A game that you just can't play.

[ShadowsofHope]

I have a moral obligation against murdering anyone, doesn't stop me playing games.

Yeah... but it's BABIES!
That's territory that anyone fears to tread.
Besides, i just don't feel like i want to play it.
It's only my opinion.

You do realize that those "babies" are already dead, no? You can't murder/kill something that is already dead, now (also, they have wolverine finger claws - no way in hell (ahem) am I letting them near me).

OT: Modern Warfare 2, plot and gameplay jumps around at so many points in that game, I just lost track and stopped caring..

 

[crazyfills]

duke nukem forever where even would I start . . . .

 

[Qtoy]

Fallout 1. I bought it thinking, "Yay! Now I'll know the entire history!", completely aware of the gameplay differences between it and the more recent Fallouts, but I just don't enjoy it.

 

[remnant_phoenix]

Grand Theft Auto IV:

The story set up Niko as a "man who was trying to escape his ugly past, but tragically his past will follow him" type of character, but this was at-odds with GTA's ridiculous gameplay.

As soon as ran over some pedestrians and solicited a "lady of the evening," only to be beat her up and get my money back afterward, I lost ALL ability to sympathize with Niko as a character. A person who can do that sort of stuff is a sociopath, and why should I care whether or not the sociopath goes on a friendly date with a girl or goes out to eat with his cousin?

Modern Warfare 2:

For the same, yet opposite reasons as GTAIV. GTAIV mashed up ridiculous over-the-top gameplay with a realistic, gritty, story, whereas MW2 mashed up a ridiculous over-the-top story with realistic gameplay.

So... In the game, one bullet or a fall from a decent height will kill me, just like in real life, but in the cutscenes two guys can ramp a snowmobile over a 60 foot glacial gap without hurting the snowmobile or themselves? Whuh?!

= = =

There is such a thing as "cohesion," and both of these games fly in the face it with reckless abandon.

 

[The Becker]

I have a moral obligation against murdering anyone, doesn't stop me playing games.

Yeah... but it's BABIES!
That's territory that anyone fears to tread.
Besides, i just don't feel like i want to play it.
It's only my opinion.

You know its like demon babies with claws right?

OT: Any final fantasy game

 

[Hugga_Bear]

RDR for some weird reason. I go at it in bursts, finishing large sections, spending some time just messing around in the wilderness and it's really great and fun and then...just...dull. I get bored and wander off.

Oblivion for the same reason as someone else mentioned, done it so much now I just...can't enjoy it. Part of that is down to the levelling and the blank NPC's. It's okay when the world is fascinating and new but after a bit you need a little more and while I like planning perfect characters Oblivion forces me to do it and takes it too far. I don't like reaching a high level being punishable by ridiculously powerful enemies shutting me out of damn near every area, especially since most turn into sponges for damage (something Bethsoft has a real problem with but have begun to fix with NV and purportedly Skyrim).

Other than that, Damnation like I said in the other thread, just a horrible game. So horrible.
Oh and sports games tend to bore me but I don't mind a kick around on FIFA with some mates, I'd rather actually go out and do it though.

 

[Whispering Cynic]

Any real sports game - why the fuck would I use my expensive computer to simulate something I can simply DO. I play games to experience things I can't in my normal life, sports games are simply... pointless? Yes, that's the word.

And for some reason I never got into any of Rockstar's sandboxes (GTA). I would always install the game, run over people for like ten minutes, get bored, go do some story missions, get bored even more, then uninstall. Now I simply avoid them.

 

[Immortal_Engines]

I've got two here that'll probably get me flamed...

1. Mass Effect 1 (yeah crucify me, I'm a heretic), I feel as if I'm missing out on something really huge now, but the gameplay of this game was so...urgh. It felt bland and un-engaging, having to switch back and forth between the game and the different menus really broke up the flow of the game. When I first arrived at The Citadel and realized that I would be going back and forth all over the place in search of countless quests and shops, I turned off the game and haven't touched it since

2. Bioshock, I'll admit, the story and setting really want to make me play this game, as with Mass Effect, but the combat feels like a sub-Half-Life mess to me. It feels really slow and dull as well as always running out of EVE and ammo at the wrong times. The constantly re spawning enemies didn't help either.

I also cant stomach horror games, I just want to eject the disk and uninstall the game out of fear...

 

[Ridrith]

1. Sports Games.

2. Dragon Age 2 - I beat it once, and I thought it was terrible as all hell. Despite the DLC looking interesting to me I won't get it just because of the game itself. I'm not going to support them anymore than I have to. Mass Effect 3, DO WANT.

3. World of Warcraft/Most other MMOs on the market. Difference in graphics, and story are the only changes any MMO is bringing to the market right now. I want new mechanics. I went back and tried to play WoW and just could not bring myself to do it. I'd log on for about ten minutes, wait in a dungeon que, didn't care and logged. Haven't been back online since that point.

 

[Stammer]

I can't play Red Dead Redemption or inFamous, both for the same reason: Their control schemes are off from what I'm used to and I couldn't play them to save my life.

 

[Sanguinedragon]

Red Dead Redemption.

Don't get me wrong, it's a fantastic game, with a brilliant story.
I just can't play it.

I find it so boring and dry, yet I'm not entirely sure why I feel that way towards it. Even Undead Nightmare I found to be an effort to play. And it has zombies in it!!

Thank you! I felt exactly the same way! I tried to play it and got into Mexico but I couldn't play for very long stretches as my attention would start to wane. There was just too much uninteresting stuff in between missions and I didn't really care about basically any of the characters. Sometimes I still feel like I should finish it and contemplate renting it sometime, but I haven't yet.

Oh thank (insert deity here) I hear so many people talk about how awesome this game is. I found it slow boring and depressing and whenever I did start to like a character they went away. I was starting to feel so alone. I feel better now lol

 

[Zero_ctrl]

Bioshock and most other horror games.
I realize it's one of the best games of the decade, but I just can't do it. I'm too skittish.

 

[PAGEToap44]

Borderlands. I borrowed it from a friend once, got to about level 5 with a sniper, and thought, "Man, this sucks. Maybe I'm just playing the wrong class." I then reached level 5 with every other class, and just couldn't get interested. I've heard it gets better later, or that playing co-op is more fun, but I just can't be bothered to try it again.

Yeah, I can't play this without a friend, it's just so dull on your lonesome. But with mates, so much fun.
Another one would be Arkham Asylum. Yes I played it through and enjoyed it, but I just can't bring myself to replay it, I find it .. meh.

 

[EGtodd09]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat because it wasn't good enough to be average. Half Life 2 also because its just so god damn boring.

 

[AnAnemicTurtle]

2. Bioshock, I'll admit, the story and setting really want to make me play this game, as with Mass Effect, but the combat feels like a sub-Half-Life mess to me. It feels really slow and dull as well as always running out of EVE and ammo at the wrong times. The constantly re spawning enemies didn't help either.

Agreed. If there was a novel/comic, I'd gladly read that, but playing the game just feels like a chore for me. I might give it another try now that I know what to expect.

 

[i7omahawki]

Guitar Hero or Rock Band... I would rather play a real instrument and get more fulfillment out of it by learning new songs or making my own. Aside from some of the good songs not even being the licensed recordings but rather covers (and bad ones at that) I've never really understood the draw of guitar hero-style games. I guess its the whole "I can be rockstar" angle.

Learning an instrument is definitely a more fulfilling activity, but I do think there's more to Rock Band (maybe not guitar hero) than 'I wanna be a rock star'.

Specifically for people who can't play instruments (I'd like to but University interrupted), it is really enjoyable as a listening exercise. Before I played it I could rarely pick up on individual parts of songs, especially bass parts. But after playing "Bass" on Rock Band I find that, not only in the game's songs but other's as well, I can hear it much more easily, which definitely enriches my experience as a listener.

I'd consider the new Rock Band Pro modes as quite a good learning exercise too, these do feature instruments that are real (I have the keyboard and it works as a MIDI controller too) and the tracks accurately represent the songs such that, if I repeat the notes I play in the game when hooked up to a keyboard, I am literally playing that part of the song. Obviously the dynamic is different in that in the game I am obeying commands essentially, where as real musicianship involves learning and producing the music at will. Nevertheless I think Rock Band does do something interesting at least.

Sorry for the long reply, I didn't take issue with what you said, but thought I'd perhaps offer up a couple of points which you may not have been aware of, and see what you thought of them.

 

[J3llo]

Okay whatabout a listy thing with games i cant play

Saints row (1)
Assasins creed (1)
Any splinter cell game
allmost every sports or racing game
Jrpg's
bioshock 2
halo wars
bionic commando (nes)
the darkness
brotherhood of steel
and last but not least (wont be getting any fans for this one)
Almost every Japanese game ever with exceptions for the more stranger games like killer 7 and katamari damcy

 

[Kevlar Eater]

Vampire the Masquerade - Bloodlines. Literally. I can't patch the game, and I can't even launch the client because it has almost no compatibility with Windows 7.

Ninja Blade. The PC controls are useless. Really, really bad console port. From Software should never do anything with the PC market ever again.

Assassin's Creed 1. Horrible console port, and it burns up my GPU, despite my PC being cooled with quality fans.

 

[kouriichi]

Farmville.
Im sorry. I just cant. Id rather watch every episode of MLP in a row while on a bad cocaine induced trip.
What little respect i had for my father literally melted away when he said, "My farm is the biggest of my 50 friends."

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Guitar Hero or Rock Band... I would rather play a real instrument and get more fulfillment out of it by learning new songs or making my own. Aside from some of the good songs not even being the licensed recordings but rather covers (and bad ones at that) I've never really understood the draw of guitar hero-style games. I guess its the whole "I can be rockstar" angle.

Learning an instrument is definitely a more fulfilling activity, but I do think there's more to Rock Band (maybe not guitar hero) than 'I wanna be a rock star'.

Specifically for people who can't play instruments (I'd like to but University interrupted), it is really enjoyable as a listening exercise. Before I played it I could rarely pick up on individual parts of songs, especially bass parts. But after playing "Bass" on Rock Band I find that, not only in the game's songs but other's as well, I can hear it much more easily, which definitely enriches my experience as a listener.

I'd consider the new Rock Band Pro modes as quite a good learning exercise too, these do feature instruments that are real (I have the keyboard and it works as a MIDI controller too) and the tracks accurately represent the songs such that, if I repeat the notes I play in the game when hooked up to a keyboard, I am literally playing that part of the song. Obviously the dynamic is different in that in the game I am obeying commands essentially, where as real musicianship involves learning and producing the music at will. Nevertheless I think Rock Band does do something interesting at least.

Sorry for the long reply, I didn't take issue with what you said, but thought I'd perhaps offer up a couple of points which you may not have been aware of, and see what you thought of them.

I understand how some people could enjoy the games and I see where you're coming from. I guess my main issue is that a lot of the people I knew who played those earlier versions (4-buttons and the "pick flap") genuinely thought they were rock gods because they could play Dragonforce songs on GH or Buckethead solos... as a former band member and guitarist/bassist it irked me to no end how they would go on and on about how awesome they were at music yet when I confronted them with real instruments they scoffed at them like it was some obsolete tool (one even referred to a 6-string guitar as a "baby's toy"). Rock Band Pro sounds interesting, but personally I'd use the money that you pay for those things on decent equipment and maybe lessons if I didn't already know what I was doing. But thats my personal take. I'm glad people have found joy in music, and in some respects I'm sure that the series has added to other people's musical tastes (a lot more people know about Buckethead now thanks to GH).
Its the same idea that I have with people who play FPS's that feature real guns who think because they play MW2 or BlOps that suddenly makes them war heroes or gun experts.