This is a tricky one for me, the games that I really really won't like, I can usually see coming and so I just won't play them. As a result, the games in my list aren't 'TERRIBLE' games. They are simply games that didn't appeal to me in the same way that appealed to other people and that I personally did not enjoy. Doesn't mean that they are overall bad games though. I just haven't played a lot of games I can say I disliked.
Bloodrayne: Betrayal: Probably the only game I'd consider legitimately 'bad' on my list. A system of animation priority, that while it looks nice, makes the control scheme extraordinarily punishing. Speaking of punishing, this game gets stupid hard. Not the fun masochistic kind of hard like in Super Meat Boy or Demon's Soul. No, just stupidly hard with terrible checkpointing. I don't even know why I finished the game, other than the fact that I stupidly spent money on it. One of the only times in my life I could find little redeeming qualities in a game I purchased other than 'it looks sorta cool'.
Prototype: Maybe the close launch with inFamous skewed my superhero expectations, but the game just seemed pretty broken and sorta unfinished. Like almost every open world game ever, which I also don't usually like. Just felt there was a lot of potential here that got squandered, and hopefully can be addressed for future installments.
Deus Ex : The recent one (Human Revolution). Yeah, it did well and was generally well received just...things about it rubbed me the wrong way. Liked the setting, but the stealth gameplay that forced you into fights anyway was kinda...disjointed I felt. Not to mention encouraging you to beat the game without killing anyone/without setting off alarms and giving you NO way to track those stats was extremely frustrating. Didn't find out halfway through my first play through that non-lethal weapons were sometimes lethal anyway. Plus, it just kinda reminded me that I don't like WRPGs really. If this counted as an RPG?
Dragon Age: Origins: Refer back to above, 'I don't think I like WRPGs much' statement. Gameplay here was relatively alright, though a bit too difficult at times, but bearable. However, when it comes to RPGs, the story and characters should shine above everything else. While some of the supporting characters were great, the main character was well...a blank slate with virtually no story, as tends to be the case in WRPGs. Something I've found just always draws me out of them a lot. Combine that with a mediocre and cliche story that isn't interesting to anybody who has read a fantasy novel in their life, and you have a pretty forgettable game. I heard the second was worse, but since I didn't play that I can't include it on the list.
Those four I think top my list. There were other games I was bored by, like Fallout 3, or just weren't super into...but I didn't really dislike them as much as these 4. Of them, I'd really only say Bloodrayne was terrible. Others just weren't to my tastes.
@RWBladewing: Funny how much tastes differ from person to person. I really really liked the Agarest games and Hyperdimension Neptunia quite a bit. Not best of their genres or anything, but some of the more enjoyable games I played lately.
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