Great question! I try not to be too judgemental about games I haven't played, but there's just some of them I know I won't like because of their setting, genre, etc. My biggest frustration is Call of Duty. The original blew my mind at the time and I've played a bit of CoD 2 on the Gamecube, which I thought was decent. My first experience with the PS3 was the MP of Modern Warfare 3 at a friend's house, and I played the demo for the single player campaign of Black Ops.
My problem with the series are not the games themselves. I'm not a fan of the FPS genre, but the games are mostly very polished... What frustrates me is what the series has done for gaming. It has single handedly turned the AAA games biz into something which isn't my cup of tea. Why I applaud them for this accomplishment, it saddens me that this focus on big MP shooters is giving ME less games to play. I stll haven't bought a PS4 or XOne because of this. I know the Witcher III is coming up and we'll get FF, Batman, Persona and Kingdom Hearts in the future, but still ... Things have changed, and I find myself turning to Nintendo more and more often. Still, I love games like Lost Odyssey on X360, Sly Cooper on PS3, but I doubt we'll see a whole lot of games like this on the next gen.
To round up, I'm just really happy Nintendo is doing its own thing. And while I may criticize some annualized action heavy series sometimes I don't do so because of the games themselves (which may be great), but because of the changes they've made to the games industry. I know I will get a PS4 and XOne in the future, but it's the first time in a long time that "new" consoles have not been able to sway me right of the bat.
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