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

To each his/her own.

Over the vast number of games I've played through, I've never really hated any of them. I guess I tend to pick out the best of the bunches based on my first impressions of visual styles along with previews from mags/online as such. But one game really got me, when it really shouldn't have. I loved The Matrix, so much that I kinda made myself like the 2nd one until the 3rd one came out and made me realise how the saga had gone down the drain to being purely a cyber-geek niche thing. But I digress..

The Matrix: Path of Neo got pretty good critiques from gaming mags, gaming sites, readers, gamers, friends, everyone. It was said to improve on Enter the Matrix (which was an OK game imo) by the bucket load. Well I played through it and during the first chapter there were some cool scenes and the action was fun at times, but then after about 1/3 of the way through, it became a load of nonsense. Level design declined, story declined (yeah I know, story!), action got boring, glitches aplenty, and I only forced myslef through it to witness the 'new' ending.. which was pure stupidity from the once respected director duo.

I can't think of why ppl say it's good, unless they haven't played many games of similar genre. But this doesn't seem to be the case so I'm left with a big wtf in my mind. This game is the worst 3d-gen game I've ever played.

But again, to each his/her own..

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I quite liked DMC3, but only after watching a vid where a Chinese player was owning the enemies on DMD mode. After that I thought "wow, you really are capable of intense mayhem!" and so I picked it up. The cutscenes were ridiculous, but a great watch although it did get too outrageous towards the end (falling of the tower was like been there done that somehow). The game progression was actually quite bland I found, not as good as the first, but the combat really was pure genius. It's just a shame you have to do lots of levelling to obtain all the moves so that kind off puts off the casual gamer I guess. It wasn't as hard as people made it out to be; I think cerberus at the start gave most false impressions.

It seems I've gone off topic here so um,

Another game I thought wasn't as good as ppl made it out to be was Fire Emblem too. I liked Advance Wars a lot, and whilst gameplay is similar, the setting just doesn't have that same impact for me. Add to that I'm disappointed that there isn't an option to have battle scenes play but allowing for manual skips, as I'm forced to play with them totally off (since I don't like it slowing me down). (Understand properly here.) The story may be interesting, but the dialogue is boring; no charm no wit it just didn't captivate me and felt tacked on. Interesting concepts with the whole item management and team co-op powerups, but tilt brings it down for me.

Sorry for the incoherentness. Just had too much chocolate lol!

There's nowhere I can't reach.