The most "Meh" game you've played

[TheScottishMexican42]

There have been tons of posts about the best game you've played, and the worst.
So how about the most 'average' game. The game you can't like or dislike, but it notable for how "Ok" it was.

 

[Legion]

Most sequels in the last year (single player).

Halo 4, Dead Space 3 and Assassins Creed 3 for example. All of them were just so "meh". They didn't do anything a previous entry hadn't already done better, the stories were not engaging nor were the characters (except one character in AC3). They felt like nothing more than cash-ins because the series are so popular and guaranteed to get a lot of sales.

None of the games were "bad" though. They are all "competent", but I cannot truly say I'd felt like I was missing out on anything if I hadn't played them.

 

[ZZoMBiE13]

I would imagine GTA4 would take that honor for me. Not because it was bad per se. But I just got bogged down in it. I wasn't having fun but still felt compelled to keep playing it, hoping that the fun was around the next corner. And along side the games that came before it in the GTA series, it felt all the more off putting having it be so average.

I know a lot of people liked it, even loved it, and I'm happy they did. But for me, I didn't care for the character in the lead role and the gameplay was not exciting enough to make up for that one big let down. Couple that with the lack of a proper garage to save my cars or any real level of customization and I just could not invest in the game at all.

The download chapters made up for a lot of that. I thought they were more interesting and made good on some of the promises of the original by adding more things to do in the world of GTA4. So the game gets a net positive for me. But the original product with Niko's story will always be remembered as a huge "meh" from me.

 

[Terraniux]

I recently beat this game called Chrome. It's a 2003 FPS that honestly feels like something of a predecessor to Far Cry or Crysis. It's got a pretty good plot, light tactical gameplay that encourages thinking, characters with their own distinct personalities, [small]hilariously bad dialogue,[/small] and Jon St. John playing the main character, the epically named Bolt Logan. This game was good.

Chrome: Specforce, the mission pack, is not. It's a prequel of sorts, set before the plot of the main game. In it, Bolt Logan is a generic-voiced space marine with no face. It's got more or less the same gameplay as Chrome, but none of the soul. There's no overarching goal or anything like that. You're not a mercenary swept up in a corporation war torn between his morals and money, you're just a marine doing stuff on a planet you don't care about. You don't have intermission cutscenes or a customizable loadout, either. It's a stripped-down stumble backwards from decency to mediocrity.

 

[Gameguy20100]

Um I would say the Half life series.

Its not bad but I don't consider it my favorite either.

Its's just kinda boring because its not good enough to have fun and its not bad enough to get worked up about it.

 

[jehk]

Remember Me takes the cake. I like it on a conceptual level. However, when it comes to implementation it's very bland. Not bad. Just nothing really going on except for the memory remixing. That's not enough to support a game.

 

[linwolf]

ME3, I loved the first and this one is mostly fine, less plot holes and weird character behavior than in the second. The only big thing for me is past choices makes little impact. But I just cant get into the story since how stupid I found to second game to be.

 

[krazykidd]

Most games fall into this category . Everygame cannot be awsome and every game cannot suck . So most games are meh . I'll put one for every genre i play.

Singularity was pretty meh .
Last Story was pretty meh.
Injustice was pretty meh .
Dante's inferno was pretty meh .

 

[Silvanus]

I found Halo quite Meh. I've only played one in single-player, and I'm afraid I don't know which it was, but it was pretty meh.

...Actually, scratch that. Quake 4 was extraordinarily Meh. Embarrassingly so.

 

[Evonisia]

BioShock 2 would be this. It's gameplay, while refined, was too easy and the story is pretty bland and lifeless. The first half of the game is pretty crap too so as a whole I just can't muster much of an opinion or emotion for it. Though to be fair, I like 2 more than Infinite.

 

[FourCartridge]

Dead Island. The whole Borderlands meets zombies + weapon degradation game-play made it tedious and the story was a zombie cliche storm(albeit an emotional one).

 

[Kaendris]

Sigh, this is going to be an unpopular opinion, but Dishonored.

I just, stopped caring, about 3 hours in. I could not get attached to anything about the game. It was gorgeous, the setting was well done, but... meh.

I think it may have been the whole "forced moral ambiguity" aspect. I am just a bit tired of the light/dark choice.

 

[synobal]

Sigh, this is going to be an unpopular opinion, but Dishonored.

I just, stopped caring, about 3 hours in. I could not get attached to anything about the game. It was gorgeous, the setting was well done, but... meh.

I think it may have been the whole "forced moral ambiguity" aspect. I am just a bit tired of the light/dark choice.

Dishonored here as well. It was just vastly boring even on the hardest difficulty. Plus the plot was bad and like the outsider guy just says "yo dude, have some powers, cool kay?" when all the trailers made it sound like you made some sort of deal with the devil. Then there was the whole obvious not so good rebel leaders etc etc.

 

[Laser Priest]

I'm going to say the Borderlands games in general.

They are just dull. It's entirely loot-grinding with mediocre-at-best gunplay and generally dull abilities. And then they brag about the millions of guns, when it's only a few that have any mildly interesting properties while the rest just have slightly differing stats.

Borderlands 2 at least tried to spice it up a little bit but it was still incredibly dull.

I can't say it's a bad game. It's at least somewhat well-made and I can see the appeal it has to some people. But to me, it is so incredibly dull - even with friends - that I could never get into it.

 

[Hero of Lime]

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood the first Darksiders, and God of War Ascension. They are far from bad games, but they did nothing for me, specifically AC Brotherhood. It was just a dredge to get through the games, I was happy to beat them and be done with them. Probably the most meh-ish games I can think of.

 

[Compatriot Block]

I'm going to break the pattern of listing AAA games. Mine was Too Human. It had more than its fair of problems, but I still liked it.

 

[CarlsonAndPeeters]

I think mine would probably be the most recent Prince of Persia (Forgotten Sands) -- Big fan of the Sands of Time Trilogy, but I thought the 2008 re-boot was attrocious. Forgotten Sands was fine, with some enjoyable platforming, mildly interesting elemental powers, and sub-par combat, but it didn't make much of an impression and I've often forgotten that it existed.

Honorable mention to Mark of the Ninja, which in many respects should be my favorite game of all time (love stealth, love ninjas, love the art style) but it never really grabbed me and I didn't bother to finish it. Can't say it was bad though.

 

[Something Amyss]

Saints Row and Just Cause. And both spawned awesome sequels, but by themselves they were pretty "meh."

 

[FPLOON]

Hmmm... On the more popular spectrum, God of War: Ascension... It had the combat I always/never wanted and the rest was pretty meh when you balance out all of its "AWESOME" and "NOT AWESOME" moments... I'll stick with God of War II in the God of War saga...

On the more niche spectrum, the first Hyperdimension Neptunia game... Great concept but executed meh-like... The second game, mk2, fixed the combat, but the story was "eh"... and the third game, Victory got the story and combat down just fine, but REALLY tried to catch you up to speed on almost everything like as if you decided to skip the first two games and just wanted to play the better of the three games... which some people did... (ex. Shinkara and maybe Unskippable, considering how that two-part episode went down...)

 

[Parker Chapin]

Since I recently played it, I'm going to throw Thomas Was Alone in here.

It was a fun, competent platformer, with a nice story that didn't take itself too seriously, and an enjoyable cast of personalities. It was especially impressive how the gameplay reinforced the story's main theme of teamwork, by forcing you to use the blocks' unique abilities in tandem to progress. But come on, guys. Tears were not shed. I think I've got some hype aversion going on; if I'd played this just as an indie game, I would have regarded it highly for its style and theming. But I played it as one of the best game narratives of all time, supposedly even better than The Walking Dead, which had recently blown me away. Naturally, it failed to live up to those lofty expectations.

Also, the puzzles never got terribly difficult. On one level I was thankful for that, because none of them stood between me and the ending for too long. On the other hand, if they had strained my brain more, maybe the game wouldn't have whizzed by so fast, and I would have felt more satisfied upon finishing it.