Great Game you DON'T like?

[dfcrackhead]

Any of the Halo games I've played, I played the single player and multiplayer and just didn't like it. And it's not because I don't like first person shooters, I do, I LOVE L4D and the Half-life games and bunch of others, I just did not like Halo

 

[cannot_aim]

What constitutes good because if you just mean popular then I would say Halo 2, 3, and ODST they are all mediocre at best.

 

[Aqualung]

Bioshock. Great, the story is 'deep'. It has 'good gameplay'. I don't care, I found it insanely boring, drawn-out, repetitive, dry (hah, dry), and very "Go to X, retrieve Y, go back to X".

 

[Blubberburg]

Cod4, I liked other Call of Dutys but something about the fourth one was just gross

 

[lenneth]

Maybe for those complaining, maybe put it as "Games you can see the reason why they're good but personally dont like"

For me its Metriod Prime and CoD4

 

[Gxas]

Nonono...in all of those examples, you think the games and there design are flawed, overrated, or just not good. That now what i'm asking. I'm looking for games which you genuinely believe are great. If someone asked, you would tell them that this game is an excellent, top notch, well made, awesome game, but which, by some fluke, you just can't enjoy yourself whikle playing. I'm curious if people can put there personal tastes behind them, and try to appraise a game through a more objective set of criteria.

You piqued my interest.

I cannot play a Valve game. Any of them. Sure, the Source engine is deemed as good, and everyone is entitled to their opinions, but I cannot see it this way. Yes, I will admit that the Source engine has inspired a lot of games and many of them are hailed as some of the greatest of all time (Which I simply cannot agree with at all).

Here's the deal, you want me to pick a game that I hate but praise it as a revolutionary game that it top of the line. I cannot do this. It doesn't make sense to do this. Now, I can say that the premise of Little Big Planet is a wonderful idea. I cannot, however, say that Little Big Planet deserves praise as best game ever. I will never say that every game should copy its formula, because that would be idiotic. What you are asking me to do is against every fiber of what I believe. You want me to pick a game that I think is perfect, or near perfect, but despise utterly. If something is perfect in someone's mind, they cannot hate it. If they do, then it is not perfect.

You picked Street Fighter IV. But all you did was give a short review of it. You said that the game was very well made, but you didn't have fun playing it. Little Big Planet had pretty art, decent controls, and a unique idea, yet I hated playing it. It was not fun. So, I will say, don't play it. Simple as that.

Maybe I'm missing your point entirely, but, what I'm getting is that you want us to pick a game that we think is perfect but had no fun with. This cannot be done.

I have to give the rebuttal that it must be possible, seeing how people are...doing it.

See, I think you are very close to what I mean with Little Big Planet. You see it as a game with a large number of great and wonderful qualities, which makes up a well designed whole. You don't have to despise the game, it just has to be no fun for you. If someone told you they were looking for an innovative, family friendly platformer, I bet you would have to acknowledge that LBP is a great choice, even if you would never play it yourself. Perhaps the easiest answer to this question would be taste in genre. If I hated FPS games, I would not like Half Life 2. However, I might very well be able to see that it is designed well. Or perhaps a child's game could appear to be a wonderful child's game, but is obviously just not appealing to your demographic. Basically, it's okay to not like a game, but I also think its worthwhile to be able to think critically about a games qualities, and identify positive qualities, even if you happen to not like it. And given the periodic fights centered around beloved properties and developers (Valve, Halo, etc), I think it's a good thought experiment to prevent meaningless battles, and wncourage people to acknowledge strengths they might not traditionally appreciate.

If a game is not fun, it has not done what it was made to do, therefore, it is not a good game in any aspect.

 

[HolidayBrick]

Half Life and Half Life 2. Granted, I played them about a year ago, but I don't think they hold up. They feel long, boring, and I really didn't like most of the characters.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

Borderlands,

Great game in concept, but the lack of story and focus on pointless loot kinda turned me off after awhile, I basically don't have time for that kind of game.

 

[Cunnysmythe]

Crysis. It seemed very heavy and I just didn't have the patience to go through with it. I think I killed like one guy. It was slow on my system, too.

Quake 4. After the first few areas, a heavy boredom descended on me. It felt very generic, as if I'd played this game many times before and enjoyed it more before, and now I was just going through the motions. I could see the quality, but it wouldn't affect me. Maybe I've gone off FPSs?

I rarely just give up on a game in the early stages, but these were exceptions.

 

[DarthHamster]

Dead Space. Even though the concept was interesting, and the gameplay mechanics worked quite well, it was just too stolen from Event Horizon (no jokes about Lawrence Fishburne impersonations...).
Similarly, Mass Effect annoyed me. Good game, but just too much Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic to be considered a separate refreshing game.

 

[Red Hood]

Metal Gear Solid 4, Final Fantasy, and every Zelda game........ EVER.

 

[Mcface]

The title is so fail...

the game is not "Great" to you if you don't like it.

 

[Citrus]

Ratchet and Clank. All of them. I loved the Jak and Daxter series, but I played R&C and I was just bored out of my mind. I dunno, it looked good and had tight controls, but I just couldn't get into it at all.

 

[Schlorgan]

I always hear about Fable being a good game, but I got about 10 minutes into it before I turned it off and took it back to the used game store.

 

[Kimarous]

The Metal Gear Solid series.

I've heard these games are masterpieces in their own right, especially when it comes to story, but... I fail at it so hard!

 

[Lamppenkeyboard]

I really can't see the point of this thread. You seems to want us to shower a game with compliments then say that we have no reason not to like it.

 

[SonicKoala]

Hm, I find the idea behind this thread intriguing, but I'm going to be honest and say I've never played a game like this. If I don't like a game, I find a reason as to why I don't like it, because,as I figure it, there has to be something about the game which is flawed, otherwise I'd like it. The closest I've come to what you're asking for would be either Oblivion or the original Fallout. Both of those are games which seem to be really well-made, but I could just not get into them. That being said, I plan to give them another chance one day.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

what the hell is so damn good about Left 4 Dead and its sequel?

 

[Kiju]

Half Life, and all episodes following it.

The only thing amazing about it is how dull and cookie-cutter FPS it happens to be.