Shows/Movies/Games that you just couldn't get into

[SGT_Noobnuts]

THIS IS NOT AN OVERRATED LIST!

I'm just wondering, have any of you guys had a show/movie/game that a lot of people really like and you recognise that it would be really good but there was just something about it that just rubbed you the wrong way (i.e setting, actors, soundtrack etc) and you never got over it and found that that element broke the immersion of the overall experience even though the flaw was negligible at best?

From the gaming side of things for me it would probably be Child of Light. Mainly because while I thought the game was pretty good, to me the poetry was so frustrating and aggravating to read that it undermined the rest of the game for me. With that reaching the point where I couldn't stand playing the damn thing anymore.

One example from the anime front would probably be Chobits. I recognise that it is a really good show and understand why a lot of people would really like it.....But I just find the entire concept of a person falling in love with a machine to be an irrationally uncomfortable thing for me to watch, and yes you can rid me of my Otaku badge if you want.

I know other people that can't stand the iPoddy designs of the new Star Trek films ships interiors as well as people that don't like the style of Jack Kirby for example.

 

[Scarim Coral]

For game that would be Mass Effect. Don't get me wrong it is a good game but I just end up on relying too much of the guide given that game has many possibilities on good and bad outcomes. Granted I still on the beginning part of the game, I just need to invest some more times into it.

As for anime I guess that would be Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Yes that anime is funny and all but the gene slice of life isn't my thing.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

The Witcher series.

On paper it has everything I want in a game. Deep, rich lore, player choice, monsters.

But the combat man, the combat.

It's the reason I quit playing the first game, and it's the reason I quit the second game. It's just not worth slogging through it for that.

WHY WON'T YOU LET ME LOVE YOU?

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

There's a few anime I mentioned in the "Works of fiction you though were alright" thread, ones in particular...

Spice and Wolf- The trading/economical didn't grab me. I would've prefered it if the show was more about their travels, the various people they meet, and the situations they get into, but they spend so much time on talking about the different kinds of coins that the show kinda bored me. I haven't seen the second season so I don't know if they focus less on that aspect or not later.

Darker Than Black- I feel like I should really like it, but it's "Meh" for me. Hell, I never finished the second season, but from what I saw I was actually enjoying it a bit more than the first.

Most Studio Ghibli films- While I don't think they're bad movies, I never cared for any of them. I'm more a Satoshi Kon guy than a Hayao "Monkey Face" Miyazaki guy (That's right, I'm not afraid to make fun of him, although I do at least respect his work in the industry.)

Bakuman- While an anime that deals with the manga industry is cool, this one was done in such a shounen-y way, which too be fare it is about two middle to high school students making shounen manga. However, A lot of the characters are too eccentrically shounen that it distracted, and kinda annoyed, me. Also, I had big issues with the romance angle of the show, although I've only seen the first season so I don't know if that improves or not.

Other than that, I guess The Girl who Leapt Through Time. I don't know. I was kinda expecting more out of it. Maybe I was thrown off because with a name like that I was expecting something of a grander scale, like going through different time periods. Maybe I have to try watching it again because thinking about it there wasn't really anything majorly wrong with it, and there are some anime that didn't grab me at first but did after multiple viewings, like Baccano!! I thought Summer Wars was a fun movie (although I have some issues with the climax) and I absolutely loved The Wolf Children, which is now one of my favorite anime films.

Video game-wise, I never really got into any of the Batman Arkham games.

 

[Casual Shinji]

- Nearly all current anime. Even if the premise is pretty good and the production value is high, I can only last maybe 2 or 3 episodes before deciding 'Fuck it, I don't care.'

- The Marvel movies. They just lack, I don't know, identity. All them feel interchangeable, lacking any stakes. It's like watching a kid play with his action figures on a multi-million dollar budget.

- Breaking Bad. I'm not feeling it. I don't know why, but I'm not.

- Platinum games. I get it, it's quirky... You got anything else?

- Grave of the Fireflies and other media that pour on the uber-tragedy. Again, it's sad. Okay. Is that all you got?

- Guillermo del Toro's movies. This is baffling even to me, because on paper I should love this guy. But his movies just don't work for me, ever. Even the all around praised Pan's Labyrinth left me feeling completely detached.

 

[God'sFist]

-Pokemon never got into it, it just never scratched my itch and never truly enjoyed it. Maybe its because I would like to see the trainers fight along with their cute furry friends.

- Mass Effect I like the story enough to continue to play but the games themselves just don't strike my cord plus it bothers me no one calls me captain rather than commander.

 

[Flutterguy]

Dragon Age, I was very bored, and I played for a good 3+ hours. I've never tried mass Effect since i fear the same thing would happen.

Game of Thrones was the same way for the first 5 episodes or so, gladly I'm passed that now, because it is amazing.

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

Pretty much everything that has more than 20 episodes. After that number I just lose interest, no matter how good the show in question is. Maybe that's why they call it the ADD generation.

 

[Diddy_Mao]

Attack on Titan.

I have friends, whose opinions on animation and entertainment I normally agree with, who swear up and down that this is the greatest thing since sliced bread. So I sat down with a few of 'em and watched the first few episodes and I just wasn't getting into it.

All I was getting really was a story where a bunch of barely competent soldiers have to fight off some giant naked spastics.

I had more fun once I started imagining the whole thing as a grimdark post-apocalyptic reimagining of The Littles.

 

[Zontar]

Game of Thrones. I just can't force myself to watch it, there just isn't enough of what I enjoy in a show for me (that and I tend to not like medieval anything when it comes to fiction)

 

[spoonybard.hahs]

- The Marvel movies. They just lack, I don't know, identity. All them feel interchangeable, lacking any stakes. It's like watching a kid play with his action figures on a multi-million dollar budget.

This series has run the gamut of sci-fi to spy thriller and is going to add space opera to that list later this summer. I'll agree not much has happened in the stakes department (other than a few spoilery exceptions), but to say they lack identity or are interchangeable is to ignore really what makes these films great in the first place.

EDIT: OT: Any anime that is made because there was a manga first. With rare exceptions, these end up devolving into filler fests and no one in Japan has figured out how to handle lags between new issues aside from "more training" and "needless exposition" and "fights that drag out for five fucking episodes."

Oh, and Dynasty Warriors.

 

[flying_whimsy]

For me it's usually those runaway hits like Battelstar Galactica, Lost, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Heroes, the 300 and so on. It was also the same with Spirited Away (what many people consider the best Miyazaki film) and just about any game with a generically handsome grizzled white dude as protagonist. Also MMOs. Whatever it is people see in any of this stuff just doesn't resonate with me at any level.

To make it worse, sometimes when trying to watch them I can feel them trying to pull whatever levers in my brain that will make me like them, but it just doesn't work. Been like that since I was little, actually; the really popular stuff just doesn't trigger any kind of reaction in me. Generally speaking, it's like my brain was wired to be a hipster long before that was even a thing.

capcha: happy clappy

 

[jhoroz]

Spider-man 2. To this day I don't understand why that film was praised so much, when all the errors that were present in 3 were also in 2 (cheesy, cringe-worthy acting from McGuire, the romance between McGuire and Dunst being completely unbearable to watch, obvious and overused CGI, an unfocused plot and story etc.) The only good thing about that film was Alfred Molina.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

Games:

- Mass Effect
I don't get it, it's got a good story, good characters, just the right level of open worldness for me, and it's all science fiction, I should absolutely adore this game. I don't know, I think there's something fundamental about this game I'm just not getting.

- pretty much all Valve games
Minus Portal, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2, I just can't get into them. I understand that these are well-made games that withstand the test of time pretty well but I don't know.

TV/Movies:

- Doctor Who: It's just way too long, anything more than ten seasons and that's it for me.
The rest of these are attributed to the whole "the more people push, the more you push away" complex or just straight disinterest, although I am aware that these shows are rather good:

Firefly
Battlestar
Lord Of The Rings
Game Of Thrones
The Walking Dead

 

[Callate]

Farscape.

Watched the first year. Had its moments. But the characters, by and large, just seemed so shallow, the plots so predictable... And that theme song, good god...

I have a group of friends I gather with once a week to watch something (Buffy, House of Cards, Game of Thrones...), and we watched that first year of the show together. And then as a whole we said, "Y'know, never mind."

 

[heyjax9]

Mad Men, as much as I tried to enjoy this series, and in a sense did. I could absolutely not stand that secretary character (I cant remember her name, all I know is she has annoyingly large ears and a smile that haunts me.) For the most part the show was right up my alley, but the more and more this character was given screen time the more and more I despised it. and eventually the show, during season two started focusing on her character arc. I could not stand her and it just stopped me from getting into the show. I quit watching half way through an episode during season 2 out of rage and never plan on going back.

 

[drh1975]

Arrested Development. I know, it's everyone's favorite TV series, but I just couldn't get into it. Comedies are supposed to be funny, and I didn't laugh once. The same goes for Community.
As far as games go, I'd say GTA V. I liked GTA IV, but V just didn't do anything for me.

 

[Smiley Face]

Breaking Bad. Everyone I know LOVES it - my friends, my brother, my parents, my uncle, my grandma - and I just can't get into it. I've really tried, I've watched through the penultimate episode of Season 2, but I could not get into it. I think what it comes down to is that I don't find any of the characters likeable or enjoyable, and so I don't care about what happens, I'm not invested - I don't care about Walt's transformation or what it does to any of the people in his life, because I don't like any of them. I'll never stop hearing about it thought, so eventually I'll jump back in, but not for some time.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

I found Marvel: Agents of SHIELD really dull and hard to get into, I gave up after a few episodes

And in The Walking Dead, about halfway through season 3 I just found myself caring less and less about the situation and people. Gave up in season4