Decline RPGs You Thought Were Good, But You Kinda Hate 'em

[Bruma Hobo]

Pool of Radiance, The Magic Candle, Ultima: Martian Dreams. And of course Ultima VII.

 

[Jvegi]

BG2 after playing IWD for the first time.

Just shut the fuck up already. I just want to walk down the street. You're not even close to being written well enough to justify such verbosity.

 

[Lilura]

BG2

And yet the game is considered a masterpiece, 3rd-ranked all-time on the 'Dex.

 

[TheImplodingVoice]

VTMB is probably the most overrated RPG I've played.

Don't do this Rusty. Not you of all people

 

[mindfields]

Bloodlines is about 40% trash, about the time you start the Hollywood sewers until the end.

 

[Nerevar]

Okay... I'll say it.

I didn't like ToEE.

 

[Thonius]

Recently replayed F1-F2. Fuck that gay combat, inventory and some other bits. Kinda ruined my fond memories of them. SAD

 

[Diggfinger]

Planescape Torment - no doubt this is a classic in terms of narrative achievements, but oh my God going pack to this a few years ago was a pain: little to no-player choice on character development, sluggish boring combat and absolute railroading made me put this one back in the drawer
Deux ex - I know this is 'best gaem evah" fo alot of hobos...and yes, some aspects makes and stand out and be "better than the sum of its parts" such as the setting and story. Yet, if you pick these parts apart you quickly see that combat feels flat and inconsequentional (shooting a mofo lacks 'ooomph") , stealth feels random and tacked-on and the good story is (yet again) linked to a fair bit of rail-roading and lack of player choice. Dont believe me?
Jagged Alliance 2 - I really want to like this game....it's just...well, too simulation'y and complex. I dont think it's very fun to play
System Shock 2 - a classic, I know. Somehow I ended up playing the first one more, though. Gosh SS1 was a wonderful game...
BG2 - Hated teh setting (dont fucking want to fight the protagonist several times!) and the scripted moments. Too schizo about whether it's OK for me to make my own party or not
Diablo 2 - such a step down from 1 in terms of pure ambiance and interesting setting. Besides Act 1, all the acts were boring as fuck. OK, I've played it a bunch and totally fanboy'd out when it came...but looking back, waht the fuck's all the fuzz about?

 

[Gibson]

Dont believe me?
Jagged Alliance 2 - I really want to like this game....it's just...well, too simulation'y and complex. I dont think it's very fun to play

tbh i dodn't know what bothers me more here: the reference to RPS as a source (for whatever) or the hating on JA2...

 

[Valky]

The Witcher series. Witcher 1 was overhyped and decended into popamole, and then 2/3 were escalating casualizations of the first game.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

VTMB is probably the most overrated RPG I've played.

Don't do this Rusty. Not you of all people

I just don't think it's worthy of being called one of the best RPGs ever made(ranked #5 in recent top 101.) It has a lot of issues.

 

[Valky]

To be fair there is QUITE a large number of shit games or simply non excellent games that do not deserve to be anywhere near their positions on the top 101 list, and people citing it as some form of argument for a claim can be easily disregarded because they don't understand that despite the codex being one of the only bastions of monacled taste on the internet, we have a large number of casuals and retards like any other community, who are capable of voting in these polls. No matter where you are, the lowest common demoninator ALWAYS wins in the end. They put popamole all over the top 101 as a way to mark their territory and remind us who the real target audience of video games has become ever since they co-opted the entire industry from us.

 

[Ensi]

I'm replaying PS:T right now and the writing is decent, but nowhere near the AMAZING LITERATURE I remembered. And yeah, combat sucks.

Still an important game in the history of RPGs though.

 

[GarfunkeL]

Pillars. Still haven't finished.
Original Sin. Still haven't finished and haven't bought the sequel.
Wasteland 2. Still haven't finished.

 

[Lilura]

Jagged Alliance 2 - I really want to like this game....it's just...well, too simulation'y and complex. I dont think it's very fun to play

Into the iggy bin you go.

 

[hexer]

Any CDPR game so far.
Geralt and the gameplay never clicked with me.

Both Fallouts. I don't hate them, but somehow they just never "clicked" for me. While I can see how and why they are good games, I've tried playing them several times over the years, and somehow neither the story/setting, nor gameplay has ever managed to pull me in.

 

[Funposter]

Divinity: Original Sin 2. Loved in the first time around, went to play it again and found myself frustrated by various tiny things and the main BIG thing of the armour system and all battles after Level 4 turning into necrofire clusterfucks. I bet it's loads of fun playing co-op on babby (journo) difficulty, though.