Games you should enjoy but don't

[Yuriatayde]

Portal: You can only shoot the white walls, and later on in the game; you can win simply by looking for white walls. If you can put a portal on it, you NEED to put a portal on it. If it's slanted, you need to catapault from it. Far too simple, bland, uncreative, but the game is glorified as the most awesome thing to grace computers sense the color monitor. Has the gimmick (portal gun) blinded you all? Or is it just not my taste? I feel like I should have enjoyed this as a fun short little puzzler, but I ended up not caring for it at all.

Fallout 3: I wanted to love this game, I really did. It has everything I wanted, and I love the V.A.T.S. thing, and... yawn... and it's so cool and, and it's... zzzzz (still haven't beaten it either)

 

[Markness]

Guild wars, my friend basically forced me to buy it, I forced myself to play it for maybe 3 hours and never touched it again. Everyone says its good though.

 

[leugim789]

god san andreas was just a waste of time and space. i should have enjoyed it but i couldnt stand it. GTA IV, it had such a good story for me, it just blew me away how real niko felt or how alive the city was, i forgot i had a real life for a while there.

 

[SimuLord]

Try as I might, I just couldn't get into Caesar 4. I played and loved Caesar 2 and liked 3, but 4 just felt like "I played this game seven years ago and nothing's changed. Sure, the AI's a bit better and the pathfinding bugs are fixed, but I can't shake the feeling that I've moved on and that there are better city builders out there." Kind of a shame because I liked the developer's (Tilted Mill) other games---except for SimCity Societies. That game was putrid.

 

[vid20]

Fallout 3.. not quite an FPS.. not quite an RPG... but with all the elements you don't want from either!!! The combat just feels SO.. SLOW.. especially in the FPS view point where you feel like you SHOULD have quick responsive control of your character.. and utilize cover.. and all that sort of stuff; but it just doesn't work.

Also Resistance 1 (haven't played 2 yet) it always felt a bit shallow to me.

 

[kyle0912]

Any game that forces me to play with racist americans when I go online.

 

[a7r0p05]

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.

This...exactly.

 

[a7r0p05]

Any game that forces me to play with racist americans when I go online.

So...any game with online play?

 

[The_Deleted]

Yeah, GTA IV was a big disappointment.

Lacked the excessive blood from earlier games and all-over didn't have enough fun innit...

Have to disagree with that. I agree with your disappointment, but the first time I killed a hooker to get my money back I felt quite uncomfortable. Which I never had in previous games.

 

[HardRockSamurai]

Oblivion. As much as it dazzled me with it's massive amount of content, I could never quite shake the feeling of boredom. I don't really know why either.

 

[Same River New Water]

Any sports title, I'm always like,"Yeah this'll be cool basketball football hockey." Well no I drop it two days later.

I always think i'll get into it but the feeling just goes Blargh.

Probably because most sports games are poorly made. I shouldn't generalise, but it's true that your average sports jock is less likely to read reviews or do any research about whether a game is good than, say, an RPG fan. A friend of mine buys Madden every single year and bitches about all the bugs every single year and predicts that the next release will be disappointing and buggy every single year and STILL BUYS IT EVERY SINGLE YEAR.

For me, the biggest let-down was Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. I love Zelda games, hell I love most Nintendo games, I love my DS and I love a cracking adventure; it should have been the best thing on the DS. Instead it's the game I enjoyed least out of my extensive collection of DS games. I'm not sure why, since the gameplay is everything I expected it to be. I just lost interest about a third of the way through and never want to go back to it.

 

[Darth Marsden]

Final Fantasy 7
Everyone says it's the greatest RPG ever, but I honestly have difficulty enjoying it. Most of the characters have little appeal to me. Throughout the whole plot, I had to keep asking "why should I care?" Not to mention they don't always tell me what I'm supposed to do so I end up wondering aimlessly doing pointless sidequests and random encounters just to find the place where the main story line progresses. Oh, and I hate the camera in battle mode. The camera constantly changes angles to make the battle more dramatic, but with the low resolution, it's hard for me to figure out exactly what I'm pointing my cursor on.

I'm not alone! Praise Allah!

I've played (well, slogged) through a huge number of games, but it's hard to put my finger on any that meet the criteria of the thread. Gun was one, but the flaws of that one are pretty well known. Advent Rising was supposed to be awesome, but I just found it too arcady, if that makes sense. Scrapland's another, which is just too open - it's pretty easy to get lost, and the maps make little sense.

It's hard to pick just one reason why I don't enjoy games others do. Then again, I do enjoy games that others don't - Quantum of Solace, Sonic Unleashed (WiiS2 version, natch), even Daikatana to an extent... I guess I'm just a strange, twisted little bunny.

 

[Handofpwn]

GTA 4. Halo 3.

 

[dead_beat_slacker]

Gears of War, Halo, and Call of Duty. I'm a 360 owner and I know these are game to get or play but I did not like them at all. Halo was to slow, Gears was missing something but I cant quit put my fingers on it and call of duty to military, I'm anti-military. But that just the way I feel about them, not my cup of tea.

 

[Jandau]

Let's see, some of the more recent ones:

Oblivion - Makes vanilla ice cream seem new and interesting. Also, terrible leveling system. Funny enough, I love Morrowind and Fallout 3, it's just Oblivion I have a problem with.

GTA4 (and GTA3 for that matter) - I was never big on sandbox games focused on running people over with your car and I never found any GTA game after GTA2 to be any fun at all...

Warhammer: Age of Reckoning - The game just lacks that something that makes me want to play it. It just feels bland. The classes, the combat, the terrain, the quests. I had more fun in my 3 weeks of Anarchy Online than in my 3 weeks of WAR, and I stopped playing AO even though it was free.

Dead Space - I don't get the reviews this game got. Then again, I've stated my issues with this game plenty of times, so I won't go there again.

Company of Heroes - I can't play another WW2 game, I just can't. Kills it for me. Dress the soldiers in WW1 uniforms, dress them as Muslim Fundamentalists and US Marines, dress them as Squirrels and Frogs, just not as WW2 soldiers storming Normandy.

Sins of a Solar Empire - Rarely do I see a game that goes out of its way to hide everything that's good about it. Well, SoaSE does, and I'm not in a mood to go looking.

 

[Meatstorm]

Half life 1. I played it for the first time few years back and wasn't impressed, I thought i would learn lots about characters in half life 2 since they apparently allready know Dr Freeman. but it seems i only got average FPS although my friends had praised it at lot.

 

[MrGFunk]

Have you ever ended up with a game that has everything you want from it but for whatever reason you can't get into it at all?

Oh, and please keep those rants on how game X sucks to a minimum here.

GTA IV - I tried, it was just boring. Like a slow drill to my face that wants me to take it to dinner or darts or get drunk and then stagger around.

WipEout HD - Admittedly, I've only played the demo but having RINSED the first three and been midly impressed with Fusion why can't I get into it.
I think it's because the track is so thin, the airbrakes are crap and the announcer is annoying.

Lego Star Wars - It's Star Wars, Platform collection with loads to find and combinations of characters to replay levels, yep, yep love it, so why can't I get through this door. Erm, don't care. Bored. Off. Back on Ebay.

 

[beddo]

GTA4
Fable 2

 

[beddo]

Half life 1. I played it for the first time few years back and wasn't impressed, I thought i would learn lots about characters in half life 2 since they apparently allready know Dr Freeman. but it seems i only got average FPS although my friends had praised it at lot.

Half Life is incredibly old. It's still a good game imo, you should try and get the graphical updates for it that came with Blue-Shift. That might help pull it out of that era a bit.