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To whoever thought Napoleon Dynamite was boring: THANK GOD! I thought I was the only one!

To the guy who thought Patrick Stewart was the only good thing in Oblivion: You do realise that the Nord women are voiced by Lynda (Wonder Woman) Carter?

To Star Wars Guy: I can never understand how the irritating little snot-jedi is tolerated, even loved, while Jar Jar and the Ewoks get trashed. Lack of perspective much? I mean, if we're going to kill off Jar Jar, let's decapitate Yoda as well. Please.

Mario games. I really cant get into them. I dont know why everyone else loves them, i really dont...

I didn't like Resident Evil games. I thought the actual gameplay wasn't all that attractive, and the dialouge was horrible.

I also hate about 9/10 of all FPS games.

Mario games that are not Super Mario bros 1 and 3 or Mario 64

im not sure if this hate or not but i havent played a final fanstay game except the frist one and the last zelda i played was the 2nd one. i think its more of not being into fanstay more then anything dragons and shit dont do it for me probally why ive never played WOW or dialibo also

also i never got into the sonic games even as a kid i guess cause back then i was a nintendo guy.

and i toatlly agree about Napoleon Dynamite it was so overrated.i laffed maybe twice durring the whole movie.

Xiado:
Halo is so overhyped its sickening. I mean it's decent, but how could the gods conspire to make this so popular! Its like the planets were aligned the second it came out

If by planets aligning you mean : M$ has money flying out their ass, then yes, the planets aligned... right out their ass.

Unfortunately, when there is a rich company involved, the product will often get so over-hyped and pumped up by all the marketing that the initially buyout is huge. Then the company says "Look at how many people bought our shit in the first week( or saw our movie), it must be great. If you don't agree and join the revolution, than you are a fucking loser and will die a virgin!"

People then look at the stats: "A buttload of people bought this product", and then deduct that if it's really that popular, it can't be that bad. Then the cycle continues.

Oh, I just thought of a racing/sports game I do enjoy, one where you can beat the crap out of the other player even though it's against the rules. Like when you give someone a "torn retina" in MLB2k8, or when you kill like 60 people in Burnout by crashing into an intersection.

WoW

I don't know how so many people play this game. when I tried it it bored me to tears

I can't get into Final Fantasy, the turn based combat irks me to no end. That, and the other cliches that accompany JRPG: ridiculous big weapons*, androgynous characters, endlessly long cutscenes, ect.

I never really touched the Metal Gear series, I tried the first one once on a friends console and found the controls irritating and the length of dialogue annoying.

Story in a game is good, but not when it's interrupting my fun and sitting me down on my ass to explain it. In my opinion, if you have to make cutscenes that long to explain things, you probably wasted a lot of good opportunities for exposition. Example, Final Fantasy again. All the junker random battle fights never expain dick, or squat. The enemies you fight are cartoonish and incomprehensible, and don't seem to fit in the employ of the evil villain. WHAT THE HELL IS A CACTUAR AND WHY IS IT TRYING TO KILL ME? WHO EMPLOYS THESE THINGS? Back on topic though, Yahtzee put it best: stop separating storyline from gameplay with a wrought-iron fence of tigers. Half-Life is amazing because you're never removed from your gameplay. At worst case do what Halo did: expose the surprisingly-well-done backstory in a book or four. It's merchandising and saves you hours of hard to animate cutscene.

... end rant.

(*There's big, and then there's physics-defying big. Big to the point that it would take a crane to pick it up. I can't believe a character that totes that shit around. I'm just a level one... excuse me while I hit you with my BOAT.)

Half Life 2 I don't see what the big deal is. It plays like a utterly average run and gun shooter I think halo's weapons and gameplay are better, but maybe not story.

TheIceface:

Xiado:
Halo is so overhyped its sickening. I mean it's decent, but how could the gods conspire to make this so popular! Its like the planets were aligned the second it came out

If by planets aligning you mean : M$ has money flying out their ass, then yes, the planets aligned... right out their ass.

Unfortunately, when there is a rich company involved, the product will often get so over-hyped and pumped up by all the marketing that the initially buyout is huge. Then the company says "Look at how many people bought our shit in the first week( or saw our movie), it must be great. If you don't agree and join the revolution, than you are a fucking loser and will die a virgin!"

People then look at the stats: "A buttload of people bought this product", and then deduct that if it's really that popular, it can't be that bad. Then the cycle continues.

Oh, I just thought of a racing/sports game I do enjoy, one where you can beat the crap out of the other player even though it's against the rules. Like when you give someone a "torn retina" in MLB2k8, or when you kill like 60 people in Burnout by crashing into an intersection.

I'd like to chip in that it was also sold with almost every Xbox ensuring huge numbers of people would have a copy.

While it's not the best game for the console, it's certainly playable and is damn good for a launch title. When it first started winning over the masses, it didn't have much in the way of competition.

Oh yeah, and I found that the books made the game more enjoyable, but most people probably never bought or read them.

I can't stand any game in the Guitar Hero series. At all.
Rock Band is okay by me, but I don't love it.

Oh yesss... I also forgot to add my vote to the tally of people who have no interest in Guitar Hero.

I honestly cannot understand how anyone liked the Dynasty Warriors series, and I mean all the spin-offs as well. Honestly, I thought they were utter shite, and I like killing computer game enemies en masse.

OK on to PC games:

All, and I mean ALL of my close friends (seven of them) in Upper School got addicted to Ultima Online, which I wasn't into from the very beginning. They literally BEGGED me to buy, subscribe and play it. Luckily I resisted after having a go on a mate's account and thinking it was, well, exactly what I think of Dynasty Warriors.

As a result I hate every MMORPG (and yes, I have seen WoW, Tabula Rasa, Eve etc. etc.) and just cannot see the fun when I could be playing a decent single player RPG (like Vampire: Bloodlines for example).

EDIT: After seeing the above post: I add myself to the people who find Guitar Hero, and all similar games, obnoxious and frankly annoying.

Phantom6:
Halo. The whole series. I utterly HATE Halo. I would rather play an FPS made back when they were GOOD and NOT trying to imitate Halo. Duke Nukem 3D >>> Halo. Goldeneye >>>>> Halo. Perfect Dark >>>>>>> Halo.

And Animal Crossing. I don't hate it like I do Halo, but I find it dull, uninteresting, and pointless...and am very curious as to exactly where its popularity comes from.

It really seems like more people hate halo than like it now which means your not standing out from any crowd..... so I am personally glad to be in he minority of halo fans

By the way, for all of the Halo haters who aren't fond of the popularity that the game has, Call of Duty 4 did outsell Halo 3. I'm not a Halo fanboy (I bought the game and actually gave the copy to a friend for free) but it's not the most popular game of all time.

GTA IV is going to outsell Halo also. Hell, even Nintendogs outsold Halo.

Phantom6:
And Animal Crossing. I don't hate it like I do Halo, but I find it dull, uninteresting, and pointless...and am very curious as to exactly where its popularity comes from.

Personally, I enjoy playing some Animal Crossing once in a while just to relax, since it takes no real effort to play and the music is kind of soothing. And keep in mind this is from a guy with nearly 300 hours of TF2.

friedmetroid:

Personally, I enjoy playing some Animal Crossing once in a while just to relax, since it takes no real effort to play and the music is kind of soothing. And keep in mind this is from a guy with nearly 300 hours of TF2.

Animal Crossing is pretty much the only game that I could get my mother to play. It was simple and peaceful enough that she would play it to relax when she got home. It was kind of interesting to log on with my character and see all the flowers she planted (I'd dig them all up) and long insulting letters she would send to the stupid animal.

Actually, I think I managed to get her to play through Zelda OOT. BTW getting your parents to play your console games is a good way to get them to buy addons and crap.

oh this is easy...halo, CS, COD 4, GOW with a passion, FF and...wow i thought i would be able to come up with alot more.

For me it's not a game but a movie. Lord Of The Rings Return Of The King

The Legend of Zelda series.

THERE, I SAID IT.

Seriously, I never 'got' it at all, what's the big fuss?

Quake, Counter Strike and HL:Deathmatch. Any of them - I'd rather play days of Serious Sam coop than another match of Quake on a Lan.

World of Warcraft. Let's face it, it's just like smoking. Either you're marrying it or you beat it.

Any RTS besides Company of Heroes and World in Conflict. Call me crazy, but they're just not fun. I suck at multiplayer in RTS and for all that's holy, until recently there was no single player RTS that ever fascinated me. Including Starcraft.

Honorary mentions go to Diablo 1 and 2 as well as everything with a GTA in the name past GTA3.

NKYJYB:
By the way, for all of the Halo haters who aren't fond of the popularity that the game has, Call of Duty 4 did outsell Halo 3. I'm not a Halo fanboy (I bought the game and actually gave the copy to a friend for free) but it's not the most popular game of all time.

GTA IV is going to outsell Halo also. Hell, even Nintendogs outsold Halo.

The thing about COD4 is its on PS3 and PC Halo 3 out outsold the 360 version.

the sims if i wanted a whiney guy buging me for food i'd have kids

That new John Rambo movie. Usually i am a huge fan of violent one-liner movies, i loved Shoot Žem up, but John Rambo was the most boring and dull movie i have seen this year.

My list:

Oblivion was mediocre. It wasn't nearly as good as Morrowind. Stop fawning over it.

Bioshock was basically awful. After one hour of playing it I went back and played SS2 instead.

Warcraft 3 to me seemed like an pretty weak RTS, its only saving graces being the great backstory and DoTA.

Homeworld 2 I don't get the hype about--the original game was great, but the sequel had a miserably stereotypical storyline and the gameplay seemed less creative and interesting.

I didnt start playing Guitar hero for ages, cus i saw wat its pretty colours did to ppl, anti socialist regime ftw!

and anyone who said they didnt like FF is gay:P
oh yeah and fucking dota

Darksparda:

Last but not least is portal. It's not bad but I just can't find what exactly is it, that makes people go crazy about(it's really nothing truly amazing in my eyes).

I am not alone! :D

lukemdizzle:
WoW

I don't know how so many people play this game. when I tried it it bored me to tears

They play it because either:
1, No other MMORPG will accept them,
2, They lack the skill for other video games,
3, All of their friends play it,
4, They watched the episode of South Park and wanted to be like the fatass guy who couldn't be defeated, or;
5, More than one of the above.

Magatheriden:
I didnt start playing Guitar hero for ages, cus i saw wat its pretty colours did to ppl, anti socialist regime ftw!

and anyone who said they didnt like FF is gay:P
oh yeah and fucking dota

acutal your more likely to be gay if u do like final fanstay because all the guys in there games look to be of a more femine nature

not theres anything wrong with being gay im just saying....

bulletproof12:
oh this is easy...halo, CS, COD 4, GOW with a passion, FF and...wow i thought i would be able to come up with alot more.

GOW?

god of war or gears of war?

-F.E.A.R : I thought the story was a bunch of nonsenses, the characters were all idiots, the idea of sending a soldier alone seemed rather stupid to me, and all the gameplay was a lot of identical gunfights, in identical settings, against always the same ennemys (Yeah, there were those weard invisible things, but there were only six or seven of those in the entire game). Ok, it was terrifying, but that's about it. It's repetitive, linear, poor. I thought that this game sucked, but oddly, there are a lot of people who love it, and some professionals reviewers compared it to Half Life !

By the way, I bought and finished the first Halo recently, and honestly, it is not that bad. That's not great, just good. It's sometimes repetitive, but not to the point of FEAR (in which things are always the same during the entire game, except maybe the end). I don't understand why some people hate it so much.

gears of war. it's broken, slow, unintuitive, and it's not even the whole game (the xbox version)

gears of war. it's broken, slow, unintuitive, and it's not even the whole game (the xbox version)

damn it, sry4dblpost

Bling Cat:
Mario games. I really cant get into them. I dont know why everyone else loves them, i really dont...

yay people agree with me. i really dont like mario games. theyre ok i guess, but i cant play them for more than like 20 minutes at a time. the lack of a story combined with the lack of a cohesive universe is irritating and i just cant get into it. sure the puzzles are fun, but without a reason to do them, i just am not that interested. mario 64? i never even finished it. got to the spiral staircase and never wanted to finish the game.