So, what game(s) can't you stand or hate, but for some reason "everyone" loves it / them?

For me it has to be the Halo series. I just can't stand that game at all. The whole environment of the game just seems so fake and "toy" like. It's as if everyone is running around with plastic guns going "pew pew".
The community also seems real bad, full of little kids talking smack, and cussing.

Also I HATE the Grand Turismo series. People seem to worship that game, but I just find it to be a massive advertisement game pay by the corporations to sell cars etc. Just the fact you can't crash you cars makes me laugh at the fact that they have the balls to call it a "simulator".

Easy answer...

Call of Duty: Modern Warfail 2

Agree? :P

Oh yes! The only thing I liked about that game were the coop levels where one person was on foot and the other was in a gunship or chopper providing support fire

Bioshock.

This was the last time I ever bought a game based solely on a spate of glowing reviews.

The setting and set up were fantastic, don't get me wrong, and the first hour or so were wonderful. But after that, it went rapidly downhill. Very little that was particularly shocking happened. I spotted the various plot twists well before they happened, which rendered certain parts of the story dull, and gave the rest (of what I played) an air of inevitability. You can only be betrayed by practically everyone you meet so often before you see it coming.

Using a camera to take pictures of monsters in order to get better at killing them was one of the worst ideas I've ever come across. Why the hell do I need to take a picture of a splicer to know that a shotgun blast to the face will kill it? Surely simply SHOOTING IT IN THE FACE would serve just as well...

I hated the lack of a proper inventory. I hated the seeming lack of connection between the items you hoover up and the combinations required to make bullets or whatever. I hated the map. I hated the combat. I hated those regen booth things being everywhere. I hated all that "Would you kindly" bollocks. And I only got about half way through before I got sick to death of this steaming pile of mediocrity and uninstalled it.

I really do not get the love people have for this game, nor the excitement for the sequels, which are no doubt/will no doubt be just as tedious and predictable as their forebear.

A while after playing Bioshock, I played System Shock 2. Now THAT is a good game.

Hah, read the thread title and clicked on it to post specifically this. Or well, any of the modern Call of Duty games to be honest. That, and Bad Company 2 as well. Ick!

Given the nature of the GOG community, this might piss a few people off.

It seems almost everyone around here loves adventure games, and will play almost any adventure game, no matter what it is. I hate them though.
In my opinion, the adventure game genre was born from the limitations of PCs in the late 80's and early to mid 90's. A lot of great ideas were impossible to turn into games back then, but something that was possible was to make games that only featured a few moving characters, static backgrounds and talking. Adventure games, in other words.
However, with the advancement of computer technology, adventure games should have died. There are much better ways to tell stories through games nowadays. And I absolutely hate that the genre will not die, and let other and better genres tell their great stories.

With that said, a few select games from the golden age of Lucas Arts are among my favourites - Sam & Max Hit the Road, the first two Monkey Island games (I loathe the rest of'em) and the Indiana Jones games.

^5 brah. Also, there's Half-Life 2. Well I didn't radically *hate* it, I just didn't quite like most of it. From the recent trend of thread directions, we might even need a disclaimer in the thread to forewarn the potential offended against raging lol. Likely prediction will be an escalation of arguments caused by a difference in tastes, which is obviously not the point of this thread.

I've always hated the Grand Theft auto series. I just find nothing about them appealing.

I love my share of causing chaos but the games are just really boring to me.

I don't like Telltale adventure games.

There's something about them I don't like, and I can't quite put my finger on it.

Maybe it's the 3D, or that I would prefer to play the original games... not sure.

Anything by Blizzard basically since I don't care too much about multiplayer.

I hate Civilization, and Age of Empires and all its clones, I can play the 4X Genre but it has to be in space, and RTS's they better be sci-fi and even thats not a gaurentee that I will like it, currently itching to play Sword of the Stars and Dawn of War II out of the two genres.

Edit This is just for Modern Examples for instance I loved the Fantasy 4X game Masters of Magic.

Never liked the GTA series. I played GTA4 for about an hour and stopped. I bought Modern Warfare 1, quite boring actually.

I played the first Halo on PC, it was fun, but it doesnt deserve the popularity it has.

And I liked Bioshock :) I thought it was great.

Maybe somebody should start a thread "Game you love that everbody else hated" It would be easier :D

I tend to mention this everywhere:
(There might be some very minor spoilers in there, but it's not like you should play this game for it's story.)
I really din't like Dragon Age: Origins. The battle system is nice, the game is addicting, but in the end, the story just gives you a punch in the face. I mean, Mass Effect II didn't have a good story either, but it made the player FEEL they are doing something great, and that is good enough for me. But DA? No great revelations, no unexpected twists, and every important antagonist turns out to have simple problems. Not grand and complex agendas, or some secret curse or whatever fantasy stuff, no, frigin' paranoia, or something like that. It's a fantasy themed soap opera.

Also never liked Counter-Strike, just because.

Agreed :D

I'd add WOW, Bioshock and World of Tanks... maybe a little obscure, but my friends are absolutely enthralled by it.

Like 95% of first person shooters. I do not like them. I do not like most of fast paced action games.

I think I am "slow person" type who likes to have enough time to think before every move.