Games that everyone likes but you

[Bobinator]

Let me make a warning, right now. Please, try to avoid flaming and insulting people for their opinions in this topic, even if you don't agree with them. This is supposed to be a safe place for people to share their opinions, so if you have a problem with how somebody feels about your favorite game, keep it to yourself.

Also, be sure to explain your reasons for not liking a game.

Pokemon: OK, I've got to say I've never understood the love for Pokemon. To be fair, I only played Red, Blue and Stadium when I was about 8, but from what I hear, basically all they do every game is just add in a bunch of silly new gimmicks without putting much effort into upgrading the graphics. You're just buying the same game over and over again... twice. Oh yeah, the Pokemon designs get a lot stupider as time goes on. Tons of people can a good bit of the original 151, but who ever bother remembering the other 350?

Marvel Vs Capcom 2: I seriously don't understand how people like this game. First off, the gameplay is complete garbage. The 3v3 system just makes the fights take way too long, and while people give Smash Brothers crap for not being perfectly balanced, these so called "professionals" ignore the fact that there's only about 5 characters in this game worth playing. The fact that every character since the original X-Men fighting game is in it, because they never bothered updating the characters from their original games at all. It feels like a slapped-together MUGEN hack with a few good new characters. The music is horrible, and don't tell me about 'Gonna Take You For A Ride'. That was the worst one. I can only hope they learned from their mistakes for MvC3, but since everyone but me has a boner for this game, I doubt it.

Sonic Adventure: I honestly have to wonder what makes this game so great compared to the other 3D Sonic games, because I think it's just nostalgia. It still has all the same flaws: Stupid cutscenes, characters that nobody wants to play, and a ton of glitches. Sure, maybe the Sonic levels are a little better than they are now, but what exactly makes this game so flawless compared to, say, Unleashed? I guess I don't HATE this one, I just think it's seriously overrated.

Mario Kart. All of them.: Honestly, I thought these were seriously overrated, too. The fact that the AI blatantly cheats just removes all desire to play the single-player mode, which to be fair, nobody ever plays anyway. On the other hand, the way the power-ups are handled in every mode pretty much gets rid of every sense of skill over luck. Crash Team Racing is still way better.

Most JRPGs: I'm making an exception for Mario and Mother, because I love those so, so much. <3 Anyway, every JRPG, from Chrono Trigger to Final Fantasy 6, just always feels the exact same to me. I guess I really haven't tried any long enough to get a feel for one, but they all feel like they all have the exact same setting, with the exact same mute heroes. I don't know if it's because I can feel every cliche I can see coming, or the constant random battles, but something about even thinking of playing most JRPGs makes me feel ill.

Most modern-day shooters: And by that, I mean most third person and first-persoon shooters. Gears of War, Call of Duty, and Halo. Call me a retrofag, but I miss when FPSes were fast and crazy, like Duke Nukem 3D, Doom, and Painkiller. Sure, they've remade the Serious Sam games and they made a (terrible) Painkiller sequel. But for the most part, the days of bunnyhopping, secret walls, and turning into a dog and shooting exploding barks at people seem to be long gone. Lately, it seems if you've played one war-themed shooter with cover systems and regenerating health, you've played them all, whether you're fighting people or bug-like humanoids from under the ground. I don't really hate Gears, but the fact that everyone either that, Halo, or CoD every time they make a new shooter kind of bugs me.

 

[Chao Freak 1]

Any shooting game.
Cept ReZ and probably music GunGun. The games are just boring to me. They're slow....
I also sort of hate the "use guns to kill opponents" thing. I'd prefer knives or scythes or something. I probably got that from JTHM. :/

Pokemon
Again, boring to me. It just takes so LONG to do anything. Also, too many new pokemon. Why can't we keep the original 151?

Mario
Maybe It's just cause I'm a SEGA nerd and I need something speedy, but I really only like watching people play Mario. It's too slow for me.

Any Sports game
With the exception of SSX because it's so impossible. I also liked the skateboarding in Spyro 3, but other than those, Sports games seem like a complete waste to me. It's like what people say about music games. Why play it on a video game when you can do it in real life? I can go on a rant about how music games are different, but I see no difference in sports games except impossible racers.

Guitar Hero/Rock Band
Maybe I just can't stand the song list, but I really like the play style of GuitarFreaks/DrumMania better. Also the interface in those games looks really ugly to me. It's not very well put together.

 

[Autosaver]

Pokemon
Again, boring to me. It just takes so LONG to do anything. Also, too many new pokemon. Why can't we keep the original 151?

Because it would be boring?
Imagine playing Phantasy Star with the same exact weapons,skills,and armor.

 

[Kyasarin]

I never liked Pokémon because, as Chao Freak said, it's too slow and it usually takes forever to get to places when grinding is needed. There's too many random encounters -- most of which I beat by simply button mashing.
I never cared for Mega Man. I don't see why people like the blind jumps the games tend to have.
I don't like either of the New Super Mario Bros. games. I just don't like the level design, the music, or the art direction.
I'd say that the classic Sonic games are overrated, and so is Sonic Rush Adventure. Sonic 1 was slow-paced, Sonic 2 was fun but quickly got stale, and Sonic 3's levels were too long, confusing, and tiring. Sonic Rush Adventure was pretty much "hold right to win."
I'm not interested in any of the modern FPS games.

 

[Wombatwarlord777]

Super Mario World - I know where the game shines is in its gameplay, but it doesn't help that it looks so incredibly dull. The sprites look incredibly flat and all the environments are some variation of "plain", "cavern" and "dungeon". In fact, I think this is what kinda turned me off on Mario and onto Sonic as a kid. So it's odd that the next game in the series, "Yoshi's Island", is also one of the prettiest platformers ever (and not coincidentally also one of my favorites).

Mario Kart Wii - I dunno how the hardcore gaming community likes this one, but it seems popular enough to me. Long story short, the racing in this game is overly item dependent. Nothing annoys me more than constantly being slowed down in my 1st place position than POW Blocks, Lightning Bolts, and Red Shells every five seconds. To be fair, you could say this about any Mario Kart / mascot racer, to a lesser extent.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - I still like this game, it's just that I think compared to Sonic 1 and Sonic 3 and Knuckles, it's shallow. The levels are shorter, I don't believe they have as many distinct gimmicks (compare Green Hill to Emerald Hill, or Labyrinth to Aquatic Ruin), the levels themselves aren't very memorable (Green Hill and Angel Island both look and play as original levels. Emerald Hill looks and plays like a watered-down Green Hill. Hill Top and Mystic Cave are incredibly generic. That really can't be said about any of Sonic 1 or Sonic 3 and Knuckle's levels). And I think the difficulty curve is a tad askew. You hit Oil Ocean and BAM! the game decides to get really hard. And as a whole the game relies lot more on vanilla platforming. Sonic 1, more than any other Sonic title since itself, stressed the importance of momentum in navigating through the game's environments.

Sonic Adventure - Yeah, I admit the only real reason I still keep this game around is its impressive nostalgia factor. While I respect the game for constructing an entire world and filling it with a ton of distinct and memorable locals and characters, it's looking and playing more and more dated as time goes on. Also, raising chaos takes an ungodly amount of legwork compared with SA2B's quite enjoyable and accessible chao gardens. While this is forgivable with the original SA, it's not quite so with SADX. That said...

Sonic Adventure: Director's Cut - It's obvious SEGA trotted this port out the door with absolutely no other intentions than making money. While you can take comfort in playing Sonic Adventure knowing that it's representative of the hardware limitations of its time, there is no reason why Sonic Adventure: Director's Cut should look and play as dated as the original. Sure, the main character models were improved upon, but the world that defined Sonic Adventure wasn't given hardly any love at all. Speaking of love, I actually liked the missions system overall, but I loathed the missions that incorporated ads for Sonic Advance 2 or Sonic X or whatever. Sonic Adventure really is a classic (yet flawed) game and one of the last great creative triumphs of what we may call Sonic Team. There's no respect in the decision to cheapen its port with blatant commercialism. Whoever was primarily responsible for Sonic Adventure: Director's Cut really dropped the ball on giving a great game a port worthy of its title for the generation of Sonic fans who were first introduced to Sonic Adventure 2: Battle. Which is odd, because SA2:B was a fine port in all respects.

Dance Dance Revolution and Guitar Hero - I have stubby fingers and little coordination in my lower body. Rhythm games were not made for me.

 

[BlueZero4]

Street Fighter.

The game is too slow and choppy. You really can't control the distance between the opponent and yourself very well, and all of the attacks are lame. Or maybe I've just only played as Ken?

 

[Arf]

Addressing Chao Freak about Mario games: Playing through SMB1 without stopping once is a feeling that can only be compared to eating muffins. Pure joy. Also, SM64 is pretty damn awesome when you long jump everywhere, but Mario has never been about the speed, rather pulling off acrobatic jumps in obstacle courses (Talking about the 3D marios here). The 2D ones, I can see where you're coming from.

And seconding the FPS thing Bob said. It's getting pretty stale, and I wish Half Life 2: Ep3 made the series interesting again. HL2 is good and all, but it feels like every segment dragged on a bit too much. Like the airboat, the buggy, and ravenholm. I can do them incredibly fast these days, but maybe if they cut them down to smaller areas and such.

 

[BlazingPhoenix]

A lot of the newer First Person Shooters. (Thirding Bob here)
Modern Warfare 1 is cool from what I've played of it, though.

 

[Rileyss]

Mario Kart Wii - I dunno how the hardcore gaming community likes this one, but it seems popular enough to me. Long story short, the racing in this game is overly item dependent. Nothing annoys me more than constantly being slowed down in my 1st place position than POW Blocks, Lightning Bolts, and Red Shells every five seconds. To be fair, you could say this about any Mario Kart / mascot racer, to a lesser extent.

You can easly avoid pow blocks and I totally hate MW2 lately.

 

[Wombatwarlord777]

About that, Rileyss... The problem isn't that I suck at dodging projectiles. It's that I should have to worry about them excessively. There comes a point when "oh, offensive items added to a racing game? What a fun twist!" becomes "goddammit, I get stopped too much / have to worry so much about avoiding stuff, this isn't fun anymore". In my opinion, Double Dash got the balance right (and Bob-Omb Blast was hella fun). There's too many items in Mario Kart Wii that affect the entire playing field, making item avoidance more work than it should have to be.

 

[Hyperknux]

The games I don't like which others seem to like.

Team Fortress 2: In my opinion, seriously overrated. I just didn't see what was so epic in the game. I thought it was slow, unbalanced in terms of classes, and it just bored me after the first 15 minutes of playing the game. I suppose some of the corny lines the characters say were a little bit funny, but I just don't see it as epic as everyone else does.

The Majority of the Call Of Duty Series: too repetitive, dull (especially multiplayer) and it doesn't really include any new original ideas and sticks with the old shit most of the time, it's probably me but I just don't get how good it's meant to be. Only Modern Warfare 1 was near enough average for me.

Super Mario Kart: the game is stupidly hard and you thought getting used to the controls was irritating as hell, try taking on the frickin CPU on the hardest difficulty. It is ridiculous I swear to god, I personally prefer playing the N64 version than the SNES one. The slightest power on any hazard also screws you up completely as well, so if you go into sand or mud, you are pretty much screwed unless you get a lightning bolt.

Tatsanuko VS Capcom: One of those overrated fighting games, the gameplay is choppy, feels & sometimes looks slow and the thing which makes me laugh is the amount of unrealistic damage; 10 billion damage from a few attacks, does that mean if I spit in someone's face, that does about 10 million damage? sorry but it really makes me laugh how unrealistic and pathetic it can really be.

I'll think of some more when I come to it.

 

[sphere]

I'm so gonna get flamed for this, but I have to say... LittleBigPlanet.

Yes, I'm dead serious there. Maybe I was merely disappointed after seeing it obtain (near-)perfect scores in all Dutch game magazines, but I really didn't like it.
When I bought it (one of the extremely rare times I ever bought a game), I quickly discovered that I couldn't access the editing mode on startup. The Dutch dub of the (few) voices in this game turned me off too. Anyways, I quickly couldn't get past a certain point because you needed 2 players, or so I thought. No one bothered to play it with me, so I got stuck there, and I also didn't like the physics and the overflow of things that happened.
In short, I really didn't like it, and I immediatly returned it to the game shop the same day.

Maybe I didn't see something, or did something wrong, but I just really disliked the game.

 

[Spirit Dragon]

I'm so gonna get flamed for this, but I have to say... LittleBigPlanet.

Yes, I'm dead serious there. Maybe I was merely disappointed after seeing it obtain (near-)perfect scores in all Dutch game magazines, but I really didn't like it.
When I bought it (one of the extremely rare times I ever bought a game), I quickly discovered that I couldn't access the editing mode on startup. The Dutch dub of the (few) voices in this game turned me off too. Anyways, I quickly couldn't get past a certain point because you needed 2 players, or so I thought. No one bothered to play it with me, so I got stuck there, and I also didn't like the physics and the overflow of things that happened.
In short, I really didn't like it, and I immediatly returned it to the game shop the same day.

Maybe I didn't see something, or did something wrong, but I just really disliked the game.

You Son of a ca-ching. How can you not like Little Big Planet. Oh well. It's your opinion. I would have to say Sonic Rush.

 

[Autosaver]

I bet there isn't a level where you need two players. (Ignore my post if you do, stupid level design)
..so you hate it because you couldn't finish the level? -_-

Team Fortress 2: In my opinion, seriously overrated. I just didn't see what was so epic in the game. I thought it was slow, unbalanced in terms of classes, and it just bored me after the first 15 minutes of playing the game. I suppose some of the corny lines the characters say were a little bit funny, but I just don't see it as epic as everyone else does.

I agree, I find some classes unbalanced.

Want to know a game everybody likes but me?
Call Of Duty
I think it was fun for the first game, but when they release 2-3 games a year with really nothing added into it. It completely loses its originality and play value. Then, they force you to pay 15 dollars to play previous game maps on the current game.
COD5 --> COD6.

 

[Kyasarin]

When I bought it (one of the extremely rare times I ever bought a game), I quickly discovered that I couldn't access the editing mode on startup.

Are you saying you'd like to hurl yourself into a complex level editor with no tutorials or game info at all?

Anyways, I quickly couldn't get past a certain point because you needed 2 players, or so I thought. No one bothered to play it with me, so I got stuck there...

There isn't a single point in the entire game where a level is impossible due to needing another player. It's not the game's fault; it's yours.

...and I also didn't like the physics and the overflow of things that happened.

How is there an "overflow" of things that happen?

Besides, you shouldn't have such high expectations of a game, or you're bound to be disappointed.

 

[BlazingPhoenix]

Tales of Phantasia, or rather, the 2D Tales of games in general, I disliked how they played a lot and they felt a lot slower than the 3D Tales Of games.

 

[sphere]

Let me make a warning, right now. Please, try to avoid flaming and insulting people for their opinions in this topic, even if you don't agree with them. This is supposed to be a safe place for people to share their opinions, so if you have a problem with how somebody feels about your favorite game, keep it to yourself.

Kyasarin, did you even read this?

Are you saying you'd like to hurl yourself into a complex level editor with no tutorials or game info at all?

Yes, actually. I like fooling around without knowing what I'm doing.

There isn't a single point in the entire game where a level is impossible due to needing another player. It's not the game's fault; it's yours.

How is there an "overflow" of things that happen?

Besides, you shouldn't have such high expectations of a game, or you're bound to be disappointed.

I'd like to add to this: I can't really remember the game that well anymore, so shoot me if I'm wrong. Besides:

Maybe I didn't see something, or did something wrong, but I just really disliked the game.

Plus, it's quite impossible to have low expectations when absolutely everybody praises it like the second coming of Jesus Christ.

 

[Autosaver]

The first post meant flaming other users for not liking the game. I don't see a single part where he flamed you.

Madden
I don't get why Madden is so cool. Its a piece of trash to me. Why not shove all the sports games into one game?

 

[Ultimate]

Tales of Phantasia, or rather, the 2D Tales of games in general, I disliked how they played a lot and they felt a lot slower than the 3D Tales Of games.

I liked Tales of Phantasia, but can easily see why someone would dislike it. The battle system was awkward, the characters would run back as soon as you attacked an enemy. The enemy encounter rate was insanely high. Nonetheless, I still liked it. It was very innovative at the time :P

Have you tried Tales of Hearts? Unforunately, I've never had the opportunity to play any of the 3D Tales games, so I've only played the 2D D:

 

[Kyasarin]

Tales of Phantasia, or rather, the 2D Tales of games in general, I disliked how they played a lot and they felt a lot slower than the 3D Tales Of games.

Same. The Artes were overpowered and frequently interrupted gameplay.