Hipster gamer: What games do you hate that others love?

[Glitchy]

I liked the original Portal but it had it's flaws. I think Portal 2 is flawless.

If dumbed down is flawless, then yeah.

[Changston]

I really don't care for World of Goo.

[MATRiX]

Pokemon nostalgia is so unified and so misguided it's actually starting to become one of my most hated gaming tropes. You know what Pokemon is the best one? The one where the entire series is the same game and it's marketed to children. There are plenty of original and G/S/C Pokemon that are shit. If you look at it really objectively, most Pokemon aren't at all creative and most of them are stupid. I don't know when it became a thing to appropriate something from children and then criticize it for being of a quality you would expect for something people sell to children.I'm not a fan of open-world games so if I really want to troll I can rile fans of Red Dead, Elder Scrolls, Grand Theft Auto, Fallout, and a few others I'm too tired to think of. I don't actually hate them but I can't hold much of an interested conversation about any of them. Can't really think of anything I could say I straight up hate though. Bitching about a game I don't play seems like a waste of time and I'm too well informed about games to get anything worse than disappointment when I buy (or even play) a game.

Well it was alright when I hadn't hit puberty. And yeah, I see what you mean.

[PappaDukes]

DEMON'S' SOUL'S'S''

FUCK.
THIS.
GAME.
HARD.

[PiercePierceBinks]

God of War. Just not my game!

[ClownBaby]

Minecraft. If I want to build shit I can just use my Legos and not play a game that will never be out of beta.

Bioshock, both of them. Interesting story, horribly awkward gameplay.

Fallout 3, but I do like New Vegas.

Minecraft will be out of beta in November. GG.

Just saying.

[usedtabe]

GEARS. OF. WAR. IS. SHIT.

I didn't like Gears of War at all.

Oblivion.

This.

Completed the intro dungeon, had no desire to continue.

This.



Also, Gears of War.

Also, Halo.

You managed to complete it!?

Aside from Oblivion.

[Leigh Davidson]

Obligatory CoD mention but that's too obvious; I reckon you could double back and call yourself a hipster if you like CoD.
I fail to see the the appreciation for the Uncharted series and I've been unable to stomach a Metal Gear game since MGS. And I don't like Fable.
I also don't like Angry Birds, and before it became cool to dislike Angry Birds.

I really don't care for World of Goo.

Mind blown, I didn't think that was possible.

[MATRiX]

Obligatory CoD mention but that's too obvious; I reckon you could double back and call yourself a hipster if you like CoD.I fail to see the the appreciation for the Uncharted series and I've been unable to stomach a Metal Gear game since MGS. And I don't like Fable.I also don't like Angry Birds, and before it became cool to dislike Angry Birds.Mind blown, I didn't think that was possible.

FABLE IS SHIT. TOTAL SHIT. All the promises to improve, just meant that Peter Molyneux is a shitty designer. Can you tell I am disappointed with Fable?

[Scroll]

I have to say that so far I'm so glad I enjoy so many different games that get mentioned here, more fun for me I guess.

[Tarvu]

If dumbed down is flawless, then yeah.

Oh so dumbed down, I complained a lot at the time about that. I really hope they release a proper challenge maps pack already.

FABLE IS SHIT. TOTAL SHIT. All the promises to improve, just meant that Peter Molyneux is a shitty designer. Can you tell I am disappointed with Fable?

I enjoyed Fable a lot at the time, and I think really good games could have followed on from it. Those games were never made.

[MATRiX]

I dropped $100 on Fable 3. Major buyers remorse. That's the main deal. I suppose the first two were OKAY.

[Jaded]

I dropped $100 on Fable 3. Major buyers remorse. That's the main deal. I suppose the first two were OKAY.

I feel for you. Fable 3 was a major disappointment. Enjoyed the first one. Second was alright except it ticked me off that the co-op sucked so bad. Had the 3rd for a day, played it an hour, sent it back the next morning. It's like they took everything that was decent about Fable 2 and got rid of it.

I don't like Super Meat Boy.

[Triplzer0]

Oblivion.

I made myself play through the main story, but I wasn't too impressed. It was a real big game, but I didn't get that feeling "Oh there's sooooo much cool stuff to do in this game."

[MATRiX]

I made myself play through the main story, but I wasn't too impressed. It was a real big game, but I didn't get that feeling "Oh there's sooooo much cool stuff to do in this game."

Morrowind was better. The "stuff to do" is just stumbling upon caves and junk. I see why others don't like it, but I do.

But I don't like any Mario Kart after the N64 version.

[Sir Legendhead]

Portal 2. I got so burned out on seeing it all over /r/gaming that I felt like I had been through it a dozen times without even playing it.

[Brightside]

Any Pokémon after Silver/Gold. Pokémon was cool when I was 9,and Silver/Gold was huge, but the rest just got stupid.

I think you mean better.

You know what Pokemon is the best one? The one where the entire series is the same game and it's marketed to children.

Saying that all of them are the same game is a bit of a fallacy. Each new entry adds new features and augments existing ones, all mostly to the better. It's kind of like saying that all of the games in the Halo or Mass Effect series are the same because they all share the same core gameplay traits.

What most people get hung up on is the way each game's story is framed. That's the most glaring similarity and many people use that as a means of presuming that they're all exactly the same. Which is understandable, to be fair - but not entirely right.

Here's a little bit of what I wrote in the Pokémon thread:

While the core elements remain the same (catching Pokémon, training, battling), new features are introduced with each iteration; e.g. in Gold/Silver: time cycles, hold items, berries, breeding, player gender; Ruby/Sapphire: Pokeblocks, double battles and contests; Diamond/Pearl: Poketch, Global Trade Station, online multiplayer; and finally, with Black/White: fully animated sprites, seasons, triple battles, rotation battles, combination moves, the Dream World, and, of course, the Pokemon Musical.

As well as those features, each generation introduced enhanced visuals, as well as refinements to breeding, battling, berry systems, and new Pokemon are a given.

[Leigh Davidson]

FABLE IS SHIT. TOTAL SHIT. All the promises to improve, just meant that Peter Molyneux is a shitty designer. Can you tell I am disappointed with Fable?

I'm gonna say yes. But it wasn't even Molyneux's promises that disappointed me. Playing it around the same time as Marrowind just made it look a little shit in comparison to me.

I've always felt in a minority group by preferring GTA4 to the PS2 era GTA games. They always seemed silly and throw away to me and I like the direction they went with GTA4. I think I like boring.

[MATRiX]

I'm gonna say yes. But it wasn't even Molyneux's promises that disappointed me. Playing it around the same time as Marrowind just made it look a little shit in comparison to me.

I've always felt in a minority group by preferring GTA4 to the PS2 era GTA games. They always seemed silly and throw away to me and I like the direction they went with GTA4. I think I like boring.

I prefer GTA2 over them all, felt more arcade-y. I really didn't like SA very much either. Not racist or anything, but I like being an Italian gangster. And hearing "busta" every five seconds was grating.

I think you mean better.

I like Leaf Green because it updated the original, but the story, characters, Pokemans, etc. just got weird to me as the series went on. Kinda like Mega Man Battle Network. Hated the later entries of that, and that StarForce or whatever crap was on the DS. I played the first one for like an hour and already wanted to beat that main character kid mercilessly with a Mettaur's pick-axe.

[Stevil]

Oh, easy...

Resident Evil 4

Yes, it was a game that Capcom needed to make. Yes, it was a game that the survival horror genre needed to survive. Still, Capcom embracing its comic book roots like that set them on an extreme path that cut off some very interesting avenues and as a result, we're stuck with this new form of action horror that misses the original points. I was never really happy with the direction Capcom were taking after Code Veronica, anyway.