Dead Island comes to my mind right now. I liked it very much as a concept and game-play, but can't overlook the fact that it was boring. I wanted it to be really good, but I can't fool myself. It is just an okay game.
Games you want to like but just can't
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Fallout 1 and 2.
I liked 3 and new vegas, but for 1 and 2 I just can't LIKE them.
I like the way interplay did things, but i just couldn't manage. The turning point though was probably the shooting aspect.
I liked 3 and new vegas, but for 1 and 2 I just can't LIKE them.
I like the way interplay did things, but i just couldn't manage. The turning point though was probably the shooting aspect.
Persona 3...ugh...
This game has some of the worst fucking pacing I've seen in any game. The story takes too damn long to go anywhere with the highschool/dating sim crap taking up more time than it should. I didn't mind that stuff at first, but it quickly becomes a chore and tedious grind as you desperately wait for the month to pass for some actual story to happen.
It's just awful, and the social links become tedious and stagnant after so long and act as nothing more than a novelty than anything meaningful. Of course they pigeonhole you into doing them in order to get your stats up, and thus it becomes a chore like I said.
Then there is the awful dungeon design....as in there is only one dungeon that changes color/pattern every so many floors. Randomly generated dungeon floors in a game like this is boring, tedious, and lazy. Ok there are a few other "dungeons" in the game, but Tartarus gets boring fast.
See the actual plot when it happened wasn't so bad, I liked it and the characters. But you have to slog through so much padding that I had to fight myself and trudge through it. Though some of the bullshitty bosses don't help. The combat wasn't anything special (I had P3P, so I could CONTROL my party), I was fine with it.
I'd concede in saying that this game is a "flawed gem", but my god is it overrated. I have no idea how so many people could gloss over some of the horrid design decisions of this game. Oh well...to each their own.
This game has some of the worst fucking pacing I've seen in any game. The story takes too damn long to go anywhere with the highschool/dating sim crap taking up more time than it should. I didn't mind that stuff at first, but it quickly becomes a chore and tedious grind as you desperately wait for the month to pass for some actual story to happen.
It's just awful, and the social links become tedious and stagnant after so long and act as nothing more than a novelty than anything meaningful. Of course they pigeonhole you into doing them in order to get your stats up, and thus it becomes a chore like I said.
Then there is the awful dungeon design....as in there is only one dungeon that changes color/pattern every so many floors. Randomly generated dungeon floors in a game like this is boring, tedious, and lazy. Ok there are a few other "dungeons" in the game, but Tartarus gets boring fast.
See the actual plot when it happened wasn't so bad, I liked it and the characters. But you have to slog through so much padding that I had to fight myself and trudge through it. Though some of the bullshitty bosses don't help. The combat wasn't anything special (I had P3P, so I could CONTROL my party), I was fine with it.
I'd concede in saying that this game is a "flawed gem", but my god is it overrated. I have no idea how so many people could gloss over some of the horrid design decisions of this game. Oh well...to each their own.
The Armored Core games.
Now, I LOVE robots. I especially love being able to play as a pilot who gets to drive a massive killing machine, but I just can't get into the Armored Core games.
There's no weight to the weapons. You're firing, (and being fired at) by colossal guns that shoot bullets the size of a car, and there's no recoil, no staggering, no camera shake. It seems like your mech just shrugged off the attack, but your health just went down a couple thousand hit points.
The user interface is just TERRIBLE. It's all a bunch of letters and numbers, and it's real hard to glance at all that and figure out how much health and ammo you have.
I LOVE mech games, and I really want to like this series, but I just can't.
Now, I LOVE robots. I especially love being able to play as a pilot who gets to drive a massive killing machine, but I just can't get into the Armored Core games.
There's no weight to the weapons. You're firing, (and being fired at) by colossal guns that shoot bullets the size of a car, and there's no recoil, no staggering, no camera shake. It seems like your mech just shrugged off the attack, but your health just went down a couple thousand hit points.
The user interface is just TERRIBLE. It's all a bunch of letters and numbers, and it's real hard to glance at all that and figure out how much health and ammo you have.
I LOVE mech games, and I really want to like this series, but I just can't.
Easily STALKER. Sounded like a more hardcore and generally less RPG-y version of Fallout 3, which sounded great to me. But every time I've tried it I've just felt like it was really dull. It can't hold my attention at all.
Edit: Also Mass Effect, friend leant it to me shortly after they completed the first one, was told by many people it was great, tried it and it just seemed completely biege. Drudged through the opening sequence, with hope that it was maybe a bit long winded and it would pick up from there. Tried some side questy thing to realise the combat was still bland outside of the opening, then once I explored my first planet to see what the exploration was like, I gave up. Just everything about it screamed mediocrity.
Edit: Also Mass Effect, friend leant it to me shortly after they completed the first one, was told by many people it was great, tried it and it just seemed completely biege. Drudged through the opening sequence, with hope that it was maybe a bit long winded and it would pick up from there. Tried some side questy thing to realise the combat was still bland outside of the opening, then once I explored my first planet to see what the exploration was like, I gave up. Just everything about it screamed mediocrity.
I really disliked Dead Rising 2, I liked the first and thought that all the new elements they boasted would be fun! They were fun... until you remember you have a daughter that you need to bring meds too. It just felt like, couldn't you stockpile a few and give them to someone in the safe zone so I could go around longer and not have to check her every goddamn second.
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Actually, Capcom released "Dead Rising 2: Off the Record," which has the sandbox mode that you want. Give it a rent at least, you'd probably like it.BiscuitTrouser said:
As for me, I began Dead Island, liking it. But as the game wore on, it started to hate me, and I started to hate it.
Explosive zombies that can kill you in one blast, in a large radius? Yep
Story that started off well, then just started to get sappy? Check
Spawining zombies that can come from behind and kill you? Most definitly
Thank goodness I only borrowed it from a friend and didn't have to pay $60 for it
The Mass Effect series. Don't get me wrong, I don't think there is any problem with it.My dad's friend got it for me for christmas to make me try it because he loves it. There are a few key issues that keep me from liking it. 1) I don't really like sci-fi and/or games that involves space travel and such. 2) I don't really like first person shooters or third person shooters and I am terrible at shooters of any kind whether it be first person or third person and the camera is a little too close to the character for me to be comfortable either way. 3) The story is just a bit too serious for my tastes. I just can't really enjoy a game or tv for that matter that is just pretty much all serious all the time. I also think that I have bad taste in stories in general.
The Half-Life series. Pretty much for the same reasons as above.
EDIT: Oh, and Skyrim. I dunno, I just prefer linear stories I guess.
The Half-Life series. Pretty much for the same reasons as above.
EDIT: Oh, and Skyrim. I dunno, I just prefer linear stories I guess.
It's not that I want to like Half Life 2 and just can't. More that, I really want(ed) it to be anywhere near as good as people say it is, and it just isn't.
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Mass Effect 3, because of the ending.
Anything by Obsidian, because the writing just isn't that great, the coding is awful and the shadow of Baldur's Gate still looms large over everything RPG for me.
Anything by Bathesda, especially Skyrim. It's not an RPG, it's a viking sandbox. I should love that, but I just feel alone; the people are as barren as the crags in Morrowind.
HoN. I like LoL and I like Dota 2, but I can't get into HoN at all.
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Mass Effect 3, because of the ending.
Anything by Obsidian, because the writing just isn't that great, the coding is awful and the shadow of Baldur's Gate still looms large over everything RPG for me.
Anything by Bathesda, especially Skyrim. It's not an RPG, it's a viking sandbox. I should love that, but I just feel alone; the people are as barren as the crags in Morrowind.
HoN. I like LoL and I like Dota 2, but I can't get into HoN at all.
Mass Effect, Dead Island, and Dead Space Couldn't get into them only got through Dead Island due to friends playing, the other two i got maybe halfway through.
Legend of Zelda Twilight princess killed me with the wimote controls.
Resident Evil Operation Racoon City, Started out extremely fun (played with three friends) but they all got bored of it and the more i play alone the more broken it feels.
Duke Nukem Forever, I dont think anything needs to be said.
Legend of Zelda Twilight princess killed me with the wimote controls.
Resident Evil Operation Racoon City, Started out extremely fun (played with three friends) but they all got bored of it and the more i play alone the more broken it feels.
Duke Nukem Forever, I dont think anything needs to be said.
Dragon age: origins. i tried, i tried so very hard, but that part with the possessed little kid and the fade was so terrible it ruined any chance i had for finishing it.
Assassin's Creed: Revelations.
While having such a stock title there, just going through the missions again has really put me off playing it. Mainly due to them being tutorial missions. I've played through AC1, AC2 and ACB. I know how to play the game, though I appreciate the bomb tutorial, but please, don't make me unlock the good stuff first... That just saddens me.
While having such a stock title there, just going through the missions again has really put me off playing it. Mainly due to them being tutorial missions. I've played through AC1, AC2 and ACB. I know how to play the game, though I appreciate the bomb tutorial, but please, don't make me unlock the good stuff first... That just saddens me.
This:
I've tried, I've seriously tried to get into "one of the / the best RPG/s ever made", but I just can't, the combat system is just too damn random and infuriating for me and I just hate to quicksave and pause every damn second for almost everything.
Ironically, some people say exactly the same for Fallout 1 & 2, wich I wholeheartedly love, I dig it's combat system (once you modify it's speed in the options menu) and other oddities, but I just can't dig Baldur's Gate.
Same with X-Com, wich I'm eagerly waiting for Firaxis' version for that same reason.
I've tried, I've seriously tried to get into "one of the / the best RPG/s ever made", but I just can't, the combat system is just too damn random and infuriating for me and I just hate to quicksave and pause every damn second for almost everything.
Ironically, some people say exactly the same for Fallout 1 & 2, wich I wholeheartedly love, I dig it's combat system (once you modify it's speed in the options menu) and other oddities, but I just can't dig Baldur's Gate.
Same with X-Com, wich I'm eagerly waiting for Firaxis' version for that same reason.