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idk about popular series but as an rpg enjoyer i got around 15 hours into clair obscur and bounced off.

Borderlands, I always found the art style a bit off-putting.

For me its Metroid, and really the whole Metroidvania genre. I can never tell when a challenge is supposed to be possible, or if I'm supposed to come back later, and and up wasting hours trying to do something only for it to be trivial later. I don't find this at all rewarding.

That said Tunic was a fantastic game, and I love the concept of the 'Metroid-Brainia', purely because of the concept that every challenge is theoretically possible from the start, you just need to learn how to do it.

Animal Crossing.

The thought of it disgusts me. Don't know exactly why.

I don't have much against any particular game since I can see something that someone would enjoy.

However there are sone things that I actually don't understand how someone would enjoy;

Always Online: all of your time, money, and love could just vanish underneath you

P2W / P2S: Ah yes, let me make the gameplay loop doing a 9-5

Gacha: Gambling is 80% of the gameplay but somehow they make it unfun

Live Service: By itself not bad. However it enables games to be released completely broken.

Halo. I've been hearing about how cool and just good the games are. How deep and interesting the lore is.

I was visiting old games I heard good things about but never played. I had finished with the Half Life games and enjoyed them.

Then I decided to get the Master Chief Collection.

Started with Reach. Shooting immediately felt bad. The characters started dying off almost immediately after meeting them. Then the game was finished.

That was... Disappointing.

Well alright. Maybe Reach is a black sheep.

Onto Halo CE. Shooting felt even worse. The open areas were pretty cool, but there were a lot of small frustrations with the game. Story wasn't anything special. Certainly none of that "deep lore".

Well... Halo 2 then? Felt a lot like Halo 1. More story, yes, but it was as if the game assumed I was already invested in the story. About two thirds in I realised I was still waiting for Halo to finally become cool or good.

I stopped playing.

Decided Halo as a whole is very overrated.

I think I'm past being mystified by there being a market for stupid, terrible games. I used to find it confusing but the answer for so many confusing things in life is just 'idiots exist.'

Everything with round based battle mechanics.

Darksiders. Shit is ass.

All first person shooters. I grew up with original wolfenstien, doom, rise of the triad, unreal tournament, quake... Modding each was pretty popular.

Now all fps feel like mods of those games.

Persona

I don't dislike the series, per se, I literally just find the number of games with similar titles confusing. I have no idea what's what.

Balatro. There’s just no motivation to keep playing. It’s just uninteresting. Love me some Slay the Spire, though.

Hero Shooters, specifically Overwatch and R6 Seige. Really any sort of MOBA too. I dont really get the point of having unique characters with loads of lore and an underlying story if you aren't going to get to experience any of it in gameplay. TF2 gets away with it because the classes arent really characters, they are more like an archetype of that class and the story is just supplemental stuff.

Sonic.

I've been trying to like them when they were published, but no. It's not really much fun.