Games you hate that everybody raves about

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Starbound
Rust

Not sure if those are as much of a hit craze as they were at one point within the past 3 months.
I'm sure there's more I can't think of.

Games I hate that everyone else loves - Anything to do with Angry Bird, Flappy Bird, or Candy Crush, nearly all sports games except for a couple with Mario or Sonic in them. I don't actually *hate* Lego games, I've only played the first Lego Harry Potter game once, and that was a rental, but it's pretty overrated. Why don't people just go buy real Legos and play with them instead? Street Fighter games, Mortal Kombat games, GTA games, nearly all RPG games, Tetris.
Games that I love that everyone else hates - Games with cute talking animals, or the main protagonist is a cute talking animal, cute characters in general that other people (guys) won't play and trash just because they look cute (like this one magazine that did a review for Earthbound when it came out in the 90's), games with an E or even a T rating, simulation games, some casual games.

Any Modern Military Shooter
Half Life 2, I pretty much only liked Ravenholm
Left 4 Dead, the sequel was far superior
Any Music based games
Killzone-see top
Mass Effect- the original, too dull compared to the sequel with limited likability to nearly all characters
Ratchet and Clank-Funny, but that's about it
Jak and Daxter- see above
GTA IV- brown, dull, stupid controls
Borderlands- wasted time on guns rather than characters, which the sequel fixed but still retains a place
Pokemon Stadium- Pokemon minus adventure and exploration [eew]
All "Pay to Win" games
Anything on mobile
Final Fantasy

God of War- I think the simulated sex scenes are stupid. Especially when the blood streak on his face and body is from accidentally killing his loved ones. Is he making replacement sons and daughters now with all of that simulated hot action? Did he forget his wife that quickly?

Borderlands 1 and 2 (and the upcoming prequel)- Heavily tainted by the Aliens: Colonial Marines fiasco, where Gearbox siphoned much of the money and people originally given to them by Sega to work on A:CM, and funneled them towards Borderlands instead. It wasn't their money or manpower to do as they pleased, yet they still did it anyway. And then outsourced A:CM to cheap third party developers so they could keep as much of the money as possible, and by now most people know how that turned out for A:CM.

And if they sacrificed their integrity for this stupid Borderlands, what else do they sacrifice? Will games that I care about be half-baked for lack of caring (like post DNF Duke Nukem games) just because they aren't their precious Borderlands titles?

Yes, and here some of the full story:

http://www.destructoid.com/developer-ge ... 5986.phtml

http://www.destructoid.com/so-who-the-h ... 4939.phtml

And if you come to the part when he mentions the last minute additions of female Marines, it was when a bunch of us fans on the Gearbox forums started clamoring for them close to the end of the development cycle. There was also a big fan petition that went on to add them, so just to add some background to some of what he was mentioning.

^^ Ugly. It could have been so easy. I would have been all over that, but then I saw screenshots of the tiger-striped pulse rifles with the red-dot sights

Normally with something like that Aliens game, I typically say "Well, it's a licensed game.... they're sorta bad/rushed/screwy/something by default...", but.... well, okay, that's still possibly true, but still, that story is pretty wonky.

Gearbox to me is a respectable developer.... hell, even I liked Borderlands, and that's really saying something, since I traditionally loathe the entire genre. But that game was good, and of very high quality.

Sounds like they might not be as respectable as I'd thought though.


Ugh, business dealings of this sort always now remind me of EA and the Simcity fiasco. Particularly with that bit where one of the head guys just starts blocking people for being "insulting".... EA did a similar thing, where they just outright IGNORED most comments/questions to get people to forget about the initial fiasco so that people would get back to buying it once it wasnt so obvious.

This industry can really be a bloody stupid place sometimes.

Even though I consider the Bioshock series to be vastly overrated, I saw Bioshock Infinite on sale for $20 and figured I might as well try it. Well, so far the game is downright awful and it's a chore to play. I also never saw what the appeal of the Mass Effect series was. Nothing special as far as I'm concerned and $20 was too much to spend on it!

Hate to do this but...The Last Of Us. Great story and characters, but the gameplay wasn't nearly as fun as all the hype made it out to be.

Also Ico & Shadow of the Colossus are boring IMO...to play at least. I will watch playthroughs at some point.

Candy crush saga and 2048

Horror games like Dead Space are overrated. Horror games of the past didn't have the same hardware as today, but they made up for that with their stories. Clock Tower for example is scary, but yes, it's retro. Now, horror games can be beautifully designed with the way technology is nowadays, but the titles churned out every year since 2006 aren't really terrifying any more. Games like Resident Evil 5 and 6 plus Dead Space 3 with their co-op features makes for a fun game, rather than a scary experience.