Current Events > Name some popular / highly reviewed games you didn't enjoy

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You are not obligated to post a reason why, but it is appreciated.

You have to have actually played the game past any tutorial it may have had, or for more than 10 minutes if no tutorial was provided.

Just kind of looking for some other perspectives on games that are commonly accepted to be good.

For me a few that come to mind are:

1. Life is Strange- Just wasn't engaging or fun mechanically and there are too many games out there with more interesting stories, and more player choice. Didn't hate what I played, but never bothered to finish.

2. Any Bethesda RPG that isn't Oblivion- They are just too shallow and buggy. Get away with shit no other company can. Rely too heavily on the modding community to make up for their shortcomings. Their games are always glitchy as all hell, ugly, and have the most boring combat on the market. Top that all off with the extremely weak writing and I've lost just about all interest. Oblivion is my exception because I think it was good enough in the RP department and strong enough in writing/story to make up for most of the faults it had. Probably would not be the case if I ran into a lot of bugs or issues running the game, but I played it pretty late and had a relatively good time with it.

3. PUBG- looks horrible, runs horrible, bad gunplay/mechanics. Buggy.

If you enjoy these- more power to you. I'm not gonna tell you you're wrong. Just not for me.

Last of us - just got bored like 6 hours in. I should give it another go
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Shadow of the Colossus

I played the PS3 version which apparently has some issues, but I found it an incredibly tedious and frustrating experience. The grip mechanic is just awful and there often seemed like you had very little option other than falling the hell off. I also remember at least one Colossus who was obnoxious because you had to wait for him to hit a step so you could climb up - a tactic which I had to eventually google because when I thought it it and tried it, it just didn't work.
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Uncharted 1-3.

haven't played 4, but I'm going through Lost Legacy right now

Yakuza 3-5.

I really liked the first two, though, and I'm enjoying 0

Skyrim

Max Payne.

but Max Payne 2 & 3 are some of my favorite games
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Dark Souls- Thought it was very dull and boring.
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Farcry 3

Farcry 2 is one of my favorite games ever and Farcry 3 just felt boring. It was just an FPS Assassin's Creed game and I had already grown tired of that formula. The world was pretty but there was nothing to do in it and the base of the game being that you had to remove all of the enemies from an area to even do the boring side stuff sucked the fun right out of it for me.

specialkid8 posted...

Farcry 3

Farcry 2 is one of my favorite games ever and Farcry 3 just felt boring. It was just an FPS Assassin's Creed game and I had already grown tired of that formula. The world was pretty but there was nothing to do in it and the base of the game being that you had to remove all of the enemies from an area to even do the boring side stuff sucked the fun right out of it for me.

Yeah, I was disappointed by FC3 and FC4. The majority of the gameplay is playing icon janitor, and the world had absolutely no personality in either game. I just felt like I was exploring an amusement park.
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pegusus123456 posted...

Shadow of the Colossus
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I can see that. I loved the game, but I played it on ps2 with no expectations. You can also get more stamina throughout the game to ease that grip issue, or even find places/times to stand or let go of your grip safely to recover, if you ever intend to play again. Final boss is a bit of a shit show if you don't know what you're doing.

boxington posted...

Uncharted 1-3.

haven't played 4, but I'm going through Lost Legacy right now

I think 2 & 4 are the best in the series, but for different reasons each. I think 4 will age better. How are you liking Lost Legacy?

Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood.

Several magazines rated it well (Scores of at least an 8), but it was a sluggish, unpolished mess.
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im going to do mostly new/recent games since I feel ive become a lot more critical with games as ive gotten older and nostalgia isnt really a factor anymore

Zelda BOTW - I found it to be boring and I missed the structure of previous Zelda games. It basically seems to take all the elements I dislike in open world games and roll them together in one package

MGSV - it's trash

Uncharted 1 - Lame Gears of War knockoff combat and platforming is this thing where it looks cool but ultimately you're just pressing one button and basically watching a cutscene

Bioshock Infinite - took out all the cool adventure elements of Bioshock to turn it into a dumb bro shooter with an incomprehensible plot that tries too hard

Bloodborne - game is cool as hell but I just cannot get into it, i find it way too frustrating and difficult. it's just so twitchy, fast paced, and the difficulty doesnt ramp up, it just starts super high and stays there. plus i hated some mechanics like having to farm blood vials & bullets

Witcher 3 - Not a terrible game but I found it kind of boring. I put in like 50 hours and the plot went absolutely nowhere in that time, so it was hard to stay engaged in such a story intensive RPG like this
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The Witcher 3. Annoying characters and shitty gameplay.

The Last of us. Just boring, I feel nothing for characters if they aren't at least a little interesting.

Batman: Arkham games. Super hero stuff just doesn't do anything for me.

Final Fantasy X+. The introduction of voice acting and full 3D maps killed it for me.
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How are you liking Lost Legacy?

I like the dynamic between Chloe and Nadine.

I heard that a lot of people that played U4 didn't like Nadine's character, but I like what they've done with her in LL
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The Witcher 3. I'm not really an RPG guy, and I'm not into the fantasy stuff like dragons and wizards and s***, but I figured I'd try something new and I seen all the hype the game was getting so I bought it during a psn sale. I just couldn't really get into it. I hated the way the dude moved (I know they apparently fixed it but it was still felt annoying) and there was a couple other things I didn't like. One being that everything gave such little xp that you never really level up, and to go off of that since I wasn't really gaining levels there was no point in exploring because I would just find something like 20 levels higher than me and it would kill me in 2 hits. I didn't like the fighting either, it was a weird mix of if I put it on the highest difficulty, it would take 10 years to kill something and I would die in 3 hits, but if I put it on the lower difficulty it was way too easy, but I'm not really gonna complain about that because it was probably just me sucking at the game. I will admit you could obviously tell it was an extremely well made game and it looked beautiful, but it just wasn't for me. Unfortunately I couldn't return it since I bought the digital version
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Romulox28 posted...

Zelda BOTW -

MGSV -

Bioshock Infinite -

Witcher 3 - not a bad game but I got bored with it. combat is kind of weak and in the 50+ hours I played, the story went absolutely nowhere. this is going to sound stupid but I feel like it had too much content

Basically agree with the top 3.

I think it's a fair complaint for TW3 to say it has too much stuff. It can be a bit overwhelming I'm sure if you're not really invested in it. It's my favorite game ever, I think. A lot of the pacing problems TW3 faces are usually player controlled though. Main story and game moves really fast if you ignore a lot of those map markers until later. Combat is one of my least favorite parts about that game, only outdone by "?" in the Skellige seas.

MGS and Splinter Cell games.

Just not my cup of tea.
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boxington posted...

How are you liking Lost Legacy?

I like the dynamic between Chloe and Nadine.

I heard that a lot of people that played U4 didn't like Nadine's character, but I like what they've done with her in LL

I should get around to finishing it, I think. Nadine seems a bit better in LL in the first hr or so I played. My problem with Nadine, specifically, in U4 was every time you meet her, she wins. No matter what she is doing, she succeeds, and is completely undefeatable. Always gets what she wants, and really doesn't have any character in u4 outside of "I'm a tough mercenary character who you can never beat." No real convictions or motivation for anything she does.

Skyrim. I tried it like 4 times but I couldn't get into it at all.
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Xenoblade Chronicles 1: I like X but I can't keep up with all the side attacks and status effects in the first game. It's too fastpaced to be that complex.

Fire Emblem Fates: Especially Conquest, I really dislike the new team attack mechanics and all the narrow hallways.

Kirby Triple Deluxe: Shoved the mega-suck fruit down your throat every damn level. It was only amusing like twice.
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Grand Theft Auto IV, easily the worst 3D entry in the series, including the PSP games. It stripped out tons of content from the previous titles, had extremely repetitive missions, a boring map with much less variety than previous titles, a bunch of tedious side missions, and tried to focus on a narrative that quite frankly sucked and also contradicted the gameplay. The RAGE engine was a massive step up however and the ragdoll physics were great, but that's about the only positive thing I can say about it. It definitely doesn't deserve to be universal 10/10's
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uncharted 3
witcher 2
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The Witcher 3

I don't think it's a bad game, but I got bored with it about 10 hours into it
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Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles
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Grand theft auto - Any of them, I just can't get into the game for more than 20 minutes.

Zelda - anything after a link to the past, do not want.

Final Fantasy - after X, it went into the toilet.
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Mass Effect. The original trilogy. Finished the first one, started the 2nd and bleh. got bored.
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Fallout 3
BioShock Infinite
GTA5
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Team Fortress 2

Worst shooter ever created

Witcher 3

it was rushed and unfinished and I honestly don't know why so many people loved it
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leverageblargh posted...

Dark Souls - It's a series for proper gamers, not casual bitches like me.

Legend of Zelda- I just didn't enjoy it. I guess it's one of those games that appeals to proper gamers and/or people that were N64 players in those days. Because of this I've never really been interested in any Zelda stuff.

Minecraft- I just couldn't get past the graphics aspect. But it's also been a long time since I tried it. Maybe it would be different now.

Braid- It had good music and cool mechanics but I didn't get far. Again a game probably more suited for gamers.

dark souls is pretty fucking casual, hence its popularity
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Breath of the Wild - One thing I always enjoyed in Zelda games was this gradual progression of strength and kind of "growing" into the role of the hero through doing dungeons and earning new abilities to help you traverse the dungeon and the world and BotW threw it all out. Your capabilities are set a few hours into the game and you never get out of that, it just becomes a matter of running shrines to increase health/stamina so more useful weapons start spawning so you could get through things more easily. I've got a lot of complaints about the game, but I'll just sum it up by saying the things I did enjoy (shrines and side quests) weren't enough for me to overlook the bad core of the game.
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ManSpread posted...

leverageblargh posted...

Dark Souls - It's a series for proper gamers, not casual bitches like me.

Legend of Zelda- I just didn't enjoy it. I guess it's one of those games that appeals to proper gamers and/or people that were N64 players in those days. Because of this I've never really been interested in any Zelda stuff.

Minecraft- I just couldn't get past the graphics aspect. But it's also been a long time since I tried it. Maybe it would be different now.

Braid- It had good music and cool mechanics but I didn't get far. Again a game probably more suited for gamers.

dark souls is pretty fucking casual, hence its popularity

lol
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Portal. Hated it.
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Another one for me.

XCOM: Enemy Unknown

The Dragon Age and Mass Effect style games
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The Last of Us and Uncharted
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Overwatch. Once you figure out how all the heroes operate it loses most of its depth because just about everyone plays them the exact same way. It needs some ability/weapon customization like Rainbow Six Siege
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Skyrim - Put in 20 hours and was bored as hell. Looked up main plot spoilers online and never touched it since.
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hollow knight

I actually made a topic on here about it when I finished it so I don't really feel like typing it up again but can elaborate if anyone wants
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thompsontalker7 posted...

Overwatch. Once you figure out how all the heroes operate it loses most of its depth because just about everyone plays them the exact same way. It needs some ability/weapon customization like Rainbow Six Siege

That's why I never liked the "hero shooter" or even team fortress. Each person does one thing and that's pretty much it. I much prefer a solid five or six class system with some room for maneuverability.

Life is Strange. It had maybe the worst dialogue of any game Ive ever played; completely took me out of it.
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thompsontalker7 posted...

Overwatch. Once you figure out how all the heroes operate it loses most of its depth because just about everyone plays them the exact same way. It needs some ability/weapon customization like Rainbow Six Siege

this is a good one

i dont hate the game but i find myself bored playing it and havent touched the game in months. it's basically a multiplayer shooter for people that don't like multiplayer shooters.
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Mr_Biscuit posted...

Life is Strange. It had maybe the worst dialogue of any game Ive ever played; completely took me out of it.

What? You don't like to vape some dank OG bud?

People with bad taste the topic
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Basically all of the Halos
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Oblivion- Granted, I didn't put a lot of time into it because the beginning bored me so much.

Fallout 3- Same as Oblivion

GTA IV & - I always lose interest about halfway through the story, and just fucking around in the world in open world games doesn't appeal to me too much.

Just Cause 3- Admittedly I'm not too creative with the tools in the game, which seems to be the point of it to cause mayhem and all that. Plus the shooting mechanics are horrible.
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specialkid8 posted...

Mr_Biscuit posted...

Life is Strange. It had maybe the worst dialogue of any game Ive ever played; completely took me out of it.

What? You don't like to vape some dank OG bud?

*pounds head*

GO, BIG BRAAAIN
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Mr_Biscuit posted...

specialkid8 posted...

Mr_Biscuit posted...

Life is Strange. It had maybe the worst dialogue of any game Ive ever played; completely took me out of it.

What? You don't like to vape some dank OG bud?

*pounds head*

GO, BIG BRAAAIN

I'll give you that the dialogue can be hella hella hella awkward at times
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution
I was promised a shooter RPG like Borderlands. What I actually got was stealth-heavy Half-Life, that takes longer to reload the game than it does to immediately get dead again.

Abandoned the game after four or five hours, and ended up mailing it off to some random FAQer I can't remember.

Metal Gear Solid 3 - Loved MGS1 and thought MGS2 was okay, but I just could not get into 3 and I dropped the series. There were other stealth series I was into by then (Hitman, Manhunt) that were more fun and I just didn't have the patience for the long codec conversations and cutscenes. I also didn't like the setting or the gameplay changes.