Games you want to like but just can't

[DeltaEdge]

The Mass Effect series. Don't get me wrong, I don't think there is any problem with it.My dad's friend got it for me for christmas to make me try it because he loves it. There are a few key issues that keep me from liking it. 1) I don't really like sci-fi and/or games that involves space travel and such. 2) I don't really like first person shooters or third person shooters and I am terrible at shooters of any kind whether it be first person or third person and the camera is a little too close to the character for me to be comfortable either way. 3) The story is just a bit too serious for my tastes. I just can't really enjoy a game or tv for that matter that is just pretty much all serious all the time. I also think that I have bad taste in stories in general.
The Half-Life series. Pretty much for the same reasons as above.
EDIT: Oh, and Skyrim. I dunno, I just prefer linear stories I guess.

 

[Candidus]

It's not that I want to like Half Life 2 and just can't. More that, I really want(ed) it to be anywhere near as good as people say it is, and it just isn't.

Also:

Mass Effect 3, because of the ending.

Anything by Obsidian, because the writing just isn't that great, the coding is awful and the shadow of Baldur's Gate still looms large over everything RPG for me.

Anything by Bathesda, especially Skyrim. It's not an RPG, it's a viking sandbox. I should love that, but I just feel alone; the people are as barren as the crags in Morrowind.

HoN. I like LoL and I like Dota 2, but I can't get into HoN at all.

 

[bluepanda 492]

Mass Effect, Dead Island, and Dead Space Couldn't get into them only got through Dead Island due to friends playing, the other two i got maybe halfway through.

Legend of Zelda Twilight princess killed me with the wimote controls.

Resident Evil Operation Racoon City, Started out extremely fun (played with three friends) but they all got bored of it and the more i play alone the more broken it feels.

Duke Nukem Forever, I dont think anything needs to be said.

 

[bullet_sandw1ch]

Dragon age: origins. i tried, i tried so very hard, but that part with the possessed little kid and the fade was so terrible it ruined any chance i had for finishing it.

 

[Broady Brio]

Assassin's Creed: Revelations.

While having such a stock title there, just going through the missions again has really put me off playing it. Mainly due to them being tutorial missions. I've played through AC1, AC2 and ACB. I know how to play the game, though I appreciate the bomb tutorial, but please, don't make me unlock the good stuff first... That just saddens me.

 

[Rad Party God]

This:

I've tried, I've seriously tried to get into "one of the / the best RPG/s ever made", but I just can't, the combat system is just too damn random and infuriating for me and I just hate to quicksave and pause every damn second for almost everything.

Ironically, some people say exactly the same for Fallout 1 & 2, wich I wholeheartedly love, I dig it's combat system (once you modify it's speed in the options menu) and other oddities, but I just can't dig Baldur's Gate.

Same with X-Com, wich I'm eagerly waiting for Firaxis' version for that same reason.

 

[bullet_sandw1ch]

Mass Effect, Dead Island, and Dead Space Couldn't get into them only got through Dead Island due to friends playing, the other two i got maybe halfway through.

Legend of Zelda Twilight princess killed me with the wimote controls.

Resident Evil Operation Racoon City, Started out extremely fun (played with three friends) but they all got bored of it and the more i play alone the more broken it feels.

Duke Nukem Forever, I dont think anything needs to be said.

what console? if xbox, hang in there buddy! im getting it on the week of april 19. add me: BULLET SANDW1CH

 

[irishda]

I turned off half-life after before that GODAWFUL fifteen minute opening train ride was even over. Who the fuck decided people would enjoy a commute in their video games too?

 

[DeltaEdge]

Tales of Graces F is my most recent example of this.

I loved the changes to the combat, but the characters make the FF13 bunch look amazing by comparison, and the story is paced horribly. Quit at 12 hours, and even sold it.

If this is the game Namco chooses to base the US fate of Tales on, they can fucking keep it in Japan.

I get the feeling my experience with the game might not be that great either. Just to be clear, I freakin' love the Tales series. I've been extremely excited about Tales of Graces since december 2009. I pre-ordered it to gamestop and got it on the day of its release. Due to certain grade related issues I have had it withheld and tonight will be the verdict on whether or not I can play it during spring break (this upcomming week). Honestly, the combat is the only thing from what I have seen that really strikes me as awesome. The combat just looks so awesome, and I have not been watching the english playthroughs yet until I try it myself but from other japanese vids, the characters just seem quite bland, and some of their costumes and weapons... Don't get me started on their clothing and weapons. The clothes just seem so overly ornate and the weapons just seem really weird like the dude with guns, the style of them just... UGH! Frankly, I worry that the battle system might be the only redeeming quality of this game for me. I don't regret pre-ordering it, but I really hope that this trend doesn't continue for the rest of the Tales of series. While I'm busy hoping, maybe I'll hope that I end up not being very disappointed with the characters and story. On a side note, looking at Tales of Xillia, the characters seem fine as does the game play and story, but the heroine's clothes, My gosh! They are just so weird. Is it just me, or have heroines from recent tales of games had really crappy costume design? Sorry if I lost ya there drifting off into a terrible rant, just thought I'd make all of these thoughts known.

 

[MrA]

The Half Life series. I want to like it. I really do! It should be everything I love in a game: great story with great gun mechanics! But I start playing it and...and... I just CANT ENJOY IT!

 

[Dirty Apple]

Dragon age: origins. i tried, i tried so very hard, but that part with the possessed little kid and the fade was so terrible it ruined any chance i had for finishing it.

Did you half way enjoy it until then? Because that whole segment is by far the worst part of the game. There's actually a mod that lets you skip the fade and its silliness.

O.T: Tactics Ogre.

Years ago, a roomate of mine highly recommended a ps1 game by Square Enix. He wouldn't stop going on about it. So, sometime down the road, I'm on E-bay and I see the game for sale, and I think sure I'll grab it. I tried over and over again to get into it and to this day I don't know what he saw in it. The game is incomprehensible.

 

[Segadroid]

Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters. In this case the port to the PS2.

It's a Ratchet & Clank game, dammit. The story is alright, the weapons and locations are varied and it's got a few nice minigames and gimmicks. Hell, even for a PSP game it's alright.

And yet... It feels so unpolished; almost like a late beta.
Locations are varied, but poorly designed and rendered. The music sometimes cuts out after in-game cutscenes. Some weapons are useless in battle, others overpowered. Enemies have a hard time spotting you when you're 4 feet away. The camera refuses to work along; it's too closely positioned behind you, clips through walls and ceilings (or gets stuck in them) or outright refuses to follow you when you walk away from your ship.

I try to ignore the faults. I try to enjoy playing this game. But I just can't.

 

[Ieyke]

Final Fantasy Tactics (the original and "War Of The Lions") is the ONLY good Final Fantasy game, and holy damn is it good.
I own it for PS1, PS3, PSP, and iPad....cuz it's that awesome.



Anyhow, the games I want to love but just can't are BioShock, Batman:Arkham Asylum, and Deus Ex:Human Revolution.
For the life of me, I just can't figure out why I can't get into them.
I love everything about them....

The one I want to be into but just can't because the game is built retarded is Dead Rising 2.
The save system....oh gods soooo stupid. So punishing.

 

[Coldster]

World of Warcraft and League of Legends. I know so many of my friends play those games, but I just can't get into them at all. Just not for me I guess.

 

[MortisLegio]

Bioshock

I dont know why. I love the look and feel, I love the gunplay, and I like the overall story but it just doesn't click.

 

[nomzy]

Both of the Witcher games. I tried, tried so hard to like them but I simply didn't have fun.
Something about the fact that if I held down the right-click before coming out of a roll and then not immediately blocking after I come out and having to press it again really, really rustled my jimmies.
I also hated the dialogue, don't even know why - Just rubbed me the wrong way.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Saint's Row 3.

I loved Saint's Row 2 more than I ever thought possible but the 3rd one? I just can't get into it. I got it for Christmas, have played a grand total of about 3 hours and that's it. I'm sure I will play it eventually, I just find myself not wanting to go back to it.

I have a similar thing with Skyrim. I played that a lot then put it down one day and never came back to it. Though I assign part of the blame about that to my boyfriend. Once you've been orally pleasured while playing a game, playing it without the oral pleasure just doesn't quite measure up...

 

[Greatjusticeman]

Assassins Creed.

The first one I was able to do - the gameplay got boring after awhile but I really enjoyed the setting and the characters. However, I wasn't able to even get halfway through AC2 because I just didn't like the setting or the character.

It sucks, cause my friends like AC, and AC3 doesn't look half bad. But I just can't get myself to play through any of the previous.

 

[Biodeamon]

Rage. it has tons of things i should like but i just don't feel the love.

 

[bullet_sandw1ch]

Dragon age: origins. i tried, i tried so very hard, but that part with the possessed little kid and the fade was so terrible it ruined any chance i had for finishing it.

Did you half way enjoy it until then? Because that whole segment is by far the worst part of the game. There's actually a mod that lets you skip the fade and its silliness.

O.T: Tactics Ogre.

Years ago, a roomate of mine highly recommended a ps1 game by Square Enix. He wouldn't stop going on about it. So, sometime down the road, I'm on E-bay and I see the game for sale, and I think sure I'll grab it. I tried over and over again to get into it and to this day I don't know what he saw in it. The game is incomprehensible.

until that part, it was on it's way to be my game of the year. then, that part came. it was just so bad, that it killed my mood. i got up, and sold it immediately. it was that bad to me.