Name a game you hate but everyone else loves - Because you have opinions too <3

Persona: anime trash designed to seem deep but actually aren't, dumb teenagers absolutely sperg over it.

To all the people in this thread that have cited Sonic and said it's about going fast: you misunderstand. Sonic is about achieving speed. Going fast is fun so in order to keep your speed you need to push your reflexes and predictive power. This is why good Sonic games have a lot of replay value but are tough the first time through. Has this always been true of Sonic? Not really. Honestly; Sonic Team doesn't know what to do anymore and they need to hand it off to other people.
A lot of people playing Sonic who don't do well don't seem to understand the logic of the games or how they're supposed to work. Originally Sonic was made when a guy was playing Mario fast. Sonic is basically the same idea as time trials or speedrunning: get good, go fast, feel good, get rated autistic because it's Sonic and it's a huge cancer cell.
 
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Can it be a game that I love AND hate at the same time but everyone else loves unconditionally.

Because I love/hate the FateStay Night VN.
 
Most Nintendo IP's, with the noted exception of Legend of Zelda (and Bayonetta, if you count that one)
 
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BioShock Infinite Burial at Sea. Gameplay is probably worse than the main game for both episodes despite being able to carry more than 2 guns but what really really offended me was the story. Not only does the premise not make sense with the ending of infinite, basically everything else about the plot is idiotic and goes out of its way to retroactively cheapen and/or ruin all of the games in the BioShock series. Plus it has a torture scene which was highly disturbing and killed my desire to play it further.
I don't understand how it's as well reviewed as it is. If anything, it's proof to me that brainlet fans will gobble up anything if it makes them feel "smart"
 
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Late, I know, but holy fucking shit, you're right. I saw Elemental Gelade as a kid (back when YouTube hosted entire anime series' with each of their episodes in three parts), and the more I think about it, the more surprised I am that I didn't catch it.
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Right? And no worries about being late, I actually STILL managed to see it, despite it! Good timing!
They literally even switched the red/blue color schemes of the lead guy and girl! But it's the same! Too bad it's so underrated. I didn't watch it when I was younger, but actually recently, and man, was that top quality romance in anime.

Isn't there some member I remember who is all about the red chick from the game? I remember seeing the character everywhere on here. You remember?

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BioShock Infinite Burial at Sea. Gameplay is probably worse than the main game for both episodes despite being able to carry more than 2 guns but what really really offended me was the story. Not only does the premise not make sense with the ending of infinite, basically everything else about the plot is idiotic and goes out of its way to retroactively cheapen and/or ruin all of the games in the BioShock series. Plus it has a torture scene which was highly disturbing and killed my desire to play it further.
I don't understand how it's as well reviewed as it is. If anything, it's proof to me that brainlet fans will gobble up anything if it makes them feel "smart"
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This. I don't care about FPS games or even Bioshock, but I loved Infinite, and I was curious about Burial at Sea, even though I died instantly while playing it. (Further proof of why I can't stand Rapture). I decided to watch it on Youtube instead and the story pissed me off. The whole notion of a Comstock still alive because he turned 'back' into Booker is garbage. And the worst part was the Luteces justifying Fitzroy's behavior, rather than the notion the game EXPLICITLY states many times as "She's just as bad as Comstock". That was when I was done.

I think the original game implies that even the original Elizabeth disappears after all the other ones in the end. They all vanish with the beats of the music and it cuts before the last beat, cut to Booker in room with baby. Comstock never existed, ever, so he can now live with Anna. Done.

You can't continue that.

At least Clash in the Clouds was fun. Glad I didn't waste my on Burial at Sea (the copy I had with it was a free download when I still PC-gamed)
 
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The first Bioshock. The guns feel and sound extremely ineffective and the reticles you have to aim with are absolute trash.

Ratchet and Clank (2016). This is just from the perspective of someone who loves the original game, but if you’re going to do a remake do an actual remake. Don’t cut levels, don’t recycle weapons and character models from completely irrelevant games.

Spider-Man (2018). I don’t HATE it, but the levels where you play as MJ and Miles are horrifically offensive in a game where I want to play as a super strong man who swings on ropes all the time. The Sable agents taking over the city later on become really agitating. Lastly, and the most petty gripe, but how are you going to have like 30 alternate costumes and leave out the classic black suit?
 
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Ratchet and Clank (2016). This is just from the perspective of someone who loves the original game, but if you’re going to do a remake do an actual remake. Don’t cut levels, don’t recycle weapons and character models from completely irrelevant games.
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After it appeared in like three games in a row I got tired of seeing the Groovitron making yet another appearance, and they didn't even bring back the Walloper or Tesla Claw. The Pixelizer was cool though.
 
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Red Dead Redemption/2

I had heard nothing about how great this console exclusive game was the entire time I was devouring Rockstar's PS2 era of gaming on PC. I was so bitter I couldn't play it, so once I got a PS3, it was one of my first buys. And I quickly bought the sequel when it came out, even though I hadn't played the first yet.

And... when I finally got to it, it was playable at least (way more than I can say about most of Rockstar's console controls), but I could not wait to be done with it for the most part. The most fun I legit had was wearing a tattered old poncho in Mexico on Marsden. That's it. I've never played a more barren and boring open world game in my life.
And I quit 2 roughly an hour in. You're becoming Naughty Dog with this cinematic shit, Rockstar. Stop it. I halfway expected controls for blinking each eyelid separately, that's how out of control it was. And I've never played more linear missions in my life. Normally I like linear, but there's a little thing called TOO much.
At least this was an easy resell. Thank god I bought physical to be able to do so.

At this point, give me Volition over Rockstar. They put fun over realism in their games. Agents of Mayhem looks amazing, and is, in the hour or so I've goofed around in it.
 
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At this point, give me Volition over Rockstar. They put fun over realism in their games. Agents of Mayhem looks amazing, and is, in the hour or so I've goofed around in it.
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I agree with this sentiment. Most people play games so they can have fun and take a break from reality, so why do so many developers nowadays make their games so realistic boring? I miss stupid shit like SSX Tricky, Mercenaries and Vigilante 8.
 
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I agree with this sentiment. Most people play games so they can have fun and take a break from reality, so why do so many developers nowadays make their games so realistic boring? I miss stupid shit like SSX Tricky, Mercenaries and Vigilante 8.
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Seriously, it might be impressive on paper that "Arthur grows hair in real time, he needs to shower, eat, etc", but those are things we do everyday in real life because it's US, we live it and need it. To have to continue to do it in a game, in addition to yourself, is just obnoxious.
 
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Seriously, it might be impressive on paper that "Arthur grows hair in real time, he needs to shower, eat, etc", but those are things we do everyday in real life because it's US, we live it and need it. To have to continue to do it in a game, in addition to yourself, is just obnoxious.
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I agree, I don't wanna have to shave my stubble twice in 5 minutes, the reliance on "realism" is just too much now. I think it peaked in enjoyment with GTA4's drunken walking/drunk driving/hilarious ragdoll physics.

I think Ubisoft did a good thing when they told some developers "hey, I heard you wanna make a game, go do it" that ended up with Grow Home, I hope more publishers do that in the future. It's clear the designers and artists still want to make something new, but they're assigned to projects where they can't spread their wings, which sucks for both them and consumers.

Edit: Here's an Irish nerd comedian talking about a mission in GTA4 and he pretty much sums up why "realism" sucks in video games. The whole video's worth watching because he takes the piss out of a good number of games.
 
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No More Heroes. The aesthetic looked stylish and cool from a distance. I like action games, and it was getting super hyped on /v/, so I bought it at launch. In practice the theme is grating as fuck. From the 1-dimensional "lol quirky" characters to the smug meta commentary minigames, it feels like the video game version of that kid in class with aspergers who thinks he's actually 200 IQ. The most remarkable thing about the gameplay was doing the jerkoff motion to charge your laser sword (holy SHIT that's funny.)
 
Super Mario Odyssey is very mediocre and I had no desire to keep going after I beat the game. Luncheon Kingdom was loathsome, you had to spend way too much time in Mexico Kingdom, and I barely remember anything about the ice kingdom. But at least it was better than Super Mario Galaxy, which was just a bitch to play due to the whole waggle-to-punch thing and having to move a mouse cursor around a screen constantly to pick up star bits, a thing that's essential for advancing in the game.

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Seriously, it might be impressive on paper that "Arthur grows hair in real time, he needs to shower, eat, etc", but those are things we do everyday in real life because it's US, we live it and need it. To have to continue to do it in a game, in addition to yourself, is just obnoxious.
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I remember at one point when I realized that I'm somehow faster and more athletic in real life than the very video game characters I'm playing as in some of these crappy realistic games.
 
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Don't hate but find overrated when compared to the sequels. Dark Souls 1.

Also, Sekiro. I'd play DS2 any day of the week over Sekiro. NB4 "Sekiro isn't Soulsborne!" 🙄
 
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