Games you used to love but don't enjoy anymore

[Deleted member 719522]

I loved the first Octopath Traveler but didn't enjoy the sequel and gave up after a few hours. I have less free time and patience these days and higher standards towards story quality. Interrogating and robbing every NPC every time I entered a new town just isn't fun anymore and the story didn't click with me.

I loved Steamworld Heist too but when I tried replaying it some years ago it just wasn't the same the second time. I tried Steamworld Heist II but didn't enjoy that either and gave up after a few hours.

 

[M7L7NK7]

Most of them

 

[The Real Jdbye]

I thought Octopath Traveler was cool when it came out but I never made it very far. That tends to happen with me a lot though. But I do agree with you on the story. I'd rather just have one really intense story than 8 mid ones. That was a cool idea but it just didn't work out to a better game in the end. I do think there's a lot of untapped potential to that concept because Octopath Traveler just didn't quite deliver on what it promised to me.

I guess the biggest example for me personally is Splatoon as a series. I played the first one to death, the second one didn't really bring that much new to the table, just felt like a DLC, played it a bit and dropped off. Haven't even touched the 3rd one. I guess I kind of lost interest when they killed off splatfests in the original. It would have cost them nothing to keep them going and randomly shuffle them, and splatfests are kind of the lifeblood of the game IMO. It's just so much more fun to play during a splatfest. Knowing they're going to drop support just like that, sometimes even long before the next entry is released, kinda gave me a sour taste. But I already pretty much got my fill of the original by that point so it might not have mattered.

I've also dropped off Smash Bros. I played the N64 original and Brawl to death, still played Smash 4 a fair bit, barely touched Smash Ultimate. It's not that I don't still enjoy playing it, but I'd just rather play other things when it comes to multiplayer.

 

[MFDC12]

Recently, Dead by Daylight is unplayable for me after 4 years and 2.5k hours because of burn out.

From my youth, Mario games, in particular 64 and SMB, basically bore me to death now.

I feel like my enjoyment and willingness to play a lot of games or seek out new games has really died down as I’ve gotten older, though too.

 

[BigOnYa]

Any recent Call Of Duty games. They used to be fun, but suck now. I have high hopes for the new one coming, but much doubt.

 

[nightocelot]

Bioshock series.
For me it aged terribly, tedious repetitive gameplay, exaggerated grotesque animation, too much narrowness in the maps which soon irritates you cause it deprives you of any maneuvres, and of course story told through long audiologs...gosh
The best part of it was the idea of setting: that art-deco underwater retro futurism is awesome, but it was best executed in Bioshock Burial at Sea, graphically beautiful, slow paced, story driven experience (without much audiologs thank god).
Bioshock Infinite tried to fix many issues with too unnatural animation, added more visually told narrative, but kept that repetitive gameplay.
In short, it's good to remember vibes of the retro utopias and humm some songs of the incredible licensed soundtrack, but not to go replay it.

 

[tech3475]

Not so much specific games, but specific categories with some examples:
1) Difficult by design - Mickey's Wild Adventure
2) Aged controls/mechanics e.g. tank controls - Croc
3) Worse quality e.g. worse hitboxes - Hercules

Ironically, I'd probably enjoy these games more with cheats.

 

[Taleweaver]

More than I'd probably know. A recent example would be braid. It absolutely blew me away when I first played it. Loved every bit of it.
Recently got the anniversary edition. But either the jigsaw puzzles are broken on the deck or it never worked in the first place on it. The levels are harder than I remember and/or my patience for them is lessened. The written texts, which I had considered smart and deep ten years ago now just came across as needlessly arrogant (granted: on hindsight, this was most likely intentional).

edit: just looked through my once compiled top 220 games. Most of them still hold up, but from what I've replayed...Abe's oddyssey. This is certainly me: it always had a rather peculiar movement system. The (still) incredible art and story, and the (now less) spectacular visuals made me put up with it a lot.
...but not anymore. It's fallen out of grace, and I don't think that remake will be able to re-spark that love.

 

[Deleted member 737209]

The Fire Emblem series on the GBA. Some of the more recent ROM hacks are so good the original games just feel too far behind.

 

[CoolMe]

3) Worse quality e.g. worse hitboxes - Hercules

Disney's Hercules on PS1? God, as a kid I never made it past Centaur (tried again years later, same thing).. being a big fan of the movie growing up, always felt disappointed that i couldn't experience the rest of the game.. as it was unnecessarily difficult for a licensed game, but they did it on purpose 'cause there are only a few levels in total (they were probably on a fixed deadline and had to finish the product asap as it's usually the case back then). Oh, and those running stages suck!

 

[Dust2dust]

Disney's Hercules on PS1? God, as a kid I never made it past Centaur (tried again years later, same thing).. being a big fan of the movie growing up, always felt disappointed that i couldn't experience the rest of the game.. as it was unnecessarily difficult for a licensed game, but they did it on purpose 'cause there are only a few levels in total (they were probably on a fixed deadline and had to finish the product asap as it's usually the case back then). Oh, and those running stages suck!

I remember playing it and it wasn't that great, you're right. Did you play the other Hercule game that came out on the same month (July 1997) on the PS1? The name was Herc's Adventures, published by LucasArts. A truly fun and awesome top down 2D action game. You have to check it out.

 

[hippy dave]

When I was younger I enjoyed a lot of new genres that were popping up like FPS, RTS etc, which I just don't have interest in playing any more. I went from Wolfenstein 3D up to about Quake 2 era with FPSs. Played Dune 2, Command & Conquer, up to Red Alert or maybe Red Alert 2, then dropped that genre too. More things to possibly mention but not right now.

 

[CoolMe]

Did you play the other Hercule game that came out on the same month (July 1997) on the PS1?

No, i didn't.

The name was Herc's Adventures, published by LucasArts. A truly fun and awesome top down 2D action game. You have to check it out.

Thanks for the recommendation!

 

[CMDreamer]

Resident Evil.

After RE2, all the games became monotonous and lame, out of its roots.

 

[boot3]

Don't know if this would count or not because I still do still kind of enjoy it, but I'd say Portal. I love it, it's an amazing game but I've played through it so many times that I pretty much know it like the back of my hand. The fact that it's a pretty short game doesn't help either.

 

[BigOnYa]

Any of those "Tycoon" games. I used to enjoy them but find them boring now.

 

[notsu]

Mario games. Well, some of them. Love every 2D Mario Bros. [no, not you NSMB] to bits but 3D Mario just fell off after Sunshine. Too tedious.

 

[LoggerMan]

Overwatch. I still play it, I just don't enjoy it.

I saw that Scott Wozniak doesn't love retro games anymore. Which sent me down a path of looking at old videos from other YouTubers and apparently young people assumed the old Mario games ported to GBA were just original Mario games, they had no idea they were old games.

 

[Armadillo]

Rocket League. Used to love it, played almost daily, but once it went f2p the game had a massive smurfing and boosting problem and the devs did nothing about it, no one expects it to solved 100%, but Psyonix did basically fuck all.

There was a tiny a minimum level requirement for ranked so small it may as well not have been there, but on top of that, as long as the party leader was above it a new account could go straight into ranked. So want to be boosted for rewards, just make sure you are party leader and the booster can queue right into ranked with you. Took years for Psyonix to address it.

Community manager (was active on Reddit) completely ignored any topics on the state of smurfing/boosting. Road to GC videos were banned (rightfully so), only for him to fold at the slightest pressure from content creators who can't make content without ruining the game for others and then said "it's fine as long as you climb properly".

Devs have confirmed a lower ranked account to "play with friends" is boosting, yet people openly do so on stream and nothing happens.

And on the rare occasion the stars allign and someone actually gets banned for boosting, what happens? Community manager unbans them because rules don't apply to certain players.

 

[Robert Newbie]

Any of those "Tycoon" games. I used to enjoy them but find them boring now.

The question is which ones you used to enjoy. The 90's/early 2000's were inundated with tycoon games, from Theme Hospital to Railroad Tycoon.

My family used to play Pizza Tycoon for DOS. That game was absolutely crazy. You could set up a reasonably nice restaurant, but it'd be randomly destroyed or decline in sales within a short period of time.

Roller Coaster Tycoon was legit fun, though I have memories of having one visitor leave the park at the exact time of judgement. I've been meaning to try RCT2 just to see how/if it improved on the foundation set by the first game.