A game that you just can't play.

[Caffeine Rage]

For me, I can't play Overlord.

It isn't because it I didn't have fun playing it. I love the game. But, there is just something about the field of view and the way the camera moves that makes me motion sick.

Overlord is the only game that I've ever gotten motion sick from.

 

[The Funslinger]

What's the game that you simply can't play?
Whether it be the quality of it, moral obligation or perhaps you've played it so many times over, you can't bear yourself to do it again.

For me it has to be Dante's Inferno.
Everything just seems so wrong about it.

So, what about you?

Spoiler

... and i just got the oddest captcha ever... 'dead cat bounce'

I was going to say Dante's Inferno before I even got to read your message. I don't really have anything against the game, I watched my brother play through most of it. I enjoy the design, but when I get to actually playing it, I get bored and can't play for more than a few minutes.

From what I've heard the engine isn't too good. One of those incredibly repetitive hack n'slash third person brawls. That stuff can be done well, but no amount of aesthetic can make up for it if it isn't. I haven't played it though, so I wouldn't know.

 

[Monsieur E]

I really, really try to play through ME1, because I love the second part. But the combat feels as if not intented to be done with mouse and keyboard.

I probably doesn't feel like it was in tended for mouse and keyboard because it didn't get a pc port until a year after release. :/

http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Mass_Effect#Release

OT: Sports games and fighting games. I don't know why, though. And Battlefield BC1. It makes my head hurt from all the movement/view bobbing

 

[strangemoose]

mass effect series navigating menus and upgrades was such a hassle it just sucked all the fun out of the game plus in my opinion there was way to much dialogue trees, hey don't get me wrong i loved fallout's dialogue trees i even spec'd in speech for my main character but for some reason i can just not get used to ME's

 

[thejackyl]

Racing games - I find them boring. I don't know why, even when they have power-ups, I still can't get into them.

Sports games - I would much rather play the actual sport. Plus the whole $60/year for a roster update.

Fighting games - Any time I can take time and learn moves, and STILL lose to someone who doesn't even know the controls, and just pushes buttons.

Puzzle Games - I have Tetris and flash games, those are the only puzzle games I need. Yeah, I don't like Catherine either. I don't mind puzzles in games, but I don't like when that is ALL the game contains.

As for specific games: I can't bring myself to beat Shadows of the Damned, despite being on the final boss. And I haven't played Little Big Planet 2 after beating the tutorial world. Oh and both Dead Rising games. Played for a while, got to a boss I couldn't beat and just said "fuck it"

 

[i7omahawki]

Resident Evil 5.

I played RE 2 when it came out long ago and enjoyed playing through it, but when I played 5 and found that you STILL couldn't walk + aim I was baffled. Around the time I was being chased by a crazy guy with a chainsaw I just thought fuck this and stopped playing altogether.

How does that happen? How can a game exist today, with all the developments, and you still can't aim and walk? This guy was a cop and now he's battling zombies and he can't figure out how to do two things at once?

Yeah, that game really pisses me off.

 

[Instinct Blues]

Any Final Fantasy game.

I just don't see the point in turn-based combat its such a boring way to handle a battle sequence especially in modern games. It was probably great back in the day when people were playing their NES and had more of an attention span nowadays I don't think it fits at all. Also the characters are annoying and at some point its going to make you grind for at 1/3 of the gameplay just so it can boast that its a 60 hour video game. I see right through your bullshit Square Enix. Might as well throw all other RPGs on this too though its mostly JRPGs because I do like Fallout 3 and I plan on getting Skyrim when it comes out.

I also like Kingdom Hearts because it doesn't have turn-based combat and it didn't require me to grind endlessly just to beat the game. But other than that any thing Square Enix makes can go straight in the garbage as far as I'm concerned.

 

[loc978]

The new GTA games. I can't stand the controls... and I can't get past the re-branding.

Spoiler: THIS is what GTA looks like

 

[Xerxes250]

For me, its Starcraft. I grew up playing C&C games, so when I tried Starcraft I felt that it was really sluggish. The long ass build times and absolutely retarded pathing on half the units just finished it off.

 

[krazykidd]

Metroid other M , i just can't do it. About a month ago the game wqs taunting me because i never finished it , so i convinced myself i was goinv to play and finish it. I sat down minded to play and finish it, i lasted 4 hours before i wantex to bash my head into a wall for buying the game. I bought it and i will finish it eventually ( because i have a need to finish every game i buy eventually, i got 25 unfinished games that i am going through one by one), but not in the near futur, metroid other M won the batlle but i WILL win the war.

 

[Alcamonic]

Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
Simply because my fear of the dark. I thought my fear of creepy dark areas was gone after I played through the FEAR series (say what you want, first FEAR was scary at times). I was wrong.

 

[Sir Prize]

Pretty much any online MMO.
I'm one of these people that if allowed to play this kind of game, will go overbroad. I would slowly start to become obessed and then...yea, my social life would be down the toilet. Having played Prefect World I know this would happen.

Also, most of the Timesplitter horror based levels. I don't know why but they scare me more than most horror based thing.

 

[DesiPrinceX09]

I can't play racing games, sports games, and GTA games; sports and racing are too boring (and I'm bad at them) and GTA...I don't know those games are just not fun to me.

 

[vivster]

any BmUp
i just can't..SC4 was my last try but BmUps and me just don't work out^^

also yesterday i reflected upon if i should give mass effect another chance after i stopped playing it after half an hour
i made a PRO/CON list and the only pro aspect i could come up with was hot lesbian alien sex
so yeah i think it's not worth it

 

[Unhappy Crow]

Sports games, and I'm excluding extreme, more fictional ones like NBA Ballers, NBA Street, and NFL Blitz.
RPGs that don't look appealing to me.
Shooters that are related to war (Call of Duty and Battlefied).

That's all I can think of.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Guitar Hero or Rock Band... I would rather play a real instrument and get more fulfillment out of it by learning new songs or making my own. Aside from some of the good songs not even being the licensed recordings but rather covers (and bad ones at that) I've never really understood the draw of guitar hero-style games. I guess its the whole "I can be rockstar" angle.

 

[SonicPsycho]

MMORPGs because I just know that I'd get hooked, especially with how much of an obsessive completionist I am.

Also, Halo games; I bought Halo 3 on day 1, played it for a couple months and hadn't touched it since. Ever since I got into Left 4 Dead, I can't play Halo because of Master Chief's agonizingly slow walking speed.

 

[Spawny0908]

Sacred 2 - made for FAIL

Same here. Took it back the same day I bought it.

 

[itsausernamewhatofit]

I just can't play Oblivion. I just can't stay interested in it for long. I could try to give reasons but the whole thing just doesn't agree with me.