I REALLY Want to Like You!

[scorptatious]

Heresy, you dareth speak ill of Bioshock Infinite, I bite thy thumb at the!

Oh snap!

It's on now!! It's on like... shit, that phrase is copyrighted. Never mind.

But yeah, both games have their strong points and their weak points. While I personally prefer the first game, I can see why some people would prefer Infinite.

 

[Right Hook]

Dead Island. I guess I was just expecting something much different from what it gave me, I was SO letdown by it. My friends and I tried getting into it but it proved impossible, the final straw was when I finally acquired a revolver and realized that the zombie I was shooting could take around thirty hits without dying, regardless of whether one was a headshot. I wanted a little realism, I can understand why some people like it but I felt lied to by the trailer and cheated out of my money. I'm kinda glad the second one is getting hate to be honest.

 

[Professor Lupin Madblood]

Pokemon black and white is the most boring pokemon game i really wanted to like it cuz i liked the way the legendaries looked and i like pokemon but its the stupidest laziest pokemon generation update to this day i mean a fucking ice cream cone called vannilite i must say it was a improvement on gameplay but when you wanna catch em catching essentially a trashcan and a ice cream cone just seems retarded i mean i know they are running out of ideas but just make random additions on a living animal and stop with the making the what is it now 10 eevees?

Oh, this is gonna be fun.

Spoiler: Spoiler'd in case anyone not interested wants to skip past it.

1. Trubbish is dumb, as is Garbodor. Nobody is arguing with you on this. Nobody ever argued with you on this, and it's very annoying to come across yet another fanboy who thinks he's god's gift to logic by bringing it up. Find another argument.

2. Vanillish/Vanillite/Vanilluxe are some of the strongest ice types, stat-wise.

3. You've mentioned precisely two pokemon/evolution lines that you think ruin the entirety of Gen V because they are/look stupid. I want you to Google the following Pokemon and tell me that they look dumb.
- Haxorus
- Hydreigon
- Bisharp
- Sawk
- Samurott
- Serperior
- Emboar
- Sawsbuck
- Scolipede

I could list the majority of the Pokemon introduced in Gen V, but I'll rest with those.

4. You think that catching ice cream cones and trash bags (not cans) are dumb, do you? Tell me, how dumb would it be to catch Pokemon that are literally animals? How about a sphere that evolves into another sphere? How about a Pokemon that evolves by slapping another one or two identical Pokemon onto the sprite and calling it a day?

Sounds pretty dumb, right? Guess what: that's what Gen I was. Complain about Klink/Klang/Klinklang all you want, but at least it looks visually interesting. At least it moves around instead of just SITTING THERE like every game before Black/White did.

5. Eeveelutions are radical. If you dislike them, that's your loss.

 

[runnernda]

Dead Island and Pokemon Yellow/Ruby/Black/Etc. I love me a zombie game, but Dead Island honestly...bored me. There was SO MUCH potential! And Pokemon...I liked the show, liked the card game, but the game? Just grinding. And grinding. Forever. Eventually I just said "WHY AM I DOING THIS?" and put down the game.

Totally looking forward to X and Y, though!

 

[Pink Gregory]

Brutal Legend. I love everything about the game (the style, the entire idea of it, Jack Black, etc.), but the actual gameplay sucks a fat one.

Yes, I agree with you on this. Not only that, the writing ad cutscenes were top notch, and I wanted to continue to see more of it, but I just....couldn't...

I found the writing outside of Jack Black's parts to be if anything a missed opportunity. I suppose some of Drowned Ophelia's lines were interesting, and Doviculus was a magnificent bastard, if underused; but everything else would have invited some improvement.

But I agree on the gameplay part. Though I never really got tired of the driving.

 

[FFP2]

I did't find the original very stategic, probably because the game was so piss easy as that any statergy simply was 'shoot man with gun', but hey I'm not a very stategic player I don't think too far ahead when I'm playing games.

I hardly used any of the plasmids in the original and the 2 gun and ammo restrictions made me play with different guns and made me rely on the vigors more. But Infinite probably just suits my prefered gameplay style than yours.

You're absolutely right. BS1 was a lot easier. But it had more choice and that's what really appealed to me. I used the Electric and shotgun combo for most of the game. Infinite feels a lot more "frantic" and action-y than BS1, I'm more of a fan of slow and suspenseful.

And fuck that 2 weapon limit Infinite had.

 

[mrgerry123]

Fallout 3. I'm sure it's a good game and I loved the Elder Scrolls series but I couldn't get into it. I think that the focus on surviving rather than being on an epic quest made me tire of it. I logged about 20 hours on 2 different characters but couldn't get immersed, or if I did I got depressed.

 

[dfphetteplace]

I really wanted to like Alpha Protocol, but it sucked. It was just terrible. I also really wanted to like Bioshock. I will give it yet another try, though.

 

[shadyh8er]

God of War: Ascension, hands down.

I own every single game in the franchise and I thought it couldn't get any worse than Ghost of Sparta (which really wasn't that bad). But nope! I couldn't like it just because it had the God of War label on it.

 

[Silly Hats]

Dragon Age
Halo
Kingdom Hearts

Only played the first title in the series, just can't do it.

 

[mbarker]

Call of Duty, the whole Final Fantasy franchise, KOTOR, Fallout New Vegas, Bioshock 2 and so many others I could go on for a while still.

I`ve played all of these games multiple times and I never got into them. I have also fanatically defended how good they were. I think it is because I was told to like them, perhaps it was the click I hung-out with liked these games so I was forcing myself to like them (peer pressure is a powerful thing)

 

[Kmadden2004]

I love RPGs. I love open-world games. I love player-driven narratives.

But I just can't get into the Fallout and Elder Scrolls games.

From the moment I leave Vault 101, the palace dungeon, or whatever subterranean starting location and dump you out into the big, bad world, I just instantly lose all sense of agency in those games.

I've actually tried to play Oblivion three times, and Fallout 3 twice, but it's always the same pattern; I wander around the opening location for an hour or two, then just quit. It's a pity, really, because - on paper, at least - these should be the kind of games I love playing.

I had the same problem with the first Borderlands, really. I'd just mechanically play though the game, but after about an hour I end up giving up asking "what's the point in doing any of this crap?"

 

[StashAugustine]

I love RPGs. I love open-world games. I love player-driven narratives.

But I just can't get into the Fallout and Elder Scrolls games.

From the moment I leave Vault 101, the palace dungeon, or whatever subterranean starting location and dump you out into the big, bad world, I just instantly lose all sense of agency in those games.

I've actually tried to play Oblivion three times, and Fallout 3 twice, but it's always the same pattern; I wander around the opening location for an hour or two, then just quit. It's a pity, really, because - on paper, at least - these should be the kind of games I love playing.

I had the same problem with the first Borderlands, really. I'd just mechanically play though the game, but after about an hour I end up giving up asking "what's the point in doing any of this crap?"

May I recommend New Vegas? It's got a pretty directed start for the first couple hours, then you're really set free (although with foreknowledge or luck you can do stuff beforehand). The world is really well-thought out, and you've got a lot of control over the way the plot progresses.

 

[negimafan587]

Well for me its any atlus game, that has anything to do with devils or demons or what have you. I love the concept of all of their games, but each one i've played so far( P3, nocturne,Devil survivor overclocked) just killed me with boredom.. Its like all the guy at atlus are like "hey lets make all our games tough as balls and make them play like something out of the 80's, and lets make them super long but not substance filled by using repetitive backdrops A.k.a. the tartarus" So if they just made a little less insta-death and added some more locations that you can explore, and have substance, we'd be straight.

Ps: You can also drop the school kids save the world stuff anytime!

 

[Wolfhowl the shadow lurker]

I am alive, with just awful combat and climbing up shit slowly and then geting bored while climbing that shit slowly i liked the idea of a road like game but crapy gameplay does not make it so i wanted to like it but i can't not at all

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

Deus Ex, and any of the Total War series.

(Shogun 2 is squatting on my desktop after a steam sale)

Deus Ex, because of all the delicious RPG and freedom of choice aspect.

And Total War because RTS is a genre that I often neglect.

For the former, the graphics are just terrible (I try to, but it's hard to get past this) and I can't adjust to the stealth/I can't stealth at all.

For the latter, because I lack the patience to micro-manage and because all my planning eventually devolves into "Ctrl+A, RMB".

 

[coates32]

The Hyperdimension Neptunia games- I like the premise and found the main character is likable, but everytime I watch a Let's Play of it, the gameplay and pointless dialog always scares me from any of them.

Lollipop Chainsaw - I'm a fan of No More Hereos, but I've found the gameplay too clunky for my taste.

 

[TheSteeleStrap]

I've given Mass Effect a second and a third try, but I can't do it, maybe because I find the combat boring.\

I've been meaning to give From Dust a second chance. I like the concept, but I haven't gotten into it as much as I thought I would.

 

[Bellyojelly]

Skyrim, I tried, I swear I really did. There was just something about it that felt wrong; could have been the engine. (For the record I was playing on PS3.)

 

[Tombsite]

Okami. Boy do I want to love this game. Great art style and fresh ideas. But I just do not care at all about anything or anybody in the game. The flea is annoying as hell and the NPC's just bore me to death. I really want to like it but I can not even get myself to finish it.