What game(s) have you wanted to like...

[SnakeTrousers]

... but, despite your best efforts, could not?

Personally I've tried multiple times to get into Metal Gear Solid 3 but have never gone beyond maybe one third of the way in. It seems that for many its the best entry in the series, but for me it's the most frustrating. MGS has never had the most fluid controls or the best writing, but even compared to the rest of the series I find it a very awkward and ridiculous game.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Funnily enough I never got past the tutorial in Metal Gear Solid 3. I played it for like 5 minutes, got eaten by a crocodile and told myself "Well I'm not sitting through the one hour intro again". Never touched it since.

 

[Zhukov]

Remember Me.

Cool setting, some cool ideas and decent visual design. Sadly the writing was so very crap and the combat was so very uninspired that my attempts to enjoy it were doomed to failure. Shame really. There was something worthwhile in there. Somewhere. Possibly.

Okami.

I was all ready to be charmed and entertained, but the interminable and unskippable 25min intro started off on the wrong foot and the inescapable feeling that I would have enjoyed it infinitely more at the discerning age of 11 never went away.

Torchlight II

I was in the mood for a simple and straight forward RPG dungeon-crawler. What I got was one of the dumbest games I've ever played. Click-click-click-click-click-click-click-click-click-click-click-click-swap-out-equipment-for-incrementally-higher-stats-click-click-click-click-click-click-click-click-click-click-click-swap-out-equipment-for-incrementally-higher-stats-click-click-click...

XCOM: Enemy Unknown

I want to like this game so very much. Hell, I want to love it. And I very nearly do. Then a thin man gets a critical hit on my full-covered-defensive-bonesed-smoke-grenaded soldier because dice. So seriously, why the fuck am I bothering? What am I even here for if the dice get the last word on everything?

 

[SajuukKhar]

Fallout: New Vegas

After how much I enjoyed playing Fallout 1-3, and even Tactics, I was surprised about just how much I found NV to be boring.

The dead over-world, the ghost town cities, the quests that amounted to nothing more then "walk 1 minute, look at building, come back", the linear gameworld, the shoehorned factions in the MQ, all the utterly broken mechanics(faction rep, faction armor, alt ammo types, DT, crafting list), the worthless "choices"

NV was just a trainwreck from every possible side.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

half life

Seriously, falling asleep on a game is my limit, I've tried to get into that game so many times...but just can't do it, so fucking boring to me.


morrowind

even having it suped up into the triple digits on mods, I can't seem to make it more than an hour or two pass the start without getting extremely bored, I'm not sure what is exactly but I just find the story/world so unreactive and boring as hell, even if the environments are pretty cool.

 

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[ShinyCharizard]

The Last of Us.

I want to like it, I want to see the whole story. But the gameplay pisses me off so much that I just quit everytime I try to play it.

Fallout: New Vegas

After how much I enjoyed playing Fallout 1-3, and even Tactics, I was surprised about just how much I found NV to be boring.

The dead over-world, the ghost town cities, the quests that amounted to nothing more then "walk 1 minute, look at building, come back", the linear gameworld, the shoehorned factions in the MQ, all the utterly broken mechanics(faction rep, faction armor, alt ammo types, DT, crafting list), the worthless "choices"

NV was just a trainwreck from every possible side.

Seconding New Vegas. Everything about it is just so damn boring.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Bioshock Infinite

It was a visually imaginative world filled with charming renditions of classic songs. It's easy to tell that clever people made this game, they just didn't make it very well. Had this been like a detective/adventure game without the shooting, I think I would've enjoyed it a heck of a lot more.

Bayonetta

Made by the same guy who did Okami? That's gotta be gold, right? Well no, not really. I tried to get in its headspace, but the highly annoying characters kept kicking me out.

 

[Drummodino]

Deus Ex (original). I've heard so many good things about it, but man it has not aged well. I've been spoiled by modern graphics, it hurts my eyes to go back to games from the 90s.

 

[jklinders]

Two games really stick out for me.

Morrowind. There is a game I love in there somewhere. Really there is. I thinks it's buried under a thick layer of overly punitive leveling mechanics and a dice based combat system that was trying too hard and failing miserably at being an action game. The world building and setting were fantastic but I will never pick that game up again.

The original Deus ex. Not the graphics, I picked that game up when it's graphics were not that far behind. I found the hitboxes really fucked up and couldn't get into the story. Again, a game i loved was in there with the multiple outcomes and proper roleplaying but with voice acting every bit as wooden as the character models I couldn't get too far into the story.

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Mass Effect 1. I played Mass Effect 2 first because ME1 wasn't available for the PS3 at first. When it became available for PS3, I decided to play it because, hey, might as well experience the whole series right? Plus, I kept hearing about how it was a "true RPG" compared to the sequels that were dumbed down for the casual shooter-loving sheep or whatever.
The clumsy cover and shooting controls, the atrocious inventory management, and the boring, tedious, terribly-controlled Mako sections just stopped me from getting into the game. I only completed it so I could import my saves to ME2.

I kept hearing that ME 1 was somehow a truer RPG than the other 2 as well. I played them in order and really could not get what they were saying. In all three cases combat was in linear shooting galleries. the world was a hella lot bigger in ME 1. Otherwise they were functionally the same with the cover and shooting mechanics actually working as intended in the second and third ones.

*shrugs*

 

[Colour Scientist]

Skyrim
It's the one I always mention in these kinds of threads. I got it at launch, was really excited and just couldn't get into it.
I traded it after about three weeks.

Bayonetta

Also this, I thought I would enjoy it but it just never really clicked for me.

 

[Treeberry]

Dragon's Dogma. I can see why people like this but I can't get past the bland world, same enemies over and over again in the same places. I don't feel like there is any real incentive to explore independently or become invested in characters. The plot is also quite threadbare. Maybe I'll restart and I'll be able to see the game in a new light though. I really want to like this game - I love the pawns, I like the myriad unique weapons/armour and that the game has chimaeras, cyclopses, griffins and all kinds of creatures but I feel exhausted when I play it. Plus the dialogue is really awkward sometimes and I feel like I'm chasing map markers rather than actually doing anything or becoming invested.

Ni No Kuni. Dat. Handholding. And before any of you claim that it's a game for kids - seven year old me would have been frustrated for the same reason. Games for children don't have to treat the player like an idiot and the good ones are fun for multiple age groups too. I dislike The World Ends With You for the same reason.

Red Dead Redemption. I love horses, I love scenery porn and I love roaming around game worlds. Yet I couldn't get into this as much. A bulk of the game is overly drawn out with pointless mandatory missions - I have same criticism about Dragon's Dogma and GTA games.

Yakuza 3. I like the rest of the series, but this one doesn't have same oomph or fun factor. Maybe because they took away certain side activities and didn't bother to remove the map indicators so you'd give up looking for things to do.

Harvest Moon: A Tale of Two Town. I love the HM series but some of the more recent entries have definitely been lacking. I gave up when I couldn't move to the other town because of week long rain which meant I also could not access the shops or build improvements because apparently it's illegal to open your shop during rainy weather.

Final Fantasy X. Eyeh.

Okami.

I was all ready to be charmed and entertained, but the interminable and unskippable 25min intro started off on the wrong foot and the inescapable feeling that I would have enjoyed it infinitely more at the discerning age of 11 never went away.

I loved Okami, but yeah it's not for everyone. It took me a while to get into it - especially because of Issun.

I'm also perfectly aware that my criticisms can also be levelled at some of my favourite games such as the Fallout and Elder Scrolls games. Which they already have...

Edit: I restarted Ni No Kuni and whilst it can be annoying that I have to listen to Drippy before mending hearts the game is actually pretty good. I wasn't even that far in the game and I can't remember why it infuriated me so much.

 

[nuttshell]

Spec Ops: The Line.
I would love to see the great story but I found the gameplay faaaaar too boring to bother with it after ~3 hours. Probably Mass Effect burned me out...I bet the story gets interesting after 3h 10 mins, huh? I still have the savegames- take cover, shoot, take cover - noooooooo!

 

[Zhukov]

Torchlight II

I was in the mood for a simple and straight forward RPG dungeon-crawler. What I got was one of the dumbest games I've ever played. Click-click-click-click-click-click-click-click-click-click-click-click-swap-out-equipment-for-incrementally-higher-stats-click-click-click-click-click-click-click-click-click-click-click-swap-out-equipment-for-incrementally-higher-stats-click-click-click...

What exactly made it one of the "dumbest games [you've] ever played?" What you said there seems to be a fitting description for, I dunno, pretty much all dungeon crawlers. (I haven't played Torchlight II, just curious to know what you think)

Because that's all there was to it. Clicking on monsters and swapping stats.

It felt like the kind of game that could be played by an algorithm. Program it to click on the nearest hostile, activate abilities on cooldown when in combat and swap equipment for bigger numbers and you'd be good to go.

 

[dragonet111]

Resonance of Fate. I tried a lot but the world and game mechanics never worked for me.

Dark Soul. The game looks awesome and the speedruns are so cool I almost tried again but the game is just to barren for me. I know the world is amazing for those with the talent/patience to look up for the lore but I was never able to do so.

 

[hermes]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I can't even describe why, all I can say is that I was not having a good time at all with the game. I felt bored after a couple missions. Also, I believe, first person stealth is awful... truly awful. I don't have enough environmental awareness, so I feel like every time I sneak behind someone is like throwing a coin so see if it works or not. As a result, I had to end up Ramboing almost every section of the game. I had a similar experience with Dishonored...

 

[AdrianCeltigar]

The newer titles in the Tales series. The combat is still fun as always, but I cannot for the life of me give a damn about anyone in them or what they're doing.

 

[vIRL Nightmare]

GTA Online. I loved the campaign to GTA V I really did. However online was just a space with nothing fun to do. If you tried to have fun the omnipotent, ominpresent, and omniscient police were there to stop you. Oh and they'll talk about Heists in 2014. Talk about, not release, talk about it. Kind of a monument of lies.

 

[dangoball]

Dragon Age: Origins

I should like that game. I really should. BG series is my all times fantasy RPG favorite, Bioware was one of my favorite devs, the world is interesting, NPC quite nice, even those annoying ones, tactical combat that actually makes me think a bit instead of going "kill all that moves" and somehow it just doesn't click together for me. For all my efforts I never managed to finish any major quest line after Ostragar. I tried Redmont, Circle of Magi, Denerim, Dwarfs, and just got so bored I went back to playing games older than 10 years...

 

[babinro]

Torchlight 2 and Path of Exile.

I hear all the time how these games are better reviewed and loved more by players than Diablo 3. I just can't get into them. Torchlight 2 in particular is sad because it offers modding which should help fix any problems I have and yet I just find myself bored with the game play. I continue to stick with Diablo 3 for it's superior combat system even though it's mechanics leave a lot of players wanting more.

Skyrim

I loved Oblivion and probably put 500+ hours into the game. Skyrim brought more of the same and felt old and dated especially in terms of combat. I went from extreme hype for the product (thanks to Game of the Year awards and the escapist continually calling it the best game of all time in several polls) to a complete let down. Skyrim is fine game. I can appreciate what it brings to the table but I'm unable to enjoy that formula any more. Give me the world and the exploration with a combat system that's tolerable and I'm in.