Games your friends failed to talk you into

[RJ 17]

League of Legends.

While I'm not going to try and convince you that LoL is a fantastic game...I just wanna point out that it sounds like 80% of your issues with it were caused due to you playing the Chinese version of the game.

Personally I tend to enjoy games better when I can actually read and understand the text within them...I find that helps when trying to understand what to buy/do, but that's just me.

OT: Destiny and Watch_Dogs would be my most recent encounters. Had a coworker really pushing me to get both of them. I'm not huge on multiplayer shooters and I just straight-up don't like Ubisoft, so I passed on both. On both occasions, about a week after release that coworker admitted the game in question turned out to be utter shit.

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

WOW. I tried it and it was damn boring and such a chore to play. My friends said "once you get to level 60 its awesome". Yeah im not putting in that amount of time for a boring game.

 

[thoughtwrangler]

Pretty much any FPS. I'm still going to try to give Painkiller and Bulletstorm a spin, but just the majority of them -- yes, even the ones like Halo and Half Life that are ohmygod,I'mseriousthisoneistherealdeal,youguys -- is just meh for me.

Not saying I might not get into them someday. I might get blown away. But for the moment, the only FPS I need is Chex Quest.

 

[Fractral]

DoTA 2 is a big one. I have two friends that play it a lot, so I agreed to install it and give it a go. We played against the easiest bots and I got my face kicked in repeatedly, and we lost. Second game I played as a different character, got my face kicked in repeatedly, but somehow my friend managed to win the match. I uninstalled it and I'm never going to touch it again.
Then again, I actually gave one of my friends CK2 to make him play it with me (I had a second key as part of a bundle), so I'm as guilty of this as they are. I've also caught myself thinking of ways to persuade a friend to buy MH4U so we can do the HR stuff together.

 

[RedDeadFred]

Guild Wars 2 for the longest time. I hated the progression system of having to unlock every skill for every weapon combination. It was so damn tedious. I just couldn't get into it when the system was like that. Now that you unlock all skills across all weapons as you level, it's much easier to try out different combos and get a sense for how you want to play. This was after a year of my friend telling me that the game had changed and gotten better. In hindsight, I'm very glad he convinced me.

One of my friends tried to talk me into getting Five Nights at Freddy's. Hell no. I don't want to play "jump scare, the game."

Another of my friends has been trying to get me to play TF2, but I'm currently learning CS:GO and that takes enough time as is. I've finally gotten to the point where when playing casually, I can usually get an even KD ratio.

 

[Chester Rabbit]

Modern Warfare - When this game came out, well it wasn't even a blip on my radar but then my best friend came out of nowhere one day and just started gushing about how amazing this game was. How much he grew attached to the characters, how unbelievably photo realistic the graphics looked and just how satisfying the game was to play.

I still didn't give a shit. I couldn't care a less about a military shooter and when he finally got me to play it, oooooh did I not like it. I hated how I had to use the iron sites to hit my target. And man did I fucking hate how it only took one little spray to down me. It was not the kind of shooter I was used to.
I was used to being able to jump high, have a health meter and being able to take more than one hit.
And even at the time, I really did not see what he was talking about when it came to the visuals. I looked just as video gamey as everything else.


Halo - Everyone would always bang on about how amazing this game was. I didn't get it. It looked the same as every other FPS I had ever seen or played before so what was so special about this?

Even when my best friend got hooked I still didn't give a shit and would only tolerate Halo.

Funny enough I eventually did become a fan but that's because I was left alone with my friends xbox in september 2005 and started playing Halo 2 and just taking my time, and then the Arbiter showed up, and I loved this noble character. I loved exploring the alien culture and seeing all these cool environments with all these vibrant purples and blues and greens. And the textures in that game! It was the first time I had ever seen textures in a game that looked like they had actual texture!


WoW - I had three friends that were very much into MMO's and were head over heels in love with WoW when it came out. I wanted to play it, just to be more integrated into the pack but I never got around to it until 2005 October. And then it took me till Jan 2007 to even install it and by then, thankfully their interests had ascended from the computer room.

But I was finally able to play this game and I gave it a shot with one of my friends once.

Uuuugh. He did the Macarena in front of me and then logged off and then one of those little goblins killed me. An elephant tusked troll wielding two axes. And that was that.

 

[Flutterguy]

The Arkham series I am often told is good, but it plays like the Assassin's Creed series I couldn't play more then a couple hours of, which I was also told was good.

I usually borrow a game I 'have' to play.

 

[Johnny Impact]

GTA V
Manhunt
The Evil Within
Resident Evil with various Roman numerals attached

All recommended by the same guy. This friend's principal form of entertainment is creating random murderous carnage in GTA. Not for missions, just doing the bloodiest, most insane things he can come up with for hours on end. Whatever gene makes that enjoyable, I don't have it. I need a REASON to slaughter hundreds of people, even if that reason is worthless or bonkers. I also don't judge the quality of a game by how sick/dark/bloody/dark/violent/dark it is. He does.

 

[TranshumanistG]

A Korean MMORPG called Mu Online. During a drinking session with two classmates, one of them told the other to teach me the game. Somehow he dragged me to his home, introduced to his mother and sat me behind his computer. After a couple of hours I got the basic gist of it. The server we were playing on allowed to give yourself free GP with console commands, so the main occupation was grinding for items that couldn't be bought. For the next one or two weeks almost every day the other classmate (who turned out to be a guildmaster on that server) would call me on the cellphone and direct my grinding progress as well as give me supplies (including a pair of angel wings).

Then I stopped logging in. I guess MMOs can't hold me tight for too long.

 

[F-I-D-O]

Minecraft. Even after they bought it for me, I still couldn't gring forth any motivation to boot it up. I played it with my friends for a bout a month, but it was more "my friends are online, I will too" and less "the game is fun and I want to play." Just never understood why I should pay for a box of digital legos that are annoying to put together when I have bins full of the plastic bricks.

Vindictus. It was free to play, and the same group of friends had gotten into it. I realized five hours in that it was the same dungeon over and over again but the baddies got larger health bars, and stopped playing. Rest of my group quit five months later, saying it was too grindy.

Dragon Age Inquisition. A different friend told me I HAD to get DA:I when it came out, and that it had a fantastic story. It was so cool, it was originally developed as an MMORPG and then made into a single player game (his words, negative for me). The tactical camera sucks on keyboard and is worse than Origin's combat, but the fighting's fun if you just run in without thinking too much (his words, knowing that I'm more of a fan of party RPGs having tactical combat). The next week, he praised how the game (read, the Hinterlands) had so much content, and he had spent 20 hours just in that one zone running around. The week after that, he talked about how the game was still fun despite the repetitive quests and numerous graphical glitches. See the pattern?
He stopped bugging me to buy it once I told him I wasn't a fan of warhammer fantasy's world, pointless fetch quests, or really the Dragon Age lore/story in general. I started playing Witcher 2 instead.

I've had three or four pairs of friends all try and get me into Dota 2. It's a game that I'm curious about, but I've never gotten interested enough to put more than three hours into it. I really enjoyed League, but a toxic roommate killed my enthusiasm for the standard MOBAsa. I've been meaning to get back into Smite since I hit 30 in the Beta, but I dunno if I'll go back to MOBAs.

In board games, I had friends try to get me to play Agricola. Most boring, overrated game I've ever played. Turns out, watching people do what you wanted with no ability to respond for two hours isn't enjoyable.

 

[Aedwynn]

I had a friend attempt to talk me into a MOBA game so we could team up in it together.

I didn't really know what a MOBA was at the time, so I looked at the website and found that there were incentives for signing other people up, which despite the great length my friend had gone to in describing the game he had pointedly not mentioned in any way - this caused me to smell a rat regarding my friends' motivations and I declined.

It wasn't quite the glowing review that put me off as my own cynicism, so I'm not sure if that is fitting with the spirit of the thread?

I've been talked out of games due to the glowing review in a sort of basic 'polarisation' sense where I just start refusing to play the game for any reason due to a ceaseless barrage of praise for a game (tends to be Blizzard games - same friend as MOBA guy, above, incidentally)that just starts to annoy me after a while and I refuse to consider the game out of sheer stubbornness.

 

[Xan Krieger]

The Legend of Zelda, I play Ocarina of time for about 30 minutes and that's my experience with the series. Never saw anything to like about it no matter how much one of my friends talks about it.

World of Warcraft is another, just not my kind of game. I'm not into most MMOs, even Planetside 2 held my attention for only a week.

 

[Flammablezeus]

Borderlands. My mate loved the game and had played it a fair bit already. He convinced me to buy it and we started a new game, picked our characters and got going. At this point he proceeded to rush ahead and started doing all of the missions before I could even read a single one or compare a new gun to an old one. Of course within half an hour to an hour he'd rushed ahead so much every current mission out-leveled me by too much for me to be able to do anything. I didn't have access to the lower level missions that he'd rushed through either, even though I didn't receive any experience from them. I could headshot somebody with all of my ammo and their health would regenerate faster than I could damage them. Of course I never played the game again.

 

[Syzygy23]

People keep sending requests for me to play their damn facebook games. To which I look down with a disconcerted frown and crush them with my iron boot into the ground. Pitiful creatures of habit. Flimsy toys. They know so little of the wonders that lie beyond.

This sounds like something a Slaaneshi cultist would. Or perhaps something the Cenobites from those Hellraiser movies would say.

Oh and Borderlands. Lately the pre sequel. I keep getting told how good it and its predecessors are. The game seems to have all this fun sounding and looking stuff, but the action is so brainless and number swamped that my mind wanders into distracted, dark areas of thought. You're supposed to steer me away from those condemned corners, miss Game![/quote]

Yeah, I managed to make it through BL2, but just BARELY. By the halfway point everything became tedious and samey.

 

[jademunky]

Day Z. Oh god do I hate Day Z. Every one of my gamer friends are into it hardcore, I try it and....... barely even a game. All you seem to do is wander around a slightly more depressing version of Russia until bandits hold me at gunpoint and steal my shoes. Then I slowly bleed to death because the terrain cuts my bare feet. Also no map or compass so no way to tell where i am or where i'm going.

Everyone keeps telling me about all these exciting encounters they have but I just cannot enjoy it.

Captcha - carbon footprint

Is bloody because griefers took my shoes!

 

[mysecondlife]

My friends rarely talk me into games. Its the other way around. I'm the persuasive one in my group .

EDIT: So I guess the answer is.. "everything and anything I haven't played but they have"

I talked one of my friend into KotoR which he really enjoyed. My persuasion worked too well because he went ahead and bought KotoR 2... which is fine and all, but he bought the console version. What an idiot.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

Borderlands. Then I realized how boring it was.

 

[theSovietConnection]

For me, it's been the early Final Fantasy series (ie: everything before 10).

It's not necessarily that I have anything against the games themselves, I've actually enjoyed the ones I did play. It more has to do with the friend who wants me to play them really getting on my nerves and constantly telling me to beat them when I have about 4 or 5 other games on the go. It's gotten to the point where I'm not playing them out of spite.