Games you thought you'd love but you turned out hating them.

[MiracleOfSound]

Most recently Brutal Legend. I don't really hate it but after playing the demo I thought it would be a fun hack 'n' slash sandbox game, and once I bought it I found the stage battles to be a real chore. It wouldn't be so bad if there wasn't so bloody many of them! I'm stuck on the final battle and I'm just too frustrated to even try it anymore!

I knew this game would feature in this thread, I felt exactly the same way.

That demo was a lying bastard.

 

[Lucifer dern]

neverwinter nights (i just could not get into it)
oblivion (horrible boring combat, managed to make a fireball mixed with lighting boring)
dragon age (my own folt got it on console.)
half life 2 (just cant see the big deal...but maybe thats cos i played portal and was expecting the same lvl of awsomeness...)
deus ex (i could make a list...)
final fantasy (just cant see any apeal at all)
red dead redemption (first hour: wow this is so atmaspheric, secound hour: i swear if i see another f*cking hourses ass... third hour: k im going to go play an actual game now.)
infamous (zap, zap, zap, zap, zap, zap....)
borderlands (where are my rpg elements, i have one move! i can upgrade it once a year... gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh and bullet lag.)
killzone 1/2 (k ive shot stuff in the head before, any new takes? no?)
brutal legend (wish it was a hack and slash not a console rts...)
world of warcraft (omg omg im going to finaly join a game thats hooked 11 million players! god dame this must be good. "kill this" ok week starting quest... "walk here" ok weak starting area "kill this" fuuuuuuuuu)
left 4 dead 1/2 (wow that got boring fast...)
the witcher (i genraly have no idea why i dont like this game...i just play it 5 mins later, wow im so bored right now...)
god dame i'm hard to please
to thinck i liked alpha protocal...

 

[I am Jack's profile]

Spore

what a piece of crap

 

[Baradiel]

Half Life 2. Such a boring game, repetitive game, but so massively popular (for some reason) that even hinting that it's nothing but perfect can bring instant hatred on the internet.

Bioshock. It was so overrated that when I finally bought it off Steam it felt bland. Again, a boring game to play. Might have been the control scheme, and I can help but think it'd be better if I'd gotten it on 360.

 

[Physics Engine]

Prototype

I thought it would be alot of fun, running around, splashing people with my mighty arms and shit, but the story was.. boring and confusing and after hyping around with the claws for a while they were taken from me for an impossible mission where you're supposed to break like ten tanks, and when you have, there just comes more and more of them

I'm not completely awesomely skilled at games like that, but that was impossible for me and sucked all the fun out of it

You didn't miss much of anything. After the first half of the game you have all your powers taken away only so you can go and get them back again! yay...

Mine was Auto Modellista on Xbox. The first cell-shaded racing game I'd seen and it looked like a full-colour page from an Initial D or Wangan Midnight manga, but in motion. I even pre-ordered it and waited (im)patiently for it to release. Only to find out that the looks was all the game had going for it. Uninspired career mode and horrible handling physics (wall-bashing sucks) coupled with unrelenting rubberband AI made me swear off the game. I couldn't bring myself to return it, so I still pop it in from time to time to stare at the beautiful game and wince at the horrible driving physics.
I wish that game was good so badly

 

[Alex Cowan]

BioShock.

I'm sorry, but I thought the setting was too good, and the gameplay kind of got in the way. I really wanted to like it, but the unrelenting nature and some of the horror elements really prevented me from enjoying it.

 

[Iffat Nur]

Okay...
Half Life 2: I know the game is called one of the greatest PC games, but I jsut cant feel it working.
Operation Flashpoint series: Turns out I dont like Tactical Shooters that much (Battlefield 2 not part of this group)
Assassin's Creed: Stealth kills have a limited "fun" life span
Modern Warfare 2: (I dont play multi-player) Its too short, even on Veteran. If they didnt mess that up, however, Im sure it would have been one of the better games I have played.

EDIT:forgot Fallout 3, that was WAAAYYYY to tedious.

 

[linkzeldi]

Oblivion, I was so prepared to love it. Yet when I tried to explore the area, I got lost and had no idea what the shit was going on.

I liked fallout 3 though. . . weird.

Saint, what looked like some sort of 2d platformer on the wii turned out to be crap. Should have known it from the $15 price tag.

Final Fantasy 13, I was psyched for another square enix rpg. It started out alright, I mean I hated the combat but the story was familiar at least. Then we got introduced to the characters, I hated them. The enemies health skyrocketed, making combat unbearable. The plot also made no frekaing sense. Okay our friends our captured and it's so obviously a trap. SO instead of trying a sneaking infiltration lets charge the ship with just the five of us and our wacky magical powers guns ablaze. Stupidest prison escape plan ever.

 

[eggy32]

Half Life 2 and Bomberman Act Zero.

 

[gred]

Fallout 3 and far cry 2.
Fallout was just boring as hell and far cry I hated for some reason, and I can't figure out why.

 

[PolarBearClub]

Far Cry 2. sounded great: an open-world FPS set in Africa. Played it and everything about it annoyed me. constantly being attacked while driving, virtually no chance of sneaking up and stealthing your way through an objective. Honestly, they go searching for you every time, and you either try sitting still for a stupid amount of time or just running out shooting out of sheer boredom.

 

[Arisato-kun]

Final Fantasy XII. A horrible battle system stolen from an MMO, an uninteresting plot, auto-pilot leveling system and only two likable characters. All that wait for THIS?

I cried at how terrible it was. It's the only Final Fantasy I despise.

 

[ben---neb]

Oblivion. I spent months waiting for this game, when I finally got it I spent about an hour or two playing it before I realized that it will not get fun all of a sudden if it hasn't that far.

Agreed! Except it took me at least 30+ hours and many mods to realise that it was pish and morrowind was so much better.

Dragon Age: origins. My biggest regret and surprise. I loathed every minute I played of this game no matter how much I wanted to like it, it has a great story and it is by bioware who made ME and ME2, the two games that would make my top 5 list any day of the year.

I was underwhelmed by Dragon Age - rubbish story and very boring in parts. But I wasn't a big fan of Mass Effect 2 either - little plot development, rubbish final boss fight, too long loading screens and not as good a soundtrack.

 

[Gimelbub]

Fallout 3:
I thought I would like it, but I just couldn't get into it. It felt like Oblivion, only less interesting.

 

[zhemis]

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 (SWAT was better)
Half-Life 2 (same shit, different day)

 

[V TheSystem V]

GTA4. Found it tedious, boring, the story missions varied in quality (the amazing Three Leaf Clover mission a highlight, but missions like Bull in a China Shop ruined it for me. What a cheap, cheap mission). Reason I loved Red Dead Redemption was because the characters were more likeable and the missions nowhere near as pathetic.

Resident Evil 5. Was JUST like Resi 4 but with improved graphics, worse story and enemies with guns this time.

Phantom Hourglass. Some puzzles took ages to finish just because you didn't know you had to close your DS and open it again. What the hell?

Super Paper Mario (Wii). Just found it boring in the end.

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

Dead Rising. I thought I'd love it. It had a sense of humor, and zombies, and a bunch of weapons. The game is so incredibly hard and the survivors all have a case of brain damage.

GTA4. Everyone was annoying as hell. I have to play it with the volume off.

Mass Effect 1. Being a "mature space epic" must mean it has to be boring.

 

[Life_Is_A_Mess]

Killzone 2. Killzone 1 was awesome. In the sequel, they promised vehicles and new weapons. Those promises were not acomplished.

 

[Helmutye]

I really thought I would like No More Heroes--I heard it was hip, quirky, and over the top, and the assortment of influences sounded really fun. But after I got it and played through it I really disliked it. It wasn't nearly as hip as it was trying to be, I wouldn't say it was quirky so much as random, and while it was indeed over the top, because it lacked the other two elements it wasn't over the top in a good way. And the gameplay was so dull! You expect a game like that to be filled to the brim with ideas--sure, some of them might not go together so well, but the sheer volume of good ideas can be very fun in an ADHD sort of way. But No More Heroes felt like there were too few ideas. So much of the game was repetitive grind that when you finally get to a boss you expect them to be really colorful and memorable. But there were at least 3 or 4 that I can't even remember what they looked like, and for a game like this that is a very bad thing. Plus, it relied way too heavily on irony. Irony will only get you so far once you are older than 20.

 

[newfoundsky]

The whole Command and Conquer series that suddenly decided to jump off a cliff and land in EA, they missed hell by a few feet.

I agree. We need to hunt down whoever is responsible and make sure we can never be hurt again.