Do you ever experience an intense dislike for certain games. I mean a game you want to just vomit when you see its cover or hear its name. I get this way with mass effect,I find it hard to find common ground with anyone else on it though. It seems like the media hale it as some saintly deity,when all I see is a shell of what was once potentially a good game. When mass effect first came out I was excited but it didn't live up to what I had hoped. I envisioned a space rpg where I could play as all the races,go into shops and buy cool equipment and explore alien worlds. What I got was a human in space spandex,fugly fake toy guns and a slack-jaw story that svcks the fun out of what little exploration there was to have. It was like playing gears of war without the entertaining chainsaw kills and the blood turned off. Needless to say nothing was really improved in the sequel with half of the "fun" stuff removed, the inventory was gutted and what weapons and gear existed were sold back to you(Good to see your just as evil as Activision is EA). Blind fire and all the competent RPG mechanics were scraqed and I have no hope for mass effect 3. (story choice and the par/ren stuff didn't matter to me at all since I cared little who lived or died)

I got a bit carried away there but you get my point. Anyone else feel immense disgust over current or past games the way I feel about mass effect. Do you ever feel like you need to find another hobby when said title is set to launch soon,just to avoid hearing about it. Let's talk about it a bit and maybe we wont feel so much bad blood toward it.

I'm not a big fan of Mass Effect either. I do want to finish the first game at least, but I'm struggling to keep interested. I picked it up at a Steam sale for 5 euros though, so at that price I don't consider it wasted money.

As for me, I don't feel like going into a lot of detail right now, and I'm sure people are not surprised that this is coming from me... Deus Ex Invisible War! :banghead:

Yeah. Universal ammo, small levels, long loading times, horrible HUD, limited inventory and awkward inventory/augmentation navigation... A large part of which is a result of it being an obvious console port. And that for a game that was supposed to be the sequel to one of the best PC games ever made.

God of War. Absolutely hate everything about it, from story to combat.

There are certain games/series that often leave me questioning the appeal, occasionally making me think "bleh" when folks rave about them, but nothing that's too difficult to ignore. Different strokes for different folks after all.

Grand Theft Auto (excluding Vice City), Saint's Row, Call of Duty, etc.

I feel that way about many FPS games, if not most. The futuristic sci fi ones are the worst for me.

I did not feel that way about the classic ones like Duke Nukem 3D, Doom, Rise Of The Triad etc. Not sure where the genre went wrong for me.

Inb4 flamewar.
Anyways, I really do not like Mount and blade fire and sword or steel or iron or any combination. Its cod civilwar version!

Every. Fricken. Racing. Game.

Jrpgs.
Pretty standard.

Bulletstorm.

It was marketed in such a [censored] way.

Dragon Age 2.

It just blew monkeys.

I completely disagree since I'm a major Mass Effect fan I feel that way a bit about COD (even though I ocasionally play it with my friends) and most motion controlled games :shrug:

Ow, thanks for reminding me of that (I'm going to force a reboot whenever you try to walk through that loading-door) game. I was actually not that upset with the game due to my lower than low expectations, but it seems I'm physically unable to actually try and play it..

I also dislike the direction most racing games are going, it's all 'arcade' racing now with unrealistic handling and other stuff to make it look flashy, it hardly has anything to do with racing nowadays.

(oh, and I liked the dragon age II demo, I liked it so much that I decided not to bother with the entire series at all.)


Edit: and I deduct points for the use of quick time events (glances at crysis 2, gets reminded of the battlefield 3 trailer)

This.

I'm not much a a mass effect fan either really. It's alright at first and then it just becomes extremely boring, the second one is still sitting here unfinished. Bioshock has that effect on me too and likewise the second one remains unfinished. Maybe I'm just not a bioware fan because I don't like Dragon Age either.
Metal Gear Solid.

I don't get why you would ever hate or be immensely disgusted by a game just because you didn't enjoy it?
If I don't enjoy a game I just don't play it, at the very max I feel a slight annoyance or disappointment.

Feeling any overly intense negative emotions towards a piece of entertainment is a waste of time.

The Sims.

I never really saw any appeal in a game where you do the same things that you do every day IRL.

"Intense Dislike" seems an odd turn of phrase. Some games are a big disappointment - for any number of reasons. Such as:

You paid full price and got an unpolished hot mess.
You looked forward to a direct sequel only to find the developers completely abandoned the components that made the first game good.
You buy a game at full price and find the gameplay mechanic/UI etc., to have been designed by people who apparently never played a game in their life
The game story was poorly written, with bad gameplay so that there is nothing actually... fun... about playing
The game simply wasn't what I personally was expecting


To be honest though, whatever reasons I could make up for why a game left me frowning or is collecting dust on a shelf would be similar in theory to why a movie was a huge letdown, or why a book remains unfinished.

No I've never felt that way.

There are games I don't particularly like. Or some games I kind of immediately get bored with (like the Sims). But then I just don't play them.

I never develop an intense dislike for them.

Yes.

Saga Frontier 2 and Final Fantasy XIII.

But of those 2, I don't ever want to look at anything FF13 related ever again in life.

Anymore a general dislike for the vest majority of FPS's or at at best apathy for them. With a few exceptions that interest me like Halo when it was starting ot or Alan Wake which is more of a horror adventure game anyway. Basically any shooter clone with the three S's that are copy and pasted from other games and quite often in all 3 catagories. The three being Setting, Story, and Shooter mechanics leaving me bored even as I'm shotgunning someone in the cranium having played my fair share of FPS's in my earlier youth.

I don't think I've ever intensely disliked a game. If I didn't like it then I just didn't play it. I don't really like sports games, but that's because I'm not much of a sports fan anyways.

I also intensively hate Mass Effect and hate everyone that's trying to tell me it's good.

Halo 2-*infinity sign*

The first one was amazing, and it redefined my view of FPS's. The rest?


Bovine Excrement.

*eyetwitch*

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NWN2. I have some bad memories associated with it, which makes me dislike the game more than I usually would. In other words: I dislike it for first that it was buggy and restrictive, and then I dislike it even more because I have unpleasant memories associated with it.

I guess there are some games that I don't like, but I've never played them. I usually just think of silly deprecating names for them, e.g. "Final Fartasy" or "Kingdom Farts" and "Metal Gear Squalid". Needless to say, I dislike most everything that is or even looks like (superficially/artistically) a typical JRPG.

Pretty much anything japanese. I hate the way the main Nintendo franchises have been milked, I can't stand JRPGs, Metal Gear Solid is painfully pretentious, Gran Turismo 5 was dreadful, I'm sure there are more I've forgotten about.

Does it have to be considered a 'popular' game? I hated Vampire Rain enough that I put the disc through my shedder. Even 2nd hand sales are too good for that piece of garbage.