Games you hate that everybody raves about

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Plenty of Zelda games have had storylines with effort put into them. If not for that, Majora's Mask would not be half as great as it is. If I wanted to play a nice simple game I'd go for Mario or Kirby.

Terraria. I love indie games more than any human being has a right to, but as soon as it loads it just starts irritating me... even more so than the game that immediately misspelled dying as dieing.

First Person Shooters of all kinds.
Realistic games and realistic racers...
Cinematic games too (I play games not watch them).

I don't hate Minecraft but I don't get the appeal of the game.

civilization V

All my friends rave on about it but I absolutely abhor it, its so watered down and generic.

Monster Hunter. I get the appeal to a degree, but I just can't get into it. I don't like how it plays.....

I guffawed at the so many mentions of Skyrim...until I realized I'll only play it modded.

-I can't get into MMO's. I've tried WoW and am currently trying to learn Eve, but I'm still not feeling it.
-Assassin's Creed. Out of the series, I only really liked 2 and that was ruined by the ending. They already had such a cool sci-fi concept, but they had to make it more complicated with that ancient race crap. For some reason, they haven't been able to replicate the playability and smoothness of 2. Just look at Black Flag. While visually beautiful, it was unplayable. The combat system was terrible!
-Final Fantasy post FFX. Around the time Square merged with Enix, a lot of good folks who made FF feel like FF left the company. The series hasn't been the same since.
-Doom 3. All that hype about it being scary was disappointingly untrue. I got more scares from Bioshock.
-Well, it wasn't really well liked, but it still sucked... Alan Wake. I found myself yelling at the characters. Many eyerollings were had.
- Saints Row 4. I loved 2 and 3. In fact, they're some of my favorite games, but 4 missed it for me. They copied and pasted 3, took out the storyline and added aliens. They didn't even try to make a new game. I also really, really, really hated that after I conquered something, like say a building, it turned from red... to blue. BLUE! Blue is not a Saints color. Blue, specifically that shade and style of blue, belongs to the Deckers, one of the enemy gangs from 3. The city should have turned purple as I conquered it, dammit! Took away all the satisfaction.
- The Sims. I loved Will Wrights original idea of creating a social experiment/simulation. His games had some intellectual interest to them. However, EA stripped all that away. Now, it's just advanced Barbie play.
-Candy Crush or any game like it. It's Bejeweled. I can play for free elsewhere.

I hate any and all of the click-bait "Count" games on this website!

All those Candy Crush/Farming things games. Specially the ones with microtransations.
Assassin's Creed games - Liked the first and second, but after that it was just more of the same (and more a "same" that wasn't even that good). In my opinion this serie should be dead already.
Pokemon games - Don't get me wrong, i don't think i HATE the Pokemon games but I can't understand the success of them either. I've tried a lot of times to play X/Y and ORAS but it doesn't matter how I try I can't understand the reason for it to be so popular. The games have almost no challenge (can't say too much about the later content since i always get too bored before I get there), the "skill element" of the combat is basically have a pokemon of an element that is good vs the one my opponent have and the only thing that *sometimes* keeps me playing is the possibility to get a pokemon that I really want, but once I get it I stop playing.
I understand I might be wrong since i never was able to play then until the end, but this is the impression i had during the time that i played.
Call of Duty and any of nowdays FPS- Haven't too much to say here, people said almost everything that needed to be said.
League of Legends - Can't understand the popularity on this one either. Tried it a few times and couldn't get too excited about the gameplay and how the battles work.
The Sims - Doesn't look even remotely fun.
GTA - Can't see how walk through a city causing endless chaos (I know the game is not just this, but is what i see most of people doing) can be fun and the kind of story that the game have (involving gangsters and things like that) doesn't excite me at all, not even on movies.

I can think of a ton that fit this list but the few that stick out are:

Final Fantasy 13
Bioshock (especially 2 and Infinite)
God of War
Saints Row 3
Assassin's Creed

Call of Duty and all the carbon copies of Call of Duty like battlefield.

I also could not get into the tales of series even though i love the jrpg genre.

Skylanders, it is a disgrace to dragons and Activision pretty much killed one of my childhood friends, Spyro.