Games That You Hate But Everyone Else Loves

[Protoman]

Title.

Dead Space: It really just didn't scare me, and the shooter behind the alien pop-up faces wasn't all that entertaining, and seemed to rely on the awkwardly absent suspense of the game. Not to mention the port was crappy.

MOBA games: I just really can't get into them, I don't understand them at all. It always seems like diablo 2 PVP with a bunch of random crap thrown on top of it to make it competitive.

Every Castlevania Game since "Symphony of the Night": They just lost their great gameplay style. What was once a game about planning your attacks carefully became a game about grinding and backtracking.

[Velko]

a.k.a. the Hipster Thread.

[Raaritsgozilla]

True but I'm going to say Half Life 2. I just never got into it

[Velko]

True but I'm going to say Half Life 2. I just never got into it

Yup, I'm the same. I quit during the zombie-part.

[harhis23]

the Bioshock Infinite - I just hate it.

[DaftPunk]

I only trully hate newer Tom Clancy games.

[dspimoni]

Dragon Age: Origins. The story was interesting, but the wild swings in the difficulty of the combat was frustrating and I quit 1/3 of the way through.

Also, in the same vein, Mass Effect (though not so much hate as mixed feelings). The narrative and characters were great, but the mechanics were garbage, from combat to exploration (Hate that damn moon jeep).

The actual gameplay in most Bioware games is irritating, to me at least. Kinda funny, considering two of some of my favorite games ever are Mass Effect 2 and Knights of the Old Republic.

[c-Row]

Minecraft. Underwhelming yet overhyped. I have sunk several hours into Terraria and loved it so there is nothing wrong with sandbox blockbuilders in my book in general, but MC is just bland and boring.

MOBA games: I just really can't get into them, I don't understand them at all. It always seems like diablo 2 PVP with a bunch of random crap thrown on top of it to make it competitive.

+1

[Spengbab]

Skyrim. It's still as clunky as Morrowind, only with higher resolution textures and ragdolls. Struggling to get through the start, hoping it'll draw me in at some point.

[Raaritsgozilla]

Yup, I'm the same. I quit during the zombie-part.

Same. Not fun

[popej]

WoW is the obvious one although I've never actually played it - I hate what it represents and have no interest in relating to that community. (no not interested in justifying that, you'll have to chalk it up to irrationality)
Oblivion - Until you've downloaded 3gb of mods +.
Dishonored - I Don't actually hate this game but i will admit to being confused as to its "second coming of Christ" status. I think it's because we've been starved of originality for so long. It's a tame Thief as far as I'm concerned.

[coldvvvave]

I don't hate anything( excluding Metro Last Light, thank you, Diesel) but.

Witcher 2

A huge disappointment.

What are they doing with one my favorite novels? Why is it so unbalanced? Why is there half-baked stealth? Why did they choose such a lame part of the setting? Why is combat so bad? Why can't I change FOV? Why is tutorial bugged? Why are there QTEs? Why does it run so horribly? Why are levels so linear and small? Why are there stupid boss fights?

"Witcher 2 is going to be better", my ass.

[kalilyrr]

sims all kinds of sims... played it for 2 days and there's nothing else to do

[Jesus_Phish]

I only hated Limbo. It's the only game I've ever played that I regretted wasting my time with once I was finished.

Luckily it was free in a bundle so I don't believe I paid much for it. I remember when it came out everyone was raving about it and usually when everyone raves at release I tend not to buy because I believe people have their blinkers on and are only seeing the good and the hype. This lesson was first thought to me by The Matrix when I was younger, which I didn't see until about a month before the release of the second movie and was disappointed by as it really wasn't as great as everyone claimed.

It's often made me wonder if or how many people enjoy games on release only because there is such a buzz about them. I often miss out on the buzz by not buying many games on release and whenever I do get around to buying them, if I enjoy them, it's rarely to the degree I see other people claiming to on the first month of release. Unless it's Bastion, because I found that game to properly be amazing.

[Dariune]

There are quite a few games that i don't like that most others seem to.

Which is a bit of a shame because it means the games that I like get made less often.

The new XCOM is the most recent one. I didn't hate it, i had a marginally good time with it. But I didn't like it. Everyone else seems to be saying its great.

Skyrim - After the disappointing Oblivion I was surprised to see the masses kiss and make up with Bethesda after Skyrim. It was as average as Oblivion i thought (For different reasons though)

Mass Effect 2 - I enjoyed the first one but the second one was horrible. I think a few more people agree with me on this that my first two.

Dragon Age - I actually enjoyed this. Quite a lot. I just didn't think it was spectacular like a lot of others did.

Endless Space - Feels like im playing a different game to everyone else. The interface is nice but the game is dull and completely uninspired. I genuinely don't understand what people are seeing in this game.

That will do, but there are plenty more.

[Heliocentric]

I only trully hate newer Tom Clancy games.

*Glares*

I jest though, conviction was a massive betrayal of series expectations so I understand your apprehension, as was rainbow 6 vegas. Hate is a strong word, the only games I feel anything like hate for are games I truly wanted to love but were abusive in various ways.

Gish with it's wonderful idea and presentation and horrific application. Spellforce and it's worst case mesh of rts and rpg, the aforementioned splinter cell series' Double Agent.

But ultimately its not the game I hate, it's bring disappointed.

[sabrage]

Gish with it's wonderful idea and presentation and horrific application.

Nobody loves Gish.

I can't get past the first level of Deus Ex.

I liked turn-based and strategy RPGs when I was in grade school, so I keep buying them and they keep piling up and I never feel like playing them.

I think Bioware games are incredibly boring, but I've bought a bunch of those too.

I'm not smart enough or patient enough for SpaceChem.

[PeteC]

Two newer games that spring to mind are Natural Selection 2 and Hotline Miami. I know they get a lot of love on these forums but they just haven't clicked with me at all.

I'll stick with NS2 for a while though as I really want to like it but I'm not overly hopeful. It's bored me so far for the most part.

[ShowMeTheMonkey]

Mario and Zelda. I think I'll never learn why people love Nintendo as they apparently do.

[sonson]

I don't hate anything( excluding Metro Last Light, thank you, Diesel) but.

Witcher 2

A huge disappointment.

What are they doing with one my favorite novels? Why is it so unbalanced? Why is there half-baked stealth? Why did they choose such a lame part of the setting? Why is combat so bad? Why can't I change FOV? Why is tutorial bugged? Why are there QTEs? Why does it run so horribly? Why are levels so linear and small? Why are there stupid boss fights?

"Witcher 2 is going to be better", my ass.

I never read the novel and any adaptation of something like that will always be subjective, but as far as the other comments go:

I didn’t find it to be unbalanced at all. It doesn’t hold your hand but if you read the manual and play around with the mechanics they do exactly what they’re supposed to.
The stealth lasted for about five minutes, it’s hardly a deal breaker.
The setting was one of the most ambitious and best I’ve encountered in videogaming, what did you think was lame about it?
Combat is excellent but it requires patience and timing, otherwise you will die very quickly, which is how it should be if blades are flashing around you. It requires you to approach a fight as you would in real life rather than in a game i.e you have to look for an opportunity, strike from all angles and run away and reassess the situation if things aren’t going your way. If you just try and smack a guy who is blocking or holding a shield he will just block you and then shiv you while you’re off balance. It’s more or less the same combat style as Dark Souls, although more fluid as befits a Witcher. It’s also similar to the Witcher’s Full Combat Rebalance mod which makes that game even better as well in my opinion. Makes fights a challenging and involving part of the game rather than just noisy moments encountered from quest to quest, as is the case in most games.
What in the tutorial is bugged?
The QTE’s are irritating but they’re a grain of sand in an ocean of depth, immersion and narrative brilliance.
It runs beautifully on my computer, and it ran pretty well on my last one which was five years old, enough for me to run it agog from start to finish.
The level size is hardly what I’d call small, even if not massive, but they are so dense and have such a feeling of proper proportion to them that all of that is irrelevant in my opinion.
The boss fights are pretty dumb though. Although the Letho one’s are fun, with the sword fighting.

I suspect you might have played it before the Enhanced Edition came out? It takes time and requires you to really buy into what it’s trying to sell you, like a good but demanding novel, but if you do I can’t see how a Witcher fan could possibly be disappointed. I was floored by it. It’s the standard for what RPG’s, and any games with a strong narrative element should measure themselves against from now on in my opinion.

Speaking of which…maybe I just haven’t given it enough time but I found Bastion to be pretty small beer, I like the idea of it and all and the narration/gameplay conflation Is clearly inspired, but the actual playing of the thing just grates, five hundred dudes in cloaks popping out of the ground within the space of five minutes and dying just as easily, it all just felt a bit pointless and gamey.