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

[Cowabungaa]

I somehow am really adverse to watching anything in which cute girls die horribly.

Yeah, it's dumb and subconsciously sexist, I know. Yet I keep feeling so icky about it, all "C'mon man you don't treat such beauty like that." even though it's not even real! It's so stupid.

 

[Snotnarok]

Funny, I couldn't stand Attack on Titan because of the amount of irritating angst that kept going on. Trained to fight these things they cower and die instead of at least trying to fight. Yes, I know, horribly big scary titans and all that. They grew up in a world where they KNEW they existed and it's not the first time they've seen them in person when the big attack happens. Look some of them running away in fear? Fine. ALL of them!? Nevermind, they didn't even run, they just gave up.

Whatever excuse someone wants to feed me about how they should be terrified I'm just gonna drop this and say: Regardless of how scary it may be, it's not very fun watching everyone be scared through that length of time. Even the badass girl just gives up when she's out of fuel.

Not asking for HOORAH badass marines all the time just SOMETHING that wasn't what they delivered. They could have done a lot with that fear. Saving Private Ryan had a person terrified and watched his friend die, it was meaningful and horrifying. Titan was just needlessly padded.

I gave up after they left the city and beat the female titan. Just couldn't get into it after all that.

...Looking forward to the fans trying to explain to me why I'm retarded for not liking it.

 

[Creator002]

Lord of the Rings.
Then because I just never got around to it. Now because it's just become a thing for me. MY THING!

 

[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.

JRPGs, mainly cannot get past the anime school children characters with one-word personalities, hoping they can blind us from this and the cringeworthy scripts with their fantastical clothing and bright hair. Wait, is that a dumb reason? I guess if i turn off a game within the first badly uttered line from a human-doll-machine trying to fool me that it has a soul. I can never shake the feeling that i'm merely playing some runty teenager's idea of what looks and sounds cool. Very distracting.

Game of thrones. People. would. not. shutup about it. Now it feels tainted and too much time has passed now. Yes, very stupid. I am terrible person.

Fallout 4: I...err...deselected all of my quests once, before saving and turning it off. Now...everytime i try to go back into that world, i feel lost and confused, i take a look at the long quest list and feel even more lost and confused. It doesn't help that a couple of quests i know will make me choose between two factions that really need to just sit down and talk to each other about their issues, if only to not lock me out of more experience granting quest opportunities. Oh well, at least Piper's nice enough to talk to, before turning the game off again.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Game of thrones. People. would. not. shutup about it. Now it feels tainted and too much time has passed now. Yes, very stupid. I am terrible person.

Yeah, anything that people keep blathering on about puts me off.

Though, in the case of Game of Thrones, they went from "You should really watch this, it's good" to "You should keep watching this, it gets good in some unspecified episode in the future"

 

[RJ 17]

Mine would probably be for spite. For some reason every now and then I just have to be a contrarian, as such every now and then when something really popular comes along I'll completely ignore it just because everyone else is into it. It's not a hipster mentality, I don't think myself above anyone for liking a certain thing. But - to borrow from the OP's example - I doubt I'll ever watch Attack on Titan purely because it's been recommended by so many people and I've heard nothing but great things about it. Something inside me just says "Nope! Not gonna watch it!"

It's not always like this, mind you, it just pops up randomly. Everyone's been raving that Deadpool is one of the greatest comic book character movies (I refuse to call him a super hero since he specifically says he's not a hero ) ever and I went to see that on Thursday.

It's just a weird little tick that I have that goes off every now and then when presented with a certain hyped-up piece of media.

 

[DeliveryGodNoah_v1legacy]

The Halo series. When I was younger, I "hated" it with a passion strictly because I was young and didn't like how popular it was compared to games I actually liked. I called it overrated and having poor gameplay without having played it beyond a 10 minute multiplayer match with my father.

When I grew up a bit, I decided to play it. And it's okay. Still average, and I still don't like it that much. But I can't ignore that I actually ended up enjoying myself a bit more than I thought I would. I'm still not crazy over it though. It still feels underwhelming.

I do love the soundtrack though.

 

[Burgers2013]

I never really played Mass Effect (even though it should be up my alley) because I was slightly hung over when I started the game and found it really tedious/confusing/nausea and headache inducing. I have associated that feeling with it ever since and never touched it after that.

I refused to watch Full Metal Alchemist for a whole year despite my friends' suggestions because I thought it sounded like a mech anime. Two things: 1. It definitely isn't a mech anime like my friends very clearly explained to me. 2. I don't actually hate mech anime, so I don't know why that would matter. FMA is great.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

Yeah, anything that people keep blathering on about puts me off.

Though, in the case of Game of Thrones, they went from "You should really watch this, it's good" to "You should keep watching this, it gets good in some unspecified episode in the future"

That sounds suspiciously a lot like they are waiting for the stockholm syndrome to kick in. Trust not!

 

[EMWISE94]

Undertale, the odd about thing about a game that most people would say that its better experienced blind, is that TOO MANY PEOPLE talk about it, to the point where if you're on the net as much as I am, then going in blind is not even an option. I'm never gonna play Undertale now because I pretty much already know enough about it that I can see whey people like it and its a good game, but I can't play it now... also RichaadEB's metal covers of the songs are amazing.

 

[IamLEAM1983]

I initially neglected to check out The Neverhood and Doug TenNapel's Ratfist comic on the grounds that the guy is a raging conservative underneath all the quirkiness. Being a progressive and an atheist, a lot of the comic's low-key preachiness initially really got on my nerves.

A few years passed, I got a bit more mature, realized he's entitled to his opinion and that reading a fundie's superhero satire story doesn't make an enabler out of me. I could read the goddamn Mein Kampf that it wouldn't suggest that I'm a skinhead or a right-wing extremist.

So I got to reading Ratfist. I had fun while it lasted.

Then there's Undertale. My initial exposure to it was from the Tumblrites losing their minds over Sans and Papyrus, so I naturally elected to stay as far away from the game as humanly possible. A few reviews caught my attention a few months later, they're all positively glowing and they're not from anyone in the puzzling "Sans-related smut is hella dope" crowd, so I caved in.

Again, I had fun for a few days. I won't say it's as transformative or unique an experience as others might - the Pacifist route is mostly just a text and graphics-swapped version of your typical JRPG Grind-a-thon, warm fuzzies standing in for experience points - but I appreciated my time with it.

Will I start writing fanfics and drabbles about Papyrus' horrendous attempts at cooking pasta other than spaghetti or about how Toriel's Goat Mom is somehow not creepy at all? Nope.

I mean, I'm playing a kid from the surface, presumably one with parents and a life of her own, and I should just go "Oh cool, there's Goat Mom. Bye, surface world! See you never!"

 

[HybridChangeling]

So I bought Undertale, but then all my friends reminded me of a big Internet rule: If it is big and new and people like it, then you MUST hate it, or else "sheeple" or something. They complained about it so much I didn't touch it until the hate/hype died down. I like it though.

Other then that, I didn't want to watch NewWho for the longest time, after I heard all the changes they made. (Yes I like it now, don't freak out.)

 

[TheVampwizimp_v1legacy]

I somehow am really adverse to watching anything in which cute girls die horribly.












Yeah, it's dumb and subconsciously sexist, I know. Yet I keep feeling so icky about it, all "C'mon man you don't treat such beauty like that." even though it's not even real! It's so stupid.

I totally feel the same way. I can watch dozens of men die violently in an action scene, and, depending on the intended tone, feel either just minor sympathy for them, or just plain excitement. The Lord of the Rings for example. The huge battle scenes have so many men being chopped to bits, but it's intensely entertaining.

But if I saw the same scene with women replacing the men, I would just feel awful about it. It seems more wrong somehow. Especially in a more intimate, graphic context. It's not easy watching some of the grisly deaths in The Walking Dead, or Game of Thrones, but the deaths of the pretty ladies is always worse, just because they are women. It's not fair, but it's a visceral reaction I can't deny.

 

[P. K. Qu'est Que Ce]

I never played more than an hour of Mass Effect 2. It wasn't actually that bad, but I could see the writing on the wall for what the series was going to be, and what I loved about ME1 were the RPG aspects. So I just dropped it when it started to look and feel like Gears of War with space bits, and the story started to devolve. In retrospect I probably would have enjoyed ME2, and hated ME3. That's not really a reason to skip out on dozens of hours of fun, but, I was younger then.

 

[Zen Bard]

Refused to watch Scott Pilgrim vs. The World because I freaking hate Michael Cera with a passion. Don't care it was reportedly funny and looked decent.

No, that is an EXCELLENT reason not to watch Scott Pilgrim vs. The World! Even though it's supposed to be clever and funny and well made, the minute they mentioned Michael Cera, I instantly rooted for "The World".

Funny, I couldn't stand Attack on Titan because of the amount of irritating angst that kept going on.

Same here. I had forced myself to slog through about four episodes on Netflix when my wife came in and asked why I was watching a cartoon about people screaming at each other in Japanese. (I like to use subtitles when watching foreign films).

That put things in perspective for me. So I stopped and haven't been back since.

OT: I couldn't get into the original Half Life because of the convoluted level design and the first-person platforming.

It drove me nuts that I had to go to one place to throw a switch for some reason and then go out the building, down the hall and up three flights of stairs to push some related button. Most of the time it didn't make any rational design sense at all other than to pad out the level.

And I bailed at the "crate jumping level" because who the hell put a jumping puzzle in the middle of my FPS?

I also stubbornly refused to get into Breaking Bad because my wife did a poor job explaining the story. "It's about a chemistry teacher with terminal cancer who sells meth to provide for his family." Great. Sounds uplifting.

It wasn't until she was describing a scene from a recently watched episode that I realized "Wait! This is a black comedy!"

Glad she did that, because it became one of my favorite shows of all time.

 

[DementedSheep]

Multiple things because of fan girls and their obsessive fucking shipping and retarded "head canons". Yeah I could just watch/read it an ignore them but being flooded with their crap every-time you look it up leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

 

[Erttheking]

For awhile I didn't play Persona 3 because I was afraid I would like it better than Persona 4.

I was really insecure about my likes when I first started college.

 

[Mister K]

For awhile I didn't play Persona 3 because I was afraid I would like it better than Persona 4.

I was really insecure about my likes when I first started college.

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.

 

[PilgrimScott_III]

I could never, can never, and will never, be able to get into G. I. Joe.

Why?

Because there's no character NAMED Joe in the whole series!!

For some reason, that irks the hell out of me. I can tell that no matter what episode or movie you plop me in front of, no matter how kickass the action, all I'm going to be thinking the whole time is "Where's Joe?" And yes, I know the whole franchise is based off an action figure called G. I. Joe; doesn't matter. If G. I. Joe himself isn't in the series freaking named AFTER him, why should I care?

That sounded a bit heated, but that one tiny aspect of the series has annoyed me since childhood.

 

[kasperbbs]

I skip a LOT of anime series if they have a loli or some bimbo with an oversized chest on their poster. I don't bother reading about the plot or watching a trailer, i just move on.