Popular games you don't care for?

[rollobobo]

Probably a hot take but I never liked the Souls-like games. Only one that I kinda liked is Bloodborne but even that one I struggled to get into. I probably need to "Git Gud" to enjoy those types of games...but no patience.

Also the GTA series. Bleh!

 

[Gorse]

I don't really hate any game, or any other piece of media. Not real hate – not the kind of hate that you can feel bubbling, boiling, burning inside you. The kind of hate that drives a man to the edge, that makes him not a man, but a blithering, bleating, babbling baboon of a creature, foaming at the mouth, shaking at the legs, his fingers clenched and his eyes bloodshot. No, there aren't any games I hate like that.

EXCEPT ONE.

OH, HOW I HATE UNDERTALE!

This game, and the dipshit who made it, embody everything I hate about the world. I can literally point at this one singular piece of media as the sole moment when I stopped liking modern entertainment. It's ugly. It's boring. It's unoriginal to the point of plagiarism. Every line of dialogue is dripping with a smug, self-satisfied, passive-aggressive tone specifically formulated to make people like me go insane. It's the dark heart of millennial writing, millennial humour, millennial cultural values. It's the black, filth-drenched core of 2010s pop culture, that turned this world's joy to silt.

And yet everyone loved it! Oh, they loved it. And everyone was influenced by it. And everyone rewarded the petulant, infantile larva who created, shortly after squirming his way out of the devil's septic tank. Oh, they rewarded him! Oh, he's at the top of the world, isn't he? And if you don't like it, don't like the game, well – you're just jealous, aren't you? Yes, you silly, foolish little chinchilla. You're just jealous. It was supposed to be bad, can't you see? It was supposed to be smug. It was supposed to be corruptive, corrosive, evil. And it was. And now, everything will be. Forever.

I have this theory that I can tell whether or not we'll get along by if you enjoy Undertale or not – the kind of person who likes this game typically has a mindset that I am physically repulsed by, in the same way a magnet is physically repulsed by another on the opposite polarity. I've gotten into multi-page internet arguments about it. Friendships have been ended. I've been labelled a pariah. And yet, for the rest of eternity – for the rest of time! – I, Gorse, will hate this game.

At the closing of this world, when the sun fades and chaos retakes the universe, I will be there.

And I will still hate Undertale. You won't get me too, Toby. No – you won't get me.

 

[ConanTheDestroyer]

Don't know if it counts as popular but they are quite well received however I personally am not a fan of the two Dreamfall games. It mainly stems from The Longest Journey being one of my favorite games of all time and I heavily disliked the direction they took the world that TLG built. I much prefer TLG as a standalone game that told a complete story.

 

[PhrawzT]

Probably a hot take but I never liked the Souls-like games. Only one that I kinda liked is Bloodborne but even that one I struggled to get into. I probably need to "Git Gud" to enjoy those types of games...but no patience.

Also the GTA series. Bleh!

I've never been a fan of the souls games. I have Dark Souls 1 & 2 and Elden Ring, have spent hours playing them, but they never get more enjoyable to me.

I liked GTA 2, 3 and Vice City, but have not cared for any game in the series after that.

I am not a fan of the Switch Zelda games. My wife is obsessed with them and I have tried playing both, but the constant weapon breaking is just frustrating and the maps seem convoluted and needlessly difficult to get around when trying to get from one area to the next. I quit both games halfway through.

 

[Cu-Neo]

Every E-Sports/Game as a service, type of game altough it is very funny seeing how they crash or become a failure

 

[ThirdEidolon]

we talkin bout popular games outside of retroism? then every single fuckin gacha game ever
fuckin hate em roll-for-png-waifus, it's cos of that shit that we no longer get good games, and companies picked up on that and voila welcome to the modern age

the worst part of it all, is that's what people actually like now
it's all a contest of making the horniest game nowadays

Dolls Frontline is pretty okay.

MICA care about their customers at the very least and the plot is basically metal gear meets evangelion at this point.

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I've never been a fan of the souls games. I have Dark Souls 1 & 2 and Elden Ring, have spent hours playing them, but they never get more enjoyable to me.

I liked GTA 2, 3 and Vice City, but have not cared for any game in the series after that.

I am not a fan of the Switch Zelda games. My wife is obsessed with them and I have tried playing both, but the constant weapon breaking is just frustrating and the maps seem convoluted and needlessly difficult to get around when trying to get from one area to the next. I quit both games halfway through.

Ever tried Sekiro? Or Lord of the Fallen (23)?

It's a different take on the formula, you might like.