Highly rated and beloved games you didn’t like

[PeJota]

Metal Gear Solid 4

Absolutely hated this game. I was absolutely baffled at the stellar reviews this got. This was downright one of the most frustrating and boring games I've ever watched...errr played. Every moment of the game that I wished I played was a cut-scene: After battling in the streets for 20 minutes I finally make it to the enemy camp aaaand I watch a cut-scene of Snake sneaking around the camp and the level ends; I make it to a massive control room with entrances on all sides with a swarm of enemies rushing in aaaaand I watch an action-packed cut-scene of Snake battling the enemies. And many more instances of like this. Just watching Snake do the things I wish I got to do.

I get that this is a thing (a meme) with MGS and Kojima. It's a cut-scene heavy series, but MGS4 rrrreeaaaallly quadruples down on this. There is a section of the game where you do not play a single moment for 2 fucking hours. It's absurd at the praise this series, and this game in particular gets. It has may praise-worthy qualities, but as a whole I just don't get the love, especially for MGS4.

For the record I loved MGS, it balanced the gameplay and story well, it has a lot of clever gameplay elements, and the story is appropriately pulpy without getting too convoluted.

I disliked, but not hated, MGS2. This is where the story really started diving headfirst into convoluted territory. The second half of the game gets too cut-scene heavy, I remember a moment where you finish one cut-scene and walk down a corridor only for another cut-scene to play. The switch to Raiden was annoying as well, but I didn't hate it like some do.

I liked MGS3 because of its camo system gameplay. There was also enough of it that the cut-scenes didn't feel too obtrusive.

And I actually loved MGSV. The best in the series. It finally focuses on the gameplay, while letting the story be more of a backdrop for the most part. It ends abruptly but it didn't bother me because at that point I was satisfied.

But really, MGS4... fuck that game.

[OverdriveActive]

There used to be a time when most games excited me and were interesting. As time has gone on I'm now in that camp where most games don't interest me and only a small amount excite me. There's some games I thought were going to be killers for me that ended up not so. I guess you could call this the disappointment parade; games squarely targeted at my interests in theme and gameplay that missed the mark:

- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
// Literally dead center of my interests. Got bored about 20 minutes in after none of the worldbuilding exposure intro, combat or visuals grabbed me. I thought I knew what I was getting after I watched the streams and read the reviews. I've tried 4 times to start this game and now I've just put it in the "Did Not Finish" category on Steam.

- Divinity Original Sin
// I still want to give this another go. It's high on my list of things to play once I run out of other stuff. Still, my first 2 tries so far have been unsuccessful. The cartoony stylings and general drudgery of overly expositional dialogue puts me off. I'll give it another go in 2019 but it's likely this will also be relegated to a DNF tag.

- Rage
// I thought this was going to be amazing and then it turned into a console-style corridor shooter where the 'open world' was about a foot wide and an inch deep. Picked it up ages ago and decided that with the sequel coming out I'd go and finish it. Nope.

- Tom Clancy's The Division
// I played the beta for this and thought it was well fun. Figured that the full version of the game would be massive with sprawling, interesting content that actually explored the human side of the apocalypse. Turns out it was a very clunky, slow, bullet sponge filled third person shooter. Mechanics are shallow as hell, stats feel untuned and boring, items are uninteresting altogether, PvE is just bullet sponges with no tactics or depth, the list goes on. I finished the story mode and promptly uninstalled.

I think AAA is dead to me, as is the F2P market where it comes to games that are social or matchmaking based. Both of those scenes are filled with garbage experiences both in gameplay and socially. Meanwhile there's a large list of games I really, really liked and have put several thousands of hours in.

[Garrett]

I played Bioshock probably a year after it came out. It was so incredibly boring that I quit halfway. Also, if one of the main things you do is incrementally damage a bullet sponge monster and let it kill you so you instantly respawn 20 meters away with zero negative consequences so you can rinse and repeat, there is something seriously wrong with your game. Then I tried Bioshock Infinite and got bored even faster than I did with Bioshock 1. I left the game running in the background until I got all the Steam trading cards and then uninstalled.

...Then a couple of years later I finally played System Shock 2 for the first time. The direct predecessor to those two snoozefests. -And I basically finished it in one sitting because of how much better and more compelling it was on every conceivable level.

[Oysterhead]

There are so many. But the best example is Witcher 3, because it has the biggest discrepancy between it's appraisal and my opinion of it. I played only 6 hours though, so maybe it gets better? I highly doubt it though. The combat system was atrocious and boring. That in itself is pretty bad for a game that heavily relies on it. But what's worse is the quest design and UI. Questmarkers are the absolute worst thing in an RPG imo, closely followed by this stupid clue vision feature every third game seems to need, because the developers think the dumb consumers need both of those to not walk straight at a wall for 30 minutes. Maybe they are right. I won't play their game though.

[TheMightyWyvern]

I am going to find you and eat all of your food!!

[TheMightyWyvern]

I really dont like ocarina of time, it sucks

[theluckynickel]

Red Dead Redemption 2 Fight me!

[Tech_0ne]

This relates to me on another level lmao, I have desperately tried to enjoy the metal gear franchise but I am so extremely bad at the titles that I could never progress far into them, even after re-visiting the titles multiple times.

Learn to love the box!!

[Naryo]

Metal Gear Solid is another series that I absolutely cannot sit and play, maybe I'm just really bad at stealth sims.

This relates to me on another level lmao, I have desperately tried to enjoy the metal gear franchise but I am so extremely bad at the titles that I could never progress far into them, even after re-visiting the titles multiple times.

[Vanitas Remnant]

Agreed with that message exactly.

[Ronnin426850]

I like that the original Tomb Rider got replaced. Cheap puzzles and massive boobs get boring after the 11th installment. This fresh take is realistic, immersive, serious and fun, I love it Different strokes for different folks, tho, I hope you guys get another TR game that's more down your alley, as long as it doesn't ruin the new franchise for us who like it.

[NoSignaL_1337]

Every Zelda game, Undertale, Bioshock Infinite, Life is Strange, CoD after WaW, Battlefield after BC2, All BR games, Assassins Creed after 2nd one and Overwatch.

[Mike]

Like God of War I was a massive Tomb Raider fan, but this reboot and it's sequels destroyed the franchise for me.
I loved Tomb Raider back when was all about exploring, puzzle solving turns and playing as a charasmatic, witty and sexy female action hero who faught dinosuars, dragons and even gods, but now due to gamers having low standards and being gullible for walkie talkie feels-a-thons, it's now a generic cover shooter/Uncharted Clone with Lara being a boring chew toy.

You are dead right. What they have done to Lara and the game itself is depressing. It's a Tomb Raider *flavoured* action game, nothing to do with the original Tomb Raider except the name.

[Spect3r]

The Last of Us

[Ronnin426850]

Bioshock Infinite. Overly-American themes do nothing for me.