Asklemmy

Anything Mario

Any AAA game that hasn't proven it can retain a playerbase for longer than 4 years is overhyped.

GTA

I just don't get it.

All contemporary multiplayer FPS games. I went through a phase where I had 5-digit frag counts on Quake more from time spent than talent, and I got tired of it, but people just pour ENDLESS hours into multiplayer FPSes...

I am fully ready to be down voted for, but Cyberpunk 2077.

I finally got around to trying it out a little after Phantom Liberty came out and the game itself had all of the updates, so I thought it would be the best time to try it out.

I just couldn't get into it. I got so tired of the constant stopping my progress for dialogue and that God forsaken fast forwarding mechanic that I feel they just put there to mock me.

The game itself is just fine, but I don't understand why everyone is now calling it one of the greatest games of recent times.

Balatro. It becomes a spreadsheet sim very quickly, in my opinion. I think part of the reason Binding of Isaac and Hades feel much more timeless to me is that every run has this sort of intuitive randomness vs this just full rng you have to counter with math. Balatro feels solved, and while I guess you could count Hades max heat run as “solving” the game, the replayability of it feels much higher because builds feels more dynamic than “make number go up faster”.

Breath of the wild. I loved Zelda games up until then, and everything after is so fucking boring. I don't get it.

Global Thermonuclear War.

Elden Ring. It's like they just glued inconsistent creature ideas next to each other. Every couple of hundred ingame meters you come across a different biome with different creatures that appear nowhere else and has a boss that visually and equipment-wise completely out of place. It feels like fighting your way through dozens of puzzle-pieces forced next to each other without any explanation why. You have to try to make your own story as to why things are the way they are and any criticism of the game is shot down by the worst stereotypes of gamers.

Any of the Dark Souls. They're hyped up for being difficult, but the only thing that makes them difficult is the clunky controls.

Like, I could make Pokemon Yellow equally difficult by taping a dish sponge to a Gameboy and requiring the player to operate the buttons through an inch of fluff.

The story's kinda there if you dig for clues, but it comes off as random bullshit if you don't.

They are fucking gorgeous, I'll give em that.

I'll never understand the 'git gud' circlejerk... I 100%'d DS2, and made it a good chunk through Elden Ring (think I was about 80% done before finally saying fuck it). I 'got gud'... But DS never got fun.

I absolutely love the style, setting, visuals, and music - I really wanted to like DS... but the combat and clunky controls absolutely murder the experience.

For me at least... to each their own.

AAA first person shooters. At some point new releases are just are a rehash of the exact game mechanics.

Sorry to say but Stardew Valley for me -- and it is not for a lack of trying, I've put in a bit over 82 hours into it, but a fair amount of that was forced and it quickly got stale. Maybe I just played it wrong or the game simply isn't for me.

I just saw the post about Red Dead 2 becoming the 4th most sold game.

It is 100% not my thing.

Its sad that I enjoyed GTA V, and am semi looking forward to GTA VI too, but the wild west genre is not for me.

League of Legends

Anything Bethesda. I can never play more than a couple hours before I get bored.