Undeniably Good Games You Just Can't Get Into

Getting close to the end of the first Dead Space. Amazing atmosphere, great shooting mechanics, intriguing story, yet still it feels like a chore to finish. I think my main complaints is that the game is tense to the point that it's just uncomfortable to play and the missions all run along the line of "Isaac, go fix this thing. Isaac, go fix that thing". Bioshock 2 was another that had very competent gameplay yet just had a "Been there, done that, with a better story..." kind of feel. I've put about 3 hours into Assassins Creed: Brotherhood as well yet its been sitting on my shelf since it came out, maybe just too soon after playing the second. Am I just too hard to please?

Borderlands, I don't know why but I just get burnt out so fast on that game whenever I try to play it.

If you can't get into a game, it's not undeniably good. 

I wouldn't be able to tell how undeniably good a game is if I can't get into it so I don't really know any

I tried Grand Theft Auto 4 but just didn't care so much about anything in that game.

Borderlands, I don't know why but I just get burnt out so fast on that game whenever I try to play it.

Uncharted 2. I see that it's well made, but the formula of cover based shooting and platforming set pieces just doesn't hold my interest. Both parts are competent, but not best in class, so playing it just makes me think of the games that do whatever section I'm on better. While the visuals are nice, I don't feel like they are good enough to be impressive onto themselves. Similarly, the story/voice acting/cutscenes are better than most games, though not enough so to be the reason to play. Again, I recognize that overall it's a very solid package, but it just doesn't click for me.

The Ball.

Any of the Metal Gear series. I can see the production values, gameplay, and story as well-polished and well made but for some reason I just can't bring myself to finish more than a quarter of each game. I always start off super enthusiastic about it, but after maybe 2-3 days I just stop playing for good.

Halo. I have a halo reach disc from the beta awhile back but nope. I put the disc in and launched it saw the title screen and was like 'nah' nothing from that franchise interests me in the least bit.

The Street Fighter games.  I tried with 2 long ago and couldn't get into it.  I tried with 4 recently and couldn't get in to it.  I don't know what it is.  The only fighting games I like anymore are the Mortal Kombat and Virtua Fighter games.

Dragon Age.

I understand the appeal, but it's just Knights of the Old Republic in a fantasy setting.

Something very recent and topical: Deus Ex HR. I know it's a good game, and I like it, but I'm just not compelled to play it at all.

Question hurts my brain. 
 
If not play.. not good? If play.. good? 
 
Loaded question, I fail to see how you can think a game is good and not play it. If it was good I sure as hell would play it.. 
Now a game that other people went on and on about, yet I hate.. yea I can do that 
 
Fuck Bayonetta.

Bioshock, Halo, and Gears of War. All very well made, just not for me.

I would have to say the halo franchise, I just can't get into the story.

star craft 2.
i see why people like it and stuff.
macro base building and the repetitive nature of build orders and all that just completely turns me off on it.
i can see that its a well crafted game and all that, but its not for me.

Civ 5 and the total war series. The learning curve is just too steep.

Oh I can totally do this one. Company of Heroes. I have played the single player campaigns to so many RTSes with only minor annoyance, but something about having to juggle such intense micro with the macro in Company of Heroes frustrates me by like the fifth mission. I just get overwhelmed.

I also think that having a tent that manufactures tanks in the middle of a battlefield is a dumb way of portraying WWII.

That said, really intense game, great sound design, really interesting mechanics. I just can't play it.

Batman Arkham Asylum, I know it's good, I like it but I just... dunno... can't get any momentum going with that game.

                    I tried Grand Theft Auto 4 but just didn't care so much about anything in that game.

                   

               

This might be a backlash of sorts, but the legend of zelda...I just can't get into it. I've tried on multiple occasions, but its not happening.

Borderlands. I get why people like it, I just couldn't get into it all.

Red Dead Redemption. This game is just incredibly boring. Same with LA Noire.
 
I've tried getting into Bioshock time and time again but the poor combat side of the game is just not for me.
 
The World Ends With You is one of the most boring DS titles I've ever played.
 
I finished Limbo like 2 weeks ago and honestly can't see what all the fuss is about. The game is frustrating, has shallow gameplay and the constant threat of death makes it hard to focus on solving a puzzle.
 
So there.

Red Dead Redemption. This game is just incredibly boring. Same with LA Noire.
 
I've tried getting into Bioshock time and time again but the poor combat side of the game is just not for me.
 
The World Ends With You is one of the most boring DS titles I've ever played.
 
I finished Limbo like 2 weeks ago and honestly can't see what all the fuss is about. The game is frustrating, has shallow gameplay and the constant threat of death makes it hard to focus on solving a puzzle.
 
So there.
 

I absolutely, positively, cannot play Zelda games. I've tried Link to the Past, Ocarina, one of the GBA ones, and a gamecube one. I absolutely did not like any of them. I understand that they are good, I just do not like them in the slightest.

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Every time I try and play it, I can see and feel why people love it. Yet, there is always this inner repulsion that inhibits me from enjoying/playing the game. I have yet to finish it.

I have three very popular ones that I could not get into: Limbo, Mass Effect (1&2) and Half Life (played on 360 and maybe I got to it too late). Never finished Half Life or Limbo. Finished both Mass Effects and really don't see the dedication that people have to the franchise.

@Sir_Ragnarok said:

Dragon Age. I understand the appeal, but it's just Knights of the Old Republic in a fantasy setting.

I agree with you on this. The game seemed like I would love it, but for some reason I just couldn't get into it.

Team Fortress 2
Counter Strike
Battlefield games

Halo series

Metal Gear series

Grand Theft Auto series

Batman Arkham Asylum

Fifa and street fighter

I've been trying to wrap up the last 10 or so missions in GTA IV for awhile now, but damn, driving literally across the entire game world just to die almost instantly, and not even know what happened, REEEEALLY saps me of that motivation.

My roommate has been trying to get my to play Bayonetta, and I've put a few hours into it, but it just feels like a chore.

The Halo games. I still don't see what's so great.

@528seven: Kinda. But if a game is undeniably good then it can't really be hard to get into right?

I don't understand this mentality. What more do you want from a game, really? Every game is "Get from Point A to point B," and really, there is only so much you can do to liven that up. You can add, "Save 5 people while getting to Point B," but really your just getting to Point B with the added chore of saving 5 people. Same goes for any game, "Go hack this, go kill that, kill 10 of these," I am not sure how you can cause more uniqueness to this without just falling in yet another category of "Already did this."

Don't get me wrong, I am not going to sit here and act like I know how to make a great game, or that it's impossible to create uniqueness in a game other than it's art, it's just that I think with the amount of people playing around with games these days, you think they would have figured it out already.

Bioshock. I just couldn't deal with the clunky gameplay. None of the action felt good.

Mass Effect (any of them) and Borderlands. Admittedly I haven't tried to play either of them myself, but having seen others play, I just know they'd frustrate me.

Borderlands, I don't know why but I just get burnt out so fast on that game whenever I try to play it.

Assassin's Creed 2. Every time I force myself to play it something about the clunky mechanics irritate me and frustrate me into shutting it off. It's definitely the game of this gen that I simply cannot get into because of the way Ezio handles and how the controls are laid out. For a game that scores so high and has such a good reputation, I find the controls to be clunky as fuck.

Mass effect 1 and 2. Have tried many, many times.

Dragon Age. I understand the appeal, but it's just Knights of the Old Republic in a fantasy setting.

• Any undeniably good RTS game like Age of Empires, World in Conflict, Civilization (turn-based), Starcraft 2. I just can't play strategy games..
• Undeniably good RPGs -Dragon Age: Origins, Fallout 3
• Bioshock - Too creepy, the AI is all twitchy and doesn't feel like real humans, the shooting sucks. But it's undeniably a good game 
• L.A. Noire

I couldn't get into Kingdom Hearts, though I'm not sure I'd call that game "undeniably good".

I don't think there are any undeniably good games.

Ass. Creed 2 I know it's a good game and the 5 hrs or so I played of it was pretty enjoyable but it just didn't hook me and I have absolutely no desire to continue playing it.