Topic: Well-liked Games you DON'T like...

I'm NOT trying to troll or cause an argument but the following three Games I have played numerous times AT different times but I just don't like them.

They are:
*Sonic TheHedgehog 2
-I love the first one, even Marble Zone and the other slower parts of the game, maybe because I grew up with Mario but there's something I dont like about the second one.
Interestingly, I do like STH3 but prefer S&K.

*Super Mario 64
-I just cannot stand this game, despite it being a revolution in gaming. It was completely different to SMB1/2/3/World/Land and was missing my favourite power-up, the Fire Flower.
Weirdly, I loved 'Sunshine', 'Galaxy 1' (I never played 'Galaxy 2') and even '3D Land/World/BF'.

*Majora's Mask
-OOT was my favourite Game of all time once (overtaken by GTA:SA) and I thought TWW was excellent but I didn't like the rush-against-the-clock mechanic to the follow-up to OOT. I want to take my time in Games and not be rushed.
On a sidenote, I prefer top-down Zelda games over the 3D ones.

I don't like these games:

Zelda games
Xenoblade games
Splatoon games
Monster Hunter games
Metroid games
Smash Bros games
Fortnite
Minecraft
F-Zero games
Old Animal Crossing (Gamecube - Wii era)
Final Fantasy VII
Kingdom Hearts
Super Mario 64 & Sunshine
Little Big Planet games
Soccer games
Basketball games
Just Dance games
Visual novel games
Voxel style games
Realistic racing games
Handphone games
Blinx games
etc...

Super Mario World.

I love 2, 3 and even NSMB but I've never liked how World controls. Everything feels far too slippy leading to more deaths than would otherwise be avoidable if it had control similar to 3 (my favourite 2D Mario game). Love the graphical style and music but I can never play it for more than 20 minutes, it just gets far too frustrating to move around for me. If there's a game that actually rectifies this issue though, it's Mario Maker 2 of all things since all the games there have a universal control style that feels great and it lets me enjoy the good parts of SMW without dealing with the hair-tearing parts as well.

@Anti-Matter Cool story, bro.

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Never understood the appeal of Stardew Valley, it feels tedious to me rather than relaxing.

I like so few games, that I've already accepted that I'll never like many, many well-liked, very cool looking, well reviewed games. Which is party why I'm not a collector. Which is why I probably why I can relate to @Anti-Matter.

Super Mario World - Big downgrade from SMB3 in almost every way, with fewer power-ups, less level/world diversity, a lack of interesting mini-games, etc. Also hate how it handles, and Ghost Houses were a truly awful addition to the series.

Super Mario 64 - It's an important game, but it's also sloppily designed by modern standards, with a terrible camera, horrible feeling movement, and empty levels that are a pain to navigate. I respect it, but have never really enjoyed it.

Banjo-Kazooie - Getting through this one was pure pain. Didn't like a single thing about it: the controls, the over-inflated moveset, the tedious levels, the almost deafeningly-bad sound design... pure misery from beginning to end.

Bloodborne - IMO, anyone else who released a game this incomplete feeling would be savaged. It's like a game that shipped out halfway through development, after they nailed down the environments and combat system but before they integrated a plot, music, characters, or much of anything to do other than run around and tediously kill enemies for tens of hours on end.

The Last of Us - A mediocre apocalyptic drama dressed up in an even worse video game. It felt like the entire game was either slowly walking while talking happened, sneaking around tediously killing groups of baddies, or solving really obnoxious environmental puzzles that were obviously included to pad out the game, because there was so little to see or do otherwise.

Journey - Pretty music and visuals, but the gameplay is so shallow that it wound up feeling like a chore. I'll never understand the appeal of this one.

I’m not a big fan of Pokemon games, or JRPGs in general. I find the combat and gameplay to be way too slow for my liking, instead focusing on things like story and characters.

I think that 2K sports games are really boring, unless if maybe I’m playing them with friends. They lean too far into realism for my liking and just end up being unfun.

Also I really dislike grand strategy games like Civilization. Maybe I just don’t understand them, but I tried playing Civ 6 a while ago and just could not get into it.

The last ones I can think of are MMORPGs like Star Wars and FFXIV. They’re just too much of a time commitment for me and I feel like the tutorials aren’t helpful enough for a noob like me to get into them.

However, overall, I love many more genres than I dislike others. These are just a small few that I dislike.

Despite being generally into JRPGs, I never got into Pokémon.... I don't like FPS games or online competition I also don't want to get into either FFXI or XIV, which should be aimed at me as a fan of the series
While I like some games involving strategy, I don't go for the ones where that's the main genre, either

Maybe the monster hunter games. Mainly because it feels a bit sluggish with the attacks and what not.
(Although I did enjoy the demo for rise because it has light attacks. Wait do all MH games have light attacks and I’m just a moron?)

Games with turn-based combat are the most difficult for me to get into.
Such a game has to really grip me, otherwise I get bored rather quickly.
Septerra Core and Octopath Traveler are two examples I liked, but Pokémon for instance never did it for me.

Pretty much the entirety of the 3rd person cover shooter. Not Rockstar games with 3rd person cover shooting in it, but 3rd person cover shooters, as in that's the main gameplay. Except Mass Effect for whatever reason. Maybe someday another game will prove me wrong.

Animal Crossing: Wild World was a downgrade from the original in every way from what I remember (even if admittedly any 2nd attempt to play an Animal Crossing wasn't going to live up to the 1st).

NES RPGs are bad, if there's an exception, I've not played it.

Half of the levels in Modern Warfare 2 are bad (and its not like COD is peak-level design in the first place so...)

Bravely Default is close. If the combat wasn't a very good example of turn based JRPGs, it'd be on here.

Though that might be it. Like I didn't like Don't Starve necessarily but I played it for less than an hour I'm pretty sure so I barely have an opinion on it at all.

I agree about Mario 64. I know it's an important game historically, but I hate so many things about it. I played it a bit here and there in its time, but more extensively later. You could say that colors my opinion. I'd say I got annoyed with other 3D games in the '90s(and beyond) for the same issues, such as annoying camera, focus on collecting, having to replay sections over and over, among other things. And there are some older 3D games that are clunkier that I find easier to play and more enjoyable.

Castlevania 4 is another one I never liked. Again, I didn't play it in its time, but to that I'd say I didn't play Bloodlines or Rondo in their time either and think those are amazing. For me, the directional whipping is a problem because the level design doesn't compensate for it. I also found the soundtrack to be a mixed bag, despite the high praise it gets. Some tracks are excellent, but some are the opposite of excellent and feel out of place. The boss fights in the first half of the game were also disappointing to me.

A lot of examples of well-liked games I don't like come from the SNES due to mode 7 where I thought it didn't fit or other novel ideas. Konami's Contra 3 and Axelay come to mind. For Contra 3, it's the mode 7 stages that kill it for me as I find those unpleasant. For Axelay, I don't like the way the vertical stages feel. Earthworm Jim wasn't much fun for me when I last went back to it. Also, on GBA, no matter how many times I try it, Astro Boy just doesn't do much for me. There are probably many others I can come up with if I think about it, but I'll leave it there.

Super Mario 64
A Link to the Past
The xenoblade series
Fire Emblem series
Yoshi’s island
Banjo Kazooie
Pokémon series

This, minus Pokémon series and fire emblem series

@sdelfin While I don't dislike them, I'm not nearly as impressed with the SNES entries of Contra and Castlevania as a lot of people are. In terms of Contra, Alien Wars is bottom of the list of the "good ones" for me, well below Contra, Super C, Hard Corps, and Contra 4. Super Castlevania IV is a little higher up on the list of good games in that series, but still well below the DS entries, OG Castlevania, Rondo of Blood, and SotN.

I like Castlevania IV quite a bit but I do agree with the complaints. Even the NES games (well...1 and 3) were awkward in an interesting, deliberate way that is compelling to try to git gud at and I prefer the music leaning into being NES catchy rather than trying for a level of atmosphere.

Actually in a similar vain, while I didn't dislike it exactly, I didn't get that into Order of Ecclesia. Being especially difficult in RPG era Castlevania is not fun to me in the way the classic games are.

Metal Gear Solid (GCN). I really had to push to finish it. The endless cutscenes and dialogue were so unbelievably tedious. I just wanted to stealth, not watch a movie. I never even tried any of the sequels after pushing through this one.

Witcher 3.

For whatever reason, I could just not get into it. Geralt or whatever just seemed kinda douchey. I was just picking up a bunch of random herbs and stuff I had no idea what to do with. The menu system felt cumbersome and unwieldy. I might give it another chance one day though.

And LotR Shadow of Mordor.

I'm I huge fan of the books and films, and an open world game set in Mordor seemed a dream come true. However, I found myself just perpetually frustrated with the gameplay. No matter what, it seemed on any given stealth mission I somehow managed to alert EVERY ORC in the vicinity to my presence and just found myself running away from an angry mob. It just wasn't fun.

@sdelfin 'Astro Boy: OF' is my favourite GBA Game.

It's Treasure's other two GBA Games I don't like (GunStar and Guardian).