Game(s) you hate with a passion

lilbud

@celly Same here. I either lose interest, or die. Usually at the same time

Eldrethor

I have a seething hatred for Megaman X6. I enjoyed all of the games in the X series (X3 was a bit off but deserves a pass) and was looking forward to X6, despite the tragic outcome of X5. But right from the very beginning, everything about the game felt horribly wrong.

X wielding the Z-Saber never felt natural, and I figured that this was intentional, but even with the Blade and Shadow Armors, it always felt underpowered and unintuitive. Zero wasn't any better, and he had an absurdly exploitable Z-Saber combo, and a mediocre arsenal of special moves, one of which would hurl you into pits unintentionally because of the controller input that it was programmed with.

Enemy designs and placements were often cheap and poorly done, with Nightmare enemies that could shoot through walls and move through them to permanently capture reploids that you had to rescue, or mini-bosses that had weak spots in absurd places that X had a hard time reaching. Level designs were just as bad and were completely miserable when the Nightmare effect was active. More often than not, I would abuse the snot out of invincibility frames to get through hard sections, and there were sections of the final stages that were literally impossible to pass without "optional" upgrades.

The worst part about this insulting dumpster fire were the people who came out of the woodwork to defend it, claiming that the difficulty is what makes it such an outstanding game, not realizing that the difficulty stemming from cheap enemy placements and wonky level designs doesn't make it a good game.

After so many good games in the series, I regret giving Capcom money for this unforgivable pile of filth. It was an insult to the series, and I refuse to rip it and add it to my RetroPie setup.

VictimRLSH

@celly I DID finish that, but trying to stay alive was drudgery. You had to keep killing the blue slime 'bots' to get enough magic bottles to heal yourself, or you had to start the level over because there was no other way to get magic. The final temple wasn't a test of skill, but of patience. It definitely ranks high on the games I hate list too.

Clyde

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

@celly Same here. I either lose interest, or die. Usually at the same time

Death by lack of interest. 😄

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!