For me, 2 things come to mind; Berserk & the Long Walk
Berserk may sound controversial, but I just didn’t have a good time watching the 90’s anime. I felt angry while watching it. I just didn’t like the characters for how dickish they were (especially Guts & Casica) and the setting was too miserable for me. And some of you may go, “but the comic is 10x better” (I know it’s manga, I’m just calling a comic to piss of people) I also just don’t like dark fantasy in general, since they’re edgy, pretentious, and worst of all… they’re ugly. There’s a reason why I never played the Dark Souls games, outside of the difficulty
The Long Walk movie is really well made movie with amazing acting. But man was it a miserable movie to go through. Seeing all those kids getting shot by soldiers for being slower was painful to watch.
Side note: there’s a lot of critically acclaimed stuff I like (Cowboy Bebop & the Dark Knight). It’s just that entertainment is so subjective that it’s not mutually exclusive to writing.
i could not stand the sgu 1st season it was so boring, doomed the whole franchise. only a few episodes in the second half the season were interesting.
I never got hooked on Breaking Bad. I liked it looking back but at the time I had to make myself watch it where as with actually good series I need to stop myself from binging multiple episodes a day.
Yeah I binged the first season, said “this is the best show I’ve ever seen but I get it and now I’m sad” and never watched again. Same deal with Better Call Saul, actually.
Could never get into Seinfeld or Fraiser.
especially what seinfeld is for a while. his co-stars were definitely the better actors.
I recently got into Curb Your Enthusiasm and it made me realize just how bad Seinfeld is. Not the show, but the guy. He’s a terrible actor. The character isn’t too bad, but next to the rest of the cast he stands out like a sore thumb. It’s funny the show is named after him, because I think it would be better without him in it.
He’s a pedophile too, just all around undeserved reputation.
and zionist, that loves to call people woke for not liking his jokes. it was pretty cringe when spoke at his daughthers graduation ceremony at dartmouth.
Nier Automata. The writing is so incredibly self-defeating.
Entire game, all endings
The opening lines of the game, paraphrased, are “Gee, I’m really tired of being brought back to life to fight an infinite war against machines. I wanna kill the guy who invented this cycle.”
Then, the core of the story centers on the tragedy of death, especially of the two immortal main characters dying a few times (once right in the intro). To punctuate how little the writer is reading his own script, the ending is about resurgently bringing the protagonists back to life AGAIN (in an empty world where everything they cared about, aside from each other, is destroyed).
There is, obviously, more to it than that, but character writing is what drives a story for me, and N:A seemed to be just about thrashing 2B/9S around through external events.
Misommar was meh. Yes, it had a new and unusual aesthetic for a horror movie, but that’s about it. Cults prey on the weak and traumatized, we get it. I don’t remember there being much of a plot, just weirdness and violence for sake of weirdness and violence.
But then the bigger issue is all the ignorant people who start associating flower crowns and Nordic (and even Slavic) traditions with “just like Midsommar!!”. Same happened with Kazakhstan (" very naice!") and Eastern Europe (after “Hostel”)
Yes, it had a new and unusual aesthetic for a horror movie, but that’s about it.
For me that was enough. I think it’s fine for a movie to focus on doing one thing really well. Midsommar was memorable precisely because of it’s novel aesthetic, and the world created around it.
An Officer And A Gentleman. Two-hour infomercial for trad.
It’s A Wonderful Life. I’m just over it.
I hate Dark Souls 3. It was just so boring to me.
I enjoyed the exploration: you can’t just run through the game since death is around every corner, which made it exiting and rarely that frustrating.
But most Bosses where just so boring. You learn them once, and your reward is that you can actually play the good part of the game again. If I look at something like Monster Hunter, learning the Monster gives you a faster clear time, which makes farming easier and is satisfying that way. Learning a boss in DS reminded me when I was about to quit geometry dash - I just feel my time has been wasted.
There are a lot of cool builds! And you will probably only play one each playthrough, because leveling unlocks a playstyle, but levels get VERY expensive (and I don’t think you can undo levels), so at some point you stop experimenting and just go with what you where already playing the last 20h.
These points made it hard for me to focus on the amazing parts of the game. The atmosphere, the combat and, as mentioned, exploration.
“If you hate it so much, why bother playing through it?”: after beating abyss watchers, I said to my DS Friend that I don’t like this game. He said “Get Good” so I did. It’s still just not a fun game (for me)
Assassin’s creed. I was okayish game, till I downloaded Hades, and I completely forgot it even existed on my pc.
The first one in the series? Yeah, it’s cool for being one of the first open world games but it gets very repetitive. I quit partway through and tried AC2, and that was a big leap forward in gameplay, story, and missions. I recommend giving it a try if you liked anything about the first.
I remember loving the first game when it released. When the second came out I knew there would never be a reason to go back to the first lol. The unskippable cutscenes makes it feel like an interactive movie. It felt groundbreaking at the time though
I tried the first one (likely years after it was released) but didn’t enjoy it at all
After years of hearing about How I Met Your Mother and seeing memes and clips everywhere I finally decided to give it a go. I’m not sure I even lasted more than one episode. It’s been a while but I remember it not as something that didn’t click with me, but a comedy I immediately disliked
I tried very hard, but I did not enjoy The Outer Wilds.
For those who don’t know, it is a first person exploration game over ~12 planets within a small solar system. There is a core game loop that lasts about 20 minutes wherein you can fly your ship anywhere and explore until the cycle ends.
The thing I really disliked was that you only got ~10-15 minutes of exploration before you had to restart the cycle back at home and go back to where you started. There was also a plethora of environmental hazards that were instant death, all while you had oxygen and fuel to manage. Dying would also reset the cycle so it wasn’t uncommon to spend 5+ minutes getting somewhere only to die and restart a few times. It just made me frustrated.
I did complete it with the help of mods that let me teleport to the key locations. People really liked the story but it really didn’t hit for me. I feel like I was born with the cilantro gene for this game because I really didn’t like it.Opening: “Oh no, a disaster. Everyone I care about could die. I wonder how I can prevent it.”
Ending
“Oh, I’m sorry, the disaster is unpreventable. But you can get to be the person who hits the reset button to bring about an empty world full of nothing! Hey. Did you know Starfield is about to come out??111”
I know!
Loved Outer Wilds, but yeah, some clever “time dilation” could be applied while exploring inside of planets or particularly complex segments or close to a goal. So many times I had to go into Ash Twin to try to finish a puzzle before the sand rises. It does help that translator pauses time though, and options let you pause conversations too.
The puzzles were the best part for me, and are undeniably good. I did do a deep dive into the settings too when I started to get frustrated and those options were key.
Star trek ~ it just didn’t hook me for some reason
nutrek is the most terrible of trek, im too young for TOS, which i could never the hang of. kurtzman practically ruined the franchise+ paramount executives. i dont find SNW good either, something just doesnt fit right with the actors, writing, and acting.
Same here.
Breaking Bad. Well, the episodes I watched.
I think I just watched two or three episodes and just wanted them to catch one small break but it was just downward spiral which kind of made me lose interest. If they don’t have any success then what’s that point of them losing.
I’m sure it changes later but I didn’t have it in me. I understand that it’s a masterful series.
There are some successes, but they almost always immediately become overshadowed by some new, larger problem. While I personally enjoyed how obstacles were overcome, it is exhausting to watch a constant downward spiral.
Every character sucks unrepentantly and I can’t watch it. Same issue with Boardwalk Empire, there are zero good and likeable characters in the entire show, everybody is awful.
Fair. I loved breaking bad mostly because of how well it balanced crime and personal life of Walter white. But he’s a horrible person, so are most characters, cause it’s a crime thriller. It’s just I could overlook that part cause story kept me engaged enough.
Yup. That show sits in an odd place for me where it’s genuinely interesting but it’s too intense.
Great characters and some interesting plotlines, but the whole thing revolving around drugs and their distribution has been a great put off. I found Better Call Saul more enjoyable for that same reason.
Game of Thrones. There needs to be something positive, even just a sliver.
Same. GoT always struck me as scripted misery porn
Very apt description
Lord of the rings. I watched the whole trilogy of movies, and I tried to read the Hobbit. They’re all so boring, I don’t get the appeal.
I’m glad I saw them in theaters. I’m glad they contributed what they did. They’re cool every many years. But holy fuck those are long movies. And people always want to watch the super extended directors cut versions that are like 4 hours each. One time we watched the first one after eating brownies. What a horrible mistake. That felt like literal days. I couldn’t believe how slow time was passing, and then when we were done, it was only the first movie.
The Hobbit book isn’t great. The Lord of the rings books are great. They’re just written differently.
A few months ago I bought Slay The Spire. I do love roguelikes, I do enjoy card games. I even like roguelike deck builders (balatro is fantastic).
But after a few months I can say for certain, I hate Slay The Spire. I would like it more if it was fun.
