Stuff you're not fond of but everyone else loves

[Samven]

Consider this a sequel-thread to stuff you love but no one else seems to (which could totally do with a boot up the backside and a quick application of a Water of Life, if any Golden Sun fans out there know what I'm saying, wink wink nudge nudge). What are the things that you can't stand but everybody else loves?

Oh, and actual reasons are appreciated. It's not really a valid argument to say, "I don't like X because it's popular." This is a thread for saying why you don't get something that is popular. It's also not a bashing-thread. I know, I know, you want to tell us all why Pokemon Diamond & Pearl are so bad that they make your lungs shut down just so they don't have to breathe in the infectious stupid emanating from the cartridge but you can't just say, "SI TEH SUXX0ZRZ". Once again, actual reasons are appreciated. If we wanted mindless fury and hatred, we'd go to tumblr. Criticism, I believe is a powerful force for good. Criticism lets us know what works and what doesn't so we can get it right the next time and, sometimes, looking at popular things that are a bit naff can be a great way to teach us how to improve our own stuff.


So, yeah, to give mine, I'm not gonna harp on about Final Fantasy because everyone who knows me knows I'm not the biggest fan of Squeenix's series. I am, however, going to nominate RWBY as my pick. It absolutely baffles me why it's popular. The plot is absolutely wafer thin, with the first season doing nothing but establish who the (extremely stereotypical) characters are and the second only vaguely touching upon what the villains are trying to do and mostly just being concerned with developing the relationships between the characters. Now, that's not a bad thing in and of itself but if you just want to make a high school sitcom then, please, just make a high school sitcom. Don't try shoehorning in all these deeper plots about corruption and conspiracies that go nowhere and that none of the principle characters actually care about.

To give the most egregious example: all throughout the second season, all the grownups were getting their knickers in a twist over a coming war and yet we were never once told 1. Who the sides in this war would be, 2. What they would be fighting for, 3. Why anyone would risk fighting a massive conflict when humanity is supposed to have been pushed to the brink of extinction by the Grimm. The extended lore of the franchise raises so many interesting questions, none of which the show is interested in exploring. I wouldn't mind so much if the show just admitted it was all about the goofy high school stuff and overblown fights, then I could just write it off as stuff that's just not for me, but the fact that it tries to be more than that by having all this background lore and that it doesn't competently weave it into the main narrative just makes me want to march down to RoosterTeeth's offices and tell Miles Luna, "Would you please decide on a tone already and stick with it?" Be Harry Potter or be Saved by the Bell with swords.

What about you guys? What're those things everyone else loves but you can't stand? I'm interested.

[RosyPosy]

hmmmm Lets see i think a good one of mine is metal gear solid franchise. Ive tried honestly to like it- playing it and stuff, but to me I just cant find the same joy some others are capable of.  The story is kind of hockey and doesnt really get me invested and it really shold be right up my alley. the games actual mechanics go from clunky to weird, depending on which game and what part we're talking about, and the characters are more interesting than their own story. 
i really dont know howd I improve it either-  it just one of those I just dont like at little to no fault of the games. theyre clunky but thats cause its unique and literally the only way I can imagine it being mapped. 

[MetalRenard]

I agree with you about RWBY's plot, it's kinda crap. I watch it for the shiny fights. One of the reasons it might be so popular is because the original animator/creator died recently. Another reason could be his underdog story/past.
Also, MGS can be clunky, it's true.

What's the big deal with Bethesda games? Skyrim, Fallout etc., they're supposed to give you this huge sense of freedom in a world full of things to do but they're just full of... nothing and held together on a promise of a chance to possibly have some action at some point down the line. The plots are practically nonexistant, the action/combat is just stupidly bad and you spend most of your time walking from A to B.

[Bounty Hunter Lani]

I'll probably get a meteor crashed on my head for this one, but...
Final Fantasy VII.
Specifically, Cloud Strife.

He gets led around by people instead of being the leader. Instead of breaking down a door and saving his girl, he puts on a skirt and panties to "Blend in". 

Major spoilers ahead!

Cloud gives Sephiroth the Black Materia--  The thing that they DIDN'T want to get into the hands of Sephiroth because he'll destroy the whole freaking planet -- because he was told the past he believed was his was actually a bunch of false memories.
Yuffie stealing Materia to help her town is more heroic than Cloud was the whole game.
He didn't even stop the Meteor. A dead girl did. A DEAD GIRL DID. COME ON.
His personality is that of a washing machine-- in fact, I thought I saw more personality in the one at the local laundromat... 
He couldn't even beat Rosso the Crimson in Dirge of Cerberus, which is pathetic for a "Hero". Vincent single-handedly (Okay, he had Yuffie's and Reeve's help) took down Deepground in that game. Vincent saved the planet on his own (With a bit of help).
Cloud's "Heroics" revolve more on his revenge plot on Sephiroth than anything else, since he actually blew up Mako reactors at the beginning of the game, which may have taken many innocent lives in the process... Shinra workers are people too, ya know!   

Anyway, I could go on and on about the lack of heroism in this guy, but at least he managed to clean up Kadaj's crew in Advent Children. Beyond facing off against a clone of Sephiroth, not sure what else he did... (Granted, my focus while watching that movie and playing the game were pretty much gone about halfway through each-- maybe much earlier... Not very exciting... )

We need a Yuffie-focused game... or two. The cute little ninja deserves it  

P.S.
Those panties Cloud wore may have been Marlene's. He fit into a little kid's panties. Does Mako shrink-- Nevermind... 

[Bounty Hunter Lani]

Sword Art Online.
The first season. (It's all I cared to TRY to watch)

The whole anime's premise revolves around the premise of "People can't log out of the MMORPG, and they have to play the game to get stronger and make it through the online world. If someone dies in the game, they die in real life!"
Where have we heard that before?
OH YEAH, ALL OF THE .HACK SERIES.
THE WHOLE PREMISE OF SWORD ART ONLINE WAS STOLEN FROM .HACK. EVERY SINGLE BIT OF IT.

The story is nothing but anime tropes and cliches piled onto each other! The only interesting things that happen during the anime are cliches on top of cliches! There's even the Ecchi cliche of the girl falling on top of the guy, and it's revealed that she fell in the perfect way where he's grabbing her breasts. Yes, seriously, they even bothered to add that into the show, making it a crapfest of cliches that make the show uninteresting and ultimately stupid.


Overall, it's a barely-watchable show full of stolen ideas from other things and actual games that are out there. I have NO idea how this got popular except for the fact that maybe people like that it's nothing but a trope-fest, and people like the overhyped mainstream shows? I dunno...
The obvious idea thievery irritates me more than anything. I don't know about season 2, but I heard it gets worse in the cliche department, and not even most fans who liked and touted Season 1 as the "best anime evurrrr" liked Season 2... 

I won't even bother to try and finish the anime, it's not worth my limited time. 

[Samven]

You should check out Something Witty Entertainment's Abridged Series of the show. They actually managed to give Kirito character development. It's quite glorious.

Other thing I can't stand but everyone else loves: sausages. I've tried for years to like them but I just don't think they'll ever agree with me.