Does sol's rng count? It's a roblox game and is really boring, though that might be because I only like shooters, adventure obby's, and residence massacre clones.

Pretty much any time I play a game just because it has "realistic graphics." I get there is a market for these types of games and we need games that push for realism to encourage companies to continue to push the technology forward (usually in a way that makes stylized or cartoon-y graphics like the ones found in Astro Bot much easier and cheaper to pull off compared to previous console generations), but it's just not for me, realism (both in terms of visuals and gameplay) tends to make things slower and more boring. It could also be that I'm tired of pretending I enjoy more "adult-oriented" gaming and I would be much happier accepting that gaming is the one area in my adult life that I can still be a juvenile little boy at heart and not think about icky adult things like paying bills, working at a job I hate, or especially politics.

For a specific recent example, I tried and failed for 25 hours to "get" the appeal of Ghost of Tsushima. Its open world is even blander and more desaturated than Red Dead Redemption 2 and Sonic Frontiers combined, and worst of all, once I stopped admiring the graphical technology, natural lighting and good (for PS4) water reflections, the gameplay and combat was overly-simplistic (basically a glorified Rock-Paper-Scissors) and while, to be fair, variety is introduced throughout the course of the 40-60-hour campaign, it takes way too long for the game to force you to switch up your tactics and also highlights the general modern gaming problem that games have way too much padding, to the point where the game definitely would have been better if they cut the total runtime by a half, possibly even by 3/4.

Nothing about Ghosts was particularly bad, though, it was a decent "turn your brain off and relax" sort of game for those 25 hours, it just had almost nothing to offer besides incredible graphics technology (for when it originally released on PS4, at least) and I'm not particularly excited for upcoming PS5-native sequel, Ghost of Yotei, anymore. Especially now that first-party Sony games are doing the same thing now as first-party Nintendo games and NEVER going on sale or dropping in price anymore to make the first-party output seem more "premium."

Pokémon Sword. After hearing how much people hated/were dissapointed with the 8th generation ever since the dexit controversy/poor graphism happened, I wanted to see if it truly was bad. While I enjoyed some of the new pokémon, characters and music, the rest was very bland. The story, the lack of voice acting, the graphism in the open area, the pokémon movement during the battles, etc. While I completed it, it was one of those rare times I wasn't much feeling satisfaction beating it. Especially after that terrible post-credit content with these two annoying brothers and their dumb haircut. Never played it again and sold it. Sucks to see that since then, all the major pokémon releases on the switch kept getting worse and worse compared to other nintendo franchises like Xenoblade Chronicles for best comparaison even if gen 9, for what I hear, has a better plot + interactions with NPC's and Legends: Arceus for it's gameplay.

ig I remember Brute Force on the OG Xbox as being s bland

Sands of Destruction on NDS, the premise was interesting, but the entire package didn't impress me.

I had a lot of fun with X and Y as a kid, but looking back there were a lot of weird choices in it lol. I totally agree about the characters being bland. There were too many rivals(? I still don't know if that's what they were supposed to be) and I literally don't remember any of them. Interestingly enough I really couldn't get into Sun and Moon either. It has some of my favorite Pokemon but for some reason it never felt like a Pokemon game. Maybe I'll give it another shot one of these days, though I've heard that the Ultra games are better overall.