This is your chance to be that annoying person who hates everything. Has there ever been a super popular game that you’ve looked at and thought to yourself, “why does everyone like this?”
Because I’m a grumpy old man, this tends to happen to me quite frequently. Dragon Age: Inquisition is probably the most recent example. I spent a dozen hours trying to ‘get’ Dragon Age: Inquisition. Eventually gave up.
But I’m also aware that some people hate the games I love. So many people don’t ‘get’ Metal Gear Solid for example, or Halo, or Metroid Prime.
What’s your ‘I DON’T GET WHY EVERYONE LIKES THIS’ game?
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209 responses to “Tell Us Dammit: Popular Games You Don’t Like”
LOL and DOTA
Same, I don’t get it, my friends are HUGE Dota players having clocked literally thousands of hours on steam each. I generally only play Battlefield 4 as my “everyday” game when I’m not playing through single player releases like Zelda or Dark Souls and even then I’ve only clocked 126 hours on BF4 since the PS4 launched. Imagine what you could have done with that Dota time not playing video games? Pretty sure I could have finished my masters degree in the 1200 hours one of my friends has spent in Dota 😛
Agree. I do not see the appeal at all.
Not going to try and change your mind but I figure there’s no harm in presenting a case for MOBAs.
First and foremost, they’ve very mechanically satisfying games and there’s a lot of positive feedback tied into the gameplay. The little quips heroes say when you get a deny, the sound of gold when you get a last hit, landing that hook and killing the bastard that’s been dominating your team for the last twenty minutes? All fantastic little moments that help make the game enjoyable.
Secondly, team work. These games are so very heavily dependent on team work that it’s not funny. The reputation that they have for having to play with and against assholes come from this as well, so it’s a double-edged sword. Yet when you manage to get your team co-ordinated for just long enough to pull off a crazy come from behind team fight, it really makes it feel worthwhile.
Finally, you get a good sense of personal progress. You know when you’re getting better and starting to make big plays, not falling for rookie mistakes and that sort of thing.
Really, the reason they’re enjoyable is pretty similar to the constant flow of numbers that show up on your screen while playing CoD or the loot dropping in Diablo (although it’s true for quite a lot of games). It’s just that the positive feedback loop in Dota feels just right for me.
Yoghurt.
Fun fact: I was eating yoghurt while typing that up.
I agree with you.
The issue is though that it takes at least 150 hours before anything starts to click e.g. learning a character build and items, laning correctly, warding correctly, understanding at a VERY basic level how other heroes work, what they excel at etc etc.
Before then, it’s not a fun experience. I slogged through it desperate to see the appeal. And I did eventually.
I also don’t think the average game time of 45 minutes helps, it’s difficult for a lot of people to dedicate that time and be totally uninterrupted.
Totally reasonable, although I think that 150 hours number can vary pretty wildly depending on the player.
Yep, I’m sure some people could ‘get it’ in less time.
When I think about these games Left 4 Dead comes to mind. In that game, success is also dependent on teamwork, but the mechanics are designed to reward high-level players for cooperating with any lower-level players that might be on their team, and indeed it becomes almost impossible to succeed without doing so. With these games the opposite seems to be true, the incentive is to avoid playing with less skilled or less experienced teammates altogether. I’d rather just have another round of Versus.
God, I love everything Zombies, and could just never get into Left 4 Dead. I hated that game and I wanted to love it so badly.
I get the appeal but they’ve been out way too long for new players to get into. Strictly has to be played with friends.
I think it’s due to the fact that MOBAs as a whole are possibly the youngest genre of games. They aren’t quite strategy, RPG or arcade games, but fall somewhere in the middle. Because of this, anyone that starts playing Dota, LOL, HotS or any variant starts basically from scratch.
Compare it to a new first-person shooter; let’s say Destiny. Sure, there are some things unique to the game that take a while to get used to, and obviously some players are better than others, but the core mechanics (moving, shooting, using skills, etc.) are all familiar to gamers that have played other FPS games.
A fairer comparison would be to take people that have never played any games before… start one of them on Starcraft, start one on Dota, and see how long it takes for them to get good. I think the number of hours would be fairly similar… if I think of all the hours I have put into strategy games as a whole, or FPS’s as a whole, my several thousand hours poured into Dota 1 & 2 don’t seem quite so bad.
I agree with this but sadly I play smite so I suppose it falls under the genre
Team Fortress 2. I just don’t get it at all, I’ve tried to like it just something gets in the way. I like most shooters too, UT, quake, CS, Halo, COD (*gasp*). Just not TF
The solution to your problem is more hats.
TF2 is class-based teamwork. None of those games you mentioned have classes (inbox COD, no), and CS is the only one with a slight teamwork focus.
Halo is incredibly teamwork orientated, a good team beats a group of amazing individual players every time, I see your point though. I have nothing against class based shooters, I really liked Battlefield 2, Bad Company 2 and Battlefront 2. No class shooter since those have really gripped me though.
Gears of War. Played through the whole thing in co-op with some friends, I don’t even know why. Found the entire thing to be wholly unenjoyable. And so so ugly.
Oh, Bioshock too. Reading up on it before it came out it sounded so cool. Eventually got the chance to pick it up, and nup. Didn’t like it, gave up after a couple of hours.
This is what I get for investigating “the other side” 😛
GoW and Bioshock? =O
I should know better from the taste of someone who likes Summer better than Winter 😉
Some like it red hot.
Agree with Bioshock. I dont know if it was because I tried to get into it too late or what but I just didn’t like it that much. And thus haven’t bothered playing the sequels.
GOW on the other hand is awesome… mostly.
Bioshock would have had a much bigger impact at launch than coming to it years later. The world, the fact it was a different and very fleshed out location was a big deal. Others have done it since but it was a huge change when first done.
I played it early on & it just didn’t live up to the trailer imho
I didn’t think it was total shit, just below expectations.
Wasn’t a fan of bishops either, despite the new tricks in the combat the level design felt very old fashioned like hexen , heretic or doom(system shock1+2 felt a little unfair). once the novelty of the combat wore off which didn’t take long I got bored felt like I’d done it all before. And I love the cold
Yeah I thought Gears was garbage. Well made technically (well 3 was) but it was just bleh to me.
Same with Bioshock Infinite. The gameplay and repeated arenas between corridors just bored me to tears.
Being an #oldman there’s quite a fewOff the top of my head:
Bioshock
Call of Duty
Modern Mario Kart
Smash Bros
Halo
Journey
& Xenoblade
cc @greenius
Halo. For real.
The first one wasn’t bad in a silly sci-fi story kind of way, but the gameplay has always been a boring core loop of hide, sponge damage while emptying clips, hide, repeat.
The art style is garbage looking boxes and neon when inside and fine but nothing special outside.
Then there’s the checkpointing system that checkpoints you at stupid times, and the constant instadeath bullshit that went on in that prequel one with the team who all die Noble Deaths in a stupidly ham-fisted metaphor.
Ugh. Halo.
4 was ok I guess and so was ODST. It’s a real shame because i like the lore and the universe. The games just aren’t anything to write home about. What I hate about them isn’t so much how bad they are (I’ve played a hell of a lot worse), but how uninteresting they are and how utterly overhyped the whole thing is.
I just tried the first one. Straight shooters aren’t my bag.
Straight shooters aren’t your bag, hey?
I’m in with a shot! 😀
Rawrrrr
Seconded. It’s a mediocre space shooter with fisher-price toy guns. I mean, it’s perfectly serviceable and has a high budget so it’s got a lot of polish, but it’s just so… pedestrian. It has potential but simply does nothing except choose the path of least resistance and what is “safe”. It also makes out like it has some amazing plot, but it’s a poorly written C-grade space opera at best.
People praising the first game… seriously, it’s the same game that you play twice. First you play it forwards, then you play it backwards and it adds lots of space zombies in.
That said, Halo does deserve credit for a few things:
1) Getting FPS right using a controller. Give me mouse and kb anyday, but Bungie got the controls right.
2) The main music theme. It rocks.
3) Red vs Blue and Rooster Teeth.
I really can’t stand the Assassin’s Creed series – even when they were firing on all cylinders and releasing what were, apparently, great games.
I’ve genuinely tried. And even though the 200-words-or-less description of the game’s intent and gameplay appeals to me, I can’t play more than two hours without getting bored.
They are overall quite boring games. I couldn’t tell you the stories from pretty much any of them. I do have fun playing them but its almost forced fun… Although the only reason I played Black Flag was ‘Pirate Sim’ and even then it got grating doing the same stuff all the time. I don’t think I will play another one. Unity doesn’t appeal to me at all.
Agreed. AC4: Black Flag was the only one I’ve ever really liked and finished, and it was pretty much Pirate Sim with some AC stuff around the edges that you could pretty safely ignore.
Dota 2. That’s all.
This will eventually get me lynched I’m sure, but:
Dark Souls et al.
It insists upon itself….
…(and I couldn’t warm up to the combat interface).
With you on darksouls. Just because it’s hard doesn’t make it good.
It’s not good because it’s hard though, there are many games that are hard that aren’t as perfectly designed as Dark Souls.
There’s a funny thing with Dark Souls, new players usually start off by not liking the game or finding it too frustrating. Then, after a while, for some of them something clicks in their mind, they gain some humanity, reverse their hollowing and kindle the bonfires of their imagination, and suddenly they realise they are playing the greatest game that has ever existed. PRAISE THE SUN!
Pretty much this. Although I did love it at first sight simply due to the atmosphere.
I would have enjoyed Dark Souls if the pc port wasn’t a abomination and if the trash didn’t respawn.
It’s this silly praise that I hate. The game looks good.
NO! Bad chazsheperd! 😛 Will you give Bloodborne a try?
fo sho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wMQz3iJDzE this but about the Souls series
I like The Money Pit.
I like jokes about the 80’s. I like stuff.
Couldn’t agree more. I play video games to relieve stress and escape as well as be challenged (to a degree). Dark souls just gets me angry and frustrated…adding to the stress. I wouldn’t have imagined it being anything more than a niche game for players who enjoy being punished, but it seems like everyone refers to it as an example of what modern games should be…
Agree on Dark Souls. Tried both entries, just seemed sluggish, repetitive, and goddamn if that ain’t some of the most ugly graphics and interface I’ve seen. Also I thought the animations were pretty mediocre. But ultimately the worst thing about was it was boring.
Going to make some enemies with these ones:
Uncharted series
Halo series
Mario Kart 8
Gears of War series
You’re tearing me apart, Beavwa!
All of these at least had the benefit of me buying them and trying… Not just hating on things I haven’t played.
I fully expect that others may write Monster Hunter, Pokémon, Minecraft, Tales JRPGs – that’s my opposite end of the spectrum list of my favourites.
^_^
I mainly loved the co-op nature of Halo and Gears, playing with my brother and/or friends. Good times.
Now it’s all about the Monster Hunter multi. Well, kind of. When we have time. And haven’t decided to play boardgames instead.
So… how’s the sex life?
(please tell me that was a ‘The Room’ reference, otherwise I am just coming across as a pervert)
To be honest, the only part of The Room that I’ve seen is that part haha.
I’ll agree with you on halo and gears of war, both were painfully generic. MK8 imo Is worse than mario kart wii. I can’t hate uncharted tho, I love a good indiana jones game.
Uncharted makes the list because I just can’t control it. As much my own personal failing – I’ve tried many times and just get frustrated at being unable to exert the necessary level of control.
Same, just kept dying, gave up.
I liked this because I am now your enemy. /o\
It was more a prediction towards my own expectation of getting at least one downvote for sharing my opinion.
Which one in particular do we differ the most on? Uncharted?
Never played Uncharted! Never owned a Playstation…but I enjoy the other 3. Halo above the rest…but loads of people have said they dislike Halo here. So I now have loads of enemies.
As a long time mustard racer I have both the complete inability to aim with a controller and a fleeting experience with a quite terrible PC port. You can understand my position.
The first of those two reasons is why I haven’t even entertained the thought of destiny either.
…At least the one positive Halo experience I’ve had is watching Red vs Blue. I can be thankful for that.
Halo and Dota.
Destiny
Pokemon (every game is the same shit. Change up the damn story)
Counterstrike
anything with instant fail sneak missions.
I love pokemon but I’ve gotta agree with you that they are all pretty similar!
Every game is the same but it’s such a great gameplay formula that it works on me over and over again. Not enough games these days focus on the gameplay instead of the story or visuals imo.
The Last of Us.
bought it. Put about 3 hours to it, then returned it.
I finished it and I still don’t get it. It had terrible mechanics, awful pacing, was chock-a-block with filler content and had a predictable and unrealistic plot. I really don’t understand how people think this was a GoTY contender in any way.
Any moba
Cod
Destiny
Not huge on Dark Souls either. I prefer to keep punishment to the bedroom, not in my video games!
Most of the time I’m apathetic towards popular games, but there are some I just cannot fathom the appeal or merits of like:
* Bioware games
* King games
* The Bioshock series
* The Uncharted series
The Legend of Zelda series. Maybe it’s because after playing Alundra they just all fail in comparison.
Alundra is great. Didn’t turn me if the good zeldas though.
Everything Multiplayer
Racers
Sports
With you on Everything Multiplayer – I’m a fairly anti-social gamer. The caveat is local multiplayer when someone’s playing with you – like portal co-op or a cheaky go of mortal kombat
Agreed. Different when you are with the other person/people.
Maybe I should have said Online Multiplayer, so as to include MMO’s and such.
Metal Gear Solid and any moba.
Want to love Metal Gear but just cannot. Oh and also the Dark Souls series.
I keep buying them when they come out hoping it will grab me, it never does 🙁
Well you can just geeeeerrrt ooooouuuurrrt!!!!
– Destiny
– TF2
– Football Manager
– Sid Meier’s Civilization V
– PAYDAY 2
Civ V specifically or just civ in general?
Just Civ in general, not a fan.
I dig Payday 2, but it’s one of those multiplayer titles where the quality of the game becomes extremely variable depending on who you’re playing it with.
Bioshock Infinite. Bad shooting and just follow the markers to the next checkpoint.
Dragon Age: Inquisition. Too much to do and too little inclination.
GTA V: Repeat a mission (effin cranes at the docks), shame on me. Repeat a mission three times, traded in.
All the Bioshock games felt like that to me, I really struggled to get through them, and really only finished them for the amazing art and environments, and to get some narrative closure. The shooting in Infinite in particular is so poorly executed, and to make matters worse it dropped a lot of the combat mechanics that made the original bearable.
Shame you traded it in. If you fail a mission enough times then you have the option to skip it, which I thought was a smart addition from Rockstar. An amazing game for just stuffing around in as well.
Dark Souls, Assassins Creed, Shadow of Mordor, Pokemon, pretty much anything multiplayer (except co-op)
Destiny
Assassin’s Creed
Call of Duty
Battlefield
Halo
99% of sports games
Racing games
Dating Sims
Uncharted
Modern Tomb Raider
This except I really enjoyed the new Tomb Raider.
MMO games
COD, Battlefield games
Halo, Destiny games
Bayonetta and MG:Revenvnenevnvnvnvnvneenenenengences!
Sports games
Did you play revengence? I love that sort of thing normally but the demo put me off.
Felt wrong as a MG even though it was a spin off
I played it. Wanted to keep going, but I cannot get the hang of Platinum Games combat. Found it impossible to progress and quit in frustration. Same with Bayonetta actually.
Ahhhh, Platinum, that’d be it. I like their games in theory.
I got bored of online multiplayer 5-6 years back, and brown on grey on brown on grey shooters around the same time.
I never got into WoW; as a KotOR lover, I tried to get into TOR, but nope. DOTA is clearly the other big multiplayer game that I just can’t get into.
Any of the major shooters over the last few years – the last ones I got into were modern warfare 2 and bad company 2.
Metro 2033, GoW, The Witcher are all games I put a couple of hours into and then put down.
GTA IV – finished both Vice City and San Andreas, but couldn’t get into IV.
The big one is the Halo series, I think.
Minecraft
Zelda
Final Fantasy
Wii/Wii U gaming in general.
COD Modern Warfare series
Any PCgame where you click a mouse to move a character – Diablo and it’s ilk – there’s no feedback in that kind of control system
Any MOBA that’s not Monday Night Combat
MMOs – like the earlier poster I love Battlefield but would be lucky to put more than 150hrsinyo each release (that’s just playing every other night) these MMO kids give up basic bodily functions in order to support their hobby
Sports games since the 2000s; I used to love Wayne Gretzky Hockey and Super International Cricket and NFL QB Club and NBA Live back in the 90s; I got NBA2K14 with my X1, tried to play it, I may as well have played QWOP for the amount of finesse required to do anything useful in that game – my career mode was a good bench warming simulator though…
How good was Wayne Gretzky!?!?! Used to love that on the 64
It’s was the best – someone should bring that back! Back then sports games were easy enough for anyone to pickup and play
I am so with you with sports games…. NBA2K the AI weaves through me like a knife through butter I try to get anywhere near and I stick like a fly to fly paper…. Ditto FIFA “to evade press A A B rotate stick 235 degrees and fractional tap RB…” Feck oof
Borderlands. Sorry. Loved the humour and the storyline but GOD I GOT SO BORED. Tales from the Borderlands is the best thing that’s ever happened to me.
Also, Grand Theft Auto. Sue me.
I don’t know if I’d go so far as to say I outright hate them, but ones I certainly don’t particularly like:
Halo
COD (except COD 4)
Borderlands
Assassin’s Creed
GTA (loved Vice City, hated San Andreas, GTA IV kind of meh, haven’t played GTA V, will give it a go when I can get the PS4 version cheap).
I never enjoyed any of the GTAs until V. Recommended
Yeah, like I said, I’ll give it a shot when I can find it cheap (under $50, ideally on PSN) because I’ve heard everybody raving about it. But everybody raved about the previous ones, and I kept buying them on that basis, but just didn’t enjoy them enough to think they were worth the full asking price.
MMOs (with an exception for Destiny because it’s also an FPS and fun to play)
Sport franchise games
Most Fighting games
Metal Gear Solid
Dark Souls
Skyrim.
Boring as faaaaaark.
Absolutely agree. I hated Oblivion, too.
And unfortunately … Fallout 3 / NV falls into the same trap – and I really persevered with them. No dice.
I think I have like 80+ hours or something on skyrim but yeah, I’m not crazy over it like the majority of the gaming base. Interesting considering I had 300+ hours sunk into fallout 3.
I fell asleep trying to play that game more times than I can remember – so much inventory management
Doesn’t help that the combat is boring as hell either!
Super Smash Bros.
I just don’t get it. I tried to like it when it was first released, I forced myself to play it, I played it single player and with 3 others and I got no joy. This was back when I was Nintendo-or-Nothing. Bored the bejeezus out of me.
I’ll add Halo, Pokemon and Final Fantasy to the list (actually, pretty much any turn-based RPG)
Completely agree with Smash Bros! Wanted to love it, couldn’t even get myself to like it.
Yeah, I’ve never understood the appeal of Smash Bros. I remember in high school everyone carrying on about it (N64), but when I got around to seeing it in action, I was just perplexed. I remember thinking for a long time that perhaps I was just not understanding something, and persisted playing it with friends, hoping it would click with me. But I just hated it more and more.
The Last Of Us. I Found it boring and repetitive, the story/characters boring and under developed. Ending was meh too. It also felt like the setting had nothing to do with gameplay, like they just reskinned one of the Uncharted games, it plays identical but the premise/story are supposed to be completely different. That doesn’t make sense to me.
Dark Souls. I gave it a shot for a little bit, but just wasn’t fun enough, the challenge was ok, but i just felt like the time spent/frustration far out weighed the ‘fun’ part.
GTA V was ok, but the story and characters were boring and instantly forgettable (except maybe trevor, but he was just crazy and his character development was non existent). There were some cool bits in there (going back to the town at the start to dig up grave was cool and factored into story well) but they got lost amongst the blandness. Also so many of the missions were incredibly boring and stupid (knock down all the real estate signs? come one mate.) Online is fun, but too much of a grind and not enough cool stuff to do.
Shovel Knight – I LOVE old school 2D platformers but this just didn’t do it for me. I finished it begrudgingly, but I just don’t understand the respect it gets.
Assassins Creed 2 – Admittedly I played it through a couple years after release, but I did not enjoy any of it. Why be a sneaky assassin when it’s easier to just run in, stab, and run away? Failed game design in my opinion.
I would’ve said DotA 2 but I did go through a phase where I put in 200 hours. I got to the point where I could definitely understand the appeal. How many people are willing to put in 150 hours though before anything starts to click? I forced myself through that 150 hours and was rewarded. Then I cam to the realisation at 200 hours that I just don’t have the time to commit to it.
It took me a while to warm to the AC series for kind of the same reason. As an alleged spiritual successor to the prince of persia games I was underwhelmed by the combat an lack of wall-running.
AC4 is the best AC because there is minimal fucking about pretending to be a sneaky assassin when the answer is always to slash, stab, and blow up everything and everyone because fuckyouimapirate that’s why. YARRR!
Any game where you have to buy the game, then pay additional amounts play it. ESO and WOW for example. I believe the games definitely have appeal, but if I buy the game, I own the game. It’s like buying a house and being asked to pay rent. No…it’s mine. If you want the funding to support expansions and new content then fine, but release it in an expansion which I pay for, then I own. WOW always astounds me due to the fact that you have to buy the base game, buy a subscription and then buy any expansions! Next they’ll do a fee per quest model…
I actually feel better for voicing that. Thanks
Actually, it’s like buying a house, paying rent, and having people constantly add to your house making it bigger, better and more fancy.
Or else paying to have the electricity and water running. Running MMO servers costs money, although nowhere near as much as they’re collecting in subscriptions.
There’s nothing stopping you from running WoW/ESO without a sub, but you won’t get very far.
As for the fee per quest model – some MMOs actually do follow that path, although generally only if you’re not paying a monthly sub. LOTRO, for example, has a “premium” sub which gets you all quests (although you still need to pay for major expansions) . “Free” accounts require payment for various content, including quests and some character classes.
can add
assasins creed
dragon age
cut scene games
indie games
early access games
Bioshock.
I quite liked Infinite, but the first game for me was incredibly disappointing. It started so well too, with a great art style and clever ideas, but as the game went on the visuals and the music became horribly repetitive, there was no weight to your death and, while they were never really subtle to begin with, they started bashing you (the audience) over the head with the themes that initially intrigued me, indeed I started to hate them.
Where playing a game in an underwater city felt fresh at first it staled incredibly quickly as the game consistently made nothing of the unique setting gameplay wise. Also the brand of environmental story telling they employed (audio diaries and totally subtle writing in blood on the walls etc.) is in my view one of the major cancers of modern game design. Please stop doing it.
Honorable mentions go to the entire sandbox genre from Minecraft to GTA and Super Mario 3D World, that game was terrible, one of the few purchases I wholeheartedly regret.
Edit: grammar
Most people are of the opposite opinion – Bioshock 1 over Infinite. You make an interesting and quite valid point though, the underwater environment didn’t come into play as anything more than an atmospheric device. i did love the game though, number 2 less, and haven’t played Infinite.
For sure, most of my friends are in the same boat. I think the strength of my negative reaction had a lot to do with the hype it was receiving, and it’s probably a little disproportionate to the actual negative qualities of the game. I think the game in my head was just so much more complex and nuanced than what I finally played, so it fell really short of the mark for me. I haven’t played the second though, can’t really put any views forward on that point.
Assassins Creed – So bored of it now. Brotherhood was the best with bombs and that grappling claw.
Splinter Cell Blacklist – I get that some people love stealth games, but it infuriated me so much, I gave up not even halfway through.
Huh? I finished Brotherhood and I don’t remember with or of those items – perhaps that’s Revelations (haven’t played that one)
Oh yeah I meant Revelations. They all kinda blur together after a while.
All of them, I’m such a hipster. 😛
CoD and Battlefield
MOBAs of all shapes and sizes
Actually, let’s just say all PvP games and modes. The minute a game introduces a mechanic that allows one to dick over another player it loses me. Hell, I took umbrage with Guitar Hero’s “battle mode” cos it ruined what was fun about the game – I’m an empathic person (or at least, I like to think I am), so I get much more enjoyment of playing the best I can and seeing who comes out on top, rather than sabotaging other player(s) to get ahead at their expense. That means most competitive games are out, for me.
Most MMOs – I love the idea of a huge open world filled with more things than you could ever see or do, but I don’t like the design decisions that lead to people competing for resources, the inevitable boring questing, the necessity of farming resources, the lacklustre story until you’ve invested weeks/months of effort to get to endgame…
Final Fantasy… *hides* Likely because of FFX, in which I got stuck with a save point between a locked door and a boss I was underleveled for, about 25-30 hours in, and still knew nothing about the plot beyond the characters’ names, and that volleyball was a martial art, for some reason.
*Also, it’s fascinating to read the comments here, not because of what people dislike, but from what people see as being “popular” enough to mention.
Good start point at the end there.
& classic comment about Blitzball being a martial art ( I love FFX, but I can still laugh)
Problem here is i have never played it but COD. I know i should not judge until i have played it but i flat out don’t have any interest in the game. Also not keen on minecraft.
I have no interest in COD multiplayer since counterstrike is still a thing but i loved COD4 ( the last one I played). as soon as i read the review for the next one saying the campaign was short and tacked on, for the main game which was the multiplayer I abandoned the franchise entirely.
Here is a list of some shit.
Skyrim (mods couldn’t save this)
Far Cry 3
Dragon Age
Mass Effect
Assassins Creed
Tomb Raider
Uncharted
COD
Bioshock
Resident Evil 4 onwards
Final Fantasy X
MGS 4 ( I can usually put up the the ridiculousness of that series but not on 4)
Special mention to Wolfenstein The New Order. I can’t imagine how this game got such good reviews, it was the most forgettable game I’ve played since the last Wolfenstein.
If your list is legitimately that big, you should probs give up gaming 😛
Just AAA gaming and I pretty much have.
Essentially anything with a first-person perspective. I just don’t get it. There are games that I like despite their being first person, but none that I think are better for it.
Yep
Halo. It’s just another generic shooter that happens to be an xbox exclusive.
The modern metal gear solid and final fantasy franchises. I loved the first two metal gears and used to enjoy final fantasy on nes/snes but after those i could never get in to them any more.
COD but while it sells a lot there’s a lot who don’t like it.
The last of us, while I enjoyed it it was nowhere near the game people had made it out to be. The story was cliche, the gameplay was mediocre at best, the AI was flat out terrible and nothing it did was new or innovative. The one thing it did well was it’s character development and writing. I liked the game but at the same time felt the majority of what makes it a game was very below average. No clue how it got 10’s. It felt like a movie that had gameplay forced in to it.
you enjoyed metal gear on the nes? Please tell me you are just mistyping MSX. Because the NES release was literally a broken unplayable mess(the one you could play on the snake eater disk was the MSX game).
Re-read what I wrote. “I enjoyed the first two metal gears and I used to enjoy final fantasy on the nes and snes”
Thanks for pointing that out, I misread as “I liked metal gear on the NES” and it set off my “this guy is batshit crazy” alarm.
I’ve only played the original metal gear a couple times through emulation.. Don’t even really remember it well to be honest.
* MMO’s – Me no likey the grindy
* Destiny – See above
* Mario Kart – Doesn’t click with me. I prefer more serious racers but I loved Blur as well.
* Smash Bros – Doesn’t click with me. I prefer other fighting games but this I just don’t get.
Any MMO games , the CoD and Battlefield series.
Also, Shadow of Mordor.
The Nemesis system is innovative and I hope other open world game will integrate something similar , but I just don’t like this game for some reason.
I found shadow of mordor was a really fun sandbox but the actual story and main missions were really flat.
Final Fantasy – Just not really a fan of JRPG games
Metal Gear Solid – I’ve never actually played a MGS game, but from what I’d gotten from Metal Gear Rising the universe just seems boring and prone to characters monologing like there’s no tomorrow
Dark Souls 1 – I’d put 40 hours into the game, made it past ceaseless discharge and it just felt like the biggest slog. It was frustrating, I never knew what I was supposed to do and the amount of times I’d died due to things outside my control were too numerous to count. I really did enjoy DS2 though, much more accessible and all the deaths were because I made a poor decision not because of poor design.
Ocarina of TIme – It’s just a boring game and a lot of the difficulty comes from having to wait between attacks, just a meh game. I will admit the sound design is great though.
The Last of Us – The story seemed ok, but the poor ai and enemies teleporting around the area did me in. I think I got about 25% through and then gave up
Any Mario Kart after Double Dash just doesn’t have the same flavour to me. Double Dash had so much personality and really fun levels. I just can’t seem to enjoy newer ones in the same way.
DS was the last I loved.
Any of the Bioshock games
Any of the BattleField games
Any of the GTA games
Any of the Pokemon games
Any of the Final Fantasy games
Any of the Uncharted games
I really tried to like these games so much. I forced myself to play San Andreas, Infinite, BF 3 and Final Fantasy 10 just so i could say i played it and i still couldnt click. The last game I played that i thoroughly enjoyed was The Last of Us and most people dont like that. My taste in games must be so shithouse.
These games arent in my pile of shame back-log and you know if a game doesnt make it to that list, you dont like it
Um, people you know personally? If so, you need to remove those people from your life… they are poison.
The Last of Us is probably hands down the best game of the last generation, I’ve not found many people who didn’t love it.
I loved this game but I don’t have any friends that are not exclusively PC gamers so I could never really gauge how popular it is.
Its sold like 7 million copies (http://au.ign.com/articles/2014/07/16/the-last-of-us-sales-pass-7-million-with-new-dlc-coming), and is the most awarded game in history (http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/01/24/the-last-of-us-is-the-most-awarded-game-in-history-by-critics/), so its safe to say its pretty damned popular.
What was actually good about the game?
I really didn’t have much positive to say about it at any point.
Gameplay: generic shooter with limited mechanics and mostly poorly implemented stealth gameplay. Has crafting upgrades because… It’s a zombie game and everyone loves crafting… because.
AI: Average to stupid.
Plot: Waaaay too much filler content and pointless diversions. Even the “main plot” is predictable a lot of the time, and when it’s not, it’s being totally unrealistic despite trying to sell the “realism” factor.
Characters: These are possibly the high-point of the game, as some of them actually have personality and the voice acting is fairly decent.
Level/mission design: Doesn’t provide good pacing in many cases, often provides poor directional cues and/or require backtracking across empty areas for “tension”. In other cases they’re just pretty much corridors and totally boring.
Graphics: Fairly good, and probably the second best thing about the game.
It really is a grossly overrated game. The concept was fantastic, but the execution is really lacklustre and overall the game is just tedious and far too long.
It’s a game that wants to be a movie. Even then, its running time needs to be dropped significantly to cut out a fair amount of dross that doesn’t really add much to the core story-telling of the game.
I don’t think there’s very many people who didn’t like The Last of Us.
I liked it but it’s probably the most over rated game I’ve ever played. 7/10 rather than a 10/10. The ai is flat out retarded, the shooting mechanics are weak and the level design is predictable and boring. The characters carry the game and keep it from being a bad game.
Dark Souls
Final Fantasy
I don’t get the love for Fallout and Elder Scrolls.
CoD. GTA. Most Assassins Creeds.
Assassin’s Creed I – repetitive gameplay, unskippable cut scenes, characters who died very slowly and managed a 5 minute speech while dying and unskippable, a game that was in love with its own voice too much
Dead Space 2 – repetition of enter a room to access spawning enemies, kill them in a controlled bit by bit manner, rinse and repeat.
Joining the chorus of Destiny.
It’s just so boring T_T
Wanted to love Destiny. Played for a week. Never again.
All grind, no substance.
Bought the Destiny PS4 after loving the beta on my 360. Just… eeeeeeeeeeeeeeh.
I would like to say MMO but I can see the appeal, I’ve been lost a few times to the extent that they aren’t fun any longer.
Real racing games like GT (I can enjoy arcadey ones)
Arena shooters like CoD or battlefield (This is probably a skill level issue)
MP survival games that are just mass trolling exercises (Rust, stomping land, etc…)
Sports manager sims
OK, I’m going to get flamed for some of these, I’m sure:
Call of Duty
WolfenStein – The New Order
Any Assassin’s Creed game
The Batman Arkham games
Racing Games
Sports Games
Star Wars: KOTOR
Sci Fi Games
Borderlands
Grand Theft Auto games
Wolfenstein was fantastic. You go to hell. You go to hell and you die!
Seriously how could you not love that game. The rest of the list I get it but, but?
It is ok. I am sure you are a good person.
OK I knew I’d get flamed for that one. Maybe I need to give it another go. But here’s what I found:
I played about 3-5 hours and got up to the part where you’re hiding in the boot of the car trying to get across the border. The game so far and areas seemed pretty repetitive, the game made me feel dizzy (I’m fine in other shooters) and it seemed like the story was going to be great but was undermined by the ultra over the top old school shooter mechanics. I feel a game should be serious if trying to tell a serious story, but this was pretty arcade like and that kind of stopped me from taking the game seriously.
Locations wise it gets way better. The moon is cool in a Moonraker shooting Nazis’ way.
The story actually comes together really well soon. It is character driven (best kind) unlike most games which are set piece driven. Push further to meet the full Resistance group and you will see.
Your two complaints get addressed and you are so close to where you will start to see it for yourself if you can give the game (from mem) maybe two more levels?
Not everything is for everyone though and obviously that is fine but I honestly think it will address your two complaints 5 fold if you just go that tiny bit further.
OK thanks for the recommendation. I’ll add it back to my list 🙂
What on earth do you like?
I like a lot of other games, but a specific few favourites:
Dragon Age (all three)
The Witcher games
Neverwinter Nights
Farcry 3 (4 was average)
Fallout
Mass Effect
Elder Scrolls Games (except online)
Lords of the Fallen, Dark Souls (Action RPG styles)
Any Zelda games….and DOTA or LOL.
I just don’t get it. If I played for 45 min or whatever it takes in a DOTA game (seems to be about how long according to mates that play) only to finish and start that SAME map again…I’d be pissed.
I get its free and all but it seems like it could really do with some variation.
I’m sure there are many more, but those are the main ones I think.
I wrote a whole thing about how I didn’t understand Zelda and people think I’m a bad person. I’m just like “I dun geddit.”
Yeah I don’t get the single map thing either – granted some maps are that good but still!
Everyone in this thread is a monster.
Except the MOBA-haters. You’re alright.
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CoD, not just because everyone hates it, yet still plays it. The reason I dislike it is because it has just turned into a shitfest. Between the extremely linear and somewhat pointless Campaigns to the EXTREMELY repetitive multiplayer that is littered with Kids, l33t haxor 360 noscope snipers, Script kiddies and no dedicated servers. It’s horrid and annoys me. The yearly releases are stupid as I would casually play it from time to time on PS3 but find it useless now as I either cannot find any decent hosts as hosting dedicated server with the millions they roll in is too hard. But the $100+ they expect you to chuck into it every year for the same game with slightly upgraded graphics. It’s a joke and a scam. I don’t care if they hire some big Hollywood actors. It’s the same thing every year. Adding in some Crysis suits doesn’t really make me want to lose all my progress from BOps II and buy all the map packs again. Which in the past are usually just maps from old games remade which is just pure lazyness.
And I would have to say the majority of games that are released on Steam Greenlight and Early Access but they aren’t really popular so I guess it doesn’t count.
Call of Duty – Shallow gameplay, jingoistic Michael Bay-esque campaigns, I’m sure it’s all been said before. I quite liked the original WW2 games back in the day too.
DayZ – Novel and atmospheric the first few times you play. After that it just devolves into awful PVP and base-building. Have had friends fall to crazy levels of addiction to DayZ and variants like Origins. I really cannot get into it at all. I love zombies and horror, but this and the clones it has spawned just bore me to tears.
Oblivion & Skyrim – The graphics are obviously lovely and some of the side quests are thoroughly entertaining but I just can’t understand the amount of hours people can sink into those games. Who cares if there’s a lot to do and heaps to explore if it’s all so repetitive and poorly written? Strangely, I was a fan of Morrowind and thoroughly enjoyed Fallout 3 though.
Assassin’s Creed – The only one I’ve been able to stomach for more than a few hours is Black Flag and only because I can pretend that it’s actually a standalone Golden Age of Piracy game with nothing to do with the rest of the series. Even then, it’s extremely repetitive and I can only play in short bursts. I love stealth games, have more than a passing interest in the historical significance of the Assassenes and the Knights Templar, but I just cannot get into this series at all.
Halo – I think I was too much of a PC, Nintendo and PlayStation kid to really get into the series when it began. I only got an XBox late in its lifecycle (a modchipped one that was used almost exclusively for XBMC) , spending much more time with my PS2. I’ve tried the later games on 360 and they just don’t grab me. They’re not bad shooters by any stretch of the imagination but I’ve never been able to come around to the cult-like devotion the series seems to inspire.
Gears of War – Probably for similar reasons to Halo. My PS3 got a lot more of a workout than my 360 (which I only really used for cross platform stuff until I upgraded my PC). I’ve tried to enjoy it and it’s kind of fun in co-op mode but I just don’t see what the fuss is about.
Personally: (and my gaming buddies will ever know mwahahaha)
LoL – This game frustrates me – everyone acts like an asshat while playing this game. It also sucks when you communicate with your team and they blatently ignore you or at the opposite end are elitists when its a still free to play moba they have spent way too much time on.
GTA – Look i get that it can be fun but I just don’t understand it as a game I would like to play They all look and play the same to me (excluding the top down early versions which I enjoyed more then the 3D versions) and when I ask other gamers what they enjoy about it – they like hacking the game to bits and not even playing the story unless it s for progression anyways. That’s cool but its not immersive or enjoyable to me when I could be playing anything else (think reading a book for its story vs. ripping a book up and turning it into hundreds of paper aeroplanes instead).
WoW – Had always been the staple MMORPG experience – with so much content its a lot more repetitive then most other MMORPG’s from smaller companies who desperately try and get you coming back to them and there for a more personalised experience.
IN SAYING THIS: Wow has come a long way and is definitely one of those games that is more enjoyable with other people – Warlords of Draenor was the face-lift the game needed to become a successful 2014 Release – so props to blizzard for that.
Sports Games – In general whether its Soccer, Rugby, Cricket, Tennis or even Wrestling – I’m not interested, no new experiences here and if I wanted to do them – I would in real life (which I don’t)
Assassins Creed – This one I actually loved Black Flag – Maybe because it was the least like the rest of them which reused the same formula which I just didn’t believe to be that innovative – it was nice for the gem that is Black flag to arrise out of the now stale series.
Zelda – While I enjoyed what Zelda had to bring to the table I just felt the game has always been clunky with its execution never could keep myself entertained long enough to complete them yet I have managed to finish every final fantasy without batting an eyelid.
Other Contenders: Bio Shock and Metal Gear Solid – these series just never got much attention from me – I like the look of the games at a distance but couldnt see myself sitting down and enjoying playing them for more then a couple hours – a lot of the mechanics in MGS just seemed pointless to me too I’m not so much a fan of sitting in shadows waiting for people to talk all day.
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Happy Gaming
I always thought that The Witcher 1 and 2 looked awesome. I started up the first game and immediately disliked it so I tried the second game, I hated it even more than the first. The combat was clunky, it ran like shit and was terribly optimized, after investing hours into it I can’t bring myself to stop playing until I’ve beaten it, despite hating it >.>
The Witcher 2 was pretty meh but poorly optimised it was not. Upgrade your potato.
I’ve got a gaming laptop (should’ve built a desktop) and it runs most games really well in 1440p but witcher 2 was always clunky, had input lag and weird frame rates at the lowest graphics settings for me :s
Minecraft
Was going to say Pokemon, but let’s go bigger..
Nintendo *DS
Games lack depth, all very same-same. Got bored very quickly, never went back. Very ‘kiddy’.
Woh! Really? I love DS.
You ever play Shin Megami Tensei Strange Journey? It’s the opposite of everything you just said, look it up! 😀
Skyrim, Oblivion, Morrowind. I just don’t get it.
UUGH… CoD… That and the Batman Arkham games. they were just bleh.
Elder Scrolls
Halo and the Halo series.
I just didn’t get the appeal when there were several first-person-shooters on PC that were lightyears ahead in terms of graphics, gameplay, and anything else you care to mention.
Quake, Half-life, Unreal, etc.
Oh, and anything MOBA. Seriously, what the hell is fun about those games?
I’m not even a fan (I don’t own any form of Xbox consoles) but when Halo came out in 2001, it made Quake, HL and the Unreal games look ridiculously old, and still does when compared today. I think your glasses have been severely rose tinted my friend.
Destiny
Every MOBA game
Cod
Halo
The Borderlands series
World of Warcraft
Civilization series
RTS games
League of Legends/all those kinds of games
Mass Effect
Dragon Age
Everything else Bioware have made
Skyrim
Minecraft
The overwhelming majority of indie games
Battlefield
Resident Evil
The Witcher
Mortal Combat
There’s probably more that those are just off the top of my head…
I have to wonder what you do actually play…?
Assassins Creed
Racing games
Zelda
Some of the Mario series (Paper Mario, Mario & Luigi)
A nice long RPG every now and then
Strategy games
GTA
Currently making my way through Bayonetta 2
Looking forward to Monster Hunter soon. And new Xenoblade
3D platformers whenever they come about (not very often)
Enough things to keep me happy.
I could not put Bayonetta 2 down. Sooooo gooood!
I am a sucker for endearing stuff like Paper Mario too.
I’m pretty relaxed about all my gaming so I pretty much like everything except……
Assassins Creed. Tried so many times to get into it across the whole series and it just doesn’t click at all.
The Dark Souls Series. I know so many people love them and I did put what I considered a decent amount of time into them. Killed about 4 main bosses.
But when people start calling the games revolutionary, the atmosphere amazing and the environments flawless I have to wonder if we are playing the same games.
I found the whole game just felt like you were playing an RPG and stumbled into an area 10 levels too high for you. People say the difficukty level was its charm but to me the enemy damage and death system just felt like a cheap trick to make something appear to be “hardcore”.
And as for the environment, the place felt lifeless, static and very “gamey”. A blacksmith that just works on a single anvil stuck behind a collection of crates? Come on now…
All the Civ games. I’ve tried & tried but I think that the wonder years of turn-based strategy have long since sailed for this grumpy OB.
Anything multiplayer…
…and puzzle games *shudder*
Pretty much any popular Nintendo game. I don’t see why the masses have such huge boners for what is a pretty standard and forgettable range of platformers and party games.
I agree on some counts (dk tropical freeze I thought was average) but things like mario 3d and the Mario party games while not ground breaking are just such high quality that they deserve the love they get imo.
Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor
I just played 2 hrs and still didn’t feel any ‘excitement’. Should I give it more time? or start the FC4?
While others are
Bioshock
Crysis
Cod
BF
Mass Effect(s)
The entire GTA series: Embodies everything I hate about America. Its not clever, its not funny, its not social satire, its just trashy.
Dragon Age Inquisition – DA:Origins is my favourite game of all time, and Inquisition, as big an beautiful too look at as it is, isn’t half the game Origins is. Most of Inquisition is MMO style busywork filler to cover for the fact that there is isn’t much main story. And the combat is a horrible mash-up of an action button masher and strategic RPG and ends up doing both poorly. The menus are badly designed, the AI is garbage, the customisation outside of crafting is rubbish and the combat is simplistic. DAI is the most ridiculously overrated game of 2014 (and probably longer).
Pacman…
No!
LoL
Dota
Destiny
COD (since MW2)
WoW.
The people who defend these games make me want to hurt things. It is like the people who play them get stockholm syndrome and BS themselves that the game is good. Then they get violent defending the things…
MMOs and that’s it. I can pretty much enjoy any game.
Half Life 2.
I frigging loved Half Life. I mean, I went nuts for it, I would just sit back in awe sometimes, and smile and slowly shake my head in amazement.
Then HL2 came out. Boring opening sequence, generic enemies that all look the same, oh cool a new character, oh she is leaving. Race to checkpoint, oh she is back, oh she is leaving again, race to next checkpoint. Where are the tense moments, the story, the conversations and immersion.
I still hate HL2….
The Last Of us. The AI ruined it for me.
Metal Gear Solid (from 3 onwards)
Smash Bros – My son loves it, but I just don’t get why it’s so popular
The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – A real disappointment after OOT
Metroid
Halo – if only because of those ridiculous enemies!
Grand Theft Auto IV and V – gameplay was okay but i hated both stories and their protagonists
CoD and Battlefield
FIFA – boring sport, even more boring games
Anything in the fantasy dragons/swords genre (Shadow of Mordor, Skyrim, Dark Souls) – I hate that shit
Mobile games
Bioware Games.
I have no idea what everyone is on about when they talk about the amazing story-telling craft of Mass Effect, Or Dragon Age Origins.
Yeah, some of the lines seem more well written then most games, but the delivery of most of the voice actor’s, It’s just below tolerable.