Games nobody wants to play, but everyone wants to say they did

[Amethyst Wind]

The Professor Layton series?

Not so much that I don't want to play them, because I do. I don't, however, hold any interest in obtaining a DS.

 

[ResonanceSD]

H-H-H-Half Life.

Deus Ex

Seriously, if you didnt play them when they were relatively new, you just can't play them now.

 

[erbkaiser]

Jumping on the SotC train as well. I know the colossi (boss battles) may be awesome, but to me it was just a boring empty world where my character was forced to ride through with a poorly responding horse, and then the same damn gameplay for each 'boss'.

Still, I guess I am supposed to somehow like it since it is lauded by all the same people who like games I actually /did/ like to play so I usually just go along and agree it was good.

 

[gazumped]

I usually mainly feel this way about whatever's popular currently, because I feel really left out of my friends' conversations. Even if it's a game that I'd never really want to play just because it's not my thing.

Apart from that, it's always the arty or conceptual games that I feel like I should have played, I got Okami cheap the other day because even though I have little interest in playing it the idea for its art and story is lovely.

I really want to play either Morrowind or Oblivion, especially since Skyrim turned out so well. However, by today's standards, I don't think their graphics will have held up, and since the only computer I have is an old laptop, I can rule out any useful mods.

I started playing Morrowind last week, the graphics haven't aged too badly, actually. Although I haven't played Skyrim yet, so following on from it might just be too much to bear. (I've been playing Morrowind while my boyfriend plays Skyrim next to me, I'll look over to see what he's doing sometimes and be all "oooh, shiny".)

 

[Risingblade]

Fallout 1 and 2, yeah I know the story is suppose to be so much better but the gameplay ugg so horrible

 

[demoman_chaos]

Naw, you state like it's fact, but I believe it was a great game, that was enhanced by my phobias.
OT: The Lucas Arts/Tell Tale adventure classics.

To me, it is a fact that is was boring. Just like to you it is fact that is is not. They are called opinions and what one enjoys another may not. To me, Gundam Crossfire was enjoyable, to everyone else there's Mastercard.
Err, I mean to everyone else it's bad, REALLY bad. Damn ads are getting embedded in my brain and I'm not even getting paid for the space.

 

[Seneschal]

Shadow of the Colossus. I have it, but god damn is it just not at ALL fun to play. Look, I understand how artsy it is and I've enjoyed many art games in the past, but this one just....kinda sucks.

I never took it for an artsy game. I took it for a game with 16 amazing boss battles.

I wish I could say I played "The Witcher" all the way through, but I just cant get past the outskirts of Vizima, I've tried countless times and from what my friends tell me of the game its my thing but I just cant do it

Thank fuck I am not the only one.

Me too me too, I spent a whole lot of hours in the Vizima outskirts and got really invested in the setting, but I just can't bring myself to continue. Especially now that Witcher 2 is out, now I'll never give it another shot.

Also, countless others if we count "barely started but then got distracted/grown tired of".

 

[j0frenzy]

I keep trying to get into Dragon Age: Origins, but that game is so poorly designed I just can't get into it. The main quests are just too long and arduous for me to care and only one of the three opening that I played did I feel like I was an active character in the world around me (the human noble intro for those who cared). I want to try and finish it, but the only thing really good about the game are the characters and there is just too much tedious dungeon crawling for me to really give a rats ass about hearing Alistair talking in long... slow.... dramatic...sentences or hear why Morrigan disapproves. Bleh.
And for all those who recognize my posts, oh look, another Bioware game that I can't get into because the game play is more frustrating than the story is interesting. At least I want to like this one.

 

[psivamp]

Nethack.

I've played a little, but in a game where death (and game over - no reloads, boys and girls!) lurks beneath every footstep... Yeah. Those few, those brave, heroic few who manage to beat the game are not men. They are legends.

From what I hear, Nethack is actually pretty tame for a rogue-like. ADOM actively hates you. And I've played the piss out of it...

I played throught PS:T twice, Deus Ex at least twice. I don't really get sucked into either of them any more though -- there's just way too much going on IRL and all of the shiny to look at in Skyrim. Plus, those games are incredibly story-driven and those stories are indelibly marked into my brain.

I'd throw up the original Half-Life as a classic that I don't really want to play. The Thief games probably belong there too -- I beat the first one once.

 

[Right Hook]

This is going to piss a BUNCH of people off but for me it is honestly Ocarina of Time. I'm not into the N64 anymore and when I tried to play it as like a seven year old, I just couldn't figure it out with my short attention span.

 

[zombieshark6666]

Maybe Psychonauts?

I almost bought it the other day, but it wasn't on XBLA anymore, so no go, I guess. I'm not even a platform guy. :/

 

[Nightshine]

Oh my god, I've got so many of these fuckers.

Any Final Fantasy game apparently they're good and I'd like to get engaged into a good RPG for once closest I've gotten into an RPG is Mass Effect seeing as how I cannot stand turned based combat.

Elder Scrolls IV and V: although I've got V on my PC I have yet to play more then 5 minutes of it, I probably might get into it sometime but at the moment, I've got too many other games holding me up, which usually happens then when it comes time to actually getting around to playing it I have lost all interest in it, same goes for IV.

Batman Arkham Asylum: I can say I have played it but I mean more so through and through to the end, a corrupt save about 4 hours in lost me, I ain't replying 4 hours. Am now playing Arkham City makes me wish I did finish Arkham Asylum.

Silent Hill: same reason as most people I know, it seems way to scary for me, also abit before my time.

Bioshock: same reason as Arkham Asylum

Starcraft 2

System Shock 2

F.E.A.R: I actually bought the gold edition of this game with all the expansions but had a "nope" moment pretty early in the game and never returned to it.

God of War 3: Played 1 and 2 I am absolutely loved them, would kill to play it.

Metal gear Solid series: they look awesome, I love a good story.

I could go on all day but these were the main ones off the top of my head.

 

[octafish]

Basically any game not available on PC. There could be great games on consoles but unless someone wants to pay me to take time off work to learn how to use a controller and wants to buy me a console, TV and said games, I'm not going to be playing them.

 

[loc978]

I suppose it only works if the classics were actually before your time... for video games, that's pretty much just Pong, in my case... but I actually like Pong.
There are a bunch of lauded games that I genuinely dislike, and some I haven't tried, but none that I feel I should back as a status symbol... even though I've recently dusted off my old save of Morrowind... still can't get into it, I just plain don't like the game system for TES... I just know D20 works better...

 

[Darkasassin96]

Any of the Zelda games. Although i did technically play all of them as I played the very first one, and all that Nintendo has been doing for the past 25 years is remaking the same game with a different skin. But im not bitter.

And is it really that hard to learn how to use a controller. Your hands dont have to be as spread out, and ive seen 4 year olds that can pwn in COD with a controller.

 

[isometry]

I've been gaming since the NES days, but the generation of games I have the most difficult time replaying is N64/PSone. I guess it's because 3D was such a new thing, so even the best games suffer from what we would today consider to be broken cameras and awkward controls.

I can enjoyably replay Legend of Zelda (1986), Chrono Trigger, and KoTOR, but not Ocarina or FF7, so the classic games of that first 3D generation are the ones I consider most inaccessible.

As far as classic games I never got a chance to play, for me it would be all the supposedly classic computer RPGs pre-2000.

 

[-Drifter-]

I've tried to get into Morrowind a few times, but have never been able to get very far. Usually I just wind up screwing around for a few hours, doing random quests and trying to obtain the best gear, but when I did finally try to do the main storyline I was only ever able to do a few missions at a time before being told I had to suck less before I could continue.