The Witcher 3

The game has some pretty graphics at times but all in all the story was a boring slog and the gameplay could be neatly split into "puzzles" where you just press the Witcher sense button to see what to interact with and combat where despite, the large bestiary you fight everything the same way.

There were some alright side quests, but most of the open world felt like an unnecessary hurdle between point A and point B instead of an interesting place to explore.

Imho the best thing about The Witcher 3 being popular is that there were enough fans of the series knocking around that the books got English translations.

Hearts of iron 4 and Victoria 3 are far worse then their predecessors and deeply flawed because of the extremely boring tactics gameplay(frontlines). Victoria 3 economy is also extremely bland and feels like a auto clicker game. But, I only enjoyed vic 2 with pop demand mod which current vic 2 modders/players don't like.

Sorry Ulysses lol.

Never liked Armored Core, it's not a Mech game to me. Its an FPS arcade shooter with robot skins. Giant robots should not be zoomy-ass evengelion ballerinas engaging in sword combat. They should be unweildy tanks that casually stroll thru one-story buildings and fart artillery.

My first stompy robot game was Mechwarrior 3, and that's set my expectation of the genre ever since.

Did not particularly care for Super Mario Odyssey. It was go here, throw your hat on this, complete a few objectives with the new power, then do it all again with different mechanics in the next place. The game just never built up into anything complex, so it felt boring after a while. It was also very easy so I blew through the main game really fast.

Hades. Bought it, tried to get into it multiple times. Says nothing to me. Death's Door is much, much better. I finished it.

every game that requires realtime input. turn based or, at a stretch, variable speed realtime with pausing is all that can capture me

As someone who loves RTS: Anything Age of Empires. Everything looks the same, yet there are dozens of civs to pick and they all just differ in boring-ass buffs and a few unit choices. The visual short-hand is terrible and reading what's going on in a fight or base at a glance is impossible for me.

Horizon Zero Dawn. It felt more like a tech/graphics demo than an actual game. Still haven't finished it and can't see myself doing it. I don't know how they managed to make robot dinosaurs so boring.

Also every call of duty after the original modern warfare 3. Yes, including black ops 2. I actually think black ops 2 was one of the worst call of duty games, the overuse of the three lane cookie cutter map design really screwed up multiplayer FPS games for a good 5 years after its release.

Also another controversial take, skill based matchmaking is good and more games should implement it. It forces you to actually play people at your skill level and prevents pointless pubstomping. If you want to have mindless fun with long killstreaks, just play against the AI/bots.

Deadcells. Loved the art style, combat looked fun. I was so excited to play a new metroidvania only to discover it's a rougelike and that killed all interest in playing it. I just really dislike that kind of game.

Dark Souls: I played it for like 20 minutes but the controls just felt wrong. The combat just didn't feel good.

Journey: Felt boring and empty to me. Came off as the game equivalent of a pretentious film student's sophomore project.

TUNIC: This is a very weird one to me. Theoretically, I should love it. I like retro games. I like old-school Zelda. I like the conceit that the manual is in a foreign language and you have to use the pictures and diagrams to infer what to do. But for the life of me, I just cannot get into this game, and I have no idea why. I tried to start twice, and each time, I played it for about half an hour before putting it down and never really getting back to it.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

The story just did not grab me at all, I found the art style incredibly ugly, and despite liking a lot of games with relatively similar playstyles I did not enjoy that at all.

I feel like people were just really excited to see a cyberpunk game, which at the time was definitely an underserved market.