Erm... Perhaps why you hate it? Or is "a bunch of people like it" enough reason for you to evoke anger?It's overrated. Do I need to say more?
Personally, i don't buy into hypes or series much. The days where you had to buy a game pretty much blind are over(youtube is much better than gaming magazines back in the day), and for most games i like the price has gone down(even more when counting inflation). So there aren't much recent examples. But here are some...
Ad-venture capitalist. I hate it not because it's not fun(because it is) but for what it represents. It's addicting to the point where it's creepy. The concept? Watch numbers go up. That's almost literally it. You sell apples (by clicking a button) until you can hire someone to do it for you. Then after a time you can hire someone who hires people who sell apples for. Then as you've got enough money you hire someone for THAT job. And so on. The game pretty much runs itself and goes into astronomical figures. But it goes faster if you're actively doing stuff(yes, it runs when you're not even playing it!), so you're engaged... For some reason. Frankly: i hate it because it's such an obvious trap... That works nonetheless.
Final fantasy 8: I've mentioned this before in similar threads, but ey...
I can recall three separate issues with it, and frankly... Just one would've been enough to play something else now.
1. At one point i was stuck fairly early (i had to go through a bush that apparently wasn't scenery). No biggy, i thought: i just grinded a bit to level up, hopefully making the rest of the game easier.
I only later found out that enemies level up with you, which... Makes the entire system useless.
2. Somewhere in disc 3 eyes this long, long, LOOOONG unskippable dialog. No input choices but you must press a button after the slow scroll text happened. It's supposed to be a big reveal, but i was already fed up with the story at that time. Worse: my pc (or the game) crashed before i could save. So... Had to go through it again (by that time i felt hate rather than indifference)
3. Somewhere near or even at the end, the game suddenly takes all your stuff. Enemies pretty much one shot kill your party, so i had no idea what this was about.
As i found out later, you should've played that stupid card game to level up some skills i didn't even knew you would gain from it.
The previous two were just bad. That third one still infuriates me. I want my gaming time back, damn it!