Videogames you love, videogames you hate thread

[megaMasquerain]

I HATE any Ty The Tasmanian Tiger game that isn't the first one.

I'm not even 100% sure why exactly. It's like... the series went in a direction that just didn't sit right with me. The overworld is way too cluttered to get anything done, the characters have either lost their original personalities, or have been reworked severely.

Like for example: Ty himself just spams catch phrases over and over, barely getting in any real sentences throughout both sequels. Shazza is even more overly concerned for Ty and everyone, whereas she was much more independent and tolerable in the original. Sly is the worst offender of all; Instead of being the anti-Ty, he is now just "Ty's brother", and is in no way similar to how he was meant to be.

It really seems like, after the original was released, the publisher(EA and later Activision... yeah a good combo amirite?) decided to have more input for the sequels... hence why they suck.

Seriously, I don't understand how anyone who enjoyed the original can enjoy the sequels. They only take steps BACKWARDS. The only compliment I will pay the sequels is that they run at 60fps as opposed to the original's 30fps... but that isn't something that can save them from mediocrity.

I don't hate them but I agree with you that the sequels were a step back from the original.

Games I hate... well, I already mentioned Persona 4 (mostly because the story seemed shoddily-thrown together to me to try and fit with the game mechanics, and P3 was a much better game story and character-wise) earlier in the thread... and I don't really like open-world western RPGs that much, I feel like they're basically the same thing done over and over. I had a bit of fun with Fable 3 when Steam had it for like 5 bucks but I quickly got bored when I realized "this is sort of like a single player MMO with an alignment system".

I can find the good in most *decent* games, provided I like the genre. A lot of games people hate are my guilty pleasure games! I think the thing that gets me most is disappointing sequels (Persona 4, Jade Cocoon 2, Yume 2kki to an extent), but even then I like JC2 and Yume 2kki.

I guess P4 would be my most hated game then.... hmm.