Confession Time:Games You Just Can't Get Into

[Lieju]

Any realistic shooters. I've tried playing ones where you shoots nazis, or terrorists, but that just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

For the same reason I couldn't get into GTAIV, the bleak realism just made me feel bad for the people I killed.
And I'm not too crazy about 'realistic' weapons either, I want to have ice-beams and the ability to summon giant spiders to feast on my enemies for it to be fun for me.

 

[Blood Brain Barrier]

Bioshock. As opposed to System Shock, it just seemed to be a random arrangement of puzzles, monsters and items which were all the same.

 

[Untitled-Dragon]

Sims - I'll admit I enjoy building houses but once I am done I feel like there nothing else to do.

Witcher series - I've started playing 1 but playing feels like a chore. I will try to finish it but it feels kinda dull both in gameplay and story.

Final Fantasy X & X-2 - Started them never finished.

Final Fantasy XII - Started it, never finished it either. Honestly I gave up trying to finish it, since I kept falling asleep after only a couple hours of play time. I am pretty sure games aren't suppose to make me feel drowsy.

Actually I good number of JRPGs.

 

[KnightyKnight]

Mass Effect. I tried playing the first game a couple of times but could never stick with it, though I can't really place why. I love the genre, I'm quite interested in the lore of the series and will browse articles on the wiki from time to time, but for whatever reason I just don't find myself enjoying the game when I play it.

 

[purplecactus]

Bioshock. I tried, really tried, because the concept sounded good. When I actually got down to it, though, it was pretty mind-numbing. It just didn't work for me.

ES: Oblivion. Now I love Morrowind (and am itching to get Skyrim when I get my hands on a PC that actually works...), but for some reason Oblivion just seemed like this time-consuming black hole of, well, nothingness. Maybe I wasn't much good at it, or any other number of maybes, but I just couldn't make myself sit down in front of it again after the first few times.

Most RTS games as well, but that's more to do with me not having the patience and being terrible with the strategic approach. I prefer the 'kill it now' or quest approaches, really.

 

[Spitfire]

- Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl.

A game with solid gameplay, beautiful graphics, great atmosphere, and a fairly intriguing story as well, and yet, for all its accomplishments, the few things that Stalker fails at, ruin the whole experience for me.

Stalker is one of those game that you can't play unless you're really immersed in it, and it's hard for me to be immersed in a world that's as realistic as the world in Stalker is supposed to be, when there are no women and children present at all, in the entire game.
I can see how they'd think it would be controversial to have children in the game, but why no women? Take your favorite RPG game, and then imagine what it would be like if you were to remove every single character of the opposite sex from it. Welcome to the Stalker experience.

Also, there's something to be said about the dialogue in this game as well. I can understand that the developers don't have a very good command of the English language, but still, some of this stuff is painful to listen to, and takes me right out of the game.

- Diablo, Starcraft, and Warhammer 40k.

Spoiler: This pretty much sums up my opinion on these games.

One's a hack 'n' slash loot hunt, one's a fast-paced, but otherwise fairly generic RTS game, and one's an over-the-top parody of the latter. They're all really well designed games, but I just couldn't find any motivation to continue playing them.

 

[RavingLibDem]

I struggled a lot to really get in to Majora's Mask, and also strategy games such as Advance Wars, or Fire Emblem (Though with these I enjoyed the gameplay, just lack the strategic skill to prosper...

 

[Parkway91]

GTA4 just did not sit well with me. Loved every other GTA up until 4 but this one just bored me something fierce.

I will also put in a dishonourable mention for LA Noire too, I struggled my way through that one.

Now you may say I don't like R* games, but Red Dead Redemption is one of my favourite games ever, I just can't put my finger on why these other R* games just don't work for me.

 

[Mariakko]

Mass Effect. The game was just completely dull. I've tried many times to get into it but when I try it feels more like work than playing.

 

[SeeIn2D]

I for the life of me can't get into Mass Effect 2 or Half-Life. I've tried both and played a decent amount of both but they just don't click with me for some reason, which is a shame since I can recognize that both are great games, I just can't seem to have much fun with either of them.

 

[Jolly Co-operator]

Starcraft 2. It's not really the Blizzard's fault, I'm just unbelievably terrible at it.

 

[everythingbeeps]

So so many. Here's a bunch of games on my shelf that I've tried more than once to get into and just never could:

Dead Rising
Bayonetta
GTAIV
LA Noire
Gears of War
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (and I loved AC2)
The Witcher 2
Catherine
Final Fantasy XIII
infamous 2
Xenoblade Chronicles (this is more from a lack of extended periods of free time. Taken in small doses, I'm not enjoying it much.)


There's others, but those are the most surprising ones. I have a feeling Dragon's Dogma will end up on that list too.

 

[Surpheal]

Because it is the only game that comes into my mind when I think of time that I tried to like a game, Call of Duty.

More specifically, Call of Duty: World at War.

I had started playing the Call of Duty, and I will not be calling it CoD because that looks like an idiot tried to type in a fish's name, back in Finest Hour. That game let you play in three of the fronts of the war; Russian, during the battle for Stalingrad, British, during the North African campaign, and American, on the march to the bridge over the Rhine river. Then I played Call of Duty 3, which I believe was the first to offer online play but I never did play it, which dealt with the campaign into the Falasie(?) gap, ending it in Chambois. Both of them had good enough single player campaigns, though Call of Duty 3 had the multiplayer option. Skipped over Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, just because. Then came World at War, I played through the single player, and the multiplayer this time around, even the zombie maps, but it just lost something. I'm not sure what it was, but it wasn't there anymore to be had, so I just stopped playing them all together.