Games you want to like but just can't

[Corporal Yakob]

On paper the S.T.A.L.K.E.R series sound perfect for me: a collection of non-linear FPS RPGs set in the former Warsaw Pact with supernatural elements? Yes please! But every time I start the first game I just lose interest and I can't tell why. Lack of character creation maybe?

My dad loves those games though, won't hear anything against them.

 

[King of Asgaard]

I WANT to like Dark Souls.

But then I realize that its impossible to 'like' that game.

I love Dark Souls.
It makes me angrier than any other game, but I fucking love it.

OT: FFXIII, for reasons everybody knows at this point.

 

[Phasmal]

Final Fantasy 7

I'm having to play it at the moment due to a deal I made with my boyfriend. And its just rubbish, its boring and looks like folded paper.

Everybody seems to love it but I am starting to think that is just nostalgia blindness.
I've been assured it gets better later on.

 

[Zantos]

Red Dead Redemption. I really want to like it, and there's a lot that appeals to me, but I just get bored and wander off after a while.

Come to think of it, I have the same feeling about the Witcher.

 

[paislyabmj]

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*waits for fanboys to permaban me/Escapists to flame me*

Hey, it's just my opinion.

Your opinion sucks.
FUCK OFF.

you may get a less flamey response if you give reasons why the game wasnt your thing rarther than trying to avoid getting flamed.

for me.the original fallouts.i dont know what it is i just cant like the game that much.i loved other similar games like baldurs gate.but fallout ,no.

 

[Epicspoon]

Tales of Phantasia. dear god why did we only get the GBA version?

 

[krazykidd]

Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions

I loved Final Fantasy Tactics on GBA and I find that there are things in this game which are better in comparison......but by Christ is the difficulty just too brutal. A handful of the missions I had to go through felt so hard to accomplish and the amount of farming to get my troops to their strengths to finish them was just not fun for me. The other game felt alot easier to get through the story without feeling stuck but in this game the amount of times I have to grind my arse off just to finish one stinking mission is just annoying.

Also that one mission where you have to defend Rapha on Riovanes Castle Roof, two words:

FUCK....IT!

The original on the ps1 was harder in my opinion. Having played that one first i found the gba ones too easy , but then again i'm a gaming masochist lol . I must admit it is pretty hard , even when you don't do the bonus stuff . I was so dissapointed that your characters coulda perma die in the gba games and i really didn't like the laws , so of them were flat out retarded. I won't say they are bad games though , because they aren't .

I do agree that a stupid amount of grind is required for FFT war of lions, but the original was worst , way worst in regards to the grind. But despite that it is one of my favorite games ever.

 

[krazykidd]

Double post , my bad.

 

[AlternatePFG]

I WANT to like Dark Souls.

But then I realize that its impossible to 'like' that game.

I love Dark Souls.
It makes me angrier than any other game, but I fucking love it.

Both of the Souls games have caused me so much frustration in the past, but I still love them.

On-topic: BioShock 1&2. I liked the story just about until the point right after you meet Andrew Ryan. It should have ended there, because the rest of the game was pretty awful, story wise and gameplay wise. I found the gameplay in general in that game to be tedious, the second one kind of improved that, but not really by a significant margin. Despite its improvements to the gameplay, the second game was just bland and unnecessary. Still have hopes for Infinite though.

The Elder Scroll series in general has been hard for me to really like. I played quite a bit of Skyrim when it came out, and I enjoyed it then, but as time goes on, I just dislike the games more and more. Can't really explain it, but Oblivion and Skyrim feel really hollow and unsatisfying to play. They just to begin to feel like really shallow single player MMO's with no challenge after awhile. I bet I'd like Morrowind if I could get over some of its quirks, but I can't.

 

[Xannidel]

Kid Icarus Uprising, I really want to like it, the graphics are so amazing and the music is as well but my god Pit's voice just drives me insane and the controls for the ground battles just frustrates me more and more when I am trying to run away/around an enemy and while trying to move the camera AND dodge, the enemy is just rofl stomping me until I die.

Beyonette, I am a big fan of the DmC series when i was younger but for some reason this game does absolutely jack for me. I have tried to replay the intro and first few levels but I just cannot bring myself to do so.

Elder Scrolls series, Not too sure why I cannot enjoy the games but I guess it has to do with the lack of linearity. Yes I am sure it is linear if you skip all side missions and just do the main missions but I love doing side missions and seeing if those missions/quests give additional back story or help influence the ending of the game.

 

[likalaruku]

*Icewind Dale.
*Psychonaughts.

 

[xPixelatedx]

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*waits for fanboys to permaban me/Escapists to flame me*

Hey, it's just my opinion.

Your opinion sucks.
FUCK OFF.

I agree. It's not really a bad game, but I had no urge to re-play it after I beat it. It seemed like more a tech demo to the game engine they created rather then an actual video game.

I liked HL1 because of:
Extremely complex level design, almost reminiscent of Super Metroid. Some backtracking, connecting to new areas, switches to find etc.

A perfect mix of sci-fi and horror (and I do mean perfect)

Bizarre and interesting monsters around every corner

The whole end sequence/level of the game was very surreal, and the perfect way to close such an amazing experience.

The whole thing was very clever and original from start to finish. I really enjoyed conducting an experiment that did all this to the world, I felt like a true mad scientist and hero simultaneously. What an odd mix!

Guess what? 2 has none of that! HL2 has great voice acting, likable characters, good scenery, neat physics... and none of that is what I enjoyed in HL or any of it's spinoffs (I wasn't looking for any of that). Having that there isn't a problem at all, those are all great things!! Unfortunately they weren't additions, they were replacements. All the things I was looking for weren't there, which made the whole experience of HL2 very lacking for me.

The worst part of all is HL2's main enemy is interchangeable with the soldiers you encounter later in HL1. Firefights? ...With PEOPLE!? I thought that was boring as hell in HL1 (especially with all the fantastical things everywhere else in the game), and HL2 just reminded me of how boring that was again. Oh how I long for the days when HL meant a giant three headed green abomination banging it's head endlessly in a silo that must be navigated.

I will admit Episode 2 was a step in the right direction.

 

[tobi the good boy]

Have I said this before? Neverwinter Nights 2, I could never get past the first act, it annoyed the crap out of me. But, when I get some free time I might try again.

 

[deadguy]

Mine has got to be Wind Waker, I'm a massive Zelda fan and so many people claim it to be the best one but something about it just... irks me. Irks me to my core.

 

[Odbarc]

ChronoCross

 

[xPixelatedx]

Mine has got to be Wind Waker, I'm a massive Zelda fan and so many people claim it to be the best one but something about it just... irks me. Irks me to my core.

I feel your pain to. I loved the old NES zelda, and I read that this Link was supposed to be a throwback to the first NES style link. And yeah, I could kind of see that, so the art style didn't bother me. The game however... man, what a letdown. It's funny to, because my friends loved the game part but hated the art style. I just found the whole thing very very boring... I wanted a Hyrule, something to really explore. 90% of Wind Waker was endless blue nothing, with some secrets hidden about. That's... just.... YUCK. Also, Wind Waker is the first videogame I ever fell asleep playing. That kind of says everything right there.

I did finally beat it, and yes I know the spoiler. But you know what? It doesn't change anything. It's not like Hyrule is actually there, you can't play inside it. Meh...

 

[way2sl0w]

For everyone mentioning the Witcher: It gets good when you quit after 5 hours and come back 6 months later and play for another 20 hours. lol

 

[Nopenahnuhuh]

Eve online, damn that game sounds awesome in principle but it's just so goddamn boring when you start playing it... I've tried subscribing again and again, trying to get into it, joining a company and learning the intricacies of the game but I never manage to play it for more than a few days straight before getting burned out.

 

[A Raging Emo]

Tribes: Ascend.

I really, really want to like that game, but I just can't. I find that the way the maps are so large and that everyone can go frictionless/have a jet pack makes the game a bit too... bouncy. It's not very fluid, and anyone rarely kills anyone else, it seems.

Captcha: Oh, lord

 

[Skoldpadda]

I remember pumping quite a few hours into Oblivion and never getting into it. God, it's bland.

Batman: Arkham Asylum. Fantastic atmosphere, but I never feel like a badass because it's automated so much. I just push Y a few times and Batman kicks around like a ninja and bangs heads against the wall. It looks great but it's just not me doing it. I really tried to like it, but it bores me, and I get distracted.

Once a year I hear how awesome GUN is, reinstall it, and every time without failing, I bust my teeth on the barfight in the first town. It feels like an arcade game, there's like a hundred guys shooting and throwing torches. I like my western gritty, not cartoony.