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Feth the chainsaw gun (Lancer), charging people screaming bloody murder and then stabbing them in the gut (retro lancer) and throwing them across the room is where it's at. Chainsaws are for people who can't do the heavy lifting! Of course, I'm not sure how long this game will last with me, probably end up trading it in for Dark Souls or something.

For games I tried hard to like:

Space Marine. I liked it when I started, but after a few days I found I didn't care for it at all. /shrug

Dwarf Fortress. I can the keys going; "but there's a steep learning curve". Yeah, I know, I've experienced the climb. I've spent the last few weeks trying and trying to get into after the reviews people give it, but I simply can't. The idea is fantastic, it's my dream game, a full kingdom simulator where you control almost everything, but there's three main barriers. The UI, the graphics, and the difficulty.
The UI is horrendous and often confusing, the game NEEDS some sort of Mouse support or better menus. Some people seem to get on easy enough with it, so it's probably just me being too used to easy UI's like Sins of a Solar Empire or Console shooters.
Whilst the graphics may be part of the 'charm', I hate them. Even with tilesets, they're just bad. Yes, I know there's only two/three people working on the game in their spare time, and I wouldn't blame them, but I'm far too used to fancy console graphics. The Z-levels don't help. They're probably the most irritating thing about the game. A 3-D team presented in 2-D just doesn't work in my opinion. Even Minecraft blocky graphics would be good with me.
The difficulty is the final barrier, but maybe it would be easier if the previous two were crossed.

EvE online. I love the idea of a space-based MMO, but the learning curve is closer to a vertical line.

Cerebrium wrote:EvE online. I love the idea of a space-based MMO, but the learning curve is closer to a vertical line.

The mistake you made is one all EVE players do.

Thinking there was a learning curve. No, they just put you up against a wall and shoot you.

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.

Ha I got it this weekend. I managed to get it after 3 games. 2nd game I managed to draw and the 3rd I won. But yeah that game is fun, but christ it is tough. I thought I was just bad at the game because I was struggling so much to pull a win in one of the early tournaments. Guess I wasn't alone.

Still can't beat the Lizardmen forces though. Those Kroxigor are stronger than most other stuff and they field alot of them

Oblivion and Gears of War series.

Going to add Blood Bowl here... I just... I don't even know what the hell you're supposed to do... I did the tutorial (absolutely pointless thanks to the linearity of it and the fact it doesn't go past the second turn, so you try a real game and suddenly find yourself thrown in at the deep end when the AI isn't as crap as it was in the tutorial and when you find out that you don't know what the hell to do after the first turn) and still, nothing.

It's honestly like banging my skull against a brick wall, no matter how much I do it, the wall isn't going to break, and i'm just going to get pissed off and come away with a eadache.

Dead Rising 2. I just found the combat mechanics too strange.

Avatar 720 wrote:Going to add Blood Bowl here... I just... I don't even know what the hell you're supposed to do... I did the tutorial (absolutely pointless thanks to the linearity of it and the fact it doesn't go past the second turn, so you try a real game and suddenly find yourself thrown in at the deep end when the AI isn't as crap as it was in the tutorial and when you find out that you don't know what the hell to do after the first turn) and still, nothing.

It's honestly like banging my skull against a brick wall, no matter how much I do it, the wall isn't going to break, and i'm just going to get pissed off and come away with a eadache.

Hahaha, me too. I got suckered in by Steam's $8 deal this weekend and I want to hurl my monitor into the wall. This fething game is RELENTLESS!!!

The Dead Rising Games; Zombies. In a mall. Oh HELL Yes! But for some reason, it just didn't click with me.

Fighting games. I really, really, REALLY want to like them. I do. I was playing Mortal Kombat when I was three, and I love the series even now. But getting juggled for 75% of your health, verbally abused, and then being told that "Your a total noob!" for GRAAAAH! *Facedesk Facedesk Facedesk* I love the concept, but hate the players.

Assassin's Creed. I loved the first one, despite it's many problems, due to the unique feel of actually stalking your prey before you assassinated them. Since that was removed for the sequals, the series lost all interest for me.

BF3....................................
Nah seriously probably Fallout 3. I played it for a few hours, died fighting some scorpion, and never played it again (not to mention spending most the early playtime running from high level creatures).

Honourable mention goes to Littlebigplanet.

EDIT: Forgot about Risen. WTF is with that game? The combat consisted of blocking for 30 seconds, countering, maybe getting in 3 hits and blocking again. If you had even in a minor lapse in concetration alot of enemies could kill you in one go. It was a relentless slog of a game, it was reminiscent of the beginning of morrowind but at least in that you didnt have to wait long to get(steal) some decent kit and properly get going.

Man this makes me feel old.. but

Daikatana.

Though since then I've generally been pretty good at judging what I'll like or not.
Recent exceptions being Bayonetta and to a degree, Halo: Reach.

Marvel Vs Capcom 3

Just... feth. The online multiplayer pisses me off.

I take the time to learn all the moves and combos, and how to use them. But none of that matters because some donkey-cave is spamming Deadpool's handgun attack. It's ridiculous.


That and Dr. Claw's Dump N' Pump

Team fortress two, I don't hate it I just don't really enjoy it despite my many attempts to get into it.

I do love the style and the "meet the X" videos though.

Final Fantasy X. It's the only FF game I really played, and I wanted to like it, but I got to the first Blitzball part and just stopped caring.

Various MMOs, but especially Champions Online. I wanted so badly for Champions Online to be good, and I played the last part of the open beta quite a lot, but I really couldn't find a single redeeming quality to the game. It's F2P now, and it's still not worth it.

I wanted to like final fantasy x but most of the time i was to busy muting my tv to actually play the game. Next time don't get annoying voice actors for your fething main character >_>

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Not only was the gameplay mediocre, the story kind of "WTF"ish (though I guess a lot of JRPGs are like that), and the Sphere system very unintuitive and kind of confusing, but the voice acting was also abysmal.

Also forgot F3. I can't for the life of me get into it. If at any point I deviate from the main quest, I usually end up being chased across the Wasteland by something i've no hope of defeating, normally a Deathclaw.

Avatar 720 wrote:Also forgot F3. I can't for the life of me get into it. If at any point I deviate from the main quest, I usually end up being chased across the Wasteland by something i've no hope of defeating, normally a Deathclaw.

Stay away from the north east in Fallout 3, Old Olney especially. Imagine Deathclaws in a sewer, not really fun.

The Beta for BF3....I've never been so enraged at a video game in my life. I LOVE the realism to the weapons, but the "health" system just pisses me off. Plus, I hate playing Rush.

After about three hours of playtime, I deleted it.

Gears of War - not a fan of the cover system, I like the crazy 'ya! charge' fps shooters, using cover when it suits you, not all the time or you die.

Blood Bowl on the xbox - damn I tied, I really did, multiple tries, but the AI is so awful it just gets to annoying the hell out of you eventually. Its either too damn easy that its boring, or its breaking the rules of chance left right and centre.
Hell like my last game, where nine, count em, nine Humans dodged multiple times through my Dark Elf team in one turn. I sat there and pondered 'and I thought I was the Elf team.'

Plus on the xbox it has no online leagues so I don't even have the saving grace of not facing the AI in a league format, so yeah, total fail, they didn't even bother to release the second one on the xbox.

Space Marine - just didn't like the health system, and in general found it dull fast.

Resident Evil 4 - not sure what it was, never got into it, and found it too quick for my tastes. I love survival horror, but I prefer it to be more scare/story based than action, hence why my fave Resi game is Resi 2, and I prefer Silent Hill over the Resident Evil franchise.

Golden Eye - never got it, thought it looked awful and at the time I was playing Doom on the PS1 which I found much more fun.

Doom3 - no, no no, I didn't want a torchlight and a Half Life clone with Demons, just up the graphics engine and crank out mobs rushing me to eleven. Thats all I wanted, sadly I doubt I'll ever see it. Will watch out for Doom 4, but I suspect it will be more of the same.

City of Heroes - I wanted to like it, my friends rave about it all the time, but I just hate the UI, I hate the slow pace of combat, and I don't like the blockiness of the character models.
Diablo II - Though admittedly I feel like the game is just showing its age, I just can't get into D2. Almost every time I play, it becomes a game of "Find what single ability is broken and abuse it".
Super Meat Boy - Now, I actually enjoyed the first world of this game. It was difficult, it was challenging, but it wasn't frustratingly so. Then I hit the second world, and spent a full 10 minutes trying to get past the first maybe 5-10 seconds of the first level. It was at that point I said "y'know, this is over the top difficult, screw this game."
Terraria - My friends all hype this game, and I see so many positive reviews. But the teeny tiny size of the blocks just makes me want to switch back to the glorious blockiness of Minecraft.

Assassin's Creed (The original, not the later games) - Oddly enough, for the exact opposite reason that Slarg232 posted. I hated the stalking the prey parts of Assassin's Creed. I play most games for the deep story, and failing that, for the addictive gameplay. As neat as the story was, it was dry as heck until the finale (they basically revealed who your targets were in the first hour, then had 10 hours of methodically taking them out one by one, with no real escalating story between them). And the gameplay, while very well-executed, never actually changed throughout all nine assassination memories, consisting of "do X missions, save X citizens, and find X synchronize points".

I loved how the second game introduced a plot and story that kept unwinding throughout the game, how you could actually upgrade your equipment into better gear, and especially how Ezio had an actual interesting personality. I was thrown for an absolute loop when I played Brotherhood and found that Ezio was actually a wise, rational man after his experiences in Assassin's Creed II.

By the way, I wanna say that I love how much hate that Blood Bowl is getting in this thread, and yet I find the game laughably easy fighting against the AI. While they start outright loading the dice at some point (I charge my big nasty into an enemy, getting 3 dice rolled in my favor...and 3 "attacker down" results come up. ), throwing all strategy out the window and just bum-rushing your enemy will usually bring you success.

And at the OP: I do agree with you on Dragon Age: Origins. When the game first came out, all my friends were like "This is the greatest RPG I've ever played," and so I gave it a try. After a few fights, I was very meh about the game. After the first couple of times that I detected a trap, went to disarm it, and my teammates immediately charged across the tripwire to engage enemies on the other side, I gave up. A while after Dragon Age 2 came out, I gave it another go, playing on easy this time (where your teammates' complete lack of intelligence doesn't hinder you as much) and found the story to be quite epic in scale, with all kinds of interesting moral choices throughout the game.

I dont find it surprising that Dragon age is in this thread. Critically it was fairly called out on its atrocious bugs and shallow combat.

I am actually interested in the second and will probably get it next time i see it cheap. (I dont think there is such a gap between console and pc versions). It appears to be a tighter more focused experience with less bugs and a more ineresting story.

ME2. I just hate it. The game play was solid, but I never played Bioware games for game play. ME2 was a mass collection of side quests with something masquerading as a main quest. It annoyed the heck out of me.

DA2 had this even worst. There wasn't even an apparent storyline in the game. More like, a mass collection of sub plots.

Others: BLOPS, MW2, Fallout 3, and I second Bloodbowl. I liked it, but the game was unforgiving since the dice rolls weren't really random.

Half life series. I don't really hate it, just can't see why everyone raves about it.

Farcry 2... I have said this on many other (one) other forum(s) and so I shall say it again.

Spoilers cause ya'll are a bunch of babies when it comes to CAPS



Cost me 60 bucks new, brought it back and gamestop offered to by it for 17.

Locclo wrote:By the way, I wanna say that I love how much hate that Blood Bowl is getting in this thread, and yet I find the game laughably easy fighting against the AI. While they start outright loading the dice at some point (I charge my big nasty into an enemy, getting 3 dice rolled in my favor...and 3 "attacker down" results come up. ), throwing all strategy out the window and just bum-rushing your enemy will usually bring you success

I really don't think that ever works. I spent a good deal of time using an ogre team. What happened all the time? I got stomped in CC. Every.single.time.

If I go first, I attempt a blitz during my turn, that gets thrown in my face, turnover. Their turn, they just drop my players one by one or succeed at every dodge check. I'm not a pro at the game, but I've got positioning down and all that, but just rushing NEVER works. The only games I've won were in real time mode, and even then it felt waaaaaay too easy.

I can win, but it feels too much like a chore, for every Badly hurt or kill that makes you go yes. You watch another apothecary roll mean nothing as it either exactly the same roll, or if its nice it'll let a dead become a badly hurt. Where as nomally there is a fair chance the player will be back on the pitch when you use an apothecary in the board game.

Scoring isn't hard either, however if the PC wants to score there is little you can do to stop it. It makes insane rolls, and then when its you turn you often tunrover on your first 'safe' roll, where odds of success greatly outweigh the failiure.
Like using a Ogre with two or three dice and getting two/three both down/skull rolls.

All the normal tactics of the game, blocking, holding field postion mean pretty much nothing when a load of players dodge through your guys some with -2 Agility roll, and get a block in on your ball carrier, because you are one or two TD's up.

I've played about sixteen games since I got it, won around half of those, barely enjoyed any of them. The only time the game is fun is against other players, as the random generator seems more fluid. Sadly it seems their idea of AI difficulty meant 'fudging rolls' which in a game like Blood Bowl is a criminal way to design the AI.

I never got the hype behind the halo games. i started to play halo 3 and sorta enjoyed it but then forgot about it soon after. then halo-reach came out and i thought that might help me become intarested in halo agen. i sat down realy enthusiastic and stood up 3hrs later disapointed at the mediocre experience i had just paid £40 for and said this im goin to play battlefeild. everything halo has done has been done before and better. my frend was on the verge of suicide because his copy arived 3 days late. thay then convinced me to play its multiplayer, but i dont give a rats-arse about multi player unless a game can stand up on its campaine (which is why i no longer play call of duty) and reach most defanetly can not. so in other words bungie can go themselfs if thay think im paying for a halo game agen.

NOTE-mabie i did get a bit worked up but now at least i can say this without geting bombarded by weak excusises and acusations about being bad at games.

Halo 1 was good, and had a decent story. I also got behind the books, so the universe was fleshed out and stuff made somewhat more sense. Playing 3 off the bat, without playing 1 and 2 is kinda like jumping in 2/3rds (or technically 3/4s cos it references the books a lot too..) of the way into a film. ODST was also pretty good fun

Reach was kind of weak though, I've had it since release and still havent finished what feels like a lacklaster campaign..

Maybe the army is what's affecting our different results? I play Chaos Beastmen, whose sole strategy is to bum-rush the enemy, throwing all strategy out the window, and I win nearly every time. Even when the enemy does get stupidly lucky with dice rolls, I generally have times when I'll turn up some luck of my own and just knock down every enemy player in one round. I wanna say that it's hilarious playing against Goblins, because I've had games where, by the end of the game, I have injured/wounded all but 4 members of the team with no chance of getting back into the brawl.