Games that you cant "get into"

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Ever had one of those games that everyone has told you great things about, but when you play it, you can't get into it?

For me, Far Cry and Metal Gear Solid 2 are the best examples i can think of.

When i first heard of Far Cry was when the demo came out just after New Year last year. Some guys started saying it was great and so much freedom, so i spent the night downloading it. Played it the following day and i was like....."eh". Went over to the Far Cry forums at Ubisoft and read what some people thought of the full version and they were saying its really good, so i thought i'd buy it. Bought it, finished it, and felt....."eh". Ever since then i haven't been able to finish the game again. I keep trying, i've installed it and uninstalled it about 5 times but i just can't get into it. The furthest i can get is the Research level then i can't be stuffed because it becomes so ....lame and annoying.

The other is Metal Gear Solid 2. got the demo of the first game and loved it. Rented the 2nd on Xbox and thought it was lame. That Raiden guy was annoying, then i had to fight some big fat guy on rollerblades and gave up because it was just crap. My little brother played on further and said something about vampires coming into it and i was like ...glad i gave up.
 
I could never really get into The Barbie horse racing simulator series....also I couldn't get into Super Metroid because it was FU*KING HARD but i havent tried since i was like 8 1/2 lol
 
Hmm.....

Never finished Wind Waker. I know, it's supposed to be awesome, but I want badass adult Link!
 
All the time. Almost every game is like that for me.

This is why I don't go by game ratings.

The only thing I know is that I like 1st person shooters,real-time RPG's, and MMORPG's
There are few other types games that are worth buying to me.

Even some FPS games I can't get into like Far Cry

As for the Far Cry demo:

great graphics/ physics.
Stupid, un-fun game.
Waste of time downloading

I agree about metroid prime. Great game but with great flaws.
I HATE lock on targeting, where is the skill in that? I want to aim, I HATE getting lost or looking for the right way, I HATE having to start way back if I die
 
Oh, Metroid Prime is another one. Tedious and dull.
 
yeh but who bought a game cube aanyways? Btw pikmin = Fu*ktarded
 
MarcoPollo said:
yeh but who bought a game cube aanyways? Btw pikmin = Fu*ktarded
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Gamecubes aren't that bad. But in my opinion they're probably Nintendo's worst console
 
yep and i used to be a loyal nintendo use....still have the original mario !!
 
The Chronicles of Riddick: Mint looking game, but it feels like such an effort to play portions of it... infact I'm only about 1/10th of the way through the game and I've had it about 2 months.

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within: I wanted to love this game, I really did.. and although I 'liked' it and did even finish it for a large portion of the game I found myself thinking "meh".

Jedi Knight 2: Didn't get past the third level because I really couldnt be bothered, which is kinda funny cos' I loved Jedi Academy and JK1..

Mario 3: Must have played that game 100 times, but I've never completed it. After a certain amount of play time the game seems very samey and gets a bit dull. Still a good one to go back to though.

Halo: Played both the pc version and the xbox version and I got bored with both of them at the same point.. just after you've rescued the colonel/lieutenant/captain/whatever he is from the covenant ship and u have to make your way back of it I get really bored with the game. With the PC version I did stick with it and play a bit further than that, but never completed it thanks to the 'samey' feel I felt all the way through the game

Mafia: great first few levels, but it gets very dull very fast.

Oh and I thought farcry was great. Cheesy story, but a great game non the less.
 
wats cheesy about it Hes a tourist killing Evil monkies with a razor!!! lololol
 
MarcoPollo said:
wats cheesy about it Hes a tourist killing Evil monkies with a razor!!! lololol
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He aint a tourist, he's some ex military dude working on the boat that gets blown up.
 
Dawn of War, Rome Total War, any WW2 game, civilisation games, sims games, football manager games
 
Knights of the Old Republic
Everybody was (and is) raving about it, but I couldn't be arsed to finish it.

Soldiers: Heroes of World War II
I so wanted to get into this game, but I simply found it too hard

Halo
One of the main reasons I am very reluctant to buy ported games. I was promised tactical gameplay and got a generic shooter.
 
I agree about Kotr and Halo,. ZZzz

but like I said, I have played most all the "best" games highest rated games, etc. and I get bored and never finish any of them except the ones I listed on my favorite games of all time.
Sad really.
 
Mafia, I hear people say it's great, but I just can't get myself to play it.

Same goes for Halo and PoP: Warrior Within. Just... 'eh'.

But I generally don't complete a lot of games, only games in 5 years that I've completed are:

- HL
- Freedom Fighters
- HL2

That's it, and got pretty far with Hitman 2 before 'eh' struck.
 
Halo bored me to tears. No matter how much I played The Temple of Elemental Evil it stayed arms-length from my interest, as did BF:V, Icewind Dale 2, GTAIII (VC was great though!) and probably some others that I just can't remember.

I thought the Metroid Prime games were very engrossing and atmospheric, I bloody love 'em. I thought it would be hard 'not' to get into them, but oh well!
 
MarcoPollo said:
yeh but who bought a game cube aanyways? Btw pikmin = Fu*ktarded
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I hate you.

But anyway I don't finish most games, not becasue I can't get in to them ,but simply lack of time and the fact that some are overwhelming. I like to play cs and gba gameso n emu, simplye because I can get in and out fast and still accomplish something, but lets say far cry, the game takes 5 min to load a level even, or swkotor, definatly the best rpg, but it's just so overwhelming with options and beauty, same go's for commandos 2.

Unfortunatly I have the same thing with movies, I bought x-man2 and changing lanes, now i have watched x-man but not changing lanes, simply because I expect so much from it, but I know I really have to sit down, and make alot time for it which I don't have, where as for x-man, it's just something in between, and if I have to stop watching I won't mind.

I guess for me it is how much a game demands from you, if you really have to put a lot of time and a lot of concentration for it, I unfortunatly won't play it through most of the time.
 
I have about 200 games (pc, gc, ps2, ps, xbox, snes, md, etc) and if i had to guess, on average I have only probably played about 10% of the game.
c&c generals played about 10 minutes, silent hill 2 an hour, kotor about 2 hours. Honestly there is probably two or more games that i have not even played. I normally just rent a game, if i like it i then buy it and never play it.
 
I don't really like Pikmin either, very boring.

but also

Resident Evil : Code Veronica, The Legend of Zelda : Wind Waker (not that good imho) and Morrowind, which I thought was mind-numbingly boring. Don't say "Well download all the extra content!" because most of it requires both expansion packs and I'm not going to spend more money on that piece of crap.
 
UT series. Not big on those style of games in general.
 
Sparta said:
Gamecubes aren't that bad. But in my opinion they're probably Nintendo's worst console
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I actually agree with this (but still rate the GC above the PS2 and Xbox)

//back on topic

Doom 3 I couldn't 'get'. Cheap shocks, dull gameplay. It actually managed to take first person shooter genre a step back imo. Aside from the name, Doom 3 is nothing like the originals (change a few models and it could be any generic fps, but with pretty gfx) and wasn't nearly as fun.

I've had 3 attempts at the game - and have given up out of shear boredom each time.
 
Half-Life 2. Yeah, really. Like anyone else, I played through it in a few days, but I just didn't 'feel; it.
I just finished my third play through last night, and I am starting to get into it properly now...
 
Doom 3- At first I was really into it, getting myself built up for it, but the same scare over and over just gets boring.

Far Cry- I just ran around shooting and looking at the nice gfx, didn't really get into it though, musta been why I didn't like it.
 
Halo and Halo 2. Okay, so the first few hours of each are relatively fun, but after a while it just feels like a chore; that you've got to finish it just because it's the Halo series.

More recently I found myself quitting the Republic Commando demo after about 10 or 15 minutes - the fighting is dull, and it all feels so 'done before', there's no innovation or originality.

Oh, and any sports game.
 
I had that feeling with HL2. I never really got the feeling that I was playing the game I was extremely exited about... It felt like an average shooter... pitty. I loved the new elements though (physics, gravity gun, facial animations, etc). I just didn't like the linearity (sp?) of HL2. There allways was one way to go.
 
Halo: Meh... It's like taking a sleeping pill. ZzzZZzz... :dozey:

D-Day: Were really hyped by this game, then after I tested the demo I got major disappointed. My computed didn't like it either so it crashed after 10 minutes.
 
The Sims. Part of me desperately wants to like the game, but it seemed so superficial and deeply repeatative that I just couldn't take any more. First game I think I ever sold out of dislike for it.

As for the Far Cry demo, actually playing the retail game eased me into it far, far better. The demo kind of just plonks you in the middle of nowhere and says "have fun". In context in the game, that mission was far, far easier. If i'd gone on what I played in the demo, as opposed to all the positive feedback i've heard on it, I'd never have brought it. That said, I got stuck about 10 missions in and since progressing to the next mission from there recently, I haven't loaded it up again. It's overrated, but not a game that I "can't get into".
 
Far Cry, simply because it raped my graphics card, but looked so beautiful and i couldnt get to grips with the combat and openess of it. Watching my friend play it was good fun though lol, he got the hang of it, and is probably a better fps gamer than me :)

Kotor. Got up to a point and lost my saves, could never get back into it. although it gives you options i found it far too repeatative... doing the same missions in the same order, killing the same people in the same way. Got bored quickly, although the story and graphics were good.

Halo. zzzzzZzzzzZZZZZzzzzzz, 'nuff said.
 
Erm Hl2...
/me runs, I got up to that bit with all the zombies but then well TFC called and I continued my addiction for it and I haven't picked up TFC again since.

Halo, because it is only good 2 player it seems....

Prince of persia: Warrior within, It's good but GTA:SA is more tempting even if im just flying planes around randomly and jumping out into restricted areas and stuff
 
halo series, way too ******ish for me. i mean, pink guns.

also i can't get into first person shooters in which you move at the speed of a snail only to die from two gunshots. far from my idea of fun
 
FF9. I have a feeling some people may want to gut me viciously now. :D

But seriously, I simply cannot get into an RPG if I don't get into the story, and FF9 is a pretty good example. I get past the first forest bit, and then lose all interest entirely. Though some of the characters are cool, and the whole opening bit before the forest was a great laugh. :)

Another is Planescape:Torment. I just get bored to tears in the first area for some reason. I'm not saying either of these games are bad, I just can't get into them at all.
 
The Sims, most RPG's, and strategy games.
 
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