Games you hate that everybody raves about

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Lately I have just been getting pissed off at everyone and everything, and it kind of reached a critical mass. I try not to explode at people, but if I keep things locked up for too long it just ends up hurting me. I knew your user name came partly from your reputation; mine does too, in fact.

When I was younger I was a lot more outspoken and I expressed my opinions on things more freely. This included calling people out and sometimes even outright insulting them whenever they said or did something that pissed me off. I eventually learned that this often makes things even worse for me, and later on when I started developing a sense of empathy, I actually started to feel bad for other people. Since then I've been more restrained... but within me I still have a lot of anger and I get pissed off at things really easily. In the depths of my mind, I am actually an extremely unpleasant person.

Passive-aggressiveness is a b***h.

But anyway, I'm glad we've managed to come to a civil resolution. I was actually expecting things to escalate, truth be told.

Minecraft and Pokemon Go.

Mrbigmouth, I know exactly what you mean and agree.

Even if hype itself doesn't change the actual quality of the game, I think all the hype tends to unintentionally raise one's expectations for the game, which only ends up making it an underwhelming and disappointing experience.

For example, if there's a new video game that realistically you and most people would probably rate a 7 or 8 out of 10, but the internet is full of hype saying how amazing and spectacular it is, and everyone everywhere is rating it a 10/10 or saying 'it's so great it should be an 11 out of 10!!', you'd expect it to be a 10/10 game when you're only getting a 7 or 8/10 game.

And while a game that is a 7 or 8 is still quite enjoyable, you may simply dislike the game more because it didn't live up to all the hype you were exposed to, and what you would have considered a 7 out of 10 without the hype has now become a 6/10 because of the hype.

I see it all the time for massively hyped movies - most people who find the movie average/mediocre or bad say they went because all their friends wouldn't keep quiet about how amazing it was, only for them to be disappointed when they see it wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

Call of Duty
Dark Souls (would everyone just please shut up about it? I probably wouldn't hate it so much if not for the idiotic way people react to it.)

That's basically the 'hate' list.

Games that I don't get the hype over/like significantly less than most people

LoZ: A Link to the Past (I've just never really gotten that into it, honestly)
Any new 2D Mario (Basically anything past Yoshi's Island and Super Mario World)
2D Mario Kart (Nauseating. Can't play.)
Katamari Damacy (Love this game, don't understand why it's considered 'the best'. Both We <3 Katamari and Katamari Forever are just... So much more enjoyable. And I played the first one first.)
Wii Sports Resort (Enjoyable, but not so much so that it's worth hype? Obviously this isn't as hyped as literally anything else on this list, but all my friends are like "DUDE IT'S SO COOL" and it's alright I guess?)

There are probably others, I just can't think of them.

While I really like Final Fantasy VI and VII, I can't stand any of the other instalments.

Sometimes, I wonder if I'm the only one who hates Final Fantasy.

the overly-patriotic ones like (no matter the country, it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth):

Just Cause 2
Call Of Duty (also not my type of game, if FPS i prefer stuff like Doom and Duke Nukem with their large, or large-seeming rather, levels with keycards, secrets and tongue-in-cheek humor.

I wonder if it's mainly children and teens that cause a lot of hype.

For some series and franchises, the majority of its fanbase are young children and teens, even if they weren't the targeted audience.

Children tend to be more easily impressed and less critical of media, and they tend to be loudmouthed and make a lot of noise about games series they like on the internet.

For example, Five Night's At Freddy's fanbase mostly consists of young kids and teens, and it's massively hyped and overrated.

Undertale is another example.

I've noticed Final Fantasy tends to attract the age 10-16 range (or nostalgic young adults who played the earlier games in the series) the most (though I don't have statistics to prove this), and to some it is considered overrated and overhyped.

Pokemon, while having adult fans, is targeted towards children, an in my opinion is (or at least, was) overrated (much of the DS games are very similar and rarely added anything new to the gameplay or series)

COD is stereotypically associated with 12 year olds, and maybe it's them that keeps buying the new copy&paste games each and every year that keeps the franchise afloat.

A lot of the time, all I see on GTA V online are 15 year olds.

While I like(d) him, Youtuber PewDiePie is massively overrated, especially since most of his videos nowadays aren't LPs anymore like they used to be, but a lot of random garbage. His promise of producing a video essentially every Friday gives him too quick of a deadline, which results in a lot of low quality videos being produced. Most of his fans appear to be young kids and teens.

Anyway, if anyone here knows any entertainment series (tv, movie, video games, etc.) massively overrated and overhyped, and the majority of their fans are over 20 years old, please list them here, for it is in my experiences this tends to be the age people become far more critical of the entertainment they're consuming, and don't just throw 10/10s at everything (unless you're IGN, of course).

Then again, maybe it's an unfair claim to make, because statistically the majority of fans of most gaming series have always been teenage males.

Though in recent year the number of young and middle-aged adult gamers and female gamers has increased, though I think the definition of 'gaming' is too loose in some studies.

I'm not a hardcore gamer at all, and not trying to sound like one, but someone who plays facebook or phone games, I simply can't consider a gamer.

PC games, sure. Console games, of course. But if your entire concept of 'gaming' is playing CandyCrush when bored standing in line, it's a bit silly to identify yourself as a 'gamer'.

Just like I am not a writer because I'm typing words on a computer right now. And I wouldn't be a musician if I tap my finger in rhythmic fashion on the desk when bored or randomly banged on some drums when bored, and I wouldn't be considered an 'athlete' because I jogged that one time from Point A to Point B or played sports with some friend that one time at that one party. Just like I'm not a 'gamer' if I played candycrush that one time at that one party when I was bored and shouldn't statistically be counted as one.

We can choose to 'identify' as whatever we want, but for the purpose of not messing up statistics, sometimes the definitions of surveys should be stricter and more exclusive. If every person with African ancestry, for example (technically, almost every human on Earth has traces of it, even infinitely small amounts that are so tiny they don't even show up on DNA tests, say 0.0001% or such) identified as Black, it would mess up a whole lot of statistics.

When I was younger, I was a hardcore gamer. I played video games constantly. And I played a little of everything. But then I grew up in the first generation of real gamers. Not PacMan and stuff like that. Earthbound, Secret of Mana, Illusion of Gaia, The Legend of Zelda, etcetera. I saw all the different kinds of games and platforms. I saw video games build and build until they became an empire that ruled the world.

However, the older I get, the more repetitive games get. I've fallen out as a hardcore gamer and become a lot more casual. Now days, I only buy games that I really, really want to play. I ignore everything else. It's gotten to the point that I even ignore Zelda games. Mirror's Edge? Now I can't ignore that. Star Fox Zero? I thought that was going to be great, but it was horrible. It's reached the point that all I want to do is play Canasta.

Basically, I feel like games in general are over hyped these days.

Doom '16.

I loathe this product so much that I won't even bother to include any box art or screenshots with my diatribe.

When the original classic was released back in 1993, the only reference material Id Software had to draw upon (other than their own Catacombs 3D and Wolfenstein 3D, and copycats like Bram Stoker's Dracula) were the computer role-playing games of the era -- titles like Dungeon Master, Eye of the Beholder, Ultima Underworld, etc. As such, Doom is very much rooted in the design philosophy of those aforementioned games, so much so that it is often likened to a dungeon crawler with guns. The levels were labyrinthine, abstract and puzzle-laden, with loot to be discovered and booby traps to be bypassed.

This historical fact was obviously lost on the new generation of developers who, rather than actually bothering to retrace the steps of their forerunners, opted instead to amalgamate elements derivative of uninspired modern franchises and console shooters. (If I wanted to be sealed within combat zones and forced to dispatch waves of beasts, I would play Serious Sam. If I wanted to procure magical health orbs from monster pinatas, I would play Turok: Dinosaur Hunter...) As such, the game fails to capture the true essence of Doom, or of DOS gaming in general.

The notion that Doom was all about mindless "rip and tear" -- with little attention given to pacing and horror -- is erroneous. Again, the devious traps. Or wondering when the next monster closet will be unexpectedly triggered. The unease of finding a much needed pickup lying about within a large, otherwise barren room, and not knowing what will happen when you take it. Or traversing a narrow maze, and having your backside violationed by a Hell-knight. Effective jump scares courtesy of thoughtful, deliberate monster placements. The WASD control scheme didn't exist in those days; for many of us, it was keyboard only. That people are capable of speed running through these levels on the Nightmare difficulty setting is a testament to the determination, intelligence, and patience of these elites. That a minority of dedicated fans could tackle the game in this fashion does not mean that such was the only viable method; alternatively, the player could establish kill boxes and pick off throngs of lesser monsters from behind door frames and other tight corners. Again, the levels were labyrinthine and abstract, and rushing into a new area as you would in this dispassionate cash-grab without first knowing the lay of the land could very well get you butchered in an instant.

I might have been able to forgive all of the above if the art direction didn't look as if it were conceived by SCAD graduates in between hacky sack sessions. The retro grittiness of the original is nowhere to be found here...not even the paranoia-inducing darkness of Doom 64 and Doom 3.

But it was ill-advised of Bethesda to even attempt to recapture the magic of Doom in today's climate. Imagine if Miramax threw together a remake of Pulp Fiction for a 2016 audience and without the involvement of Quentin Tarantino or Roger Avery. You cannot hope to properly replicate such a formula outside of the 90s. Release a pure, faithful recreation of the original -- with everything left in tact, and no artistic liberties -- or don't bother. I would gladly shell out a full sixty bucks for such a release, and many others would as well.

Sorry for all the recent edits.