Cerebration on 23/9/2008 at 10:32
While it wasn't quite 'passionate hatred', I did go off Rome Total War in quite a big way. Playing the Imperial Campaign, the early and middle games were quite fun, and the presentation was so much better than the other strategy games I was used to (Civ III in particular). However, once I took control of more than a handful of provinces (essential to win the game) the interface became totally inadequate and I ended up in a nightmare of micromanagement. Since then I've occasionally started a new game with a different faction but I quickly give up because I know how annoying the later game will be and I simply don't want to have to go through all that again.
I'm hoping that Empire Total War will improve on this, though in the meantime I might have a look at Colonisation.
Sulphur on 23/9/2008 at 10:55
I utterly despised Warrior Within. Right from the moment in the demo where the Prince's first words are, 'You... bitch!'
Also, the disembodied heads in Prince of Persia 2 were pretty fucking naff. If there was ever a game where I wanted an instant skullfuck button, that'd be it.
242 on 23/9/2008 at 11:20
Sadly, but the game is Thief - Deadly Shadows. I used to love it, but after years since release I understand now it's not the game I have any desire to replay or even play FMs for. Not that I exactly despise it, simply don't like anymore. And I hate Unreal Engine, modified or not.
Malleus on 23/9/2008 at 11:52
Bioshock. I was kinda enthusiastic about it, and enjoyed playing it, but as I got further into the game, and especially after I finished I realized it was just a simplified version of the game I was looking for with lots of design decisions I hated, and I felt no incentive at all to start playing again. And the more I kept thinking about it, the more I started to really dislike the game. And this coupled with comments from the devs (the spiritual successor / deepest game bs, the stupid focus group stories, etc), and people (not necessarily here) saying how this game is the best thing since sliced bread, just pissed me off.
LancerChronics on 23/9/2008 at 11:58
Lets see..hmmm...not many games I've played I hated...Oh!
The Witcher Enhanced. Love the game, it's great. BUT when you take several months to fix and remake the game so its better, and the game STILL breaks because of a stupid copyright glitch that has been there since day 1, I begin to hate it.
First it takes me several forced computer restarts to start Chapter 1, i play for 6-7 hours, then go see the reverend. But he's invisible because of some copyright issue and the only f-ing way of fixing it is to reload before he dissappeared(or BEFORE chapter 1). Then I'm out 7 hours of gameplay, force-restarting my computer 8 more times to successfully load chapter 1, and bored the f*** out of my mind because all I'm doing is repeating things I had already done! :mad:
....whew...I feel better now.
Ulukai on 23/9/2008 at 12:16
Quote Posted by Malf
...the prime candidate for me is WoW.
Up until end-game, it was reasonable fun and enough to keep my attention, but when I reached what was at the time the level-cap of 60, I found the game's blatant money-grabbing elements became all too obvious.
I'd already cottoned on to the massive timesink that was world travel and how you actually spent massive swathes of playing time not actually playing the game, but hitting the cap brought me face-to-face with the reality of pointless grind.
This.
Don't get me wrong, WoW is an amazingingly fun experience the first time you leisurely get a character up to level 60, whilst also enjoying the thrill of exploration, especially if you're playing with good friends.
And then you get sucked into Endgame and it's like hey, who wants to play a nice game of raid-attendance-nazi-fest. And your soul dies.
Fragony on 23/9/2008 at 12:27
Thief: Deadly Shadows. I really wanted to like it, but ended up despising it for what it is, a game based on Thief instead of a Thief-game. No immersion, small levels, pisspoor AI, lack of challenge, you can kill on expert, no rope arrow(ffs), no awesome cutscenes it goes on and on and on.
Koki on 23/9/2008 at 12:31
Touhou, and yes it's all because of the "community".
twisty on 23/9/2008 at 12:38
Another one for Thief DS. It managed to turn me off the entire Thief series for quite some time. I did eventually get back into playing and loving the original 2 episodes; whereas the instalment now sits in my mind as just some vaguely related spin-off.
Gryzemuis on 23/9/2008 at 15:01
Unreal Tournament.
I played the original Unreal game on a laptop, at 10 frames/sec in low res. I loved it. Although it did take a long time to finish the game. Then bought a PC and played Unreal Tournament. I switched to Capture The Flag pretty quickly. Played that for 1-2 years on and off. I loved it. The game did everything right. Even FFA servers were fun, because people switched teams often to make it close games. Hardcore and casual could play together and still have fun.
Then Epic Games released UT2003. It was crap. Then they released UT2004, which was also crap. And Epic didn't care. Last year they released UT3. Some gameplay elements (movement, weapons) are back to the original UT99. But everything else is still crap. The game was made for consoles, and it shows. The User Interface is a pain. The old focus on CTF has been gone since UT99, and no other gametype has even come close to its popularity. Epic had a truly epic game with UT99. Quake3Arena and UT99 dominated the FPS market. They completely lost it.
I will never buy a game from Epic Games again. Feck em.
