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[Markio128]

Forza Horizon 5. I even purchased the early access because it was getting rave reviews and looked super sexy and fun. The first 5 hours I found really fun and engaging, but once I had seen the whole map, my engagement with the game quickly petered out.

Things that really bug me?
The obnoxious characters and awful dialogue. Maybe I’m just too old for this shit.
The whole festival vibe seems so cringe it hurts. Motorstorm on the PS3 had a similar festival theme, but it managed to pull it off because it was edgy and cool. Not to mention the music was awesome. The FH5 soundtrack is bloody awful, or at least not for my tastes.
The in-car view is a bit poor. The interior is passable, but the shocking reflections on the bonnet really spoil it and I hate that I can’t move the camera around the interior whilst driving - it just pings to fixed exterior views when you look around, which is immersion breaking.
I have not experienced one race that I wanted to repeat. Not a single memorable track.
I think the environments are superbly realised, with really realistic scenery, but I miss there being a big city, or moody industrial area. Racing to me is not about smashing through trees in a jungle, or ridding the world of cactus, no matter how pretty it looks.

All that being said, I can understand why it reviewed so well and why so many love the game, it’s just a shame I don’t feel the same.

 

[Warablo]

Uncharted games, not a fan of the gameplay at all. Everything else seemed good, but the combat was a drag.

 

[fart town usa]

OP pretty much summed it up for me

Naughty Dog games, Rockstar Games, Metal Gear Solid games.

I by no means think their games are bad, I just have no interest in playing them, and I base that off prior experience. Just not a fan of how Rockstar games control, the pace of Naughty Dog games, and for Kojima, I really dislike stealth games.

Most indie games too, there's always some spin on a classic mechanic and I'm just not down with it. I'd rather just play an actual old game with the mechanics I'm looking for.

 

[Bernardougf]

The Last Breath of the Halo 2: the Topic

 

[BadBurger]

Metroid Dread is one of the worst Metroidvanias I have ever played. Heart breaking after waiting so long.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

GTA3 and Shadow of Colossus on PS2.

Borrowed GTA 3 off a friend and tried it for a few nights. Gave it back. Lousy frame rate.

SoC was even worse. $30 down the drain (GH games were $30 CDN). No doubt the worst frame rate I played on PS2. First time playing it (when you're running around the castle) I thought the disc was scratched or my PS2 was hitching. Rebooted it. Same thing. I think I got though the first boss and quit. Terrible game.

But hey, both games got great scores and everyone seemed to love them.

Halo 3. First time playing Halo. Read about them, saw some vids. Halo 1 and 2 seemed like gods gift to console gaming. Dont care that much for bright shooters, but I'll give it a try as these games were getting 95/100 scores. Got maybe halfway done the SP and quit. Way too bright and bloomy, and corny aliens. And Halo 3 didnt even look that great and only 30 fps. COD4 then came out and played that to death (my first console game which I played a ton of MP). Sold Halo 3 soon after. COD 4 100x better than Halo 3 and double the frames. One thing Halo did have which was cool were vehicles and some spaceships to mix it up while COD 4 was all boots to the ground.

 

[HYDE]

Hollow Knight. Just a directionless mess of a map, that’s not particularly cleverly designed.

Shit opinion as always.

 

[BusierDonkey]

I don't use the word hate often, but I hated Hollowknight.

I put actual effort into finding something I enjoyed about the game and in the end abandoned it 20 hours in because it only got more dull as I went further in. I hate abandoning games.

 

[Rick Dangerous]

Except a crack in Time : all next Ratchet were seriously boring for me.

GOW2018 : so much inferior to GOW3 (imho). Did not like it.

Assassin's creed odyssey : how to turn a game into work....

Give me some Pacific rift, some GOW3, some Inside, some heavy rain, some dead Space 2 and i'll bé happy.

In my eyes PS3 génération >> PS4 in terms of mémorable games.

 

[brian0057]

Anything by Hideo Kojima. I'm glad Silent Hills was cancelled.

Also, Sony's consistent output of cinematic, third-person, over-the-shoulder, action-adventure games that may or may not feature a female protagonist with a bow.
Ghost of Tsushima is the only one that doesn't make me wanna commit sudoku.

 

[Woffls]

Witcher 3, Bloodborne, Last of Us, Hollow Knight, Hades, Red Dead Redemption, Inside, Limbo, Destiny.

 

[Halo is Back]

Metal Gear Solid 5

The gameplay is good, but the open world is pointless, and there is so much in the game that makes me feel like it's wasting my time to get to the good stuff. Hitman did it better.

 

[ReBurn]

TLOU 2. Fantastic game. Disliked it a lot. Felt like stories that didn't need to be told.

 

[Kumomeme]

RDR2. that slog control...urgh..its a shame that it is a game that i want to like, but cant.
another one...GOW. but not that i dislike it, it just reminded me of Tomb Rider. from people words, i expect something mindblowing.

 

[Dream-Knife]

Final Fantasy: Tried 6, 7, 7 remake, 10, and 15. I see what they're trying to do, but the games just don't do it for me.

Bloodborne && Sekiro: I love Dark Souls, but hate parrying. I'll give Sekiro another shot later.

Super Metroid: I actually enjoy a metroidvania (Blasphemous), but that style of game play with a sci-fi atmosphere does nothing for me.

New Doom && Wolfenstein games: Shoot and melee (almost required) some guys then spend 20 minutes trying to figure out where to go because the levels don't flow well.

Wind Waker: super boring, tedious, and not a great atmosphere. Wanted to like this one, but just couldn't.

Twilight Princess: An overreaction to the press from Wind Waker. It's as if a kid at Hot Topic was the director. Almost cringe.

Mario Odyssey: Reward hyperinflation. With so many moons, the game loses focus, and ultimately feels pointless.

Bravely Default && Octopath Traveler: Combat is terrible, story non-existent. "Break the game to beat bosses" isn't fun.

Probably more, but that's off the top of my head.

 

[Plantoid]

Red dead redemption 2,

History is overrated,
Gameplay is clunky and unresponsive,

But the worst part is that the game is just one big cutscene, fuck games with more cutscenes than gameplay.

 

[Digity]

Skyrim, Red Dead 2, and Super Mario Odyssey.

I’ve learned with Mario that I much prefer the 2D stuff. Odyssey was a chore.

Red Dead 2 was exhausting to play with it’s terrible controls and lengthy animations.

Skyrim just has a whole host of problems mainly stemming simply from being a Bethesda product.

 

[Fbh]

Monster Hunter: Cool monsters and fun combat but way too repetitive and unnecessarily grindy. Feels like every single mechanic outside of combat was designed to be as tedious and time consuming as possible

Rockstar games: Amazing visuals and unparalleled attention to detail, but the gameplay usually sucks and the missions design is often lacking.

Monkey Island, Grim Fandango and all those older adventure games: The characters and writing are stellar, but even as a kid I always hated the puzzles. Instead of having to use logic or creativity it just feels like the game is presenting you with problems that have 1000 way to solve them and you just have to start guessing the one way the devs actually want you to solve them.

MGS5: Gameplay is fantastic but I hate the mission structure, it made all characters boring and/or dull, I missed the fun, crazy, melodramatic story of the previous games, the boss fights mostly sucked and I hate the base building.

 

[Winter John]

Last Of Us/Uncharted. I cannot stand ND's habit of putting big ass boxes in every fight area. It drives me up the fuckin wall. Especially TLOU. I'd walk into a new area, immediately see a bunch of blocks to hide behind and all the immersion was instantly ruined. I don't know what they were thinking. Throw in that fucker's A.I. Goddamn. I lost count how many times I'd be trying to stealth through a section and that fucker would start practicing her ballet right in front of them clickers. Absolute bullshit.

That robot dinosaur bush simulator bullshit. I liked the characters and the story was interesting enough. Gameplaywise it was absolute bullshit. Sit in a fuckin bush right in front of a bunch of dinosaurs with sensors, yet somehow they couldn't see me. Bullshit. It was the same with every other enemy. Hit em with an arrow, sit in a bush, wait until they stood right on top of me, press button, instant kill. Throw in the usual open world, collect-a-thon busy work and what you end up with is subpar Ubisoft bullshit. I actually read people saying it was the best game they ever played. Jesus. How standards have fallen.

God Of War. Throw an axe. Walk around a bit. Ohhmagawwwddddd best game ever. Fuck off.

Battlefield 2042. No.

 

[DevilMayFlyForAWhiteGuy]

I don’t really care for Rockstar’s games in general. They pretty much only make open world games, and most open world games can get tedious/monotonous in general, so for me to enjoy them I usual have to really dig their premise/world to stay invested.

With Rockstar I just don’t really care about playing as criminal or a cowboy, so every time I try to get into GTA or RDR I drop it pretty quick. Open world games need an exotic location, or a fantasy/sci-fi setting to pull me in.

 

[CitizenZ]

I had to go clear back to March to find I guess something I played others praised like it was the 2nd coming(specifically when it was exclusive) and it is easily Sunset Overdrive. Awesome soundtrack and solid game design(Its Insomniac), great execution but im not 10 anymore.

 

[Buki1]

Most of Nintendo games.

Nintendo was absent officially in my country when I was a kid, so I never had a chance to grow up with their games and characters. Now while I tried big N first time as an adult I fail to find anything amazing about their games. I feel people in US rate them so high now because they look at them with nostalgia glasses, since they grew up with the brand and it's probably the last thing that still connects them with their childhood and makes them feel young again. Which is silly, because these times are over, you are old, you will never be as happy as when you found your N64 under a christmas tree in 1997.

Except 1080 Snowboarding, this game rocks, best snowboard ever.

 

[Edgelord79]

And Bloodborne is worse than Dark Souls.

 

[anonychus]

Final Fantasy VI. I've gone on long rants about the plethora of flaws in every aspect of the game. I've played and gotten 100% in every mainline FF up through XIII so far and it was my least favorite of them all. I will never understand how people think it's gaming perfection, beyond having an amazing summer when they were a kid kind of thing.

 

[AmuroChan]

Forza Horizon - I usually get bored after a few hours. Driving games just don't interest me that much.

BotW - I enjoyed the game, but for me it was an 8/10 game and not a 10/10 game of the generation masterpiece that critics make it out to be.

FFVII Remake - The original was one of my favorite games of all time. The remake, while it has a lot of good elements that I loved, ultimately fell flat for me because of all the unnecessary bloat.

 

[FUBARx89]

Throw in that fucker's A.I. Goddamn. I lost count how many times I'd be trying to stealth through a section and that fucker would start practicing her ballet right in front of them clickers. Absolute bullshit.

Should be glad they deliberately turned off your allies being able to be detected.

BOTW
Castlevania
Monster Hunter
Far Cry 3
Silent Hill
Sonic Adventure
SM 64
Shadow Of War.

 

[Insane Metal]

Every GTA. Every Zelda. Every Halo. Almost every Gran Turismo.

 

[Vandole]

Journey. Jesus christ, that game is just boring. Is walking alongside a stranger that exciting? Seriously, if you think this is good in any way it's just a sign that you probably need to get out of the house and talk to another human being every once in awhile.

 

[TheInfamousKira]

Red Dead anything. Westerns just don't capture my imagination.

Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory. Supes popular among the KH crowd for that nostalgia hit. I can't play it for more then 15 minutes spurts.

Soulsborne games. I never got gud.

Mega Man. The aesthetic is just too silly for me.

Mario. I generally dislike platforming. I dislike lives. I dislike super old school "repeat the same thing over and over again and if you fail you get to repeat doing things over and over again over and over again," And again, the setting/characters/creatures are just too cutesy and absurd for me.

Basically any fighting game that isn't Smash or PSP Dissidia titles. I don't have the time or patience to learn extensive combos, master timing, etc, so any match is going to be either me spamming my way to victory or getting trounced in fifteen seconds.

Basically any racing game. It's just dull to me at best and infuriating at worst. I once lost a game of Episode I Podracing on the N64 and threw my controller loaded with a rumble pack at my friend's head. I was like 10, but still.

Call of Duty. I hate the general culture of multi-player, and examples of dedicated players like WingsofRedemption make me sad.

There's more, but I can't think of them right now.

 

[Scotty W]

GTAIV

It’s just such a hassle to drive anywhere.

 

[Rykan]

Every single The Legend of Zelda game with the exception of BOTW, which is fantastic.

TLOZ is nothing more than a collection of half baked concepts. The combat is terrible, the setting is underdeveloped, the story and storytelling are bad and all you're left with are dungeons with way too many annoying puzzles.

 

[Flash Junkins]

I echo a lot. Red Dead 2 sucked.

Multi was worse. Gameplay writing was shit.

 

[Elder Legend]

Zelda Breath of The Wild - Nothing special to me... and no thanks to constant weapon breaking.

GTA 5 - Just don't really care.

Deathloop - Refuse to see what's so exciting about it.

RDR2 - Meh controls and too tedious.

 

[kingpotato]

I also could not get into Hollow Knight despite giving it multiple attempts.

Miles Morales - was done with this game by the time I finished the PS4 spiderman, but the ray tracing was kinda cool.

Sekiro - I really enjoy being able to have more control over my playstyle in the other FROM games and I missed the multiplayer elements.

Minecraft - just can't get into it, even though I enjoyed Terraria

Flight Simulator - the novelty wears off insanely fast and it's pretty off-putting that people claim it's the best looking game when there are many asterisks to that statement

All of the open world FarCry games - they just feel so bland to me I can't even make it more than an hour into any of them.

 

[Kenpachii]

GTA games, i just can't for the sake of it play them. It just feels made for edgelord kids. I try it out once in a while and every single time i put it away.
RDR2, looks nice the gameplay is just a chore to the point i just can't be bothered to play more then a few hours.

 

[fran.fernandez]

Guardian of the galaxy. What a waste of money.
Went back to play kena again. Lol

 

[SteadyEvo]

God of War reboot: 1st of I went in with no knowledge of Norse mythology. Looking past that it felt way to big for this style of gameplay. Everything game doesn’t need a massive world that takes an eternity to complete. I seem to remember the 1st 3 respecting my time more. Combat was just ok/serviceable. 5/10. But world size and no connection to the material killed it for me.

I know this is a thread about games we don’t like but I saw something that rustled my Jimmies.

Infamous Second Son is one of the better video games I’ve ever played. Combat, movement, game length and replay ability being the reasons. And of course the graphics were gorgeous and still hold up today. Love when a game is to the point, tells its story and respects my time in the process. Then the desire for a second play through as a asshole was enjoyable. Ok, back to games dislike…

Madden, Cod, 2k: After spending my high school and early adult years grinding my up leaderboards and improving my K/D I’m completely and utterly burnt out. I no longer have the desire to compete. Sports games online boil down to who knows the most exploits and Cod is just played out for me. I’ll go ahead and add EA UFC to the list. I can’t

 

[Y0ssarian]

GTAV - terrible characters.

The Last of Us - boring. Walking Sim while someone talks at you.

Uncharted 4 - boring. Walking Sim while someone talks at you

Red Dead Redemption 2 - quit around chapter 3

Breath of the Wild - finished this but should have dropped it around 10 hour mark

 

[Pantz]

Ghost of Tsushima
...partially.

I do like it overall but every mission you are following someone on a path to your destination while they tell you boring stuff. Also, Jin's girlfriend looks like a granny. Someone had to say it. It was looking like a 10 game but so much dragged it down by the end.

 

[Shubh_C63]

GTA 5 - Just. so. forgettable.

I would have loved Zelda-BotW if I had all the time in the world. That game is not meant for a quick play session.

 

[Concern]

MGS V: While gameplay was great, the missions and enemies were repetitive and stale. Could only do 20 levels or so.

Horizon Zero Dawn: Bored me into dropping difficulty to story so I could just get through the game. But eventually couldn't force myself to play it anymore after leveling to about 35.

Tlou2: Was ok up till I got to the open area in Washington. After a few tries to push through I just quit.

 

[Darlingcognito]

TLOU 2, got to the horse and died from boredom.
Played through the first one just fine.

 

[Fredrik]

FF7 Remake feels like a janky third person action adventure and not in any way like a remake of my favorite JRPG.

 

[Topher]

TLOU 1
Tried it 2 times and couldnt't stand it more than 3 hours. I think the TV show will be fun, but it didn't work as a game for me.


Death Stranding.
"Played" like 8 hours where i rarely had to touch the contrller and still want my time back.

Soulslike games
Just feels like grinding and trial + error timesink

So not "souls like" but what about actual Souls games such as Dark Souls?

 

[vishnu_raj_c]

Bit Heroes
Warframe
Livelock
Minion masters
Life is strange
Dungeons 2

 

[eyesabitdull]

Ghost of Tsushima
...partially.

I do like it overall but every mission you are following someone on a path to your destination while they tell you boring stuff. Also, Jin's girlfriend looks like a granny. Someone had to say it. It was looking like a 10 game but so much dragged it down by the end.

Came here to say this.

Great game overall by a great dedicated team of developers that deliver above and beyond what we even thought of asking for.

But the game heavily drags by the end point and the repetitive nature and boredom creeps in soon after.

I refuse to say the game sucks though, just a usual case of Open World fatigue that should be alleviated upon future sequels.

 

[AGRacing]

Every modern Kojima "masterpiece". At this point he's just jerking off.

 

[93xfan]

Horizon Zero Dawn and Spider Man

Interesting stories, but the gameplay loop wasn’t fulfilling. Felt PS has much more fun exclusives than these two.

 

[JohnSpartanLee]

Final Fantasy X

 

[Gameplaylover]

So not "souls like" but what about actual Souls games such as Dark Souls?

Meant all that stuff. Tried DS1, DS2 and Bloodborne. Hated them all and just beat one boss in all 3. The only game that i liked was Lords of the Fallen because it had fair savepoints that didn't feel like occupational therapy/timesink.