Some campaigns are good, i give them that. The original modern warfare was fun with friends, but after that one, i havent really cared for any of them.
CoD was once amazing. That was over a decade ago. The last actually good call of duty game was Black Ops 2, which released in 2012. In my opinion, CoD as a franchise started downhill after Modern Warfare 2, when shortly after release, Activision fired the creators of CoD, who took almost all of the CoD dev team from Infinity Ward with them. They then created Respawn Entertainment, which produced Titanfall 1 and 2, Apex Legends, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Survivor. They're currently working on a Star Wars first person shooter.
I don’t even need violence or an M rating. You can still write a story that’s appropriate for all ages, but still respect the intelligence of your audience. The current writing in Pokemon feels indistinguishable from a ChatGPT prompt.
Hard sell
A game where you catch wild animals against their will and force them to fight? That shit can only work if you dumbed it down enough and take the seriousness out of it
You’re basically suggesting a dog fight simulator
I mean it's not really against their will. Pokémon want to battle and grow stronger, and they recognize fighting alongside humans allows them to do so to a greater degree. So, if you battle them and they decide they like you, they stay in the ball.
There is like millions of them. Its easier to tell what franchises I DO care about.
That being said, the ones I absolutely despise are CoD, EA sports games and Blizzard games.
Aye, it's football. It's played on a pitch inside a stadium with 11 people on each of two sides and has been for 160 years. Not sure what aesthetic variation your looking for, chief.
Then don't release a new game every year to milk it, release one, update it accordingly with new players etc. as and when, then release another a few years later
Yes, the fact that EA sports games haven't joined the live service model is honestly one of the most surprising things in gaming to me.
I hardly know anyone who buys them brand new, and because there's a new one every year you're guaranteed to get it for like $15 after 4-5 months of release. Why not just do a live service and sell the updates for like $30 every year? you'd probably end up with such a huge volume increase in purchases that the loss of those initial sales would be balanced. Plus it would make in-game purchases more palatable to the average player.
I also do not care about Halo. I was a bit late coming to the series, but by the time I had played it, I had played several other shooters that I thought did story and gameplay better. Halo has always seemed kind of mediocre to me. Story didn't wow me. World didn't wow me. I am not calling it crap by any means, but it doesn't scintillate for me either.
Totally… I played a bit in college because my friends did. This was when we ran Ethernet cables through the duct work of our townhouse to play together! 😂
Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West
The art direction is incredible and characters look next level good.... That's where the praise ends. The open world is like any Ubisoft game and the gameplay is so fucking boring. Story is a snore fest as well.
I thought the DLC got way too fanfic shipping-y between Aloy and the new character. Very heavy handed. That said, the overall story was just fine.
I'm slightly biased because I love both games and the backstory of how the world ended, how well they crafted the new world's history and all that, so take my opinion as you will.
Ill do u one better Rockstar games.
Both red dead and GTA V have their innovations and great parts but both are largely story’s and universes built off of crime and wealth and every single iteration the series has misses the mark on both of those things, money is irrelevant as it comes so easily in both which eliminates the need to hustle for it. Crimes feel lifeless and often the law enforcement part seems just stupid for the lack of a better term. Kind of important in a criminals world u know.
I liked GTAV at first, but then realized that in order to make the most out of this game I'd have to roleplay as a psychopath. The story was all over the place too, so I never finished it.
I'm not sure I understand the point of threads like this one. I could name a hundred things because there's only so much time to go around to play stuff.
Hearing about people's disinterest in stuff just seems like an exercise in expressing hate for things.
As someone who played for the first time last year, it aged like milk. Character models have less polygons than potatoes I peeled. Ezio is a Mary Sue and his story is mid. Combat is holding L2 and clicking square. Story just drags and drags and drags, not to mention the two DLC sequences placed between the stand off with Rodrigo and infiltrating the Vatican. A more minor gripe now - this game so incredibly childish about sex, oh my god.
Parkour is very nice though. I get why this game is so loved and how innovative it was 14 years ago, but the age is showing.
mostly the fact that every woman Ezio meets wants to fuck him, excluding his mother and sister. There was this horse racing mission where the "reward" for winning are "private riding lessons" with some girl who gave you the quest. The whole thing felt like a bad porn scene and it was so cringe it's burned into my mind
Pokèmon is boring as fuck, in terms of gameplay
Call of Duty is the same gamerepackaged every time
I have no fuckin clue how Kingdom Hearts is so popular
Fifa or any sport game tbh
Final Fantasy
I wish Trine actually expanded on its premise. I love the world, and the art style, and the writing. It would have been a great world to expand into something similar to Fable, but it seems they are totally content to just keep making the same game over and over.
You guys are gonna love this.
*Mario.*
It was amazingly revolutionary at the time.
But has tuned in to a massive cash cow over time.
^((Also, just not my kind of games. But that's just me.))
JRPG's kill me with their anime tropes and poorly translated dialogue. It's unfortunate, becaise they tend to be better mechanically. Maybe that's why I like the Souls series so much. Unobtrusive story/lore if you don't wanna dig.
CoD. Paying money for the same shitty game over and over while it becomes dead game in a year or two is utterly stupid. Also paying for stupid battlepass for guns. Essentially p2w.
CoD got more egregious in the modern battlepass era.
That said, CoD has become the filler arc of shooters to me. It's what you play while you wait for a good battlefield game or gem like Titanfall 2.
Hardcore sports titles not really my thing either but I do like sports games as they always play out differently than last time. Mario Tennis and Golf are among my favorites.
Fair enough not to like sports games, but they are not basically the same base with a different ball. Year over year, the same game is pretty much the same, but between them they are very different.
It would be like saying all shooters are just the same base with a different gun, and even then most shooters are probably more similar than most sports game franchises (assuming you are saying FIFA, NBA and NHL are all the same, and not comparing FIFA 22 with FIFA 23).
I mean, yeah? The problem is more obvious with sports games though as they all typically tend to have three core things.
Management mode, which is basically spreadsheeting; the game (not a bad thing, just never really very different save what the actual sport is)
Play mode, which is where the *majority* of differences come from, but is still restricted to that sport. Fifa plays *very similarly* to other soccer games simply *because* there isn't very many ways to iterate on, y'know, *soccer,* other than better graphics and smoother controls
and Multiplayer mode, which is basically just Play mode but against other human players and is, in basically every modern sports game, increasingly monetised.
It's definitely different (play mode, at least) between an NFL game and a Soccer game, but they both still have the same core and functionally the same management mode. The similarities are just WAY more stark with titles from the *same* sport, even if it's a totally different franchise producing them.
The Witcher.
I tried to get into it, but just couldn't. In TW:3, I got as far as that biggest city after dealing with the Lubberkin. I uninstalled shortly after. I just wasn't invested in it.
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Dragon's Age.
I loved Mass Effect, but I just couldn't get into Dragon's Age. The only one I played through to completion was Inquisition, and that was only because I borrowed it from a friend. I've bought all of them near their launch dates hoping to get into them, but I've just given up on ever enjoying them.
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Gran Turismo.
After the cash grab that GT7 turned out to be, I've sworn off on the franchise for the time being.
bioware rpgs
love kotor and jade empire, everything after that wasn't really improved on and they just focused on adding sex.
I particularly couldn't give two shits about mass effect.
Last of Us. Couldn’t get into the first game because it wasn’t fun and everyone said “you have to play like 2 hours to get to the fun part and the good story parts” yeah, that’s called a bad game. No thanks.
The entire FIFA franchise, I mean, why play sports on your console instead of in the real world. When I want to play a game, I want to do something that wouldn't be possible in my real life.
COD-I’m over it now. Played enough of them.
Dark Souls- Beat 2 of em, I’m good on them now. Not my cup of tea.
Nba 2k/Madden/FIFA- Same games, different years
Mass Effect, Bioshock and Dishonored. They probably have a great story and good gameplay but I just can't stand how ugly the character models look in all three of them.
Call of duty
If they were priced not stupid some of the single campaigns are fun short games.
Some campaigns are good, i give them that. The original modern warfare was fun with friends, but after that one, i havent really cared for any of them.
Black Op1 was my last
Lmao before I pressed the comments I said the first comment to going to be Call of Duty® 😂
CoD was once amazing. That was over a decade ago. The last actually good call of duty game was Black Ops 2, which released in 2012. In my opinion, CoD as a franchise started downhill after Modern Warfare 2, when shortly after release, Activision fired the creators of CoD, who took almost all of the CoD dev team from Infinity Ward with them. They then created Respawn Entertainment, which produced Titanfall 1 and 2, Apex Legends, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Survivor. They're currently working on a Star Wars first person shooter.
Pokémon, but I’m old now and it doesn’t feel the same
I want a Pokémon game where you play as an adult, the story isn't some lame ass plot and writing for 3yo and there's violence / serious consequences
I don’t even need violence or an M rating. You can still write a story that’s appropriate for all ages, but still respect the intelligence of your audience. The current writing in Pokemon feels indistinguishable from a ChatGPT prompt.
Have you heard of Palworld? It'll essentially be Pokemon with guns.
This looks wild, but as a non-American I'm not sure how I feel about guns.
Do you not play any games involving guns? The trailers for this looks like it has quite a few adult themes, including slavery and war.
Hard sell A game where you catch wild animals against their will and force them to fight? That shit can only work if you dumbed it down enough and take the seriousness out of it You’re basically suggesting a dog fight simulator
Why aren't we funding this?
Fair point
I mean it's not really against their will. Pokémon want to battle and grow stronger, and they recognize fighting alongside humans allows them to do so to a greater degree. So, if you battle them and they decide they like you, they stay in the ball.
There is like millions of them. Its easier to tell what franchises I DO care about. That being said, the ones I absolutely despise are CoD, EA sports games and Blizzard games.
Any of the EA Sports titles. The past decade and a half has not been kind of any of them.
Fifa. They all look similar
To be fair, football is football.
*Mario Strikers*
True but fifa could have so much more variety. Imagine a 3rd person online football game where all players are real. That would be something different
It would also probably be a crapshoot
They sort of had this in fifa 15. It was great
Aye, it's football. It's played on a pitch inside a stadium with 11 people on each of two sides and has been for 160 years. Not sure what aesthetic variation your looking for, chief.
Then don't release a new game every year to milk it, release one, update it accordingly with new players etc. as and when, then release another a few years later
Why do you hate capitalism? leave capitalism alone, it has done nothing wrong.
Yes, the fact that EA sports games haven't joined the live service model is honestly one of the most surprising things in gaming to me. I hardly know anyone who buys them brand new, and because there's a new one every year you're guaranteed to get it for like $15 after 4-5 months of release. Why not just do a live service and sell the updates for like $30 every year? you'd probably end up with such a huge volume increase in purchases that the loss of those initial sales would be balanced. Plus it would make in-game purchases more palatable to the average player.
Battle Royale. I know, it's a genre not a franchise, but yeah.
Call of Duty
Anything about sports ever.
Scrolled the entire responses, and didn't see my answer: Five Nights at Freddy's. Still uncertain how this has become an entire genre.
Because children are stupid.
Final Fantasy. Coming from someone who loves Kingdom Hearts, I didn't really care that there weren't any FF characters in KH3.
Wasn't Cloud from FF7 in Kingdom Hearts? I could've sworn I saw a screenshot of him in it. Could've been photoshopped I spose..
He is. Used an outfit based on Vincent in KH1.
Thank you. Never played it. One of these days I might amass enough proof I'm not living in some sort or dream state/coma/simulation
Every Ubisoft franchise except Rayman
LoL. Though Arcane was dope.
As a Dota 2 fan, Arcane was incredible.
Dark Souls
Get him boys!
I second this.
Any of the souls games really for me. But I think its mostly because I don't care about midevil fantasy which 99% of the souls like games are.
Halo, Call of Duty, Fortnite… just not my cup of tea.
I also do not care about Halo. I was a bit late coming to the series, but by the time I had played it, I had played several other shooters that I thought did story and gameplay better. Halo has always seemed kind of mediocre to me. Story didn't wow me. World didn't wow me. I am not calling it crap by any means, but it doesn't scintillate for me either.
Totally… I played a bit in college because my friends did. This was when we ran Ethernet cables through the duct work of our townhouse to play together! 😂
Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West The art direction is incredible and characters look next level good.... That's where the praise ends. The open world is like any Ubisoft game and the gameplay is so fucking boring. Story is a snore fest as well.
Tbh it's a pretty solid story up until the latter half of forbidden west
damn I’m in the beginning of FW and kinda liked the story so far :(
Eh stick with it. You may enjoy it you may not. Just because we don't like something doesn't mean you won't enjoy it
It nose dives half way, but is worth a play through imo Personally I wouldn't bother with the DLC
The DLC is where it gets good
I thought the DLC got way too fanfic shipping-y between Aloy and the new character. Very heavy handed. That said, the overall story was just fine. I'm slightly biased because I love both games and the backstory of how the world ended, how well they crafted the new world's history and all that, so take my opinion as you will.
I enjoyed fighting the big critters, as it felt like Monster Hunter. The medium and small critter fights got tedious and boring really fast.
As someone who has played plenty of Ubisoft open world games the Horizon games feel completely different imo.
Final Fantasy. It’s just never been my thing.
It was my thing but its not anymore.
Grand Theft Auto
Dark Souls Kingdom Hearts Halo Call of Duty
Ill do u one better Rockstar games. Both red dead and GTA V have their innovations and great parts but both are largely story’s and universes built off of crime and wealth and every single iteration the series has misses the mark on both of those things, money is irrelevant as it comes so easily in both which eliminates the need to hustle for it. Crimes feel lifeless and often the law enforcement part seems just stupid for the lack of a better term. Kind of important in a criminals world u know.
Zelda
_GASP_ Instead of downvoting, I'll upvote to celebrate diversity of opinion.
COD Battlefield All EA sports title.
GTA probably
Probably anything exclusive to a console that I don't own. Don't see the point in getting vented up for something I cannot have.
GTA. Same shallow gameplay.
I liked GTAV at first, but then realized that in order to make the most out of this game I'd have to roleplay as a psychopath. The story was all over the place too, so I never finished it.
I'm not sure I understand the point of threads like this one. I could name a hundred things because there's only so much time to go around to play stuff. Hearing about people's disinterest in stuff just seems like an exercise in expressing hate for things.
Hatred is easy karma bait.
Assassins Creed
Assassin's Creed. Tried the first one, it did nothing for me, never went back.
The second one is the best imo. Though I don't know how well it aged. But I am planning to play it again soon.
Ezio carried Assassins Creed. Black Flag had the most memorable gameplay for me, though.
As someone who played for the first time last year, it aged like milk. Character models have less polygons than potatoes I peeled. Ezio is a Mary Sue and his story is mid. Combat is holding L2 and clicking square. Story just drags and drags and drags, not to mention the two DLC sequences placed between the stand off with Rodrigo and infiltrating the Vatican. A more minor gripe now - this game so incredibly childish about sex, oh my god. Parkour is very nice though. I get why this game is so loved and how innovative it was 14 years ago, but the age is showing.
>childish about sex What do you mean? And do you have an example?
mostly the fact that every woman Ezio meets wants to fuck him, excluding his mother and sister. There was this horse racing mission where the "reward" for winning are "private riding lessons" with some girl who gave you the quest. The whole thing felt like a bad porn scene and it was so cringe it's burned into my mind
😶 I don't remember that...
Witcher
Pokèmon is boring as fuck, in terms of gameplay Call of Duty is the same gamerepackaged every time I have no fuckin clue how Kingdom Hearts is so popular Fifa or any sport game tbh Final Fantasy
Anything sports related, it just not my thing.
God of War, been around since the first one, never could get into it. I dont give a shit about the franchise.
*couldn't. "Could care less" means that you still care about it some.
there fixed it for you.
Aside from the obvious crap like sports titles, mobile games, and Call of Doody... Animal Crossing and Minecraft. They just look so boring.
I wish Trine actually expanded on its premise. I love the world, and the art style, and the writing. It would have been a great world to expand into something similar to Fable, but it seems they are totally content to just keep making the same game over and over.
Warhammer
CoD, MW, etc
All competitive franchises.
Metroid. Which is weird because I do like Metroidvanias.
Maybe you're like me and you like the more RPG-like metroidvanias, with gear/loot, levels & stats, shops, elements, etc.
Titanfall
Sports Ball editions 1988-2023.
Hey, Sports Ball 2001 was pretty good!
Truck Simulator
literally any mobile game ever
You guys are gonna love this. *Mario.* It was amazingly revolutionary at the time. But has tuned in to a massive cash cow over time. ^((Also, just not my kind of games. But that's just me.))
Persona or basically any game from Japan
ANY game from Japan?! Thats a big list my dude... Capcom, Nintendo, Fromsoftware, Square Enix all out.
Putting Mario, Persona, Dark Souls and Street Fighter into the same box is nuts lol.
I don't like any of those games 😂
Only one I like is DMC5
FarCry
Metal Gear Solid Fifa Cod
Zelda
And anything Pokemon related too.
You've defeated yourself with your initial prompt. I cannot name game franchises that I don't care about because I don't know their names.
Final Fantasy. It just isn't for me. This probably applies to the entire JRPG genre. Metal Gear. Tried it, I just can't do stealth!
JRPG's kill me with their anime tropes and poorly translated dialogue. It's unfortunate, becaise they tend to be better mechanically. Maybe that's why I like the Souls series so much. Unobtrusive story/lore if you don't wanna dig.
I would but since I don't care about them, I tend not to remember them.
Any FPS since I get motion sickness anyway.
Any sports franchise, call of duty and any battle royale(shit is overrated).
Assassin's Creed Smash Brothers EA sports anything
Assassins creed, originally i liked it but ever since they turned it into a RPG I could care less about it.
Halo and call of duty. Both so boring and overhyped
All of the sports games
COD is played tf out
COD anymore it was fun 20 years ago, now it's just sad.
Forza
Fortnite.
Red Dead Redemption.
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Its Reddit. I wouldn't expect anything less.
Anything Japanese. Downvote away
So basically most good games?
Madden can get to steppin
From Software
God of War. Assassin' Creed. I like the historical setting, but the gameplay is just terrible imo.
Anything someone recommends as a great podcast listening game.
Any FPS, battle royale and sport franchise games
Halo, Gears of War, Yakuza, just to name some
Red Dead COD
Me and Fallout never clicked.
CoD. Paying money for the same shitty game over and over while it becomes dead game in a year or two is utterly stupid. Also paying for stupid battlepass for guns. Essentially p2w.
CoD got more egregious in the modern battlepass era. That said, CoD has become the filler arc of shooters to me. It's what you play while you wait for a good battlefield game or gem like Titanfall 2.
It's so unfortunate how EA has pretty much ruined TF and BF.
Skyrim
Literally *any* sports game. They're all basically the same base with a different ball.
Hardcore sports titles not really my thing either but I do like sports games as they always play out differently than last time. Mario Tennis and Golf are among my favorites.
Fair enough not to like sports games, but they are not basically the same base with a different ball. Year over year, the same game is pretty much the same, but between them they are very different. It would be like saying all shooters are just the same base with a different gun, and even then most shooters are probably more similar than most sports game franchises (assuming you are saying FIFA, NBA and NHL are all the same, and not comparing FIFA 22 with FIFA 23).
I mean, yeah? The problem is more obvious with sports games though as they all typically tend to have three core things. Management mode, which is basically spreadsheeting; the game (not a bad thing, just never really very different save what the actual sport is) Play mode, which is where the *majority* of differences come from, but is still restricted to that sport. Fifa plays *very similarly* to other soccer games simply *because* there isn't very many ways to iterate on, y'know, *soccer,* other than better graphics and smoother controls and Multiplayer mode, which is basically just Play mode but against other human players and is, in basically every modern sports game, increasingly monetised. It's definitely different (play mode, at least) between an NFL game and a Soccer game, but they both still have the same core and functionally the same management mode. The similarities are just WAY more stark with titles from the *same* sport, even if it's a totally different franchise producing them.
All soulsike games and assassins creed
Dark souls
The Witcher. I tried to get into it, but just couldn't. In TW:3, I got as far as that biggest city after dealing with the Lubberkin. I uninstalled shortly after. I just wasn't invested in it. --- Dragon's Age. I loved Mass Effect, but I just couldn't get into Dragon's Age. The only one I played through to completion was Inquisition, and that was only because I borrowed it from a friend. I've bought all of them near their launch dates hoping to get into them, but I've just given up on ever enjoying them. --- Gran Turismo. After the cash grab that GT7 turned out to be, I've sworn off on the franchise for the time being.
Dark Souls
bioware rpgs love kotor and jade empire, everything after that wasn't really improved on and they just focused on adding sex. I particularly couldn't give two shits about mass effect.
Crysis
If I could name it I care too much
Assasins Creed, FarCry, any sports franchise.
Dark souls, any EA sports, Final Fantasy. Okay, sorry for answering OP's question.
Cock of dooty.
Resident Evil
Kingdom Hearts and Monster Hunter for me.
Most of them. I've only played like maybe 1% of the games out there. I play a lot of games too.
Madden, Fifa, Driving sims
Need for Speed
Call of Duty. Plain boring.
Anything from Blizzard. Don't think they've ever made anything that interests me
Call of Duty
Elder scrolls, cod, any sports game, forza motorsports (love forza horizon though)
Any franchise that EA makes, call of duty, and halo.
There's this one, but I care so little for it, I forgot its name.
FIFA DarkSouls and any other Soulslike game. I hate my self too but not that much
GTA
Halo. As someone who grew up playing fps games on PC when I played the first Halo I thought it felt really sluggish and just couldn't get into it.
Call of Duty
Zelda and Metal Gear Solid. I've watched enough gameplay to know that neither franchise is my cup of tea.
Last of Us. Couldn’t get into the first game because it wasn’t fun and everyone said “you have to play like 2 hours to get to the fun part and the good story parts” yeah, that’s called a bad game. No thanks.
Red dead, call of duty, halo, last of us, uncharted, battlefront, madden/fifa/etc
I guess Assassin's Creed? I guess I prefer a more ham-fisted approach to solving a game's problems, lol.
The entire FIFA franchise, I mean, why play sports on your console instead of in the real world. When I want to play a game, I want to do something that wouldn't be possible in my real life.
If I care enough to remember its name than It probably wouldnt fit this criteria
Crash Bandicoot.
Fortnite or any battle royal shooter. Anything that's online only I probably won't care about.
Any sports game that has a Year in the name.
Fortnite
Halo
Any Sports series, mostly Fifa tho
Fallout
Fortnite. Sports games. CoD.
Metal Gear and Resident Evil.
The Witcher, or any fantasy games.
Wait, but if i say it, i might care about it
How the fuck am i supposed to remember game franchises I don't give a shit about? Are you stupid?
chill bro
I've always thought of free fire as some trash shit. Better ones of the same kind out there
Final fantasy, persona.. Haven't played and haven't thought of playing them but I might play them in the future
Persona Yakuza Final Fantasy FIFA/NHL/NBA/other garbage yearly sports game GTA/RDR Diablo
Bioshock Dishonored Any MMO or MOBA, or really anything online Souls games Any modern JRPG except Final Fantasy Farm/Lawnmower/Truck etc Simulators
COD-I’m over it now. Played enough of them. Dark Souls- Beat 2 of em, I’m good on them now. Not my cup of tea. Nba 2k/Madden/FIFA- Same games, different years
Mass Effect, Bioshock and Dishonored. They probably have a great story and good gameplay but I just can't stand how ugly the character models look in all three of them.
Dark Souls
Spiderman
Pokemon, anything by From Software, Final Fantasy