A crack in time. I wanted to like this game, but then I realized that it strayed to far from the rest in the series, I just couldn't take it.
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Another one too add: Fable 3. While lacking some of the charm of 1, I think that it was a major improvement when compared to Fable 2. The storyline was good, the gameplay was fun, and if it wasn't for the fact that I was OCD about buying houses and was richer than god by the time that I had reached the end-game the twist at the end might have been a meaningful moral choice. The DLC was also really good, and replaying the game as a whole reminds me of what I like most about Molyneux games.
Oblivion/Skyrim. I understand that they are very well made games and playing through them consumed a couple hundred hours of my life so that would be a good indicator of value since I cannot say I was miserable when playing them.
I just cannot get into the fantasy genre, while playing the games I enjoy all the conversations but the entire time I feel like I am too old for the dialog and story. Without the immersion and without a substantial combat system, I cannot say I like them but I know they aren't technically bad.
I just cannot get into the fantasy genre, while playing the games I enjoy all the conversations but the entire time I feel like I am too old for the dialog and story. Without the immersion and without a substantial combat system, I cannot say I like them but I know they aren't technically bad.
Bioshock. I tried. I really did. I just found the weapons and plasmids were too unsatisfying. There was no weight to any of the weapons, and the RPG mechanics were way too shallow for me. A lot of reviews compared it to Deus Ex, but to me it felt like Invisible War more than anything else.
Psychonauts. I really, really, really, REALLY tried with it, but I found the platforming to be so loose, it was almost unplayable to me. I hate myself for it because I feel I've missed out on a great display imagination, but I did actually buy it so at least I was spared of Yahtzee's pencil torture.
Sleeping Dogs is another I totally failed to see what all the fuss was about and got bored after a couple of hours. Genuinely felt like I'd been playing a different game to the one everyone else was raving about.
Sleeping Dogs is another I totally failed to see what all the fuss was about and got bored after a couple of hours. Genuinely felt like I'd been playing a different game to the one everyone else was raving about.
Fallout 3.
Shitty combat, with a shitty story, shitty sound quality, shitty characters, shitty graphics. I've seen better plots on SyFy channel. If the story is going to suck, then the combat better be good, and it's not.
Portal
I know why people like it and I thought the writing was really good, but jesus, this game gets called the "Citizen Cane" of gaming so often it's sad.
Battlefield 3
I like this series. It's good fun, but damnit DICE, stop focusing on CoD.
Shitty combat, with a shitty story, shitty sound quality, shitty characters, shitty graphics. I've seen better plots on SyFy channel. If the story is going to suck, then the combat better be good, and it's not.
Portal
I know why people like it and I thought the writing was really good, but jesus, this game gets called the "Citizen Cane" of gaming so often it's sad.
Battlefield 3
I like this series. It's good fun, but damnit DICE, stop focusing on CoD.
"Psychonauts is the greatest game you never played" they said, so I tried it.
It had the cartoony graphics & a sense of humor I look for in games.
Sasha was a cool character & Richard Horvitz was voice acting.
So...Why didn't I enjoy it? WHY?!?!?! D:<
It had the cartoony graphics & a sense of humor I look for in games.
Sasha was a cool character & Richard Horvitz was voice acting.
So...Why didn't I enjoy it? WHY?!?!?! D:<
Being a car guy and a guy who isn't too picky about the games, while the core racing itself was fine, Gran Turismo 5 is the one for me. I've played again and again, beaten challenges, but it ALL feels like a chore. GTs 1-4 were great fun, even if different types of fun, but GT5 has no appeal to me. The damned PSP game is more ingaging.
Other than that, something that will start crap. Mario games. All of them. Mario 1 and 3 are good timewasters, but I play for 10-20 minutes and I'm done. Mario 64 was the same, as was Galaxy.
Other than that, something that will start crap. Mario games. All of them. Mario 1 and 3 are good timewasters, but I play for 10-20 minutes and I'm done. Mario 64 was the same, as was Galaxy.
Shadow the Hedgehog was so terrible, it is literally the worst game i've ever played, it was difficult to even give it away for free as no one wanted it. I paid 50 dollars for it and tried to convince myself for 2 weeks that it was good despite being crispy-fried dogshit right down to the core. i tried so hard to convince myself, i kept playing through over and over until 100%-ed the game, then i put it on a shelf and started feeling depressed that i just spent that much time on that game.
Agreed. Precisely the reason I can't play MMOs any more. I played some MUDs before they came out and I really got that out of my system big time. Grind grind grind.. I have a day job, I don't want a night job as well! It feels like frantically treading water just to keep your head above it when you're levelling up just to have to get better equipment and kill monsters a slightly different color with slightly different adjectives used to describe them, so you can level up more. I'll leave that to when I'm actually drowning thanks..Frozengale said:
Treadmills suck.
The Witcher. Literally the only reason I haven't touched my copy of The Witcher 2 (which I'm aching to play) is cause I refuse to do so until I get through the first game which is like a particularly annoying chore to play. I just can't enjoy that bloody game.
I'd hardly say it's a chore, the combat system needs some serious getting into though.. I gave up on it 3 times before I got far enough into it to get sucked in, then it was a very smooth ride. From the first hour and a half - two of gameplay I never would have imagined the game would easily get into my top 10 and that I would complete it 3 timesTroublesome Lagomorph said:
I'm in the swamps, which has really interesting things, but I occasionally run into enemies that fuck me up hard and that's usually when I quit. Part of the problem with me getting into that game is that I have a slight hardware issue which leads to Geralt jerking around whenever he moves.Zac Jovanovic said:I'd hardly say it's a chore, the combat system needs some serious getting into though.. I gave up on it 3 times before I got far enough into it to get sucked in, then it was a very smooth ride. From the first hour and a half - two of gameplay I never would have imagined the game would easily get into my top 10 and that I would complete it 3 timesTroublesome Lagomorph said:
A few examples.
Mass Effect/Dragon Age series- My wife and my friends keep telling me these games are tailor-made for me, so I've given them their chance time and time again, but I just can't get into them. There is nothing specific that I seem to be able to pinpoint, but both games lose my interest about an hour in, and I simply have no fun whatsover playing them, and always come out feeling like that is somehow my fault. So I try them again in a later date, and the same thing happens all over again.
Braid- A pretentious piece of crap, an empty platformer with a level of douchiness proportionate to that of its creator. I bought it shortly after LIMBO, thinking it'd be a similarly great indie game, and it was anything but.
Prototype- When Prototype and inFamous were both in development, it seemed like it was pretty clear to me which one was the superior game. I eagerly awaited Prototype's release, with inFamous relegated to a mere afterthought. After playing both games, though, I can see how mistaken I was. I now regard inFamous as a superb series that I am quite fond of, while the first Prototype still goes unfinished, an empty experience after the inFamous games have been sampled.
Halo- I really, really like the lore of the series. The story is really cool, and I like the in-game universe. Shame about the games...
Battlefield 3- I'm one of those rare birds who buys FPS games for the single-player, and I'd heard that the campaign in BF3 was pretty good. I'd just finished both Bad Company campaigns and was looking for more. Now, I knew that BF3's campaign was more like CoD: MW than Bad Company, but I still wanted to try it out, because hey, I like the MW campaigns as well! But good God... what an incredibly bland, uninteresting game! I don't think I've played a more "meh" FPS campaign in recent memory. Which is a shame, because it's an absolutely gorgeous game, but...
Mass Effect/Dragon Age series- My wife and my friends keep telling me these games are tailor-made for me, so I've given them their chance time and time again, but I just can't get into them. There is nothing specific that I seem to be able to pinpoint, but both games lose my interest about an hour in, and I simply have no fun whatsover playing them, and always come out feeling like that is somehow my fault. So I try them again in a later date, and the same thing happens all over again.
Braid- A pretentious piece of crap, an empty platformer with a level of douchiness proportionate to that of its creator. I bought it shortly after LIMBO, thinking it'd be a similarly great indie game, and it was anything but.
Prototype- When Prototype and inFamous were both in development, it seemed like it was pretty clear to me which one was the superior game. I eagerly awaited Prototype's release, with inFamous relegated to a mere afterthought. After playing both games, though, I can see how mistaken I was. I now regard inFamous as a superb series that I am quite fond of, while the first Prototype still goes unfinished, an empty experience after the inFamous games have been sampled.
Halo- I really, really like the lore of the series. The story is really cool, and I like the in-game universe. Shame about the games...
Battlefield 3- I'm one of those rare birds who buys FPS games for the single-player, and I'd heard that the campaign in BF3 was pretty good. I'd just finished both Bad Company campaigns and was looking for more. Now, I knew that BF3's campaign was more like CoD: MW than Bad Company, but I still wanted to try it out, because hey, I like the MW campaigns as well! But good God... what an incredibly bland, uninteresting game! I don't think I've played a more "meh" FPS campaign in recent memory. Which is a shame, because it's an absolutely gorgeous game, but...
Battlefield 3.
I couldn't stand the gunplay. I'm not sure what the hell it was, but I didn't feel like there was any...Oomph behind my weapons. I just hated it. It felt like I may as well be using air pellet guns. Not to mention moving around made me feel like I was a gun being carried by a robot or something, I dunno.
I don't much care for military shooters, and I don't care to be a part of a flame war, but COD's gunplay felt proper to me. That's all.
I really wanted to have fun in BF3. Huge maps, lots of players, vehicles, jets...but I just couldn't get over the feeling of the gun mechanics.
I couldn't stand the gunplay. I'm not sure what the hell it was, but I didn't feel like there was any...Oomph behind my weapons. I just hated it. It felt like I may as well be using air pellet guns. Not to mention moving around made me feel like I was a gun being carried by a robot or something, I dunno.
I don't much care for military shooters, and I don't care to be a part of a flame war, but COD's gunplay felt proper to me. That's all.
I really wanted to have fun in BF3. Huge maps, lots of players, vehicles, jets...but I just couldn't get over the feeling of the gun mechanics.
-Painkiller. Yathzee loved it(and 90% of the time, I agree with him), it sounds like a cool idea, it has a heavy metal soundtrack during the combat and I really got into the Serious Sam games. So why did I get bored?
-Left For Dead. It's a zombie game made by valve. So why could I not bring myself to finish it?
-Iron Brigade. Made by Double fine, tougue in Cheek Humor, Diesel-punk Mecha. Can't bring myself to care much, despite really wanting to like it.
-Bioshock. I love the concept and the atmosphere worked....for a while. After a while, though, I didn't feel like I was underwater, but going through rooms surrounded by aquariums, and being continually sidetracked from my goal by a collapsing ceiling or a stuck door felt really irritating. Not to mention once you have it out with Ryan, you might as well stop playing because the story just kind of peters out.
-Left For Dead. It's a zombie game made by valve. So why could I not bring myself to finish it?
-Iron Brigade. Made by Double fine, tougue in Cheek Humor, Diesel-punk Mecha. Can't bring myself to care much, despite really wanting to like it.
-Bioshock. I love the concept and the atmosphere worked....for a while. After a while, though, I didn't feel like I was underwater, but going through rooms surrounded by aquariums, and being continually sidetracked from my goal by a collapsing ceiling or a stuck door felt really irritating. Not to mention once you have it out with Ryan, you might as well stop playing because the story just kind of peters out.
Devil May Cry 2.
The game itself had a lot of potential. I really found myself gelling around the darker, more gothic aesthetic of visuals, and I liked the designs of the enemies and bosses. The gameplay wasn't terrible either. Still, I was never quite able to like it. Devil May Cry 2, I think, is an example of how you can do a lot of things right, but if the individual elements don't complement each other, the whole fails to become more than just the sum of its parts.
"Lacking a cohesive vision", is perhaps the best way to describe it.
The game itself had a lot of potential. I really found myself gelling around the darker, more gothic aesthetic of visuals, and I liked the designs of the enemies and bosses. The gameplay wasn't terrible either. Still, I was never quite able to like it. Devil May Cry 2, I think, is an example of how you can do a lot of things right, but if the individual elements don't complement each other, the whole fails to become more than just the sum of its parts.
"Lacking a cohesive vision", is perhaps the best way to describe it.
Dragon Age Origins, Darksiders, Skyrim and Dishonored come to mind.
I'm not quite sure why, but all 4 games have me progressing up to 20-30% of the way before making me realise that something is making me not enjoy this at all.
CAPTCHA: beyond me. Yes, why I don't like these games is beyond me.
I'm not quite sure why, but all 4 games have me progressing up to 20-30% of the way before making me realise that something is making me not enjoy this at all.
CAPTCHA: beyond me. Yes, why I don't like these games is beyond me.