Confession Time:Games You Just Can't Get Into

[NerfedFalcon]

I still can't play Team Fortress 2, though part of it might be that I tried playing Scout too early and now I can't deal with anyone else's relative lack of speed. I also can't get into a lot of sandbox games, since I generally like having a reason to do stuff other than that "it's there" - that's why I like Assassin's Creed. Just Cause 2 was actually pretty fun as well, though I've never been able to enjoy Bethesda RPGs...

 

[Beryl77]

The Legend of Zelda games. I have played Majora's Mask and I just finished Ocarina of Time yesterday. I can sort of see why people like them but I simply can't really get into them.
The only thing that has stood out for me is the music. That is really good but the rest like gameplay, characters and story is just meh, nothing special for me.
I played and finished those two games more because I wanted to have played at least some TLoZ games and not because I really liked them. Maybe I would think differently about them if I had played them as a kid or maybe my expectations just were too high.

 

[Scrustle]

Fable 2. Holy hell I hated that game, and EVERYONE ELSE seemed to love it, and talk about it like it was the second coming of christ.

I couldn't play it more then an hour without dying of boredom. I even went so far as to watch my friend play through it, and it didn't get any better. It was bad the whole way through.

So bad.

Most people I've heard hate the game, myself included. Although I have finished it 1.5 times. Don't know why. It's such a piece of crap.

OT: The last generation GTA games. The controls are just so so awful and you lose health so fast. I own the 3 main ones but never gotten far in any of them.

 

[Vault101]

Stalker was....

fucking dull

 

[AD-Stu]

Oh gawd, there's an embarrassingly long list of these for me:

- Fallout 2. I ground through and made it to the end of the original Fallout, and had an OK time doing it (it definitely wasn't an "OMG best game evar" experience for me) but Fallout 2 just killed me. Probably something to do with the combat being even tougher than the previous game, just making it through the tutorial was a huge struggle. That and I actually don't care about the world it's set in, or the characters. I've never had any inclination to play Fallout 3 or New Vegas either. The idea behind it is interesting, I guess, but it's just never done anything for me.

- I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but The Witcher. I tried. Oh gawd did I try. I sunk well over 30 hours into it before giving up in disgust - I was at the point where I hated the combat, hated the world, hated all the characters and I especially hated Gerald. I hated all the voice actors. I hated all the badly copy-pasted NPCs and their badly copy-pasted dialog. In the back of my mind there was always the thought that this is supposed to be an awesome game and people rave about it, but it just never clicked for me.

- STALKER Call of Pripyat. I'm not much of a fan of shooters to begin with so I only really tried this one because my brother gave me a copy for free. Again, it's an interesting concept but I just couldn't figure out what the hell was going on or what I was supposed to be doing.

- F1: 2010. This is probably the most interesting one. Along with RPGs, driving games are my favourite genre. I'm a huge fan of Formula 1 in real life, it's the only sport I follow religiously. There hadn't been a proper F1 game released in almost a decade and I was really hanging out for one. It was done by Codemasters, whose work in the genre I'm a huge fan of. And yet two or three races into my first season... I got bored and just never game back to it. Go figure

 

[octafish]

AssCreed, I didn't mind the first one despite the slightly wonky tutorials, but as soon as I finished the introductory level I just stopped caring, I haven't gotten past the first 15 minutes of AssCreed2. Perversely I played all of The Saboteur twice.

Exactly the same for Red Faction: Guerilla, the first town was pretty fun but when presented with the open world I turned off the game and walked away. It isn't fear of the open world either I love DayZ, STALKER, Minecraft, Lost Cause 2 and Pirates! but some open world games just leave me cold, like the Elder Scrolls Games post Daggerfall. I have at least 20 hours in Oblivion which is mostly me trying one more time to like it and then saying "fuck it" after half an hour.

I've also never really like grindy loot-drop poker-machine analogues like Diablo, Borderlands or Torchlight, the one exception to this is of course Titan Quest. There is something about that one that entertains me and keeps me going beyond the loot.

 

[gritch]

I could not get into Red Dead Redemption. I don't know what it was exactly about it but it really didn't click with me. I'm a huge fan of open world games but it really didn't interest me all that much. Maybe I just didn't give it enough time.

 

[Racecarlock]

I keep going on about this game, but Mafia II. People praise it for the story, but it was ripped from the godfather, in fact the main character's first name is Vito and some side character's name is Henry Tomasino. People praise it for the shooting, but you can get just as good shooting from any gears of war game.

As for the other gameplay? There's a brawl mode with 3 one button moves and a quick time event finisher. All the other gameplay? Well, one chapter I had to clean toilets, another one I had to sell cigarettes, another one I had to lift crates. And if it's not making you do that, you're driving. So, at least the driving should be fun, right? No. It's not. First of all, these are 1940s and 50s cars, so being fun to drive is not their main goal. Second, traffic laws are enforced, so try to speed to your destination or even accidentaly hit another car? You're pulled over and ticketed. So, most of the game is either waiting at red lights, or driving around red light traffic because red light running is the one thing cops don't enforce. But even then half the waypoints are across town from your current position, and 1950s cars aren't exactly fast or fun, so you end up feeling like you were on an actual car trip by the time you reach your next waypoint.

Mafia II is one of the most aggressively boring games I've ever played. Maybe I'm just more of a GTA fan and the mafia series hates GTA fans with a passion, but I'm definitely sure I'm never playing it again.

 

[Prime_Hunter_H01]

Grand Theft Auto.

While i don't mind playing a villain or criminal in a game, but the street gangster anti-hero that Grand Theft Auto has you play does not appeal to me.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Assassin's Creed. Tried the first one. Didn't grip me, so off it went. Decided to give the second one a chance. Same thing, I just get tired of it's gameplay after a while.

Anything that requires grinding. This includes all mmo's, but mostly it concerns jrpgs. Used to love that genre, but now they rarely draw my attention anymore.

Military shooters. I just prefer my shooters to be a little more out there.

 

[AD-Stu]

AssCreed, I didn't mind the first one despite the slightly wonky tutorials, but as soon as I finished the introductory level I just stopped caring, I haven't gotten past the first 15 minutes of AssCreed2. Perversely I played all of The Saboteur twice.

I was kind of the opposite - I found AssCreed 1 to be a huge grind for the most part, it took me well over a year to finally get around to finishing it.

2 and Brotherhood, on the other hand, I couldn't put down. Revelations is still in my to-play pile.

 

[fozzy360]

Put nearly every jRPG on the list for me. In most I have trouble even getting to the end of the first Act. Just too many annoying little things that come up when I play one.

Same here. I just can't get into most JRPGS. I don't like the aesthetics, the presentation...none of it just works for me, so I tend to stay away from it.

And RTS outside of Starcraft. I'm really, really, really bad at them, so I don't play those either.

 

[octafish]

AssCreed, I didn't mind the first one despite the slightly wonky tutorials, but as soon as I finished the introductory level I just stopped caring, I haven't gotten past the first 15 minutes of AssCreed2. Perversely I played all of The Saboteur twice.

I was kind of the opposite - I found AssCreed 1 to be a huge grind for the most part, it took me well over a year to finally get around to finishing it.

2 and Brotherhood, on the other hand, I couldn't put down. Revelations is still in my to-play pile.

To be fair it was mostly at disgust at the terrible controller support/PC porting. I chose my Logitech gamepad from the list of supported controllers and the tutorial kept telling me to hit buttons that were the wrong ones. Beyond that though I felt extremely underwhelmed. I have installed AssCreed2 on my HTPC and mean to give it another go just as soon as I stop playing FIFA12...in about 2018 or so...

 

[Killspre]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution. It was alright, but neither the story nor the gameplay were anything special, once I'd finished it my reaction was, "That's it?" I'd been expecting something amazing because of everyone going on about it, and got an average action-RPG.

Same for me, overrated game in my opinion. I beat it on the hardest difficulty with no problems, even got the trophy for never being caught on camera. Also, Assassin's Creed Revelations, I found the perfect sync but no checkpoints annoying, the rts battles tedious, and buying half the city shouldn't be this boring.

 

[Agayek]

Every Final Fantasy game since FFX, Metal Gear Solid, Civilization V and Costume Quest are the ones that immediately spring to mind.

 

[Chknboy]

Easy- Bioshock, boring ass game. Gave it way too many chances, and none of them came through. Also Darksiders, kinda meh but I'll probably get back to it someday.
I also tried out Singularity because it was on sale. It looked interesting but when I loaded it up, it not only had plenty of graphical bugs, but it was also the most linear gaming experience I have ever had. Terrible terrible level design.
Edit- Civ 5, forgot to mention that one...just remake Age of Empires 2 please and that will be the only RTS I'll ever need.

 

[DktrAgonizer]

Red Dead Redemption was a miss for me, too. I played maybe about an hour of it, but I was pretty bored with it the entire time. Shame, because it looked fun from the videos I saw--but then, maybe that's because I was watching the strange cross-species glitches and stuff...

Also, Skyrim. I'm still playing it occasionally, but it definitely isn't as great as everybody has been making it out to be. To me, at least. It's strange because I usually love games like this (and in fact, I quite like FO3 and FO:NV) but I get bored more often than not playing Skyrim.
Although running around as a scaly person with a tail is pretty fun.

Edit: Almost forgot: Assassin's Creed, too. It was too boring and repetitive to me. Although diving from really high up was pretty fun.

 

[Suave Charlie]

Metro 2033, I tried it after finishing Fallout 3 and needed some post apocalyptic goodness, I made it about 20 minutes and just turned it off and never touched it again.

Crusader Kings 2, got it on steam sale for £14 the other week from a recommendation from a friend. I love the idea of it, but I just hate the gameplay, it is too meticulous and I generally love that sort of thing. I tried so hard to like it to justify the money, spent 8 hours on it and went through the tutorial so many times but it is just too detailed and the UI is so stupidly unhelpful.. I felt I needed a spreadsheet open to keep track of everything easier.

 

[scrambledeggs]

Diablo 2. While I found the story quite intresting, the combat was pure crap, and every game that has respawning enemies that isn't an MMO deserves to burn in hell.

Witcher 2. Again, I quite liked the story, but the combat was just boring. No, I don't want to drink potions before a fight or plant traps everywhere, I just want to have fun.

Diablo 2 doesn't have respawning enemies unless you leave the game and return in a different difficulty...

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OT: Valkyria Chronicles. On paper this game is designed for me, but for some reason... I just can't get into it.