Game(s) you hate with a passion

MadRikXIV

Any Devil May Cry/Samurai Warriors games, I just don't get them.

Here's a metric tonne of enemies, a huge sword, keep mashing the button till you win, run somewhere, here's a lot more of them, mas that button, go on, try for a bigger combo, maybe try jumping around a lot...

mat

Any RPG, games like Dragon Warrior, FF and the like I could never get into. Text-based games like those that I didn't have the patience for.

Also never got into First Person Shooters. It seems everyone loves them, but I never got into them either. Now they seem to dominate today's games & it made me drift even further into "retro" games.

Lastly any of the Battletoads games. Even with cheats, I have a heck of a time with them. BUT, the arcade version is fun!

m2306

@mat I love FF and DW but find first person shooters really boring. Since a few years back I haven’t even been able to play fps games. I get motion sicknes. Well no prob, I like 2D so much more.

celly

@mat I too, am not a fan of FPS. We had Halo 1 and a big screen tv in the barracks back in the day. I was ok at that game back then. The rest, forget it. Seems like that the video game market is flooded with them. No thanks.

thelostsoul

Every generation has its own genres flooded by. I wasn't into Ego shooters too, until when I played the original Doom. Its so different from current games. The levels are dungeons like and very atmospheric. Also the new current Doom is cool. Not like Call of Duty and such...

m2306

Wolfenstein3D was cool and it was totally epic when Doom came along. Tried watching a gameplay video from the new Doom game, I got sick from just watchin the video.. X(

BobHarris

@thelostsoul I don't like fps games either, but I adore Bioshock..have you played it? It also has a wonderful, unique atmosphere.

Brigane

@bobharris I've played all three Bioshock games and I enjoyed every second if it. The whole story and the idea of a city beneath the sea to explorer is what got me hooked. Although the third Bioshock game (Bioshock Infinite) is going on above the clouds. I need to play this game again cause I never made it to the end.

Clyde

@brigane @BobHarris Do you know Bioshock's "spiritual predecessors" System Shock 1+2? If not, I can recommend them strongly, although SS1 may have a higher entry threshold for new players, because its controls are rather clunky compared to later years' standards.

SS2 is much more modern in this way, especially if upgraded with some of the many fan patches which replace its models and textures with more detailed ones, or fix some leftover bugs. For me, it perfectly combines first person controls with item management and world interaction, as you switch between direct FPS controls and a mouse pointer with a single keystroke.

Story-wise, having played SS1 deepens the experience of SS2 significantly in my opinion, since SS2 continues the storyline of SS1 some years later.

mitu

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

SS2 is much more modern in this way, especially if upgraded with some of the many fan patches which replace its models and textures with more detailed ones, or fix some leftover bugs

The Steam or GOG version should include all those patches and fixes. Highly recommended for any Bioshock fans. The recently released Prey claims to be a successor to the Shock games and looking at it you can see the similarities, but I don't think it manages to create the immersion and the atmosphere from the previous titles. Haven't got around to play it, but played/replayed the others.

Clyde

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

The Steam or GOG version should include all those patches and fixes.

According to this post in the GOG forum, the GOG build "has a few fixes for the most critical orig bugs, like that Rick quest not completing. whatever wasn't critical, was left alone."

You'll still have to use the SS2tool and/or Shock2 Community Patch (SCP) on the GOG build if you want their enhancements, too.

BiZzAr721

Duke Nukem Forever. Pre-ordered, paid full price. It was in the bargain bin within a couple of months. The only thing that got me as far as I did in the game was nastalgia. Never did finish it.

Also, really wanted SMB3 but a Caldor's store had none in stock and settled for Silent Service. Just couldn't get into it, especially after seeing SMB3 in The Wizard movie, but still not being able to try it!

VictimRLSH

@bizzar721 SMB3 is to this day one of the greatest games ever made for an 8-bit system.

m2306

@victimrlsh I fondly remember awaiting the release of SMB3. In my country it was schedueled for late summer or autumn. It was summer vacation and we had already seen pictures and read about the game. It looked amazing. Rumors about one guy already having the game started circulating the neighbourhood. Rumour had it that the guys dad had brought it from abroad (no idea how that would have worked with territorial lock out). When we started thinking about it nobody had seen the guy for a while. Now we were sure this guy was camped up inside, playing one of the best games ever. The whole thing culminated in me and several other guys camping in the staiwell outside the door of the SMB3 guys apartment. We were trying to peek through the mail slot but didn’t see or hear anything. We had to quit around five o’clock out of fear for the parents coming home from work. I never learned if the guy actually had the game beforehand or if he just was at summer camp or something. Later, when I could have asked him, I was too busy playing my own copy of SMB3. It was just as great as we had been expecting it to be.

mat

@m2306 I remember seeing "The Wizard" when it was in the theatre for the first time. SMB3 on the big screen was a drool moment. It seemed like forever for that game to come out.

I also remember in school, all through elementary and even high school, how much fun it was to bring in our backpacks the latest gaming magazines and huddle around & start talking about the latest games that were coming out, usually not until x-mas.

Always loved the Post-E3 & holiday issues, they were like Sears Catalogs that I could look at over and over.

SgtJimmyRustles

Hmm, my most hated game? Probably had to be Sonic 2 for the Game Gear/SMS. The first boss pissed me off so much because it never clicked how to beat him.

As far as recently, RUST has to be the worst game I've played. It's unoptimized and unfun when the other people immediately mob you and kill you.

BobHarris

@sgtjimmyrustles Yes! Those annoying balls that jumped down the slope.. now that was some difficulty spike.

madmodder123

Yu-Gi-Oh: Forbidden Memories for the PS1.
The card game was really fun as a kid, and it started off great! You could combine cards to summon more powerful monsters. But then they made the game IMPOSSIBLE without some SERIOUS grinding or cheating.
Your most powerful card had MAYBE 2000 attack, and the strongest combination monster you could make had 2800 attack, meanwhile the AI opponents would have 5000, 9000 attack power!
That game really pissed me off, I don't know why they made a kids fucking card game so impossible...

VictimRLSH

@madmodder123 HIS ATTACK POWER IS OVER 9000!!!

(sorry, someone had to, you set yourself up for that one...)

thelostsoul

Corpse Killer on MegaCD+32X
I just remembered a game I hate, but it is not only the game itself, it is the hardware also which lead to. I was a poor child and was proud to have a Game Boy, NES, SNES and the Mega Drive/Genesis all together. And when I hear about the Mega CD, I quickly wanted to have it. And then the 32X also released. It took me long to get that and man was I proud about those console extensions. I knew that new hardware don't automatically does better gameplay, but what I got was worse than almost anything else (only Rise of the Robots was worse). Don't forget, it was a time before the Internet.

I got Corpse Killer for a few bucks. The package got me excited for some reason, the realistic graphics and in combination with the hardware, this was a real killer game in theory. So, I went home with the game, put all puzzle peaces together, Mega Drive + Mega CD extension + 32X extension! That must blow my mind! And it did, but in opposite direction!! Words alone can't describe this failure, watch the below YouTube footage yourself. This is probably the second most hated game to me.

https://segaretro.org/Sega_Mega-CD_32X
https://segaretro.org/Corpse_Killer