Games you should have liked

[Diablo2000]

I should have loved Persona 4 Arena, but I don´t.

It's not the gameplay or the story... It's just feel so unnecessery to Persona 3 and 4 that I just simply don't want to play it.

 

[Ironbat92]

I should love Borderlands. The crazy characters, unique look, and RPG elements should make me love it. However, I find that the Level up aspect working against it as I would keep dying, respawning at a the check point, running for like 25 seconds, then repeating over and over again.

 

[Metalix Knightmare]

I don't know about games but I do know one mission from a game that I should've adored. In Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines there is a mission where you have to prevent a horde of zombies from smashing open the gates keeping them in for five minutes. This mission should be a goddamn blast. Bunches of zombies and you with a big sledgehammer, but there are two gates you have to protect, and they're so far away from one another that by the time you get to one of them the other is on it's last legs.

If there was only one gate or if they were closer together it would've been awesome. As it stands, this one mission stands to be almost as horrible as the freaking sewer level!

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

I should've liked Brutal Legend.

It's funny, the dialogue sounded great, and it's a fantasy story about my people (roadies) dammit!

It turns out that I stopped caring about the story and the dialogue got really old after awhile. The fighting was boring, dull, and borderline rage inducing, and I hated the driving. I did like the music but that's only because there's a lot of licensed music in that game that I happened to like.

Not even the power of Tim Curry's voice acting could save this one for me. :/

 

[wintercoat]

Fallout 1. The characters, the setting, the back story, all wonderful! But that combat...slow, boring, and just generally shitty. I really, really wanted to like Fallout, but the combat just put me off. And I tried, I really did. But there's only so much banality a man can take.

 

[AgentLampshade]

I should've liked Resident Evil 6. Seriously, I should've.

I entered the RE franchise from 4, so I had no qualms about the action-oriented approach. The inclusion of hand-to-hand and melee attacks were a natural evolution to have. The story focused on Wesker's[footnote]My all-time favourite RE character, and this was before he was all super-humany in 5.[/footnote] child and included Leon. How could this go wrong?!

And then, it went wrong. It was clunky, it had an over-abundance of QTEs[footnote]I expected some, but jesus![/footnote], and the story was an incomprehensible mess. Almost everything that could've gone wrong went wrong and even the stuff that couldn't did. Why were the melee attacks so over-powered? And Jake's ballet moves, just...what?

Captcha: can I love? No, captcha, no you can't.

 

[maninahat]

I should have loved The Witcher 2.

A western RPG with player choice and a deep narrative?

Great!

I couldn't even get past the 2nd chapter...

Another bump for The Witcher 2. I was very put off by the excessive "in your face" grimdark the game goes on about. You can't go 5 minutes without somebody loudly bragging about random seedy shit they've done this week or references to implied rape and/or murder.

God I understand the theme guys, stop shoving it in my fucking face!

Another notch for The Witcher 2.

Great visual design, interesting looking characters, and an epic scope. Yet I could not give a shit about anything that was happening. The monotone voice acting didn't help much either.

Where have you guys been since 2011?!

I thought I was the only one!

[sub][sub](God help the first person who says "You're never the only one."[/sub][/sub]

Well, I didn't want to raise a fuss, but now that you mention it, I too didn't think much to The Witcher either. "Yo dude, he's like got two super claymore swords, and he has a scar and a pony tail, and he fucks loads of women..." It sounds like a teenager's D&D Mary Sue.

 

[Pink Gregory]

I should've liked Brutal Legend.

It's funny, the dialogue sounded great, and it's a fantasy story about my people (roadies) dammit!

It turns out that I stopped caring about the story and the dialogue got really old after awhile. The fighting was boring, dull, and borderline rage inducing, and I hated the driving. I did like the music but that's only because there's a lot of licensed music in that game that I happened to like.

Not even the power of Tim Curry's voice acting could save this one for me. :/

Playing it again recently, I did enjoy it (enjoyed it more the first time...), but yeah, it really is as shit as people say it is.

I mean, the world is great, the music is great (if you like that sort of thing, and I only like some of it), Jack Black is pretty good in it, the cameos are unabashed awesome (again, if you like that sort of thing). But the actual GAME? Terrible combat, good-idea-bad-execution, pathetically easy, terribly paced and terribly plotted.

Y'know what? I'd like to have seen MORE stage battles, because the hack-n-slash part of it was bleurgh. and there's only like five in the whole game.

Then again it was liking that that spurred me on to buy Stacking and Iron Brigade, which are both great, so...I don't regret it, but it's a shame.

 

[TaboriHK]

I wanted to like Assassin's Creed 3, but it did everything in its power to prevent me from it, and to this date I still haven't finished it. An enormous mishandling of the series.

 

[sanquin]

Well, I didn't want to raise a fuss, but now that you mention it, I too didn't think much to The Witcher either. "Yo dude, he's like got two super claymore swords, and he has a scar and a pony tail, and he fucks loads of women..." It sounds like a teenager's D&D Mary Sue.

In Gerald's defence the dragonborn is a mary sue too. A nobody at her lowest point, suddenly finding out she's 'the one', to then become a hero to save the land.

Shepard from mass effect too. A different kind of mary sue (or gary stu) though the 'perfect' type. As in an exceptional soldier with a tragic past, whom becomes part of an elite spec ops team and goes on to save the universe...several times over. Not to mention him not really having much of a personality outside of "I have to stop the reapers!"

Not saying that Gerald isn't a gary stu. It's just that such characters are very often used as main characters in rpg's.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

I should've liked Brutal Legend.

It's funny, the dialogue sounded great, and it's a fantasy story about my people (roadies) dammit!

It turns out that I stopped caring about the story and the dialogue got really old after awhile. The fighting was boring, dull, and borderline rage inducing, and I hated the driving. I did like the music but that's only because there's a lot of licensed music in that game that I happened to like.

Not even the power of Tim Curry's voice acting could save this one for me. :/

Playing it again recently, I did enjoy it (enjoyed it more the first time...), but yeah, it really is as shit as people say it is.

I mean, the world is great, the music is great (if you like that sort of thing, and I only like some of it), Jack Black is pretty good in it, the cameos are unabashed awesome (again, if you like that sort of thing). But the actual GAME? Terrible combat, good-idea-bad-execution, pathetically easy, terribly paced and terribly plotted.

Y'know what? I'd like to have seen MORE stage battles, because the hack-n-slash part of it was bleurgh. and there's only like five in the whole game.

Then again it was liking that that spurred me on to buy Stacking and Iron Brigade, which are both great, so...I don't regret it, but it's a shame.

I've been meaning to get back to it since I'm this close to beating it, but every time I look at it... I just can't.

I did somewhat enjoy the stage battles since they were kinda fun to play and challenging, but I've majorly screwed up early on in some the battles so where it would just suck the fun out of it. Some of the plot points I saw coming a mile away and ruined some of the surprise for me, and would've been great if they didn't make it so obvious. The voice acting was great and the world was pretty cool, but I just can't get the effort to play it again.

Maybe one day.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Champion Online, a superhero theme MMORPG with a massive character customization is sound in theory. However when playing the free weekend, the customization is limited (you can have one thing but it may remove another thing like capes) and it's just a typical grind fest and uninspiring story/ plot which did not engage me.

 

[shrekfan246]

Pokemon Black/White and Final Fantasy XIII.

Pokemon because, while I may not remember practically anything from it, I still put over sixty hours into Platinum, and I absolutely adore the first three generations and the remakes of the first two generations. But I just can't get into it at all. Nothing about the story, the Pokemon designs, the locations, or even the gameplay interest me at all. The gameplay hadn't changed since the great Physical/Special split of Gen IV., the type distribution during the entire first half of the game is absolute balls (seriously, if you don't pick the Water starter, you only see two Water-types that you can actually use up until the sixth Gym, and one of those is only if you pick a Water monkey out of Water/Grass/Fire), the Pokemon themselves just bored me (Timburr couldn't be a more blatant Machop clone, and yet he somehow looks even more stupid), and while the story was cute, it's still a Pokemon game, and the pacing was just all over the place.

And I've talked pretty in-depth about my dislike for Final Fantasy XIII many, many times before. I want to like it, but it does everything it possibly can to just make me despise it more and more.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I should still like the Assassin's Creed series but I went from not caring once they decided to milk the Ezio cow for 2 additional games to completely lacking a fuck to give when they moved the action to colonial America. To be fair, I haven't played AC3 but I don't plan to at this point.

I should like Kingdom Hearts 3DS but there's something about it that just pushes me away. I'm going to blame a combination of the animal raising side-quest that feels like it's distracting you from killing monsters and, the lack of an arena which makes it feel like I'm going to be under-powered before entering the final world. I've also never really cared for the plot outside of the KH1 story...and the other games in the series (the ones with Card Combat) keep me from getting 100% invested in the KH plot.

I should love the original Mega Man. I don't know why I don't other than the difficulty. I love Mega Man 2 despite being unable to beat it after all but at least I got to Dr. Wily in that one. Mega Man 1 I can't even get to any of the Robot Masters yet! I'm going to place the blame on the fact that I've only played MM1 through the MM collection on the original Xbox.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

Mass Effect.
I like RPG's and I LOVE sci-fi, it should have been a no-brainer, but it just didn't rez with me, I don't know.

 

[TK421]

Mass Effect(any of them)

It's basically KotOR without the Star Wars. I should have loved it. But I just couldn't get into it. I played the first one for awhile, but I never beat it(borrowed it from a friend). It just took way to long to get anywhere. By the time the second one came out, I couldn't play it cause I hadn't beat the first one yet. Then three rolled around as I was already completely apathetic towards the series and was honestly tired of all of the hype it was getting.

 

[A Weakgeek]

What is this? The "hate one of the best rpgs come this generation" thread? The witcher series is gold, and shame on all of you who disagree.

Me myself? Cant really think of one off the bat. Possibly the masseffect series, although I dislike current bioware games in general, so it doesn't really count.

 

[Itdoesthatsometimes]

I got you covered UrinalDook. The inner hipster is strong with me. I was a hipster before there were hipsters.

To that I say Okami, I liked it at first. It was cute, beautiful and the story was interesting. When I thought I was done with it, it went on...and on...and on. Ultimately, I got bored of it. I do not think I even finished it, I never traded it in so that does say something for it though.

I guess paintbrush dog was just not what I was looking for in an epic. I do feel I got my money's worth out of it. As I did enjoy it for quite some time before getting tired of it. To me it more seemed like playing one game and then not liking it's sequel. Which is a good thing if you liked it, because then you get two games for one. It does seem weird to me to punish a game for that quality. But it is what it is, I got bored of it.

Also DarkSouls I should have liked it. I wanted to play an RPG so focused on stats and mechanics, but being dead alive or whatever just held no interest for me at all. I quit pretty early into the thing. I am sure someone has a good explanation as to how this was suppose to be enjoyable, I just did not find it.

Keep your flames with in your borders, sovereignty people.

 

[Nightmare-Child]

I really should have liked Skyrim. I absolutely adored Morrowind. I can't even really could how many hours I lost playing that game. I thought Oblivion was pretty good too. Where they last me was with simplifying everything with Skyrim. They got rid of item durability, and atributes, and fused a couple collegages of magic together to make one school. They also cut down the skill count drastically between Morrowind, and Oblivion. And further cut this down between Oblivion, and Skyrim. Not to mention that the PS3 which I was playing, suffered from frequent bugs. Thus, ultimately a game I was sure I would have a field day with, I couldn't play for more then a few hours.

 

[Karoshi]

I should have liked DE:HR, but hell, I just didn't. I loved everything about Alpha Protocol and especially its gameplay (yeah, I know I'm weird), but hated the gameplay in DE:HR! I didn't enjoy the plot much, the cities were OK but oddly lacking atmosphere. I mean, I love any kind of dystopias and a grimmy futuristic world sounds perfect! But somehow this game never really clicked for me.

I can see that it's a quality product, but I couldn't care less about it. Pritchard was cool though, and so were the four cereal boxes in Adams apartment.