Weirdest Reason For Not Liking a Game?

[BryceS62]

I didnt like Fabel 2 because there wasnt a Hero's guild

 

[funguy2121]

What is the weirdest/most irrational reason you've heard from someone (or maybe even yourself) for not liking a game?

So yesterday I was showing my friend No More Heroes and the conversation went like this:

ME: "So what do you think?"
FRIEND: "I don't like it."
ME: "Why not?"
FRIEND: "It doesn't fit."
ME: "What doesn't fit?"
FRIEND: "The retro stuff, it doesn't fit."
ME: "What do you mean?"
FRIEND: "Retro stuff shouldn't be in modern games. It doesn't fit."
ME: "...Okay..."

Yep that's weirdest I've ever gotten.

PS3 or Wii version?

No more heroes really just pays homage. The gameplay isn't retro except for the daydream sequence, and anyone who doesn't think that's cool as Hell just doesn't have a sense of humor or much in the way of taste. And No More Heroes has a lot more going for it than simple references. It's very Tarantino in that only people who don't get it will say that it's a ripoff or that it's just parroting another source. The game actually mocks you while you play it. It gets meta in that winking sort of way where they don't have to break the fourth wall and come out and say "we are acknowledging that this is a game and you are playing it." What other games can you say that about? As Yahtzee said, you should play this game, if for no other reason than that you will never play anything fucking like it in your entire life.

I love No More Heroes.

The sequel did have quite a bit of retro stuff, though.

 

[Rad Party God]

I really, really wanted to like Baldur's Gate, but I never got into it's battle system, having played JRPG's for years and western RPG's lately, the system was just... off.

I may "get it" eventually, but the game's just sitting there in my harddrive, waiting to be dusted off.

Also, I might add Amnesia too. I love that game for what it is, not because I've actually finished it. It's wierd, because, even if I was scared shitless of a survival horror (first with Resident Evil 2, later with Silent Hill 1) I eventually finish that game (1 year later with RE2 and 2 years later with SH1), but until now, I just don't want to keep playing that game and yes, I got past the "water" part, it's just after that part that makes me uneasy and... scared.

I'll eventually finish it, until I gather enough balls to play it again.

 

[funguy2121]

I once didn't play a game for years because the case looked gay. It then turned out to be my favorite game of all time. Final Fantasy IX.

Sentence one: I was going to ask how exactly a game gave you a homosexual vibe and...

Sentence two: Oh. Yeah. Final Fantasy. Their characters make the cast of The Matrix look rugged. Their characters make Adam Lambert look like Sean Connery, and for that I at least deserve the Dennis Miller award.

It's too damned late. G'night, Escapists.

 

[Peter Davis]

I don't like El Shaddai because it beat me to death with ads. And they weren't even good ads, either.

THIS A THOUSAND TIMES THIS

 

[Soxafloppin]

I refuse to buy Demon's Souls, because I'm afraid

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

Also "I hate Bayonetta, it's just like God of War, but with tits."

No. No it is not. And the sooner you get that through your skull, the better.

Exactly. It's just like Devil May Cry, only with slightly more tits.

Which somehow makes it ok, 'cause i really liked Bayonetta but never got into Devil May Cry.

OT: Not really sure. I'll use this thread to deduce that me and my friends are fairly reasonable people.

 

[Blow_Pop]

I dislike the assassin's creed games because the physics in jumping off a high ledge and landing unhurt in a pile of hay don't add up. Simply: Logic and the game don't work. And I'm trying to put too much logic into the game

 

[Wintermoot]

COD 8 (yes I number them) because the previous game was disappointing.

 

[Phisi]

I do n't like games that go all supernaturally all of a sudden or just strange such as, Uncharted, Fallout 3/NV (the Mutants, nightkin, ghouls etc) but the funniest excuse I've ever seen is on the MC forums. Some kid started saying that minecraft copies (fortresscraft etc) were all stupid and that he did know Minecraft started as a copy f infiniminer and then when somebody asked if he likes Terraria, he replied that he hadn't played it but knew it was stupid and could see it was stupid.

TLR I don't like random supernatural stuff in realistic/modern setting games and once came across somebody who wouldn't play games because he was a fanboy.

 

[GrayJester]

My 7-year old cousin thinks that any "game set in medieval/fantasy setting" is an "old game". And "old game" means "bad game", obviously.. -_-

 

[Fidelias]

I saw someone on the forums for Deus Ex Human Revolution saying that they weren't getting the game because it had controller support. Really? Controller support has been in plenty of good pc-exclusive games, it's not indicative of a console port. Also, just cause it's a console doesn't mean it's a bad console port.

 

[Fidelias]

What annoys me about the CoD series is that the guns feel weak as hell. I know, maybe not everyone agrees with me, but they just feel and sound like pea shooters. Now I know in real life guns don't take heads and limbs off and insta-gib if you put a 9mm slug in someone's leg, no, it's just the feel of shooting and loading them, has no weight or recoil. I think even Counter-strike 1.6 guns had a better feel to them (anyone remember zooming in the Sig 552, that slow chunky crack you get instead of full-burst? And the silenced M4? Even the USP? yummy)

Not really that weird, these are supposed to be WEAPONS, they are MADE for KILLING, if they feel like paper it might be okay in over-the-top action games like Devil May Cry, but in a gritty cover based shooter it can fuck right off.

Finally, I thought I was the only way that felt that way. They did a little better with Modern Warfare 1 and Black ops, but in almost every other game (especiall Modern Warfare 2) the way the guns looked, and how they sounded when you reloaded, they always reminded of playing with toy guns.

 

[StriderShinryu]

I think it's pretty weird when someone has decided to not like a game simply because the developerss created it for a console or with a console version in mind. Then again, that's really no different than not liking a game simply because it's on System X (which, shockingly, isn't the system the person complaining happens to own).

Nah, I fully understand that. I hate bad controls, no options to change my settings etc. This all happens if the game is designed for consoles.

No, you just don't like badly designed games. It's quite logical, of course, but has little to nothing to do with consoles. The things you listed are fairly easily surmountable if approached by a developer who actually does their job.

 

[ABLb0y]

I tried to like Brutal Legend, but all of the characters (Apart from Ophelia) Annoyed the hell out of me. Especially Eddie.

 

[LordDarkPhantom]

Half life 2 because I didn't like the shooting element. Can't really give any specifics but the shooting just didn't feel right to me. Yeah.

 

[tobi the good boy]

I tried to like Brutal Legend, but all of the characters (Apart from Ophelia) Annoyed the hell out of me. Especially Eddie.

I despise Jack Black so I'm not touching that thing.

OT: I refuse to play anything with a subscription fee.

 

[Al-Bundy-da-G]

It doesn't stop me from playing it, but it irks me when in modern "realistic" shooters, they use the wrong guns or have totally the wrong uniforms and gear.

Thank you. Why the hell would an american task force use soviet weapons it makes no sense.

 

[Al-Bundy-da-G]

I want to try Assassins Creed II or Brotherhood but I just can't get past the godawful Italian accents.

I know they're in Italy but I've seen plenty of Italian movies and I know nobody talks like that. It's like they got Mario's voice-actor to voice everyone.

Whatsa matta wittta mi italian