Things you thought you'd love forever...

[Guitarmasterx7]

Nintendo is the first thing to come to mind. The super nintendo and N64 were easily the best part of my childhood. The gamecube had some extremely good games on it despite not being able to quite stand up to the colossal library of good games on the ps2. Then came the DS, nintendo's foray into gimmicks. Some decent games on it, but anything that was heavily dependent on the touch screen and stylus felt awful to play. Then came the wii. At the beginning of its development cycle everything remotely playable was a gamecube game wherein "make literally any motion with the wiimote" replaced the B button. Over time that transitioned to "do this specific action that the wiimote won't register as well as you want it to." This also marked the first time when I felt like nintendo did a bad job with their major franchises, and it seemed more like a consistent trend than an awkward misstep. The wiiu seems like a bad concept and none of the games released or announced for it look remotely good.

 

[Lionsfan]

... which you now hate.

For me, it's Rooster Teeth, especially the podcast. I would always look forward to the next RT podcast, it was probably the highlight of my week. But recently I've really begun to despise the entire crew for reasons I will not mention here for fear of setting this thread off on the wrong foot.

But enough about me, let's hear from you.

I'd be interested to hear why you don't like RoosterTeeth anymore? Maybe through a PM? I'm in the same boat. I used to love everything about that site, Panics, RVB, Strangerhood, their podcasts, and I was on the forums all the time.

And then I just stopped. I don't really despise them, but the love has faded

 

[axlryder]

My Ex.

Seriously though, I think That guy with the glasses.com. I always figured I'd grow out of watching their stuff, but now I can hardly go on that site without being annoyed by the obnoxious and unfunny videos that practically permeate from its content creators as well as the users who practically fellate these guys for every turd that they drop. The major exception I think is Oan citizen. That dude is the bee's knees.

I guess it doesn't help that most of their shticks went stale and they lost a lot of people along the way.

 

[Bealzibob]

I would go so far as to say hate but Skyrim. Before it's release I was semi-jokingly hailing it as the return of the messiah but now I couldn't force myself to play it. Also WoW.

In other ventures however there is nothing, I think my-selves from the past just had decent taste (which is why we get along so well cause I too have great taste).

 

[felbot]

my dad probably, thought we were going to be the traditional father and son doing stuf together and being happy.

I haven't met my dad in 6 years.

 

[gigastar]

RuneScape.

It started going downhill early last year when they introduced microtransactions following the introduction of a wheel of fortune clone which you could buy spins on through microtransactions. And this wheel could potentially award high-level gear.

That and the combat rework has finally cemented it for me that the shareholders are thinking "We want to be like WoW! Lets copy everything they do!" so most of the preached updates so far this year are new raid bosses, updates to existing raid bosses to make them relevant after being left behind by the rest of the game and new quests which will probably unlock more raid bosses.

Not my cup of tea, so my stomach turns every time i think of going back to it.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Pokemon, no there is nothing wrong with the new Pokemons I just mean the franchise (mainly the cartoon) in general.

Yes I was a huge fan when it first enter into the world and I own everything with a Pokemon label/ face on it but as time goes by it soon wear off. I know when this happen when I wash and srub off all the Pokemon stickers I stuck onto my drawer.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Call of Duty.

The games just got really dull and stale, and this peaked with MW3 for me, which is the culmination of every possible stupid decision that the devs could have made, all in one single game.

I used to buy the call of duties because I wanted to play with my friends, and that's what my friends were playing, but I just couldn't stand how stagnant the series had become.

 

[mechashiva77]

I guess on a game related note, Pewdiepie. Yeah yeah, say whatever virtrol you have towards me for daring to watch him. I liked his very first Amnesia: The Dark Descent play through and his other earlier let's plays because his fear seemed genuine and he was a lot calmer. I also genuinely laughed. Now he's shrieking every sixth jump scare, and doing unnecessary silly voices (I wouldn't mind them if he did it occasionally, but he goes through ENTIRE games with one and that gets on my nerves). Like he screams that way because that's what people want to hear.

 

[KarmaTheAlligator]

Blizzard. I used to love and play the hell out of Starcraft, Warcraft and Diablo, but the way they've handled their business lately (Starcraft 2 sold in 3 parts, all at full prices? What the hell?) has left me completely disgruntled, to the point I still haven't bought (and refuse any attempt made to buy) anything made by Blizzard in the last years. Never even touched WoW.

 

[Lt._nefarious]

Breaking Benjamin. Just Grunge in general, the only music you could class as grunge that I can stand anymore is Billy Talent. Also I loved Tom Clancy books for a bit but now I can't stand then...

 

[BanicRhys]

I'd be interested to hear why you don't like RoosterTeeth anymore? Maybe through a PM? I'm in the same boat. I used to love everything about that site, Panics, RVB, Strangerhood, their podcasts, and I was on the forums all the time.

And then I just stopped. I don't really despise them, but the love has faded

Probably because they're all starting to come across as talentless morons/assholes to me now.

The podcast is just a maelstrom of self absorbed idiocy and and the only thing I can stand from them any more is Achievement Hunter although Ray does piss me with his sheer desperation to be funny and the commenters have degraded into the same ones that turned me away from the Yogscast ("omg were is new minecraft episode").

RTAA especially pisses me off because not only is the art style awful, I know I could make one infinite better if I was being paid for it too.

And finally, along with the Yogscast among other channels, their community grew too large and then turned to shit.

 

[Leemaster777]

McDonald's. Used to love that place as a kid.

A year-and-a-half of working there, plus seeing the movie "Super-Size Me" fixed that. I now REFUSE to eat there, ever. The last time I ate there was about... 5 years ago now? I had the pancakes, and only because I had NO choice. Where I was at the time, I literally didn't have ANY choice other than to eat at McDonald's.

Yeah, fuck that place.

 

[Nazulu]

Too many things I used to love have been twisted from commercialism, something I hope that changes when every thing is paid off.

Nintendo is the first thing to come to mind. The super nintendo and N64 were easily the best part of my childhood. The gamecube had some extremely good games on it despite not being able to quite stand up to the colossal library of good games on the ps2. Then came the DS, nintendo's foray into gimmicks. Some decent games on it, but anything that was heavily dependent on the touch screen and stylus felt awful to play. Then came the wii. At the beginning of its development cycle everything remotely playable was a gamecube game wherein "make literally any motion with the wiimote" replaced the B button. Over time that transitioned to "do this specific action that the wiimote won't register as well as you want it to." This also marked the first time when I felt like nintendo did a bad job with their major franchises, and it seemed more like a consistent trend than an awkward misstep. The wiiu seems like a bad concept and none of the games released or announced for it look remotely good.

This sums it up perfectly. Thanks a bunch Guitarmasterx7.

I will always love the previous games and consoles though. Nintendo fuckin' raised and spoiled me rotten before the Wii.

 

[DrunkOnEstus]

I'll add another vote for World of Warcraft. I played daily, wore the swag, talked about it in RL...it's probably why the jadedness hit so quickly and powerfully.

Survival Horror games. There was a time where it was 80% or so of my gaming (RE 1-3, SH 1-4, Rule of Rose, Haunting Ground, Fatal Frame, etc.) and I lapped it all right up. Nowadays I need to be in a very specific mood to go back and play a lot of those (the genre hasn't been treated very well from 2005 onwards anyway...). When it isn't my perception of brutally slow pacing, it's the actual horror elements screwing with anxieties that weren't present back then.

I'll go out on a limb and be a little dangerous by mentioning marijuana here, as I'm not at all condoning usage. There was also a time where I would listen to Bob Marley and declare the stuff to be magical happy medicine gifted from the Gods, and one day it just wasn't doing it for me anymore. Heightened anxiety, made social situations really awkward, and I probably grew up or however you'd properly put that (I know there's elderly people that use it, and so on).

EDIT:

McDonald's. Used to love that place as a kid.

A year-and-a-half of working there, plus seeing the movie "Super-Size Me" fixed that. I now REFUSE to eat there, ever. The last time I ate there was about... 5 years ago now? I had the pancakes, and only because I had NO choice. Where I was at the time, I literally didn't have ANY choice other than to eat at McDonald's.

Yeah, fuck that place.

You're obviously free to believe whatever you'd like, but I highly recommend watching the film Fat Head. I'll even post it here:

 

[shadyh8er]

Unskippable. Their episodes have become a little too hit or miss for me. Incidentally I have the same issue with MST3K....