Games you forced yourself to like

Is there any games that you either bought on impulse or mistake that once you knew it was terrible, you tried to tell yourself you liked it?
 
 For me it was Too Human, I got really defensive about the reviews and opinions even though I knew myself it was bad.

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After playing it for a couple hours I put it down and said to myself , "meh".

Halo Wars....
 
I can't stand RTS games for some odd reason...and I thought just cause it had the Halo name stamped on it, I would like it.
 
Not the case.

Perfect Dark Zero.
 
I just can't finish that piece of crap, but since it's Perfect Dark I feel the desire to love it ><

prototype, I tried to like it and it was an impulsive buy on steam, I just can't like it.

Disgaea for the DS.
 
I keep going back to it because I generally like SRPGs, and this one is supposedly the granddaddy of them all, but this one just hasn't clicked with me yet.

The fourth Broken Sword game. It's not great but I'm a huge George Stobbart fan ;)

The Mass Effect series... a buddy told me to buy them so i did, and ended up thinking they were horrible, but one day i popped them back in and played through them, realized they weren't so bad.

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Just in case you take this comment seriously, it's a joke.

" The Mass Effect series... a buddy told me to buy them so i did, and ended up thinking they were horrible, but one day i popped them back in and played through them, realized they weren't so bad. "

i TRIED to force myself to like Fallout 3, Dead Space, World in Conflict, Mass Effect.. hard.

yet i failed

Modern Warfare 2.  Not that its bad, i just don't like it.  I bought it because i knew so many people who played it.  I guess i don't like the realistic military shooter. 
 
Also Black and White 2.  I loved Black and White 1 and tried to love Black and White 2 but....  sigh.  The entire idea of BUYING upgrades for your creature.  Thats not how the creature is supposed to work!!!!  AND WHERES BLACK AND WHITE 3.  CMON Peter Molyneux!!!

To answer this topic seriously, I tried to get into MGS4 and MGS2, but I really couldn't. The gameplay is good, but the story and dialog are simply awful. It's cheesy, melodramatic, over-the-top, corny, ridden with holes, implausible, pedantic, stupid, and just badly written overall. The sad thing is, it takes up more than the gameplay, the cutscenes were redundant and annoying and badly directed. 
 
I liked MGS1 and MGS3 as a entertaining B movies that are fun to play, but MGS2 and MGS4 are bad B-movies that are somewhat fun to play. MGS1 and MGS3 at least had some plausibility in their plots.

Fallout 3, got it for Christmas but damn, I played 25 hours and was probably bored 22 of them.

" Oblivion (Fallout 3 with guns, as people call it) "

" @Ahmad_Metallic said:

" Oblivion (Fallout 3 with guns, as people call it) "

Actually, people call Fallout 3 "Oblivion with guns," not the other way around.   "

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prototype, I tried to like it and it was an impulsive buy on steam, I just can't like it.

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Fallout 3. Was really slow to begin with, and very difficult to pick up again if you havn't played it in a while. 
 
And the latest Midnight Club, to a certain extent. Never known one game to annoy me so much.

I don't force myself to like games, that seems lame if it doesn't click then it sucks. 
 
but just to answer the topic i did buy a few games that eveyrone raved about that i thought sucked. 
 
inFamous - found it mediocre 
GTA IV - don't care how many stress its "better" its boring as hell, but then again i havn't liked the GTA series since Vice City the novelty has long worn off, the stories are never original, definately no revolutional writing just a carbon copy of every mobster/gangster movie plot, and all the installments just seem to be rebuilded versions of the previous stories, most likely won't be purchasing the next installment nowdays i prefer my sandbox games "different". 
 
Modern Warfare 2 -  i stopped playing it and yet my friends still send me invites to the game, i kindly tell them "The game is gay, and  i refuse to play it, fuck off", everytime.
LittleBigPlanet 
Resident Evil 5 - I still hate that i spent $50 on such garbage. 
The Force Unleashed 
God of War III - rented, THANK GOD
Fable 2 - probably one of the worse WRPGS ive played yet, and its multiplayer was fail 
Resistance  - bought it because it looked decent, it tried hard to be like Halo, but failed. 
Prototype - Definately on my list of crappiest games released this gen, i lol hard because the developers hyped it to be the next big thing 

The Resistance series. I didn't finish either of the campaigns.

Mirror's Edge.
 
I loved the design and the general premise of the game, but the game went out of its way to become unenjoyable by the half--way mark. The game certainly has potential and I'm interested to see what they do with a sequel, but please Dice, don't try to shoehorn in FPS elements next time.

Dragon Age: Origins
 
Everyone else liked it...I tried but nope

Uncharted. I kept on telling myself the graphics were fantastic and the gameplay was great. Near the end though I just though  "ah fuck it" and nearly stopped playing it altogether. I finally got around to finishing it though.

For me it's Torchlight. That game just bores the crap out of me.

For me it would be Borderlands. I did try liking it and the RPG part of the game I felt were good, but the shooting felt mediocre and the story felt detached. I also didn't like the humour.

" Uncharted. I kept on telling myself the graphics were fantastic and the gameplay was great. Near the end though I just though  "ah fuck it" and nearly stopped playing it altogether. I finally got around to finishing it though. "

Spore, I hyped it up so much and tried so very hard to like it, but in the end it isn't great.

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Heroes of Newerth, I knew the game would be shitty the first 100 games before I got good at it. I did it though, got 600 games under my belt and the game is awesome now :D

God of War. i tried to like it but it just... i don't know. nothing was there. the music was badass and the story is crazy but that's about it. 

Personally FF13, bought it because hype.. its not all that great and it could be alot simplier then what they did too it.. iam stuck and have no interests in getting passed where iam stuck at in the game.. Only reason I wanna keep it is because it has a nice box art one of the best I think.

Mass Effect
Fallout 3
 
I tried to like them and get into them but couldn't. I keep trying to go back to either of them but can't. I still have a sealed copy of ME2 for PC...

Dirge of Cerberus. I wanted to believe that there was no way a game about Vincent could ever suck. Now I'm generally disappointed, every time I see that character.

" @SpiralStairs said:

" Uncharted. I kept on telling myself the graphics were fantastic and the gameplay was great. Near the end though I just though  "ah fuck it" and nearly stopped playing it altogether. I finally got around to finishing it though. "

And? "

" @Pie said:

" @SpiralStairs said:

" Uncharted. I kept on telling myself the graphics were fantastic and the gameplay was great. Near the end though I just though  "ah fuck it" and nearly stopped playing it altogether. I finally got around to finishing it though. "

And? "

It was alright. I don't think I'll ever replay it though. I don't think it's all that great apart from it's graphics. Same goes for Uncharted 2, though I like that one a lot more than Uncharted 1. "

medal of honor airborn, loved the demo but forced my self to play the whole game

Crackdown, I tried it and just didn't feel it but I finished it for the achievement points. Once it got to the end and the "twist" was reviled I said "Of corse", turned it off and never put it back in again.

recently i decided to either buy LIMBO or Mirror's Edge. went with LIMBO an oh my god i cant believe i spent 1200 MS points on this boring crap, i went thru it in less than 2 hours then spent another 20 min getting the eggs using a guide.

Army of Two.  
I forced myself to sit, and finish that piece of crap. 
And at the end?  
I still thought it was a piece of crap that I will fondly remember as, a piece of crap.

Dark Void 
Saw it for $10, thought "Why not?" and I couldn't even get through the first hour.

" Dragon Age: Origins  Everyone else liked it...I tried but nope "

Fallout 3. I wanted to like it, but open-world games like that just don't do it for me. I still go back to it every so often, but it's always forced.

Prototype.

Alpha Protocol
Prototype
Risen

Demon's Souls was so bad for the first 10 hours or so. It was the only PS3 game I had at the time, so I forced myself to play it. After days of suffering I finally came around, though.

Fable 2 for me, it never really clicked with me. but i still kept on playing.
 
Another "game" i forced upon myself is Flower, though i liked the visuals i could not deal with the sixaxis controls.