"Daemonica" and "Belief & Betrayal". Ergh, I feel so sorry for my Mum for paying money for those games >>;
Games you actually found boring
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Sure that all SOUNDS exciting, but mechanically its just not that engaging. Although to be fair, I've put like ten hours into the game.llew said:
I have a strange relationship with city-building games (Tropico games, Anno games, etc.) and Civilization games - I love them, I love playing them, but after I've played them a bit, I get rapidly bored.
I can only play a Civ game once a year. After I finish a playthrough, I can't bear to start another one. Doesn't matter which Civ game it is and that one playthrough is tons of fun, I just can't do another one. The only exception to this was Alpha Centauri (I at least consider it a part of the Civ series) due to the widely different playstyles of the various factions.
City building games are a favourite of mine, loved them since the early Patrician games and SimCity. However, I can go through the build-up period only so many times before I can't stomach it anymore. A recent example would be Tropico 4 - I'm 2/3 through the campaign, I fire up the next mission and then realize I'm about to build a bunch of mines, then a clinic, then a church, then a high school, then some farms, then get USSR development aid, then build apartments, then a weapons factory, etc. etc. And I just did the same thing in the last 12 missions. So I get a bit fed up and shut the game off. You might say "try a different build", but in city building games there pretty much is only one build - EVERYTHING. You need almost every building to get the best city with the happiest people, not much room for deviation. And so the tedium sets in...
EDIT: Oh, and just so I can piss people off: I almost fell asleep 1/3 of the way through Modern Warfare 2 campaign. The spastic ADD action was so uninteresting and unengaging that the game managed to make a russian invasion of the US seem tedious. Also, Oblivion was as dull as watching pain dry AND wathing grass grow, all together.
I can only play a Civ game once a year. After I finish a playthrough, I can't bear to start another one. Doesn't matter which Civ game it is and that one playthrough is tons of fun, I just can't do another one. The only exception to this was Alpha Centauri (I at least consider it a part of the Civ series) due to the widely different playstyles of the various factions.
City building games are a favourite of mine, loved them since the early Patrician games and SimCity. However, I can go through the build-up period only so many times before I can't stomach it anymore. A recent example would be Tropico 4 - I'm 2/3 through the campaign, I fire up the next mission and then realize I'm about to build a bunch of mines, then a clinic, then a church, then a high school, then some farms, then get USSR development aid, then build apartments, then a weapons factory, etc. etc. And I just did the same thing in the last 12 missions. So I get a bit fed up and shut the game off. You might say "try a different build", but in city building games there pretty much is only one build - EVERYTHING. You need almost every building to get the best city with the happiest people, not much room for deviation. And so the tedium sets in...
EDIT: Oh, and just so I can piss people off: I almost fell asleep 1/3 of the way through Modern Warfare 2 campaign. The spastic ADD action was so uninteresting and unengaging that the game managed to make a russian invasion of the US seem tedious. Also, Oblivion was as dull as watching pain dry AND wathing grass grow, all together.
Call of Duty MW2 and Black Ops...and WoW. I can't stand the multiplayer on any of them; so after the terribly short campaign I was done with them.
Also Homefront was boring.
Also Homefront was boring.
Gran Turismo V. That game was actively trying to stop you race; ninety per cent of the events required one particular sort of car, so that you never used the same car twice, and that you never had the opportunity to pick and mod a car that you really liked. I fucking hated that, refused to do the specialised events, and then quit after the tedium of doing the same race over and over again got to me.
You silly man, don't you know that badmouthing Half Life and portal on this forum is essentially digging your own grave?gmaverick019 said:
[But I'm with you]
Another game I found dull in the extreme was Dragon Age, it was just so formula to Bioware games that I know most of it before it happens. I'm a normal guy, now I'm fighting bad people [and since this is fantasy, the bad people are your Tolkienesque mix of enemies] now some Jedi show up, now I join them, now I'm the only one of them left, now I'm saving the world.
And now I'm asleep because this game sucks.
BioShock. Almost everything about the game is at the very least good, but actually playing the game is like pulling teeth.
halo reach maybe it's because i didn't played halo games before and don't have attachment to it but it's bored me really fast i just returned it to my friend next day.
Initially loved Oblivion, and then was dumbfounded asking myself if that's all there is. Unfortunately, while I was still in the learning curve, I recommended it a friend. He later asked me what the heck was wrong with my taste. He put it down too. I think what makes this a shocker is how well received the game was.octafish said:
ITMT though, for me, Tales of Symphonia for the Gamecube wins. I understand one does not HAVE to play this way, but once the option is there, it only makes sense to do so. FFX was one of my all time favorite RPGs, figuring out what I wanted a character to do on each turn in battle. In Symphonia, once you set up your characters, you sat back and watched them fight. To paraphrase Yahtzee, I thought, "boy, that sure looks fun. Wish I were playing."
I keep trying to get back into GTA IV. I bought it, own it, I oughta give it more time as so many people love it (and I think Gamespot gave it GOTY and a freakin 10!) and yet, I really, really, really am bored by it. It's a chore.Volturism said:
Half-life 2. dear god, their's an example of a game i could have liked if it weren't for the fact that it was just so...dull and devoid of life. i mean seriously, valve is good at making games with little or no dialogue or character interaction. snorezville USA.
Halo 3 was horrible, and the awful graphics and zero iron sight aiming don't help. i mean, really bungie? jesus h. christ, if you cant make a decent game engine, just use unreal engine 3, it's perfect!
also, the original gears of war. while all the other gears games have plot (at least i'm hoping gears 3 will), gears 1 is just "travel from dystopian city 1 to dystopian city 2, shoot locusts, throw a grenade into a grub hole, there's a berserker, lure it outside, use the hammer of dawn, now it's dead, rinse, repeat". blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
Halo 3 was horrible, and the awful graphics and zero iron sight aiming don't help. i mean, really bungie? jesus h. christ, if you cant make a decent game engine, just use unreal engine 3, it's perfect!
also, the original gears of war. while all the other gears games have plot (at least i'm hoping gears 3 will), gears 1 is just "travel from dystopian city 1 to dystopian city 2, shoot locusts, throw a grenade into a grub hole, there's a berserker, lure it outside, use the hammer of dawn, now it's dead, rinse, repeat". blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
Mass Effect bored the living hell out of me.
Got about half way through then thought, wtf is this?
Got about half way through then thought, wtf is this?
Mass Effect 2 started out good. Now I can't play it because I realized how terrible the combat is and how so many of your choices actually do nothing.
(late response ft)uzo said:
I have it on PC, and I know it's about exploration, that's why I picked the Explorer perk
it just bored me, like, it just switched off
mods didn't looked interesting either
idk, must be the whole apocalyptic feel the game tries to have, and coming from the original 2, I couldn't really get into the SRSFACE of 3
but eh =P
Half life 2 and Assassin's Creed. I just keep on finding more interesting games to play and never get around to finishing them.