The dumbest reason you didn't watch/play/read something.

[Tiamattt]

I refuse to watch Adventure Time for a very petty reasoning: too much advertising before it aired. I know it's their job was to hype up people to watch the show but before it officially aired it's commercials felt like it was playing constantly and before long I got totally tired of them to a point that I didn't even want to see the show at all, they made me sick of the show before the first episode which has to be some sort of achievement. And that's a shame since I've heard good things about it but holy cow did they try way too hard.

For a somewhat similar reason I also refuse to watch anything Scooby Doo related anymore, back in my teen years it felt like a different variation of a Scooby Doo cartoon was constantly on Cartoon Network, and since I watched the Network a lot back then I got sick and tired of it and got very annoyed that it felt like whenever I turned it on they would be running yet another Scooby Doo cartoon. Like they have a massive library of cartoons yet it felt they were playing Scooby Doo most of the time. Not really a loss here since I've seen enough of that dog to last me several lifetimes but it does get a little awkward when my kid wants to watch him on Netflix and I have to ask her to pick something else.

 

[talker]

The hype. At first I heard of Undertale, saw a few gameplay videos, and thought "Huh. Neat.". Now nobody in my direct circle of friends will shut up about how fantastic and groundbreaking it is and how I couldn't appreciate it since I never had a "proper gaming childhood" since I never played Earthbound or the Zelda series and any desire to play it has dropped to subterranean levels

 

[Bob_McMillan]

I have 0 interest in The Witcher 3 because I think Geralt is ugly and boring.
I own the game, and I've played a bit of it. But I just can't get into it for that reason.

I find it kinda frustrating because I hear so much about how good the actual game is but I can't really get into it.
I'll probably get around to actually playing more of it at some point, but every time Geralt is on screen I'm bored.

I've never been able to get into RPGs that have pre-made characters. I dunno why, I guess Mass Effect and Skyrim have spoiled.

 

[TheVampwizimp_v1legacy]

I never watched Breaking Bad. Why? Because everyone was telling me how great it was.



You read that right. I avoided a highly acclaimed show that won quite a few awards, because I had too many people hyping it up to me.

In my defense, it was partially because I knew it couldn't live up to expectations, and partially because one of the people hyping it up had a tendency to put down shows that I did watch as being "not as good as Breaking Bad".

Except that is actually does live up to the hype. I put off watching it for quite the same reason. At first I just wasn't interested in it from the concept, and when everyone I knew started telling me it was the absolute tits, I was more convinced than ever that I didn't want to see it. But it turns out it literally is one of the best TV shows ever made. Obviously I have no idea if you'll love it or not, but I can confirm that your friends are right.

For me, I have been known to avoid things my friends are really into. And they actually do the same back to me. Not that our interests don't cross over sometimes, as with Breaking Bad above, but it's quite common for me or one of my friends to oversell something, and then the rest of us lose interest just because one of us had a fangasm over it.

 

[Fractral]

Oh, I understand your fealings. I had the same thoughts. They ended up being correct ones (for me personally), but I still liked Persona 3. Now if only I didn't have to create a harem to get all S. Links maxed out.

Certainly in the female route of Persona 3 Portable it's possible to avoid getting into a relationship with anyone and still max out all your social links. Not sure whether it's the same in the male route.

OT: I have never owned a Mario game. I have nothing against them in particular; it's just that since I realized that fact several years ago it's become my go to trump card in 'Never have I ever'.

 

[Lord Pants]

This is interesting. I have a few of my own but first.

~Those who mentioned AoT. It's funny that I thought the angst and pacing were completely off putting. It seems like more people seem to think that as more time passes.

~People who tell me Game A is great and I should stop everything to play it. That makes the game fall to the bottom of my list. I owned Dark Souls for about two years before I even started playing it (I wound up enjoying it for the record). I got Undertale for Christmas but still can't get my head around actually playing it because I feel like clicking on the icon is like diving into a swimming pool full of sharks.

~I go into games and anime and other media with less noble intentions if it comes with a heavy handed recommendation. I look for stuff that I personally don't like to ruin my experience. I'm not sure why I do this but it's the reason I still can't push forward in XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Besides the RNG having it out for me.) This leads to me almost never buying a game the year it comes out.

 

[Lightspeaker]

On one hand you have this series which pretty much set the bar incredibly high for other TV shows. It's absolutely amazing but you can't explain WHY it's amazing without spoiling it, and the whole series is based around a mixture of foreshadowing and unpredictability. It's the kind of thing you can watch a second time and maybe even enjoy it more. People want others to see it so they can talk about it.

At the risk of banging on that drum again...exactly like PMMM basically. The good thing with PMMM though is you can honestly say to people "watch the first three episodes and then you'll get it". It'll take an hour and a quarter to get that far, but once episode three has come and gone almost everyone I've ever introduced it to want to see more. I'm actually planning on running a marathon screening for like a dozen friends at my house in a few weeks entirely off the back of me suggesting it to people and getting a bunch of them to watch the first three episodes.

Breaking Bad, in my experience, tends to get people at different times during the first series (if its going to get them at all, I've known a few people to just not like it such as my sister, despite watching most of the first series). But given that episodes are quite long you have to invest quite a bit more time to see if you'll get hooked. Which I think puts some people off.

And on that note: anything with Johnny Young Bosch. Period. I tried watching Kill La Kill, and it was okay. He showed up in a single episode, and I dropped the series.

Why would you watch the dub of Kill La Kill? The original Japanese VAing is GLORIOUS.

 

[Fox12]

On one hand you have this series which pretty much set the bar incredibly high for other TV shows. It's absolutely amazing but you can't explain WHY it's amazing without spoiling it, and the whole series is based around a mixture of foreshadowing and unpredictability. It's the kind of thing you can watch a second time and maybe even enjoy it more. People want others to see it so they can talk about it.

At the risk of banging on that drum again...exactly like PMMM basically. The good thing with PMMM though is you can honestly say to people "watch the first three episodes and then you'll get it". It'll take an hour and a quarter to get that far, but once episode three has come and gone almost everyone I've ever introduced it to want to see more. I'm actually planning on running a marathon screening for like a dozen friends at my house in a few weeks entirely off the back of me suggesting it to people and getting a bunch of them to watch the first three episodes.

Breaking Bad, in my experience, tends to get people at different times during the first series (if its going to get them at all, I've known a few people to just not like it such as my sister, despite watching most of the first series). But given that episodes are quite long you have to invest quite a bit more time to see if you'll get hooked. Which I think puts some people off.

And on that note: anything with Johnny Young Bosch. Period. I tried watching Kill La Kill, and it was okay. He showed up in a single episode, and I dropped the series.

Why would you watch the dub of Kill La Kill? The original Japanese VAing is GLORIOUS.

I tried, but that show is too fast passed. I kept having to pause the scenes to read the subtitles, which ruined the pacing of the humor.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

I've given up with Game of Thrones since seeing Robert Strong and being all 'Nope, this is fucking dumb.'

I read the books. I love Robert Strong in the books. I love the Frankenstein vibes and waited for ages for it. For some reason I thought it was just a bit too stupid to translate well onto TV. To be fair, there's a whole bunch of things about the show that really pissed me off, but this is the first thing that's really put me off the show for good and it's exactly the same in the books.

 

[sagitel]

doctor who. because a friend of mine likes it and i cant like anything that HE likes. its a complicated relationship.

 

[Dizchu]

At the risk of banging on that drum again...exactly like PMMM basically. The good thing with PMMM though is you can honestly say to people "watch the first three episodes and then you'll get it". It'll take an hour and a quarter to get that far, but once episode three has come and gone almost everyone I've ever introduced it to want to see more. I'm actually planning on running a marathon screening for like a dozen friends at my house in a few weeks entirely off the back of me suggesting it to people and getting a bunch of them to watch the first three episodes.

Well I watched the PMMM films, not the series. The plot seemed to get going pretty quickly.

Breaking Bad, in my experience, tends to get people at different times during the first series (if its going to get them at all, I've known a few people to just not like it such as my sister, despite watching most of the first series). But given that episodes are quite long you have to invest quite a bit more time to see if you'll get hooked. Which I think puts some people off.

To be honest Breaking Bad got me by the end of the first episode. So much stuff was established so quickly, but not in a rushed way. Also it ends on a cliffhanger but not a spooky "oooh what's this mysterious thing" kinda cliffhanger like in Lost. In every episode of Breaking Bad the hole Walter White digs for himself gets deeper and deeper and it's gripping just because you know absolutely that he's gonna detonate but you don't know when.

I think being able to have a pilot episode that starts with a cold open that you think would be revisited at the end of the season but is actually reached by the end of the episode is a testament to how quickly Breaking Bad goes from 0 to 60.

 

[FPLOON]

Persona 4 Golden... Marie... I refuse to accept her as part of the [real] canon of Persona 4... I just can't...

Other than that, there was a time where I refused to watch FullMetal Alchemist: Brotherhood because I thought it would be seen as the "one true" FMA series... but, mostly because of Ling... I used to hate that guy... Now, it's ambivalent indifference... *shrugs*

Oh my God. Chie's new voice actor. She single handedly killed the entire game. And I loved Persona 4. I absolutely refuse to play Persona 4 Golden, new content be damned. She was my favorite character, and now I hate absolutely everything about her.

And on that note: anything with Johnny Young Bosch. Period. I tried watching Kill La Kill, and it was okay. He showed up in a single episode, and I dropped the series. Pokemon Origins? Dropped it. Durrarara? Dropped it. Akira? Fucking burned my copy of the DVD. If the series is good, then I'll switch to the Japanese dub just to avoid his awful voice. He sounds the exact same in Every. Fucking. Role. And he's in everything. The worst offender was, of course, the Persona 4 animation, where he voiced both the hero and the villain. He even ruined the main character for me.

I will never watch the Berserk movies because they fucked up Guts's face.

Spoiler

This chiseled block of wood is Guts.

I don't know what the hell this thing is

Oh glob! Chie's voice! My friend's the exact opposite when it comes to Chie's voice... He refused to continue playing the PS2 version off PSN because he hated her voice in comparison to the anime series and just waited until he could get his hands on Persona 4 Golden instead... And now, he will not shut up about how awesome Marie is and how my extreme dislike of Golden is nothing like his extreme dislike to Chie's OG English voice...

In terms of Johnny, I remember refusing to watch Dareomon (and then later Yo-Kai Watch) because he voices a character in a non-recognizable manner most of the time... Also, despite how he voiced the MC in Persona 4, even I thought that he should not have voiced the villain in the anime version... Way to unintentionally give away the pending twist, English dub!

 

[Fox12]

snip

The Persona 4 anime was embarrassing for a lot of reasons, but the English dub made it much worse. I didn't mind Johnny as the villain in the game. He was barely in it, and the rest of the game was consistently amazing. But why would you have him voice the protagonist in the anime? Even if he voiced the protagonist in the game, all he does is grunt. You could easily find someone else. It's not like the character is brimming with personality. Having Johnny voice the two most important characters was bafflingly stupid, especially since they're frequently together. He actually tries to make them sound different, and he just flounders. One sounds like Johnny Young Bosch, and the other sounds like Johnny Young Bosch doing a little girl voice. Some voice actors could pull off multiple roles, but Johnny isn't one of them. He should really stick to voicing angry shonen protagonists.

I'll never get over seeing Bosch argue with himself over the meaning of life.

 

[GrumbleGrump]

Because "it's popular".

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

I didn't watch Arrow for the longest time because I couldn't stand a name like Oliver Queen. What a shitty, made-up, cliche name for a comic book character that I'm supposed to care about now. Fast forward a few months and I've basically marathoned my way up through the first half of season three in a couple weeks. The name no longer bothers me.

 

[monkeymangler]

On one hand you have this series which pretty much set the bar incredibly high for other TV shows. It's absolutely amazing but you can't explain WHY it's amazing without spoiling it, and the whole series is based around a mixture of foreshadowing and unpredictability. It's the kind of thing you can watch a second time and maybe even enjoy it more. People want others to see it so they can talk about it.

At the risk of banging on that drum again...exactly like PMMM basically. The good thing with PMMM though is you can honestly say to people "watch the first three episodes and then you'll get it". It'll take an hour and a quarter to get that far, but once episode three has come and gone almost everyone I've ever introduced it to want to see more. I'm actually planning on running a marathon screening for like a dozen friends at my house in a few weeks entirely off the back of me suggesting it to people and getting a bunch of them to watch the first three episodes.

Breaking Bad, in my experience, tends to get people at different times during the first series (if its going to get them at all, I've known a few people to just not like it such as my sister, despite watching most of the first series). But given that episodes are quite long you have to invest quite a bit more time to see if you'll get hooked. Which I think puts some people off.

And on that note: anything with Johnny Young Bosch. Period. I tried watching Kill La Kill, and it was okay. He showed up in a single episode, and I dropped the series.

Why would you watch the dub of Kill La Kill? The original Japanese VAing is GLORIOUS.

Because the English team did a fantastic job? Enjoyed everyone's job with the occasional Gamagoori slip up.

 

[MCerberus]

for me,

SJW and PC people praising something as being good.

some games id like to play like undertale and fire watch but hearing PC crowd love them and fanwank it turns me off trying what im sure could be a good game but i dont want to be associated with them

See, I have the opposite. If anyone has ever put the words "real America" together in a sentence or identify as anti-SJW, MRA, or a whole lot of other reactionary labels, I just reverse their opinion on what they think. Especially for movies.

Hearing bad things from them about Zootopia. Will have to see it this weekend.

 

[step1999]

Doctor Who, it just feels too whimsical for my science fiction tastes. I feel there are probably some good ideas and episodes i am missing, but...it's like a baby's first exploration of science and philosophy with "added charm" that teeters precairiously on smugness, or at least that's how it feels at times when i reattempt going at it. Maybe it just isn't for me.

Which era of DW did you try? With the number of creative teams that have helmed it over the years, it's tone has shifted around fairly drastically. (IMO the current Moffat era is the best of what I've seen, but I've only seen about a quarter of the series as a whole).

 

[RedRockRun]

I've never played Dark Souls because I don't want to hurt Sif the Great Gray Wolf.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

Doctor Who, it just feels too whimsical for my science fiction tastes. I feel there are probably some good ideas and episodes i am missing, but...it's like a baby's first exploration of science and philosophy with "added charm" that teeters precairiously on smugness, or at least that's how it feels at times when i reattempt going at it. Maybe it just isn't for me.

Which era of DW did you try? With the number of creative teams that have helmed it over the years, it's tone has shifted around fairly drastically. (IMO the current Moffat era is the best of what I've seen, but I've only seen about a quarter of the series as a whole).

Um, i think i have seen at least one of each Doctor except the current one. Which i probably should, considering Capaldi is a heavyweight actor from what else i've experienced of him.