15 video games or franchises that everyone loves, but you can't stand.

First person games in general: You rarely feel like you're anything more than just a camera floating through the level. Also: motion sickness galore.
First-person games with platforming: The perspective just doesn't make any sort of precision or fun possible.
Tekken series: Sluggish and clunky movement that just feels wronger than wrong.
Metroid Prime series: All of the fucking above, except somehow even worse.
Stealth games: Why base entertainment around something so unentertaining?
 
i really hate Oblivion. The game is just totally fucked top to bottom in every way. I really don't get what people see in it. I feel like whatever part of the brain one needs to enjoy this fucked game, I don't have it.

I also don't understand the appeal of rogueshit, with very few exceptions. I tried StS and Balatro and was bored out of my mind within 20 minutes.

First person games in general: You rarely feel like you're anything more than just a camera floating through the level. Also: motion sickness galore.
This is actually a complaint I have with the new, more indie FPS games that have been coming out the past five years. I don't think this is a valid complaint for the old ones. Sorry about the motion sickness.

Similarly, a lot of these new indie platformers seem to be designed around autistic speedrunning, which is just not for me.
 
Just 15? Ok
  1. Uncharted
  2. The Last of Us
  3. Call of Duty
  4. Mass Effect
  5. Final Fantasy
  6. Ys
  7. Golden Sun
  8. Ni No Kuni
  9. Diablo
  10. Twisted Metal
  11. Tekken
  12. Killzone
  13. Gran Turismo
  14. Tomodachi series
  15. Guacamelee
I could go on
 
Horizon Zero Down
Undertale (the whole game is some pseudo-intellectual nonsense)
whole Ass Creed series
Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising
all modern sports and fighting games
 
I like souls games, but I don't like Bloodborne.

I do not worry about games I don't like enough to track them.
 
Stardew Valley
Zelda, specifically BOTW, and TOTK
Dark Souls
Vampire Survivors
Balatro
Elder Scrolls
Fallout
Monster Hunter
 
Dad of War 2018, trash
Gears of War 2
Gears of War 3
Any Smash Bros
Any Pokémon
Horizon FW
Any CoD after Black Ops 2
Modern GT and Forza, they are both boring
Any modern JRPG besides Expedition 33
Death Stranding, pretentious garbage
Any Mortal Kombat after MKII
Rogue Legacy 2
Really almost any survival crafting game
Fortnite
Any modern sports game, they are basically all gambling games now
 
BG3
Call of Duty
Elden Ring
Pokémon
Monster Hunter
FFXIV
Last of US 2
Assassin Creed
Balatoro
God of War
Mobile
99% of all weeb like anime games
 
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I just realized the OP listed FF Tactics
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  1. Grand Theft Auto
  2. Persona
  3. The Witcher
  4. Red Dead Redemption
  5. The Last of Us
  6. Cyberpunk
  7. Modern From Software games
 
Hate is a strong word, but I've never been into Naughty Dog's output since Uncharted. The completely on rails cinematic setpieces do nothing for me. They're just quicktime events.

With that said, I never gave 4 a try, and supposedly that one had a little more freedom.
 
(In no particular order)

1) Gacha games of all kinds. I can see I'm not alone here. Good. These "games" are wretched cringe, and I am disappointed in humanity. Guys, please have more self control (and self-respect).

2) Resident Evil 4-9,999. That's right, the whole franchise after 3. The series lost all restraint, stepped away from grounded east-meets-west body horror, and transformed into schlocky garbage. It has never recovered.

3) Live service games of any kind, but in particular "games" like Helldivers.

4) Call of Duty. Man, I used to love the series back in the 360 era, I'm not going to lie. But now look at it. What the hell is even that? I never want to meet a single person who the games' aesthetic was designed to appeal to.

5) nuDoom. They're trying to pass the Doomguy off as "Doom Slayer." Doom. Slayer. The 2016 reboot arc is a hard thing to watch, with its Diablo III-styled "demons" and embarrassing presentation. As much as some fans want to whine about it, the simple truth is Doom III was more true to the Doom franchise than everything post 2016. The newer games are more Serious Sam in gameplay (which itself isn't a bad thing... I guess), but that's not what I dislike the most. It's everything else.

6) Sony's "Hollywood" games. Gag me with a spoon, man. The PS4 era was lousy with 'em, but to a point so was the PS3. Heavy Rain, Uncharted, The Last of Us. Thankfully, by the PS5, Sony basically ran out of money (and studios), and we were spared any more of this tripe, but the Druckmann deluge was just depressing to live through. Detestable, low-rent "film-makers" trying to give their awful "visions" a place to stand in the videogames space. Eww.

7) Anything Rockstar. People eat this shit up, and Rockstar makes bank. It makes me sad. Everything they do is misanthropic, mean-spirited filth (and yes, I use the word like a true puritan). This is one of those rare instances I agree with the crazy attention-grabbing lawyer. Jack Thompson was right: GTA is a terrible franchise, and it's had a terrible effect on the games industry. I'm upset to think that millions of kids are exposed to this trash, and it brings me to wonder if the general regression of societal values doesn't in some way go hand-in-hand with the mass-consumption of this insidious, hateful franchise. That's an unpopular opinion to be sure, but there it is.

8) Destiny. Though I'm starting to feel that people don't love this game as much as gaming-related news sites want you to believe (they have to write about something after all). I just do not get the appeal.

9) Ubisoft's games are basically one big franchise, because they're all largely the same. And I hate them all. But I think at this point, Ubisoft fatigue is high enough that this is probably a moot entry. But I hated them before hating them was cool. I was sick of their crap around the time they squeezed Far Cry 3 out over a newspaper. The same contrived, goofy setups, the same cut-and-paste gameplay, and sometimes between entries, the same friggin' map!

10) Borderlands is an easy thing to hate on, but again, I'm starting to wonder if listing it is redundant. I get the feeling that people are collectively getting sick of it by now, too. I liked the first one well enough, as janky as it was, but man, did 2 ever grind my gears. That game's writing and presentation was basically a psychic assault upon the player. I get that some people find it to their liking. I do not like those people.

11) Fortnite. Yeah, I thought that one goes without saying. I don't think it's a game for people who actually like videogames.

12) Anything first-party. The big-three are so out of touch it's hilarious. Nintendo's "ah-ah-wah-oh-oh" stale corporate flavor, Microsoft's icky wokeisms, and Sony's... well, nothing. This generation and the one immediately preceding it produced some of the worst first-party slop I've ever seen.

13) Elden Ring. The game looks like piss and plays like shit. A big, empty, and thoroughly ugly world with nothing interesting to find in it but rehashes of recycled DS3 content.

14) Boss rush games. Games where everything is either a thinly-veiled (or sometimes just in-your-face) excuse to throw "boss fights" at you. Because level design and interesting regular encounters take work, and today's developers are lazy beyond measure.

15) Faux-retro games. Games made by people who really don't get the point, who think what made old games great is how ugly they were. For a while it was games with MS Paint "pixel art." Now it's low-effort "OMG jumpscares just like Silent Hill" "horror" "games" with "PS1 graphics." I hate them all (with a few scarce exceptions).

15.2) Anything Remedy post Max Payne. Boy, did they ever lose the plot. Meaningless drivel.
 
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The Division 2
Fallout 4 and 76
Assassins Creed anything other than 2, black flag and Odyssey
Valorant
Forza Motorsport
Any 343 Inc Halo
 
15 that you hate?
This is just indicative of how bad the hyperbolic modern internet has gotten that you could ask that question.
 
Legend of Zelda
Doom
Metal Gear
Metroid
Pokemon
Ass Creed
Street Fighter
Mortal Kombat
Uncharted
The Witcher
Last of Us
Horizon
Mario RPGs
 
I like souls games, but I don't like Bloodborne.

I do not worry about games I don't like enough to track them.
I'm the exact opposite. I hate Souls games/soulslikes, but liked Bloodborne. The only other From game I've ever bothered to try outside of the PS2/3 AC games was Sekiro and that game was so fucking hard for me I gave up and just watched someone play it.
 
15 that you hate?
This is just indicative of how bad the hyperbolic modern internet has gotten that you could ask that question.
Hate is sometimes deserved, and the industry is on a downwards trajectory of its own creation. Course-correction is necessary, and you don't do that by "treating others the way they want to be treated," and ignoring constant, intentional cockups.
 
Mario
Zelda
Sonic
Metroid
Crash
Borderlands
Horizon
Ratchet and Clank
Gran Turismo
Forza Motorsport (I like Forza Horizon)
Bioshock
Dragon Quest
Xenoblade
Saints Row
Ashen
 
this thread: Lists every developer and game in existence

like what the hell are you all playing? anime dress up games for sure
 
this thread: Lists every developer and game in existence

like what the hell are you all playing? anime dress up games for sure
The industry is greatly messed up right now, man. Some of us aren't so stuck on their battle pass unlocks that we fail to notice that.

Me? I'm burning through my backlog. Just beat Ninja Gaiden 2 for the first time. Nothing in this entire generation interests me. I can't be the only one.
 
The industry is greatly messed up right now, man. Some of us aren't so stuck on their battle pass unlocks that we fail to notice that.

Me? I'm burning through my backlog. Just beat Ninja Gaiden 2 for the first time. Nothing in this entire generation interests me. I can't be the only one.
sure, but this isn't just about recent titles.

I tend to avoid all games with battles passes, but recently i did get back into Fornite for a bit and while the monezitation is absolutely egregrious, the game is mechanically sound and just downright fun IMO.

Finished Red Dead 2 again, and I have a love hate relationship with that game. The detail and world is just so good, but it does control like garbage a lot of times.

If I were to say any game I "hate" it'd just be turned based games. I just cannot get into it. There is no joy in sifting through menus for attacks. I like more visceral, direct combat.

Some of these lists are full of hyperbole as well.
 
I'm the exact opposite. I hate Souls games/soulslikes, but liked Bloodborne. The only other From game I've ever bothered to try outside of the PS2/3 AC games was Sekiro and that game was so fucking hard for me I gave up and just watched someone play it.

Interesting. I am glad you liked one From game.
 
Soccer
Warcraft
Dead or Alive
CSGO
Online COD
Modern Wrestling
Sports career stories
Unfortunately, some Zelda games
F1
Lego
Batman
Mario Kart
Donkey Kong
Fatal Frame
 
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