Games you've never really 'got.'
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If you've never started at FF3 for SNES I can understand this position. FF7 ( which was the next installation, technically FF3 was FF6 in Asia ) was an improvement in gameplay, but very convoluted in story.Omrosa Samosa said:
FF3 was an amazing game, go play it and you'll have a fine appreciation for RPG's.
Metal Gear Solid series.
Cutscenes and occassional, obtuse gameplay.
Halo: Combat Evolved.
Only played the first--redundant single-player, no online play, no multi-player bots.
Uncharted series.
Lots of cutscenes; mediocre gameplay relies on art assets.
Pre-4 Resident Evil games.
These are just bad adventure games, really.
Heavy Rain.
Is just Shenmue but with more linear environments, no VF engine supporting its gameplay and inferior art design. Oh, and it came out a decade later.
Diablo series.
So much clicking barely discernible enemies, dear god.
Any number of JRPGs.
There's a few I like, but most of them just plagiarize each other, and the archetypes and overwrought FMV are irritating.
Cutscenes and occassional, obtuse gameplay.
Halo: Combat Evolved.
Only played the first--redundant single-player, no online play, no multi-player bots.
Uncharted series.
Lots of cutscenes; mediocre gameplay relies on art assets.
Pre-4 Resident Evil games.
These are just bad adventure games, really.
Heavy Rain.
Is just Shenmue but with more linear environments, no VF engine supporting its gameplay and inferior art design. Oh, and it came out a decade later.
Diablo series.
So much clicking barely discernible enemies, dear god.
Any number of JRPGs.
There's a few I like, but most of them just plagiarize each other, and the archetypes and overwrought FMV are irritating.
the thing about DA:O from helping my friends through it is they walk in thinking it's like Mass Effect, where your character build isn't that important. I loved it because it's just like KOTOR without the lightsabers =)kman123 said:
for me these three games I don't understand their hype, their built up in advertising and by obsessive fans to be the greatest game ever made. Then you play it and it's just... average...
Halo, I was too poor to afford an Xbox when they Launched so it was a while later until I managed to play Halo 1 & 2. to me it was just Quake 2 with regenerating health. Then I played Halo 3 and again I was instantly let down by its introduction. I think Halo 3 is a fantastic Driving game and an average shooter. I've bought Reach but still havent completed it, I got up to the night time sniping area and just fell out of interest, I'll try it again someday.
Gears Of War, similar to the Halo series I havent understood this games appeal. Hide behind a wall shoot a Locust 5 - 10 times in the head to kill him. Run to next wall. Repeat. I'd played the Uncharted games before hand and loved how they'd blended "prince of persia" wall scrambling with a cover based system, making you scramble up walls to get a higher vantage point. Gears of War wasn't terrible but I'd place it slightly higher than Kane and Lynch.
God of War, I played the first one and I loved it, but the sequels I found to be bland, all about spectacle and flashy graphics and gore instead of any actual motivation to go through the game. All my mates love it and go on about how increadible fights are in GOW3 leaving me to just nod my head and placidly agree. I preferred Onimusha, or even Devil May Cry.
But what do I know eh?
I live in Urugauay where football is the most popular sport but I dislike every football/soccer game. I like to watch football, though I'm not a hardcore fan, but playing Pro Evolution Soccer, some FIFA edition or Winning Eleven is just soooooo boring. I find the games mechanics and physics to be awkward (though my friends say that these "feel very real") and I see no point in sitting in fron of a TV or PC in order to play something that I could do IRL (ok, maybe I play a lot worse than any semi-pro football player but kicking a ball is something everyone can do)or I could watch in a better way just by turning on the TV.
Also, most console games, specially if there's a PC version or if the port to PC is bad due to bad coding and lack of interest on said port, then I blame the console market. But focusing on the consoles I think that there's some kind of ultra-hyping for every console game that just surpases me. Halo and Gears of War are two games I couldn't got despite being revered as beingthe pinnacle of game design, they are good but not enough, also I dislike GoW characters.
Also, most console games, specially if there's a PC version or if the port to PC is bad due to bad coding and lack of interest on said port, then I blame the console market. But focusing on the consoles I think that there's some kind of ultra-hyping for every console game that just surpases me. Halo and Gears of War are two games I couldn't got despite being revered as beingthe pinnacle of game design, they are good but not enough, also I dislike GoW characters.
+1 to this. I've played a -ton- of MMORPGs, ranging from stuff like Guild Wars and WoW to endless free-to-play MMOs (including the Shin Megami Tensei MMO, a game which I was near certain I'd enjoy) and, well, I fail to see the appeal in any of them. I'd play for, at most, a week or two until I came to the realisation that, unless you abuse the metagame as much as humanly possible, most MMOs just aren't that fun.Roxor said:
Halo (series)
Dragon Age
Mass Effect
Final Fantasy VIII
Oblivion
Starcraft
Heavy Rain
Super Smash Bros Brawl
New Vegas - Kinda. It was ok, probably won't play it again. I don't see why everyone says it is so amazing. Its really boring and bland, especially compared to Fallout 3.
Dragon Age
Mass Effect
Final Fantasy VIII
Oblivion
Starcraft
Heavy Rain
Super Smash Bros Brawl
New Vegas - Kinda. It was ok, probably won't play it again. I don't see why everyone says it is so amazing. Its really boring and bland, especially compared to Fallout 3.
I'd say Oblivion, an amnemic storyline, a boring fighting system, lots and lots of void, nothing interesting goes on at all (you can add WoW, but I think its because I can understand that basicly they filled every need MMORPG-eger had and managed to flush the compettion had who can't find someway to change the genre)
Same as OP never understood Halo, it really is one of the most average FPS games I've ever played. With Uncharted it was just a poor man's tombraider in my opinion, just style over substance.
I also never got why people went on and on about Half-life 2, it's pretty good but the first was far better. Better weapons, more variety of enemies, more death traps, and it was just way more sci-fi b-move esque and so way cooler in my opinion. The sequel was good but it just wasn't the same for me.
I also never got why people went on and on about Half-life 2, it's pretty good but the first was far better. Better weapons, more variety of enemies, more death traps, and it was just way more sci-fi b-move esque and so way cooler in my opinion. The sequel was good but it just wasn't the same for me.
Final Fantasy. It's funny because I just adore jrpg's but Ive always hated this series. Ive never found the characters compelling but I do enjoy the art. However the battle style... naw. Not for me. Maybe it's my preference to turn base but the old school real time always bugged me. Course I like to think about my moves rather than being rushed.
Halo is another. Not sure why. Just never got into it.
World of Warcraft. How many friends have you stolen from me? It's not the game, its the people
Halo is another. Not sure why. Just never got into it.
World of Warcraft. How many friends have you stolen from me? It's not the game, its the people
Damn you ninja...!Redem said:
Seriously. What is up with this game? It's just a big pile of nothingness with some equally empty people to add some void to the void. Oh yeah, and make sure to fix them Oblivion gates.
Repeat until insane.
How can people like this?
I am going to be drug out into the street and beaten with heavy clubs here but.....
Bioshock
Ya I said it. The game was great, the story was great, but the combat, random ammo types/lack of ammo ( maybe that was my problem ) and sometimes slightly confusing level directions put me off. I never had the bullets to kill a big brother. I always wanted to squish the adams, which was 'bad'. Maybe Ill have to try it again.....
Bioshock
Ya I said it. The game was great, the story was great, but the combat, random ammo types/lack of ammo ( maybe that was my problem ) and sometimes slightly confusing level directions put me off. I never had the bullets to kill a big brother. I always wanted to squish the adams, which was 'bad'. Maybe Ill have to try it again.....
LOL. I actually like Morrowind and reading this makes me wonder if the game has trained me to be accustomed to failure.madwarper said:
I went the other direction, though. I loved Morrowind but I still don't understand how Oblivion is better. Sure it looks better but there aren't as many interesting quests, there aren't as many organizations to enjoy, and (probably my biggest complaint) there was political aspect to the game. I remember persuading nobles (in Morrowind) to vote me as master of their Great house and I even had to assassinate a few people doing this. Maybe I'm channeling Roman senators but I miss that political aspect.
"traditional" RPGs. They're all more or less western RPGs, but not all western RPGs fall under "traditional". The trail starts at Baldur's Gate and Fallout, and includes pretty much everything with an isometric view option, castle walls made out of dialogue, and occasionally D&D rulesets.
Off the top of my head, Baldur's Gate 1 & 2, Icewind Dale 1 & maybe 2(never played it), Fallout 1 & 2, Neverwinter Nights 1 & 2, TES: Morrowind(oddball of the group), Dragon Age: Origins.
Not really saying they're all bad, but at best they will be timewasters for me, nothing more.
Off the top of my head, Baldur's Gate 1 & 2, Icewind Dale 1 & maybe 2(never played it), Fallout 1 & 2, Neverwinter Nights 1 & 2, TES: Morrowind(oddball of the group), Dragon Age: Origins.
Not really saying they're all bad, but at best they will be timewasters for me, nothing more.
I borrowed Fallout 3 of a friend, played it for a few hours... now it just sits on my shelf, waiting return. I liked Oblivion, and F3 is pretty much the same thing only in the future, but still, I have no enthusiasm for it. Playing for a few hours, I had already aquired tons of money, hundreds of guns and a goddamn house - it took me like 20 hours to get a decent house in Oblivion! For a post-apocalyptic setting, resources sure are plentiful. Though I think the biggest reason I can't play it is because I've been spoiled by Bioware... the well developed NPCs and story makes Fallout seem so lonely in comparison.
Don't bother, the story overall is absolutely horrible(even for the usual JRPG stereotype), the only draw to the game is if you actually enjoy the game part.Big Bruce said:FF13, I simply didn't understand the whole fancy tattoo thing. Maybe I should of finished it.
If you'd just like to skip it, here's a summary of what I could gather by maintaining a strict rule of skipping a cutscene the first time it made me cringe:
There are two cities. The main one has a bunch of Supermonsters, and the other one has one Supermonster. The Supermonsters are figurehead rulers with no real power. They can make people into Superpeople in exchange for doing some favor someday, after which you turn into some sort of glass for some amount of time, and then you retain your superpowers and go on about your business. All of your idiots lived in Main City but got exposed to Other City's Supermonster while all being on vacation at the exact same time and place but having, at best, friend of a friend relations with each other at all.
Since all the normal people hate Superpeople for no explained reason, all of you get sent to a slave camp, which just happens to house Other City's Supermonster. All of you accidentally meet up inside Other City's Supermonster for no real reason, and get turned into Superpeople, but Supermonster dies before it can tell you what you're supposed to do. Apparently that's bad, since if you don't do what you're supposed to, something bad that is poorly explained at best happens. So you immediately come to the conclusion that the Other City Supermonster wanted you to kill everyone in Main City, and head off to do that.
Then you switch sides like 15 times. Then another Supermonster reveals that your job was, in fact, to kill all the Supermonsters. That's apparently bad, because people need them in order to get food or oxygen or electricity or I don't know what, it's not explained. They can't just kill themselves or each other because of "the rules" which are never explained.
SO, you spend the entire game telling the Supermonsters that you refuse to kill them, fight your way through like three armies to get to them, then kill them by summoning some sort of barely-explained superpower that has nothing to do with anything.
THE END.
Since all the normal people hate Superpeople for no explained reason, all of you get sent to a slave camp, which just happens to house Other City's Supermonster. All of you accidentally meet up inside Other City's Supermonster for no real reason, and get turned into Superpeople, but Supermonster dies before it can tell you what you're supposed to do. Apparently that's bad, since if you don't do what you're supposed to, something bad that is poorly explained at best happens. So you immediately come to the conclusion that the Other City Supermonster wanted you to kill everyone in Main City, and head off to do that.
Then you switch sides like 15 times. Then another Supermonster reveals that your job was, in fact, to kill all the Supermonsters. That's apparently bad, because people need them in order to get food or oxygen or electricity or I don't know what, it's not explained. They can't just kill themselves or each other because of "the rules" which are never explained.
SO, you spend the entire game telling the Supermonsters that you refuse to kill them, fight your way through like three armies to get to them, then kill them by summoning some sort of barely-explained superpower that has nothing to do with anything.
THE END.
Any game that requires repeated consumption of work hours, or that extends as a secondary job. Games like Disgaea or MMORPGs, which people pump hundreds of hours into. I can understand MMOs with the concept of guilds and friends to interact with, but games like Disgaea I will NEVER understand, despite trying Disgaea 3 out for 60 hours before realising I was wasting my time.