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

Resident Evil 4 - Sure, a good action game, but I'm really attached to the old Resi games, and 4 was such disappointment storywise, plus I was expecting at least a little more survival and little less running around, shooting and throwing around lousy one liners

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Can't say I hate any game, but I severly dislike Killer 7. Sure it had a cool style, but goddamn the gameplay was freaking atrocious. I can usually live through games that have bad gameplay, but really exciting (or unusual)visuals, but I just couldn't play this game through. I found it to be absolutely terrible.

Any FPS that takes place in historic wars. I'm so damn tired of games that claims to be realistic WW2 simulators. Snore.

Some of the earlier Final Fantasies (like, before V). I just can't see what people see in them nowadays except nostalgia. I'm nostalgic too, but I just can't see what people find so amazing about these games.
I do like the Final Fantasies after that a lot, but I also wonder sometimes about the huge hysteria surrounding them.
The ones I really like seem to be the ones where I find the world itself really interesting. This includes 6, 7, 9 and 11.

The Halo games are OK, but I find the visual design dreadful.

Can't think of anymore right now.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Einhänder (PSX): Recently looking for a PSX shmup to download and play on ePSXe I was led to belive by many that this was the best shooter in this platform... well I should've known that this would be no good since it was a Square game but I got it anyway. Guess what? It's Square alright, I've wasted 450 Mb of bandwidth on pure rubbish.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I'm guessing it's been mentioned before, but Metroid Prime stands as one of the most disappointing games I have ever played. It certainly could've been worse, but it is called Metroid and it should be better.

I also never liked Super Smash Bros. much. I play it when I'm at my friends' place, and I'm not really bad, but I just never enjoy myself while playing it.

I mostly like what Nintendo brings out, but these games are just not my cup of tea to say the least.

FELIPE NO

GTA is really the only game I despise thats enjoyed by masses.

Halo is vastly over-rated, but I don't have a particular disliking for it. I just think its dumb that such a mediocre game is what got the Xbox most of its original sells.

Donkey Kong Country gets an honorable mention as well. I don't dislike them, but they seemed really popular at the time... although, extremely stupid imo.

RE4 gets a mention, not because of the game itself, but because of Capcom's shitty politics. Release a version for the PS2 with extra features, but reduce the quality, lighting quality, special effects, and object on screen due to releasing it on a less powerful system? Rerelease it on GC, or port it over to a system that can handle the original graphics and objects on screen (Xbox). Stupid Capcom.

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How could I forget WoW. A game that looked great during early developement. Now, I see it as nothing more than blizzard slowly destroying a unvierse theyve spent 3 games and 2 expansions creating. Oh, and the graphics and polygons are ugly as shit. Plenty of MMORPGS released around that time, and some even earlier, are much more attractive. Stupid World of Warcraft. Hopefully, the future of Blizzard games will not follow this shitty trend.

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I'm not a big fan of the newer Gran Turismo games...I just find them to be really dreary and boring. I guess that the developers focused too much on realism and stripped the fun out of the game...that it takes so long to get to the good races and cars makes it even more annoying, and the license tests are just obnoxious. The lack of any sort of driver AI for the other cars and collision physics make it even more boring and predictable.

The funny thing is, I remember liking Gran Turismo 2 a LOT when it came out, but I absolutely hated Gran Turismo 3 for some reason, and Gran Turismo 4 seemed like the same game as GT2, except prettier. I'm not positive, but I remember Gran Turismo 2 as having easier license tests than the other games in the series, and I think that it gave access to some pretty good cars right from the start, which is probably why I like it a lot more than the other games in the series.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

all snk fighting games(except garou)and ALL nintendo games,the nintendo games are all boring and dont bring any fun to me,sega is much better

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by xsabin

all snk fighting games(except garou)and ALL nintendo games,the nintendo games are all boring and dont bring any fun to me,sega is much better

Your telling me that youve played every nintendo game, and that you hated all of them? For some reason... I find that a tad difficult to believe.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Ratchet and Clank: The entire series just seemed like the same thing over and over to me. Not my kind of thing, as fun as others say it is.

Jak and Daxter: Bleh. I dunno why, but I have come to hate cartoony platform games.

Doom 3: Got it. Was scared through the first level. Learned it to always have shotgun in hand for the rest of the levels. Played it, beat it. Played it on nightmare, beat it.

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Originally Posted by devilmaycry

Einhänder (PSX): Recently looking for a PSX shmup to download and play on ePSXe I was led to belive by many that this was the best shooter in this platform... well I should've known that this would be no good since it was a Square game but I got it anyway. Guess what? It's Square alright, I've wasted 450 Mb of bandwidth on pure rubbish.

Mate, Einhander was never good. It's a terribly reviewed game that everybody hates.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by avanent

RE4 gets a mention, not because of the game itself, but because of Capcom's shitty politics. Release a version for the PS2 with extra features, but reduce the quality, lighting quality, special effects, and object on screen due to releasing it on a less powerful system? Rerelease it on GC, or port it over to a system that can handle the original graphics and objects on screen (Xbox). Stupid Capcom.

Don't blame Capcom, dude. Blame free market economy.

Originally Posted by Denicalis

It's a terribly reviewed game that everybody hates.

A quick glance through some of the major review sites tells me you're dead wrong.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Rock

A quick glance through all the major review sites tells me you're wrong.

My bad, I was thinking of Ehrgeiz, apparently. Never played the other one.

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Rock

Don't blame Capcom, dude. Blame free market economy.

It was Capcom and its shareholders. With the announcement of the port, they also pissed off a bunch of their staff and the games' creator, causing some of them to opt to work on no further RE titles. Its also a slap in the face to Capcom's exclusivity clause on the game. In addition, it irritated Nintendo supporters, RE fans who followed the politics, and leaves future customers to choose between a better product with less content, or lower quality for more content. Major fuckup by capcom, and they didn't seem to give a damn.

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Originally Posted by xsabin

nintendo games,the nintendo games are all boring and dont bring any fun to me,sega is much better

I second this dude's opinion, Nintendo is just ... argh!
The SNES emulator just sits on my harddrive doing nothing at all since every other SNES game just freaks me out with exception to Chrono Trigger (a Square game anyway, the only Square game worth playing too).
Same for the Nintendo 64 emulator, every game I've played just plain bored me, exception to Conker BFD (a Rare game anyway)
Finally Gamecube, I got this one for 50€... that money would've been way better wasted on ice cream!

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Originally Posted by Rock

A quick glance through some of the major review sites tells me you're dead wrong.

A quick glace through my common sense tells me this is yet another Square game, hyped up graphics (zOMG! a shmup with 3D graphics!), music (zOMG! stylish electronica music!), and some pre-rendered FMV showing intense battle.
Yet when you go play it guess what? It play like crap, that checkpoint system is just plain stupid, the weapons upgrades are a snore and the controls are just downright confusing. But forget about this all, it has pretty graphics and Square brand stamped on the face.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by devilmaycry

I second this dude's opinion, Nintendo is just ... argh!
The SNES emulator just sits on my harddrive doing nothing at all since every other SNES game just freaks me out with exception to Chrono Trigger (a Square game anyway, the only Square game worth playing too).
Same for the Nintendo 64 emulator, every game I've played just plain bored me, exception to Conker BFD (a Rare game anyway)
Finally Gamecube, I got this one for 50€... that money would've been way better wasted on ice cream!

Everygame on the Super freaks you out? I'm sorry, but I don't understand. How do they freak you out?

Many people still believe the Super to be the best system so far. In America, games were released from 1991 up til 1999; and in Japan it was from 1990 up til 2000. This system lasted significantly longer than any other.

So, your saying theres not one good game for the super nintendo? How many games have you actually tried on the super nintendo? Which games? What made them so unlikeable? What games do you _like_ if theres not even one on the super nintendo. Your only exception was chrono trigger; why do you hate all the other massive ammount of rpgs on snes except chrono trigger? Stateside, the Super had over 600 games released (cant find the numbers for Japan). So, you telling me all but one of those sucked?

Different people have different opinions on different games, and thats fine. However, what your saying is poorly founded. I like resident evil, metroid, zelda, silent hill, and many of the other games mentioned in this thread. But to say you hate, or even just dislike, all of over 600 titles... That is something I can't believe.

Personally, I dislike the Xbox, but there are still games on it I find fun and entertaining, despite my dislike of the system. Saying I dislike the system, and that I dislike ALL of its games are two very different things. There are also a fair ammount of games for it I haven't even tried, and thus saying that would also be an ignorant statement based on a limited number of expierances.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I dislike the Nintendo styled games and most Nintendo licenced games, there may be exceptions but I don't feel like going through a bunch of games that I don't like just to find a handfull of good games, if there's any good games to be found.

Besides if you haven't noticed this is a thread to rant against games that everyone considers good, but apparently the Nintendo nuttys simply can't stand anyone bad mouthing their holy company, so no Nintendo evangelists here please, thanks, bye.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

What exactly is nintendos style of game? Metroid, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Mario, Tetris, Kirby, F-Zero, Star Fox... Which one of these is nintendo's style? They dont all nicely fit into the same style. And to judge a systems entire library just by its 1st party games is an invalid and non-representing sample. Majority of games on a system are not made by the systems creating company. Certainly, the SNES version of doom was not made by nintendo. No, it was made by ID software. But it was on the SNES. Non-nintendo games are part of a system's library, as well as, are are the vast moajority of software titles for a system.

If you don't like the games nintendo makes, say that. Don't say you dont like any games for the whole system. That just sounds ignorant.

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I dislike the Nintendo styled games and most Nintendo licenced games, there may be exceptions but I don't feel like going through a bunch of games that I don't like just to find a handfull of good games, if there's any good games to be found.

Besides if you haven't noticed this is a thread to rant against games that everyone considers good, but apparently the Nintendo nuttys simply can't stand anyone bad mouthing their holy company, so no Nintendo evangelists here please, thanks, bye.

But you didn't mention any games. You just "I hate all Nintendo games but some" and walked away. You haven't really contributed here. That's where our quandry comes in!

I have to add my vote in for Halo. I used to dig it, even though I sucked, but when I got into PC FPS's, Halo just feels all wrong. The controls are awkward, the physics are WEIRD (I jump so high and so long!), and the visuals get old (as in any game, I suppose)

And Halo 2 is a joke to play because I'm so bad at it; therefore, I can't say much more than the little experience I have has been unenjoyable

I don't think I can genuinely say I HATE many games, but there are some I find a bit overrated...

Final Fantasy 5- One would think this game was the holy grail of the holy trinity of 4,5, and 6 on the SNES. It was definitely good, but everything pretty much felt like a step back from 4 to me once I finally played it. Don't get me wrong, though...I did play the shit out of 5 (mastering all jobs with everybody takes some time), but I was kinda surprised after playing it that it came after 4. I suppose it was the aesthetics that pulled me the most; the music and visuals and story weren't as good.

Grand Theft Auto 3 and beyond- Aside from the half hour sessions of mayhem (in which I follow a cycle, 1) Steal a vehicle (preferably a motorcycle if available), 2) Drive around 3) Crash it in as funny a manner as possible, usually taking massive damage, repeat ad nauseum until I actually start getting dizzy from the blurriness...), I can't extract too much enjoyment from this!

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by GoldfishX

Final Fantasy 9 and Chrono Cross get the dubious honor of eliminating any interest I had in either series (I hated FF8 too, but my expectations were so low for it, it wound up exceeding them and I was able to play through it).
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agreed twice (for ff9 and CC). The only thing that kept me playing through ff9 was the chocobo sidequest (and its excellent music )

Although CC was and OK game by itself, it totally blew as a sequel to chrono trigger, my favorite SNES game. Too many characters, too little combos, plus schala just looks terrible

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by devilmaycry

Blah blah bla-BLATANT TROLLING OVER AND OVER WITH A TOUCH OF THREAD DERAILING STIR STIR ABOUT HATRED OF AN ENTIRE COMPANY INSTEAD OF LISTING GAMES. HERE HAVE SOME GAMEFAQS GAMEFAQS GAF-h blah blah

I said 'wow'. I don't think I've ever encountered a fanboy so fucked up that they even go as far as hating every single THIRD PARTY game just because of the system they're on. Get outta mah office.

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Kolba

Have you tried Majora's Mask? The gameplay is a lot more varied and in-depth than the other games. This is why Majora's Mask has its haters, because it dared to try something new and interesting, when all the fans just wanted a dumb plug and play extension to OoT.

Agreed. I never completed Majora's Mask, but I'm personally seeking the game out (probably the collector's version for gamecube) to do so. Ocarina of Time was great fun, that had atmosphere and a pretty solid feel, but people just don't like to see their favorite game have a sequel because their standards are so fucking high, they won't approve of it regardless if it's a good game.

Originally Posted by Skexis

Street Fighter III is no friend of mine. The changes made from Alpha 3 were almost all for the worse, but the absolute worst feature about this game is the infuriating blocking system. It causes a lot of standoffs, sniping, and turtling, encouraging players who never really take risks.

Wait, does this guy actually think Capcom based SFIII off Alpha 3? The Alpha series are an entirely different take on Street Fighter. They're not supposed to be alike at all. Street Fighter III is actually quite in depth, with the parry system and characters like Remy, who feel like Guile with his moves. Or Necro feeling like Dhalsim. Or Hugo feeling like Zangief. I think this was done deliberate so people could relate with what their previously played characters in II were.

Originally Posted by devilmaycry

Einhänder (PSX): Recently looking for a PSX shmup to download and play on ePSXe I was led to belive by many that this was the best shooter in this platform... well I should've known that this would be no good since it was a Square game but I got it anyway. Guess what? It's Square alright, I've wasted 450 Mb of bandwidth on pure rubbish.

Originally Posted by devilmaycry

Panzer Dragoon Orta (and Panzer Dragoon 1)

Originally Posted by devilmaycry

I second this dude's opinion, Nintendo is just ... argh!

Boy you sure do have extremely bad taste.

Originally Posted by devilmaycry

A quick glace through my common sense tells me this is yet another Square game, hyped up graphics (zOMG! a shmup with 3D graphics!), music (zOMG! stylish electronica music!), and some pre-rendered FMV showing intense battle.
Yet when you go play it guess what? It play like crap, that checkpoint system is just plain stupid, the weapons upgrades are a snore and the controls are just downright confusing. But forget about this all, it has pretty graphics and Square brand stamped on the face.

Oh shit son, Square made a game that isn't an RPG. It must fail miserably and be glared apon because of this very reason.

First of all, Einhander certainly isn't the only shmup with 3D graphics. Most games don't even need 3D graphics to be good, but Einhander wouldn't feel the same. Secondly, the music was very fitting to the game. Unless you played this game back in the age of the PS1, it really isn't going to have the same feeling as it is today. The game didn't age well like other titles (like the original Soul Calibur, for example) but it was definitely one of those games that went under the radar during it's time.

Considering you downloaded it, I'll just assume you didn't play it during it's time.

I haven't played through Einhander to the finish, nor do I intend to, but it isn't a bad game. If you're going to judge a game based on the company it's made by, that's just retarded. Shut up and stop complaining about your 450mb CD-R.

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HALO 1 & 2 - Pretty much the same reasons that others stated

Any Capcom fighting game that is not Rival Schools, Project Justice, or Power Stone 1 - The CVS games blow too. Seriously, I hate pokefests...

Guilty Gear - I may catch a lot of flak for this, but I don't see the magic that everyone else seems to see. It's more like a overly complicated 2D fighter to me...

Dead or Alive (the whole series) - Shame on anyone who conciders this game tournament worthy. SHAME ON YOU!!!

FF 7, AND..... FF 6 (runs away) - That's right! I think FF6 blows freakin chunks! The one, and only thing that moderatly interested me was the fact that Kefka wins halfway through the game. It's too bad that he was a annoying character. I didn't hate him because he was evil, I hated him because he looked/acted stupid as hell! And yeah, I think FF7 sucks too!!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I, for one, can't stand the Guilty Gear series. It's like every one they released, it's just a new character or 2. Same stages...same music (from what I can tell, though the music is pretty good). They're all basically the same, with the exception of Isuka, which is basically the same thing with a little of SSB thrown in it with the use of a "turn" button.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Someone's going to kill me for saying this, I know it. XD

I didn't enjoy Fire Emblem (the first GBA one released in the USA). In high school I borrowed a friend's GBA games a lot since I didn't have many of my own and she said it was pretty good so I really tried to like it, but I dunno. Sure, most of the characters are developed well and are enjoyable, but I didn't like the gameplay.. probably because I always got my ass kicked, but whatever.

It just seems to be an extremely loved series and I feel like if every game in it plays the same, then I don't want to give it another chance. I much prefer FF-type RPG games. :/

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Oh whoops, I forgot to mention devilmaywhinge is banned from the thread, so yeah don't bother quoting or whatever.

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