Games you should have liked but didn't ?

Fallout 3, Burnout Paradise, Resident Evil 5, F.E.A.R 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Half-Life 2.

Any Bethesda game but primarily oblivion, fallout 3 and skyrim (i nitpick too many of these games' flaws; and fail to see the "bigger picture" everyone talks about)

Any turn based strategy game or 4x type of game - civ 4/5, sins of a solar empire [i prefer RTS, and games with overtly complicated artificial and/or unintuitive rulesets bore me to tears], although I like chess; weird how that works.

Incredibly complicated space sim games like X3 or Eve. Although I greatly enjoyed Freelancer.

Almost all sims games, sports games, party games and rhythm games.

Puzzle games that seem to be able to play themselves - bejewelled and peggle (but I like tetris games, portal 1/2, lemmings)

Adventure games, games like amnesia dark descent - although the aesthetics in such games are usually really good; I typically find them to involve madly clicking all over the screen.

I really wish I could like some of the above; but whenever I try I'm thoroughly disappointed; maybe someday I'll "get" them.

Halo 2 and 3, Uncharted 1 and 2 (haven't played 3 yet), Heavy Rain, Oblivion (considering my insane love for Morrowind), Mass Effect 2 (this one I grew to hate, looking back on that game it is completely overrated and it ruined the ME universe.)

For me, its a lot of those sandbox games- namely Grand Theft Auto. I just could find nothing there to hold my interest.

Red Dead Redemption: I loved GTA 4, and I've always wanted to play a really good western game, and this is a great western game, but it just never pulled me in like the GTA games did.

Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim: Yep, I didn't like this game. I found it to be dull and boring. I loved Daggerfall, Morrowind and Oblivion (let's not talk about Arena), but this game's world was so grey and white and brown it was uninteresting to me. You could argue that Oblivion's world was generic and boring, but at least it was green and lush with forests, not white with nothing.

L.A. Noire. And it's not because of the fact that it consisted more of cutscenes than gameplay (I loved all the Metal Gear Solid games); I just didn't find the game very engaging

@spazmaster666 said:

Probably Nier. I love JRPGs but I dunno, I just couldn't get into that game. I'll probably still finish it at some point but man, I just have no enthusiasm about playing that game what so ever.

Oh yeah forgot about that one. Beat it and didn't like it either.

@JoeyRavn:

I just didn't think there was any real "story" to speak of. At least those gauntlet areas explained things about characters but having Ruck occasionally go "she would always do this but then she don't do that no more" is not characterization, it's just being lazy. They're not "characters" we can relate to, they're just things. Like if I were to describe a lamppost.

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@Mystyr_E said:

@JoeyRavn said:

Bastion. It's a good game, but I can't fucking stand anything from it.

THANK YOU! God, feels like I'm the only one that can't stand that game.

Maybe you just didn't see them, but there have been many many threads saying this. It got to the point where the responses were filled with people saying to stop making those threads. People don't mind hearing the opinion, but the amount of threads that were created saying the same thing got annoying. Don't worry, you are not alone in your distaste.

Also, GTA IV never clicked with me. I have liked some open world games, but the whole series was never really my thing i guess.

Well seems like anyone that even brings up Bastion is like "dude I know right, game's awesome!" Was just nice to see at least someone badmouth it

Well GTA4 just sucked period. Which reminds me: pretty much every Rockstar game since they entered the PS3/360 era. Back in the PS2 days, their games were the shit: endless amounts of stuff to do, tons of weird little side stuff and those games pretty much encouraged a "just do whatever the fuck you want". Now they're so focused on making the most detailed, realistic and gorgeous games around that they forgot the FUN part about a game. No I don't want to play horseshoes or go see Ricky Gervais or find stupid pigeons but they seem to less encourage it

@Mageman: for me it was mass effect 2 One to me is the best game i have ever played the atmosphere and the music everything i think is great.two to me was too liear and more of a shooter

and it was too clean.mass effect one was fucked on the 360 mine stuttered every couple frames put to me it was part of the expirience

@Neeshka: well what games do you play man

@cky4890 said:

@Mageman: for me it was mass effect 2 One to me is the best game i have ever played the atmosphere and the music everything i think is great.two to me was too liear and more of a shooter

and it was too clean.mass effect one was fucked on the 360 mine stuttered every couple frames put to me it was part of the expirience

so if mass effect 2 stuttut tut tuttered you'd like that... more?

New Vegas. Now, I went into New Vegas after playing a 10-hour session of Fallout 3 to prepare, so maybe that's part of the problem, but besides the gameplay.. NV just bored the hell out of me. The story was average at best, most of the characters were uninteresting or annoying, and after you beat all the quests(which became a bit of a chore after you beat the more interesting ones) and the main storyline, as well as got as many of the collectible weapons you could.. there's not much replay value. Mind you I haven't gotten the DLC, so I don't know if that helps much, but NV felt like a waste of money. Then there was the extremely annoying ending, where you can't continue without starting a new game. Pissed me off that they wouldn't fix that, and again, I don't know if any of the DLC remedies this.. but it doesn't change the fact that this was one of the most annoying parts about Fallout 3 as well. The only redeeming aspects were the gameplay(like I said a couple sentences up), the weapons, and the Mojave Wasteland.. which didn't measure up to the Capital Wasteland either. I liked it for the first couple hours, but it lost its appeal quick.

@Pyrgz: no but i thought that mass effect1 had a better story.Two i didnt really care for the characters and their missions,personally i think ea had its hand too deep in the process but i guess bioware too is not what it used to be.But i think ea is fucking up everything they lay their hands on

LA Noire, Red Dead Redemption

Despite its faults I enjoyed Assassin's Creed. Naturally I was excited to play the sequel since it was said to be a huge improvement over the first. It was a big improvement but I hated the new setting and I just got bored of all the extra sandbox stuff. Really got disappointed.

Fallout 3. A million times Fallout 3. Forced myself to play about 20 hrs and had very little fun, though I can see why people like it. It's so bleak and the quests/combat weren't interesting to me. One of the only western RPG's I haven't gotten in to.

Saints row 2, Oblivion, Fallout 3

@cky4890 said:

@Neeshka: well what games do you play man

Almost all good FPS games; most non-bethesda RPG games, platformers, WoW, RTS games mainly SC2.

Max Payne 1/2, No one lives forever 1/2, Undying, FEAR and FEAR3, Crysis 1/warhead/2, Cod 1/united offensive,2,4,waw,blackops,mw2,mw3; return to castle wolfenstein, half life 2, gears of war, metro 2033, mirror's edge, bioshock1/2, Far Cry, Portal 1/2, Dead Space 1/2, Republic Commando, Medal of Honor Allied Assault, All the Splinter Cell games, painkiller, serious sam second encounter, blood rayne, assasin's creed 1,2,brotherhood.

Baldur's Gate 1/2+expansions, Icewind Dale 1/2, Neverwinter Nights 1/2+expansions, Dragon Age Origins, KOTOR 1/2, Witcher 1/2, Deus Ex human Revolution, Diablo 1/2, Jade Empire, Arkham City/Asylum, Prince of persia sands of time/warrior within/2 thrones/anime 08(?) one, Dark Messiah, Mass Effect 1/2, GTA 3/Vice City/San Andreas/4, Saints Row 3, Warcraft 3, Starcraft 1, Age of Mythology, Rise of Nations, NFS hot pursuit 2010, NFS most wanted.

Tons of games from the SNES/GBA/DS/N64 era; and a bunch of nintendo Wii games like: Metroid Prime 1/2/3, other m, rayman origins, new super mario bros wii, mario galaxy 1/2, donkey kong country returns, zelda twilight princess/windwalker, kirby yarn/return to dreamland.

Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts - played around 5hrs of this and just couldn't get into it. The N64 games are two of my favourite platformers of all time, but the vehicle-focused gameplay of N&B didn't do anything for me.

Halo: Reach - maybe it's because I played a lot of Halo 3 but I just couldn't get past the 2nd level of the campaign due to boredom. I still plan on playing through it with a few mates one of these days.

Medieval II: Total War - I'm not a big strategy fan but I gave this the benefit of the doubt; after a few hours of play I was too bored to continue.

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - trying to play this after Oblivion and Skyrim was never gonna work, too much of a regression IMO.

Pikmin - I borrowed this from a mate when I was younger and couldn't get into it at all; I do plan on giving the series another chance at some point.

Crysis 2 - couldn't hold a candle to the original Crysis, while it was nice that the enemies weren't as bulletsponge-y as the first game, it also lost a lot of what made it unique (pretty much everything that concerned the aliens: no more flying, no more ice - and I really wanted to see them trying to freeze New York into a big ice cube...)

most recently arkham city

everyone around me, and on the internet seems to love it, but i can't understand why

its the first game i've felt i'm playing a game ''wrong'' - i usually like to mess around with a game and do my own thing if i can, and i like linear games as well, but i felt like i was playing city wrong, i did a couple side missions they sucked,so i did the main story, it sucked and now i'm leaving it for a few months and make a fresh start on it, boss battles were great but i think it was overhyped, maybe even by me, although i was just hoping for asylum with a more engaging story instead it was the usual fodder - analogous to a good half hour or two episode batman TV storyline but stretched out to 8 - 10 hours it felt overdone

only other thing in recent memory is assassin's creed brotherhood, AC1 was decent at times but overall boring, AC2 is one of my favourite games of all time and at the end all i wanted to do was play more of it and find out more, but i got brotherhood and it just hasn't clicked, instead of the well paced revenge story leading to a mindfuck ending it felt like escort mission after escort mission and as if the big reveal had been made; almost like the characters were saying "come on, Ezio, you're already in the brotherhood, let's go we've got shit to do" - i can't make a similar comparison to batman as i haven't finished ACB but i left 6 or 8 hours in, with i hope or what felt like little of the story played out, so i'm going back in cold again similar to arkham city

also finding it hard to get into mass effect 2, as others have stated, the universe is still engaging and the characters but the more linear nature with the summary at the end of the missions etc, feels incongruous to how i played the first; if it wasn't for the speech wheel thing it'd be a totally different game. its still good but it hasn't drawn me into the world the way the first game did, still good though, and i wouldn't consider it to the disappointment felt by ACB and especially arkham city

I feel like I should enjoy the Jagged Alliance series far more than I do, as turn-based tactical RPGs are pretty much my bread-n-butter as far as genre is concerned. And yet.... not so. Same goes for Irrational's Freedom Force games, which I honestly think would have been much better if they were turn-based.

Oh, and Torchlight. That game is so aggressively, unrelentingly DIABLO that it doesn't matter that you have a pet who sells your loot or whatever. Diablo II came out 9 years prior is still better. Hell, Titan Quest is still better.

Both Mass Effects

@Mageman said:

I could not get into Mass Effect … and I really can not say why.

A lot of people--myself included--couldn't get into it until they played as FemShep. "It means the difference between loving and hating those games."

I got through Mass Effect 2 solely on the high of Mass Effect 1.

Modern Warfare all of them and Gears of War 3 are what come to mind

God Of War games .... it ia just so boring and uninteresting for me. (did played the firts one na dnope I dont like it one bit)

-Bioshock series... I love the concept and story--- but it freaks me out, I can't handle it.

-Gears of War w/o co op. With a friend it's fun, by itself GoW is very boring.

-Mass Effect 1. Idk. Enjoyed the second one far more, even if the story in the first was better.

-Bethesda games. Including Skyrim. I wanna like it sooooo bad! I just don't know how to play it correctly.

-CoD multiplayer. But wait, I think there are good reasons to not like that.

everything half life, dunno why. Maybe I came too late to the party

Elder Scrolls Games

mass effect any metroid game final fantasy 7

Call of Duty.

I burned out on Call of Duty pretty quickly. I bought BlackOps ONLY because a) I heard the story was great and b) a local store had it for $30 the week it was released. I absolutely hated almost everything about that game. I sold it to Gamestop for $35 a few days later.

I burned out on Assassin's Creed even quicker. I barely got through AC2 and haven't played another since.

@Alexandruxx said:

@TMThomsen: @TMThomsen said:

@Alexandruxx said:

Most CoD games (with the exception of MW3, altho I am waiting for Black Ops 2)

That makes absolutely no sense to me. What makes MW3 appealing to you if you dislike the previous games in the series?

Read my post first, and then come with a reply.

That was taken from your first post on page 2.

I never really liked Ocarina of Time. And totally didn't like Half-Life 2

Red Faction comes to mind, I loved Guerilla and I love the original Half-Life. For some reason, I just couldn't get into it that much.

That's only a recent example. I'm too lazy to think back further right now.

Skyrim. I don't like it at all but I recognize that it is a great game. The combat just sucks and I have trouble getting over that to enjoy all that it does right.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

I played until the end of the first boss battle but I just couldn't get into it. I'd like to try it again after hearing how much everyone talked about it around GOTY season though.

Mass Effect 2

Definitely Bioshock.

Played through a fair bit of it before realising that I found the gameplay to be astoundingly boring. Absolutely loved the graphics and story though but unfortunately that wasn't enough for me to trudge through to the end.

Dark Souls and Dungeon Hunters: Alliance.

Based on the demo Kingdoms of Amalur, it is my kind of game through and through but I can't stand anything about it, the parts are all their but the art style put me off, the combat felt unresponsive and weak, character design the layout of the maps Everything rubs me the wrong way BUT IT .. JUST AHHH I want to like it so so bad.

Skyrim. I loved Morrowind, and Oblivion was fairly fun, but I found Skyrim, while large, and had good visuals, I found it incredibly boring when it came to quest and world verity and the magic system and UI were shit.

None. I know why I dislike the games I dislike. Like, Uncharted 2, I think there's a lot of great stuff in there, but I thought the shooting was boring. I don't think anyone here has answered your question correctly either. By the way, really? Why do so many people dislike Bioshock and Crysis' shooting? They're fun.

I couldn't get into Mass Effect as well.

@Christoffer said:

I'm playing through the first Bioshock now to get the background story to Infinite. In every aspect, besides the plot, I hate it. Oh god let me finish this horrible game soon.

I don't know if anyone has told you yet, but the original Bioshock (as far as we know) is totally separate from Infinite, so if you dislike the game, you're probably just wasting your time.

Icewind Dale - I hate this game with a passion. It's just terrible. There is no excuse for how un-fun this was.

Gears of War - Played it too late. Other than the Berzerker, I wasn't impressed by anything.

Left 4 Dead 2 - It was too soon and too similar, and I didn't like the characters as much. If I tried it again I would probably love it.

Chrono Trigger - Could never finish it, tried several times on different systems. I just really dislike playing it. And I love JRPGs. And I really wanted to play through it.

Pre-Reach Halo games.

Dirt games - It's like playing Forza on tracks covered in ice. That's what it feels like.

Fallout 3 and New Vegas. BOOOOOOOOOORINNG (to me at least)

Saints Row 3. Open world games are my favorite genre, and I love insanity. Therefore SR3 should be the opposite of a chore to finish... but nope.

Deus Ex: HR
I love dialogue heavy RPGs, I love first person shooters, and science fiction is my absolute favorite genre for any kind of fiction. Yet, after completing the Detroit area, I just couldn't bring myself to play the game anymore. I didn't hate what I had played so far, but every time I would sit down to play something, I would think to myself "I should play more Deus Ex.... Nah, maybe another time" I don't know why, but it just didn't hook me.