Games you should enjoy but don't

[s0ap sudz]

People rave about Half-Life, but I absolutely hated it.

 

[Vlane]

Both Resident Evil (the series overall) and Street Fighter.

I enjoy a good scary game, but finding a good one is hard. RE, Silent Hill and the like all don't scare me. A bit of shock factor but that is it.

I'm also a very competitive person, and fighting games are just that. I love Soul Caliber, Guilty Gear, and such, but I HATE Street Fighter and the King of Fighters stuff. Pretty much hate all the Capcom and SNK fighting titles except Darkstalkers.

How about the Marvel vs. Capcom games?

 

[Vlane]

Any Final Fantasy game.
Everyone get all crazy about them! Whether it's the first one, the 6th one, the 3rd one, the 7th one, the 12th one...I just don't like any of them. They aren't fun to me.

Also, now that I think about it, nearly every JRPG I've ever played.
Pretentious story lines, crazy predictable characters, over emotional characters in times where it isn't warranted, boring story lines, awful dialogue, a 'no fun' approach to combat and gameplay...ugh. I understand some people love 'em, and that's fine. Not me though...not me.

It's strange to write that but don't play any FF game if you want a good JRPG (Note: I don't say that every FF game is not good).

 

[The Rusk]

people will hate my guts for this, but Half-Life. I played one and two all the way through and never loved it like others do. Don't get me wrong, I love valve and I thought both games were incredibly well polished and competent, but there was nothing exceptional about it.

Yeah I'd probably second that. Haven't played the first one but I got the Orange Box and played the second, and it was ok. And that's it. The story is probably the game's strongest point, but it was the gunplay that I found a little irritating. The guns somehow just don't feel right, and when you're firing into enemies they don't even move until they're dead. Still a good game, but just not worth the hype.

Another game I'd mention would be Oblivion. On paper it sounded exactly like the kind of game I'd enjoy, but it just felt a little dull. The combat was god-awful, since it was basically: hit this until it dies. I've yet to see a game that makes first person swordplay fun really. Of course Oblivion's third person camera didn't help much...

 

[calelogan]

Any Final Fantasy game.
Everyone get all crazy about them! Whether it's the first one, the 6th one, the 3rd one, the 7th one, the 12th one...I just don't like any of them. They aren't fun to me.

Also, now that I think about it, nearly every JRPG I've ever played.
Pretentious story lines, crazy predictable characters, over emotional characters in times where it isn't warranted, boring story lines, awful dialogue, a 'no fun' approach to combat and gameplay...ugh. I understand some people love 'em, and that's fine. Not me though...not me.

It's strange to write that but don't play any FF game if you want a good JRPG (Note: I don't say that every FF game is not good).

I'm no Final Fantasy fan, though I did enjoy 7, but ever since then my interest in JRPGs has just decreased.

Bioware makes much better games, in my opinion, than many Japanese RPG developers, and lately I can't even convince myself to finish playing Eternal Sonata...it's just so tedious and irritating.

As for action games, Half-Life 1 was quite fun, but I didn't feel the same way regarding HL2 and episode 1.

 

[irrelevantnugget]

people will hate my guts for this, but Half-Life. I played one and two all the way through and never loved it like others do. Don't get me wrong, I love valve and I thought both games were incredibly well polished and competent, but there was nothing exceptional about it.

I second this. Though I haven't completed either game, namely because I found them to be too boring to persevere; the game just didn't have the right 'feel' to it.

 

[CoziestPigeon]

Fallout 3
I want so badly to love it, so much about it is cool...
But I just can't get into it. I don't know why, I just can't.

 

[Baby Tea]

Any Final Fantasy game.
Everyone get all crazy about them! Whether it's the first one, the 6th one, the 3rd one, the 7th one, the 12th one...I just don't like any of them. They aren't fun to me.

Also, now that I think about it, nearly every JRPG I've ever played.
Pretentious story lines, crazy predictable characters, over emotional characters in times where it isn't warranted, boring story lines, awful dialogue, a 'no fun' approach to combat and gameplay...ugh. I understand some people love 'em, and that's fine. Not me though...not me.

It's strange to write that but don't play any FF game if you want a good JRPG (Note: I don't say that every FF game is not good).

FF may not be a shining example of JRPGs...but no JRPG that I've played or seen have been good. FF or not.

Now this is obviously my opinion. If all JRPGs truly sucked for everyone, then there wouldn't be so many of their same-old tired stories and characters floating around store shelves.

 

[Vlane]

Any Final Fantasy game.
Everyone get all crazy about them! Whether it's the first one, the 6th one, the 3rd one, the 7th one, the 12th one...I just don't like any of them. They aren't fun to me.

Also, now that I think about it, nearly every JRPG I've ever played.
Pretentious story lines, crazy predictable characters, over emotional characters in times where it isn't warranted, boring story lines, awful dialogue, a 'no fun' approach to combat and gameplay...ugh. I understand some people love 'em, and that's fine. Not me though...not me.

It's strange to write that but don't play any FF game if you want a good JRPG (Note: I don't say that every FF game is not good).

I'm no Final Fantasy fan, though I did enjoy 7, but ever since then my interest in JRPGs has just decreased.

I don't know what JRPG's you've play since 7 so I can't recommend something.

I still think that there are far better JRPG's out there than most FF games. I mean the SMT series and Baten Kaitos. You will probably don't agree with that but it's okay.

 

[Rag Doll]

Stop talking shit about JRPG's!!
I can't say they are perfect, but they have lot of things regular RPG's don't offer, such as great music, unique art style, and deep stories.
Let me just answer some criticism:

1."Crazy predictable characters"
I agree with you, that too many JRPG's have transvestite 15-year-olds as main characters, but good JRPG's make them mute or let you name them as someone you really really hate. (FFX, Persona series) Also, there are some real gems in voice-acting, like Auron from FFX, or Balthier from FFXII. I also can say there are some ancient stereotypes, which transcend all ages and styles ( smart-arse best friend, "The Boobs") But there are usually just as many hits as there are misses.

2."Pretentious story lines"
If you've only played FF's I don't blame you, only good story so far has been in 10, and that was only cos there was so damn much of it.
If you want good story, I suggest Persona series. The main story is the same shit as any JRPG, but there are side stories, that are actually more interesting than the main plot.

3."a 'no fun' approach to combat and game-play"
Can't do anything 'bout this, sorry. If you don't like turn-based combat, you don't like JRPG's. I like it though. Makes me use my brain.

Also, I was totally disappointed by Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. I liked all other FE games, but this was boring, hard, and no-matter how I tried, I didn't wanna finish it.

 

[Blind0bserver]

This is going to get some weird looks but my answer is Bioshock. I've downloaded the demo twice and tried to get into it.I'm a big fan of shooters and several of my friends spoke really highly of it, but I just got bored with it really fast. I don't know why, before any of you ask, I just lost interest in it.

 

[SneakyBawls]

I've never cared for the GTA series. Everyone tells me I'm nuts but I just can't get into them at all.

 

[sirdanrhodes]

GTA4.

 

[Sensenmann]

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
Takes my Xbox360 controller for windows as default, the sensitivity adjuster does nothing and it still hardly scales according to the controller.
The car goes all over the place and is a nightmare sometimes.
The buttonmashing is terrible.

 

[runtheplacered]

God of War, Gears of War, Halo, Devil May Cry.. as well as all of their related sequels. Gears of War, for example, is the pinnacle of mediocrity to me. It's not a horrible game, it's not a great game. It's just a game that is easily forgotten.

 

[CptRumGuy]

I thought this thread was supposed to be about games you SHOULD like, but don't for some unknown reason. Most of these responses are just "I don't like this game because blah de blah de blah".

As for me, I'd have to say The Darkness. I rented it and played it for about an hour. It all seemed pretty interesting with some unique features that I thought were pretty cool. But for some reason, I didn't feel the urge to continue playing it.

 

[geldonyetich]

I'm not making any excuses for a game that fails to entertain.

(Well, I will go so far as to say different people enjoy different things.)

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

People rave about Half-Life, but I absolutely hated it.

Half Life 2, in particular. I always get annoyed when people gloss over the poorer elements, especially when saying other games are bad because of them.

-Levels are grey and brown.
-Gravity gun is a gimmick; from the end of Ravenholme to the Citadel Tower it is almost never used.
-All other weapons are dull and uninspired. The crossbow is the single most interestng weapon, but that's it.
-AI is retarded. Resistance fighters get lost and Combine soldiers just stand until they die. Most other enemies are at least excusable as they are zombies or antlions.

 

[Mr.Pandah]

I'm gonna have to go with Mercenaries 2 for this year. Hey, I can blow up just about whatever the hell I want! Sounds like my kind of game. But for some reason, I could never get into it. The story just never interested me enough. I bought it to play co-op with my brother and after about 3 days of that...Never touched it again. Oh well.

Gonna have to go with Brawl as well, nothing to keep me interested really long. I let my friend borrow it, haven't gotten it back yet.

Super Mario Galaxy...Its the perfect Mario game (in my eyes) but I just can't bring myself to sit down and play it.

Last but not least, GTAIV. I love GTA, but once again, after completing the storyline, nothing held my interest after that.

 

[Woe Is You]

I thought this thread was supposed to be about games you SHOULD like, but don't for some unknown reason.

Yeah, I wasn't really asking for games people find overrated (which is what quite a few have been posting), but games that are very much in line with what you're looking for in a game, yet they end up not entertaining you.