Games that majority like but you don't

It's interesting to see some people dislike racing games. I never really 'disliked' them but they never really floated my boat the way some they do for some people. Then I discovered iRacing. Turning racing into an mmo like experience totally resonated with me and now I can't get enough.

On the games I dislike front, Fallout 3 for me is a curiosity. I have it and I want to love it, but I don't. I don't really dislike it, it just hasn't' grabbed me the way it seems to have grabbed so many other people. I think it's a question of time though. I used to feel the same way about Oblivion but picked up game of the year edition for cheap on Steam recently and forced myself to really dig in. I mean, if so many people are saying it's awesome, there has to be some meat to that claim right? Result = starting to fall in love with Oblivion so I'll have to give the same honor to the Mass Effects and Fallout 3 soon I think.

I like FPS, but never really got excited about the more arcadey ones (Unreal Tournament, Quake etc) and I think that feeling for me also transfers across to Crysis. It's a curiosity for me, but not something I've ever felt the need to dash out and buy.

You know, I think an alternate angle to this thread might be what games have you only just discovered are awesome. For me, for example, I recently discovered Might and Magic Heroes 3. As a result I got 5 yesterday and now I'm itching to buy the beta of 6. I always dismissed the heroes series as somewhat quirky and not really for me. Now I'm playing them though, I can't get enough. Heroes 3 is tough as nails, and on my little M11x runs on the integrated graphics card meaning hours and hours of power cord free awesome gaming.

 

- Most Silent Hill games. The symbolism doesn't get to me, and I always found the gameplay pretty crappy to be honest
- Any kind of realistic military shooter
- Most RTS'es, mostly because I take my sweet time to get good at them.

 

I hate any "horror" games or stuff with zombies etc in them. I also hate such movies too so that's not much of a stretch.

I am probably one of the few that hated MW2 but thought BO was awesome as far as the campaign goes. I just hate implausible stories like the Russians invading DC.

I also dislike MMO's. They are just time hogs and I like more variety in my gaming.

 

For me it has to be Halo: Combat Devolved, that generic console mess is a blight on the FPS genre, and will be the root cause of the problems many years to come.

Gears of Snore next, Yay!!! another chest high wall, does it take some special kind of bombs to make all these chest high walls?

Mass Effect I couldn't imagine a game more boring.

Dragon Age: Origins, then BioWare amazed me, they can make a game more boring than Mass Effect.

Far Cry the game was epic, then the trigen appeared, reducing epic to drivel.

 

Almost every AAA Game released since the dawn of the (now) current gen consoles (with focus on multiplatform/console ports).
This especially means everything Bioware has produced since '07.

Every COD game after COD 3.

Assassins Creed.

Resident Evil 1/2/3 (although i would probably love them if the camera settings and controls weren't fubared).

..Oh, and crysis.

I absolutely loved GTAIV though, which seem to have mixed user reviews. Boggles the mind since it has one of the most interesting protagonist i've seen.

 

Yup!

Best racing game of all time thus far (for me) is "Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit" as the police cruiser, which is loaded with weapons and radio calls for ground/air units as back-up. Also enjoyed the Mario Kart series and Rock & Roll Racing from the SNES days

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Glad you discovered the Heroes Might & Magic series. I'm in BETA for H6 right now and so far I'm really enjoying it.

By purchasing the deluxe edition from Steam, you get BETA instantly as well as exclusive hero units/bonuses. So far, they've given us 2-3 campaign missions and 1 XL multiplayer map in BETA. But of course, H3 is still the king of the series

I'd give the green light on H6 as a buy if you're considering it!

 

I too hate half-life only because I don't like shooting game with any scary or horror element to it. Halo was the only exception cause it was just a bunch of alien even thought the flood was on the borderline for me.

I also don't like shooting game like half-life (I HATE PORTAL) that have puzzle in it. I can never seem to find the fun in a game with puzzle, reason why KOTOR was not as fun as it could be for me.

 

BORDERLANDS!

I found the voice acting, corny jokes and poorly written dialogue for the character of ClapTrap to be so excruciatingly painful to sit through that every time he opened his "trap" I wanted to throw my shoe at the monitor.

 

that's kinda the point of that character, lol.


I never liked the Mass effect series. Just wasn't a fan of the way the blended RPG and action shooter elements together. A good idea on paper, but poorly executed in my eyes.

 

The horror is half the fun! and the puzzle is the other half. I hate no-braining my way through a game. I need some sort of mental stimuli to make it interesting. portal is a godly game to me.

 

Most valve game including portal seem like a mod and that the way it should be. I can't believe people actually pay $50 to $60 dollar for a mod. I lost respect in Valve as a company when they made games that are mod and cost money. The only exception to this rule is Half-Life 2, and TF2 is a mod IMO.

I forgot to mention that Crysis is overrated as well. I don't like it, but I sure love the graphics!

 

A question for all: Do you guys dislike the concept or the gameplay of certain games (the ones you're listing)? I'm a fan of sci-fi movies, for example (Pandorum ftw), and I find it hard to dislike or hate the concept of the movie although I can still dislike or hate the way they go about doing it. Same goes for games. Halo: Combat Evolved had a cool concept (which they murdered over the years), but the gameplay was average to slightly above average.

I think that, because I played Fallout 3 first, I couldn't get into Oblivion. A friend brought over his PS3 (thus introducing me to Fallout 3, Oblivion, CoD: MW2/BO) and I immediately fell in love. He tried to show me Oblivion, but it just felt a little too similar, honestly. That could just be my love of sci-fi/dystopian-type games over medieval/wizarding games, though.

Regarding Crysis, I'll have to borrow it from a friend, rent it, or find it on the cheap because it's mentioned too much not to give it at least a try. Same goes for a lot of other games, but I'm short on dough

 

The CoD series extremely overrated (lately), Crysis never really caught myself playing all the way through it, Dawn of War series.

 

Things I don't like:

-Racing games. Mario Kart would be the giant exception, of course. But you'd think that by NFS 7 billion EA would've figured out something new to put in the game.

-The Sims. I played it for a couple hours before realizing I wasn't having any fun. I can't find anything redeeming about it at all.

-Most RPG's, especially FF, Fable, Dragon Age, and other fantasy-related jaunts. There are way too many of them, and they quickly start to feel like the same game. I (used to) love Pokemon though!

-Assassin's Creed. The combat mechanics don't cut it for me. I think combat is the problem with most historical/fantasy action games -- it simply isn't satisfying.

-Sports games. Soccer, golf, bball, football. Go away. Tennis games I can stomach, but I'd rather stick to the real thing.

-Games that involve too much cover. (Not sure why this bothers me so much) Gears of War and Splinter Cell come to mind.

-Hunting games.

-Flying games, including combat sims.

-Plants vs. Zombies.


Things I like:

-Good ol' FPS games. TF2, CoD, the lot. Sorry. Poor shooting mechanics pizza me off though.

-RTS games. I usually suck at them, but its fun to mess around with different strategies and it feels great to win.

-Cheesy horror. I love it in movies, too. Half the fun is guessing which closet the zombie will pop out of!

-Fighting games. Street Fighter especially!

My heart is broken. I love Borderlands!

 

The only thing about that I dont like in the Sims is to play it, I really like building housings, but playing it....

 

Oh I forgot Borderlands, too bad the memory loss was not permanent, hated that game, loved the art style, but everything else has to go.

 

Oh I forgot to add: WoW

 

Haha, well said!! I guess we are not interested in "semi-life simulators"

 

Assassins creed series, i would like to like it. But i simply cannot get myself to play through it :S

 

The Sims. Yuck. Braindead teenager entertainment that have no content what so ever. And the worst thing is that it top the game sales list almost every month. THE HORROR

 

The only games that I have given up on before finishing recently have been Crysis 2 and Mirror's Edge. The rest I tend to soldier on hoping that they will improve, but for some reason those two just left me thinking that I was wasting my time...

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Fallout for me.

 

Oblivion for me.

Tried it on console then sold it. Later bought it for the PC and really really tried hard to get into it but I just couldn't. Not saying it's a bad game, I just couldn't play it with any enthusiasm or have the feeling "I can't wait to play this game when I get home," like I usually do with some games. It became more of a chore to force myself to like it.

 

WOW or any other game with monthly fees

 

Oblivion for me too. Tried the side quests and found the assassins guild so superior to the main quest, never completed it.

 

Diablo II. If I wanted to click the mouse button for six hours at a time, I'd play minesweeper. I mean seriously, what's the point of having three skill trees per character with dozens of abilities if you can only use two at a time (with "attack" using up one of your two slots)?

 

Note that Diablo 2 and its expansion is over a decade old, not many games released at the time had support for multiple skills active for players in real time then if I'm not mistaken.

 

I don't know if Dragon-Age-style toolbars existed back then; that would be ideal.

But other games that predated Diablo II let you pause while switching between powers, facilitating the use of multiple powers in a single fight. Exhibit 1: the original, gold-cased Legend of Zelda from 1986. In Diablo 2, you can't pause the action to change powers. And your movement is controlled through the same manner as your powers (mouse pointer), not separately (like Zelda's use of the control pad for movement and A and B for powers), leading to inadvertent movements when you're trying to use powers and vice versa.

Imagine if Zelda didn't have "attack" separate from "movement" (you swung your sword automatically when you moved into an opponent) and didn't let you pause to switch tools for the B button. That's what Diablo II is in my mind.

 

Hardly a point of critique. There are passive abilities and the use of a tree is to access the better abilities per tree, not to use all of them at the same time, don't you think so?

 

Not a fair comparison as "Exhibit A" is a classic console RPG whereby the mechanics and game design are completely from a (Western) PC-focused RPG, the point may be valid but looking at past games through the lenses of the present is not the most objective way to approach the games.

 

Pretty much ANY mmo. Just could care less about multiplayer. Co-op is cool but, the overused derivatives of capture the flag, and deathmatch, are just way to boring to me. Guess I don't care about stats: I want a story, and a reason to go kill someone, or something. LOL

 

Single player is for me - Like to alternate strategy games with other types. So MMO has no appeal too.

 

I don't agree that it's a bad comparison, but let's try:

Exhibit B: Starcraft. Predated Diablo II by two years. The caster units had their special abilities hot-keyed to letters so you didn't have to click-click-click-click to use special abilities in the middle of a fight. Diablo II, made by the same company, does not, even though your character has even more special abilities than the caster units in Starcraft.

Exhibit C: Diablo II itself. The game DID have hot-keys. Four user-assignable hotkeys for drinking potions (1 through 4). Two user-assignable hotkeys for moving AND attacking AND active special abilities (LMB and RMB). Doesn't it seem a bit unbalanced to you that you've got four separate hotkeys for JUST drinking potions, but only two hotkeys for moving AND attacking AND active special abilities? If they're going to give 1-4 to the user for potions alone, why not give 6-0 to the user for special abilities, or Q through R, or something like that?

 

Mafia 2, i though it was quite bland. And i hated that they reused the skins...

 

I honestly just buy games and don't care about their genre, but when I think "MMO" I think of open world, World of Warcraft-esque games. But I think games like CoD and WoW have pushed multiplayer as the forefront of gaming instead of a cool storyline in single player.

Example: I bought BF2 for the online multiplayer (which I barely get to play). In realizing this I got Far Cry 2 for the single player. Awesome investment.

 

Never mind--misunderstood previous post.