Silliest/Dumbest Reasons For Hating A Game

[WonkyWarmaiden]

I think people hating on Fallout 3 because they prefer 1 & 2 or New Vegas is incredibly silly. Just don't play 3 if you don't like it.

Well, thank you! If someone will spoil your favourite non-shooter series by turning it into FPS which also places a nice big pile of you-know-what on original lore, I'll say you exactly the same words, just don't forget to remind me!

Go for it, dude. I'm not really one to get angry when a game series I love changes. And even if I was mad, I would just ignore it and NOT PLAY THE GAME. Is that really that hard of a concept? If you don't like the game or where the lore was taken then just ignore the new installments and play the games you do enjoy, instead of hating on something other people like.

 

[G00N3R7883]

"The graphics don't look quite as shiny as they did at E3 last year".

 

[CaitSeith]

I'll take the route of self-awareness and tell you why I used to hate The Binding of Issac. That game took one of the most important tales in the Christian Bible, and used it in the intro to make fun of the religious people as if they were crazy.

 

[Veldel]

I think people hating on Fallout 3 because they prefer 1 & 2 or New Vegas is incredibly silly. Just don't play 3 if you don't like it.

Well, thank you! If someone will spoil your favourite non-shooter series by turning it into FPS which also places a nice big pile of you-know-what on original lore, I'll say you exactly the same words, just don't forget to remind me!

Go for it, dude. I'm not really one to get angry when a game series I love changes. And even if I was mad, I would just ignore it and NOT PLAY THE GAME. Is that really that hard of a concept? If you don't like the game or where the lore was taken then just ignore the new installments and play the games you do enjoy, instead of hating on something other people like.

while I hate FO3 myself I get why people like it I dont get why people must go so apeshit over stuff and hell half of what seems to be in 4 as new stuff was mods from 3.

3 while may not be as good is just as deserving in the franchise and while they could of did some stuff better its better then a lot of games and the one game that shall not be named in the franchise. The whole Vault part growing up i kinda wish was longer that was prob one of my fav ways of opening a new game for the first time.



OT: My step bro thinks all games that play with a overhead view are bad and terrible or that unless he can cheat and exploit a game completely its not worth playing because it can become to hard and thus unplayable.

 

[Cryselle]

I knew a guy who refused to play any game that was more than 2 years old. His reasoning was "Every year technology gets better, so every year games get better. Anything more than 2 years old can't be as good as new games, and I don't want to waste my time and money on them."

 

[Slenn]

Now, I'm not religious, and I don't really have anything against religion. But Dungeons and Dragons had a small but long fight with people who had strict religious values. These people didn't like it because they saw it as people actually learning to do witchcraft and acting it out. So the people who played it were considered heretics. Spoony's video on Mazes and Monsters, as well as the commentary on it, is a good example story of this.

The only other silly excuse that I would like to mention was when my mom didn't want me buying Diablo 2 because it featured the devil. During my time in high school she actually grew to love the game and we had LAN setups together. She is somewhat of a selective nerd.

 

[Rastrelly]

I think people hating on Fallout 3 because they prefer 1 & 2 or New Vegas is incredibly silly. Just don't play 3 if you don't like it.

Well, thank you! If someone will spoil your favourite non-shooter series by turning it into FPS which also places a nice big pile of you-know-what on original lore, I'll say you exactly the same words, just don't forget to remind me!

Go for it, dude. I'm not really one to get angry when a game series I love changes. And even if I was mad, I would just ignore it and NOT PLAY THE GAME. Is that really that hard of a concept? If you don't like the game or where the lore was taken then just ignore the new installments and play the games you do enjoy, instead of hating on something other people like.

Er, NOT PLAYING has nothing to do with hatred. And hatred will be stronger if you actually played hoping for at least something, and then getting nothing. For example, I hate Brotherhood of Steel (not Tactics) and I never played it and never will. And I actually like New Vegas - it actually shows that you CAN do a proper Fallout game on shooter mechanics, thus only cementing my hatred (it's actually not hatred, its horrendous disappointment) towards Fallout 3 and boosts my fears towards Fallout 4 which seems to be going the same way F3 went.

 

[Phoenixmgs_v1legacy]

That's kinda another problem in and of itself. People who play CoD games for the MP who don't appreciate that most of the game design innovation goes into the singleplayer. The multiplayer is a retread focused around giving their fanbase what they want - a lowest common denominator aim-assisted FPS experience with a Mario Kart-esque "even the worst player can get lucky" element. To elaborate, you've got people who don't like Call of Duty because they don't like the MP. That, to me, is akin to not liking Deus Ex because you played Deus Ex MP and thought it was crappy. "Play one and you've played them all" only really holds true when you look at CoD's multiplayer.

I enjoyed the COD4 campaign for what is was. The theme/setting of military shooters doesn't really do much for me. The gameplay isn't very enthralling for me either, the enemies just sorta pop-out and have the AI of say a light-gun shooter. There really aren't any combat options (like stealth) or any exploration. It's really just a shooting gallery with set-pieces. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't find most COD campaigns very entertaining. Something like Deus Ex or Far Cry is much better and open-ended. Even Bioshock turned into basically a shooting gallery but at least you had a bunch of cool powers and guns to have a decent amount of creativity. Also, BulletStorm was a lot of fun for basically the same reasons.

 

[Atmos Duality]

I don't like Final Fantasy IX because of the art style.

I have heard nothing but good things about that game, and I know I'm being completely unfair to what is probably the best entry in the series since FF VI. But I just really, really don't like the way it looks, and I can't quite put my finger on exactly why. I mean, Final Fantasy's art style has never been particularly good, but this one did something different that I just can't stand.

It kinda irks me.

...How the hell was my first thought outted on the second post?
But your thoughts directly mirror mine here; save that I can (attempt) to "put my finger" on the subject.

I think FF9 is the best in the entire numbered series, trailing FF6 (IMO). It blends the best of the SNES FFs and the PS1 FFs. The world design is large enough to not feel claustrophobic but tight enough to not feel grossly padded.
The characters are (mostly) really damn good, thoroughly developed (the skits helped that a lot, and you can totally ignore 95% of them if you just want to move on) and mechanically DISTINCT.
(I am so tired of the "Blank Slate" mechanics of the other post-6 FFs.)

The combat is great and rewards the player for proper preparation and execution far more than raw grinding. (the hallmark of a GOOD RPG, and one that has become increasingly rare in the genre)

...BUT THE MODEL DESIGN, OH LAWDY.
I know this is high-fantasy, but Darwin would have a STROKE if he saw the denizens of FF9's world. FF9 has fantastic graphics by PS1 standards (being one of the last major productions for the system), but I couldn't make out what half the people were supposed to be when I first I tried playing it.

Yes, "tried". I really really wanted to love FF9, but it took me trying three times over the span of a solid decade to actually play through start to finish because of this. No other game has ever done that to me; it's so freaking weird!

And the heads...they're too big on the whole. I get that was a reference to FF6's chibi-esque sprite design, but those were SPRITES. 2D images are further removed from the Uncanny Valley than 3D (which is a big part of why good 2D games age better than 3D).

 

[KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime]

There are a few that get me.

Hating Shovel Knight because it's a retro style 2D Platformer, that's NES levels of hard, both of which apparently make the game stupid, wrong, broken, and too obsolete. I'm sorry but Shovel Knight is possibly the best platformer of it's kind.

Hating Dark Souls because it's hard and confusing, requiring some strategy guide because the game is both hard as hell and vague as hell. That's the point, it's the only successful metroidvania game in 3D in my opinion. Because if you're being beaten to a pulp, you can always try going somewhere else to see if that's better for you.

The worst one in my opinion though is hating Quake 2 because it's boring... WHAT!? If you pay attention it's got a fascinating lore and story, the game play is solid to the point of near perfection, it's multiplayer made the industry what it is today. Quake 2 certianly isn't the best, but it's sure deeper and more solid than say, Doom, or Wolfenstein 3D.

 

[GabeZhul]

I was just reading some of the user reviews (overwhelmingly positive) for Invisible Inc. One person had a 0 review, and here's why...

I'm glad I watched a gameplay video before buying this on the Steam sale based solely on user reviews.
Gotta stop those eeeevvvvill corporations that have taken over the world. Really? Were people occupying Wall Street while they made this?
I enjoy good PC games, but I just can't get over extreme stupidity.

You're such an ideologically opposed, rigid jackass that you can't play a great game because of the premise? Jesus fucking fuck.

Wow, let's hope no-one introduces that reviewer to the vast genre of cyberpunk, or their brains might spontaneously combust. Or they might just dismiss it as part of some kind of giant conspiracy by the occupy-wall-streeters who set the entire genre in motion decades ago. One or the other.

 

[Kajin]

I know a guy who hates games that don't have a definitive direction or overall goal. Sandbox games, to be specific. He thinks they're bad game design because they let you do what you want rather than specifically guide you and calls them shit games no one should like in spite of the fact that one of the most successful games of all time (Minecraft) was a sandbox title. I get not liking a particular design of game, but calling it bad game design just because you don't like it irks me far more than I can express in written form.

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

This is a difficult one since if I dislike a game, there's a usually a reason that to me is perfectly valid. I can't really think of "silly" reasons for not liking something since I consider my tastes reasonable. I won't play 2D indie games (with very few exceptions), I won't buy early access games (with very few exceptions), I won't buy anything that has Day 1 DLC (because if I'm paying full price, I won't pay more on release day for the full Day 1 experience), won't buy anything from crooked devs (the sort Jim used to roast), won't buy anything with an annual release cycle, most online-only SP games, any EA games (since I won't use Origin) or any grindy games. I have a single game on my android phone with microtransactions and haven't spent anything on it, otherwise no games with microtransactions.

I won't buy "arty" games or "walking sims". I don't play modern warfare shooters. I don't play games with angsty teens with blue or pink hair.

 

[Poetic Nova]

I knew a guy who refused to play any game that was more than 2 years old. His reasoning was "Every year technology gets better, so every year games get better. Anything more than 2 years old can't be as good as new games, and I don't want to waste my time and money on them."

Knew a guy who did this aswell, but he would argue that everything that doesn't use the latest technology is too ugly to be played.

 

[Ambient_Malice]

I was just reading some of the user reviews (overwhelmingly positive) for Invisible Inc. One person had a 0 review, and here's why...

I'm glad I watched a gameplay video before buying this on the Steam sale based solely on user reviews.
Gotta stop those eeeevvvvill corporations that have taken over the world. Really? Were people occupying Wall Street while they made this?
I enjoy good PC games, but I just can't get over extreme stupidity.

You're such an ideologically opposed, rigid jackass that you can't play a great game because of the premise? Jesus fucking fuck.

There were people who were angry with The Dark Knight rises and refused to watch it because they felt it was disrespectful to Occupy.

Im not even a big fan of Goldeneye (I prefer Perfect Dark and Timesplitters, Goldeneye feels very basic in comparison) but I get why people dont like the recent one, it dismissed the things that made the game unique and made a game that is indeed very close to Call of Duty, something that we get every year not counting the other games that copy Call of Duty, and all of them still worse then Call of Duty.

The problem is that Eurocom's Goldeneye is a lot like Nightfire and TWINE. It's not like Rareware's GoldenEye because it's a Eurocom game. The game has all that Eurocomish game design. Call of Duty doesn't revolve around stealth, for example, outside of set piece missions.

 

[Phoenixmgs_v1legacy]

Hating Dark Souls because it's hard and confusing, requiring some strategy guide because the game is both hard as hell and vague as hell. That's the point, it's the only successful metroidvania game in 3D in my opinion. Because if you're being beaten to a pulp, you can always try going somewhere else to see if that's better for you.

I agree because Dark Souls is actually an easy game. You can use the same strategy vs pretty much every enemy outside of bosses, and there's only a few bosses that are actually a challenge. All you need is the right mindset, which just to do the least risky action all the time. You can't try to do "cool" stuff because even if you can execute 9 out of 10 times, you're not going to make it to the next bonfire. The Souls' enemies are some of the biggest pushovers in all of gaming. Any one combat encounter in something like Tomb Raider is harder than any standard encounter in Dark Souls, it's just that Tomb Raider has lots of checkpoints so you don't have to redo stuff you already did. Tomb Raider would be immensely harder than Dark Souls if the only checkpoints were at the campsites. I'm don't quite know how I feel about the Souls' games as I like the tension of not having so many checkpoints provides but yet I feel like combat isn't very fun because you find yourself playing rather cheaply just due to not wanting to have to redo sections when you die.

 

[WeepingAngels]

Hard to top people hating a game they've never played because of its popularity.

Something along the lines of "I got sick of hearing about it" or "The fans love it so much, they annoy me" or "All the acclaim it was getting was making me sick". Similar phenomenon occurs with films. "Everyone loves this and claims it's excellent! I must avoid it, and heap scorn on it!".

I don't know if it's people being hipsters or misanthrophes or just willfully stupid. It's kind of astonishing.

People overhyping anything only does harm to the product as there is no way it can live up to the hype. Take Skyrim for example, people were calling it GOTY before it even came out because it had DRAGONS. Yes, in 2011 a game with dragons was actually a big deal.

So then it came out and it was a buggy mess that didn't live up to the hype, how could it?

...and who isn't tired of hearing about Dark Souls?

 

[Padwolf]

Omg yay I can unleash this torrent of hate I've been holding. UNCHARTED. fuck that game. Seriously. Fuck that game to oblivion. I hated it because it had too much action in it. I was loving the adventure! ADVENTURE! not fucking third person lets kill all these people in the middle of the fucking nowhere jungle. Where the hell are all these people coming from? Who the fuck sends out these 100's of guys into the wildlife like that? Seriously, the amount of time and effort getting jabs for all those goons I'm about to kill. I wanted a pure advenure funsy game, not a game that's 90% shooter, 10% adventure. And yes I did play it all the way to the end. Bitterly resenting every time the game made me go into shooter mode. I DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS.

I WANTED ADVENTURE GODDAMNIT. FUCK YOU UNCHARTED.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

People overhyping anything only does harm to the product as there is no way it can live up to the hype.

People "over-hyping" something (and let's be honest, whether the amount of hype something receives is merited or not is an entirely subjective distinction) is only "harmful" to people who are incapable of thinking critically about hype. It doesn't affect the quality of the product in any way. If someone is repeatedly getting "hyped" and then let down, that isn't an industry problem, that's a problem with that individual and their ability to learn from experience and moderate their own expectations.

Take Skyrim for example, people were calling it GOTY before it even came out because it had DRAGONS.

The folly of proclaiming something GOTY before one has played it aside, why would their reasons for dubbing it such matter? Do you believe there are rational/objective/fact-based reasons to prefer one game to another? Maybe that person really liked Dragons, and that's all it took.

So then it came out and it was a buggy mess that didn't live up to the hype, how could it?

Whether or not it "lived up to the hype" will vary from person to person, and will also be dependent on what "hype" they exposed themselves to. As the game sold 20 million copies and remained a top seller for years after its release, I would speculate that a great many people felt it "lived up to the hype", or were capable of divorcing their assessment of its quality from any expectations they formed based on marketing or breathless pre-release GOTY predictions.

...and who isn't tired of hearing about Dark Souls?

I guess in my case it would depend on what I'm hearing about it.

 

[Ryan Minns]

Well, I've mentioned this before but some people I know absolutely refuse to play cleric/priest/paladin type characters because they're atheists in real life and religion is stupid and only believed by people who are stupid... In games where gods are 100% factual and denying them is kinda foolish.