What games do you hate/dislike?

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The What else are you playing thread got me thinking about what games I really enjoy, but the recent comments on it have gotten me thinking about the games that I find overrated or really dislike for one reason or another. Thus, this thread was born!

Gist: this is more or less a rant thread for the games you dislike just for the fun of it. It's okay to post that you simply dislike a game, or that you dislike it for personal reasons, but it's not okay to attack people on this thread for saying that they hate a game that you personally enjoy. Argument is fine, personal insults is not.

Some personal games I dislike/hate that are high-profile

Darksouls - Got the pc port, took over an hour for the windows live client to get working. I found the gameplay monotonous and punishing for actions I took when I had no way of knowing whether I'd be punished for them. The port was glitchy, at one point I fell through a staircase, not to my death mind you, but the endless abyss that is below the map. *Fun times* I did try to give it its fair shot, I put 7 hours into it, but I still wasn't having fun by that point so I gave up tryying.
FIFA/NBA2K - I don't like sports games for a variety of reasons. 1) I've never owned any of them so I've never developed any skills in them. 2) They offer a very complicated set of controls, many of which you can only discover by reading the manual (most notably button combos or play calling), and when you just pick up and play to have a game with your friend who owns the game, they will always have the advantage just by having more options and knowledge from this fact, sort of like playing Street Fighter without knowing how to do a Hadouken. 3) Knowledge of the sport can actually carry over to the game and I don't watch sports *lol* 4) I simply find the gameplay monotonous and boring most of the time :/
CSGO - CSGO for those who don't know is a very reaction/accuracy based and strategic FPS. It specializes in a gamemode where the player has 1 life and has to disarm or plant a bomb while eliminating players on the enemy team. I don't actually hate this game, I have had some fun playing it with friends, however the amount of overhead to actually play this game at a competent level is astoundingly high. Between map knowledge, strategic knowledge, knowledge of all the weapons, knowing where players are most likely to appear, reaction time, and accuracy, you will get absolutely **** on by players that know what they're doing. As someone who enjoys games that are fun to just jump in and play once in awhile and don't need 200+ hours of dedication to become enjoyable, playing CSGO always feels a bit like a chore, unless I'm hiding with friends in a corner covered with smoke and decoy grenades while we try to shotgun blast anyone who walks in the room.
TF2 - This game falls under many of the same problems as CSGO, albeit with a less serious atmosphere. There's a lot of game knowledge and mechanics that help you play TF2 dramatically better, and its highly dedicated fan base means you're often going to be paired up with players that are far better than you much of the time. It doesn't help that while I do tend to pick up most games rather quickly, for some reason I seem to struggle to adopt TF2's mechanics as readily as some others. Maybe it was the lack of tutorials or the gaps in my gameplay, but I just never really got the hang of this game, and only really play it now when I have 2 friends that want to play. While I do think if I spent and dedicated even 10 hours into this game I could begin to have a really good time compared to CSGO's 200, I actually have less fun playing this with friends than CSGO for whatever reason, so it ends up being about the same level of dislike for me.
Deus Ex Human Revolution - I bought this game under the false belief that you could really play it as an action game or a stealth game depending on your playstyle. In actuality it's a story driven stealth game, from my impression probably a good one at that. Regardless, I find stealth gameplay really monotonous and tiresome, so this game comes under my fire if only because it advertised itself a bit in a misleading manner. *This is what I get for failing to do research*

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Great idea!
There's not many games that I genuinely actively dislike, but I'll throw in a few I can think of

Heres some games that I cant stand

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The Evil Within - Usually i like horror games with a good story and mechanics, but this game is so ****ing hard its ridiculous. One mistake and you have no chance except through good luck. Monsters are cool though.

Destiny (still play it though) - I got so into the game. Had 6-7 exotic guns including the rare Red Death Pulse Rifle. I eventually got sick of the grind. It was too much work for something that you could MAYBE get. Recently got the expansions and heard some cool things so Im willing to give it another try. Funny how I am considered a vet even though Im 16.

LoL - I dont like the view from which you play, and it takes a while just to learn items and characters. I feel like I could get used to it, but that steep learning curve is steep.

Advanced Warfare - Just wasnt my type of game, and I got too used to boots on the ground. But then they became pay to maybe win, and eventually became sellouts because of those drops.

Echo of Soul - I was exploring free mmo games on steam, including this. This is just a stupidly obvious pay to win game, including a quest that makes you buy something to even complete it. That just takes it too far.

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Also zilbs Dark Souls is a good game, but sorry you had a glitchy experience.

Its so hard, but just defeating one boss makes you feel so great.

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Also zilbs Dark Souls is a good game, but sorry you had a glitchy experience.

Its so hard, but just defeating one boss makes you feel so great.

I DID get 7 hours in, I defeated a couple bosses in that time. My main problem was that in every game there's a balance between frustration and reward. Dark Souls' gameplay with its open ended guidelines and experience through repetition (ie: you die, learn what you SHOULD do, then do that) naturally leads to a frustrating experience. For some, the reward of success balances this. For me at least, beating a boss didn't give me a rush, I didn't beat them and say "oh yeah, that was awesome!" I would beat them and say "thank god I don't have to go through that part of the level I already played 7 ****ing times."

I've heard several arguments how the souls games challenge you in new ways. However, the fact that some classes are blatantly better than others, the fact that knowing where the best loot is will allow you to survive far better, and the fact that some things you simply can't discover without dying a couple times to test things out simply felt like it was leading to monotonous and unfair gameplay. I'm also not a huge fan of the combat system as it's brutally slow and timing based. I don't hate timing based games, but if that's the case I like to be agile so that I get a rush through gameplay, not fight like some slow methodical old man. I've also heard arguments about how souls is immersive because it makes death matter, but that really means jack **** when I walk into a room and something twenty feet tall kills me instantly. If you're going to make death matter, at least make it feel FAIR, that my lack of judgement or that my actions led to my doom in some forseeable manner. Otherwise I'm just dying and repeating the same gameplay over and over again.

Anyway - end rant. Basically all I wanted to say is that the glitches weren't the reason I disliked the game overall, they helped, but they didn't seal the deal. I've enjoyed glitchy games before.

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Then try Bloodborne. Its more action packed

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I mean... My list will either be long or short, so here goes nothing !

Some Games that didn't Conquest me ;)

I guess that's that. I bet some ppl hate me right now !

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@Prism

The problem with undertale being under the limelight is that it was never intended to reach a mass audience, it's an indie game and was really trying to fill a niche of innovative ideas blended with classic turn based rpgs like earthbound. That isn't really a genre that's meant to appeal to everybody, so it's kind of silly that people expect it to. Although to be fair, if you never reached the ending you haven't really experienced the game to its fullest (especially considering it's a fairly short game to begin with :P)

Personally I think pokemon games are still just as good as they've ever been, although they have gotten easier. I never did play black & white or B&W 2, but X and Y were pretty fun. Nostalgia factor might also have something to do with the belief the old games were better, although the difficulty definitely made them more engaging there are a number of factors that still make the new games solid installments.

Finally I could also probably add Hearthstone to my list. I don't like any games where microtransactions can affect gameplay. I know that you can technically grind your way to owning a good deck of cards, but the fact that someone with no experience could just buy a ton of cards, form a deck using a guide and then just wreck isn't something that makes me want to invest my time into the game.

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I did do both of the main runs ( Dunno if there are others ) BUT IT WAS SO FRECKING BORING DOING BOTH OF THEM.

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@Prism, if it was so boring, why did you actually play it as long as you did? And a 2nd run? I'd have quit it way earlier! Too many games, too little time.

Hmmm, Z...I don't know if I can say I absolutely hate some games, but I guess I can list some that I dislike, or perhaps that just don't draw me in like they do a lot of others.

1. Okay, I can hate. Practically all mobile games. The trivia ones are fine. Otherwise, most of the others (the popular ones like the King "saga" games, Clash of Clans, etc.) all hurt me deep inside as a "gamer."

2. Dark Souls/Bloodborne: So I haven't played Bloodborne, but in the general theme, these games are too methodical for me. Nowadays, I'm less into something super challenging just for the sake of being challenging. It's not fun for me to feel the need to go slowly, check around every corner, etc.

3. Bioshock series: the gameplay was just boring to me. Movement didn't feel very responsive, and although extremely atmospheric...just felt like it was missing something.

4. RPGs, collection, and card games: by RPGs, I mean JRPGs, and by collection, I mean things like Pokemon. As with #2 above...too methodical for me. I used to LOOOOVE JRPGs (I count FFIV, FFVI, FFVII, and FFIX among my favorite games of all time), but just finding I don't have the attention span for them much anymore. I'm hoping I can make it through all of Undertale. Never been into games like Pokemon, though I've tried them. They just lose me after a few hours. Card games like Hearthstone...sorta fun for a bit, but again, I just lose interest quickly. Gwent in Witcher 3? Wish it wasn't there...

Other specific games that just don't drew me in...Batman Arkham series, Metal Gear series (used to like them back in the OG Playstation days, lost me after that), fighting games (was an old school SFII player, and liked the Soul Caliber games, but got over them).