I'll start: I did not care for Shadow Of The Colossus.
If there was ever a game that "insisted upon itself", it's that one. I remember in the late 2000s and early 2010s, video game countdown artists would constantly glaze the game, but I found it boring, the bosses were a snooze-fest, a lot of the controls felt clunky, the world was barren, and it was just not enjoyable.
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I didnt like detriot become human
This is an oof but… The witcher 3. I wanted to like it, but I just felt a little overwhelmed and i could tell it was a good game but it just didn’t pull me in enough to get me to hop back on.
Any souls like
RDR2
Any souls like
I did not care for the Last of Us series.
Minecraft. I know part of it is treating it as a toy or creative venue, but I just cant get into it.
Hallow knight, I tried it and it wasn’t for me.
Horizon (1 and 2.) For the life of me I could not enjoy how either of them played. Shame though, story was pretty solid
Undertale.
God of War 2018 onwards
I liked the first 3 games and even the games on psp, but something just didn’t click with the newer games.
Red Dead Redemption 2. FAR too much forced walking, it Felt like a chore to play a lot of the time.
Hades
As a massive JRPG fan, I don’t care about Persona
Like, at all
Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. I just like the classic Zelda formula more. They’re fine games, I just prefer how older games did it.
Valorant is dogshit
Elden Ring.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a gorgeous game, very well thought out and designed, it’s smooth and fluid, and I’m sure scratches that itch for soulslike players. And were it released ten years ago I’m sure I’d have loved it.
But life goes on, gets busy, and I don’t want to spend my increasingly limited time gaming being stressed out at something I should be enjoying. I wish I could give it the love it definitely deserves as a game, but that ship has sailed for me.
Outer Wilds
I don’t get Skyrim. I don’t think it’s good at anything it’s trying to do.
Borderlands, i just couldn’t get into it. Neither the style nor the gameplay was my cup of tea.
Final Fantasy 7. I really like FF games but I never understood why people love 7 so much compared to other games in the series.
I think Final Fantasy 6 is a good game, I think people vastly overrate it in the grand scheme of things. Honestly it’s my least favorite of the SNES titles. The story is good, but I think that the actual RPG elements took a massive hit due to a variety of factors.
The magicite system really homogenizes character builds near the end of the game, to the point where the best thing to do is to make nearly every character an ultima-spamming caster. Economizers are easy to find and everyone can have a max magic stat and learn quick and ultima. The existence of gem box exacerbates this issue.
Most of the characters don’t have worthwhile skills and end up just being a list of numerical stats that can be tweaked with magicite. As far as their story involvement goes, a lot of them just end up showing for 2-3 scenes and quietly disappear into the background. You have a core roster of required characters who end up having significant roles, but a lot of the other characters end up being kind of one-note and only serve to fill out your roster.
Compare this to FF4, in which characters enter and leave your party with strong story motivations and have time to fulfill a role before bowing out for your next party member. Compare this to FF5 which has one of the deepest character building systems in all of Final Fantasy. FF6 just doesn’t compare imo.
Borderlands 3, playing BL 1 and 2 was plenty enough for me to realise that i really did not enjoyed the gameplay loop all that much
Hollow Knight. I just could not have fun with it.
Gta 5 is by far the most boring gta. It just didn’t hit like San Andreas, Vice City, or GTA 4 did. The map is also so bad. One city and wilderness and country side. No San Fierro or Las Venturas. Doesn’t have many fun cheats or any fun mini games like pool, homestead robberies, arcade games and the story itself felt so short compared to San Andreas.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate it, but I feel like I’m missing something when people talk about it as one of the greatest games of all time. I kept pushing through well into the endgame wondering if I was going to understand why people think it’s so perfect, and that moment never came.
I’m not a conspiracy theorist but when I see this same question come up for the 100th time, and see all the predictable answers of RDR2, Elden Ring, Witcher 3, etc, I really do start to believe in the dead internet theory
Nier Automata
Hero shooters as a genre. I really tried to like Marvel rivals.
Death Stranding. Seems easy to crap on the concept, but I won’t. I liked it a bit, but sometimes I can’t just take Kojima high brow concepts seriously. I get it, but it’s just… Eh, sure.
Clair obscura: expedition 33
Hated the UI and struggled with accessibility on that game
Combat and story didn’t do it for me. Had to push myself hard to just finished
Switched the game to easy mode just so I can roll through it
I felt it was “ok at best of times”
Nier Automata
Death Stranding 1+2 i was so fucking bored all the way through 1 and stopped playikg 2 after like 6 hours
soulslike, i have no patience for that
Any game with survival mechanics. I already worry about eating, hydrating and sleeping in real life. Why would i want to do that in a game instead of something cool?
Baldur’s Gate 3
I can appreciate what its done for the industry, its just tough for me to get into