Video games you wanted to like, but didn't

For me, it's GTAIV and Bioshock. Started new saves on them a few times but just dislike them both. It's a shame because I've loved all the previous GTA games, and I really like the world Bioshock made. But that wasn't enough really.

I thought the Fable games had more going for them than they ended up having. I quite liked the first one... Didn't care for the second at all but didn't nessessarily want to like it, even. Didn't play the 3rd and won't play any others at this point.

Metroid Prime. I bought the trilogy on Wii and wanted to like it since I had heard nothing but great things about it. I just couldn't get into it.

Bioshock,little sisters annoyed me,weapons where not satisfy to use,characters where to over the top silly at times.
Farcry2, all the missions where pretty much the same the driving sucked,Malaria was a stupid idea and enemy's keep respawning after you kill them killed the fun factor.
Fallout 3, The only game I ever played that was ruined by crashes and framerate issues also couldn't stand the characters the only thing fun about that game was vats.

Metro 2033 and L.A Noire are two big ones.

Borderlands

Bioshock.

Just Cause 2.This game looked amazing from every single trailer and gameplay videos,had great looking graphics,really big open world and ability to do crazy stuff with your surroundings,but it was really frustrating that with every single action that you take,there are like 20 people shooting at you non stop and also the story of the game was awful followed with one of the worst voice acting I've ever heard. 

Bioshock, GTA IV, Oblivion and Fallut 3 are the ones that come to my mind. Never finished either of them.

FF13, Brütal Legend, The Witcher 2, Oblivion, Bioshock, TW Shogun 2, Alpha Protocol and RE: Darkside Chronicles come to mind.

Naughty Bear. Like Manhunt, but with teddy bears. I loved Manhunt. Didn't like this though.

Vanquish. It seemed that the concept would appeal to me a lot, but it turned out to be real boring and frustrating.

Crysis 2 
 

Bioshock and Mass effect 1 and 2. 

Crysis 2 
 

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worst sequel ever

@Jack268 said:

Crysis 2

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worst sequel ever

I was gonna post this as well. I never played the first one, and maybe that a lot to do with it?

Oblivion, Vanquish, Fallout 3, Half-Life 2, The Witcher, Magicka, Far Cry 2, Darksiders, Borderlands hmmmm, that's all I can remember right now!

Red Dead Redemption, Bioshock,

Crysis 2 singleplayer I found cool but the multiplayer even though it seemed so cool in the trailer I find utterly broken. Just the fact that every single person has such a strong stealth ability makes TDM really stupid imo. Everyone runs around in cloak only and you get killed all the time from behind. 

God of War 1, 2 and 3

Bastion. For all the hype surrounding that game, I can't see why it's so good.

 Gears of War
Deus Ex: HR.  This game started off great but felt like a chore after a few hours. 

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LA Noire. Boring as shit.

This.

I want to be able to see what was so good about Halo and Gears of War but I just can't. But that's not quite the same.

Demon's Souls, it was fun over Skype with friends but since that initial playthrough I cannot bring myself to do it again. I can't get invested in the world or make the effort to get certain items.

Darksiders

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@XenoNick said:

God of War 1, 2 and 3

You just keep coming back for more , don't you ?

It was an odd situation where I got the HD collection and 3 all at once quite cheap. I know it sounded a little weird when I first posted it.

Straight of the bat I'm going to say Final Fantasy XII. Really dissapointed me. It's probably a lot more games too, but that one stands out from the top of my head. 

Ninja Gaiden 2. A game so bad that when I tried to return it the next day, Gamestop would not take it back.

enslaved... There's a couple of things that are awesome about the game, but the gameplay feels so mechanical....

FF13 and Alpha Protocal... its just to glitchy........

The only game that I remember that I actually tried to make myself like and ended up hating it was Chronicles of Riddick Dark Athena.

Oblivion, I was sooo disappointed after absolutely loving Morrowind.  Really hoping Skyrim is, to me, more towards the feeling Morrowind gave me.  I've actually been afraid to try Fallout 3 because of this =/

Borderlands, really didn't like that game.

Fallout: New Vegas. For some reason didn't have the same appeal to me as 3.

GTA 4, I had no fun and found the story bland and boring.

GTA IV and Dragon Age 2 are the ones I ended up hating the most. 

I really wanted to like Morrowind.

The first time I played Mass Effect I just barely got into the point where you control the Normandy, and then had given up on it. Found it too boring, slowly paced and not intriguing.
 
Came back to it 5 months later with a different mindset (doing every sidequest, getting the full story, etc) and adored it. It's in my top 10 games (series' included) now.
 
But for one that maintained its 'wanted to like but didn't' status for me:
-Oblivion
-Puzzle Agent
-Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force 2

GTA IV and LA Noire. Didn't really rate either with GTA IV in particular just making me frustrated.

7 pages of people saying what they don't like. No one is ever going to read through all that. Eh, whatever, I really wanted to like both Halo and Deus Ex, so I played both (Halo 3 and Deus Ex 1) and ended up disliking them even more.

 Dragon Age 2 i would have to say was the biggest disappointment i can think of as far as gameplay and story go when compared to its predecessor.  Usually a game can have a great story or fantastic gameplay that can "carry" one or the other if one aspect is lacking. Dragon Age 2, on the other hand, was just plainly boring. The gameplay couldn't carry the lightly intriguing and seemingly aimless story and the story couldn't sledge through the game's repetitive encounters and simple gameplay mechanics. By the halfway-point of the game i found myself forcing myself to play the game just because i was hoping for a fleeting spark of life that the game my redeem itself. As the hours went on you realize it isn't going to happen and then you realize that you're just continuing to finish it. 
 
Many people said "DA2 is a good game in its own right" and that just isn't true. We don't live in a vacuum in which Origins was not created and DA2 MUST be compared to absent but associated titles. The sequel fell short in nearly every aspect of the first game. The bare minimum that gamers deserve--and i do not think this is asking much at all-- is that game successors live up to the standards that the developers set (for themselves) with the game's predecessor. DA2 simply missed that mark. It was such a large departure from the first game, only one installment later in the franchise, that it begged the question "if Origins was the spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate...what is this the sequel to?"
 
I wanted to love DA2 so much and after playing it and beating it i really wished i had never pre-ordered it and had just bought the Origins' Ultimate Edition instead.

The first time I played Mass Effect I just barely got into the point where you control the Normandy, and then had given up on it. Found it too boring, slowly paced and not intriguing.  Came back to it 5 months later with a different mindset (doing every sidequest, getting the full story, etc) and adored it. It's in my top 10 games (series' included) now.

I liked LA Noire. I had to be in a certain mood though. Toward the end, the Lie/Truth/Doubt thing got so arbitrary and vague that I just looked up the answers. The interviewing system was very disappointing.

I could never get into the Uncharted series, Dark Siders, Infameous, or Final Fantasy 13. FF13 was probably the biggest disappointment. I bought it on launch day and was super excited. After the first 4 hours, I was very sad to see how combat had devolved into frantic button presses instead of thoughtful strategy like the previous games. Then FF14... lol

Singularity, Chronicles of Riddick, Quake 4, Medal of Honor, Rainbow Six Vegas, Far Cry 2 (Campaign), Mass Effect 1, Mercenaries 2, Sonic 4, Bioshock, Spolsion Man, Stacking, Bulletstorm, Fable 2, Force Unleashed. 
 
Those are the ones that come to mind right away. I'm sure there are plenty more.

Gears of War 1

i wouldve said Fallout 3 if i didnt get passed Megaton but that was a fantastic game...  and Lego Star Wars.  it was like 2 bucks new at Best Buy but man, what a boring game.  i used to like the first Lego Star Wars game when i was like 10 or something but damn...  i cant play it anymore without wanting to do something else

Bioshock, Oblivion, Fallout: New Vegas, Batman: Arkham Asylum and Splatterhouse.

mass effect 2