Which gaming classics do you loathe?

[Pyotr Romanov]

Pokémon and Zelda. I have liked one game in both series, and every other game just seemed samey and boring to me.
I guess that's why I don't revere Nintendo as much as most people do.

 

[Royta]

Really FFVII. I just didn't think it was fun to play. The battle system felt boring to me and I didn't like the story.
One of the more recent games is Uncharted2. Which I absolutely disliked. 100%.

 

[Bullfrog1983]

Pac-Man ... it's boring.

Also depending on what you consider classic... Halo

Scratch that:

All of the Pokemon games.

 

[Forral]

I don't know if it could be considered a classic yet but one game that I was completely dissapointed with was Shadow of the Colossus. In its attempt to be artsy I thought it pretty much cut away all that that could have enjoyable with the game. There was no simple enemies to kill, no items to find, no levels to gain, no dungeons to explore - just epic bosses to kill.

When there's nothing mundane to balance out the extraordinary however the extraordinary ceases to feel special, it just becomes thoroughly dull. So yeah, Shadow of the Colussus I loathed. I could never bring myself to even like it.

I also don't like the Metroid series after Super Metroid on the SNES. In my opinion they should have let Samus die in peace with her original designer then instead of abusing the poor girl's corpse, in the newer 'Prime' editions.

Like many others I don't much like the Zeldas any longer either. I used to be a rabid fan of the series but it's just gone downhill for a very long time now. Every new 'innovation' they've brought to the formula has dissapointed me, especially since these innovations most of the time actually detract from the gameplay that's enjoyable. Instead it merely add some annoying gimmicky feature, for example the Boat business in Wind Waker, the dumb time restrictions in Majora's Mask or the Wolf Form drivel in Twilight Princess.

 

[TheGameXXVII]

Fallout 3, i just could not get into it. it was incredibly dull up until i just stopped playing.
World of Warcraft, i got a weeks free trial, and i gave up after 15 minutes. killing X amount of monster Y just to get useless equipment is NOT FUCKING FUN.

 

[Aeriath]

I wouldn't say I loathe any games, but I never finished Half-Life, and HL2 was full of really annoying parts (damn vehicles). A mention also goes to Prince of Persia: Sands of Time and KoTOR (assuming they are old enough to be considered as such) because or their horrid gameplay.

 

[sageoftruth]

King's Quest. A torturous experience at least until they became point and click adventures, rather than input arbitrary command adventures.

 

[Harlemura]

Mega Man. Well, 2 and 10 at least.
It's boring, it's hard, it's glitchy and it's one of the best games on the NES, apparently.

I'd hate to play the worst.

 

[bojac6]

Oh my god I am going to be hated.

Deus ex.
I just don't.
I'm sorry.

Agree. I just can't get into it. I've gotten as far as the inside of the statue of liberty but the stealth is just awful.

same here ... i genuinely tried to like it ... but couldn't stomach the first level ... **activates flame shield** ... i think invisible war was better

The first level is painful, I'll admit. You gotta push past it though, it's truly a masterpiece (with a hiccup at the beginning). You haven't really gotten through the tutorial level yet and you've judged it as a poor game.

Sorry, I'm rather passionate about this because I too gave up on the first level the first time I tried to play it. And years later pushed through it and now I consider it the best game ever made. I don't want other people to fall into the same track.


Either way, I can't hate you for it. I didn't like Half-life 2. I thought it was boring, had bad gun play and hardly any story. I thought it was just a decent game, but not great by any means.

 

[Legion IV]

I'm Prolly going to be flammed for this but
it is my opinion

I just don't care for the Half-life Saga, I have played them all and I just cant get into them, I dont think they arn't worthy of respect they just dont do it for me

FINNALY am not alone.

 

[theSovietConnection]

Half-Life 2, in my opinion. There wasn't much along the line of story (and before anyone says anything, I did look for it, harder then you should have to for a story), I didn't find many of the characters likeable, the vehicle segments were terrible, and the game spent a good amount of time wanking off it's physics engine. Having said that, though, I never played the first, so maybe I''m missing something, but unless the game delivers me chocolate covered bacon on a silver platter, it has quite a bit to make up for.

 

[Crispee]

The Metroid Prime Trilogy, I really did try but I just couldn't get into it, I'm gonna try Metroid: Other M because I hear it's more like the side scrollers.

 

[StriderShinryu]

Well, Half Life doesn't even come close to appealing to me.. but if you're actually talking games really considered as classics, I've gotta go with Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Pitfall, etc. Sure they may have been groundbreaking games at the time but they have not stood the test of time in terms of fun and playability.

 

[Wolf Devastator]

KotOR and Metroid.

KotOR probably because I found it late and I didn't like the mashing of the genres.

Metroid because... there is nothing good about it? Unless you like sub-par arcade shooters I suppose. Seems too narrow of an audience for how much I hear about it.

 

[repeating integers]

...Wow. I came into this thread expecting one hundred million billion trillion etc. posts proclaiming how Halo: CE is the worst thing ever and how it should be destroyed. I did NOT expect to see such a Valve-aligned community (for the most part) dishing out so much hate for Half-Life 2. By the gods, it is glorious to watch.

I tried KOTOR for a while, found it annoyingly difficult to navigate through and the voice acting to be too cheesy. The last straw came when it froze and forced me to restart the Xbox. At that point I realised ho much more awesome Mass Effect was and went to play that instead.

 

[Glaive_21842]

Wizardry 8
Supposidely a masterpiece oldschool RPG, but just a confusing and boring piece of WTF for me...

and the list goes on!
Neverwinter Nights...
Icewind Dale II...
Freaking Dragon Age...
The Witcher (more for the fact that it wont stop F***ING CRASHING ON ME)...

Sure i should probably stop trying to like these games since i clearly despise them, but i play F***ing D&D for gods sake! How the hell do i not like these games >_<!?!?

 

[Raijha]

I still think the only GTA I fully enjoyed was vice city, so, all other GTA then that.

 

[WaysideMaze]

the racing genre, except for those games that consist of trying to destroy the opposition.

I used to be awesome at crashing everyone elses car in burnout 3.

 

[irishstormtrooper]

I can't enjoy playing Half-Life 2. The fact that no one really clues you in on anything gets on my nerves, the shooting isn't satisfying at all, and the vehicle controls suck donkey balls. I know it's supposed to be TEH GRATEST GAEM EVAR, but I just don't find it any fun.