Games you didn't like... but finished anyway

[York_Beckett]

I sat through the Wii version of Alone in the Dark. I wasn't going to let that piece of trash beat me. Still didn't get my money back though.

I also hated Mindjack. I almost sat through the entire thing, until a point near the end where the game demanded me to take out three giant robots in a row, along with an infinite number of bullet-sponge enemies armed with heat-seeking assault rifles, all without checkpoints. The insanely long wait for the mindhacking-thing to work didn't help either, as it only worked when you were standing right next to some individual that felt bad enough for you to let him- or herself be mindhacked out of sheer pity for the player having to sit through the game.

 

[Batou667]

Forgive me Bungie... but I'm playing through Halo Anniversary and I'm finding it a chore rather than fun. It's aged really badly. The graphics and environments no longer have the wow-factor, the blatently copy-pasted sections of level get old really quickly, and the controls just feel clunky and cumbersome.

Which is ironic as 10 years ago I was enjoying the original Halo CE as if it was gaming cocaine from the Gods themselves.

 

[SongLover]

Mine will be burnout, each time I play it I feel very stressed but my mind tells me to play it.

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

I hated Two Worlds but I still made the painful effort to complete it. It had some cool stuff but overall it was a fairly bad game.

Probably LA Noire as well. I liked it at first but after the homicide desk the game got pretty meh and I really started to notice just how repetitive it was, but I still completed it.

 

[socialmenace42]

Spontaneously bought two Worlds II, knew after less than an hour of gaming that I wasn't ever going to like it. Struggled all the way through to the end. Sold it right afterwards.

I'm told it's better on PC. I wouldn't know, I just know on Xbox, I didn't like.

 

[SpaceBat]

Your horse controls like it's drunk, high and sleep depraved and the ending was (for me, at least) extremely disappointing.

I actually liked both of these. The horse finally controls like a horse, meaning it has its own mind, and not like a car that obeys your bidding entirely. Also loved the ending and find it to be one of the best and emotional endings of all time.
Ah well, it's a shame you didn't like it, but I understand and your opinion eitherway.


Anyway, Bioshock 2. It's a horribly bad game in nearly every aspect, but I finished it anyway, because I dislike stopping half-way through.

 

[michiehoward]

Final Fantasy 13, I kept expecting it to get better. It didn't.

 

[totalgenocide]

to many games to choose. if i play games that i hate but still beat it usually for achievements or trophies or something. but i would half to choose stranglehold, bodycount, and turning point. so many others that i wouldn't be ablr to fit on this list

 

[thebreadbinman]

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood. Loves II, hated BH.
But I was interviewing the Mission Director so I kinda had to know what went down at the end, and I didn't wanna just read it off the Wiki.
Although the story made no fucking sense so I had to read it anyway...

 

[Dfskelleton]

E.T. for the Atari 2600 (mainly for the sake of playing the worst game ever crafted by humans) and Clive Barkers' Jericho. Jericho had a fairly interesting story, and the game had that Clive Barker-ish Splatterpunk theme to it, but dear God, the gameplay was horrendous, and there was not a single character that I did not loathe with every ounce of my body, save maybe the weird psychic guy with no eyes who posessed enemies and set them on fire.

 

[CountryMike]

Deus Ex HR

Because I loved the first game and even liked the second one. But this one is by far the worse. The second one was already dumbed down, the third one was even more so. Also the story wasn't interesting. The graphics looked dated. There's hardly any choice in the game. Very few side-quest. Dated level design; open cities feel like corridors, etc.

Overall this felt like a last gen game from 2005 not 2011

I didn't hate it though. It just was "ok" while the original is one of my all time favourites.

 

[Vivi22]

Beyond Good and Evil

I'm not going to rant, but suffice to say I really, really did not like it. In fact, I disliked it so much that I decided I needed to finish it so that I could justify my intense loathing for the game if it ever came up in conversation.

I was the same way but with Resident Evil 4.

I played about half-way through or so before deciding that aside from the enemies being repetitive and being absolutely sick of tank like controls with no strafing, let alone movement while aiming, and the fact that I couldn't stand a laser sight that wouldn't show up at all if it wasn't pointing at something you could shoot, the game was dragging on far too long on top of that.

A few months later I decided I'd go back and finish it if only so that anytime I told someone it was a horrible game I could tell them that yes, I did finish it and no, it never gets any better than the start of the game in that village.

To me, RE4 is basically a horror game trying to pretend it's an action game and not doing either very well. The issue with the laser sight alone is absolutely infuriating, not to mention that Leon still controlled like every RE character ever. To me, Dead Space was the game RE4 should have been had they made it right.

Final Fantasy 13, I kept expecting it to get better. It didn't.

I never expected it to get better honestly once I got to around the 5 hour mark and most of the battle system was open to you. By that point, I had come to the conclusion that the story and characters probably were as directionless as I thought they were, and the battle system was terrible, and considering there as nothing to do except fight and watch cutscenes, that was basically a death sentence for it in my eyes.

That's one I actually tried to finish too though, in part because I'm a big fan of previous games in the series, and in part to be able to say, again, that I did play the entire thing and it was a terrible game. I was part way through Gran Pulse when my launch model PS3 died on me though so I gave up since my save file was lost forever. I was not going to play through 20 some odd hours of that garbage again.

 

[KnifeyMcStaberson]

Dragon age, Dragon Age2, Mass Effect 2,

 

[mikey7339]

The Black-Ops campaign. I was bored one weekend and it had a bunch of trophies I hadn't gotten. The entire campaign was so goddamn depressing.

 

[doctorlollypop]

Oblivion and Half life 2

 

[Nazgual]

OT: Possibly Mirror's Edge. I thought it had a neat concept, but a pretty flawed execution. I found myself having a difficult time figuring out where I'm supposed to go while in the midst of a chase despite the fact the game has a built in feature that points out the general direction of my destination. So as a result, I tend to die numerous times. It was not fun.

I also found the story and characters to be incredibly uninteresting. I kind of expected the game to end right after I saved Faith's sister. But no, the game had to drag on for one more level.

I apologize to anyone who enjoyed Mirror's Edge, but that's kind of how I felt about the game.

As someone who enjoyed Mirror's Edge, I was still annoyed by all of the faults you've pointed out. I would like to see a sequel that fixes all these problems.

 

[PullinPower]

Definately L.A. Noire, I'm not sure why but I felt like the game deserved to be finished, the use of the new facial technology and the fact that its Rockstar made me feel like the game should be inherently fun and maybe I was just playing it wrong. It wasn't until I'd finished the game when I realised I just didn't find wondering around looking for clues and staring at people expressions fun.

 

[Auninteligentname]

GTA IV. The only game I've really wanted to quit, but continued anyways.

 

[CountryMike]

The Force Unleashed. Some of the boss fight were just tedious