Games that you "should" love but...

[CrashBang]

Half-Life 2. It seems like my perfect game and I understand why it is loved so much. For all the reasons It's loved, I should love it too but I just don't care. The environments are gorgeous but I also find them bland. The gameplay rules but I also find it dull. The characters are great but I also find them lifeless. I don't get it and I confuse myself.

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

Has to be the entie Grand Theft Auto Series (apperently since I love Saints Row I should love that :|)

 

[Weealzabob]

Also Skyrim. I eagerly awaited Skyrim for years. It came out and I got bored 70 hours in.

Only Bethesda would produce a singleplayer game where 70 hours doesn't get you too 100% completion, but simply gives you enough time to realise you don't like the game.

On topic: The Bioshock games have never grabbed me. While I like the atmosphere of the game, there is nothing about the gameplay that I find particularly enthralling.

 

[freakydan]

Bayonetta.

I'm usually a big fan of a strong female protagonist, so a tall, leggy, strong female protagonist whose clothes fly off at random points while she's kicking ass should appeal to me. I also tend to be pretty fond of items that are intentionally controversial just for shits and giggles, so the fact that you spend the entire game beating the tar out of angels should make this an enjoyable romp.

I've played through it twice. Once because I'd heard good reviews. I hated it. I played through it again because a friend of mine wouldn't stop singing its praises, so I assumed that I was just in the wrong mood for it. I hated it even more.

The combat felt generic, the cutscenes were terrible, the voice acting made me cringe. On paper, this looks like my kind of game. On the screen, I'll pass.

 

[Guykild]

Grand Theft Auto. I've not enjoyed any of them at all. I can happily spend a few hours being an idiot in Just Cause 2 or Saints Row: The Third, but every time I've played GTA I've either been too bored or too frustrated with it to continue for more than about 20 minutes.

Also, Valkyria Chronicles. I just can't get into it, and it really should be something I love. It looks amazing, what I've played is fun, but I don't think I've ever made it past about Chapter 4. I just seem to pick up something else, leave it alone for long enough to forget the story, and then start again only to be distracted once more.

 

[5-0]

Both of these games are huge sandboxes, full of opportunities, which is exactly the sort of thing I love. And yet...

Saints Row 2- Everyone goes on about it being fun and silly unlike the too-serious GTA IV. I'm the opposite. I loved the serious tone of GTA and really didn't like Saints Row 2. I also found the guns and driving to be unsatisfying.

Fallout New Vegas- My first Fallout game. Still can't put my finger on why I didn't like it...the magic wasn't there for some reason.

 

[zacattack14]

Portal 2, I dunno why everyone loves it so much. I fell like I should love it, but every time I play it it seems so off. Like there was this very specific blueprint that they were to follow. Mechanical is a good word.

 

[Marcus Kehoe]

The witcher is the biggest in my mind, just so boring. Such great writing but the voice, the game play aug..............

Most zelda games, I really like them when I play them, but I can never motivate myself to go back to them.

Red orchestra 2 I like the game, but it feels different from the original, and darkest hour, so much I just can't get into it.

Half life is just not that great to me, I see it I get it just don't have the want to do it, and I own it.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

Metroid Prime and its sequels. I really don't know what to say here. I love each individual element that makes up the gameplay experience, but for whatever reason when they're all combined... I just can't get into it.

Bioshock. I like this game, don't get me wrong... but I certainly don't love it, even though I really should given that I'm a HUGE fan of System Shock and System Shock 2. I think the problem was that the mechanics of the game felt a little too similar to those of the System Shock games, so I spent most of my experience with Bioshock feeling disappointed that I wasn't playing System Shock 3. It still makes me sad.

Alpha Protocol. Like another poster above, I absolutely love Obsidian's games... but just couldn't get into this one. Made it to the end of the tutorial and just couldn't bring myself to go any further. I've had it for a few months now, and every so often I get a nagging feeling that I should give it another chance... so I do... and it goes back to my "some day" pile. The game's controls are clunky - even by Obsidian standards. The game's buggy as all hell - even by Obsidian standards. And good God is the voice acting and dialogue terrible.

 

[floppylobster]

Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds (or whatever it was called). RTS Star Wars game like Age of Empires II. On paper it sounds like it was made for me. In reality I would have rather played with a piece of paper.

 

[TriggerHappyAngel]

Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon.

I love all the other FE titles, but in Shadow Dragon you get showered with extra units and it's even encouraged to lose some, that's a deal breaker for me.

 

[Atmos Duality]

I know people will hate me..

Bioshock, I played it many times, getting the 100% completion thing done all weapons ect ect
But I just don't love it, infact I think I barely like it. I tried so hard to. The story is intreguting, but I thought 'meh so you're genetically altered to follow 'would you kindly' not so bad'

The world did look good but it wasn't extremely great. And the gameplay and controls were kinda clunky

Yeah, definitely Bioshock for me too, but for slightly different reasons.
I played and beat it once, unlike System Shock 2.

Why?
It has no real replayability. I know the big reveal. I know how to viciously abuse hacking and the wrench in such a way that I will rarely 'die' even on the highest difficulty (and death itself is of no consequence, unlike System Shock 2, where you could literally get stuck at certain points if you ran out of money and the enemies just kept murdering you over and over again at the respawn tanks).

"What about the moral-choice endings?"
Oh please. It changes like maybe two points of the entire game, one being the ending.
Besides, consuming little girls for more ADAM was nowhere near as fun as saving them, and yelling "I AM AN ADULT!!!!" every time I did so.

 

[SlaveNumber23]

All of the Assassins Creed games, they just bore the hell out of me. I bought the first one and after only a couple of hours of gameplay I just got bored of it and couldn't be bothered playing it anymore. I decided to give the series another shot and bought brotherhood later on, but felt the same, though I did enjoy the multiplayer quite a bit.

 

[lacktheknack]

Torchlight. Then again, it may be that I played "FATE" to death before Torchlight came out, and Torchlight can be best described as "FATE With Guns", albeit more polished, so I had already played the game until I was done with it before I even got around to Torchlight.

 

[RedDeadFred]

I should have loved Portal 2 and I did for the first playthrough but then I realized... now what? I know the answer to all of the puzzels and sure the dialogue is fun but it's not really worth another playthrough. Co-op only lasts so long too. I guess I'm just really big on replay value and for me, 15 hours of Portal 2 is just not enough content.

I haven't made up my mind on whether or not I love Arkham City or if I'm slightly disappointed. It's really fun and I liked the story a lot but... there's something about it that just makes me feel like there's not enough variety in the core gameplay. Still I'm sinking a lot of hours into trying to complete all of the side missions, although I really don't see the appeal of scouring for meaningless Riddler Trophies for me that's just a slightly better version of finding flags in ACI. Still this may be one of the few games I am able to love because of its story alone.

 

[gim73]

Also Skyrim. I am a Bethesda fanboy. My computer upgrade cycle was determined by Bethesda's release schedule. I eagerly awaited Skyrim for years. It came out and I got bored 70 hours in.

Normally I can play a Bethesda game till I collapse from exhaustion then wake up later and play some more. Not Skyrim. This has made me a sad panda.

You got bored 70 hours in...

There are many games I WISH I could have been bored 70 hours in rather than MUCH MUCH sooner. Honestly, Oblivion bored me before I finished the main questline. Took me four years of owning it before I finally trekked through and completed the game. It seemed like such a nerf from Morrowind that I felt like 'meh' after playing it. The leveled loot and enemies made you want to play the game through with a min/max attitude and do everything at level 1. I didn't get that feeling from Skyrim. I wasn't getting punished for leveling.

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

So what's a game that on paper has stuff that really appeals to you, but when it comes to the game itself you feel somewhat negatively towards?

Final Fantasy Tactics.

I love Final Fantasy games.
I love turn-based tactics games.
I love the world.

I tried to like it. I did. But I couldn't. I just couldn't stand the game.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

Pretty much every RPG that has been recommended to me and that I have not purchased/played.

It's not because I can't afford to buy it (if I like it, I get it; no exceptions), but some RPGs, though good, don't interest me so much or compel me enough to buy them. There's no specific quality or trait that I look for in an RPG (my library extends from Final Fantasy I&II to Final Fantasy X to Tales of Symphonia to Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door), only that I've seen it, played it, and I purchased it if I wanted to play more.

 

[crazyarms33]

Skyrim. I was enjoying it at first but I got bored really quickly, now I can't even play it for more than 20 mins before I have to do something else.

So glad this is not just me. Now that I have beaten it, the fetch quests just don't do it for me. Not even getting achievements can make me want to keep playing. Which is really the only reason I finished Oblivion. Yes, I am that guy.