They sold bazzilions, they are be talked about now and will still be talked about in years to come, yet people hate them. Call it trying to be hip, call it being an attention grabber, call it trying to be an individual.
I call it the inability recognise the greatness a game has.
"Eh kills alienz and doesnt afraid of anything."
The most hated popular game of all time.
Halo 3 is THE marmite of games, you either love it or hate it, it refined on what the series had done and added great new aspects such as forge and theatre mode which i can foresee becoming a regular in console FPS's in the future.
it didn't innovate and is far from perfect but it stuck steady and refined the console FPS to near perfection.
"ARIES DIES."
A brilliant game that showed the world what the future of 3d RPG's could become. Mainly hated for it's fanbase, corny dialogue, and reuse of "group of teenagers/young adults save world from evil" story line.
"FOOTBAWL."
This goes out to all madden games, but since 10 is the most recent i will choose that.
Each year may simply be a new feature here and there with an updated roster but at the core of the package it is still the classic football game that came out 10 year ago.
Remember folks just because EA are releasing it over and over again does not mean it isn't at its core a great game.
"The pre-cursor to human hedgehog relations."
Though admittedly the begging of the end for sonic, this game when it came out was pretty fun. Toady this game looks terrible as it has not aged well but it really does not deserve some of the hate and worst game ever titles it receives.
"Not just some pre-set waggle mechanic"
Ok this did come pre-packaged with the wii but so what?
It is a fun little sports game that (sort of) replicates the sports it has. I think the problem here was people were expecting perfect emulation of the sport with 1to1controls and forgot to have mindless fun with the family while playing it.
"The terrible game of legend."
i'm putting this game low on the list as it is not very good, it's mediocre at best. But that is all it is.
There were plenty of games on the 2600 that were as deep as a puddle and this is no different, so why does it get all the hate that it has? what makes this game any different?
Hype and marketing choices by Atari is what doomed this game, a poor choice on their part spending so much producing more carts than consoles existed but i will say this, most gamers today cannot imagine what the standard for games were like back then (i will admit i was not around then either) and trying to go back to this game and judge it fairly is damn near impossible.
Did it contribute to the gaming crash of '83?
maybe.
Does it deserve the hate it has?
no, it is a simple boring game, but i feel i've played games that deserve worse.
"Job and Social life be damned, i have my paladin to level up."
I will keep this short as i have not played this one myself, but even i can see this games merits. Another victim of the mainstream haters virus i believe, backed up by fans of other MMO's that are upset that the game they play isn't featured in an episode of south park.
"You can't be me i'm a rockstar"
Parents and musicians not big fans of this one. As Chad Kroger would have you believe you should pick up a real guitar instead of wasting your time with this game, they must have forgotten people play games to have fun....
"Gotta catch em all."
These games have the madden syndrome, released every few years with an updated roster and a few new features. The reason i believe these two are disliked so much is due to the age of the original games.
Everyone likes to believe that the games they played when they were young were the best, its human nature. I think this game suffers because of this. All of the kids that played pokemon red and blue when they were young had moved onto smoking pot wearing baggy clothes and talking sass when this game came out. A consequence of this is all the people that grew up with the game believed that it was childish and they expected it to grow up with them.
"Hey, listen"
Not hated as much as the rest of the games on this list but after the success of the ocarina of time some were expecting too much of this game. Disappointed by the cartoony graphics many saw this game as childish which is a huge shame as it's one great game that i think looks gorgeous.
