Games you should enjoy but don't

[richasr]

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.

Pretty much exactly what I was going to put in my post, so I won't bother now!

Other than that there's Fallout3, for me personally it wasn't that much of a game, more of a "i wonder how many crazed waste-land thugs, oversized mutant creatures or massive bugs are going to assault me around this corner"

I really got too annoyed by the seemingly non-stop battles that I just stopped playing it, not played it in about 6 weeks now, I can't see why most people are raving about it.

... I like Final Fantasy Tactics.

For me it's the MGS series in general. I love MGS3: Subsistence, but I don't get the appeal of the others. The writing isn't all that good from a quality perspective, there's too much dialogue, some of the characters are annoying and the gameplay/camera system seems archaic and obtuse at best. I realize a lot of other people like the series, but I'd rather watch Ghost in the Shell to get my daily dose of close-to-home paranoia. When I play a game I want to have fun, and the only MGS games I had fun with were MGS3 and the GBC MGS game.

And yeah, I realize the MGS series became sort of a popular whipping boy after Yahtzee's review, but I disliked the series far before he reviewed MGS4.

Another one for me is the Jak series. I liked the original, but Jak 3 sucked, and I specifically avoided Jak 2 (because I heard it was like 3, only worse.)

Oh, and I can't stand the Street Fighter series. I've recently become a KoF convert, however.

It's funny, there was a time where i'd say something like "what? you DONT enjoy the Metal Gear series?!" just goes to show you how hard it is for some of us to believe that other people don't share their opinions, and it's proven that such a thing can cause wars haha.

For example, the latest Sonic game, panned all around by critics and i've not spoken to a single person that's given it praise, yet I bet there are quite a few people who love it, it's seeing why they love it that's the difficult thing.

 

[Riicek]

I gave Brawl a chance because I felt like I was expected too but with such a gameplay, I just couldn't get stuck into it! Sure it has more of this and that but it lacks in some very important areas. My favourite Nintendo game is Melee and I don't think thats going to change anytime soon.

Brawl to me is the perfect example of everything vs gameplay!

Definitely Smash Bros. I played quite a bit of the original, but after that I could never get into them, which got me constant heckling from my friends who I'd played the first with.

That, and Halflife. I tried really hard to like the game, too, but for some reason I just never did. I was big into Counterstrike for a while, and a couple other HL mods, but try as I may I could never find any interest in playing the original game.

*puts on flameshield*

 

[Illesdan]

Where to start...?

World of Warcraft: 2 months of my life I will never get back. Damn you, Blizzard. I spent 90% of my playing experience running to quests, trying to find quest areas, and trying to turn in quests to the douche who sent me out, if I could find said douche again. And any game in which your travel time takes more time than actual 'gameplay' time IS NOT FUN!

EverQuest 2: I really wanted to like this one, but once you leave the starting island, it's all rubbish and ass from there.

Dungeons and Dragons Online: Ladies and Gentlemen, I offer this as an example of how NOT to design an MMO. Dungeons and Dragons? Hardly. The title should have been 'Sewers and Kobolds', because that's all you do for your first 10 levels of gametime. By the time you reach that level, you're so burned out on it, you don't care if they give away real platinum pieces, you just want to take this game out behind the woodshed and give it the Old Yeller treatment.

Lineage II: The dark elves escaped from an S&M club, the human males look disturbingly feminine, and God help the person who makes a Orc... you won't make it from the newbie area because you'll have some fuckin' level 16 perched over your corpse like a child molester hiding in a Chuck E. Cheese bathroom stall. And you gotta love that deleveling system... yeah....

 

[Snakktastic]

Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix. I cant enjoy it because the fucking 360 controller is just hand crippling.

Devil May Cry 4: Story was fair shit and well the 360 controller doesn't help the situation.

To be honest I didn't like fallout 3 at the start but after a few hours it had grown on me and now I'm currently enjoy it a lot =D

 

[GreenDevilJF]

The combat in Fallout 3 sucked so I couldn't enjoy it, which was a pretty big dissapointment to me.

I also never really got into CoD4, even though it is considered so great I always thought it was crap in comparison to Halo 3.

I don't get why Half life 2 is considered the best shooter ever made, I walked away feeling pretty "meh" about the whole game.

SSBB was a dissapointment to me, I loved melee and could play it for hours but brawl I can't play for more than 20 minutes before feeling like I am wasting my time.

Unreal tournament 3, it has everything I want in a shooter variety, bots, large number of maps, and a fast pace but I just can't get into it.

 

[Healey]

Any Final Fantasy. Oh, and GTA4. Did not enjoy it as much as the previous games.

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

*GTA4, still haven't finished it.. Looks great, but there isn't that much to do really.
*Starcraft, I really really love the storyline of starcraft but the gameplay never really got to me. I tried playing it several times, but the whole gather resource build base thing is a little boring.
*Gears2, I loved gears1 for some reason but the new weapons in part 2 are meh.. the leveldesign isn't interesting, godawefull vehicle sections and Dom's lovestory that came right out of a bad romantic movie annoyed me. Still haven't finished this one yet either..
*Bioshock, reasons posted already in this thread. It's nice to look at, but that's about it.
*Company of heroes, just annoys the hell out of me after playing a couple of hours.
*HL2, not nearly as good as people say it is. Episode 2 was a big improvement though, can't wait for episode 3. And the black mesa source mod
*cod2, very poor compared to cod1+expansion. Way overly hyped imo.
*metal gear solid, just didn't appeal to me.

 

[SneakyBawls]

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.

Ok then Mass Effect was one I should have liked since I'm a big RPG fan, but I felt it was lacking anything to make me give a poop about the characters. Sucked too cuz I was really waiting for that game. Not to mention Star Wars Galaxies should have been one I have loved. MMO+Star Wars should have ='ed Awesomeness....Bah!

 

[Jewpacabra]

Doom 3.
This game was meant to keep us up all night, terrify us and use our mind as a a pinky would a chew toy. Instead we got jump scares, and whenever it became easy to spot there and when an enemy would jump out and try and rip your nads off the game just introduced a new type of enemy. This got rather tiresome rather quickly. Except for the chainsaw part...

 

[WrongSprite]

right....
bioshock
half life 2
portal


*prepares for hate*

 

[darrinwright]

Paper Mario for Gamecube. I want to love it so much... but I can't.

Also, GTA IV. I don't see the appeal. I just don't. I like sandbox games, I like shooting and blowing up things, but I just don't like this game.

 

[MotionOTheOcean]

Obviously GTA4... It sold many copies to many gamers, and then was sold back within the week. Now at any Gamestop there is a pile at least 30 used copies thick of this game.

 

[Jerakal]

Halo, Gears of War, and other "Mindless" shooters.

After playing a FPS with a well-written engaging storyline (Half-Life series) I just feel like these games' writers aren't even trying.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

Yeah GTA4 fits that, no matter how hard I try I can't love the gameplay OR the story. I blame Brucie and Playboy myself, I hate roid monkeys and drug dealers and dislike the fact that the story requires me to interact with them. Also the goddamn driving physics piss me off.

 

[TheHorizon]

Final Fantasy IV got an A- from 1UP but I have to say, that game is TERRIBLE!
I mean it's one hell of a shit poor game!

EDIT: And GTA IV. It's all right... but that is all.
Where is this GOTY gameplay that's all the rave?

They put crappy multiplayer in instead of a great single player.

 

[ascagnel]

Mass Effect. There's so much text to read, and so little going on, that it just fails to capture me. The story is slow and piddling (I feel like I've done nothing after 6 hours).

This might be the first game I run out of "activations" on, because every time I install it lately I get another half hour or hour into it, give up, and uninstall to make space for something awesome (like UT2004).

 

[Beefjerky]

GTA IV, not the singleplayer part though... I loved that. But the multiplayer part. I was really looking forward to play with my friends, doing stunts and what not. But Games for Windows Live is just complete and utterly bullshit, I have never seen a game that so out of sync and just hard to connect to like GTA IV.

Whoever came up with the brilliant idea of Games for Windows Live and the guy at Rockstar or Take-Two who said that they should use GFWL in GTA IV should be put on an island and stay there until they have realized what morons they are.

 

[MagnetoHydroDynamics]

Bioshock...
10? holiday bargain at steam
"Choose difficulty"
I choose medium.
I played all night.
Haven't played since.

 

[Saitken]

Any final fantasy game, and fallout 3

 

[pillaysteven]

I guess there are a few games that I just don't really enjoy despite there being many reasons why I should.

The GTA series is one. I finished 3, thought it was a very good game but didn't even nearly finish VC or SA. With GTA4, I appreciate what Rockstar did with the game and how many different elements they did really well but it just doesn't grab me. I don't have enough fun when playing it.

I love platformers but don't like the Ratchet and Clank series at all. There's far too much emphasis on weapons and I hate collecting all the bolts. And the platforming sections are much too easy in comparison to the shooting.

Most RPGs. I love epic music and epic stories but I just can't get into RPGs. Well except for one I'm really enjoying Valkyria Chronicles at the moment, I love the presentation with the book, the artistic design and the story, character design and voice acting are all great. And I like the gameplay which usually isn't the case with RPGs. I find turn-based battles boring and repetitive and despise random battles. I've played a good bit of Mother 3 on my PSP though and I like the battle system there, with extra attacks possible if you time button presses to the beat of the battle music (which is different for each enemy). At least you're interacting beyond selecting an action, watching the character do it and then waiting for your next turn.

ICO. I loved Shadow of the Colossus but just couldn't get into ICO. I think it was dragging Yorda about the entire time... not my idea of a good time.

Okami. Love the art style and gameplay but I found it a bit slow and stopped playing after a while. I hope I'll get back into it at some point.

Kingdom Hearts... I mean who doesn't like Disney? I thought the music was amazing but found the battle system and jumping very annoying and unwieldy. Also bosses took far too long to beat. Got to the 3rd/4th world and stopped playing.

Devil May Cry... basically I hate Dante.

Ninja Gaiden Sigma... thinking about that game makes me so pissed off. And it wasn't the difficulty. There were so many design decisions which ticked me off to the point that I stopped playing. Ridiculous story for one (in a interesting ancient Japanese setting one minute and then on a modern seeming aircraft the next), a very unintuitively designed town, a stupid unnecessary animation every time to go through a door, very detailed but barren feeling environments... I'll stop my rant there.