Games you want to get into but can't

[Lazy]

After finishing DmC, I decided to go ahead and give the orginal HD collection a shot.

Thus far, I've only played the first game and it's been more frustrating than fun. Thing is, I feel like I could really get into it if it weren't for the awkwardness of the controls and the terrible fixed camera, because combined overcoming them is proving more challenging than any enemy I've encountered thus far. Having a fixed camera in a game with direction-based attacks/moves, particularly when said moves are dependent on which direction the character is facing, just doesn't seem like a good idea.

I intend to give the second and third games a shot, but after multiple attempts to get into it it's fairly safe to say that the first is a lost cause.

What games/franchises have you really wanted to like but just couldn't, for whatever reason?

 

[krazykidd]

Dragon's Dogma . I don't know why , but i find the game to be so damn boring. And this is coming from a guy who can grind in SMT games for hours and stay entertained .

Also i just bought Silent hill: Downpour . Good lord , i'm trying i got through every console silent hill game to date , but i'm bored to teas with this one . Three hours in and i just want to snap the disc and pretend i never bough it .

 

[ShinyCharizard]

The Witcher II. No matter how many times I try I just can't get into the game at all.

 

[Spectrum_Prez]

Baldur's Gate. I picked up the reworked edition recently, got as far as the basement in the intro and said: "You know what, I have better things to do." I very quickly remembered that I have always disliked the whole "party" concept in RPGs.

 

[IllumInaTIma]

Silent Hill.
Time to time I launch Silent Hill 1 on my PSP, but after couple of hours I chicken out. I just can't get over my childhood fears of that game.

 

[Luca72]

After finishing DmC, I decided to go ahead and give the orginal HD collection a shot.

Thus far, I've only played the first game and it's been more frustrating than fun. Thing is, I feel like I could really get into it if it weren't for the awkwardness of the controls and the terrible fixed camera, because combined overcoming them is proving more challenging than any enemy I've encountered thus far. Having a fixed camera in a game with direction-based attacks/moves, particularly when said moves are dependent on which direction the character is facing, just doesn't seem like a good idea.

I intend to give the second and third games a shot, but after multiple attempts to get into it it's fairly safe to say that the first is a lost cause.

What games/franchises have you really wanted to like but just couldn't, for whatever reason?

Don't bother with the second. I know everyone says that and it'll seem like they're exaggerating, but it's really stale and uninteresting. It's one of those games that doesn't have a glaring flaw, but you'll get this really bad feeling that you're wasting time playing it. I'd say try the 3rd one out. It's hard, it has the most reward, and it throws you into the action pretty much right away.

Unfortunately, the camera is still a massive problem. It occasionally hides enemies, screws with your movement, and constantly makes performing combos unreliable. And Dante is significantly more annoying in the old DMCs than the new one (I WENT THERE).

Mine is Assassins Creed. I played the first one years ago, started Revelations, and I've played about an hour of AC3. I know AC3 has gotten some complaints, but I thought the tree-hopping mechanic was pretty cool. It feels like there's some potential there, but I've never cared much for the story of this series. AC3 seems to REALLY want me to pay attention to it.

 

[CapnCJ]

Mass Effect.

All the right things are there. A sprawling Bioware Sci-fi RPG, it should be exactly my sort of game.

For some reason, however, it just falls flat.

 

[The Wykydtron]

Witcher 2 is my one, it's the excessive amount of Grimdark for sure. Gameplay is fine, characters are perfectly ok with a side of bland with the exception of Roche (the choice between him and that other guy is silly) but beyond all of that the Grimdark is horrible

Seriously, could you be anymore "in your face" about it? You can't go two seconds without some guy going on about whores or murder or murdering whores and the like. Oh and the sex stuff is hilariously bad.


It tries too hard to be "mature" so it turns right around and comes off as silly. It's what happens when anything focuses on one element above all else, or perhaps one emotion or emotional state is more correct.

Like how To The Moon is on a crusade to make you cry. To rip off another guy on this site "the music is as if a computer set to Teary Eyed Mode generated it." The story and characters exist for and are set up on the optimal route to make people cry. Rather than crying being a by-product of a well written story. I only cried, hell only got teary eyed at the most well written scene in the game (you know the one)

Not that I don't like To The Moon, i'm just not as sold on it as many others.

 

[piinyouri]

The Souls games. Gorgeous, absolutely drop dead gorgeous games with a dark aesthetic the blend a bit of JRPG mentality with WRPG design.
I want so bad to love those games.


Also Dwarf Fortress.
Also Dragon Age Origins.

 

[votemarvel]

Pretty much every Bethesda game since Morrowind (I'll also throw in Fallout: New Vegas, even though it was done by Obsidian.)

The worlds are pretty looking but at the same time so bland. You can walk for seeming hours and not encounter a damn thing. I genuinely believe that the game could be improved no end by shrinking each game world by a third.

 

[Drejer43]

Dwarf Fortress, i wish i could play that, but it got a learning curve of a brickwall

 

[DarkArk]

European Escalation. I enjoyed the first few tutorial missions and such but never really managed.

Also the Witcher I, which I want to beat before moving on to W2 but I just can't seem to do it.

 

[EeviStev]

Mass Effect.

All the right things are there. A sprawling Bioware Sci-fi RPG, it should be exactly my sort of game.

For some reason, however, it just falls flat.

This. It just didn't hook me. So that alien got assassinated. I understood that that other alien was a bad guy now, but I didn't exactly care about or know anything about the guy he offed, so my heart wasn't really in it.

 

[IronMit]

ASSASSINS CREED

I can't get into any Assassins Creed game. I've tried many a time but I find myself hating every single aspect of it.
My brother is a massive fan so I have day one access to all.

I hate the free running, I hate the voice acting, I hate the controls, I hate the combat, I hate the vertical-leap climbing. I hate the HUD, I hate the AI and onscreen que's showing you the AI alert meter

Assassins creed 3 got even more ridiculous with quick time events and running on tree's.

WITCHER


I got so excited about witcher recently..given the reviews of witcher 2, i wanted to play the first game before trying out the second...omg the combat system is awful..even skyrim is better. And how can such an old game with average graphics be such a resource hog


Exception- Deus ex

I couldn't get into this game for so long..played it...wth is this...put it away for 2 years...repeat.. 3 months ago I tried it again with new vision mod...as soon as I hit Hells kitchen I was hooked. That game ended up being amazing afterall. The first level is v v difficult to get through.

 

[Jandau]

Pokemon

I've been trying to get into the Pokemon games for ages, but I never can. They are too grindy, I feel constantly torn between an OCD desire to gather all the pokemon and the dislike for the fact that I'll be benching most of them. And all the starter pokemon are lame, except for the first gen, and even then the starters are just OKish. And did I mention all the grind? I like the concept of the games, I like the pokemon themselves and it all honestly seem like something I'd enjoy, but somehow I get bored with it very fast.

Starcraft/Starcraft 2 multiplayer

This I do not understand. I love these games. I played through SC1 and Broodwar multiple times, I played SC2 so much I cleared all the Singleplayer achievements (even the ones for the hardest difficulties) which is not something I normally do in games. But whenever I tried to get into the multiplayer side of things I'd get bored inside a week. And it's not that I don't like multiplayer - I've played LoL for over 2 years and have been playing DotA2 for the past year. I've played WoW for several years and dipped into multiple other MMOs. There's just something about SC games that turns me off the multiplayer side despite the fact that I want to like it...

 

[Harlemura]

I have a friend that desperately wants me to like Dynasty Warriors and even gave me Dynasty Warriors 6 to get me into it, which was lovely of him. But every time I try it goes something like;

"These are a lot of Chinese names. I've lost track of who's who already."
"Hey, fighting all these armies is cool, I could get into this."
"Why is that guy and his squad retreating? Did we need him? Where was he, even? Ah, whatever."
"Who's Lu Bu?"
"Why am I dead"?

I'm sure if I pick up an interest in Chinese history at some point I'll come back to Dynasty Warriors and it'll be great. Oh, also the music's really good.