Games you should really enjoy, but don't.
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Uncharted 3
The first game was pretty good, the second was friggin amazing, but the third one...I just...I dunno...
Parts of it felt really cheap, and the story really bothered me for some reason I don't remember. I seem to remember the controls or combat or something bothering me a lot, too. I guess I felt like Uncharted 2 had a really great balance to it, and 3 tried tweaking it to make a lot of things better, and it completely threw off the balance. By the end, I kept playing simply because I refused to let the game win.
You know its bad when something horrible happens to one of your favorite characters...
...and it doesn't make any sort of emotional impact. Its all made worse when...
In short, I really can't think of a single thing I liked about Uncharted 3, which is too bad, because I can't think about a single significant issue I had with Uncharted 2.
The first game was pretty good, the second was friggin amazing, but the third one...I just...I dunno...
Parts of it felt really cheap, and the story really bothered me for some reason I don't remember. I seem to remember the controls or combat or something bothering me a lot, too. I guess I felt like Uncharted 2 had a really great balance to it, and 3 tried tweaking it to make a lot of things better, and it completely threw off the balance. By the end, I kept playing simply because I refused to let the game win.
You know its bad when something horrible happens to one of your favorite characters...
Sully dying.
it turns out the whole the was a hallucination. Like they were TRYING to pull at my heartstrings and manipulate my emotions, but they failed at the whole thing so spectacularly.
Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time
The game looks great, Ratchet's design is better than ever, It has an open-world mechanic that kinda works, and Dr. Nefarious is back.
But somehow the game felt flaccid. The guns weren't fun to shoot, and the enemies weren't fun to blast, since most of them were rather generic robots. And then ofcourse there's the 'last of the lombaxes' plotline, which started with Tools of Destruction and was meant to add some "drama" to the series, that it never needed in the first place.
The game looks great, Ratchet's design is better than ever, It has an open-world mechanic that kinda works, and Dr. Nefarious is back.
But somehow the game felt flaccid. The guns weren't fun to shoot, and the enemies weren't fun to blast, since most of them were rather generic robots. And then ofcourse there's the 'last of the lombaxes' plotline, which started with Tools of Destruction and was meant to add some "drama" to the series, that it never needed in the first place.
Too lazy to explain the exact reasons why, but these games I never got into even though I think I kinda should have:
Bioshock.
Assassin's Creed. (All games)
Portal 2.
Fallout 3: New Vegas
One I will explain a little about:
Dragon Age: Origins. I loved the game when I played it. But after about 4~5 hours I just...stopped. I don't know what it is. I want to play more of it, but I can't get myself to do so. Maybe because I have so many other games that take priority. Like Mass Effect, Skyrim, Dragon's Dogma and GW2...=/
Bioshock.
Assassin's Creed. (All games)
Portal 2.
Fallout 3: New Vegas
One I will explain a little about:
Dragon Age: Origins. I loved the game when I played it. But after about 4~5 hours I just...stopped. I don't know what it is. I want to play more of it, but I can't get myself to do so. Maybe because I have so many other games that take priority. Like Mass Effect, Skyrim, Dragon's Dogma and GW2...=/
Sure I will get completely slated for this but, Skyrim.
I'm such a bathesda fan boy, I've loved the last two elder scrolls and the fallouts. Just skyrim errr everything in it feels anti-climatic. After every mission I was like, "oh, is that it?" where all the other games I've spent more time playing them then any other game.
Bioshock is another one. I felt really bad when after a few minutes in to this amazing game I've heard so much about i just kinda felt "meh!". I was just all the atmosphere, all the danger, all the eeriness from the left over taps, and the weird characters. All of that was thrown out the window when i was able to shoot fire. It was like "well i'm a god now," which i know isn't true, but it shattered everything i was enjoying up to that point.
I'm such a bathesda fan boy, I've loved the last two elder scrolls and the fallouts. Just skyrim errr everything in it feels anti-climatic. After every mission I was like, "oh, is that it?" where all the other games I've spent more time playing them then any other game.
Bioshock is another one. I felt really bad when after a few minutes in to this amazing game I've heard so much about i just kinda felt "meh!". I was just all the atmosphere, all the danger, all the eeriness from the left over taps, and the weird characters. All of that was thrown out the window when i was able to shoot fire. It was like "well i'm a god now," which i know isn't true, but it shattered everything i was enjoying up to that point.
Hey, I Liked Pierce. He seemed like the only reasonable guy in the who gang of murderous psychopaths.putowtin said:
OT: World of Tanks. I should have fallen in love with that game, but the grind is enormous and even worse, the matchmaking is horrible. Also, going down the light tank line will get you screwed in higher tier matches.
There, that's better.putowtin said:
Why not kill shaundi? She stopped being interesting in SR3.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
As was posted earlier in this thread, this game was just impossible to get into. The awkward camera movement gave me endless headaches. Horrible AI made stealthing random rather than tactical. Adam's voice and melodramatic lines made me hate the character I was playing as.
The Witcher 2:
One word: Combat. The scenes are beautiful, the sounds are extremely realistic, the quests are inventive and the exploration is extensive. However, arguably the main interest for Witcher games is the fighting. I feel they failed miserably in this aspect. It's really difficult to remember which key for which spell (let alone hit 7-9 for the useful ones) and sword combat against more than 1 enemy is virtually impossible. Since there was no sensible way of interrupting attacks, I found myself running around a rock for 8 minutes trying to kill 2 soldiers.
As was posted earlier in this thread, this game was just impossible to get into. The awkward camera movement gave me endless headaches. Horrible AI made stealthing random rather than tactical. Adam's voice and melodramatic lines made me hate the character I was playing as.
The Witcher 2:
One word: Combat. The scenes are beautiful, the sounds are extremely realistic, the quests are inventive and the exploration is extensive. However, arguably the main interest for Witcher games is the fighting. I feel they failed miserably in this aspect. It's really difficult to remember which key for which spell (let alone hit 7-9 for the useful ones) and sword combat against more than 1 enemy is virtually impossible. Since there was no sensible way of interrupting attacks, I found myself running around a rock for 8 minutes trying to kill 2 soldiers.
I find Borderlands 2 to be extremely mind numbing yet others enjoy it. My question is... why? I think I might have to speak with Yahtzee...
Thief 2. I can't get to it. Which is weird, since I love the first one and occasionally replay it.
Any MOBA game. I liked the first DOTA, but it somehow lost appeal to me over the years.
Legend of Grimrock is one of those games that I need to have right mood to play.
Any MOBA game. I liked the first DOTA, but it somehow lost appeal to me over the years.
Legend of Grimrock is one of those games that I need to have right mood to play.
That's exactly what happened to me. I bought the Undead Nightmare as well, but I can't bring myself to playing more than 30 minutes before being really bored.Zantos said:
The same happened to me in 'GTA 4'. I guess I'm just not made for riding/driving looooong ways before starting a mission. Yeah, I'm a superficial quick-travel-person.
Also, it took ages for me to get invested in 'Fallout 3', but I finished the main story and the DLC in the end. I won't be bothering to play through a second time, though (loved the first two). Let's see how long it will take for me to finish 'New Vegas'...
Kingdom of Ama-llama-obama-lore (I think that's the name)
Love the style of game, the looks, the gameplay, the story, at least scant bit I've played through, the fact one of my favorite writers of all time had a hand in it (R.A. Salvatore)... I just can't get into it. At all. Might be because it feels like a poor man's The Elder Scrolls to me which isn't really fair because it's obvious a lot of good hard work went into it and the studio that made it went under so I feel even more obligated to play it... but I just can't.
What hurts it even more is that I've tried to play it on a couple separate occasions, restarting each time and seeing the beginning story bits all over again and there's only so many times I can do that. This reason alone almost kept me from playing Dragon Age. For various reasons I had to restart a couple times... and after the lame that was Dragon Age 2 and Mass Effect 3's ending being a bigger bomb that game's, I'm kinda sorry I put all that effort into it now. :/
Love the style of game, the looks, the gameplay, the story, at least scant bit I've played through, the fact one of my favorite writers of all time had a hand in it (R.A. Salvatore)... I just can't get into it. At all. Might be because it feels like a poor man's The Elder Scrolls to me which isn't really fair because it's obvious a lot of good hard work went into it and the studio that made it went under so I feel even more obligated to play it... but I just can't.
What hurts it even more is that I've tried to play it on a couple separate occasions, restarting each time and seeing the beginning story bits all over again and there's only so many times I can do that. This reason alone almost kept me from playing Dragon Age. For various reasons I had to restart a couple times... and after the lame that was Dragon Age 2 and Mass Effect 3's ending being a bigger bomb that game's, I'm kinda sorry I put all that effort into it now. :/