Game(s) you hate with a passion

[ruckage]

I hate excessive text/dialogue in games - especially when it's unskippable.
The most recent game that really infuriated me with this was 'Puzzle & Dragons Z' for the 3ds. I bought it as I wanted a quick fun puzzle game to play when travelling. The first time I played it was on a relatively short 45 minute journey and I spent the entire trip hammering the 'A' button to get through dialogue.
There was even a completely pointless lengthy section forcing me to choose a name for a character before basically telling me my choice was dumb and giving the character an obviously pre-determined name - why even offer a choice when there isn't one. It made me so I angry I've not played it since.

Call me old fashioned but when I buy a game I like to actually play it - not read some badly written novel.

[VictimRLSH]

@ruckage In that case you might want to avoid Dragon Warrior 7 for the PS1, while it turns into a really great game, you do not actually get to do anything but dialog scenes for at least 90 mins. It takes that long for a fight to break out and you can finally do what you want. It was one of the best games of the series, but the opening is torture.

[CapNinja]

For me, The Tick from Super Nintendo.
In the box, 2 players, but that's a big lie. Just one.
no variation of combos, no humor, just mash the punch button until you die. And you WILL die. Lots and lots of times.
There was a segment named "A Billion Zillion Ninjas", that was the perfect resume from this game.

[Sano]

I have a great disdain for otherwise (often) good action games that put a f**ing labyrinth with damage on touch and a time limit as a level, just because devs lacked good ideas.
Cruel examples are TMNT on NES (water dam), or tube race in Earthwotm Jim.
Ha this submarine slowly craking, the oxygen countdown, no way to know what's left... This was a nightmare, especially on the gameboy version.

[Mc78]

I severely disliked the tekken games back in the day.
I had some friends who were notorious buttonbashers, and somehow I almost everytime lost when playing against them.
So god damn unfair.
This never happened with other fighting games, mortal kombat, killer instict, fatal fury series...
It's just that tekken is so vulnerable for those types of players who pull off amazing combos without even knowing how. Nice moves, dumbass.

Never had more unfair and boring losses than that. Hence the disliking/ hate for 2p modes.

[thelostsoul]

@mc78 said in Game(s) you hate with a passion:

It's just that tekken is so vulnerable for those types of players who pull off amazing combos without even knowing how. Nice moves, dumbass.

This is true for lower end of skill range. I would say, I am a mid-low tier and still struggle against such button smasher, but often I am able to beat them. If you are good at this game, you can counter everything with the right move. But I agree, it makes it too easy to button smash win against lower ranks.

[VictimRLSH]

@sano They used that stupid damage on touch + time limit crap on Chuck Norris' Superkicks on the 2600. If you stepped on the GRASS, time bled off the clock like you severed your carotid artery and were bleeding out on the lawn. You're supposed to Chuck effin' Norris, meme legend... Even way back then they were taking that cheap shot. Godawful game.

[KN4THX]

@victimrlsh Are you sure it was Chuck Norris bleeding out from walking on the ground and not the ground bleeding out from Chuck Norris walking on it?

[saccublenda]

The game I hate with passion is “Hokuto no Ken 6: Gekitou Denshouken - Haou heno Michi” on SNES. I was a huge Fist of the North Star fan, and I remember entering my video game store of choice back in the days, staring at the Japanese box of this game and getting super excited. I had no idea what this game was, but the hype was pumping, so I asked the store owner if it was a good game and he obviously said “Sure”. I remember the huge disappointment when I got home and started playing it: besides the clunky controls and the horrible gameplay, the choice of the characters was questionable to say the least.
But the worst part were my efforts to try to like it, struggling to convince myself that the game was actually good...
PS: I also bought Fist of the North Star on gameboy. It sucked too.

[Grzesio]

I've got game like this, it's Warframe, some fresh MMO game.
What I love in Warframe

• The game is simple and easy.
• Warframe is free to play.
• I can create my own builds thanks to the new mods, good for players who like "Upgrades" games.
• Very much content, unprecedented as per f2p.
• In Warframe you can play 15 minutes or two hours, it is very good for a break at work.
• Very nice gameplay.

That's what I do not like about Warfame

• Large repetition of opponents, there are only a few models - so they are often repeated.
  -The best way to improve our frame is to use Platinum, but in Warframe the only way to get the platinum, is to buy.
• I've been playing for a month and I still do not know many functions, the tutorials are unreadable.

[m2306]

@victimrlsh said in Game(s) you hate with a passion:

@sano They used that stupid damage on touch + time limit crap on Chuck Norris' Superkicks on the 2600. If you stepped on the GRASS, time bled off the clock like you severed your carotid artery and were bleeding out on the lawn. You're supposed to Chuck effin' Norris, meme legend... Even way back then they were taking that cheap shot. Godawful game.

I actually tried this game for the first time a few days ago. Unbelievably bad. Imagine that you got this for christmas or paid full price for it, open up and load the game, Chuck Norris dies from touching the lawn. 😂🤬

[VictimRLSH]

@m2306 It's hard to believe there are worse 2600 games than E.T., but IMHO Chuck Norris' Superkicks is even worse.

[MattyL42]

Fall out 4! Just because I loved fallout 3 so much.
Found the game slightly too colourful and far fetched (the flying pirate ship??). It was missing the feeling of exploring a 'proper' post apocalyptic waste land... and more like a bad tv movie set. Also i didn't like the fact there was no clear cut good or bad pathway through the game and for me the storyline was empty and the choices all annoying. Part of me thinks the developers leave you disapointed to increase Dlc sales?

Kotor2. This still pains me to this day to how rushed and bad it was.

Half life 2, was also another sequel that was not to bad in its own right but nothing on the ground breaking original for me... sensing a pattern here.

[Clyde]

@mattyl42 said in Game(s) you hate with a passion:

Half life 2, was also another sequel that was not to bad in its own right but nothing on the ground breaking original for me... sensing a pattern here.

I hate HL2 as the first game to require Steam to play even in its disk version. And I hate Steam ever since for being the quasi-monopolist, DRM ridden, data leeching Moloch it has become.

[BobHarris]

Dirt 3, Tekken 3 and Wipeout 3.
Mostly because they are loved so much and thought of as superior to their predecessors..while I feel like they were huge letdowns compared to Dirt 2, Tekken 2 and Wipeout 2097/XL respectively.

Also I have love/hate relationships with games from Team Ico (mostly the game Ico) and From software (Demon's souls and Dark souls). Both franchises can be incredibly frustrating, but are also brilliant in other ways.

[dankcushions]

basically any western RPG in the bethesda mold, so skyrim, fallout 3+, morrowind, etc.

i feel like they don't understand "RPGs" at a basic level. games like fallout 1&2 and system shock 2 were about making choices about your character - you can forgo guns and be a guy who talks his way out of conflict, or sciences through life, or whatever, but you can't be some kind of superhuman savant who is the master of everything.

in bethesda games, you absolutely can be that :/ in fact, it's difficult not to, given how long they last. it makes no sense in the context of those games and just seems so boring to me. it's just hitting the part of your lizard brain that enjoys seeing numbers go up rather than being a 'game' with a 'role' that you are 'playing'.

if that wasn't enough of a sacred cow, i gave up on super mario bros 3 the other month :) it's just so HARD! i have completed SMB and SWM, etc, but 3 had so many walls for me, and i just wasn't enjoying it. i started abusing save states at the start of each level but i still couldn't get anywhere. i've completed all the dark souls games!

[BobHarris]

@dankcushions said in Game(s) you hate with a passion:

i've completed all the dark souls games!

That deserves a +1. :) I still have the ambition to finish all the games at least once. New game + is probably not for me.

[dankcushions]

@bobharris hah! i'm not amazing at games but i finished them, so if i can do it, anyone can! i only finished dark souls 3 a couple of months ago, so i'm pretty slow :)

those games are on another level to me. just so detailed and carefully designed, but so huge also. fez is is another one like that. anyway i should probably stop talking about games i love, here :)

[BobHarris]

@dankcushions My strategy for the souls games is grind, grind and grind some more. :) So I spend 90+ hours on DeSo on my first playthrough..almost finished all of the worlds when my PS3 Ylod'ed. I'm still recovering from that!

But on topic I think the game that I will hate with a passion most of all hasn't come out yet. It's the Final Fantasy VII remake (I'm not the only worried person here I see :) )... I don't know if I can resist buying it, but I do know that I will hate the changes they will make in the battle system (action oriented) and the storylines (alterations and dumbing down) and probably the character models and voices too (I still dread the voice they used for Tidus in FFX). To me it feels comparable to remaking a movie like Pulp Fiction...I will watch it, but I'm pretty sure I won't like it.

[m2306]

I’ve been planning on posting in this thread for a while now but haven’t had the time until now since I suspect it’ll become a long story. On a general note, I dropped out of playing new games after the PS/N64 generation. I loved the Zeldas, FFVII etc. but couldn’t find the time to play those long and big games anymore. Also, for some reason the new games didn’t feel as enchanting as they had before. I got back to gaming when I got an iPhone eight years ago or so. It was a completely different world, didn’t enjoy it especially but it was cheap and easily accesible. After casual mobile gaming for a few years, trying many of the biggest and most popular games, I started resenting how the free to play and super addictive design of these games made gaming feel more like drug abuse than anything I could remember from my gaming years before. I knew better games were available for other platforms so I got a Wii but the games didn’t really feel all that amazing. I also hacked the Wii, trying to make something like what Retropie is today. I didn’t like the outcome, the user interface of the Wii (and the 3ds also actually) is a nightmare compared to the Apple products I was used to (not trying to open a can of worms here, personal preference I guess). Anyways, what I’m trying to say is, I couldn’t find a satisfactory platform or type of games that I would really enjoy. To get to the point, around two years ago I found an iOS game called Dandy Dungeon:

It contained som sort of paywall, a few iaps were needed to play properly, amounting to something like 10€ or 15€. The game was a bit expensive for iOS but it was so much fun. Very retro but perfectly adapted for mobile and really clever and funny, some really weird humour. You could have a continue at death for 1€ a pop but it was clearly for the casuals and not at all needed for advancement. Retrying the levels didn’t take much time, was fun and added to the excitement and satisfaction of clearing a level. Continuing with money often only resulted in another death because it was usually a question of the wrong strategy to begin with. I thoroughly enjoyed the game and kept playing for quite some time as new levels were added and the story was fleshed out. At some point the game got updated to part two and basically a whole new game opened up. It came with some sort of iap but I felt I was getting a lot for the money and really wanted to support the guys making such and excellent game. What I didn’t see initially was how they slowly started turning the game into a total cashgrab. They introduced item after item that was only available through iap and essential to keep playing. The game also started having timed events that needed real money to beat and unique and essential items as prizes, items that could never again be had after the event ended. Some of the event’s were also very repetitive and thus downright boring. You really had to play regularly and actively, open the game in the middle of the night etc. to stay ahaed. It became very stressful and I only then realized how hooked I was and how the game I had enjoyed so much had become something very different. I was so dissapointed. I can say that I really hate Dandy Dungeon. I also recent the developers. I understand the want and need for money but I know they designed some cool games before and what they did now was just pissing on us players and their own game, turning it to something it hadn’t been from the start. After playing for almost a year I deleted the game and quit the Discord chat. It was hard but it felt great getting rid of it finally. I will never play a free to play game again.

I also want to say that I really enjoy Retropie and will likely keep playing retro games only for a very long time. So many classics to replay and so many new (old) games that I haven’t played yet. Nice forum this as well. Cheers.