Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution
The story just did not grab me at all, I found the art style incredibly ugly, and despite liking a lot of games with relatively similar playstyles I did not enjoy that at all.
I feel like people were just really excited to see a cyberpunk game, which at the time was definitely an underserved market.
Mankind Divided had all the problems of Human Revolution and made them worse.
It even did the turbo whitewashing thing of clumsily making cybernetic upgrades into a racism metaphor and then not applying it to the augmented main character because that might be unfun and inconvenient.
Borderlands. It is so repetitive and boring. The writing is trying to be edgy but only succeeds at being cringe. I lost all interest after 45mn of it
Metal Gear Solid 1 & 2
I appreciate the plots of these games, and I've enjoyed watching them played by other people, but my god the controls for these two games are so wretched I cannot play them myself without dissolving into a superdense mass of gamer rage.
Dark Souls
The difficulty of these games comes from 50% fun things that you can git gud at doing and 50% from random unfun bullshit that makes it just not worth doing. By comparison every thing that killed me in Sekiro felt fair, so I really enjoyed that game.
Starcraft 2
This is weird because I can fully admit that SC2 does a bunch of things objectively better than the first game. I love the idea of playing coop, I love the idea of the single player campaigns, I love the idea of all of this game's strategies - but then when I actually try and play it it's like the screen is covered in grease and my eyes slide right off of it. I could play Brood War for months on end without ever getting bored, but the vastly improved sequels to it just make me want to do something else.
World of Warcraft
When this came out I was playing Final Fantasy 11 and Star Wars Galaxies, and when I decided to give the new game everyone was raving about a try I thought it was really dull in comparison to those other two. Final Fantasy had much more engaging design and Star Wars was, well, Star Wars and both then and now I appreciated the sandbox style of it more than the theme park style of most other MMOs. It's a shame what happened to that genre as a whole - the best example of it right now is a game that can be played completely solo from start to finish, and every gameplay concept that once made MMOs unique experiences are now considered bad design.
The new total war games. I find myself returning to medieval 2 every once in a while. The charm is just gone from the newer ones. The spectacle of the Warhammer games does a little bit, but it still feels so hollow.
Red Dead Redemption 2 Online
Yeah I know there were a lot of complaints but there weren't enough. The Player vs Player part of that game could have been fun, but it's literally the worst competitive multiplayer I have ever played in my entire life. Holy God how could it be so bad?? Nothing happens, you just get instantly headshot and thrown back to instantly respawn 100 yards back, forever, and ever. I call it Headshot Sisyphus 2
Honestly can't remember the last time that happened, I think I just know my tastes well enough to let the hype bounce off me.
Don't get me wrong, I have played plenty of games that are shit or mediocre lol, it's just that nobody expected them to be amazing in the first place
Death Stranding. I was seriously bored out of my mind playing that game.
Metroid Prime. The game gradually felt like a chore, getting all the power-ups. After I killed the penultimate boss, I realized I had to get all the artifacts to fight the final boss. And that's when I said fuck it and stopped playing.