Good games you don't love
 

So, we all know there's lots of good and universally loved games(and movies, tv shows, etc) out there, but ofc not everyone likes the same things, so obviously there's some stuff out there that's generally considered good or great but you don't love.

The first major example I can think of is The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. It has good gameplay sure, and the graphics are nice and sailing was an interesting mechanic; but I dunno, I think it lacks something. For one thing, it's way too easy. Ok, Ocarina of Time wasn't super hard either, but at least, the 3 times I've fully replayed it, I've always died a few times in it or felt like I was close to dying. I never got to know what the game over screen of WW looks like and rarely felt in severe danger. The game doesn't really give you a sense of tension.

Also, I notice a lot of people who praise WW mostly focus on the atmosphere. For me, the game is fine up until the Tower of the Gods, a pretty fun dungeon with a great boss fight, but after that I began losing interest.

Sailing can be a bit annoying at times too, having to play the wind song or wtv it was to change direction, and the triforce quest was boring. That made the game feel a bit incomplete, as in the developers having some complex plans for the triforce but finding themselves on a time constraint. I'd rather just be handed the triforce or just simply not being given at all. That didn't bother me in Ocarina, for example.

Sonic 3 & Knuckles is another one. This is my least favourite of the classic Mega Drive Sonic games. While it's nice to be able to save your progress for once and being able to play as Knuckles, I can't stand some of the levels in this game. Marble Garden and Carnival Night zones are awful. Marble Garden, in particular, is particularly tedious and just seems to drag on and on. Ice Cap Zone is also pretty overrated, imo.

I'd rather even play Sonic 1, despite this game having aged the worse of all the classic Sonic games.

I won't list games I loved as a kid but have stopped loving since then due to ageing, nor will I list games I haven't gotten very far into; but I must say I can't tell what's so special about Super Metroid so far and that has sorta demotivated me to keep on playing it. Maybe it just isn't my type of game, dunno.

Note: I won’t list games that I used to love when I was younger but not anymore.

Off the top of my head,
Final Fantasy VI
Chrono Trigger
River City Ransom

I couldn’t get into FFVI or Chrono Trigger. Got tired of both games early on. Square developed games don’t appeal to me I think.

River City Ransom’s difficulty was just too hard for me and I stopped playing it early on as well.

I played the crap out of River City Ransom when I was younger :lol:

The Smash Bros. franchise (like it but I can never get used to the floaty HAL Labs engine). Most of the FPS genre. Most RPGs. Most AAA games which focus on story campaigns.

Ironically, Wind Waker (Wii U version) was the title that finally got me interested enough in a 3D Zelda game to finish it and come close to 100%. I found the sailing sequences relaxing and beautiful to look at, and I understand it is better paced than the Gamecube original. I'm almost finished with the 3DS version of Ocarina of Time, and it's great, but I wanted to explore some more before finishing the story mode.

I never liked Half-Life 2. It looks great (even after 14 years) and controls great, I just find it way too slow and simple.

As a Playstation fanboy, I don't like the Uncharted series.

As a Nintendo fanboy, I'm not too fond of the 3D Mario games.

The Metroid Prime games. I much prefer the side-scrolling Metroid games.

While I do love Half Life 2 and other source titles, I don't feel as attached to them as their GoldSrc counterparts/prequels.

The Source engine feels very "cartoony" to me in a certain sense, not something which I don't like it, love it infact, but I like the GoldSrc feel more (especially in Counter-Strike.)

I played Prey last year and I didn't care for it but a lot people liked it.

Well, I guess it does kind of come across as System Shock and Bioshock's inbred baby?

I love me some Final Fantasy, but 7 is highly over rated. There are better Final Fantasy games like 6 and 5. Hell I put 2 over 7, because Guy can speak Beaver.

My all time favorite is 8 though.

I have yet to even beat the first Metroid Prime, even though I have the trilogy for Wii.

Also, I don't particularly like Fusion compared to Zero Mission, Super, and Samus Returns.

I made this thread back in 2018. Since then, I played many more games. Which ones fit the bill here, though?

Perhaps... Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D/HD? I own it for the 3DS and my brother owns it on the Switch. They're good games but... I'd rather just be playing the original DKC on the SNES, quite frankly.

Also, the Warioware series, while fun, is not something that holds my interest for a lengthy period.

Minecraft. I can never get into it though I can tell its obviously good

I didn't like Hollow Knight at all despite loving metroidvania games. I didn't like the map system, the characters were boring, and I hated going back to where I just died to retrieve my money. I put about 16 hours into it and decided to quit. I was dealing with frustration more than I was having fun.

Wind Waker was definitely a tough pill to swallow at the TIME. Like after Ocarina of Time, I couldn't WAIT to see how a next generation Zelda game would look after that... and then we get this cutsie cel-shaded baby-looking Zelda game. I was extremely disappointed at the time.

But it did grow on me and was uniquely fun. There's something to zipping around on that sailboat, checking out and exploring new islands.

That's crazy talk. I just did a fresh playthrough of Chrono Trigger about a year ago and I was riveted all over again.

Never played it myself. It hurts my eyes just looking at it.

I still consider it one of my favorite games ever, but I have some mixed feelings about Red Dead 2 and think it’s probably a little overrated.

I think the story and gameplay both peak with the botched bank robbery in Saint Denis. The island chapter immediately after was frustrating, but I thought it was effective from a storytelling aspect because that’s exactly how Arthur would feel. He’d want to get back to the States with his horse and guns and whatnot.

However, that chapter just ends up feeling rushed and pointless. Then when you get back the game is too easy because you have so much money. The story also feels pretty nonchalant after that point and changing hideouts is like just another day to the gang.

The honor system feels broken. All the good or bad stuff you do doesn’t really matter and it ends up only being like 2 major choices that decide which ending you get. And neither of them should seem particularly consequential to Arthur since he knows he doesn’t have long to live anyway.

And lastly, I don’t think the story did enough to sell the idea that Arthur and Marston were super close. Marston was just a prick the whole time. I did really enjoy the epilogue chapter though.

RDR2 is pretty remarkable in what it's able to accomplish but I definitely have nits to pick. First, it's frustratingly surprising they never even considered doing DLC for it. I think a ton of people would gladly spend another $30, $40 for some serious new story content. They'd rather wait another 10 years to charge gamers another $69 for Red Dead 3? And there was big stuffed plan for the core game itself that they had to cut to get the game out on time, like a bunch of Mexico stuff and extra stuff on that island.

Also, what the heck? In all the GTA games you can easily pick up and bang prostitutes... but in the Red Dead games that's off-limits for some reason? When there was actual brothels everywhere?

Yeah, they incorporated it into Arthur’s back story that he’s celibate because he had a child with a hooker that ended up passing way from TB or something while he was away. He was so guilt ridden that he swore off cooze.

But yeah, weird choice. In a game where you’re allowed to choose your own level of morality, no less.