Metal Gear (whole series, from NES to MGS4)- The early games were clunky and dull, while the new games have the most atrocious, bloated writing. This sucks because the gameplay of the Metal Gear Solid games is usually pretty fun with neat quirks, but I can't get over having 5 minutes of gameplay sandwiched between 10 minute codec/cutscene sequences. It's bad, and if you think it's good, I'm glad I don't have your taste.

Any JRPG that "gets better after 10-20 hours." Final Fantasy 1-7/9, The Dragon Warriors that I played, and Legend of Dragoon were all good right away. Any game that takes two smaller games to "get good" is made by developers with their heads up their asses.

Anything id made after Romero left (can't speak for Rage)- Rip on John for making Daikatana, but at least it some goddamned imagination in it. In retrospect, it looked like John was the most creative person there, and everyone else knew how to use that creativity to make a decent game.

King's Quest (All that I've played)- I don't like adventure games where you can fuck yourself over by not picking up an item so that you have to start the game over. There's no challenge, no puzzle solving, and no skill in not seeing some random, apparently-useless item tucked away.

Also, tater, I agree with you on God of War, except for the first one. In God of War 1, Kratos was much better written, and he turned out to actually be really disgusted with his own violent nature. I won't ruin the ending, but the game came out against the random violence and bloodlust of the main character in a memorable way. Sadly, once David Jaffe left, it pretty much just became retarded action-fest with a completely unlikable main character.