Most MEDIOCRE Game You've Ever Played

[The Human Torch]

Just a few off the top of my head:
- Star Wars: Force Unleashed
- Skyrim
- Diablo 3
- Vessel
- Realm of the Mad God
- Blazblue: Continuum Shift
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution

These are not bad, just very mediocre. They all had things going for them, and things working against them. These titles just didn't get me excited while playing.

 

[Grey Day for Elcia]

Gears of War. Nothing at all interested me from start to finish, but it was never offensively bad.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Skyrim for me. I wanted to love the game I really, really did but as I played my investment in my character (yes, only one character) slowly depleted. The main quest came and went in an instant and the secondary quest (you know: that whole civil war thing) was non-existent...even while I was on those quests they didn't seem to matter. It wasn't a bad game and I loved Malog Bal's quest. The thing is that was the only really memorable quest for me.

 

[BENZOOKA]

I haven't played much at all on consoles, but Gears of War and Halo felt very mediocre.

 

[RagTagBand]

The halo series, nothing screams generic and bland like that group of games.

 

[Sandjube]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. The first one.

It was scary, well paced, challenging and it certainly didnt hold your hand.

But no way to ditch your fecking gold, so i ended up with that shitty "i wanna be rich" ending.

Made it mediocre.

That is .... HNNNG. I'm really trying to restrain myself here but really, the game is mediocre because you didn't get the ending you wanted? The hell man.

 

[CrazyJew]

Skyrim for me. I wanted to love the game I really, really did but as I played my investment in my character (yes, only one character) slowly depleted. The main quest came and went in an instant and the secondary quest (you know: that whole civil war thing) was non-existent...even while I was on those quests they didn't seem to matter. It wasn't a bad game and I loved Malog Bal's quest. The thing is that was the only really memorable quest for me.

Coming from a fan of the TES series, I feel ya. The game is much shallower than the previous, and there is much less content.

I still find myself playing from time to time, though. Thieves Guild, Dark Brotherhood and College are nice quests. And sometimes I just fire it up, make a wood elf archer, and go sightseeing/hunting. I got so good with the bow I take running enemies at 50 paces.

 

[Yopaz]

I think I have to go with Brink. Really,there's nothing about that game left in my memory. It was all over OK, nothing special, nothing to make me love it, nothing to make me hate it. I'd say it's incredible that a game doesn't manage to make me feel anything. Not joy, not pleassure, no boredom, no hate. Simply amazing.

 

[Ragsnstitches]

Not worst, don't start saying CoD is SO mediocre, it's TERRIBLE.

I mean mediocre. The game you remember filling you with the most indifferent apathy or indecisive 'do I keep playing or not' lethargy?

I'd discount Bodycount for myself simply for being BAD. I thought it'd be mediocre, but it pissed me off a little.

Get it?

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But CoD is the very definition of Mediocrity. If we're judging the games on their own merits, they are functional shooter with competent execution but are also overwhelmingly bland. A "military plot for dummies" approach for a story, cookie cutter characters, uninspiring combat and anything that deviates from it's standard shooting gallery gameplay, feels forced or disjointed from the actual game.

Nothing aggravates me in CoD, it's just nothing makes it a notable experience. It's decidedly meh.

To drive that point home, looking back on all the CoDs I've played, nothing distinguishes them from each other... apart from thematic differences (WW2 vs Modern Warfare)... and I literally can't tell you what happens in which game... it all seems like one big blob of the same thing.

 

[Dragoon]

For a game I played recently it'd have to be Kingdoms of Amalur, everything about that game just seemed so average. The only good thing was the combat system but the rest was just so bland.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

Blur. It feels like the less fun offspring of Mario Kart and Burnout Revenge (I loved Burnout Revenge).

 

[Eamar]

Dungeon Siege III. Nothing particularly wrong with it, nothing particularly great either, doesn't really do anything new with the standard fantasy set-up. I enjoy it well enough in small doses whenever I remember it exists and can be bothered to play it, but there are many other games I'd pick over it if I have a bit of free time.

 

[Iwata]

I'd discount Bodycount for myself simply for being BAD. I thought it'd be mediocre, but it pissed me off a little.

I came here to say Bodycount. And I'll say Bodycount. Even financially it ended up neutral, as I traded it back in a different store for the exact same ammount that I payed for it in the first place (20 bucks).

 

[SpaceBat]

Assassin's Creed. I bought it because the idea of climbing huge buildings and assassinating people in an open world would be fun and it was. Then I got bored, but was still able to work myself through it. Played 2 afterwards, same story.

Skyrim. It doesn't really have anything to go for it other than having tons of generic places to explore. Forced myself to play through the main quest again, but I can't say I particularly liked or disliked it.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

dang..some of you seem to have some very high standards, or are listing games from genre's that you don't care for.

mediocre?

probably would say transformers war for cybertron

it just...nothing really memorable about it. besides transformers at least

 

[RustlessPotato]

Final Fantasy 13. Really was mediocre, i did finish it though because I payed 60 euros for it, but still. It's a game i played because I had nothing else to do.

Dante's Inferno i did enjoy. Only the first half though, because the level designs were well made I think. Second half was just a bunch of meh. It was such a shame.