Games you want to like but just can't

[Continuity]

Neverwinter Nights 1+2 and Baldur's Gate 1+2

I just found them to be so boring and tedious. Add to that my unfamiliarity with D&D, and they were just unfun experiences.

My you really are a glutton for punishment! if you didn't like BG1 what made you play the next 3 games? That sort of RPG isn't for everyone anyway, old school cRPG is pretty much a niche product against the backdrop of the modern gaming pantheon.

For me ArmA2, it has a lot going for it but I guess I just dont have as much patience for FPS as I used to. Time was when I spent hundreds of hours playing hardcore tactical FPS like Raven shield and loved every minute. Maybe its just the open battlefield that puts me off, IDK.

 

[ultramarine486]

So many big name games here...

For me it was Unlimited Saga.

The game was downright beautiful, had a large cast (7 main characters total with plenty of side and support characters), Multiple story paths that intersected and met up with others, Interesting combat system, amazing soundtrack, and a cool take on dungeons.

But good lord the level up system sucked so much. To the point where you'd go on a mission and have a good chance of getting WEAKER.

 

[Squidbulb]

Skyrim. It looked perfect for me so I ran at it with open arms. It embraced me for a good few hours before throwing me to the ground and piddling on my face.
Seriously, the environments were almost completely empty with a couple of dungeons copy and pasted all over the map. Why can't Bethesda design more than one environment per game? For Oblivion it was grasslands and forest and for Skyrim it's pretty similar but with more snow. Why not take a lesson from Zelda and mix it up a bit?
Then there were the npcs. So ugly (the only reason I played in first person is because my character looked like he just climbed out of a car crash) and with two voice actors to share between them, and neither of them were any good.
I get the feeling this would have been much better if the developers had gone for a little less content and more polish. As of yet, I'm still searching for my perfect game (basically Skyrim without the aforementioned problems). I feel so left out.

 

[TorqueConverter]

Deus Ex Human Revolution.

I'm not even 10 hours in and I just see no reason to continue. I'm not having fun. I don't care about the love interest, whatever the hell her name was or her god damn mother either. Why is the city of Detroit the size of one half city block? Does Adam sleep in the hallways of his place of employment? Where the hell is his house? Where is the rest of the city for that matter?

No game, I'm not going to sneak around anymore in your story-telling set pieces and throw myself at furniture until you quit acting like a linear, story driven FPS with cover based mechanics.

ummm... You know you have to explore, even the slightest bit, right?

Adam Jensen lives in his apartment that you can walk to at anytime.

The mother thing was also just a side mission...

Detroit is much bigger than half a block, you have gone to the place with all the apartments, right? or through the subway station tothe other side of town, right?

I hope you dont honestly mean that they should build the ENITRE city of Detroit...

(You also go to a bigger city in China later in the game)

Maybe you shop,uld play and EXPLORE ANYTHING before getting mad and quitting....

I've explored every square inch of that "city" available to me. It's tiny. How else woudld I have come to the conclusion that it is small? Fucking telepathy, huh?

Perhaps it opens up as the game progresses, but why the hell is everything blocked off early in the game anyway? What kind of bull shit it that?

What kind of game actively discourages exploration and confines you to a mission hub?

Is there really no way to get any of the NPC's to just shut up? I was bashing my keyboard in desperation to end the dialog with whats-her-face's mother. I'm afraid to accept any side quests now if they're all going to be painfully long cutscenes.

I REALLLLYY want to like this game. Everytime I try to play this game I just end up playing saints row 3 instead. Deus Ex is not fun. Maybe it gets better later on.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

Um. That doesn't really ever happen for me. I tend to not get games that I 'try' to like, because I'm a 3-4 games a year kinda guy/

I guess I really wanna like Runescape, because I have two friends that are obsessed with it, but.... yeah. Nothing really does it for me in that game. I don't get it.

I will say, I do enjoy following my friend as he goes into places that are ridiculously higher levels than me, such as the lava place. That was nifty.

 

[Alssadar]

Half-Life 2. The whole experience felt a bit 'meh' to me: the basic AI can't hit a barn, the only difficulty were the headcrabs/zombies jumping around corners in the dark, and the vehicle sections felt drawn out with no real purpose besides 'Hey, look! We can build a big world!"
Also, Terraria. Most of my friends play it, but I prefer the creative aspect of Minecraft--to build and create 'civilization,' coupled along with my fragile existence, overrules adventuring into the unknown for little return.

 

[Kotaro]

Fallout 3. I love The Elder Scrolls, and Fallout 3 is basically TES with guns, but I just can't get into it. I can't explain why, but it doesn't interest me.

 

[Rheinmetall]

Dead Island comes to my mind right now. I liked it very much as a concept and game-play, but can't overlook the fact that it was boring. I wanted it to be really good, but I can't fool myself. It is just an okay game.

 

[Grivahri]

I really wanted to like Dead rising. It looked cool killing zombies in a mall by throwing CDs at them but it sucked.

 

[ThePenguinKnight]

I really wish I could get into Roguelikes, they just don't click for me.

 

[Patathatapon]

Fallout 1 and 2.

I liked 3 and new vegas, but for 1 and 2 I just can't LIKE them.
I like the way interplay did things, but i just couldn't manage. The turning point though was probably the shooting aspect.

 

[suitepee7]

dragon age. i love bioware, i love the idea of a small squad you take command of, but i cannot stand those games. got 2 hours in and just uninstalled it

 

[-Seraph-]

Persona 3...ugh...

This game has some of the worst fucking pacing I've seen in any game. The story takes too damn long to go anywhere with the highschool/dating sim crap taking up more time than it should. I didn't mind that stuff at first, but it quickly becomes a chore and tedious grind as you desperately wait for the month to pass for some actual story to happen.

It's just awful, and the social links become tedious and stagnant after so long and act as nothing more than a novelty than anything meaningful. Of course they pigeonhole you into doing them in order to get your stats up, and thus it becomes a chore like I said.

Then there is the awful dungeon design....as in there is only one dungeon that changes color/pattern every so many floors. Randomly generated dungeon floors in a game like this is boring, tedious, and lazy. Ok there are a few other "dungeons" in the game, but Tartarus gets boring fast.

See the actual plot when it happened wasn't so bad, I liked it and the characters. But you have to slog through so much padding that I had to fight myself and trudge through it. Though some of the bullshitty bosses don't help. The combat wasn't anything special (I had P3P, so I could CONTROL my party), I was fine with it.

I'd concede in saying that this game is a "flawed gem", but my god is it overrated. I have no idea how so many people could gloss over some of the horrid design decisions of this game. Oh well...to each their own.

 

[Fidelias]

The Armored Core games.

Now, I LOVE robots. I especially love being able to play as a pilot who gets to drive a massive killing machine, but I just can't get into the Armored Core games.

There's no weight to the weapons. You're firing, (and being fired at) by colossal guns that shoot bullets the size of a car, and there's no recoil, no staggering, no camera shake. It seems like your mech just shrugged off the attack, but your health just went down a couple thousand hit points.

The user interface is just TERRIBLE. It's all a bunch of letters and numbers, and it's real hard to glance at all that and figure out how much health and ammo you have.

I LOVE mech games, and I really want to like this series, but I just can't.

 

[SuperNova221]

Easily STALKER. Sounded like a more hardcore and generally less RPG-y version of Fallout 3, which sounded great to me. But every time I've tried it I've just felt like it was really dull. It can't hold my attention at all.

Edit: Also Mass Effect, friend leant it to me shortly after they completed the first one, was told by many people it was great, tried it and it just seemed completely biege. Drudged through the opening sequence, with hope that it was maybe a bit long winded and it would pick up from there. Tried some side questy thing to realise the combat was still bland outside of the opening, then once I explored my first planet to see what the exploration was like, I gave up. Just everything about it screamed mediocrity.

 

[Stemer]

Gears of war series, mass effect series, uncharted series, basically all the cover based shooting series everyone keeps saying are great, but have such boring gameplay that I have to stop after 10 minutes of play to dose up on caffeine.

 

[velcrokidneyz]

I really disliked Dead Rising 2, I liked the first and thought that all the new elements they boasted would be fun! They were fun... until you remember you have a daughter that you need to bring meds too. It just felt like, couldn't you stockpile a few and give them to someone in the safe zone so I could go around longer and not have to check her every goddamn second.

 

[Mariakko]

Mass Effect. I want to like it because it's a sci-fi RPG and it is what I'd expect a sci-fi RPG to have but it was just boring and the story was bad.

 

[PsychicTaco115]

Dead Rising 2 - I loved Case Zero, but when i got the full game it was just too big, and the combat got really boring, really fast. That and the mission timers bugged me.

Crysis 2 - I love me a good shooter, and this one looked really good, but the story was repetitive, and the multiplayer was really generic.

I agree on the second one and the first one makes me weep. If they had an "infinite mode" id murder to play it. It just looks so fun! But i dont wanna be weighed down with stupid timers and missions, why is there no sandbox mode!

Actually, Capcom released "Dead Rising 2: Off the Record," which has the sandbox mode that you want. Give it a rent at least, you'd probably like it.

As for me, I began Dead Island, liking it. But as the game wore on, it started to hate me, and I started to hate it.

Explosive zombies that can kill you in one blast, in a large radius? Yep

Story that started off well, then just started to get sappy? Check

Spawining zombies that can come from behind and kill you? Most definitly

Thank goodness I only borrowed it from a friend and didn't have to pay $60 for it

 

[AT God]

Skyrim, never got into oblivion and cannot get into skyrim.