Games you refuse to play

[Daniel Cygnus]

Pretty much any RTS. In every one I've ever played, I get one or two levels in and hit a brick wall. I just can't get my mind into the right strategic mindframe to be any good at them.

 

[AlternatePFG]

Mass effect 3 because the second was so much worse than the first. I hate it when sequels are dumbed down for no good reason. The first had tons of choice, the second far less.

Tons of choice? How? Frankly, neither games hard hardly any choice at all, and while BioWare shouldn't have just ripped out the elements of the first game that didn't work instead of fixing them, there's hardly any more choice in the first game, unless you count "+3% assault rifle damage" or such other nonsense in the leveling mechanics.

 

[major28]

The PC version of Team Fortress 2. I refuse to play a game entirely devoted to trading hats. No matter how fancy the hats look.

 

[Switchblade1080]

Most RPGs that have the inability to rename a character, yes I know its a dumb excuse but for this reason alone its hard for me to "feel" for the character now made worse for the fact that giving him a personality that feels "Out of Character" to his preset one will likely get me flamed to hell just because I gave said character a trait that deconstructs the harem anime genre...hell, even if I can (Xenoblade) I still feel like the character is free to express the emotions I want said character to emote.

Imagine a harem anime with a paranoid psycho like "Eliphas the Inheritor" as the protagonist, wherein resting on his shoulder, cuddling him, hugging him voluntarily, and anything that involves touching would lead to either a loss of arms, a traumatizing head injury, or a sentence that is related to "Stay my hand again, and you may lose yours"..

ANYWAY, Also HALO...not for the game itself, but for the retarded fanbase giving it the popularity it DOESN'T deserve but hey, maybe the next Halo would be the same...besides, Bungie is so filthy rich that they doesn't afraid of anything when it comes to making more of the same shit...(yes, I said "Doesn't afraid of anything" on purpose)

ditto for Call of Duty, or any other stupid WW2 FPS that's in the trend nowadays...

also, I agree with the Statement above...AND MORE!!

 

[marfoir(IRL)]

For whatever reason, explain why!

The only game I flat out refuse to play is Company of Heroes.

In my opinion, it's a crippled mess of an RTS. In any other RTS, you should be able to take early risks and scout your opponent to get some idea of what they might be planning. Not in this one! Company of Heroes is a guessing game. The game is decided in the first 5 minutes of play.

Here's a rundown of the average game:

You guess what your opponent might be planning based on the zero information available to you.

You wait 4 freaking years before you have enough supply to build a man with a pea shooter.

You inevitably have built a man with the wrong kind of pea shooter and he gets killed in two seconds flat.

You wait another 4 years to get enough supply to build a man with the right pea shooter.

Your opponent now controls the whole map and you have no supply.

Game over.

The whole game is a horrendous insult to the RTS genre. Imagine if in Starcraft or C&C you were only allowed to build 1 unit every 2 minutes regardless of how much supply you have. So if you make the wrong opening move you lose. No question. Then you have crap like units that resupply in the field meaning you build the squad once and from then on they are essentially invincible since they regenerate units. Is that how WW2 worked? Regenerating units??? I must have missed some important stuff in history class!

There's also the 100% historically accurate scenario where a squad of 3 men with a missile launcher can destroy a 20 ton tank in seconds flat while the tank fires fragmentation rounds from it's huge ass cannon at them, which explode at their feet and yet somehow cause no damage.

It's a monumental piece of crap, and I refuse to play it.

So what do you refuse to play, and why?

:3

okay here is how I read this rant:

1. I don't know how to play this game so therefore it must be shit.

2. I'm going to complain about historical accuracy in an arcade-y and lighthearted game.
(seriously if you want a realistic ww2 rts go play men of war not COH)



I would be happy to discuss with you why COH is not a 'crippled mess' or a 'monumental piece of crap' but I doubt there would be much point.


OT: The newer call of dutys because I don't like the type of player they breed.
Also BF3 because of EA and their shenanigans, which is a shame as I was looking forward to it.

 

[kyogen]

There are specific games that don't suit me, so I don't buy or play them, but the only games I avoid on principle right now are those published by EA, Ubisoft, and Activision Blizzard. I don't like their anti-competitive, drm, and dlc policies and practices.

 

[esperandote]

Anything with Barbie, Hanna montana or any stuff like that on the cover.

 

[staika]

I refuse to play horror games for the reason that I get startled very easy and my friends just love to mess with me by sneaking up behind me and making me jump, and I do literally almost jump and everyone finds it hilarious and I do sometimes too.

 

[dancinginfernal]

Sports Titles, Movie Games, and Far Cry 2.

God I hated that game. I hope the third is better, I'm very cautious after that explosion of shit.

 

[mental_looney]

RTS strategy thats not tower defence types or civilisation, sports games, or fighting games
Just as I don't enjoy them that much..

Don't by map packs but just cos I don't want them and I'm not big on multiplayer.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Well, I have up on BioWare game for how horribly boring they are. Call of Duty has sucked after World at War. Also any game that I have to pay full price for then pay per month to play...

 

[Balls Mandingo]

The Witcher. It got good reviews, I gave it an honest chance but no matter how I tried I just could. not. care.

Didn't like Geralt, didn't like the combat, didn't like how you had to read up on every creature before you fought it (apparently just hitting it with the sword isn't good enough), didn't like the voice acting, didn't like the character models (I swear there were like 10 character models total just with slight changes in color), couldn't give a crap about the story, didn't like having to switch between different swords and different styles, didn't like how almost every female NPC you interacted with was so easy to sleep with it made the game feel like some kind of weird softcore porn game.

To be fair though, I reluctantly gave The Witcher 2 a chance and I actually liked it

 

[synobal]

Any of the final fantasy games after number 9. I'm sorry but I just can't enjoy JRPGs any more and the final fantasy series stopped existing to me after x and x-2

 

[TechPulse]

CoD: Any from the damn series.
Halo: Reach, and beyond
Children's games with no real point whatsoever.\

EDIT: Just watched some MW3 gameplay, heard someone getting mad and talking shit. Sounds exactly like every other CoD game. Doubt I'm buying it.

 

[Shadowfiend]

Either of the 50 Cent games. I just won't.

 

[Lunar Templar]

FPS

they are simply not my thing, only ones i have liked where the Metriod ones, and those are more adventure then shooter

 

[Enizer]

For me:
DRM heavy games, that's ubisoft mostly, constant online required for single player games is retarded, disconnecting people WITHOUT saving if network goes down: EVIL

anything from EA is taken with a mountain of salt, because they seem to just turn good ideas and good developers to crap by touching them.
i cant remember what now but there were a few devs i was watching closely, then they were owned by EA, and suddenly did nothing more then average ever again

and finally, game series where some games come out on PC and console, and some are console only
halo is a good example here, i'm not planning to buy an xbox, so, untill ALL games are on PC, not just most of them, i'm not going to get myself attatched to the series

MS: you will NOT trick me into buying your console by luring me into a story and then telling me i need to buy your thingy to hear the ending!


on other posts, i dont like most JRPG's myself, but i must reserve a special place in my heart for FF6 and chrono trigger(yes, SNES titles), as i consider them the best games ever made, any genre, any system

those who browse ebay may notice that a snes console with 100 games, is often priced about the same range as JUST the chrono trigger cartridge, on it's own


EDIT: oh yeah, and sports games
if i wanted to play football, i would go out, and fetch friends, and a ball, i really cant see why this has to be a computer game