Games that you tried so very hard to like.

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

Dragon Age 2.

Varric is one of my favourite characters (and the reason I finished the game) but the lack of any meaningful tactical combat with the screwed up spawning, the cut and paste locations and what they did to the darkspawn designs... It was disappointing to say the least.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Call of Duty, Battlefield and just about every other military shooter. Tried them, but we just don't get along. Seems I don't like an FPS that doesn't have at least one gun that goes 'pew pew'

CAPTCHA: toy soldier

 

[wintercoat]

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

This. Definitely this. Once the novelty wore off(which was rather quickly), I had more fun buying the different guns and shooting them at walls to see what they do then actually playing the game.

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.

There was something about FF9 that was just...meh. I liked X-2 though...I seem to be one of very few that did though...

 

[AssassinFisH]

Oblivion/Skyrim and Fallout 3. I don't know what it is about them, but they just don't excite me the way other RPG's do.

 

[HardRockSamurai]

L.A. Noire

I mean, I really do respect Rockstar's attention to detail when it comes to creating the environments in their games. It's what makes their good games great; only in L.A. Noire's case, it made a boring game disappointing.

 

[Adeptus Aspartem]

Stalker and Metro.

I coulnd't stand Stalker because i played it shortly after release and this game had more bugs than an ant farm. And i couldnt be arsed to reinstall it a few weeks later, because there were other better games to play.
And Metro.. its actually a great game, but the X-ray, super vision, 100% headshot quota human enemies turned me off.
I like a challenging game.. but i hate to be shot in the absolute dark.. through a wall. Those russian and german dudes were sneakier and scarier than all the monsters put together.
I reeeaaally liked the way the story was told, the setting, the atmosphere.. but the game itself felt flat.

To bad :/

 

[Frostbyte666]

White Knight Chronicles. Initially creating my own character sounded good until your sidelined by all the other characters he get the really cool knights and your left shouting hey I was helping you from the start why do I get the crappy new knight? On the other hand because my guy was so ignored I could wash my hands of the stupidity of the other characters when they rescue the princess and gets kidnapped again on 3 different occasions in the same manner. Just wanted to scream ok we killed the boss, saved the princes now lets get out of here before another guy comes along and kidnaps her AGAIN while you stand around patting eachother on the back.

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

EDIT: God damn enter button on the Captcha.

Oblivion. I really love playing Skyrim but for some reason I just can't get into Oblivion. I don't know if it's the voice acting, the blurry backgrounds or the lack of sensible things like entering Taverns to get bounty notices. I WILL get through it at one point, but right now I just keep finding myself returning to Skyrim every time I play it

 

[Richardplex]

The Half-life series. I can see there is nothing wrong with the game, and there no reason for not to enjoy it, but I couldn't. Maybe I'll give it yet another attempt this summer...

 

[AceTrilby]

Borderlands. It seemed like my type of game - an RPG/FPS hybrid - but it was just ungodly boring in almost every single way, and the levelling system meant that to be able to accurately shoot a gun required you to be at level 12.

Then I played Rage, which did everything I wanted to like about Borderlands, but did it right.

 

[Rariow]

Not really to like, but more to love (I already LIKE it): Morrowind. By my own criteria, the game is the best in the (newer part of) Elder Scrolls series. It has the biggest world. It has the most complex leveling system. It's got the most content. It's the most RPGish. Yet I simply cannot bring myself to love it. I have more fun playing Oblivion and Skyrim, and if I want a more "thinking man's" experience, I just go play a full-on RPG.

Another one: Mirror's Edge. Great idea, really creative, and way riskier than what most big studios produce. Mirror's Edge could've possibly been the return of risk to the non-indy market. But it's just frustrating not seeing where you're jumoin and falling into a pit because you leap-of-faithed wrong. Just a few tweaks, and it could've gone into my top 10. As it is, it's just not much good at all.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Champion Online.

By all means it got an excellent character creator but even that wasn't perfect (by my standard). As typical of an MMO there were fetch and escort quests, point and click and the silly quest, logic and what nots.
So overall it didn't leave much of an impression to me.

 

[Fightgarr]

Oh yeah, there are a few of those, for me:
I suppose most prominent would be Ocarina of Time. I hadn't played it up until about a year ago. Couldn't get past the graphics, and the controller. I wanted to like it, but I really do think it requires a certain mindset that's a good 14 years in the past, for me.
Arcanum was another big one. I'd heard it was a really well done RPG, and I could tell as I was playing it, how deep the game was and how interesting and vast the world was. I just couldn't get into it, enough, though. I ended up getting lost and frustrated. I gave up a short ways into the first big city. If I could force myself into trudging through the relatively steep learning curve of the game, I think I'd really like it, but at the moment I can't do that.
Brutal Legend is, I suppose, an excellent example of that happening, where I wanted to like the game so much for it's writing and to support Double Fine's ventures. It's just too bad that I hated the actual game part of the game. I'll play through it eventually, I think. Just not now.
Finally, Monster Hunter, where I ended up a broken shell of a man after repeated failed attempts at fighting many of the opening monsters. I can see why people get into Monster Hunter, but I could not penetrate it's thick-ass hide.

 

[Ando85]

I'm actually finding it a bit hard to get into The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword. The same thing happened to me with Wind Waker though. After having it for a year or two after failed attempts to like the game I finally played it to completion and loved it. Maybe the same will happen with me and Skyward Sword

 

[dimensional]

Baldurs Gate (first one) - tried so many times to play this but I just cant get into it the annoying thing is I can see there is a good game in there but bloody hell it makes it hard to find it.

Dissidia - (first one) - basically the same as above its just so hard to actually get into it, strangely though I did eventually get into the second one (it being my only unfinished game at the time that I had on me) and it became my second favourite psp game but damn they dont make it easy.

Last remnant - this game is just terrible and has no saving features I played until the second disc (and the stupidest plot twist ever), realised my hope that it would pan out was misguided and put it down forever. It just took all my initial enthusiasm and destroyed it, shame as the concept is quite good.

GTA3 - and onwards actually I was so hyped for this game its GTA and in 3d its got to be good right? unfortunately no I kept trudging on telling myself I was enjoying myself but in the end I just couldnt take it and had to put it down, I kept trying for years but eventually gave up entirely 2 years ago (think) and deleted my save.

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance - yeah only had it on GBA and have clocked up over 40 hours and still it has failed to interest me I was really hoping it would get better as I went further and got more powerful but it actually got more annoying such a disappointing game.

Witcher - I really want to like this game the lore is great and the world is quite interesting but for some reason it dosent do it for me I cant get into it.

All RTS titles - yeah I realise thats a big field there but the genre has always interested me but I just have no fun playing dont know why, then as soon as I stop I think why did I stop so I start again and realise why. I havent tried any in ages now mainly for my own sanity.

There is obviously loads more but these are the ones that stuck out when I read the thread title.

 

[Karthik Reddy]

Bioshock

I started Playing it 4 or 5 times never got past an hour during each play through. Probably Infinite will convince me to go back and play the original

 

[zombie711]

Tomb raider. I just dont see the point. It felt so very, bad.