Not worst, don't start saying CoD is SO mediocre, it's TERRIBLE.

I mean mediocre. The game you remember filling you with the most indifferent apathy or indecisive 'do I keep playing or not' lethargy?

I'd discount Bodycount for myself simply for being BAD. I thought it'd be mediocre, but it pissed me off a little.

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EDIT:

Guise.

You're allowed to say CoD, it's cool. Was just using an example. I think it's pretty goddamn mediocre too.

Oblivion. Everything about it that isn't hilariously bad voice acting is just a massive pile of meh.

The ones that come to mind are Splatterhouse and Dark Souls. Some people loved Dark Souls but just fond the combat to be well repetitive.

Mass Effect. Actually enjoyed some aspects of the combat but everything else inbetween was a chore and a bore.

Kahunaburger:
Oblivion. Everything about it that isn't hilariously bad voice acting is just a massive pile of meh.

Yes, quite true, however it at least has a modding community and weird bugs to add a little life to it. I think I'm going to go with Pariah. It might be PC exclusive, or it may not. It is a Sci-Fi shooter that oozes dull from its pores. Gameplay is executed competently enough, everything works but it is just so...lifeless...

Clive Howlitzer:
See, here is the problem with trying to recall those titles. I can't remember them because they were all so boring and mediocre that I forgot they existed.
I know I always felt that way about WoW and SC2, just to throw two titles out there I can remember.

Indeed. I only remember Pariah because a couple of weeks ago I found the disk for it.

See, here is the problem with trying to recall those titles. I can't remember them because they were all so boring and mediocre that I forgot they existed.
I know I always felt that way about WoW and SC2, just to throw two titles out there I can remember.

CoD comes to mind here. They are incredibly mediocre but not terrible. But that isn't the reason I hate them.

Perfect Dark Zero

Such a shame really, because Perfect Dark on the N64 was awesome.

Legend of Zelda. Boss fights are a chore, usually you do the same thing 3 times and they die. The puzzles are...alright. But the pacing is off, you can spend hours running around doing bullshit one moment, then progress half the game in the next. It doesn't really grab me as a fun game that I pick up and play, its more of a "ok, lets sit down for a night and try to get through this". I know this is going to get flamed like crazy, but the gameplay is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo tedious.

I think that mediocre in terms of gaming should mean boring, because boring would make a game terrible since as a form of entertainment "Boring" is akin to a sin. But to me mediocre mean less impressionable, for example the mediocre game that comes to my mind has to be, for starters MOST LICENSED CONSOLE GAMES. especially since they entertain but don't leave much of an impression. But to give a more specific example, i recently played "LEGENDARY" for xbox 360 and as a shooter its a perfectly adequate game. It had some entertaining moments like fighting a minotaur with machineguns n shotguns. But after i put it down i almost couldn't recall things such as levels, special weapons, or features it just didn't leave much of an impression.

A friend recently leant me The Saboteur, at first it was fun blowing up Nazi installations. That fun soon gave into boredom when I realized there are thousands of targets you have to blow up on the map which seems like an extremely tedious way to pass the time and have pretty much given up on it. I have no idea how he had the patience to platinum it.

OP makes no sense.
Mediocre is how you approach "average" from the negative side.
The majority of products are about average, so you can call all of these "mediocre" if you have higher standards than average.

So the OP is asking which game sits exactly in the middle, which isn't meaningful information and prolly requires a triple decimal scoring system to determine and would change positions with every new game release.

Also the COD games do qualify for mediocre or about average. Those games are not by any stretch among the worst shooters on the market. There's garage productions with controls clunkier than wolvenstein 3D out there.
Disregarding the cheap or old stuff, even among the current gen AAA expensives, the COD and MW games tend to be better than the competing games inspired by MW, such as Homefront.

I think I only played about half an hour to an hour of it, but Pariah for the original Xbox.
Quite, quite generic scifi FPS that I can barely remember a single thing about.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. The first one.

It was scary, well paced, challenging and it certainly didnt hold your hand.

But no way to ditch your fecking gold, so i ended up with that shitty "i wanna be rich" ending.

Made it mediocre.

Morrowind.

Maybe there is real fun to be had, somewhere, buried under the terrible combat mechanics and 30 minute runs to drown in diarrhea of the pen every time you have to talk to someone.

I quit caring to try to find it.

Played through Super Mario Galaxy the other day. Not really that mindblowing, would've been better with proper controls.

Mirror's Edge all the way. It went from a great first part of running from the man to deliver a secret package to crawling in vents to further a redundant plot.

PieBrotherTB:
I think I only played about half an hour to an hour of it, but Pariah for the original Xbox.
Quite, quite generic scifi FPS that I can barely remember a single thing about.

You know what the only thing I remember about that game is? The re-load sound!

I'll go with the Force Unleashed. Yay, run around with force powers... way to go make it mindnumbingly boring.

SckizoBoy:
I'll go with the Force Unleashed. Yay, run around with force powers... way to go make it mindnumbingly boring.

See, I might agree were it not for some bad design decisions taking it from boring into unbelievably and unnecessarily frustrating. From what I played of the second it was even worse.

Personally, I'll go with Halo. I remember hearing all of the hype when it came out and thought it sounded really good. Then I actually played it maybe a 2-3 years later. I remember beating most of the single player and just kind of thinking, is this it? I found the story pretty bland, and quite derivative of a lot of other sci-fi, and the gameplay was just mind numbingly slow. Movement was slow, jumping was slow, aiming was slow. I played quite a bit of multiplayer as well but that never sold me on it either. Honestly, until online multiplayer was implemented it just felt like Perfect Dark light as far as multiplayer options go, and like I said, I didn't care for the base gameplay.

Just a few off the top of my head:
- Star Wars: Force Unleashed
- Skyrim
- Diablo 3
- Vessel
- Realm of the Mad God
- Blazblue: Continuum Shift
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution

These are not bad, just very mediocre. They all had things going for them, and things working against them. These titles just didn't get me excited while playing.

I nearly ripped my hair out with Brink and Homefront. A bad game is bad. A game with potential and squanders everything is even worse.

Gears of War. Nothing at all interested me from start to finish, but it was never offensively bad.

Skyrim for me. I wanted to love the game I really, really did but as I played my investment in my character (yes, only one character) slowly depleted. The main quest came and went in an instant and the secondary quest (you know: that whole civil war thing) was non-existent...even while I was on those quests they didn't seem to matter. It wasn't a bad game and I loved Malog Bal's quest. The thing is that was the only really memorable quest for me.

I haven't played much at all on consoles, but Gears of War and Halo felt very mediocre.

The halo series, nothing screams generic and bland like that group of games.

Me55enger:
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. The first one.

It was scary, well paced, challenging and it certainly didnt hold your hand.

But no way to ditch your fecking gold, so i ended up with that shitty "i wanna be rich" ending.

Made it mediocre.

That is .... HNNNG. I'm really trying to restrain myself here but really, the game is mediocre because you didn't get the ending you wanted? The hell man.

Shoggoth2588:
Skyrim for me. I wanted to love the game I really, really did but as I played my investment in my character (yes, only one character) slowly depleted. The main quest came and went in an instant and the secondary quest (you know: that whole civil war thing) was non-existent...even while I was on those quests they didn't seem to matter. It wasn't a bad game and I loved Malog Bal's quest. The thing is that was the only really memorable quest for me.

Coming from a fan of the TES series, I feel ya. The game is much shallower than the previous, and there is much less content.

I still find myself playing from time to time, though. Thieves Guild, Dark Brotherhood and College are nice quests. And sometimes I just fire it up, make a wood elf archer, and go sightseeing/hunting. I got so good with the bow I take running enemies at 50 paces.

IPunchWithMyFists:
Not worst, don't start saying CoD is SO mediocre, it's TERRIBLE.

I mean mediocre. The game you remember filling you with the most indifferent apathy or indecisive 'do I keep playing or not' lethargy?

I'd discount Bodycount for myself simply for being BAD. I thought it'd be mediocre, but it pissed me off a little.

Get it?

Go

But CoD is the very definition of Mediocrity. If we're judging the games on their own merits, they are functional shooter with competent execution but are also overwhelmingly bland. A "military plot for dummies" approach for a story, cookie cutter characters, uninspiring combat and anything that deviates from it's standard shooting gallery gameplay, feels forced or disjointed from the actual game.

Nothing aggravates me in CoD, it's just nothing makes it a notable experience. It's decidedly meh.

To drive that point home, looking back on all the CoDs I've played, nothing distinguishes them from each other... apart from thematic differences (WW2 vs Modern Warfare)... and I literally can't tell you what happens in which game... it all seems like one big blob of the same thing.

For a game I played recently it'd have to be Kingdoms of Amalur, everything about that game just seemed so average. The only good thing was the combat system but the rest was just so bland.

Blur. It feels like the less fun offspring of Mario Kart and Burnout Revenge (I loved Burnout Revenge).

Dungeon Siege III. Nothing particularly wrong with it, nothing particularly great either, doesn't really do anything new with the standard fantasy set-up. I enjoy it well enough in small doses whenever I remember it exists and can be bothered to play it, but there are many other games I'd pick over it if I have a bit of free time.

IPunchWithMyFists:

I'd discount Bodycount for myself simply for being BAD. I thought it'd be mediocre, but it pissed me off a little.

I came here to say Bodycount. And I'll say Bodycount. Even financially it ended up neutral, as I traded it back in a different store for the exact same ammount that I payed for it in the first place (20 bucks).