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[CyanideFuse]

Dread is probably a little strong but...

I know the title sounds like a contradiction so perhaps a better way of expressing it is: Do you dread playing a game until you are warmed up with it?

Wonderful 101 is that game for me as well as online FPS games. I always hate the process of waiting for a game to load and waiting in a lobby. Once I am into the game I am okay. It is sort of like pre-match nerves I suppose.

Perhaps I am just an idiot that has created a problem for myself.

 

[TheAngryMonkey]

Titanfall. I don't know if I'm going to have fun or rage.

 

[graffix13]

I was like this for Dragon's Crown a few months ago.

After falling asleep 3 separate times playing the game, I realized that I just didn't enjoy the game.

I have friends that love the game, but it's just not for me.

 

[The_Poet]

I play CS:GO because I have friends that play it and its a good laugh playing it with them.

The game by itself isn't particularly fun though.

 

[slash3584]

Titanfall. I don't know if I'm going to have fun or rage.

This

 

[Noaloha]

SF4 online, I ain't great and I know going into it that it's 50/50 whether I'll come out of the session heart racing and seething at the world. Not sure what it is about that game but sometimes it makes me real pissed off (pissed at myself, note).

Civ5/EU4/etc, simply because I worry about how long I'll end up playing. The will is weak and the sun will rise.

 

[Stormus]

The original Dead Space. Great game, but I'd about soil myself every time I played.

 

[Acquiescence]

Any good survival-horror. Silent Hill 2 is one of my favourite games, but I find it so unnerving to play that I do actually dread putting the disc into my PS2 at times.

 

[HiiiLife]

Destiny.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

Half Life 2.

Nausea. : /

 

[Windpower]

Wonderful 101. Excellent production but even on normal/easy settings, seems the game just does something wonky as shit sometimes when you try to counter/make a ladder/draw/etc

 

[Goldenroad]

Dark Souls II.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not on the hate wagon at all when it comes to this game, but I'm at the final boss(es) and they are just wiping the floor with me the second I walk in the room. I've got to finish the game, but I know I'm in for some pain before I get to that light at the end of the tunnel. The last bit of the first Dark Souls had the same impact on me, but I pushed through.

 

[killatopak]

Disgaea.

I still love it but it eats up time so much. I shudder to replay it after I maxed everything the first time.

 

[JeTmAn81]

Back in the day, Alien Vs. Predator on PC. I just couldn't handle the facehuggers, man.

 

[theechrisfox]

Metroid Prime. The atmosphere is fantastic and the gameplay is fun as hell but I'm too used to games where you can save anywhere. I play in short burst sessions so I don't want to be forced to shut the game off quick without saving and lose progress.

 

[Valkerionseven]

Star Ocean: The Last Hope

I really like this game, I do, but the characters Sarah and Lymel are fucking aweful. 3 fucking "kawaii desu~" characters in one game.... that are not optional... get that out of here please. Cut scenes are weirdly motion capped, over reactions everywhere. Poorly written, drawn out to amazing lengths for no real reason, and the voices are mostly bad all over no matter what language its in. The main character cannot decide what age he is at all clearly going from excited teenager to super deep voice manly guy when angry randomly. The odd "kay~" inflection added to the english version stiff baffles me because its not in the Japanese version. Also generally lack any music in them which is just awkward. and so on.

Then there is the game play. The maps in the game are freaking massive! Minutes to get through if you skip monsters, hours if you fight them. Of course there is no fast travel or an item to take you to a town right away for w/e area you are in. Wanna go to that third town, have to walk ALL the way there because the ship you come on is placed SUPER far from towns every time.

Combat, has so much potential but has tons of weird quirks for no reason. Quick rise, nope. Able to pick targets, Ha why would a player want to do that!? We got preemptive strikes on enemies, but guess what player our battlefields are so huge that by time you make it to an enemy they are able to act making it completely pointless to have this mechanic! Blocking? random stat, because it makes sense that way. and more.

It's basically the Star Ocean game I wanted since I started the franchise story wise, until the end, but its bogged down by so many stupid decisions, mechanics that are archaic even by SNES/PS1 RPG standards, and generally a bunch of clearly half though out decisions about the entire experience.

I like and hate this game at the same time for some reason.

Ranty post because I'm clearly playing through it right now haha.

 

[TetraGenesis]

This isn't exactly what you're after but just a little while ago P.T. was that game.

 

[RP912]

Skyrim. One minute I'm trying to have a session. The next minute I just don't feel like roaming skyrim at night.

 

[Dr. Buni]

Side Scrolling Platformers in general. I love the genre and some of my favorite games are Platformers, but for the past few years I can't bring myself to play one without getting bored.

 

[chrominance]

Xenoblade has been so successful in this regard that I've not played it in two years and I don't know when I'll ever return.

Batman: Arkham City isn't quite there yet, mostly because I don't know if I enjoy it enough for it to make this list. I've definitely stopped playing it at least twice, though. It seems like a good game and I do enjoy the time I have with it, it's just all too easy to stop playing and I don't care about the Batman rogue's gallery at all so there's no story hook to keep me playing.

 

[Kain]

Horror games like Silent Hill. Love the atmosphere, the puzzles, music and story of horror games, but I can't for the live of me play them.

I just don't enjoy playing horror games. I love watching them, though.

 

[Piano]

Civilization V. I don't know if I'm going to end up putting in 30 minutes or 6 hours.

 

[FloatOn]

XCOM EU

I put something like 19 hours into it. Now I'm at a roadblock and want to play more but it's so damn stressful.

 

[cnorwood]

Dragons dogma before getting leveled up enough to not die all the time.

 

[VicDaMoan03]

Skyrim. I love the game but dread playing it.

 

[backflip10019]

I enjoyed my time with Dark Souls (about two hours) and understand why people like it so much, but I dread ever going back to it. Got stuck at the Taurus Demon (died to him probably 7 times) and didn't have the patience for it. I just don't have time to go through the game at such a snail's pace.

 

[Noble Neckbeard]

Hearthstone. Playing constructed to get gold so I can play the mode I actually care about (Arena) is a real drag.

 

[ScionOfTheRisingSun]

Any Japanese games of the Devil May Cry template. Beating those on normal always feels like a tutorial to me because you have to invest so much time in them before you understand all the millions of systems, enemy patterns and combos. And until you do, playing them is not fun because you feel so useless as opposed to empowered when you've got everything down.

I loved Bayonetta but the sheer amount of mechanics and weapons in the game scared me off going in for subsequent playthroughs.

I guess I'll give it another go when the Wii U version hits.

 

[IV Wolfe VI]

Destiny. Such a grind

 

[Sephzilla]

Amnesia

 

[Interfectum]

Dota 2 ranked match after I randomed a popular carry.

 

[TransientDreamer]

I liked the later iterations of Assassin's Creed like III and IV. Everything was pretty enjoyable until I had to do a ridiculous stealth or eavesdropping mission.

 

[Fraktruck]

for me its DOTA2 (or really any competitive multiplayer game). Combination of nerves, fear of sucking, and the sunk time

 

[ahoyhoy]

LoL for me when I played it regularly. Rarely was I excited when I queued up for a game (especially when I was queuing up with strangers). Instead of thinking about how much fun/interesting a game is going to be, usually I just contemplated all the ways I could fuck up a match while trying to grind IP for a new champion.

 

[YesManKablam]

Steins;Gate

I suffered 3 anxiety attacks while playing the game. Even during parts of the game where nothing is really happening, I would feel anxious and unable to stay calm. Got all the way to the epilogue before having to stop, in fear that I would actually die.


Game of the Year.

 

[jroc74]

Horror games like Silent Hill. Love the atmosphere, the puzzles, music and story of horror games, but I can't for the live of me play them.

I just don't enjoy playing horror games. I love watching them, though.

I can play them but the setting has to be right, which is in the morning in a bright room...lol. For some reason I wait for Sundays...like thats gonna help calm me down.

Demons Souls is a game I dread playing because of the start over factor. Dead Rising for the 360 too. And Ninja Blade?

Also any online sports game for the me sucking factor and spamming, cheating. I used to dread co op FPS online, but I learned to play better and I am the ultimate team player.....waiting to see what the other guy's course of action is and assisting. If I know a better solution then I jump ahead but most of the time I do the following.

 

[kewlmyc]

Titanfall. I don't know if I'm going to have fun or rage.

This for me as well. Especially on PC.

 

[AkuMifune]

Super Meat Boy. I played the first level and quit.

I want to play it, but worried what kind of monster I'll become.

 

[jholmes]

Came here to post Wonderful 101. I just posted this in the Official GAF W101 Defense Thread but the stages are so long and the game can just be such a slog. I always start out having fun but I'm bored with the game before the stage is done.

 

[sep]

Dragon's Dogma. Dat framerate (ps3). Dat black bars.

 

[Danneee]

Recently started playing Xenogears and traversing the environment is such a chore, slipping down slopes and missing jumps is just so frustrating.

 

[KevinG]

Destiny.
Own it on both the One and PS4. The One has been my primary Destiny machine, and I dread playing on PS4 because I'm simply grinding to get my character to a level high enough to play with my Playstation friends.

 

[LakeEarth]

I got the 1v1 RTS fear, most recently with Starcraft 2. You know your opponent is gonna do something tricky, and you're worried you're gonna fuck up your timings, which makes me majorly stressed before a confrontation even happens.

I can see people having the same problem with fighting games, but you wait on the loading screen and then you're playing. I don't have time to worry. With an RTS, you're building for 5 minutes, trying to get everything right at the right time, trying to see what he's doing, etc. It just gets to me.

 

[Akuun]

The Walking Dead series. I know they're good games, but I'm not exactly eager to jump into something that I know will make me horribly depressed.

 

[Wildfirexk1]

I get this way with a lot of old games that I love, especially Xenogears. I have a massively good time with a lot of that game, but that text speed, and some of those grindier parts of the game make it really hard to go back to it.

 

[Durden77]

Nah I think I know exactly what you're saying OP. I have this problem a lot with detailed RPG's, especially if I put them down for a while and try to come back to them.

Anyway I'd say the game that comes to mind is Leauge of Legends for me. I actually really enjoy it everytime I play, but there's a lot of things I still just don't fully understand and don't wanna commit to understanding which stresses me out a bit, and the time commitment for each match is sometimes off putting thinking about. If I get it started up, I'll probably be hooked all day. But then I can go months without playing it because of "dreading" it. It's weird.

 

[Zero2kz]

I tried getting back into CS:GO recently. I am not very good, and since I haven't played in so long I was unranked again. It would place me in the appropriate rank after a few games.

Well, I did really well then got ranked DMG. I am no where NEAR qualified to be a DMG, so I have to keep playing these high ranked games until I lose enough to be deranked.

I dread it because I am usually at the bottom of the leaderboard and a lot of people are assholes lol.

 

[Kazerei]

Pikmin games, because I really hate losing Pikmin. It kind of stresses me out.

 

[MissileTrick]

Lately it's been Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright. I'm not a huge PL fan, so the game drags on a bit for me. Also I can't find some peace and quiet time for me to really enjoy the game.

 

[kirbster]

Dark Souls.

I played a few hours of Demon's Souls and I was having a lot of fun... And then when you first get to the tower hub level, I randomly picked the prison stage since it doesn't tell you where to go. I died so many times to those floating guys that can one hit kill you... Got pissed and stopped playing.

Months later I tell my friend this and he says "oh the prison is one of the hardest levels, you shouldn't start with it. And use fire spells on the floating guys, they die instantly."

Granted... I really wanted to play this game WITHOUT a strategy guide or looking on the Internet... But how the fuck was I supposed to know these things? The game doesn't really tell you, and I didn't have the patience to go with trial and error everywhere all the time.

Now I really wanna try Dark Souls since I've heard so much good stuff about it, and I DO like a good challenge. I'm just afraid of living a situation like the prison. It's a shame because I died tons of times without feeling cheated by the game, and was having a blast until that happened... If it's how it works though, maybe this time of game just isn't for me?