Which gaming classics do you loathe?

[s0m3th1ng]

Edit: Also the whole viewing of old games with expectations of new games.

This this this this this. OF course Ocarina of Time looks like shit now. But back then, it was gorgeous (If you had the expansion pak...a whole 4 more megs of ram)

And I know this is subjective, and my young mind may have had something to do with it...but I'll never look back on the time I played Dragon Age with as much nostalgia as when I was playing Chrono Trigger or Goldeneye. Modern games, while very entertaining in every aspect, just seem to lack something that I can't put my finger on.

But OT... any of the resident evil games.

 

[Vrach]

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

Tried San Andreas? Not pushing ya to like it, but it's basically same as Vice City expect bigger and better, follows the same formula, improves and adds more vehicles, adds a body mod shop etc. Few RPG elements that might not appeal to everyone but you can just max the muscle in a few game days, eat a few pizzas for a bit of fat and ignore it for the rest of the game if you want. Only pain in the ass for me was the gang wars near the end (grindtastic to take over the whole city >.< ), but can easily ignore that as well except for the one mission. Fantastic voice actors though, Samuel L Jackson ftw

But anyway, OT: Hmmm... Diablo (and it's clones) I guess. I played it as a kid on my mate's computer, but it never really appealed much, was a way to kill time and a lousy one at that.

 

[Lordmarkus]

Fallout 2.

Which is kinda strange since I completely adore Fallout 1. For me they changed to many things to the worse. Tribe (wtf?), pretty much no Brotherhood (WTF?) and the sudden forced grimness (slavers, prostitiution, kid killers).

I really have to replay it someday - with patches and music.

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.

Read 1984 and you got the complete story of Half-Life 2. The game borrows so much from the book it's not even funny.[footnote]Still best game EVAR![/footnote]

 

[Mr Waffle]

I think the RE4 completely changed the series. It wasnt the same kind of game as the other 3. They really could have changed some names and called it something else, and noone would link it to Resident Evil. But you know, franchises.

I think you're right. If RE4 had been called something else- I don't know, "Joey Joe Joe Jr Shabadoo's Wacky Spanish Vacation" or something- I'd probably have enjoyed it more. It was just too different from the RE games I loved and it drove me crazy.

 

[subject_87]

I'm not exactly euphoric over MW2 or Halo, and I didn't really like Gears of War 2.

 

[TerranReaper]

What is exactly defined as "classic"? I wouldn't consider COD1 or the first Halo old enough to be classics. Of course, anyone just starting to play classics in these days will obviously find it underwhelming due to all the advancements that have happened, which is obvious.

In any case, the Monkey Island games never really appealed to me that much, just didn't like the whole point-and-click kind of gameplay.

 

[FaceFaceFace]

Oh my god I am going to be hated.

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

Don't feel bad. While I like it, I see where people wouldn't. I almost hate it at certain parts. The (by today's standards) horrible weapon interactions with the world, like how people take a sniper round to the neck and don't even flinch, really get on my nerves.

OT: NES games. Nostalgia doesn't affect me, so I just see them as, well, bad. If they were hacked with characters who weren't slugs and some sort of workable continuing/saving system, maybe.

 

[imaloony]

I didn't care much for Half Life 2 or Oblivion. Half Life 2 was okay but the level design was horrid and some of the enemies were pretty cheap. Oblivion was bad in nearly every definition of the word, other than the fun guilds and side quests.

 

[pwnzerstick]

FF7, its mainly the problems I have with JRPGs and turn based combat in general, mainly because the begginings of most JRPGs are very monotonous, due to you just hitting attack, every round of combat.

 

[General_Potatoes]

Zelda, it's fucking boring.

Thats a lie and fighting games. there just so boring to me now.

 

[DustyDrB]

I guess the Final Fantasy series. It's just not my style. Though I'm not going to be a douche and confuse my personal distaste for it with a truth that the series is awful.

 

[SturmDolch]

- Warcraft III, although I might like it now that I played Starcraft II
- Psychonauts: At least on PC, the controls are so bad you can't play it without a gamepad. I don't own a gamepad so therefore this game sucks.
- Team Fortress 2: I tried to play a few rounds but the gimmicky graphics, lame guns, adhd gameplay, and people screaming on mics made me quit.
- Goldeneye: Maybe because I grew up on Perfect Dark. Goldeneye always seemed so outdated. Like, why is this game so popular when Perfect Dark exists? It was Goldeneye, but better in every possible way.

 

[Ze_Reaper_Of_Zeath]

Final Fantasy Especially 7 - Not all into turnbased and stuff.

Starcraft - Played with a couple of Koreans at school. Got dominated, bored, because the game is unforgiving to beginners, who have no idea of build orders. I do play it time to time now and then, but I don't like it.

Oblivion.: Not a fan. I like Fallout better, because Lazer Guns are better than Swords.

 

[captaincabbage]

Mario. He just fucking shits me how he's so popular. I dunno, he's just really annoying.

 

[Hwoof]

It seems i have created a topic designed for flaming. Excellent.

Your avatar goes perfectly with that line, my good sir.

My compliments.

Why thankyou kind sir

the ship is always rowing
and we don't know where we're going...

 

[Zanaxal]

Gothic 3 No matter how much i try the fun eluded me.

Broken Combat of timing hardmode is just a stake in the heart for rpgs.

Oh and half-life 2, only part thats semi fun with a bearable story is in Ravenholm.

GORDON LOOK OUT YOU HAVE ONLY SURVIVED BLACK MESA AND MY DAD TOLD ME ABOUT IT BUT LOOK OUT GORDON BE CAREFUL Whine whine whine. - Alyx the annoyer. I wish she would get eaten by a headcrab.

 

[Count Igor]

Oh my god I am going to be hated.

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

BURN HIM!

Some people may say "Jk" after this sentence.
I do not.
I will not.
I am completely serious.

OT: Fallout 1/2, Zelda games, and if you count them, football games. Actually, pretty much any sport.
Oh, and the Total War games. I didn't like them.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

Half-Life 2. I'm not saying Half-Life 2 is a bad game. I can easily see why other people would like it. In fact, I'm not sure why I don't enjoy it more than I do. But I don't. I find HL2 a relentlessly irritating game to play. Something about its gameplay makes it feel like having a permanent unscratchable itch.

Bland level layouts and bland weapons did it for me.

Dues ex is not about shooting things so they make it hard to do it
I still like it tho.

FO3 is about shooting things less about story/pacing and picking vital skills,ect and more about shooting things. I hate FO3,Oblivoin and Bioshock for being more spectacle than game.... thus why I hate most new games...

 

[Autofaux]

More than one.

Mario. Zelda. Fallout.