Actually, the lack of SE characters didn't bother me too much. I mean, I would have love to have them, but in the grand scheme of things... not a big loss.

Horizon zero dawn. It looked really cool, but everything in the game just rubs me the wrong way. The combat feels stiff, the world feels lifeless, characters are bland. While the game is technically impressive visually I don't feel like it's actually nice to look at. The motion blur and excessive lens flare is just awful as well.

Oh, everybody loves God of War. You bet they do. The ones that didn't enjoy it that much are a very, VERY small minority.

I'm with you on The Last of Us. Although I didn't had any hype at all. This game and God of War 3 Remastered came with my PS4, so I decided to see what was all the hype about. Man, so boring... so clunky... so... slow. The gameplay was so bad xD

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Smash Bros. Every generation I buy the new one (two last gen). Every gen, I log in a couple of hours and then never play it again. It's cool to see all of the characters in one place but, for some reason, it never feels like I'm actually playing with those characters. Just empty shells that look like popular characters.

I did love the Subspace Emmasary on Wii, though. Unfortunately, my Wii stopped reading that disc.

Naughty Dog games in general. Last of Us, Uncharted, Crash Bandicoot, all of these are held up as pinnacles of gaming for their time, and I never understood why other than the graphics being cutting edge. Crash was an average platformer that felt like an inferior 3d version of Donkey Kong Country. Uncharted and Last of US have really clunky combat and Uncharted has way too much of it. The story of Uncharted just made me wish I was watching an Indiana Jones movie. And while I think the story of Last of Us is good, it's still only the second-best videogame story about an older man becoming a father figure for a young girl during the zombie apocalypse from the early 2010s. I'd probably like both more if they were on PC and I could use a mouse and keyboard, but I can't see them suddenly becoming my favorite games.

Halo. I bought the Master Chief Collection on Steam and have beaten all 3 games which have been released so far. They're good, but not god's gift to shooting fans. Halo 2's campaign especially is overrated. Maybe if I played them back when they came out, but I did have Halo 2 for Vista and found it underwhelming then. I just think the standards for shooters on PCs have been higher.

Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past. First played it over 20 years after it first came out and after a bunch of 3D Zelda games. I don't like the combat with Link's small sword and I really prefer the dungeon design of later games in the series. Minish Cap and A Link Between Worlds improve on ALTTP in pretty much every way in my opinion. I even had more fun with Zelda 1.

Ninja blade 360

Ninja Blade was hyped?

For me;

No Man's Sky - Near limitless galaxy to explore and while the first initial finding resources, repairing a ship and taking off was amazing, after that, after the first few planets you visited you realised there wasn't much more to do after that, which is a shame. I love the idea of space games but I'm not sure how I want them. I think if someone could do a resource gathering combat RPG space exploratio Colony Wars, I'd be all for it.

ME: Andromeda - Yeah, nothing like the original trilogy in combat or tone, lacked in story, graphics and characters. Shame.

FF13 - For the obvious reasons, built up yet the story threw terms at us like I was supposed to know what was going on, combat was too simplified, magic didn't feel impactful like in previous entries and most the game is even leveling is just holding X instead of making choices for me.

I was more on the edge with this, Bioware had great history and the concept was great but then I played the Beta and it killed any potential instantly. Spent 45 minutes doing a dungeon... or basically a Raid from Destiny. 1 person quit mid way through and me and the other guy left struggled with the final boss only for it to kick us out and we didn't even get the mid way through rewards/items we claimed.

I literally just turned it off and uninstalled after.

I'm glad it failed as EA's attempt to remake Destiny was not  great idea but sad it meant we haven't had a good epic story drive RPG from Bioware since DA:I in 2014.

Kingdom Hearts 3.

It had such a convoluted story that it made it hard to appreciate the characters and ultimately the plot. It destroyed the fond memories I had of the trio from the PS2 era. Some, if not most, of the dialogue is cringe. They could have made more interesting side stories for the Disney worlds too. Halfway through the game, I was pushing myself just to beat it, which is a shame because I enjoyed the combat.