Games that you tried so very hard to like.

[Xannidel]

Oblivion (or any Elder Scrolls game)- I really do not know why I cannot get into that game but I guess it is the huge vast openness

Batman Arkham City- Again I think it has to do with the vast openness that Batman has access too and then they just throw so many Riddler riddles at you that really ticked me off

 

[VargRaev]

Starcraft II

I reaaally tried to have fun with this game, but its just. so. assnumbingly. FRUSTRATING!...
The Multiplayer is pretty much like this: "hurry up build workers! block chokepoint! Early expansion! place pylons near the choke to counter reaper-harass! you need Hellions before the 7 minute mark! where are your banelings!" all stress, no fun.

 

[IamLEAM1983]

1. Driver: San Francisco - The story's interesting and I like the quasi-GTA mechanics mixed in with some Quantum Leap flavoring, but the cars are just off. The game expects you to nail hairpin turns and drifts in the middle of extremely crowded streets, and most cars have so much inertia it takes forever for you to stop drifting, start spinning in place, *stop* spinning in place and finally shoot off straight ahead.

I just can't play it for more than fifteen minutes at a time.

2. RAGE - as usual, it's an interesting tech demo. Unfortunately, the world feels completely hollow and I have just about zero sense of character or place. Leave it to John Carmack to promote the -nth take on a narrative that goes "Here's a gun. Take it, don't ask how or why, and go kill stuff".

Borderlands has the merit of having an addictive grinding mechanic, at least.

3. Virtually every modern Need for Speed game - could we *please* leave the "illegal racing is cool, yo!" tangent behind? I'm sorry to say this, EA, but while you're sitting there stroking your dick and pretending you're Vin Diesel, Ubisoft's put out a driving sim that has enough new stuff in it to keep me playing for fifteen minutes per shot. Which is more than I could say about you.

4. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning - it's got all of its basic elements in the right places and a fairly endearing me-too attitude, but it's missing a soul. Whatever it is that makes me care about the Capital Wasteland, the Mojave, Cyrodiil or Skyrim just isn't present in KoA. The artifice never bleeds into a convincing facsimile of reality. I can't ever lose myself in those wide valleys and narrow canyons.

The plot certainly doesn't help. Leave it to Generic McBlandington Salvatore to whip up something that's utterly without flavor or passion.

"Oh, um, there's this... god thingy? It's, like, really bad, and it's served by this crazy Winter Fae dude. You're, like, gonna kill him. And then do stuff.

It's cool, though, 'cause we got Jim Cummings to voice him. Oh, and we're totally riffing off Shakespeare and Celtic lore. We're totally original for swapping out some of the standard Fantasy bad guys for the Fae. The other races? Meh, we'll just, like, mess with the letters or find weird ways to spell out "elf".

Game of the Year for sure! KEGGER!"

 

[XMark]

The first Halo. I've tried to play through it three different times. And each time got bored and frustrated at the level where you're on the alien spaceship, and gave up.

 

[Crazy Zaul]

The force unleashed - It could have been a fun game about killing people with the force and lightsabres, but it turned out to be basically a platformer with a bit of combat in it. I hate platformers.

SWTOR - I unsubed today, probably should have done it about 6 weeks ago when it stopped being good and also cos my sub went through on the 23rd. I thought it was super awesome for a while then it just got more and more disappointing till I realized its just a failure and don't want to play it any more.

Guild wars - I tried it a year or so ago, got to level 11 and quit cos the mobs were all several levels higher than me and I couldn't find any other quests so I kept dieing and gave up.

Divinity 2 - It could have been, maybe even was very good, but after going through a lot of kerfuffle to actually play it (at first I got it on xbox but had to change to PC cos the load times on xbox were just so seriously, insanely long. Skyrim loads much bigger and more detailed environments quickly so there must have been something very wrong with this),but then the early quests are so ridiculously hard. People said it gets way easier at level 12 but I CBA forcing my way through a backwards difficulty curve and gave up.

JRPGs in general. Lost Odyssey was the only good one. (unless you count pokemon)

 

[flying_whimsy]

Halo 3 - I loved the first two, but I played them on PC and used trainers for the story mode (and never played multiplayer); I was literally a death god from on high that could freeze time and was free to explore every corner of the world. The third one also seemed to be built with the multiplayer in mind, particularly with the AI being matched to the style of people that play online. Once I rescued cortana and got my ass handed to me about fifteen times in the next room I decided to hang the whole thing and watch the ending on youtube.

Rage - Admittedly, I didn't try that hard with it; but once I had the car and was settled in the next village I realized that the game probably didn't have much else to throw at me. Combined with what was (for me at least) too much racing, and I just didn't want to bother.

FFXIII - I really wanted to like this one; it's pretty, I actually liked some of the characters, I really enjoyed the world...but the gameplay: awful. I hit a wall at Vanille's summon monster and the thought of going back to the stupid plains and grinding depresses me. I still tell myself that I haven't given up on it, but yeah, I probably have.

 

[synobal]

Starcraft II

I reaaally tried to have fun with this game, but its just. so. assnumbingly. FRUSTRATING!...
The Multiplayer is pretty much like this: "hurry up build workers! block chokepoint! Early expansion! place pylons near the choke to counter reaper-harass! you need Hellions before the 7 minute mark! where are your banelings!" all stress, no fun.

Ya I tried hard to like Starcraft 2 as well, I never bought it but I did play it, and it seems a pretty decent game but man the inability to zoom out sucks. It's like sheesh this is a modern game, we should be able to zoom out and see more than this tiny tiny chunk of the map.

 

[Courtney]

Skyrim, I just can't get into it, which is particularly strange since I love playing games like Fall out and oblivion.

 

[Redworld13]

Any final fantasy game, especially 7... i just dont like them and im sick of people telling me they are the best rpgs money can buy. No, they are not!

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

The Penumbra series and Amnesia. Atmosphere out the wazoo, beautiful mechanics regarding light and darkness, legitimately scary in plenty of places... and then they had to put in the "insanity mechanics". So I can't directly observe enemies (Penumbra) or even stay in the dark for an extended time (Amnesia)? It's supremely annoying, limits my ability to plan effectively, and seems designed solely to force the player into "oh crap" moments.

Not that "oh crap" moments are inherently bad, but they only become annoying when the game seems intent on making them happen regardless of what the player does.

 

[Iszfury]

Just Cause 2. It almost feels as if you're getting overwhelmed with a titanic game world, but when you take a closer look, the actual content was slim. I liked it, but couldn't quite fall in love with it.

 

[Danoloto]

Valkyria Chronicles:
I like the story, the art, the team you play with. But my god is it beond-fun hard for me. I still want to finish it, but the amount of times I have to restart just to learn the level and all it's tricks kills the amusement.

GTA4:
If my cousin calls me one more time to go bowling, I will tie him to the top of a skyscraper flagpole. It's just not over the top like the earlier GTA's were. GTA 2, 3, vice city and San Andreas I all found hugely entertaining, and suddenly I had to drive in traffic. For nostalgia, I wanted to love GTA4, but it was just not as good as the others for me.

Red Dead Redemption:
GTA with horses. Sadly, it's GTA4 with horses.

Killzone (1):
Heavy controls, cheap kills. It's by a dutch game studio, so I really wanted to love it, to show a bit of love for my home country, but I just could not.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

Hmm... MW3.

I had just assumed I was doing something wrong, but no matter what I tried the game was making me angry. Unnaturally angry at a videogame. To the point where 90% of it was me being mad and 10% was actually having fun.

The game just doesn't work. I let my friend have it after his got scratched.

 

[TheRussian]

Brink, I was so interested in the style, mechanics and visuals before it's release, and when I finally got to play it, it was the biggest letdown of my gaming life.
I tried to like it, I really did, but when I had leveled up my character over one weekend and there was absolutely nothing to keep me interested, I dropped it. Some wise words to anyone considering buying it: Don't buy it. It's absolute shite

 

[Parkway91]

LA Noire

I was throughly impressed with the facial motion capture technology, and the detail to what was going to be an amazing setting (love me some 1940s). But for me the interrogation system didn't work, the setting of Los Angeles was just a setting for the story (there was no interaction possible so it almost felt like a white sheet of paper where you go about your investigating), and I didn't get a sense of flow and wasn't given any real need to care for the story.

Oh, and Cole Phelps is a wanker and a douchebag protagonist who made the game that much harder to bear.

 

[Punch You]

FF7. I played and finished it a year ago. All the praise it gets doesn't hold up today.

 

[Yuno Gasai]

Bayonetta and Wet.

Both games with characters who seemed to be badass femme fatales, a character archetype which is right up my street.

Both games ultimately disappointed me.

 

[RaikuFA]

Hyperdimension Neptunia

Jeez was that game the disc equivilent of dog shit.

 

[ELD3RGoD]

Looking at my Steam collection of un-installed games:

Borderlands, STALKER, Metro 2033, Bioshock, Fallout 1,2 + Tactics, Deus ex + IW. More recently Mass Effect 3 and Baldurs Gate 1 + 2...

Borderlands - was boring as fuck.

STALKER - wasn't open enough for me.

Metro 2033 - was again not open enough for me.

Bioshock - was boring as hell and also too enclosed.

Fallout 1/2/T - I couldn't work out the controls so gave up.

Deus Ex - was boring with too much dialogue.

Mass Effect 3 - Too much dialogue about something I couldn't give a damn about. It was all doom and gloom with Shepherd being a smart ass saying, "I told you so!" Whilst every person and alien seemed to be a moron when it came to a threat to the galaxy.

Baldurs Gate 1/2 - I saw they had a lot of hype and I liked dark alliance on the Xbox, however, these two were boring. Too much dialogue and I don't know, just bland. Gave up after an hour on each.