5 Games I Loathe That You Love

vaga_koleso | April 28, 2008 | News | PC Playstation 2

In an easy-to-anticipate follow-up to last week's article, GameLemon's own Tim Sweeney turns the tables and talks about 5 games he hates that you (probably!) love. And just who is Tim Sweeney, might you ask? I say - doesn't matter; the man clearly states that he hates World of Warcraft and that's enough for me. Let me get my Axe of the Nexus-Kings and I'll be right there to smash some skulls.

Let's get this one out of the way straight off; I cannot stand World of Warcraft.

For the two people that didn't close this page in disgust, let me tell you why. I have never been a big fan of the Warcraft universe; mainly due to the fact that it's just the Warhammer universe, but with smart Orcs. Despite all this, the combination of a huge MMORPG with a not-as-generic-as-some fantasy world had a lot of potential.

So with this in mind I stopped playing City of Villains (the best MMORPG I've played, with EVE Online a strong second) and eagerly picked up a copy of WoW...and just as eagerly uninstalled it soon after. What everyone praises as fun and user friendly struck me as nothing more than an overly simplified version of every other MMORPG out there combined with the mindless level grinding and loot-whoring of Diablo. Oh and don't listen to people talking about it having stylised graphics: it's just ugly.

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Twisted | April 28, 2008

The only one out of those that I like would be San Andreas. I guess that's the only one I've played.
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Zero and X | April 29, 2008

I agree with only World of Warcraft, everthing else I disagree with.
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Euphoric | April 29, 2008

He preaches gospel when it comes to WoW. I agree with him 100%. But how can you say the all the later FF games are bad? FF is quite easily the best RPG's series ever created. And as for Resident Evil getting a dishonourable mention for poor gameplay, get *bleep*ed. Resident Evil is so good and so popular because it pulls off the horror genre gameplay superbly.
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  Ameer | April 29, 2008
  
  Ditto. The amount of WoW talk I endure around my friends is nothing short of mind-sledgehammering. After trying the game for about a month after purchasing the game, I quit. It's a massive borefest.
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Rusty Bucket Boy | April 29, 2008

I agreed with him on everyone!
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Silver Mirror | April 29, 2008

I agree with him on WOW and Quake, and can see where he's coming from with San Andreas and Total Annilation (is that really that popular?) but I disagree with him on Final Fantasy. Saying that all games before VII are good and then labeling the rest junk is just hypocritical
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Gothic Girl | April 29, 2008

He's damn right about the later FF games sucking. I don't agree that they started sucking straight after VII, but they definitely started sucking after Sakaguchi left. It's just a shame that Squeenix hasn't yet realized that without Sakaguchi there is no Final Fantasy.

I agree with the gameplay of the RE games. A fair few of them have awkward gameplay. (especially the earlier ones, with the digital control system that - I'm pretty sure - couldn't be changed in the menu).
I also don't really understand why RE4 is considered a "big step up" in terms of gameplay either - It played like a generic action game, imo. Nothing too special there.

edit: Looks like people can't even have an opinion on Gamegrep anymore without being thumbed down >_>
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joshuam | April 29, 2008

i agree with him onall of them
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Sonic Flash | April 29, 2008

The WoW one got me. The only reason I'm reading this article is because WoW is down for Tuesday maintenance. :/
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kik36 | April 29, 2008

"random battles are a plague on mankind." He obviously didn't play FFXII. And I'm sorry but FFX was the shit.
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Revenger of Wastelan | April 29, 2008

Hmm I kinda agree, though some of those games are pretty cool.
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ali3n | April 29, 2008

WoW and San Andreas. I sort of agree with FF since the last couple of ones have sucked and I don't really care about the other two.