Games that you loved before but don't enjoy now?

[El Duderino 879]

Minecraft. I used to play that all the time, but now I just can't spend more than 5 minutes in the game without getting bored.

[Comic Sans 401]

* honestly? it would probably be most games i've played in the past when i was growing up. it's nice to have the nostalgia of playing them again, but sometimes you just remember parts you hated, then you just don't enjoy it anymore.

 

* i recently played a spyro game on the xbox.. the one where you master the elements and such? (sorry i'm too lazy to google it) and like.. i remembered so many things i hated about the game, like the tutorials and stuff for example and after a long time of trying to get past just ONE part of a tutorial, i gave up.

[Mesme Rize 15,683]

I loved to play Civilization Revolution, which was an exclusive console Civ that came out between civ 4 and civ 5.

 

When i played civ 4 for the first time, i totally realised that Civ Rev was a waterdown version of the PC games. Since then, i never played Civ Rev again.

[Zeal Crown 196]

I use to only have good memories of De Blob. Since the last time I played it though, I just couldn't remember the motion controls of it. Probably would have been a better game in my book, but motion controls are so difficult. Oh well, maybe I should try the second one.

[Quinch 1,120]

Frontier: First Encounters {i.e. Elite 3}. Despite being buggy as hell in the original, the open space exploration and adventuring, combined with actual {if shortish} story arcs drew me in for weeks. Now, though, it just seems... clumsy.

[Veil 260]

World of Warcraft. Game was great when it was new, 4 expansions later, not so much.

[Detritus 258]

After more than 20 years of being a Zelda fan, I've begun to burn out on the series... I don't know what happened.

[ultrairongorilla 2,064]

I used to love The Simpsons Wresting on the original Playstation when I was really young. I tried it on my Playstation 3 recently and.... yeah I don't know what I was thinking back then.

Same goes for the Family Guy game on PlayStation 2. It's pretty terrible in just about every aspect.

Edited February 23, 2018 by ultrairongorilla

[Willow 1,008]

RuneScape is just one that I can think of, honestly. I used to love playing it, made some friends, had some fun, friendly duels, but... I can't play it without getting bored now.

[WolfEdge 75]

I feel this way towards Pokémon now, which is sad since at one point it was my favorites series of all time. I just can't do it anymore. I'll start, do a few battles before finding I just can't stand the battle system anymore. The general direction of story is the same, save for the finer details, and is never any different. Competitive (and the hours of preparation if you do it legit) isn't fun for me, either. IV's were a mistake. I just don't find ANYTHING in the main series engaging anymore.

It took the better half of two decades, but I think I've officially outgrown mainline Pokémon. I still love the characters and the concept of Pokémon world to death. I just wish Game Freak explored it more. I really do think they need to update turn-based gameplay into something more engaging.

That said, I'll ironically play Mystery Dungeon any day. I just pray they'll also shake that series up a bit, because it too is already starting to stale. Could you imagine if they implemented a pseudo real-time playstyle?

[The Kaeya Simp 13,988]

Super Mario Brothers 2 (Super Mario Brothers USA/Doki Doki Panic for those in Japan).

I no longer see the point and find it INCREDIBLY DULL.

My favorite mario is now tied between Mario Brothers Lost Levels (Super Mario Brothers 2 for those in Japan) and Super Mario Brothers 3

[Steve Piranha 29,424]

On 2/18/2016 at 4:15 PM, The MegaBrony said:

I used to like Marvel: Avengers Alliance, but the longer you stay with it, the more broken it gets. Like most other non-Mario RPGs, it takes away much more control than it gives.

LOL XD, never stopped playing that shit until the end . Yeah, I'd agree at times. The game was often boring during no new content periods (White Tiger was the last regular release hero, and Adam Warlock was the final spec ops reward. Odin was the most powerful boss and final epic boss of the main story)

On 2/14/2016 at 4:04 PM, Sgamer said:

I love the Super Mario series and lore but I don't enjoy playing the platform Mario games anymore. My platforming skills have never been that great and in the past several years I realized that it was becoming a waste for me to buy the Mario games. The last Mario game I did beat was Super Mario Galaxy but I have not completed the 2nd game.

 

I did buy Mario Maker out of wanting to try building Mario levels but I'm just not as drawn to it lately.

I'm in a mixed bag with the platform Mario games. I think the classics are still the shit, but the NSMB are something I don't care in passing one. They are just easy mode classic Mario games with 3d graphics, and no creativity, only reusing past ideas

On 2/14/2016 at 6:12 AM, Odyssey said:

The Pokémon series as a whole. I've loved it for 15 or so years, but since the beginning of this year I've realised how really bad this series is.

 

Once upon a time, Pokémon was a fantastic series that has done things differently from other RPGs. Although it is easier than most, its strongest point was how you have more choice on which characters you'd choose throughout the course of the game. Typically most RPGs have about 7 characters to play as, but with Pokémon it was around 600+. It makes the gameplay more fun and gives you more time to figure out new strategies. But even outside of the battling side, the character designs of most of these superpowered creatures look really nice as well. They don't look simplistic, yet not overly detailed either. As a result, it makes them easy to recognise and all around just appealing to look at.

 

But with each new generation, it's pretty much the same thing over and over again. The only time the battling mechanics has ever gotten a major change was in Gen IV with the Physical/Special split as well as new types like Fairy and Steel, but that's it. It really was just the same battle mechanics you've experienced since the Red/Blue days. I wouldn't be so bothered with it staying the same if the stories or if the main goal was different, but even all of the stories in the main series practically share the same formula. The only two games in Pokémon that have really good stories are Colosseum and XD: Gale of Darkness, but they're unfortunately not too popular.

 

The marketing of the Pokémon series is also really painful to think about. Although it doesn't have much to do with the games themselves, it is really heartbreaking to see how much of a Franchise Zombie Pokémon is. Heck, the 20th Anniversary is one of the reasons why I don't follow the series anymore. With so much attention they give to Red/Blue instead of the series as a whole, it really implies how much Game Freak really don't want to remember or do anything beyond the first generation. Usually, I'm not the kind of person who is bothered by merchandise and whatnot, but when I see Pokémon do stuff like that, it doesn't make me want to support their products. I want for the series to have a quiet ending instead of seeing it trying to keep itself alive by releasing the same game over and over again.

 

It's certainly a series I don't want to look back to again. I've had my fill with it and I can't be bothered thinking about how much it has been milked to death.

I haven't touched a Pokemon game since gen 4. They just reuse the same ideas, and some methods of obtaining pokemon are increasingly more ridiculous. The fact  that I could never catch on after a new generation and the mystical pokemon being next to impossible to obtain was a blow to my morale. Another fact that may have soured my Pokemon gamer times was the lack of worthwhile post games. Maybe it was a mistake in giving a post game as epic like exploring an older region as early as G2 if it wasn't intended to be the standard  for the whole series afterwards 

 

On 2/14/2016 at 4:45 AM, Kelldrick said:

I'd probably say The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I used to play the hell out of it when the game was new. Now? While it's a good game, it hasn't aged well at all, and feels rough on the edges at some points.

Yeah, I've played OOT3D a year ago, and the updated graphics and animations didn't help in showing how much it aged. Seriously, I was planning on giving a try to it's Master Quest mode and see if I could go past the Forest Temple, but the fact is that the game felt like a shore to play. Just finished Ganon, and left it as it is. I was expecting the same experience with Majora's 3D, but the fact that I slept at over 2 am more than once while playing it tells another story

 

[Celli 4,338]

6 hours ago, Steve Piranha said:

Yeah, I've played OOT3D a year ago, and the updated graphics and animations didn't help in showing how much it aged. Seriously, I was planning on giving a try to it's Master Quest mode and see if I could go past the Forest Temple, but the fact is that the game felt like a shore to play. Just finished Ganon, and left it as it is. I was expecting the same experience with Majora's 3D, but the fact that I slept at over 2 am more than once while playing it tells another story

Majora's Mask is infinitely superior to OoT.

[Steve Piranha 29,424]

15 hours ago, Celli said:

Majora's Mask is infinitely superior to OoT.

No denying that one. It's surprising how similar it is to OOT, yet it aged way better than it. Maybe the issue with OOT is that many games afterward tried to replicate it's success, with some succeeding, others not. Regardless, it gave us many games to compare. Even Nintendo tried to replicate OOT's success with other Zeldas until finally breaking the cycle with Breath of the Wild. Maybe Majora's biggest blessing is it's unique core mechanic, and how immersive it makes the game, as no one else tried to copy the formula 

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 41,467]

28 minutes ago, Steve Piranha said:

No denying that one. It's surprising how similar it is to OOT, yet it aged way better than it. Maybe the issue with OOT is that many games afterward tried to replicate it's success, with some succeeding, others not. Regardless, it gave us many games to compare. Even Nintendo tried to replicate OOT's success with other Zeldas until finally breaking the cycle with Breath of the Wild. Maybe Majora's biggest blessing is it's unique core mechanic, and how immersive it makes the game, as no one else tried to copy the formula 

In fairness though, OOT was the first ever 3D Zelda title. That alone gave it a lot of baggage to carry. Majora's Mask was most likely given a more unique flavor since they had settled into the era. OOT was far more traditional in its scope for sure but since it was the first of its kind for the series, I think that is fine. Only reason I am saying this is because I feel people these days give OOT too much crap. I've always loved the game and I fully respect what it accomplished. I also fully respect MM for its advancements and it wholly unique setting and story, even if I like OOT more. Different flavors of Zelda for different peeps. 

As for the topic at hand, been a while since I thought of this. How about something more recent: Splatoon 2. While it isn't exactly a case of me not enjoying it all anymore, I simply don't have the love for it that I had when I first bought it. Once the initial feeling of uniqueness wore off, the game itself is actually fairly shallow. I like the gameplay, but I hate the freshness system and some of the obvious weapon imbalances. There are parts of the game that clearly show that Nintendo is still mostly new to the multiplayer shooter thing. 

[Cash In 22,309]

Lego Star Wars. Loved those games as a kid, but bores the heck out of me now.

[Steve Piranha 29,424]

On 2/26/2018 at 12:36 PM, Kyoshi said:

In fairness though, OOT was the first ever 3D Zelda title. That alone gave it a lot of baggage to carry. Majora's Mask was most likely given a more unique flavor since they had settled into the era. OOT was far more traditional in its scope for sure but since it was the first of its kind for the series, I think that is fine. Only reason I am saying this is because I feel people these days give OOT too much crap. I've always loved the game and I fully respect what it accomplished. I also fully respect MM for its advancements and it wholly unique setting and story, even if I like OOT more. Different flavors of Zelda for different peeps. 

Credit where credit is due, and that's not to be denied. Problem lies is that game is still over-praised when it has aged quite notoriously, as evidenced in many top 10s of best games. Influential? Yes. Was a master piece? A great candidate of such in it's time. But please, stop wearing nostalgia glasses and pretend to be the standard that modern videogames should follow . Maybe that's why many people today give it flak, tiredness of OOT being best game ever, and stuff. And this is not coming from a millennial, as I've played since the NES (was born in 91, but my parents had a NES before I was born), so I have plenty of experience. I had my OOT since the start, as mine is the 1.1 version, and I was enamored with it, but I have to admit it doesn't hold-up today    

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 41,467]

1 minute ago, Steve Piranha said:

Credit where credit is due, and that's not to be denied. Problem lies is that game is still over-praised when it has aged quite notoriously, as evidenced in many top 10s of best games. Influential? Yes. Was a master piece? A great candidate of such in it's time. But please, stop wearing nostalgia glasses and pretend to be the standard that modern videogames should follow . Maybe that's why many people today give it flak, tiredness of OOT being best game ever, and stuff. And this is not coming from a millennial, as I've played since the NES (was born in 91, but my parents had a NES before I was born), so I have plenty of experience. I had my OOT since the start, as mine is the 1.1 version, and I was enamored with it, but I have to admit it doesn't hold-up today    

To each their own, but I think it holds up quite well. Perhaps it doesn't need to be a golden standard or anything, but it isn't the only game that gets that treatment. A modern example is Dark Souls and while I do really enjoy that game, it also should not be the base point of comparison for all games.

[Steve Piranha 29,424]

1 hour ago, Kyoshi said:

To each their own, but I think it holds up quite well. Perhaps it doesn't need to be a golden standard or anything, but it isn't the only game that gets that treatment. A modern example is Dark Souls and while I do really enjoy that game, it also should not be the base point of comparison for all games.

Well, I have yet to play one of those, so I can't know what makes them so special  

[Celli 4,338]

7 hours ago, Kyoshi said:

To each their own, but I think it holds up quite well. Perhaps it doesn't need to be a golden standard or anything, but it isn't the only game that gets that treatment. A modern example is Dark Souls and while I do really enjoy that game, it also should not be the base point of comparison for all games.

I think the game is fine but the parts that stick out to me as having aged poorly are the lock-on system, the big empty open world and water temple. Specifically the constant equipping and de-equpping the iron boots. 

Majora's improved on it imo with a smaller condensed map.

[Steve Piranha 29,424]

3 hours ago, Celli said:

I think the game is fine but the parts that stick out to me as having aged poorly are the lock-on system, the big empty open world and water temple. Specifically the constant equipping and de-equpping the iron boots. 

Majora's improved on it imo with a smaller condensed map.

Not to mention he quality of the side-quests, and how the time system gives the NPC actual schedules makes the world feel more alive. Despite the amount of dungeons

[Here No Longer 5,276]

Call of Duty-

There was once a time when  I was 12 years old when I played MW2 as much as I used to play League of Legends (I likely still probably would if I could). I really liked the game and absolutely demolishing with my Blue Tiger Camo MP5k (I would get top 3 most FFA games). I was also EXTREMELY good at One in the Chamber, back in the days of Black Ops 1. I'd win most games, actually. There was one I actually won with something like 8 or 9 kills. But now the games have shown themselves to be utter balancing travesties that never do anything to make the experience feel fresh. Every game is literally a carbon copy of the last one. Quite frankly, that's a shame, with how good Modern Warfare's first two games' campaigns were (Particularly MW2's)

 

Team Fortress 2-

Similar story as Paladins. Valve really messed the game up with the End of the Line update and it became gradually worse until the Meet Your Match update where I couldn't stand playing. As with Paladins, the balancing as well as the community were getting progressively worse until I felt like I needed to jump ship. The game was basically completely no fun, and you literally had to use several fixed loadouts to even be viable. Though what really put the nail in the coffin was the servers getting progressively worse, until the game became downright unplayable. I still consider it one of the very best games of all time still, though, because even with those problems it was still good enough that I really wanted to play it, and longed to. Now I'm just like "you know what? I've moved on from TF2. The game's balancing will get no better, anyways." Though I still watch smexual videos...

 

Edited April 20, 2018 by A Wild Barik Main
I forgot to subtract something a few months ago.

[Raritas 6,820]

Oldschool Runescape - Still love the game, and will continue to watch people stream it on twitch, I just have 0 motivation to carry on with the grind. I've got better things to spend my time on. Especially when it might take 10+ hours to achieve just one level at this point. 

Call Of Duty - Was my childhood up until I was about 15 and it ended with Black Ops 2. Call of Duty 4 will always be special to me, and I'm still tempted to go back to it. The series is just dead now, I'm afraid, and it's really sad. 

Football Manager - Used to be bad, but enjoyed it. Now I'm just tired of being bad at it 

[Will Guide 21,360]

On 2/28/2018 at 7:42 AM, Steve Piranha said:

Not to mention he quality of the side-quests, and how the time system gives the NPC actual schedules makes the world feel more alive. Despite the amount of dungeons

That's my favorite part of Majora's Mask: Getting to know the NPCs and their schedules. There are NPCs that get overlooked in Ocarina, but in the 3D remake of Majora, almost every NPC gets some attention. 

It helps that in the remake, the kids in town actually run up to you and tell you "Rumors" that gently nudge you to check out the places where NPCs might need your help. Makes the game less of a Guide-Dang-It!

[Snow Frostflame 3,568]

I'd have to go with the Fallout and Elder Scrolls games. When I was younger, I loved these games racking up God knows how many hours across all games, and all my saves. Now, I dunno... I can't really stay immersed into the games for as long as I use to.