What game you liked at first, but grew not to like it as much over time?

[Lulcielid]

For me that would be Metal Gear Solid 4, at first I was so engaged with it due to the story and how it wrapped up years of loose ends and plot points + the stealth gameplay.

Years went by and I started to see (many) holes within the game, Now I don´t like how MGS4 prioritize story to a fault, there´re long cutscene sequences with short gameplay segments (there´s a point in the game where you´re watching 1hs and 30m of cutscene non-stop followed by at most 10 minutes of gameplay that´s then interrupted by another minutes of cutscenes, it´s insane!!!! Doesn´t help that the game has over 9 hours of cutscenes.
The long sequence of cutscene also hindered the flow of the game a lot, there´re many examples of the above throught the whole run of the game.

What´s the game you liked at first but you started to like it less overtime?

 

[Kionae]

I used to really like playing Kingdom Hearts... but then SE started in on all the spin-offs for multiple platforms, and ungodly amounts of time between games where I forgot half the plot. I'm going to have to replay everything between now and KH3's release to even have a hope of knowing what the hell's going on... to the point that I've considered just not bothering. But I probably will.

Also... The Last Remnant, though I technically didn't even make it through that game. I enjoyed the characters and the storyline and invested hours in it, but about three quarters of the way through the game it got to the point where the boss battles were obscenely long and repetitive and had a habit of killing you when you were one attack from beating them. I got fed up with it and never finished it.

 

[Flintlock]

I agree with your thoughts on MGS4, though I never liked it much in the first place.

I can't think of any games that meet your description right now. I can think of dozens for which the reverse is true: I grew to like them after initially disliking them. I guess the problem is that I tend not to play games I think I won't like any more, so I don't get to confirm my suspicions.

 

[Jason Tandro]

I've had quite a few games that I've had the reverse reaction to: Final Fantasy IV, Darkstone, etc.

A game that I once loved but now dislike?

Ehrgeiz probably fits into that category. I still have nostalgia for it but it's charm has worn very thin. You see there was a time when this was the only game I had besides a couple Final Fantasy games and demo disks so I really had to get the mileage out of it. And it was the Action 52 of Playstation titles though significantly better than all that. It had a mediocre tournament fighter, a mediocre infinite battle, a mediocre leaning terrible action rpg and a handful of mediocre mini-games (though the one based on Othello is actually quite passable and fun). I loved these as a kid because they were fun diversions with Final Fantasy characters. I would spend literally hours replaying the Beach mini-game even though it is objectively the worst thing on the disk. But yeah time makes fools of us all.

 

[Octo]

I can't think of anything I used to like that I now actively dislike. But I definitely think flaws have become more apparent as time went on. FFVIII maybe? I lost paitence with the characters even though I really like the looks of that game. And some of the Zelda games - even though there has never been a bad Zelda (except that CD rom monstrosity) Twilight Princess takes ages to get fucking going and has some elements and controls that are downright frustrating, not to mention the overall fuzzyness/muted colours. Which I guess was a design choice but still, I don't find it as enjoyable as Skyward Sword.

But yeah having a tough time thinking of anything else here. Generally I decide things are shit or not within half an hour of playing and that opinion doesn't change much

 

[Cthulhu]

I'm sorry to say, but that has to be Skyrim. It was total hype at first, but, and this is something that happened with Oblivion too in a way, you get spammed by missions, and the poor animations start to bug you, and the same voice actors, lack of facial expressions, unconvincing storytelling, all that stuff starts to add up. Some people play it for thousands of hours, I've struggled to get through the main story. The engine's creaky as fuck, too. If they are going to make a TES VI, I want them to fix ALL the problems.

ALL of them. Get a new engine. Get rid of loading screens between indoor / outdoor areas. Fix your animations. Hire some voice actors. Learn 2 storytelling and pacing. GTA does a better job at that by limiting the amount of quest / missions givers available at a certain time (and in iirc the older games, locking areas until you've progressed far enough). Morrowind felt - back when - like it had those locked areas, because the story kinda pointed you in one direction, and (for me personally) fear of the unknown and unexplored (and fucking cliff racers) always drove me to turn right instead of left once leaving Seyda Neen after the first time, so it took me forevar to find an article telling me that if you turn left

Spoiler

there's a dude falling out of the sky whose corpse gives you the ability to jump all the way across the map. and die.

But, that's probably y00f nostalgia.

 

[ForceStealer]

^Knew that was coming

I can't really think of a game that I liked and stopped liking later. I can think of the reverse, and I can think of movies I liked while watching but came to resent them later. But I can't remember that phenomenon ever happening to me about a game...There are games that I enjoyed and reasoned opinions from people have made me realize why they're not objectively good, but I still like them.

 

[AvecAloes]

The only thing video game related I can come up with is Mass Effect 3, and that's largely just because of the ending and how much my hatred for said ending kept growing

 

[Jason Tandro]

Yop: Skyrim for me was killed not by the game itself (although the radiant questing system was torture to my OCD... THE LOG IS NEVER CLEAN!) but rather the fandom that sprouted up around it like kiddies who never played any other Elder Scrolls game or any other fantasy game and are hailing Skyrim as this genre deying masterpiece when it is, in fact, just a solid 8/10 action adventure game. With the expansions I'd give it a 9. I like Hearthfire.

Then there are those kids who I hope are just trolls who are calling for Skyrim 2.

 

[ForceStealer]

The only thing video game related I can come up with is Mass Effect 3, and that's largely just because of the ending and how much my hatred for said ending kept growing

That's a great example, haha.

 

[Splintered]

I'm not sure. There were a few games I definitely played a lot more as a kid that I wouldn't bother picking up, but that is less of the case of liking it less than it was I had less games to pick from so I played what I had even if I didn't really enjoy it.

I remember pouring hours into the early street fighters, tekken, and golden eye, but that was mostly because my brothers (and my dad) played these games and I wanted to play with them. I don't like fighting games and have a huge issue with most FPS, I don't think I would pick up these games again if I had the choice. I spent way too much time on Turok even though all things considered, I hated that game.

 

[Lex]

Heavy Rain

so, soooo much

 

[Tetsujin]

Sonic Adventure.
Was the reason I got a Dreamcast back in the day and I played and loved the shit out of it.

Went back to it a few years later and ho boy, has my opinion changed. Hasn't aged well at all. It's fairly glitchy, the cutscenes and voice acting are straight up garbage and what the fuck were they thinking with Big the Cat and why didn't I mind him as a kid? Probably didn't know any better.
Now I do, and even nostalgia cannot save this title for me anymore.

 

[Flintlock]

Yop: Skyrim for me was killed not by the game itself (although the radiant questing system was torture to my OCD... THE LOG IS NEVER CLEAN!) but rather the fandom that sprouted up around it like kiddies who never played any other Elder Scrolls game or any other fantasy game and are hailing Skyrim as this genre deying masterpiece when it is, in fact, just a solid 8/10 action adventure game. With the expansions I'd give it a 9. I like Hearthfire.

I've never understood how your enjoyment of a game can be affected by other people. Why do you care?

 

[Lulcielid]

You don't have to nevesarily dislike/hate the game by now, just like it less than you used to in comparison.

 

[Jason Tandro]

Yop: Skyrim for me was killed not by the game itself (although the radiant questing system was torture to my OCD... THE LOG IS NEVER CLEAN!) but rather the fandom that sprouted up around it like kiddies who never played any other Elder Scrolls game or any other fantasy game and are hailing Skyrim as this genre deying masterpiece when it is, in fact, just a solid 8/10 action adventure game. With the expansions I'd give it a 9. I like Hearthfire.

I've never understood how your enjoyment of a game can be affected by other people. Why do you care?

You misunderstand me - it doesn't affect my enjoyment of the game itself it's just I get tired of hearing about it. It's the oversaturation effect.

 

[X-SOLDIER]

Does it count if it happens over the course of playing a game?

The Force Unleashed is one of my favourite games, and I was REALLY stoked for TFU2... and over the course of playing it the change to mechanics and the way that the story progressed made it into the only game that I've ever returned – and I did so 18 hours after I bought it because it was such a colossal fucking disappointment.

Still love the original game though.




X

 

[Flintlock]

I've never understood how your enjoyment of a game can be affected by other people. Why do you care?

You misunderstand me - it doesn't affect my enjoyment of the game itself it's just I get tired of hearing about it. It's the oversaturation effect.

So when you say that Skyrim has been "killed" for you, you mean that you're so sick of hearing about it that you don't want to play it?

 

[Carlie]

Heavy Rain

so, soooo much

Same. The first time I played it I was wrapped up in the hype of the game. The choices and graphics and then the second time I thought it was the worst game I've ever played. The story is stupid, the characters are terrible, no one can pronounce origami killer and don't even get me started on the godawful romantic plot tumor.

It doesn't help the game at all that what they were trying to do with the game Telltale did a trillion times better on a smaller scale.

 

[Jason Tandro]

I've never understood how your enjoyment of a game can be affected by other people. Why do you care?

You misunderstand me - it doesn't affect my enjoyment of the game itself it's just I get tired of hearing about it. It's the oversaturation effect.

So when you say that Skyrim has been "killed" for you, you mean that you're so sick of hearing about it that you don't want to play it?

No just that I really don't feel like discussing it online anymore, at least outside of like my buddy Jacob who I mention quite often. Sometimes I get sick of it but that's more than anything to do with the fact that after you've saved / destroyed the world for the 10th time it wears thin.

I will soon be playing the Remastered version and trying out the "alternate start mod" so that jump started her a bit.

 

[Shademp]

Mario Kart 64. As a kid I thought this game was all excitement but gradually I came to think of most stages as monotone and boring. Probably a result of getting too good at the game.

The most fun is still the versus mode where you destroy your opponent's balloons. That mode has less of long stretches where nothing happens.

 

[Hisako]

I generally keep my positive impressions on most everything I play I'll second David Cage games though. They don't stand up to the slightest amount of scrutiny and are full of terrible moments in writing that only become apparent after multiple playthroughs.

Thus, I try to limit myself to one playthrough each time, not because mister Kah-geh says that's the way its meant to be experienced, but because the dumb bullshit he puts in tends to become too obvious the second time around

 

[Carlie]

^ I would add Beyond: Two Souls if it weren't for the fact that I started hating it on my first playthrough and didn't bother finishing it.

 

[Joe]

Fable 3. Once upon a time I was part of Peter Molyneux's wild ride. I loved Fable 2 and was so hyped for the next game to improve upon everything. While playing the game I had the whole sense of discovery thing going on which had me enjoying myself.

After I'd finished and was considering a second playthrough it dawned on me that I had noooo interest in it at all. Also it was a pretty awful game in general. Buggy as fuck too.

 

[Keveh Kins]

Lords of Shadow 2.

Really enjoyed it the first time round. Second time round I loved it not and it became kind of apparent that it's just a touched up Lords of Shadow 1 with a less engaging story. It got away from itself a bit, I think