Widely appreciated videogames that you hate.

I don't know anything whatsoever about games made after the 90's. But I'll say this much: SNES sucks! Sega forever!

Modern indie videogames have very shitty genre labeling practices, most of the time the game doesn't represent the genre the developer assigned it to be.

The fact that the story is narrated in-game and not in intermission texts is not enough to make it a story-driven game if the entire "story" is nothing but a succession of "some random NPC says go to place X to solve problem Y" setpieces. Would Quake 2 become a story-driven game if the missions that keep the plot moving were given to you by NPCs and not described as text in your PDA? G-man could have been entirely removed from the game and it would make no difference. The same can't be said about any HL2 character.

And speaking of HL2, if you ignore the story then you will miss a lot of the the main conflict of the game. Where are you? What is going on? Why are some people trying to kill you? Why are some people helping you? How are these people related? The narrative has a significant impact on how gameplay develops - it does not matter if it is in-game or a bunch of texts. This is what I believe defines a story-driven game.

G-Man exists mainly to incentivize more gameplay to find out more about him. I don't think it's unfair to say that a character like him is much more likely to appear in a story-driven game, especially because he's not necessary in the gameplay at all.

I guess you can condense things down to "go to X to do Y", but you do them for a reason, and I don't think it's wrong to say that the same can be said for a lot of other shooters. Although I haven't really played a lot of shooters, lol. I guess I can't argue further until I play more games to compare HL to. Especially HL2(played it but didn't complete it)

Most modern FPS maybe. I've played few. I remember playing and finishing Bioshock but something didn't click on me. The concept and art style is different, but there was something boring with the gameplay or a lot of linear scripted events, typical of other shooters mimicking the same thing. I also finished Bioshock Infinite whose art style I liked, but it was the same boring thing. They try to tell a story but they are extremely linaer borefests, where they have some cassetes to get the story, but I don't get it or it's boring. I can think of other games where they have this "message left" trope, where it's done right that I like. I think these games would try to tell the story through cinematics and left cassetes, but it was very predictable and monotonous, like every arena always has a cassete, instead of being lost and rarely finding some interesting tidbits like in other games that finding clues is rare and unique.

Also HL2 I finished it but forgot it. HL1 made a bigger impression on me. HL2 was the same concept with extra physics, but gimmicky linear paths and physics puzzle you have to do one particular way, not organic gameplay, but very predictable,. go to next place, shoot some stuff, get on your car/boat again, do some gimmicky physics to break a barrier. I prefer physics in other games where it was more organic and it wasn't a puzzle set for you in a predictable on rails way.

As for Dark Souls, DS1 is still my favorite,. but I have this strange thing that somehow I tried to get into DS3 but I have stopped playing. Everybody tells me if you liked DS1/2, you will love 3. Everybody hates 2. I can't explain it as the DS3 game is solid in many ways, it's more professional done, but lacks that something, maybe that jankiness, I have zero motivation to explore rather than going to bosses. And bosses are too spectacle fighting where they never stop attacking, just like Elden Ring which I started but lost interest. But I still kinda like these game, it's just for some reason I was more hooked to the older ones than the latest. It's like latest games are very professional in what they do, so I can't find faults, but at the same time they don't attract me to explore their world anymore.

The drop in quality between DS1 and DS2 is so gigantic that it can only be compared to The Exorcist 2 or Metallica releasing St. Anger right after Ride the Lightning. DS2 is terrible at worst and mediocre at best and has no business belonging to a trilogy on which the other 2 games are almost flawless.

If you enjoyed DS1 then I don't see any reason why you should dislike DS3. It did what a videogame sequel should do: brought a lot of excellent new ideas, improved everything that was already good and fixed all the bad stuff.

That meme suits the state of most indie games pretty fucking well. I can think of a few more things to add: a joke about the sound when any dialogue plays instead of actual voice acting(I think I've played more flash games with voice acting compared to modern indie games lmao), the large ass file size despite the pixel graphics, the royalty free music(I have seen a few devs who don't even credit the composers) and it also really needs the words "gimmicks" and "Unity" somewhere, I don't think it even needs context.

Destiny.

There has been few games I've played where I've honestly thought I've wasted both time and my money, and Destiny is by far top of the list.
Nothing but non-stop grinding with very little payoff. My old xbox buddies pressured me into buying it back in High School because it was hot stuff at the time.
I remember just being confused as to why they were so content fighting the same bosses over and over again, going on destiny benders essentially, enjoyment unwavering.

Idk maybe I'm the crazy one and my friends took "Imagine Sisyphus happy" to heart.

Thinking about it this applies to all MMOs tbh. Tried WOW at a birthday party in middle school (I was the only one who showed up so he just showed me his WOW build), got bored. Star wars KOTOR, got bored. Oldschool Runescape was fun when my coworker was giving me a bunch of his gold n shit to try to get me started but after he moved away I didnt touch it, then he unfortunately passed away shortly after (RIP based runescape coworker).

Looking back I am eternally grateful I never got into MMOs.

Never cared for Spyro much.
I also stopped caring for Pokemon after Gen 7.
I never cared much for Final Fantasy after X.
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Holy shit I can't believe I forgot Minecraft. Maybe it was good in its early days considering that new stuff was being added every week when Notch was in control, but Mojang is fucking lazy and that's almost a fact. What would take a random indie dev maybe a couple months at best takes them twice the time to do despite being such a large team, and despite that many changes are often frowned upon. And there are so many mods which basically reveal the flaws of the game, with it's lack of variety with ores and things to farm, for example. You would expect a game that's constantly being updated for more than a decade to have a shitton of content but what kind of average gamer(who somehow hasn't played it yet) would look at the current game, play 1.0, and guess that it's been updated for that long? Oh, and fucking mob votes. Do the mfs at Mojang even work?

What about the other Mortal Kombats? 4/Gold were, I believe, among the least popular of them.