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

I picked up Jak 2 on the cheap when I saw it as a Greatest Hits title. The game magazines and sites were gushing all over this game, showering it with praise (mainly because of the GTA3 elements), but it just wasn't fun. The pseudo-FPS nature of it was kind of offputting, and lack of checkpoints plus excessively large levels is just unforgivable.

I played Final Fantasy Tactics, wound up not being impressed. My efforts at pre-battle levelling up with random combat just wound up getting my whole army destroyed, and review of the strategy guide didn't make the later game sound even more interesting. The advanced classes seemed hyper-specialized and a pain to try and employ. After the fiasco that was the final boss of Saiyuki, I have a suspicion that I'd wind up frustrated at the end of FFT as well.

I understand Virtual-On has fans. I wonder what they're smoking. I outright apologized to my brother for passingly suggesting Virtual-On: Mars as something that might be good. Hideously bad controls and mind-numbing gameplay; it's nothing more than a 2-bit arcade game designed to swipe your quarters, nothing more.

Jam it back in, in the dark.