Popular games you hate/can't get in to?
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Max Payne is a constant annoyance for me. From what I've heard, it's supposed to be quite good and the film noir-ambience should be a cool change of pace from that of most games out there, but instead I find the controls clunky, the gunfights are unpleasantly chaotic (at best) and the film-noir stuff feels overbearing and needlessly verbose. And then the whole game's so friggin' dark, I have to boost the light-setting (or whatever it's called) on my TV to see anything whatsoever.
I'm going to trudge through it at some point, but it'll take some time...
EDIT: Oh, what the heck, might as well get this one of my chest as well: Final Fantasy VII.
I have to admit that it is probably in large part due to the turn-based combat (where I barely understand anything of what's going on) but it's also in large part due to the storytelling being pretty lousy, in my opinion. I don't know who people are, what they're doing, why they're doing it, or why I should care. I'm really just going through the motions, feeling pretty disconnected from whatever is going on.
I'm going to trudge through it at some point, but it'll take some time...
EDIT: Oh, what the heck, might as well get this one of my chest as well: Final Fantasy VII.
I have to admit that it is probably in large part due to the turn-based combat (where I barely understand anything of what's going on) but it's also in large part due to the storytelling being pretty lousy, in my opinion. I don't know who people are, what they're doing, why they're doing it, or why I should care. I'm really just going through the motions, feeling pretty disconnected from whatever is going on.
MMOs that are successful and last longer than a few months. The ones I like always fail, I'm a curse I wouldn't wish upon and MMO dev. I was big into Motor City Online, and since I'm a big car guy I knew what I was doing when building engines that I amassed a sizable fortune with a successful engine building business. Sadly, the fact that only myself and a handful of others knew things like what the optimum cam grind for the low-end torque needed to ensure a good launch in a drag race was, the game failed. I played nothing for a while until I started I playing AutoAssault from beta up until the end of service battle royale. I loved AA enough that I sent NetDevil a really flowery email thanking them for the game that wound up getting circulated as a company memo, resulting in me getting a t-shirt. When AA went down, NCSoft gave me Tabula Rasa for free, and since I had gotten a bunch of AA time cards on clearance at CompUSA for 3 dollars per two month card I had something like 19 months of game time that was applied to TR. I wound up really, really digging Tabula Rasa and my game time took me from launch to free-to-play to death.
I should try to find an angle that makes me like WOW. I would wind up toppling an empire.
I should try to find an angle that makes me like WOW. I would wind up toppling an empire.
