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What game have you given multiple second chances to like? You try it over and over again, but you just... HATE IT.
The thing that bugs me is that it gets SO many great reviews and you give it a fair chance, but it just pisses you off.

I have tried and tried and TRIED to play Dragon Age Origins. The story seems good, the characters are fun to interact with, seems like a solid RPG. HOWEVER!! Why in the hell do I have to hold my party members' hands?! I shouldn't have to spend 30 minutes in the menu screen tirelessly trying to make my team mates less stupid!

Look I may not be the best strategist, but as an ex-infantryman I know how to set up choke points, ambushes, effectively using supporting and assaulting elements.
For example, I have my mage-lady set up on a hill to provide supporting fire while me and the templar guy charge the enemy. I keep my attacks focused to prevent my team from getting thinned out and becoming soft targets... but none of this matters when my freakin mage just sits there with her thumb up her ass!! I told her to attack the enemy, but she's just staring off into space while I'm getting mauled!! OH! but the enemy mage has no issue shooting at me from 100 meters away while my mage has to be standing directly in front of someone to shoot at anything!!

The game over screens taunt me by saying "Be more tactical!" FETH YOU!! I tried flanking maneuvers but instead of going through the opening in the fence to attack the enemy from their flank, the donkey-cave runs BACK AROUND TO CHARGE DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF THE ENEMY. WHY?!!?!?!?

Why do I have to spend points gained from leveling up to buy tactic slots TO MAKE MY TEAM MATES LESS STUPID?! You know what!? Here's a fething tactic for you DON'T FETHING GET YOURSELF KILLED!!! I shouldn't have to look over your damn shoulder every second of combat to make sure you aren't going to die!!

WHY?!?!? WHY?!!! WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYY?!?!?! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
*mental breakdown*


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Having a healer in the group would make survival a lot easier. Try to get wynn early in the game or spec morrigan with some healing spells

I've tried like Bioshock, but it just never stuck with me.

I don't know why, but I never saw why it was considered that great. I wasn't a huge fan of the story, the combat, and the ADAM system. I've tried playing it two or three times, but it just never stuck with me.

I tried to like Dawn of War II as i very much enjoyed DOW 1.
but nope... way too small for my enjoyment.

Gears of War online. I can't get into it! Space Marine online is a little bland in terms of weapon choice and maps, but even that is more enjoyable for me.

I tried to like Oblivion but that game was just so boring for me.

As for your dislike of DA:O OP, let me tell you it took me so long to get into, but once I did I loved the game so much, I beat it three times.

I remember everyone raving about Metroid Prime when it was released on Gamecube. Most of the contemporary reviews said it was one of the best games ever but I could never get into it.

Actually, it might be heresy to say it, but I always felt the same about the Legend of Zelda on N64 - never floated my boat even though I tried to persist with it.

filbert wrote:I remember everyone raving about Metroid Prime when it was released on Gamecube. Most of the contemporary reviews said it was one of the best games ever but I could never get into it.

Actually, it might be heresy to say it, but I always felt the same about the Legend of Zelda on N64 - never floated my boat even though I tried to persist with it.

I felt the same about Prime until I played it on Wii. The Prime Trilogy on Wii made me fall in love with the series. The problem that prevented me from enjoying Prime on Gamecube was the control, but with Wii controls I fully appreciated what Retro Studios did. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY better than Team Ninja's abomination!!

I couldn't get into Legend of Zelda on the N64 either, 007 Goldeneye was just so much better than Zelda in my opinion.

Little Halonachos: I have to hit him with a little slingshot and then hit him with the sword?

LH's friend: Yeah, cool huh?

LH: That's dumb.

Yeah, Ocarina of Time is hailed as the BEST GAIM EVAR!!1 but I find that Twilight Princess is my favorite of the franchise.

I have tried and tried and tried to get into any of the Tekkan series. My mates all raved about it when it first appeared on PS1, and again on PS2 and yes, AGAIN on PS3.....but to no avail. None of the characters gripped my imagination in the same way as Soul Calibre's did, or any of the Street Fighter games....

Is it me? I also found the fighting mechanic in Tekkan to be flawed. I'm just not cut out for it it seems

sarpedons-right-hand wrote:I have tried and tried and tried to get into any of the Tekkan series. My mates all raved about it when it first appeared on PS1, and again on PS2 and yes, AGAIN on PS3.....but to no avail. None of the characters gripped my imagination in the same way as Soul Calibre's did, or any of the Street Fighter games....

Is it me? I also found the fighting mechanic in Tekkan to be flawed. I'm just not cut out for it it seems

The air juggling combos?


I also tried to get into Kingdom Hearts. HATED IT. Just... so... BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING. I got to the Alice in Wonderland world, then had to turn it off because it was putting me to sleep.

FUN FACT: The only game that LITERALLY PUT ME TO SLEEP was Final Fantasy X.

I agree with Twilight Princess being my favorite (thus far) of the Zelda series. I also LOVED Wind Waker

I also agree with Tekken...I've tried my hardest to play those games, but I never got sucked into it. Same with the Street Fighter games. I really enjoyed the Soul Caliber games, though...

I could not get into LoZ: Majora's Mask or Wind Waker; MM was just too complicated to accomodate my 7-year old attention span and Wind Waker... I just didn't get it. Perhaps it was the different graphics or the gameplay or elements of both, but I just couldn't play it for any length of time.

DA:O also gets a mention. After trying a Warrior and Rogue character, I just decided it was best to spec morri to heal, get ally to tank, get leli to... I dunno, she generally did whatever she felt like regardless of tactics, and i'd just sit at the back as a mage and spam fireballs. The only time that didn't work was the end boss, but then, that was the only real challenge at all, and once you got the hang of it, even that was a piece of piss.

Also tried to get into DoW2, but i'm not a fan of the squad-based game play and lack of base building; to me, it just... didn't appeal.

Civillisation ends this post, because no matter how much I (try to) play the games, I just cannot understand the hype behind them...

Pretty much any MMO

MvC2, too used to the nice casual MvC3

A TON of RTS's like men of war. The only ones that really appeal to me are the DoW/DoW2 and the C&C. I'm a bit on and off on Total War

ANY super micro manage game (dorf fortress, heart of iron, etc)

I tried to like Space Marine.
I tried to like Uncharted.


Thankfully the second Uncharted made all the badness of the first Uncharted go away. I'm hoping the second Space Marine can do the same.

Metroid Prime 3. It almost ruined the Prime series for me.

I REALLY....REALLY tried to like CoD:Black ops

Liking that game is so damn hard.....

except for zombies....I love killing zombies!

H.B.M.C. wrote:I tried to like Space Marine.
I tried to like Uncharted.


Thankfully the second Uncharted made all the badness of the first Uncharted go away. I'm hoping the second Space Marine can do the same.

Ehhh actually, from every post before SM was released, you seemed to be going into it with the specific intention to dislike it. It wasn't your cup of tea that's fine, but don't pretend you ever actually gave it a fair chance

I tried about as hard as possible to like FF7, to be honest.

MW2, DOW2, fallout new vegas, even stuff like the latest settlers etc I just found really hard to like.

Halo.
Why the heck is this so hyped, I played it for 2.5 hours, got tired of the constant hype and then played Dark forces.

Runescape
A constant annoyance, why the hell do people still think this game is good. The quest are just now variations on one theme, the skills are a grind and a half, and three quarters of the people on there want to hack you. The developers don't even take responsibility for security leaks.

God, there's so many.

Fallout 3. The Halo games. Deus Ex:HR. System Shock 2. Bioshock. Baldur's Gate 2. Doom 3. Oblivion. Quake 4. Red Faction: Guerrilla. Global Agenda. Trine. DoW 2. The list goes on to games I don't even remember. Most of those I played through to the end just because I wanted to make sure it didn't get awesome later. They didn't.

Burnout from forcing myself to play something I don't like is my number one reason for not finishing games anymore.

Gears Of War.

It just seemed like a over violent TC:R6V2 with a melee button and in the third person the entire game.

Oh yeah did I mention Metroid Other M... or MOM (...seriously, that's the acronym)

It's a Metroid game. I LOVE THE METROID FRANCHISE. Samus is awesome, a lot of mystery to her. A lot of things that could be explained or hinted at.

When you explain a character's back story and you want your character to remain interesting, don't explain everything. Just give us subtle hints or small bits of her history.

Team Ninja really dropped the fething ball on this one. And I don't know what the feth Nintendo was thinking giving the MEtroid game that was suppose to be STORY BASED to TEAM fething NINJA!!!!

Team Ninja is not known for their story telling, believe me.

I tried so hard to get through it, but I couldn't. Everything sucked. Music? GONE. Exploration? GONE. Immersive environments? GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE!!!

It's like, did they just take everything in Metroid that makes it so great and just throw it out the fething window!? WHAT WERE THEY THINKING!?!!?!?

This game hurts me so much, that my avatar mocks this horrible pile of dog gak! FETH THIS GAME!! Just look at my avatar. There you go, that's Metroid Other M.

Bloodbowl for pc

The learning curve is a damn flat wall, and the AI WILL punish your every mistake. The artwork, the models, the setting, it's all great and appeals to me in so many different ways, but why did they make the game so damn hard??? Why???

Maybe I just need to play real people instead of AI.

DickBandit wrote:Oh yeah did I mention Metroid Other M... or MOM (...seriously, that's the acronym)

It's a Metroid game. I LOVE THE METROID FRANCHISE. Samus is awesome, a lot of mystery to her. A lot of things that could be explained or hinted at.

When you explain a character's back story and you want your character to remain interesting, don't explain everything. Just give us subtle hints or small bits of her history.

Team Ninja really dropped the fething ball on this one. And I don't know what the feth Nintendo was thinking giving the MEtroid game that was suppose to be STORY BASED to TEAM fething NINJA!!!!

Team Ninja is not known for their story telling, believe me.

I tried so hard to get through it, but I couldn't. Everything sucked. Music? GONE. Exploration? GONE. Immersive environments? GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE!!!

It's like, did they just take everything in Metroid that makes it so great and just throw it out the fething window!? WHAT WERE THEY THINKING!?!!?!?

This game hurts me so much, that my avatar mocks this horrible pile of dog gak! FETH THIS GAME!! Just look at my avatar. There you go, that's Metroid Other M.

I agree with this completely. I have the Metroid Trilogy limited edition on Wii, and it's great. But the other M? Hell's fires hate no fury like mine for that game...

Necroshea wrote:Bloodbowl for pc

The learning curve is a damn flat wall, and the AI WILL punish your every mistake. The artwork, the models, the setting, it's all great and appeals to me in so many different ways, but why did they make the game so damn hard??? Why???

Maybe I just need to play real people instead of AI.

Oh yeah, I bought it when it first came out. I tried playing through the tournament, but got DECIMATED. That game is brutal.

DickBandit wrote:

Necroshea wrote:Bloodbowl for pc

The learning curve is a damn flat wall, and the AI WILL punish your every mistake. The artwork, the models, the setting, it's all great and appeals to me in so many different ways, but why did they make the game so damn hard??? Why???

Maybe I just need to play real people instead of AI.

Oh yeah, I bought it when it first came out. I tried playing through the tournament, but got DECIMATED. That game is brutal.

Sho nuff'. It's funny, when I play, 9 times out of 10 I'll just forfeit the match. I looked up people opinion on the game, and it seems that it's the same way online. If you start wrecking on someone even moderately, they'll quit the match. I guess I'm not the only one.

Chowderhead wrote:Gears Of War.

It just seemed like a over violent TC:R6V2 with a melee button and in the third person the entire game.

Same, do people solely like it for the chainsaw gun or something?

n0t_u wrote:

Chowderhead wrote:Gears Of War.

It just seemed like a over violent TC:R6V2 with a melee button and in the third person the entire game.

Same, do people solely like it for the chainsaw gun or something?

Decent story, good shooting mechanics, and yes, an assault rifle with a chainsaw on it. That's all I needed to get interested. Rifts did it first, true, but Gears was the first video game I ever saw to fully show one in action.

The second one was ok. More of the same, and with a decent game it's not a bad thing.

Haven't played the third. TBH the overuse of the word "brothers" is starting to sorta creep me out. Battle buddies, got it, but no reason to use the word brothers in ever advertisement.