Oblivion

Holy shit did this game ever ruin the Morrowwind formula! They cut out or severely weakened so many skills from Morrowwind like Acrobatics, Levitating, Sneak Attacking With Daggers, Speachcraft, Medium Armor, Spears, and Mysticism.

The level scaling was busted, and could literally break the game. At Kvatch if you are too high level you'll face an army of insanely overpowered Daedra that you can't beat without spending two hours baiting each one out one at a time, and retreating. The game uses attributes to determine how well you do in different tasks, but allows you to pick far less skills than Morrowwind. The result is that you don't have enough skills to level your attributes up properly. So unless you pick a character build that only focuses on two attributes you wind up being high level with low attributes. And since the level scaling formula just auto-buffs the attributes of NPC characters they always have high combat skills and attributes. This forces you to play as severely limited character builds.

Then there's the weak ass quests, generic dungeons, randomized loot, pathetic Deadric Artifacts, and completely OP Alchemy.

Oh, and the graphics are just hideous even for their time. Whenever people fawn over some new graphical tech, I just remind them of "Bloom", and "A new facial animation system". The game just smacks of "so high tech, it overreaches what the tech at the time can do and fails".

Yes, it's a flawed game, but great nevertheless. Those flaws get blown out or proportion for some reason.

I don't need the internet to give me that response.  That was my first thought when I started handling the controller.  "WTF, this thing requires 3 hands!?!"  That and the Z-button was dumb...and the analogue stick.  Really the whole controller was an abomination.

Also I have a buddy who really loved the N64 and he said there was at least one game where you can to keep changing the grip to play it.  It really does require three hands.

Last of Us, the game was marketed and considered by many as the best game ever.

-Didn't have the best plot. Walking dead season 1 did everything better a year before.
-Didn't have the best gameplay. I feel it had a similar gameplay to Tomb Raider 2013, but Tomb Raider did everything better.
-Didn't have the best horror themes, but i don't think it's considered in the horror genre so i don't know.
-Didn't have the best stealth experience.
-No memorable OSTs.
-The major sell point of the game is the story, but the gameplay drags too long with its stealthy approach between cutscenes.

But it did have the best graphics at its time so that's a point.

Definitely God of War 2018.

I love the God of War Series. I was so looking forward to this and was hyped after the great reviews.

But to me they took the character away from the series and made it just like any other over the shoulder 3rd person action game these days. It didn't feel special any more. The combat & enemies were boring. It just didn't feel like the GoW games of old. The kid was annoying too.

For me it would probably be Dark Souls and Bloodborne, a lot of hype, high score, vocal fanbase but I didn't like the games at all.

You don't have to like TES.  But saying that TES magically ruined the genre is just horseshit. It existed way back in 90s.and people were still choosing other RPGs over it. Morrowind just managed to somewhat infiltrate part of mainstream audience...and taht was about it.

There's some already mentioned that I agree with (MGS4, FFXIII). I would add Uncharted 3 to the list.

I absolutely love UC2, the story, locations, pacing, characters even the fight with Lazarevic which most people don't like. I was really looking forward to UC3 but while being still a good game, it didn't strike the perfect balance UC2 did. The intro is long and drawn out, they too often force you to do hand to hand combat (which is terrible), there's some very boring sections (walking in the desert) and that offsets the really good parts (like the sinking ship).

Golden Sun Dark Dawn...

I've been meaning to give that another chance. It wasn't exactly super hyped, but the first two were so great, and the wait was so long, then the actual product was... meh.