Games you should really enjoy, but don't.

[Aeonknight]

Persona 4.

I'm a fan of JRPGs (good and bad), and went out and picked it up after watching a few let's play videos for it, but while playing it... I found myself to be enjoying the LP's of it more than the game itself.

captcha: one hit wonder. That's a bit harsh.

 

[CleverCover]

Oblivion: An Rpg where you can do practically anything and end game is saving your kingdom from losing its only heir. Open exploration, varied ways of fighting, and fucking magic.

I should adore this game.

But, my main drawback was the lack of interesting characters and a lack of change. My actions didn't even give me a glimmer of hope that I was making a difference besides the lack of a few gates and the people were boring as fuck. I just didn't care about the people and then stopped caring about the world and if it did crumble to pieces. When my fifth character succumbed to vampirism and I didn't know, then, how to cure her, I gave up, turned off the console, and went to play something on the Xbox.

When I stop caring about the characters, I stop caring about the story, and then I stop caring about the game.

I tried Bethesda. I really did.

 

[MaCaulay]

The one that comes to mind for me is Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I love the mechanics and the story is interesting but I'm just not getting sucked in as much as I would like. It is one of those games where everything is fun while you're playing but when you put it down, you just sorta forget about it...

 

[felbot]

demon souls, the settings, the difficulty, the armor sets, i like all these things and yet i dont like it.

 

[putowtin]

Oblivion: An Rpg where you can do practically anything and end game is saving your kingdom from losing its only heir. Open exploration, varied ways of fighting, and fucking magic.

you know I've owned this game 4 times, I play the first couple of main quests, finish the dark brotherhood quest line then quit again!

Funny thing is, I really like Skyrim

 

[freakydan]

Uncharted 3

The first game was pretty good, the second was friggin amazing, but the third one...I just...I dunno...

Parts of it felt really cheap, and the story really bothered me for some reason I don't remember. I seem to remember the controls or combat or something bothering me a lot, too. I guess I felt like Uncharted 2 had a really great balance to it, and 3 tried tweaking it to make a lot of things better, and it completely threw off the balance. By the end, I kept playing simply because I refused to let the game win.

You know its bad when something horrible happens to one of your favorite characters...

Spoiler

Sully dying.

...and it doesn't make any sort of emotional impact. Its all made worse when...

Spoiler

it turns out the whole the was a hallucination. Like they were TRYING to pull at my heartstrings and manipulate my emotions, but they failed at the whole thing so spectacularly.

In short, I really can't think of a single thing I liked about Uncharted 3, which is too bad, because I can't think about a single significant issue I had with Uncharted 2.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time

The game looks great, Ratchet's design is better than ever, It has an open-world mechanic that kinda works, and Dr. Nefarious is back.
But somehow the game felt flaccid. The guns weren't fun to shoot, and the enemies weren't fun to blast, since most of them were rather generic robots. And then ofcourse there's the 'last of the lombaxes' plotline, which started with Tools of Destruction and was meant to add some "drama" to the series, that it never needed in the first place.

 

[sobaka770]

Bioshock. It was supposed to be the best game ever when it came out but it just didn't grip me, neither by its setting, nor by abilities or combat. Probably not a big fan of the 60s though.

 

[sanquin]

Too lazy to explain the exact reasons why, but these games I never got into even though I think I kinda should have:

Bioshock.
Assassin's Creed. (All games)
Portal 2.
Fallout 3: New Vegas

One I will explain a little about:
Dragon Age: Origins. I loved the game when I played it. But after about 4~5 hours I just...stopped. I don't know what it is. I want to play more of it, but I can't get myself to do so. Maybe because I have so many other games that take priority. Like Mass Effect, Skyrim, Dragon's Dogma and GW2...=/

 

[Moth_Monk]

Minecraft. I love the game. I can't get into it and have played it - at most - for only 9 hours.

 

[loudmouth]

Sure I will get completely slated for this but, Skyrim.

I'm such a bathesda fan boy, I've loved the last two elder scrolls and the fallouts. Just skyrim errr everything in it feels anti-climatic. After every mission I was like, "oh, is that it?" where all the other games I've spent more time playing them then any other game.

Bioshock is another one. I felt really bad when after a few minutes in to this amazing game I've heard so much about i just kinda felt "meh!". I was just all the atmosphere, all the danger, all the eeriness from the left over taps, and the weird characters. All of that was thrown out the window when i was able to shoot fire. It was like "well i'm a god now," which i know isn't true, but it shattered everything i was enjoying up to that point.

 

[sextus the crazy]

*If you're gonna kill off a character, kill off Pierce! No-one liked him!

Hey, I Liked Pierce. He seemed like the only reasonable guy in the who gang of murderous psychopaths.

OT: World of Tanks. I should have fallen in love with that game, but the grind is enormous and even worse, the matchmaking is horrible. Also, going down the light tank line will get you screwed in higher tier matches.

 

[putowtin]

*If you're gonna kill off a character, kill off Pierce! No-one liked him!

Hey, I Liked Pierce. He seemed like the only reasonable guy in the who gang of murderous psychopaths.

I stand corrected kill Pierce! Only one person likes him!

 

[sextus the crazy]

*If you're gonna kill off a character, kill off Pierce! No-one liked him!

Hey, I Liked Pierce. He seemed like the only reasonable guy in the who gang of murderous psychopaths.

I stand corrected kill Pierce! Only one person likes him!

There, that's better.

Why not kill shaundi? She stopped being interesting in SR3.

 

[putowtin]

*If you're gonna kill off a character, kill off Pierce! No-one liked him!

Hey, I Liked Pierce. He seemed like the only reasonable guy in the who gang of murderous psychopaths.

I stand corrected kill Pierce! Only one person likes him!

There, that's better.

Why not kill shaundi? She stopped being interesting in SR3.

They all stop being interesting in SR3! That's my problem with it.

 

[Fat Hippo]

Deus Ex, both the original and Human Revolution. I like Cyberpunk, I like RPGs, I like shooters and I stealth games. But I could never get into these games somehow. It's a mystery.

 

[Ccx55]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

As was posted earlier in this thread, this game was just impossible to get into. The awkward camera movement gave me endless headaches. Horrible AI made stealthing random rather than tactical. Adam's voice and melodramatic lines made me hate the character I was playing as.

The Witcher 2:

One word: Combat. The scenes are beautiful, the sounds are extremely realistic, the quests are inventive and the exploration is extensive. However, arguably the main interest for Witcher games is the fighting. I feel they failed miserably in this aspect. It's really difficult to remember which key for which spell (let alone hit 7-9 for the useful ones) and sword combat against more than 1 enemy is virtually impossible. Since there was no sensible way of interrupting attacks, I found myself running around a rock for 8 minutes trying to kill 2 soldiers.

 

[TheWellSpokenBoy]

I find Borderlands 2 to be extremely mind numbing yet others enjoy it. My question is... why? I think I might have to speak with Yahtzee...

 

[Mordekaien]

Thief 2. I can't get to it. Which is weird, since I love the first one and occasionally replay it.

Any MOBA game. I liked the first DOTA, but it somehow lost appeal to me over the years.

Legend of Grimrock is one of those games that I need to have right mood to play.