-powerful dictatorship, like they're lab-rats or something. That's...about it. After two hours of playing, I got sick of the mediocrity of the game, and uninstalled it. I didn't even want to finish it to see if it got any better.

Perhaps my view was somewhat jaded. When I started playing the game, I already wasn't really interested in it. I also had never played the first Episode of Half Life, nor did I have any real love for Valve's products. I play them because by game standards, they're good...but never have I ever found a Valve game that I could label as phenomenal. Even Portal had it's faults.

So...maybe I was a little prejudiced towards disliking it, I don't know. I did however expect that, with the game being so highly praised by critics and fans alike, that it should have changed my views. Not make them worse.

i can understand that. half life 2 is my favorite fps, but you definitely need to understand the story of the first game. sounds like your experience was a lot like my experience with kotor. everyone talked about it like it was the best game ever, and then when i finally played it i was just like, "THIS is the game everyone loves so much? this is garbage!"

Which KOTOR? 1? Because in 1, they explain everything about 50-60% of the way through. You just have to trudge through Taris, which was the worst planet, then it starts to pick up and get interesting. Before you know it, BAM, you've spent 15 more hours and you're only 40% done. I haven't played 2, so I can't say anything about that. Also, I've never really heard people saying anything about KOTOR recently. The last time I heard about the game was when Steam had it on sale and one of my friends told me to get it on PC.

yea i understood the story of kotor, i just didnt find it that interesting (i thought it was kind of predictable, actually) and i didnt really like any of the characters, and i thought the combat got really repetitive. maybe it would have been more fun if i hadnt been melee based but all i had to do was spam master flurry and everyone would die in a few hits, for the most part. especially once i got to the star forge. i played it on pc a couple months ago, after hearing everyone talk about it like it was the best game ever, and i just had trouble getting through it because i found it kind of boring

 

[dogenzakaminion]

BioShock
surprised no one else had said it yet, idk why, everyone is like "so awesome" i just couldnt get into it, it felt too rushed, like i kept having to move forward, i couldnt slow down to enjoy the game out of fear a splicer ripping my cock off

I agree completely. I felt like I was missing stuff because I had to keep going.

Besides Bioshock, maybe Starcraft. No matter how you slice it, nothing beats Homeworld so there's no point in telling me something else is better.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Halo series and pretty much every BioWare game. I am so fucking sick of hearing about how they are the "greatest writers ever" and the "best RPGs ever". If they really were, why were the characters so damn bland and boring in Dragon Age, and it actually took me cheats, music, movies, and the X-Games to actually manage to get through the game without dying of pure boredom? Even the "combat" was putting me to sleep. I'm not buying any more BioWare games.

I also forgot to add Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas. New Vegas is merely a glorified expansion.

New Vegas is as much of a "glorified expansion" as every single Halo game after CE was.

One major difference, New Vegas was made off the same buggy engine Fallout 3 was made on, thus the same problems and pretty much the same feel in the game. Each Halo game was, I believe, made on different engines, thus many of them have different feels, Halo 2 was very different from Halo 3, which was extremely different from Reach. ODST didn't happen.

May have just been a personal thing, but I never really noticed a difference between 1, 2, and 3... Except, well, in the first one you could only have 1 gun at a time...

 

[NickCooley]

Not really praise of a specific game as such but whenever someone mentions some obscure game, usually japanese with a title unpronounceable with an english tongue and the hipster/non-conformist crowd take it in turns to bend over and offer their ass to it because it isn't "mainstream"

Those people and the games can go die in a fire.