[General Discussion] Games that are supposed to be really good but you hate

I generally like most if not all of the games in many of the popular series that people have been singling out for criticism.

MGS3 - In addition to the excellent critiques put forth so far, the thing that ruined this for me was the interaction of story and gameplay. They pushed the gameplay to be so "realistic" that it isn't fun anymore, while the plot was pushed to insanely unrealistic heights. Snake has to heal his wounds limb by limb because it's realistic, but Sentient Bug Man and 105-Year-Old-Sniper get a pass?

The Metroid Series - While the action's fine, the lack of plot has always really bothered me. Would it be so hard to give the heroine a few lines, or to craft an expansive sci-fi plotline that exists outside of the manual and ending screen?

Grand Theft Auto Series- I know their gameplay defined an entire genre, but I just can't bring myself to have fun while slaughtering paramedics as they try to revive people that I ran over while distracted by a hooker in the car on my way to kill an innocent person in cold blood for money.

Katamari Damacy - Maybe if I smoked the same magic mushrooms the developers were on. Hate the music, want to kill the Tubeheads.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Megavolt

That would ruin the atmosphere of the games. The whole sense of loneliness. The alien mystique of everything. Metroid Prime 2 ended up with a freaking Halo-inspired plot, which to me is part of the reason that it isn't as good as Metroid Prime. If it could be better executed perhaps, but there's little chance of that. The last thing I want is a predictable Sci-Fi channel plot along with the same B-movie drama. The whole scanning business introduced in Prime was an interesting idea though. Sort of a less obvious way of adding depth while preserving the atmosphere of things.

Atmosphere counts for something, but too much lonliness and silence equals boredom, even if there are critters to shoot.

Don't get me started on Xenogears. It's like what would happen if you melded the beginning of Star Wars IV with Star Wars I with a script by first-year philosophy students.

There's nowhere I can't reach.