Games you want to get into but can't

[Excelsior789]

Dark Souls
I want to like this game so much but I'm just so shit at it. All the elements I've come to love in games are there too, but it's designed around harshly punishing the player so that victories feel more weighty and that just does not work for me.

 

[Excelsior789]

Dark Souls
I want to like this game so much but I'm just so shit at it. All the elements I've come to love in games are there too, but it's designed around harshly punishing the player so that victories feel more weighty and that just does not work for me.

 

[Proverbial Jon]

The Witcher II. No matter how many times I try I just can't get into the game at all.

This. It seems like a really good game but I'm just... meh, about it.

Along with:

Dragon Age (although I love Mass Effect)
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Pokemon
Pretty much any JRPG

 

[RyQ_TMC]

Dishonored. I hadn't actually heard of it before i came out, but it pickled my fancy. And with all the gushing reviews, I decided to dive in. But no. I just can't get into the game. Part of it is the entire "here's a person you've just met. You don't know anything about her, either as a ruler or as a person. But we say you're her lover, so remember that you care about her deeply. Now she dies!" setup. I seriously don't feel Corvo's motivation.

But thinking about it, I also couldn't get into Thief games. I think I just don't like first-person games. I prefer to feel detached from my character. TES games being an exception, because character motivation is what you come up with in those, but in general I just find the motivations of game characters too weak to support the plot. Oh, I understand that they have a backstory. But when I play an FPP game, looking through the eyes of the character - I want to feel that motivation, not be told by the manual what it is.

 

[Lazy]

Okami - I love the art style, but the humour falls flat, and the game-play isn't particularly engaging.

I agree with you on the humour. I actually find the combat gets quite fun once you learn to use the celestial brush to maximum effect and fights start whizzing by in seconds, but the characters annoy me to no end. Especially Issun.

 

[juyunseen]

Team Fortress 2

I enjoy playing. I love the classes and how much personality they have. I have a lot of friends who play it.

But I can't get into it. I can't bring myself to play for more than a match or two at a time, and then I'm set for the month. I never want to play it. I just boot it up when I'm really bored.

 

[NooNameLeft]

Every old school RPG really. I'm desperately searching for a new rpg to play but I just can't get into old rpg's. I tried Baldur Gate, Fallout 2, vampire the masquerade, morrowind and they all just feel so dated I just can't enjoy them despite really wanting to.

 

[wabbbit]

I'm glad I'm not the only one. Skyrim.

I don't know why, It's visually amazing on my PC, I logged about 100+ hours each on Oblivion and Morrowind, I just can't get into it. Really annoying as I love games like that. Can't work it out.

Perhaps one day I'll start it up again and magically get into it.

 

[Sack of Cheese]

Far cry 2. It's so bland and boring, everything is the same yellow colour. The death/rescue animation takes too long and I keep getting killed by enemies that blend into the background. Not to mention the enemies are all telepathic it's annoying.
But my friend was really into it and the way he described the game it sounds really fun.

Dragon's Dogma . I don't know why , but i find the game to be so damn boring. And this is coming from a guy who can grind in SMT games for hours and stay entertained .

I was like you as well, but the more I played the better it got. I had to force myself to stop playing it because I already went through it 4 times. It's just so much fun fighting awesome monsters, trying out new skills, looking for new armours to make my characters look badass... blah blah blah.

 

[Darkasassin96]

ive always wanted to get into the gta series but the lack of save points always turned it off for me. Mostly because im not the best driver and if i want to get anywhere i have to drive perfectly so i dont wreck and die and end up right back where i started on the other side of the map. Its just no fun.

Also there are no checkpoints in the missions themselves either, not even one to start it over from the beginning or at least without the car drive at the beginning of the mission i keep failing because driving like a maniac is not a safe way to get around. If there is an option int he options menu i missed or something can someone point it out because other than that is is a fantastic game i just cant make any progress in it.

 

[lRookiel]

Baldur's Gate. I picked up the reworked edition recently, got as far as the basement in the intro and said: "You know what, I have better things to do." I very quickly remembered that I have always disliked the whole "party" concept in RPGs.

Candlekeep is pretty boring to be honest, it's just used as a tutorial. Once you meet the amazing characters outside candlekeep you will warm up to the game. :3

 

[Frokane]

I want to get into WoW because apparently its an easy way to meet hot girls, but sadly, the game is quite poor.

 

[Ironbat92]

A few:
1) Little Big Planet: It looks amazing and it controls well, I just find myself board with it every time I play it
2) Borderlands: I love the style and idea's, But that God forsaken Level up system is annoying. I hate having to fight a big bad enemy that's a level higher than me, and get my ass kicked 12 times. and Yes, I do the side missions, and i still run into a mission where there will be enemies on my level, and then I die from that one big guy that's a level above me
3) Tales of series: Love the fact it isn't turn based and the combat is simple but fun, but the stories are...
4) Dark Souls: Just put an easy mode already

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

Dark Souls
I love the gameplay, I love the challenge, the environments look great and the boss fights are some of the best I've ever gone through. However with that being said the one thing that REALLY draws me back from enjoying the game is the story, or more the complete lack of one. I can handle games with minimalistic plots like Doom, Minecraft and Monster Hunter but those games still had basic motivations, (stop the demons, create shit, hunt the monsters). With Dark Souls I'm not even finding that. I just drift from place to place hoping I'm going the right way and then occasionally I walk through some fog to fight a big thing and then I do the whole process all over again with me coming off no stronger, no more enlightened and no more profited by loot.
From the way NPC's talk I'm guessing there is meant to be some plot and some motivation somewhere but fuck me if I could find them!

 

[cjspyres]

Borderlands/Borderlands 2: Dear god I tried to love these games. The humour is absolutely great, but I just couldn't get through the games. The games are just to repetitive in my opinion, and I just can't get through that. They're are the games that I almost feel ashamed to say I don't like. It's like some sort of social stigma.

 

[[REDACTED]]

Dark Souls
I love the gameplay, I love the challenge, the environments look great and the boss fights are some of the best I've ever gone through. However with that being said the one thing that REALLY draws me back from enjoying the game is the story, or more the complete lack of one. I can handle games with minimalistic plots like Doom, Minecraft and Monster Hunter but those games still had basic motivations, (stop the demons, create shit, hunt the monsters). With Dark Souls I'm not even finding that. I just drift from place to place hoping I'm going the right way and then occasionally I walk through some fog to fight a big thing and then I do the whole process all over again with me coming off no stronger, no more enlightened and no more profited by loot.
From the way NPC's talk I'm guessing there is meant to be some plot and some motivation somewhere but fuck me if I could find them!

My advice: stick with it. There is a story, and an excellent one at that, but it reveals itself quite slowly. (Also, if you want to learn more about the world, read the item descriptions.)

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Fighting Games in general. I desperately, DESPERATELY want to say that I love Mortal Kombat 2 and while it is my favorite of the series, I can't fucking stand it (paradoxical, no?). The same can be said of Street Fighter III: Double Impact and, Marvel vs Capcom 2 and, Bloody Roar. I want to love all of those games but at this point I can't even say I like them. It's at the point where I don't even think I can say I like Power Stone and that's more like Sony All-Stars (a game a did like) or Smash Bros (a game series I tolerate, like and, barely tolerate in that order).

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Someone mentioned Grand Theft Auto. I recently grabbed the PS2 trilogy and GTA3 & San Andreas are really, REALLY hard for me to get into. GTA3 doesn't have the same characterization or depth I loved about Vice City whereas San Andreas is drowning in tutorials and an almost unnecessary amount of content...and unskippable racing missions that are terrible. I bought Grand Theft Auto for a reason Rockstar and that reason is, I didn't want Midnight Club.

I don't like Killer 7. I want to like Killer 7 but I can't even sugar coat the fact that I dislike it. Not for a lack of trying and Hell, I like the aesthetic and general WTF quality of it but the gameplay just kills it for me.

Kingdom Hearts is a series that I enjoy but I just wanna point out that the plot really doesn't want me to. Also 3Ds think I would rather play with candy-colored Poke-Non instead of recognizable characters who I care about.

 

[Username Redacted]

Two classic games for me fall into this category.

Beyond Good and Evil: The characters are interesting. The world they've designed is interesting. The story is...meh.

Planescape: Torment: I picked this up a bit ago because I didn't own a computer when it first came out and I figured I'd give it a go. Progress has been slow. I like the story and most of the characters. The world is amazing. What actually usually seems to be killing it for me is the movement. I realize that it's an older game but holy crap does it take a long time to get from point A to point B.

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

I've had a hard time getting into any old-school isometric RPG, and I've tried Baldur's Gate 2, Planescape: Torment, Fallout and Fallout 2. Weirdly though, I managed to play all the way through Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura and even enjoyed it despite barely getting anywhere in these other games.

More recently I've had a hard time trying to get into Bayonetta. I wanted to get that kind of fighting game just to try a new genre, and Bayonetta was the cheapest option available to me. I really want to enjoy it enough to keep practising and get good, but the game has so many annoying design choices that I just can't.

 

[cerebreturns]

The X games (X3 specificly)

I love the concept, I love what I've heard from other people, I own them, I've tried to play them...

The controls are just so horrible and the learning curve is so huge (basicly little to no tutorial)...I just can't get into it even though I know I would love it.