Current Events > Games you REALLY want to like but just can't?

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For me:
DA Inquisition
Hades
Jedi Fallen Order

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Dead Rising 2 (the time crunch gives me anxiety)
Act of Aggression (it's like a spiritual successor to Act of War, except they got rid of certain mechanics like unit veterancy and that always bugged me >_>).

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Fire Emblem

It should be right up my alley, but I just don't like the series

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BotW
Smash (all of them)
Fortnite

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Assassins Creed series

I've played 1, 2, and an hour or two of Black Flag and I could never get in to them. However, Valhalla looks REALLY good and the setting i'm really interested in so I will give it another shot once my PS5 gets here.

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Alien Isolation, I posted this on the PS4 and made everyone cry ( ;_;)

Usually Im into surv. horror anything but this game just starts off so incredibly slow and drags out what its trying to scare you with for so long that I just found it incredibly boring and a total slog to get through tbh

I still might give it a go

Same with Outlast 2, I lived the first one - but playing a sequel where Im still having to hunt down batteries or try and manage a battery system is just wack.. havent gotten around to beating that >_>

WrkHrdPlayHrdr posted...

Assassins Creed series

I've played 1, 2, and an hour or two of Black Flag and I could never get in to them. However, Valhalla looks REALLY good and the setting i'm really interested in so I will give it another shot once my PS5 gets here.

I got really far in Odyssey but I always get bored in AC games. And in Odyssey there's just WAY too much shit to do. I was about 70 hours in and still only explored about 60% of the locations

FrankJaegr posted...

Alien Isolation, I posted this on the PS4 and made everyone cry ( ;_;)

Usually Im into surv. horror anything but this game just starts off so incredibly slow and drags out what its trying to scare you with for so long that I just found it incredibly boring and a total slog to get through tbh

I still might give it a go

Same with Outlast 2, I lived the first one - but playing a sequel where Im still having to hunt down batteries or try and manage a battery system is just wack.. havent gotten around to beating that >_>

I actually loved the concept and atmosphere of AI, but I can't play it because it is legitimately too scary. I always get to around the same part and I have to put it down because the xeno is absolutely terrifying.

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Dragon Age
Dead Rising

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Hollow Knight

Wandering around not sure where to go wouldnt be so bad if I didnt feel so weak despite my progress, so each encounter with even basic enemies really feels life or death.
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iPhone_7 posted...

Dragon Age

which one?


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WrkHrdPlayHrdr posted...

Assassins Creed series

I've played 1, 2, and an hour or two of Black Flag and I could never get in to them. However, Valhalla looks REALLY good and the setting i'm really interested in so I will give it another shot once my PS5 gets here.

You should check out the series again if you like open world action/adventure RPGs. Origins, Odyssey and now Valhalla are radically different from the previous games, with a bigger emphasis on RPG-style questing and skill progression and gear management (though the gear management in Origins and Odyssey was... kinda trash, don't know how it is in Valhalla).

Also has basically nothing to do with the Assassins any more. Well, Origins sets up the background for the organization itself and there's one DLC with some hamfisted fan service references and another DLC with some really beautiful imagery of different interpretations of the afterlife according to Egyptian mythology. Odyssey though... basically nothing outside of some of the technologies they show.

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Horizon Zero Dawn - I have started a new game at least four times and after the proving I stop to play something else each time

Resident Evil 3 - Nemesis is an annoying douche. Mr X was better


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Can't think of any. If I don't like it, I don't like it. Why would I want to like it?

Oh Final Fantasy XIV is another one. I love the graphics, the monster designs, the world, the music especially. But I lose interest after a couple of weeks.

Same with most MMOs :( Project Gorgon is another really awesome little gem but I don't have the willpower to get into it.

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AvlButtslam posted...

Hollow Knight

Wandering around not sure where to go wouldnt be so bad if I didnt feel so weak despite my progress, so each encounter with even basic enemies really feels life or death.

You're playing the wrong way lmao. You can buy countless upgrades that improve maps, give you markers, etc.

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Eliza3 posted...

I got really far in Odyssey but I always get bored in AC games. And in Odyssey there's just WAY too much shit to do. I was about 70 hours in and still only explored about 60% of the locations

I actually loved the concept and atmosphere of AI, but I can't play it because it is legitimately too scary. I always get to around the same part and I have to put it down because the xeno is absolutely terrifying.

Maybe its because I played it right after I had played SOMA >_> now that was the game I was expecting Alien to be

I was just like gib me scary already D:

Ill give it a shot again eventually, usually I like to wait a bit when its a game I dont enjoy to have a fresh perspective on it

Hexenherz posted...

You should check out the series again if you like open world action/adventure RPGs. Origins, Odyssey and now Valhalla are radically different from the previous games, with a bigger emphasis on RPG-style questing and skill progression and gear management (though the gear management in Origins and Odyssey was... kinda trash, don't know how it is in Valhalla).

Also has basically nothing to do with the Assassins any more. Well, Origins sets up the background for the organization itself and there's one DLC with some hamfisted fan service references and another DLC with some really beautiful imagery of different interpretations of the afterlife according to Egyptian mythology. Odyssey though... basically nothing outside of some of the technologies they show.

Might have to give them a shot >_>

I really dig the actual historical elements they implement into the games.. I may even go as far as to say that I really, genuinely enjoyed ACIII despite it being a suckfest and having all those weird Desmond parts I didnt care about

then they had the pirate AC, the London AC, and then some other one (PSP maybe?) iirc before Origins >_>

Origins looked pretty cool, so did the Greek one <_<

any given Xenoblade.

@FrankJaegr I liked the Desmond parts :(

It is definitely really exciting exploring ancient Egypt. I especially loved the Curse of the Pharaoh DLC, had some really beautiful scenery that I had only ever seen before in The Secret World (and it was really interesting seeing the contrast in the two interpretations of the City of the Sun God). For some reason ancient Greece didn't do it for me. The proportions of everything felt off and it ruined some of the immersion and graphical fidelity for me (I felt like I was 2 feet tall in this world). It was still a fun game, just an example of way too much content. Like. A lot.

After 3 you had 4 (Black Flag) and Rogue, which both played pretty similarly (open world sailing and ship combat, lots of smaller areas to explore). I preferred Rogue but everyone goes crazy about Black Flag. They both serve as prequels to 3, giving backstory to the characters and events there. I thought Rogue's story was more compelling though just because it tied in better to the stuff in 3; the reference in 4 felt like afterthoughts >_>

There was also Liberty which was like a companion to 3, that was on the PSP or some other Sony handheld - it did get ported to other platforms eventually. It actually wasn't terrible, just the lack of fast travel and the movement speed added like 40% to the overall play time I think.

Then you had Unity (19th century France), Syndicate (London) and the Chronicles (2d platformers in China, Russia and... Japan? idfk).

edit: Another reason I liked Origins more is just that Bayek and his story are more compelling to me. I played as Kassandra in Odyssey and she was a fun personality but the story just wasn't there.

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New Vegas. Seems like I'd get to see some pretty cool shit if I ever got into it, but everything feels so dull, so I never make it far into a playthrough.

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Hexenherz posted...

I felt like I was 2 feet tall in this world

Lmao??? >____>

thats something to look forward to heh but I guess Ill go with Origins since I was already leaning towards it

I think the PSP games might be pretty cool so I think Ill do those first before tackling all the console ones I missed <_<

probably gonna take me forever ._.

I don't think the Chronicles games are too long.

Honestly I blasted through the series last year >_> they're not too long if you're just focusing on the story and ignore the side content.

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Xenoblade
Dragon Quest
Red Dead 2

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Hollow Knight for me too.

I love Metroidvania games but I just can't find anything enjoyable about Hollow Knight. The difficulty isn't a problem, there's just something that makes me dislike the game. I want to like it, it should probably be my favorite game...

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Seitar posted...

The difficulty isn't a problem, there's just something that makes me dislike the game.

The areas are all samey, and it's vastly too easy to get lost even after stumbling upon the map guy.
Also checkpoint starvation.

Have you considered La Mulana?

Final Fantasy Tactics. Don't know why, but I just can't get into that game, despite loving FF and Srpgs.

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I think that's where I'm at with Star Renegades. I played like 8 hours but just decided that I was tired of grinding my way up that hill.

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KeeperOfShadows posted...

Final Fantasy Tactics. Don't know why, but I just can't get into that game, despite loving FF and Srpgs.

OMG. How many times have you tried and whats the farthest youve gotten?

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The OG Fallouts. I grew up playing the original Baldur's Gate, so bad UI I can get past it (and thought I could tolerate Fallout's) but dear god the one in Fallout/2 is just so painstakingly bad I just can't, no matter how good the games might actually be.

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Crash 4

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Breath of the Wild

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Majora's Mask. I beat it but the time management thing just isn't for me.
Also found the dungeons kinda meh overall. I hate the Great Bay Temple.

God of War (2018). All the RPG-light elements like gear upgrades and such are so god damn monotonous, overcomplicated and out of place. I just can't force myself to finish it.

I own every game in the Souls series and havent finished any of them because Im a fucking idiot with money

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Eliza3 posted...

OMG. How many times have you tried and whats the farthest youve gotten?

Couldn't say how many times I've tried. Farthest I've gotten was somewhere in chapter 2, iirc.

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Grim Dawn

League of Legends and Dota 2

just couldnt get into them for some reason...

God Of War 2018. Combat is fun, but I'm not big on the leveling system or how they made you go around an open world in that shitty boat. I think that's one game that would benefit from being more linier.

FFVIII

It's a Final Fantasy and I love Final Fantasy, but VIII is just awful.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

Have you considered La Mulana?

Oh thanks for reminding me!

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I also really wanna like FF15 because I have it, and its beautiful. I like the main cast. But its just shit

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Pokemon

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RDR2

It's fun when stuff is happening but it's a combination of too slow and too big to me. I'll keep giving it a shot now and again though.

witcher 3

Prey. I just can't get into it. Looks really good though.

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Elder Scroll series. I should love them but I get up to 10 hours in and just drop it. I should like it because I have a ton of hours in all the 3d fallouts. It's just the setting doesnt do it for me.

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Smackems posted...

Pokemon

Oh yea this too. I cant play Pokmon games anymore. Theyre too childish for me now sadly. I used to love them.

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Pokemon's a good call. I used to have a lot more patience for grinding and collecting characters and stuff but after playing through a couple of the games I just don't have the patience any more for that :(

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