Games that you tried so very hard to like.

[Doom-Slayer]

Just as the title says, games that you really really really tried to like but just couldnt.

For me I recently starting playing Stalker: Clear Sky. To preface, I love me some Stalker, possibly my favorite series ever with the exception of Elder Scrolls. After playing SC first, then CoP second, I decided to go back and play the middle child. What I thought Id get is the extreme difficulty of the first game mixed with the newer elements like weapon upgrades of the third. I got that, but what I also got was about 1000 bugs and petty annoyances. let me introduce you to an enemy called the Bloodsucker. They are invisible most of the time, and have extremely high damage. And in this game, while invisible they take no damage. They only turn visible when attacking you and on hard they 2hit you. They also can take an entire clip and not die. For me, this meant that halfway through the game with a decent gun and nice armor and full hp, I was locked into an area because I could no leave without killing one. Nope..screw this game, I tried hard but no..Stupidly overpowered enemies, like zombies that can shoot with better accuracy than I can, no need for food(for no reason at all). Nope. Stupid broken game can sit in my Steam library and stay there, I really feel sorry for Yahtzee for having played this one when the others are so much better.

 

[Dandark]

The mods, you need them. Clear sky was really unstable when it was first released, i'd recommend downloading mods to help fix it, also make sure you have all the patches. Clear sky complete could be a good idea to get through the story, after that i'd recommend Total Faction Warfare. Clear sky is actully my favorite of the series, it's just hard to get past the bugs.


Games I really tried to like. Battlefield 3 beta is the first thing that comes to mind. I really tried to like it, I just couldn't. I found it to be so damn terrible that I could not keep playing. I was hoping to rent the game and see if it was just the beta but I can't due to EAs stupid online pass.

 

[Fat Hippo]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I SHOULD like this game. I've loved similar games like Vampire - The Masquerade: Bloodlines or Alpha Protocol. But I don't. I thought the skill tree was dumb and unbalanced, both the sneaking and the combat was mediocre, the dialogue was boring etc. I don't think there was single element, aside from the visual aesthetic, that I actually enjoyed. It's weird.

 

[Yarpie]

Half Life 2. Three times I've tried playing through it but I always lost interest. I can tell it is a good and well designed game, but my brain seems hellbent on simply not getting into it. At this point I have pretty much just given up.

Also, Street Fighter 4. Again, I really tried but I just could not get comfortable with it, and there was the niggling feeling that I was just forcing myself to play it to try and get myself to like it. Needless to say that never happened.

 

[putowtin]

Oblivion and Fallout 3

I have tried so many times to love these games, but i can't. the weird thing though I love Skyrim and Fallout: New Vegas!

 

[DrRockor]

I tryed so hard to like dead space. I like sci-fi, I like horror. I like blowing off limbs on zombie like creatures but I just didnt enjoy it

 

[Savagezion]

Oblivion and Fallout 3

I have tried so many times to love these games, but i can't. the weird thing though I love Skyrim and Fallout: New Vegas!

How the hell did you ninja me? Seriously, that's weird 5 posts in. I have put a lot of hours into both but they are so dry.

New Vegas can suffer from this at times too but Skyrim, oh Skyrim, you beautiful beast you. I love Skyrim. It has its issues but they are so minor. I am thrilled that I actually have a TES game I love. I have wanted one since I first played Morrowind. I just wish it wasn't in the snowy ass mountains.

 

[Xenedus]

Half Life 2. Three times I've tried playing through it but I always lost interest. I can tell it is a good and well designed game, but my brain seems hellbent on simply not getting into it. At this point I have pretty much just given up.

Also, Street Fighter 4. Again, I really tried but I just could not get comfortable with it, and there was the niggling feeling that I was just forcing myself to play it to try and get myself to like it. Needless to say that never happened.

I agree with HL2. I keep feeling like I SHOULD love it but I just can't bring myself to keep playing. It's not that it's really bad in any sense I just don't feel particularly compelled when I play it nor do I derive much enjoyment from the story or the characters.

I'd say a game that I tried to like but I couldn't bring myself to enjoy was The Witcher. I had enjoyed most of the Fantasy games I've played up until that point. I liked RPGs and I liked morally grey choices and dark fantasy environments but what really killed it for me was the combat. Every time I tried to start up again I'd keep running into the combat and after a while the combat was so distracting and annoying that I just couldn't force myself to keep playing.

I've been told that The Witcher 2 is amazing ect. by a friend but after my experience with the first one's combat system I think I'll pass.

 

[Rawne1980]

Star Wars the Old Republic.

People said it was WoW with lightsabers but I listened to BioWares hype.

I listened when they said we would be seeing and doing things we've never done in an MMO before.

But it really is exactly the same as every other MMO. Take away the cut scenes and it's yet another generic MMO.

 

[Ando85]

Persona 1. I of course loved Persona 3 and 4. But, the interesting thing is I loved Persona 2 Eternal Punishment and am soon to play the Innocent Sin remake on PSP. The gameplay in these is more similar to the original Persona. However, I tried and tried to get into Persona 1, but I just couldn't like it.

The dungeon crawling to me was overly tedious. I guess you could say the same for Persona 2 which consisted of a lot of dungeon crawling as well. Despite that I enjoyed the hell out of it.

 

[Xenedus]

Star Wars the Old Republic.

People said it was WoW with lightsabers but I listened to BioWares hype.

I listened when they said we would be seeing and doing things we've never done in an MMO before.

But it really is exactly the same as every other MMO. Take away the cut scenes and it's yet another generic MMO.

I guess I can agree with this. I would expand it more to any star wars game. I LOVED the Jedi Knight series as it was one of the first games I ever played and Jedi Outcast/Academy were very VERY fun I've been waiting for a Star Wars game to blow me away like they did but they have almost all (with the exception of Kotor) been pretty disappointing.

I guess SWTOR fits into that category but I was already pretty leery of SWTOR even before it came out and the only reason I ended up getting it was some of my friends kept nagging me about it. (they then quit SWTOR soon after I finally got around to buying it >.< go figure...)

 

[AngleWyrm]

Diablo 3. Too soon?
Ok, Dwarf Fortress.

 

[Melon Hunter]

Skyrim. It's weird - I loved Fallout 3 and New Vegas, and the thing is, I find Skyrim to be a very beautiful game. Wandering around and exploring is great. It's just that within an hour of booting it up, all my excitement about playing the game deflates like a punctured balloon, and I just don't want to play it any more, and I'm not entirely sure why.

I think part of it is due to the very repetitive formula of the various caves, strongholds and other hideouts you explore; there's very little change between them, and after a while even looting the place just feels a bit dull. Perhaps I should give it another chance, but I can't help but feel the same thing will just happen again.

 

[Xenedus]

Skyrim. It's weird - I loved Fallout 3 and New Vegas, and the thing is, I find Skyrim to be a very beautiful game. Wandering around and exploring is great. It's just that within an hour of booting it up, all my excitement about playing the game deflates like a punctured balloon, and I just don't want to play it any more, and I'm not entirely sure why.

I think part of it is due to the very repetitive formula of the various caves, strongholds and other hideouts you explore; there's very little change between them, and after a while even looting the place just feels a bit dull. Perhaps I should give it another chance, but I can't help but feel the same thing will just happen again.

I pretty much only derived enjoyment from Skyrim by becoming the king of everything and loling at the ridiculousness of being the leader of a band of assassins, Arch Mage of the College, Dragonborn, ect.

I just had fun trying to make my character as ridiculously overpowered as possible and breaking the game over my knee by abusing the magic system and such.

 

[The Wykydtron]

Skyrim. The dialogue system might as well not have been there, the dungeons were cool but pointless (since the gear you make is far better than any random drops) and when someone (me) saves the game right before the final boss fight then never touches the game again, it's generally a bad sign.

Plus the entire game just had me thinking "cool, but Fallout: New Vegas did this better" 90% of the time.

Also Dark Souls. Blighttown wasn't as bad as people were making it out to be but getting OHKO'd by Ceaseless Discharge right after completeing that section ruined it for me because the entire layout of the world map is fucked

People say the deaths in Dark Souls are fair. I can only agree with half of that statement because there is nothing fair about placing a high level "watch the fuck out" area one cunting door away from Baby's First Dungeon! It's stupid, unintuitive, a dick move and some other mean words.

And of course Sen's Fortress. Fuck you Sen's Fortress. Fuck you.

 

[Verzin]

SWTOR. That game broke my heart.

also Divinity II. holy shit that game's combat was.....hysterical at best, and downright goddamn broken at worst. for example: the first boss had an undodgeable ranged shot that would kill most players in a single shot. that's right. Full to zero. No dodging. no going back and leveling more. he'd just go: "oh. I have line of sight." death.

I beat that boss by finding a place to stand where he'd shoot at me, but the terrain would block it and spam-casting magic missile.

The bosses don't get easier either. that game....

 

[RJ 17]

Final Fantasy's 9 and 10-2. I had been with the series since the very beginning back on the NES and as such was willing to give any FF a good try. Made it to disc 2 of FF9 before I just got bored with it, 10-2 I tried because I actually enjoyed 10 and hey, I like eye-candy as much as the next guy...but that game was just too much. Too girly, too poppy, too pretty much everything. I had rented it and returned it 2 hours later.