What's a game everyone loves but you don't like it?

[Ethernoh]

I might get banned but the ps1 FF7.
I love 8 and above tho...

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24]

I had a very poor experience with Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Played the 3DS version. I just… didn’t care for it. I got about as far as the Forest Temple (the first adult Link temple) before admitting to myself that I hadn’t had fun the entire game and was trying too hard to enjoy myself.

I played it perhaps a bit too late in my life. I was 14, so part of the magic that other people felt was probably not as much there.

 

[Strategist's iconStrategist]

There's always been some healthy skepticism on FFVII in the fanbase. I remember looking at the previews of FFVII and not being super excited about it at first glance. The hype and CGI cutscenes eventually won everyone over, but I think most Final Fantasy fans who aren't specifically FF7 fans can admit that there are some serious flaws with the game.

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24]

There's always been some healthy skepticism on FFVII in the fanbase. I remember looking at the previews of FFVII and not being super excited about it at first glance. The hype and CGI cutscenes eventually won everyone over, but I think most Final Fantasy fans who aren't specifically FF7 fans can admit that there are some serious flaws with the game.

Yup! It’s a fun game but it’s not required to love! It’s a taste. A vibe. And it’s okay if you don’t vibe with it!

Don’t tell the shippers you don’t like it though. They will burn down your house.

 

[fake-kun]

Mega Man Zero games.

 

[Ethernoh]

I had a very poor experience with Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Played the 3DS version. I just… didn’t care for it. I got about as far as the Forest Temple (the first adult Link temple) before admitting to myself that I hadn’t had fun the entire game and was trying too hard to enjoy myself.

I played it perhaps a bit too late in my life. I was 14, so part of the magic that other people felt was probably not as much there.

oof that's another one, I couldn't get into Zelda like at all...

 

[Zachery2112]

Dragon Quest V is said to be the best one time and time again. However, I just can't get into it like the rest of the series. The story is good, don't get me wrong. But the gameplay feels suffocating. It doesn't have the open exploration of other games in the series until much later in the game and the party is restricted to only three active members. Combine this with the game only having a small amount of playable characters with the bulk of party members being uncontrollable monsters, it feels a lot less fun to play compared to something like Dragon Quest VI, VIII, or XI. Granted, I've still played through the majority of it, because I'm stupid like that.

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24]

Mega Man Zero games.

Again, understandable. It’s so distinct in its style, so obtuse in its design. It’s not “simple and fun”. You really have to just… commit to it. To a degree that can just straight up be unfun.

I’ve had a bad experience with 1, but I want to try again with other games. If I judged the classic Mega Man games off of Mega Man 1, I wouldn’t like them, so I’ll spare Zero the judgement.

 

[Strategist's iconStrategist]

Dragon Quest V is said to be the best one time and time again. However, I just can't get into it like the rest of the series. The story is good, don't get me wrong. But the gameplay feels suffocating. It doesn't have the open exploration of other games in the series until much later in the game and the party is restricted to only three active members. Combine this with the game only having a small amount of playable characters with the bulk of party members being uncontrollable monsters, it feels a lot less fun to play compared to something like Dragon Quest VI, VIII, or XI. Granted, I've still played through the majority of it, because I'm stupid like that.

I agree with this. I've tried multiple times to get into the Dragon Quest series with DQ1, DQ5 (PS2 version) and DQ8 but couldn't finish any of these. I don't see what's the big deal with these games. The stories are very basic and uninteresting, the gameplay is about the same as any other JRPG and the visuals are just ok. It wasn't a bad experience, mind you, but I couldn't see the point of playing over Final Fantasy, SMT or other JRPG series that I find bring more to the table.

 

[MemeAlert]

Either Stardew Valley or Vampire Survivors.

 

[LiberoVulpes]

Dark Souls 3 - I am a Dark Souls 1 stan for life.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R - I like Roadside Picnic, i like the Tarkovsky movie, but the games don't click with me. I like the other Roadside Picnic inspired game (Tunguska) tho.
Hi-Fi Rush - Doesn't appeal to me at all.
Persona - Hate hate hate hate... I have tried to see why people like it...

 

[RustySK]

Honestly I get the impression that disliking FFVII isn't actually as rare as that game's remarkably vocal fandom might suggest.
I'm definitely not a fan of it, despite it being the first game to make me cry.

Same for FFX, for that matter - the cast of that game never clicked with me (though teenage me did like Auron, of course) and the artdesign, while fancy, always took me out of the experience with how ornate it is.

 

[MemeAlert]

I had a very poor experience with Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Played the 3DS version. I just… didn’t care for it. I got about as far as the Forest Temple (the first adult Link temple) before admitting to myself that I hadn’t had fun the entire game and was trying too hard to enjoy myself.

I played it perhaps a bit too late in my life. I was 14, so part of the magic that other people felt was probably not as much there.

I'm surprised someone was speaking ill towards Ocarina of Time, THE BESTEST GAME EVAR!!!

 

[bjork]

Ocarina for sure, after suffering through the water temple and then finding the next dungeon also required frequently using an item to navigate, I just said forget it.

Shenmue, after having it hyped to the moon about all this stuff you could do, I looked in some drawers and fed a cat and got bored before the actual meat of the story happened. This part of this playthrough kind of sums up how I felt about it:

Undertale. Maybe I'm just too old or maybe I need to try it again, but I bounced off it super hard, and people act like it's this seminal piece of interactive media but never say why.

 

[AncientBehemoth]

Mario franchise, Zelda franchise, Halo franchies, Souls series, GTA after vice city, Kiseki series.

 

[Jeanfranc]

The cringe writing filtered me and the character were somewhat annoying but the narrator's voice was the last straw: she's insufferable and there's no way of muting her.
A turbo button for the combat encounters would've been really handy.
Also it's 5e, if you know, you know

 

[RetroLuvr]

I could never get myself to like the Xenosaga trilogy. After playing the masterpiece that is Xenogears, Xenosaga is a major let down. It feels like if that one kid in English class that got way too into Shakespeare and thought that made him some deep intellectual wrote the story. Half of my time was spent doing vocab work reading the terminology that the game loosely explains. Jin is cool tho

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24]

I'm surprised someone was speaking ill towards Ocarina of Time, THE BESTEST GAME EVAR!!!

Sorry man…
Zelda as a formula has had to take time to grow on me. Not quite an RPG, but not a game you can hop in and hop out of, which is a problem.

You aren’t always guaranteed to DO SOMETHING when you commit an hour a day to it, let alone just 30 minutes. I also just don’t like dungeon exploring and dungeon gameplay, which pretty much locks me out of loving several games in the series.

Love the art and worlds though. I can still appreciate that much, at least! (Also, BOTW appealed to me much more. It’s lowered emphasis on dungeon exploration and higher emphasis on “solve this puzzle any way you please” probably helped tons.)

 

[Strategist's iconStrategist]

The cringe writing filtered me and the character were somewhat annoying but the narrator's voice was the last straw: she's insufferable and there's no way of muting her.
A turbo button for the combat encounters would've been really handy.
Also it's 5e, if you know, you know

I honestly think all of Larian's games suffer from cringe, insufferable narration and characters. I'm surprised they don't get called out more on this. I do enjoy the gameplay and freedom of Larian games but the storytelling is very hit or miss. Somehow they've been able to gaslight the community into thinking they have good stories and characters.

 

[MemeAlert]

I might get banned but the ps1 FF7.
I love 8 and above tho...
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Wait you love FF8 but not FF7?

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24]

Ocarina for sure, after suffering through the water temple and then finding the next dungeon also required frequently using an item to navigate, I just said forget it.

Shenmue, after having it hyped to the moon about all this stuff you could do, I looked in some drawers and fed a cat and got bored before the actual meat of the story happened. This part of this playthrough kind of sums up how I felt about it:

Undertale. Maybe I'm just too old or maybe I need to try it again, but I bounced off it super hard, and people act like it's this seminal piece of interactive media but never say why.

Definitely an age thing. Games resonate with you at a certain age, and Undertale appeals to the “20’s and younger” crowd with its themes, design, and general values a lot.

It also just hit at the right place and right time for a lot of people.

 

[Jeanfranc]

I honestly think all of Larian's games suffer from cringe, insufferable narration and characters. I'm surprised they don't get called out more on this. I do enjoy the gameplay and freedom of Larian games but the storytelling is very hit or miss. Somehow they've been able to gaslight the community into thinking they have good stories and characters.

Agreed but hey, as cringe as the game is you gotta hand it to them: you can be evil and kill all the characters you don't like

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24]

Wait you love FF8 but not FF7?

They’re allowed to! FF8 is super different from 7, and so it appeals to a different crowd! Squall, the high school setting, Triple Triad… the game has tons of things that resonate!

 

[Eclipse14]

I might get banned

Imagine getting nuked because of having this sort of opinion.

That said, Pokémon and Animal Crossing. The former isn't really a case of disliking it (and I do have a couple Pokémon games a la Stadium 2 for the N64 and XD for the GC), but the premise of the main entries simply does not connect with me. It's just one of those franchises I don't have a care for in the world.

Animal Crossing is also not in my wheelhouse, especially considering the whole Mr. Resetti thing. It is your given right to reset the game if you screw up something big time.

 

[bjork]

Definitely an age thing. Games resonate with you at a certain age, and Undertale appeals to the “20’s and younger” crowd with its themes, design, and general values a lot.

It also just hit at the right place and right time for a lot of people.

But what is it about it that resonates? Is there some super deep story bit? Do I need to have consumed all of homestuck or something first?