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DoW 2
Borderlands
Mass Effect by far
CoD
WoW

I can't play those

If you throw your average mmo in front of me, Im going to hate it.

CoD is another one. At one point it was actually fun for me. But after they kept releasing it over and over, I had had enough.

Gears of War is another one. I cant stand that game.

 Cheesecat wrote:
JPRPG's: I don't get the appeal of JRPG's to me RPG's are all about choice and a unique experience which is something that I think WRPG's excel in. In JRPG's you're forced to play Character that you had no influence in creating, go through a story that you can't change, the combat often has a boring turn-base style, the visuals often look gaudy and you play in linear levels. What makes video-games unique and fun over other forms of media (movies, books, etc) is interaction but JRPG's seem to be designed to minimize as much interaction as possible.

Turn-Based Games: I hate turn-based games except for Fire Emblem and Advance Wars games. Mainly because the meaningful decisions that happens in theses games is during combat so that's why I'm glad that Fire Emblem and Advance Wars got rid of all the stuff that makes turn-based games boring (overly pretentious stories that you have to sit and watch, random encounters, dungeon crawling, long animation during turns, too many option in a turn, etc).

You see, I don't like that attitude. It seems to be the case that an RPG can be as good as it wants, but if it's not "open" there will be cries of "Eurgh, it's linear, I don't like it" and IGN or whatever will rate it down. I think JRPGs tend to try and focus on telling a story more than the gameplay. With WRPGs, it's "We have our gameplay system, lets build the story around it" whereas in Japan, they go "Right, we have this cool story, lets build the gameplay around it".

Final Fantasy XIII for example: cool combat system, great music, cool character designs, decent voice acting and STUPENDOUS graphics...But you can't go nuts, run about a great big map, get lost, forget where you were supposed to be going and go around shouting at cows, so people whined.

Skyrim on the other hand: Yeah, it is OK, the graphics are alright and the whole thing is certainly an improvement on the mess that was Oblivion, but the game just lacks something. The style is just...dull. Everything is muted, it doesn't seem very...fantastical. Without the dragons and magic it could have been a realistic medievil game. But it was big and open and you could forget where you were going in it, so it's obviously the best game ever.

The Syndicate FPS. It amazes me that it got such good reviews, since it was such a dull, horrible game.
So...boring. The story was pretty crap as well. Normally I don't care much for stories in games (outside of RPGs, of course); if it has a good story, great, kudos to the developers but its not a requirement.
But in the Syndicate FPS it just struck me as pretentious. Like they were trying to give some social message that just failed horribly because the game was just so dull and bland.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
The Syndicate FPS. It amazes me that it got such good reviews, since it was such a dull, horrible game.
So...boring. The story was pretty crap as well. Normally I don't care much for stories in games (outside of RPGs, of course); if it has a good story, great, kudos to the developers but its not a requirement.
But in the Syndicate FPS it just struck me as pretentious. Like they were trying to give some social message that just failed horribly because the game was just so dull and bland.

I'm 25, and i remember playing the original syndicate, and it's sequels. The only thing that excited me about Syndicate FPS was the nostalgia and the remix on the theme by skrillex.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
As a follow up to my previous thread (about obscure or underrated games that, in your opinion, needs more credit), this thread is the opposite - what games do you think THAT YOU HAVE PLAYED are terrible and/or overrated, and yet for some absurd reason have a large following.

For me, its Halo and CoD.
I don't really see the appeal behind them, I really don't.
Oh, And I'm throwing in Battlefield as well, for being a blatant CoD clone. I don't care what everyone else says, it looks like fething CoD to me.

Ok, after a bit of reflection, hate is a bit strong of a word. Games that you are disinterested in or think are overrated might be more accurate.

I have to say have you actually played battlefield, as it plays much different to CoD
while CoD has cramped maps with little to no cover, battlefield has wide open maps, and a good amount of cover, and every gun has a different felling to it unlike CoD.

Now to the games everybody seems to like but i don't. I never really loved skyrim, it's a solid game, i just wish that you could build a thief and not have to worry about combat constantly.

Okay I realized this game is a mixed reviewed game but here is another one.

KotOR 2.

I dont dislike it, I actually HATE it. I think it is the WORST game I have ever played. Not one of the, I really do think this is the worst one of my entire collection.

Followed by Ghost Recon ... Future Warrior? The one that comes after Ghost Recon 2 that takes place in Mexico.

Ghost Recon whatever it was called completely failed to act like any of the other Ghost Recon games which I hated. Lvls were unappealing, they did a horrible job telling the story (especially after Ghost Recon 2) and your allies were WORTHLESS, considering how important your allies were in the first few games, this annoyed me to no end.


And KotOR2... the real question is what DID I like about it? The Companions were decent, except you spend a huge chunck of the game with the 2 worst companions I have ever encountered. (Anton, EVERYTHING about him I hate, from back story, to the way he acts, to his special quality and Kreia was so appaling and annoying it was unbeliaveable)
The story? Horrible, it remains to be the ONLY game I have ever played that I actually said out loud while playing the game "Why am I actually doing this?"
Climax? So increadibly anti-climatic its not even funny.

Its not like Borderlands or Ghost Recon whatever that one was called in which I simply didnt like or Final Fantasy which I dont get why people enjoy it. This game was so bad in my eyes that I can not comprehend how people think this game is even okay, much less a good game.

 Squigsquasher wrote:


You see, I don't like that attitude. It seems to be the case that an RPG can be as good as it wants, but if it's not "open" there will be cries of "Eurgh, it's linear, I don't like it" and IGN or whatever will rate it down. I think JRPGs tend to try and focus on telling a story more than the gameplay. With WRPGs, it's "We have our gameplay system, lets build the story around it" whereas in Japan, they go "Right, we have this cool story, lets build the gameplay around it".

I like open world games. But far more important is having some sort of choice. That is where JRPGs fall short. Even the illusion of choice by having different dialogue options is absent. You go down the path, you get in the fights they want, you say what they want. I have books for that, which generally involve less grinding and whiny protagonists with weird hair.

 Galdos wrote:
Okay I realized this game is a mixed reviewed game but here is another one.

KotOR 2.

I dont dislike it, I actually HATE it. I think it is the WORST game I have ever played. Not one of the, I really do think this is the worst one of my entire collection.

I want you to list your entire collection so I can refute this properly. It's not quite KoTOR, but it a damned enjoyable game, and if it the worst of your collection you are a lucky individual.

Point and click adventure games, how can anybody find these games fun?

Im picky about the games I own. I dont usually buy things unless I know I will like it. KotOR2 I heard was okay, it just wasnt finished so I said "why not" and tried it because I loved the first one.

For me the most important thing is the story, and the key to a good story are the characters.

I HATED KotOR2s story. I did not understand why I should care?
The start of the game was AWFUL because I hated Anton and Kreia so much. To make things worse, as I talked to them more and more, I hated them more and more.

Ya the big thing for me was the story. Maybe I would have felt differently if it wasnt for the fact that the first game the story was actually important to the galaxy and the second game was just a giant waste of time.

I actually thought C&C 4 was a better game, that gives you an idea how much I hate KotOR 2's story. (At least the story in C&C 4 felt kind of important)

 Cheesecat wrote:
Point and click adventure games, how can anybody find these games fun?

Back when graphics were terrible, and games file sizes were severely limited, they were pretty awesome. It was either that or playing Oregon Trail for the millionth time.

At this point, I think it's mainly nostalgia.

Final Fantasy (every single one)

1. WoW. I was crap at it and I thought Skyrim was much better
2. Sport games
3. Fable 3. Felt a bit like kingdom hearts put into an MA15+. And you can't die, so I don't see why you need guns 'n' stuff

Eldar Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Crappy graphics, terrible voice acting, no idea where you're supposed to be going, a piss-poor environment, and as for the persuasion wheel thingy...Ugh.

Halo, Cod, FEAR, mortal kombat, street fighter, FFVII, WoW and Dragon Age.

 Grakmar wrote:

 Cheesecat wrote:
Point and click adventure games, how can anybody find these games fun?

Back when graphics were terrible, and games file sizes were severely limited, they were pretty awesome. It was either that or playing Oregon Trail for the millionth time.

At this point, I think it's mainly nostalgia.

I'd like to think that back in the day, before the advent of the internet and online strategy guides, they could last a long, long time. I haven't played many, myself (pretty much just the first three Monkey Island games, along with the Sam & Max series) but a prime example is in Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. If it weren't for me having a strategy guide to follow, it would have taken me weeks to finish. There are literally dozens of items that wind up in your inventory at one point or another, something like four different islands to traverse (and no real direction as to which order), and after every plot advance, you could go back to every one to see if something is new there.

Personally, I'm not a fan of them. I was even pretty annoyed at Monkey Island 2, and got about halfway through Monkey Island 3 before giving up. Modern ones are at least bearable (Sam & Max series, Back to the Future) simply because they're mostly linear and there's a certain kind of logic behind all the things you have to do. But older ones like the Monkey Island games were brutally convoluted at times.

As to the original topic, there aren't many games that I honestly disliked that everyone else seemed to like, but the big two were League of Legends and Supreme Commander. League of Legends (and really, all MOBA games) I just can't stand because of the terrible, terrible community towards newbies. I tried a game or two, just trying to learn how to play, and after all the general abuse, I just gave up and uninstalled it. Even playing with friends was no fun because I knew I was the weakest link of the team.

As to Supreme Commander, I just have a general dislike of micro in games. I had a ton of fun playing the Dawn of War games because for the most part, the levels could be beaten by making up a doom-blob of units and sending them out towards the enemy base. I tried on more than one occasion to play Supreme Commander (I tried it three different times, actually, thankfully I never spent money on it) and I just couldn't stand trying to deal with utterly massive armies of single-model units. Honestly, I think part of it is that Dawn of War ruined me for traditional RTS games, given that buying one unit could easily have 30 guys in it.

Oh, and despite my friends' pushing and raving over it, I just couldn't stand City of Heroes at all. It seemed like every mission was the same, and I just grew to despise the lousy UI as well as the lackluster combat system (IMO). I much preferred Champions Online given its far more extensive character creator and the action-oriented gameplay.

As a dota/hon player I must say League of Legends. I don't hate the game, but it seems a bit too casual compared to those two (tried ~10-15 games).

Now a days I also dislike CoD, all the versions are just too similar and the game is popilated by quickscoping youngsters..

LoL, Mass Effect, CoD, and everything anyone suggests on skype.

As for me, I really dislike the supreme commander games, mainly because games were always 'who gets to the highest tech level 1st wins' that consisted of
-Create a gigantic build queue with an ETA of about 2 hours
-Go get some lunch
-Get up to highest tech level
-start building the massive superheavys
-go watch tv
-come back, win game.

I think its the 'long term investment' style that irks me the most, when I play games I like there to be a lot of action (even in simulations and RTS games), rather than 'two dudes sit at opposite ends of map doing diddly squat for 3 hours, then wipe each other out in 2 minutes' (similarly why I can't get into the Civilisation series and/or the <insert nation>:Total War games either)

Okay, I know that was the way most custom games got set up for supcom (90% Seton's Clutch with 20min no rush, etc.), but if you ever played ranked matches or got a serious custom game going, they were high intensity. Not starcraft 2 style micro, but every single second you had to watch your resource income, make it come as close to 0 as possible to minimize waste, all while trying to balance resource production with military and hold your position.

Some things that disappointed me though were the imbalance between units and tiers as well as inadequate base defenses. T3 units were superior to an equal cost of T1 and T2 units in almost every case. They even outclassed most experimental units on a by cost basis.

The other thing was some units were almost completely useless, e.g. mobile tactical missile launchers, and others, like strategic bombers, had a bug that made them always hit way too far in front of their targets. The navy is probably the worst offender here alongside strategic missile launchers.

Strangely enough, my one criticism of ranked was that it was rare to ever have a match progress long enough to access the upper tier units, while customs usually solely consisted of the high tech equipment.

All in all, Supreme Commander remains my favorite game of all time. I'm not saying your criticisms don't have value, because you could get into games like that. But when you got into a close 4v4 match with competent players, every unit out of thousands was an investment.

World Of Warcraft.
I hate having to buy a game, and then pay again to actually play it

Anyone else kinda disinterested in the God of War series? I admit I never played it, but at the same time, I'm not sure if I want to.
There's just something...off about it.

Halo, CoD, Oblivion....I could go on. I rather play Zork.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Anyone else kinda disinterested in the God of War series? I admit I never played it, but at the same time, I'm not sure if I want to.
There's just something...off about it.

By the third God of War, I was honestly bored with the series. I only played the third so I could finish the story...Really, all of the games were fun for a single play-through, but that's about it.

Eve.

Got into the character functions, the spaceships etc. Then tried combat. Its just so CLUNKY, it feels like a 3rd person shooter mixed with a military simulation, and the controls....I used to play darkness and its easier than that.

Half Life 2, Gears of War, WoW and Mass Effect. They just don't do it for me.

 Doctadeth wrote:
Eve.

Got into the character functions, the spaceships etc. Then tried combat. Its just so CLUNKY, it feels like a 3rd person shooter mixed with a military simulation, and the controls....I used to play darkness and its easier than that.

I attempted to play EVE a little while back, and I really disliked many of the control functions... This is why I ended up playing Star Trek Online, which has it's plusses and minuses... basically, I hate using a menu interface to tell my ship to engage, I'd rather use my mouse and whatnot, to get "live" feedback into the battle.

CoD... I can't stand it any more. I have been to too many LAN's were CoD 4 was the only game played, and all the rounds were quick scoping wars.

Mass Effect I did not have the time too go through all the dialog, and the controls were really bad on PC.

Battlefield 3... also known as Battlefield of Duty. The game was all graphics and not enough Battlefield gameplay and more CoD gameplay . The maps were to small for the jets to fight properly, and on top of the a perk system... WHY!?

Despite being a big fan of the rpg genre putting hundreds of hours into Elder Scrolls and Fallout games, I find Mass Effect to be unbearably dull.

CoD, MW2 onwards have really got boring, I just don't have fun playing them, isn't that the point of games at the end of the day?

Played WoW for a few hours but just couldn't justify paying continuously to play a game. Also it's really not that exciting at all.

FF series, the stories are so ridiculous I just can't get into them, I know the video game industry is rarely commended for realism, but gah those games.

It is called Final FANTASY. Not "Final Realistic Millitary First Person Shooter of Duty".

It isn't supposed to be realistic, and for that I love it.

Didn't take the full time to look and see if this game was already listed but... Endwar was just.... Just god awful.... The gameplay, the units, its juat a massive game of paper, rock, scissors.... The only decent thing about that came is the opening trailer...

Also i cannot bring myself to try WoW ever again... The graphics and gameplay makes me want to hit something....

And I have been a leading believer that Mario, Zelda, Sonic, and Kirby... Should all be taken around back, and forced to watch as one at a time each are placed infront of the rest, on their knees,and shot execution style...