Games you should have liked

[Glic2003]

For me, it was Mark of the Ninja. I thought I should love a nicely polished, side-scrolling stealth game (heck, I'm even making MY OWN side-scrolling stealth game!).

And it's a well-made game, but something about its style turned me off... the out-of-focus backgrounds, the fact that half of the screen is black at any given time, the little quick-time event every time you kill a dude, and the voice of the female ninja that sounds like the host of a children's television show. I like how the checkpoints are close together, but I also hate replaying the same 30 seconds of gameplay every time I die in a laser beam.

I still like the game, but I really thought I was going to love it.

 

[deathbydeath]

I shoulda liked DA2 (I know, dammit). It had a more varied visual style than DAO, and I really liked what they did with two-handed weapons and skill trees, but there was just too much stupid and weeaboo.

 

[Herminator09]

For me its Kingdom Hearts. I love so much about that series from the story, art style and combat but the moment I pick up the controller to play it I lose all interest. So I just watched a friend play it.

 

[LiberalSquirrel]

...I liked The Witcher 2. [sub]Even if I mentally superimposed Salt n' Pepa's "Let's Talk About Sex" over about half the game.[/sub]

This game, for me, was The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind. I should have loved it. Unique worldbuilding. Ability to make your own class and go through the game and plot the way you want. But... I just couldn't get into it. Part of it could be the uncanny-valley characters. Part of it could be that I kept getting my customized, unique characters mauled by rats because I wasn't properly combat-spec'ed. Or part of it just could be that the game just didn't click with me. I don't know. But there it is.

 

[Coach Morrison]

I'm going to agree with all The Witcher comments, the first one felt like an MMORPG with a lazy combat system and the second just felt boring. Everything sounded like it was for me, a dark world, western RPG and all the good stuff.

There's also Oblivion, a big world to explore, lots of weapons and stuff, yet I can't stand it without modding it to the point you can't recognize it.