Games you should have liked

[hermes]

Dragon Age: Origins, and well, anything made by BioWare. So many people say they are such great games, but they are just so boring to me, and the "combat" is rather pathetic.

I second that.

I tried to play it after I thoroughly enjoyed the Mass Effect series. I thought about taking on an ongoing series by Bioware... But I only played about one third of the game, then I just dropped it and didn't regret it.

The whole setting felt just so bland... To say it was Tolkien influenced would be an understatement. This game was cliche even by fantasy standards. I just didn't cared about any of the factions, the races or the cultures, and all the locations looked the same.

The combat was also ham-fisted on consoles, to the point I had to reduce the difficulty to compensate for the micromanagement the game expected me to perform during encounters.

 

[Glic2003]

For me, it was Mark of the Ninja. I thought I should love a nicely polished, side-scrolling stealth game (heck, I'm even making MY OWN side-scrolling stealth game!).

And it's a well-made game, but something about its style turned me off... the out-of-focus backgrounds, the fact that half of the screen is black at any given time, the little quick-time event every time you kill a dude, and the voice of the female ninja that sounds like the host of a children's television show. I like how the checkpoints are close together, but I also hate replaying the same 30 seconds of gameplay every time I die in a laser beam.

I still like the game, but I really thought I was going to love it.

 

[deathbydeath]

I shoulda liked DA2 (I know, dammit). It had a more varied visual style than DAO, and I really liked what they did with two-handed weapons and skill trees, but there was just too much stupid and weeaboo.

 

[Herminator09]

For me its Kingdom Hearts. I love so much about that series from the story, art style and combat but the moment I pick up the controller to play it I lose all interest. So I just watched a friend play it.

 

[LiberalSquirrel]

...I liked The Witcher 2. [sub]Even if I mentally superimposed Salt n' Pepa's "Let's Talk About Sex" over about half the game.[/sub]

This game, for me, was The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind. I should have loved it. Unique worldbuilding. Ability to make your own class and go through the game and plot the way you want. But... I just couldn't get into it. Part of it could be the uncanny-valley characters. Part of it could be that I kept getting my customized, unique characters mauled by rats because I wasn't properly combat-spec'ed. Or part of it just could be that the game just didn't click with me. I don't know. But there it is.

 

[Coach Morrison]

I'm going to agree with all The Witcher comments, the first one felt like an MMORPG with a lazy combat system and the second just felt boring. Everything sounded like it was for me, a dark world, western RPG and all the good stuff.

There's also Oblivion, a big world to explore, lots of weapons and stuff, yet I can't stand it without modding it to the point you can't recognize it.