TheWalkinDude

Who has played games that get outstanding reviews and praise from anyone who plays them, but you just plain don't like them?

For me it was Metroid Prime. The funny thing is, I love first person shooters, I love puzzle games, I love platformers, and I love the 2d Metroids, but this game just bored me beyond belief.

Anyone out there have any similar experiences?

lukethebandgeek

Halo multiplayer. I can't stand it, it's so boring. Also, Disgeia and La Pucelle. They just look so boring and washed out and all the menus. God...

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Rudel73

Starcraft and Warcraft....actually pretty much any Blizzard game. They are just I dont know, every game they make seems to be the same thing with newer flashy graphics

The Magic

Halo.

cheap version of tribes 2 with crappier maps~

lpj8

All of the Grand Theft Auto games. They are good for the first hour or so, but then become boring.

Ganguro

Halo, GTA series, Most turn based RPGs, most FPS, most sports games... can you see a trend here?

Ace_O_Spades

Halo, Halo 2, GTA Series

They're just no fun for me at all

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derektor

i'm with ace on this one. but then again, i've become a slave to console games over the years.

Justsomeguy

Tribes 2 is shit

Resident Evil 4 sucks as well. They have slowly abandoned the original concept. Half Life and Half life 2 as well as all mmorpg's are bad.

skinnymofo

GTA is ok for an hour like stated earlier but after that its meh
Halo multiplayer is really annoying when your against people who play it all the time and then start patting themselves on the back going "Yeah! I fucked you up!" and the best response is something along the lines of "yeah man, good job on killing me seeing as how ive played the game twice, you rock"

Carno

So you only hate it because you're not very good at it?

One game I dislike is Crimson Skies.. I really don't understand why everyone likes it so much. Especially online. It's boring. The PC version was much better, imo.

El Kaz

Every and any racing game, Gran Turismo series probably being the most popular in the racing genre, and I just can't stand it.

I don't get along with most FPS either. Half-Life2 is probably the one I liked the most so far, and Halo I can tolerate, but "realistic" historical shooter such as Battlefield: Vietnam (or 1942) are really boring me.

Rdr4evr

Halo, what a piece of crap.

Ripsaw

GTA series. If I wanted to carjack someone or beat a ho, I would. And any of the historical Battlefield series. People actually died during those events. It is not a game.

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omega2K4

Any Gran Turismo game, any Final Fantasy game, any Resident Evil game. Pretty much everything by Capcom and Squaresoft/Square-Enix (Except for the old Dragon Warrior/Dragon Quest games, those were cool), it seems every new game they make is the same as the last game.

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CityOfAngels

I must say I'm surprised by a lot of the responses in this thread. To those who say, "All of the GTA games," have you actually played ALL of the GTA games? The only time I was ever bored while playing San Andreas was AFTER I had beaten it, and had no more missions to complete. The same with Vice City. You need to complete missions to truly experience the games. Many people start one up, thinking the game is all about running around, killing as many people as you can, and stealing as many cars as you can. Of course you'll get bored doing that. What many of these people don't realize is there are missions to complete that add substance to the game.

Bah. As for me, I'd have to say just about any racing game I've played other than Super Mario Kart, F-Zero, and the first Gran Turismo. Not that all the other games are bad, but they're....all...THE SAME!

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SiNai

Majora's mask.. I loved all other Zelda titles I've ever played, and even tolerated windwaker

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Homey_V

Half-Life 2, Halo, GTA3 and Up. Yes, I played all the missions, they were still boring and repetetive. I couldnt stand Zelda: The Wind-Wanker. Most of the FF games that I have played bored me as well.

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junglistic

Halo 1/2

man i cant understand who you guys dont like the GTA series,

right from the dos version of #1 it has been my alltime fav game, and with san andreas the bar was pushed even higher. I beleive it to be the one 'perfect' game to rule them all..

haha that came out wrong but im drunk and it sounded good in my head muahaha

buclao

Halo- It's not that I hate it, I'm just indifferent and don't think that it's the greatest ever. It's just another stereotypical first person shooter to me.

MGS- I feel that the controls are twitchy and their is just too much emphasis on cinematics instead of gameplay. There I said it...

CityOfAngels

You must've had something going on with the game if you played all the missions from GTA3, Vice City, and San Andreas.

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Hanabal

id have to say halo,

and gta - the missions get repetative fast and boring.
quake was crap as well. apart from the whole technological point, but the game was pretty horrible. same as quake 3. oh and doom3 and doom 2 come to think of it. doom 1 was great tho.

warcraft 1 was bad. woah now that brought back memories.

i can think of a few games that were the opposite, everyone said they sucked but i loved them. Star wars rebellion comes to mind.

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Mephisto2

Doom 3


Mr Mephisto

Mr.Deflok

Half-Life 2, nice physics (which aren't proprietary) and ok graphics, but my god I've never played a more boring FPS game in my entire life.

CyCo PL

World of Warcraft

actually i dont hate it... just got boring too fast for me, too much like diablo. and on that note, I hate diablo and diablo 2.

NeverBorn

Any Zelda after the first one, Metroid Prime (1 and 2)

twotimesadingo

Final Fantasy Seven.

I hate the fuckers who treasure/worship this game, but when I ask them what it was about, they utilize and endless stream of "Ummm"s, "Well"s, and other placeholders signifying that the game was about as comprehensible as the time I banged Ashley Judd.

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Eight

Doom 3 - (nince engine just dont like the game)
Halo
Counter Strike 1.? (How ever I do play CS:S now and again, dont like it much but stuck for a good MP game)
UT200? (all of them, and yea I have played all of them they all make me feel sea sick)

jwoody

The entire First Person Shooter genre.

MPower

Farcry. I may go back and re-try it to make sure.

Any Age of ... game. Never quite liked their take on the RTS game.

Wingless

Grand Theft Auto III+

I started playing it, got through about 10 missions or so, got bored of it, looked up the cheats, started majorly blowing shit up, got bored of blowing shit up...

And when I'm at a friends house and he shows me GTA, he always uses a cheat code to accomplish and to show off shit. Doesn't that defeat the purpose?

Glad I only spent $5 on it.

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lpj8

[QUOTE=CityOfAngels]I must say I'm surprised by a lot of the responses in this thread. To those who say, "All of the GTA games," have you actually played ALL of the GTA games? The only time I was ever bored while playing San Andreas was AFTER I had beaten it, and had no more missions to complete. The same with Vice City. You need to complete missions to truly experience the games. Many people start one up, thinking the game is all about running around, killing as many people as you can, and stealing as many cars as you can. Of course you'll get bored doing that. What many of these people don't realize is there are missions to complete that add substance to the game.

Yep, I've played GTA 3, Vice and San Adreas. From my experience, they are just boring after a while. After the whole "cool I can do whatever I want" wears off, the GTA games just don't offer much up for me.

I have the same reaction that you do when people say Halo is crap, because I have such fond memories playing Halo Multiplayer way to much with my college buddies.
I guess thats why they make a ton of video games this year, so everyone can find something they enjoy.

Homey_V

THANK YOU! Someone who agrees with my points about that slapshod excuse for a game!

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aurigus

The game for me that is most annoying is the whole Sims franchise, Sim 2, Sims blah blah blah, Urbz, etc.

I tried it but I did not see a point in playing a "computer game" life that I could be doing in real life.

Justsomeguy

I understand people having their opinions on new games. I enjoyed metroid the most for the super nes. I also enjoyed suikoden 1 and 2 more than 3. However, Zelda: A link to the past on the SNES was the shit! That game, Chrono Trigger and FFIII defines the SNES.

Maybe they never played far enough into the game to see the story tied together.

The summons were beautiful, the story was well-developed, the graphics were solid for its time, the bonuses were very rewarding and very challenging, and the characters were very distinguished. It was a very good game. Especially for when it was realeased. Just look at when it came out.

pinoychink790

i can't stand any kind of mmorpg games, sims games, and final fantasy games

The Magic

I can't believe I forgot this one. I've only ever had fun with those games by amassing a giant force of elephants.

longbough

I was also bored of Far Cry when I started. I just didn't get the appeal of a FPS on a sunny tropical island. Just didn't click at first. I put it down for a long time then tried it again when I had nothing better to do. After a while I started to understand the appeal. In the end it was actually a lot of fun with some interesting surprises in store. Try it again at some point.

longbough

I don't understand the appeal of the Sim series from Sim City to the Sims. I never tried the Sims but maybe someone can explain the novelty of this game.

irateplatypus

halo - i guess i don't hate the game... i just don't see why people go bonkers over it. it seems like a run-of-the-mill fps to me.

gta - sluggish controls, poor graphics, weak story. beyond the cheap thrills of violence there just isn't much to it.

unreal tournament - the whole engine seems to be "off" for me. everyone in the office used to play this after hours... i just couldn't get into it. maybe it's cause i sucked so bad.

final fantasy X - i like the FF series (especially from FFVII on back), but this was just a long cut scene broken by short opportunities to steer your character to another cutscene. haven't played a FF since.

king of fighters - tried and tried to like this one as much as street fighter. i mean, i really wanted to like this. but, even after that, the control seemed sluggish and the moveset seemed ineloquent when trying to execute what i wanted to do.

resident evil - control was awful. the game seemed to rely a lot of scaring you for its effect, something i never got from it.

metal gear solid 2 - i felt the first metal gear solid did a lot to advance the series but the second was a just a setpiece to show off storytelling and graphical sharpness... not to be fun.

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