Games you respect but don't play.

[MetaKnight19]

World of Warcraft, I used to play it for a while but it just grew tedious for me but I can definitely see the appeal.

 

[rvbnut]

Gran Turismo.

Props to the devs for making this incredibly detailed game. I will never play it though

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

I don't think I've ever really 'respected' a video game before. Soo, I guess nothing.

 

[Angry_squirrel]

I have to agree with you on the Mess Effect front.
Generally though I'm quite elitist, if I don't like it, I don't respect it.

 

[cainx10a]

Starcraft 2, Monster Hunter, and most RTS games to be honest, I just panic too much in them, and in the case of MH, well, those pink gorillas who fling poo at thee are scary.

 

[Dan Comber]

Counter Strike. It's insanely popular, so it must be doing something right, but I just think Team Fortress is probably better

 

[Zeema]

Persona

i just don't wanna buy a PS2 for 2 games [3 and 4 im only interested in]

 

[Moonpig123]

Mass Effect. I have alot of friends that play it, but I just don't. I understand it's an epic sci-fi game, and I've tried to like it, I WANT to like it but just never clicked with me when I played it. I'm not trying to find some smug way to say it's bad, I'm aware it's great and probably better than half the games I play, I just don't know why I don't like it.

Exactly this.

Also, Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy. I tried MGS and wanted to like it, but it just bored me, and seemed like it was trying way too hard to be a bit 'weird' and 'different' to actually be enjoyable at the same time. Which is annoying, because I like a lot of the ideas it has.

Final Fantasy just has the (personal) flaw of being a JRPG. I hate the characters, dialogue and combat system, but FF VII in particular has some interesting ideas and I love the setting. I respect the series mostly for how ambitious it's been over the years, shifting noticeably to fit changing audiences rather than becoming stagnant *cough* Call of Duty *cough*, and I admire some of the ideas it has, but when it comes to important part-how fun it is to play-it falls short, for me.

 

[KaizokuouHasu]

I have to agree with the OP on Mass Effect. I've tried playing it, and enjoyed sections, but the combat is clunky, the checkpoints are poorly spaced (for example, putting a long cutscene with dialogue choices right before a semi-hard fight with no cover and no chance to save). I really tried to like it, and I respect that it has a good story, but I just can't get into it.

I've never got into any of their new games (read; since x360) but I stick with in to the end because... to prove a point I guess. I still don't like any of their games, but I can respect that their huge fan-base didn't come there for no reason. It's still daunting to think that there will be a DA3 and a ME3. Now I have to soldier through them too. ¬_¬

 

[Simeon Ivanov]

Half Life 2 ... please don't hate me.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. I haven't play it due to the fact I don't have the console to play it on (and my bro doesn't bring the games over).

 

[KaizokuouHasu]

Deus Ex.
Hate the gameplay, the graphics, the story, the voice acting, but I can certainly see what it did for the action/rpg genre.

It did nothing. There has been almost no new games in the action/rpg category that hold as much as a candle to the calibre of Deus Ex. ¬_¬
Any attempts to replicate it either becomes 100% action sci-fi, or 100% rpg sci-fi, of which both lack in the deep story-line that actually has an effect/references the real world. It just becomes a sci-fi fantasy all together with made-up shit that in no way can be related to because it has no background in the society as we already know it.

Illuminati, a behind-the-scenes organisation that presumably control most of the modern world without anyone knowing.

Compare that to all the other hidden organisations that have been invented in games since to create a sense of fear of "who do I trust" and then they forget that the reason it worked in Deus Ex was because the audience could actually think about the world outside gaming because they knew who the illuminati was before they picked up the game. An eye-opener so to speak. Conspiracy stories works well when the audience can actually relate to them.

P.s. blasphemer!!

p.s.s. giggidy.

 

[KaizokuouHasu]

Damn. Sorry. Double-posted.

Half Life 2 ... please don't hate me.

Hate... growing... must... vanquish..!

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Starcraft 2. I can't play it for the life of me, but the pro players must be amazing multi taskers.

Probably this I would be a complete spaz at it but I give kudos to the top players. It must be like really crazy chess... with aliens.

 

[JBGigas]

Eve Online
I tried many times, but I couldn't get into it. I really like the consept, but the MMO:s just isn't for me.

 

[JackWestJr]

It's basically all in the title.
These are games that you acknowledge are good, even great, but you just don't play them for whatever reason. Mine is Mass Effect. I have alot of friends that play it, but I just don't. I understand it's an epic sci-fi game, and I've tried to like it, I WANT to like it but just never clicked with me when I played it. I'm not trying to find some smug way to say it's bad, I'm aware it's great and probably better than half the games I play, I just don't know why I don't like it.
But enough about my sob story, tell me yours!

Same with me man, I have tried to get into Mass Effect 2, knowing that my friends like it, but everytime I play it for a while I just get bored :/

I much prefer racing/action/adventure games; like Uncharted or MotorStorm or what ever

 

[JackWestJr]

Ah yes, The Elder Scrolls. Seriously, I don't know what is so amazing about Oblivion, it is boring as hell and I should have thought about it before I did a insta-buy and bought it just to see what the fuss was about.

God do I regret buying it...

 

[BlackJak007]

Pretty much any RTS game.I can understand why people enjoy them, but I just don't enjoy playing them. I'm also rather crap at them, even after practice.

 

[StraightToHeck]

Dragon Age: Origins

tried so desperately to like that game, but couldn't; waaaaaaaay too tedious

Also Arkham Asylum: love the combat, love the exploration, but I turn into a nervous, overly-swearing wreck upon the first whiff of a forced stealth section

 

[AceTrilby]

Any and all RTSes. I haven't really clicked with an RTS since the original Red Alert, but I understand why people like them. Starcraft must be popular for a reason, right?