I could never get into World of Warcraft. Most overrated time-waster ever.

I never really got into the Brothers in Arms games. True, the game is praised for its flanking mechanic and super detailed historical accuracy to WWII, but I still couldn't get myself past the first 3 levels.

I still don't get Super Smash Brothers.

CoD 2 and 4. Tonnes of technical problems they refuse to do anything about or even acknowledge exist. Bland and "dumbed-down" shooting (probably to appeal to CS players)

Maybe it's because I entered the series with CoD:UO which was amazing to me. It had realistic recoil, bullet leading, sprinting and vehicles, cooking 'nade, ect. I think it's the game that got me into tactical shooters. Then come CoD2 with it's spray and pray zero recoil noscope no sights lawl shottie throw your grenade at a cloud gameplay with guns that came in two categories "good (44/tommy/rifles/shotties)" and "nearly useless(everything else)". Then add the problem of being near impossible to play competitively without a steady 125fps and less than 60 ping. Bullets that hit you after you've moved behind cover and seemingly random hit detection.

Then came CoD4 and everyone was like "ZOMG SHINEYz" and all of a sudden it's goty. Almost all the problems that made 2 so unplayable persisted. As a whole it was a definitely better. Ping and fps wern't as huge as cod2 (still quite a nuisance), but the problem of "good guns and peashooters" was as obvious as ever.

And sniper rifles are still broken.

/rant

I know they shouldn't be there, because this is for GOOD games we didn't like, not bad games we hated, but I just couldn't stand Tomb Raider or Myst.

[quote=Selka]
Finally, Shadow of the Colossus. Seriously, am I the only person to find that game mind-numbingly boring? Like, honestly, does anyone out there agree with me, cause I've yet to meet that person. There has to be somebody somewhere who thinks that just 16 enemies in one entire game is boring. Are you out there? Am I alone? Does this make me a bad person?
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You're not alone! I thought SOTC was one of the most overrated games for the PS2. I was expecting each boss to be a completely individual puzzle which would take you up to an hour to defeat- nope. Just find a way onto the colossus, stay on, stab shiny bit. Repeat. Zzzzzzz... Pretty game, dull gameplay, stupid story.

I also played Fallout 1&2 recently and just couldn't do it. The interface sucks and the game is just unbelievably fugly now. I gave up after about an hour so that my eyes didn't melt. I'm sure for it's time the game was fantastic, but it just doesn't stand up now. Mind you, I did try to play it right after Baldurs Gate 2 so my opinion may have been swayed by the pure awesome of BG2. Fallout Tactics on the other hand, is absolute genius :D

mine will be, yes everyone shoot me down and flame me CoD4 sure it had good graphics but i couldnt enjoy it i tried so hard but the fun went away afer 1-2 howers of gameplay and i could just never enjoy it. Im sorry to all the CoD lovers out there but i dont like it

Probably Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell. The game demo misleads you into thinking it's fun, then you go to play the real thing only to find out that you've been lied to. It would have been nice if it used a decent "multiple infiltration" style like in Deus Ex, but as it stood the whole alarm limitation and trying to sneak by enemies that have 360 degree x-ray vision was extremely frustrating.

Every RPG every made.

Whats the point paying a game where you click once, then wait your turn? Seriously, you're armed with some sci-fi death cannon, the ability to summon demons, cast spells or just plain stab fools.

Yet you stand there patiently while the enemy thumps you one...

Also Halo 3, apart from Rocket baseball, that game delivered nothing new.

MikeyW:
Does anyone know a game that is said to be one of the greatest games ever made, yet no matter how hard you try to like it, how many chances you give it, you just can't see what everyone is carrying on about?
Mine would have to be Final Fantasy XII. It just wouldn't click. The characters bored me and the combat was lame. It broke the formula I loved way to much.

I agree, I never liked the FF games. Another I don't like but people love is Halo. I'm not trying to start a war, but I just never enjoyed it. It's online is good but COD4 has over taken that rapidly. Oh and another, Stalker. It bored me a lot.

There are a few games that people love and I just don't enjoy.

Assassins Creed.

I just got it for the PC.
The gameplay is repedative, the missions are way too similar to each other, the dialogue is absymal.. at best. The mini-missions are laughable and on top of that the AI is poor.

Either it's me or this game is really not all that fun.

fix-the-spade:
Every RPG every made.

Whats the point paying a game where you click once, then wait your turn? Seriously, you're armed with some sci-fi death cannon, the ability to summon demons, cast spells or just plain stab fools.

Yet you stand there patiently while the enemy thumps you one...

Also Halo 3, apart from Rocket baseball, that game delivered nothing new.

Well turn-based and real time are 2 way different things..

fix-the-spade:
Every RPG every made.

Whats the point paying a game where you click once, then wait your turn? Seriously, you're armed with some sci-fi death cannon, the ability to summon demons, cast spells or just plain stab fools.

Yet you stand there patiently while the enemy thumps you one...

There are real-time RPGs out there, such as Dungeon Siege.

Also, Akuma, I salute you for having a PC that can run Assassin's Creed.

Hmmm... People always talk about how great Half Life 2 is, but I enjoyed Portal much more.

Halo. How it became an award-winning super-game is utterly beyond me. The enemies are generic, repetitive and wholly uninteresting, and while the outdoor levels are pretty good, some of the indoor environments (you know what I'm talking about) are just torturous. I never finished it; I forced my way through it as far as I could go but eventually reached the point where I just couldn't stand it anymore.

Gormless:

Sentient Muffin:

Gormless:
Mario 64, my friends played it religisly but to me it was just a derivitive and simple racer. i didint get the digital devil saga either. I love love the shin megami tensei series usually but the dd saga appeared to have stript of all that made that series great.

Racer?

I have to admit, I originally bought into to the whole "OMGZOR ITZ THREE-DEE M4RIO!" excitement that was going on, but once that novelty wore off, I found it to be rather pointless and bland. Sunshine was a little better, and I'm quite fond of Galaxy.

Bugger i ment mario Kart 64 *looks sheepish*

LOL.

Well that clears it up. Anyway I liked Mario Kart 64 and still do, just would rather play MKDS.

Final Fantasy X and X-2
I just couldn't get into them really, I pefer the games from FFVIII back to the original.
I can only hope that FFXIII, when it finaly comes out, is not so disappointing.

Anything MMORPG. Diablo 2 was fun, but going online... Yech. I play games to get away from annoying assholes, not meet more online. And usually that is what you found, a bunch of kids who had relatives buy them weapons or armor for Birthdays, Christmas, etc... My brother's friend actually had his aunt buy him a weapon for Diablo 2 off ebay for his birthday. At that point, I just said "fuck you losers, I am going for a drive... Or out to eat, or to a movie, or to a Pool Hall, or anything with real people that doesn't require me to spend real money on digital items." Not interested.

Rogue Squadron II. I kept hearing how is was incredible (I believe X-Play gave it 5/5), but when I played it, it made me miss the old X-wing, TIE fighter games.

Ditto Halo, It felt like every other Sci-Fi FPS I had played with less distinct guns.

I can't really think of any right off.. While I'm not a casual gamer, I still find most games at least a little fun, enough to keep playing. The only games I seriously cannot play are games based on movies. They are all terrible, and always will be. It's just the law of game physics section 2, paragraph 5.

I guess if there were any though, it would go to all the Grand Theft Auto's.. They are OK. But that's it, just OK. Mediocre even. I enjoyed them, but they were nothing special.

Ninja Gaiden, for the XBOX. Played, it was fun, but I just couldn't seem to care.

half-life 2. i pretty much enjoyed the game, love all the characters and in retrospective, i find it a good game..... but somehow, while playing it, i always had the FEELING that i was playing just to get to the good part, which never came.

Maybe it was because of all the hype? Everyone around me treated the game like a Da Vinci masterpiece!

Also shadow of the Colossus. The game felt so empty! All Alone in a gigantic place, + 16 giant monsters. Not my cup of tea. I prefer zelda (and here i am, beating the zelda subject again...)

And wow. omg wow was the biggest disappointment i ever had. Everyone in the uo server where i play was leaving coz "WoW is da shit d00d". Tried it, hated it. Ultima online is 2d, and was released 10 years ago, but god dammit UO>>>>>>>WoW

I guess most of this happened because of all the praise given to these games (except for wow. that game is so flawed compared to my good old uo).

I understand the RPG bashing,it's just a gui on a poncey excel sheet, purely about the numbers, but it works...VERY well.

Again, with Shadow of the Colossus, sounds utter shit on paper but again, a triumph in my eyes.

Now for my own personal hate...*drum roll*

ANY RTS on MULTIPLAYER!!!!!!!!!!!

WHY?

Civ IV.

I nearly lost my third year of university to the original Civilization. Somebody could probably have developed a sexually transmitted cure for cancer in the time I spent playing that game. Never bothered with Civ II, and was terribly disappointed by Civ III.

Played Civ IV and liked it quite a lot. Better interface, clever design choices, nice visuals, decent AI. I have no criticisms for Civ IV. It's an excellent piece of work.

I never finished one game. Just couldn't be bothered. I've never quite understood why.

Razzle Bathbone:
Civ IV.

I nearly lost my third year of university to the original Civilization. Somebody could probably have developed a sexually transmitted cure for cancer in the time I spent playing that game. Never bothered with Civ II, and was terribly disappointed by Civ III.

Played Civ IV and liked it quite a lot. Better interface, clever design choices, nice visuals, decent AI. I have no criticisms for Civ IV. It's an excellent piece of work.

I never finished one game. Just couldn't be bothered. I've never quite understood why.

Same here. I think it was almost *too* polished. Something about spending lots of time on the old ones felt like a guilty pleasure somehow. But with the great presentation and improved gameplay elements it's like "Hey now, you're trying too hard". It kind of took away from the original feel... one of those intangible elements.

The only fun I ever got out of The Sims was when my mate made a character of himself, which proceeded to wet itself in front of a lady he was trying to befriend. "Haha, even a digital representation of you is socially inept!". So it was downhill from there. I just never saw the point of it personally, but hey ho, each to their own.

Selka:
Finally, Shadow of the Colossus. Seriously, am I the only person to find that game mind-numbingly boring? Like, honestly, does anyone out there agree with me, cause I've yet to meet that person. There has to be somebody somewhere who thinks that just 16 enemies in one entire game is boring. Are you out there? Am I alone? Does this make me a bad person?

You're not alone. In the first few hours I was meserized by the new world that sprawled out before me. They did a fantastic job of taking you out of a comfort zone by dropping you into this big empty world where there's no one around for miles except a few lizards and a handful giant lumbering beasts. The archiecture and landscape around you were massive and you felt small and alone. Unfortunately I began to fall out of that state of total absorption because the bosses just weren't that epic.

For the game to gel as a whole the battles had to be as memorable as the world. After you got over the fact that they were big and you were tiny all it took to defeat them was one or two steps and if you took more than a minute to figure it out the game gave you the solution. To be fair the concepts behind some of the battles were fascinating, but defeating them just wasn't compelling.

Jercurpac:

Selka:
Finally, Shadow of the Colossus. Seriously, am I the only person to find that game mind-numbingly boring? Like, honestly, does anyone out there agree with me, cause I've yet to meet that person. There has to be somebody somewhere who thinks that just 16 enemies in one entire game is boring. Are you out there? Am I alone? Does this make me a bad person?

You're not alone. In the first few hours I was meserized by the new world that sprawled out before me. They did a fantastic job of taking you out of a comfort zone by dropping you into this big empty world where there's no one around for miles except a few lizards and a handful giant lumbering beasts. The archiecture and landscape around you were massive and you felt small and alone. Unfortunately I began to fall out of that state of total absorption because the bosses just weren't that epic.

For the game to gel as a whole the battles had to be as memorable as the world. After you got over the fact that they were big and you were tiny all it took to defeat them was one or two steps and if you took more than a minute to figure it out the game gave you the solution. To be fair the concepts behind some of the battles were fascinating, but defeating them just wasn't compelling.

I've heard much about the game. Just wondering, are there difficulty settings?

Well I hate to say it but... World of Warcraft. I played it for a while, got to level 20.. it was pretty boring.

Black & White. Critically acclaimed, but I got bored before I was out of the tutorial level. I tried it a few more times before it finally ended up in a closet somewhere. Throwing monkey poo just didn't interest me.

There are 2 classes of games that I really wish I could enjoy, but just could never find the magic for myself.

1) RTS: I love turn based, but can't abide RTS games. I always felt that the AI had a huge advantage, since it can look at the whole screen at once and I can't.

2) Online PVP style games: (shooter, strategy, etc.) I never could bring myself to care about winning or losing vs a person that I don't know.

Gears of War. It was the #3 in my personal list of "games-that-I-hear-about-too-much."
Halo, CoD4, GoW. Mmhm.

Anyway.

As far as Gears of War goes, the idea of hiding behind things and blind firing with absurdly overpowered lasers from the sky didn't appeal to me. And I enjoy seeing a reticule to fire from. And first person. And being able to see what was in front of me, instead of seeing totally disproportional fake buff men in two tons of brown tinfoil cover up half the screen.

I don't what it is about Final Fantasy 7, but everyone single human being loves that game more then Texans do guns. That's the only game which I don't go with the hype.

I could list enough games for this to get myself lynched, so instead I'll just point out the one that might do so on its own: Portal.

No, really. It's a great game, one of the best I've ever played, but for a large number of people it's the most amazing thing ever invented by humanity. I find that very hard to understand. I'd rather not count all the "laments" over the Companion Cube (which you only had for a few minutes, and it never did anything another inanimate object can't do) or cake-related jokes I've seen.

Maybe I'm missing something, but if so I'm kinda glad not to be totally obsessed with a game.

Crooklyn Banks:
I don't what it is about Final Fantasy 7, but everyone single human being loves that game more then Texans do guns. That's the only game which I don't go with the hype.

i think all the hype is because it was the first good contact that the west had with the complex anime esque RPG storylines.

i find amazing that halo could have a secuel with the bad designed and annoying it was, and the portal jokes are really annoying

Any and all of the stunningly bland, military-themed big hitters. GRAW, Rainbow 6, Halo, Gears of War etc. Faceless marines just aren't for me. I much prefer Operation Flashpoint, Hidden and Dangerous, Project IGI and the like, despite all their rough edges.

I also have no time whatsoever for World of Warcraft, or any online role-player for that matter. Funny, considering I usually go crazy for anything involving potions and paladins.