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Games you really wish you could enjoy but don't
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Ragelink26
Member
Same here. I want to like them so badly but I just cannot get into them.
You know what? I think I want to change mine to this, too. I played about two hours or so and I'm learning how to rope dudes and ride horses or whatever, but every time I need to go somewhere, it feels like getting up to go to work. I can see how it's well-made and my dad was nice enough to spoil all the story bits as he played through it, but I just don't have it in me to endure the overworld traversal.
You should revisit with Golden version and play on Very Easy. Nirvana.
Why did you beat it if you didn't enjoy it? Surely, you got some sort of enjoyment out of that play through?
thefatness16
Banned
JRPG's. Loved them as a kid, but nowadays unless it's Pokemon I can't seem to into them.
Well, I enjoyed parts of it. Like, maybe, 40% of it. So I kept playing, thinking eventually it would "click" with me and I'd start loving it. That never happened.
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
This is what I plan on doing after dropping the game twice. I've already watched GB endurance run so I know what's up but I couldn't care less about personas and dungeon crawling. I feel like I would like the game a lot more as a VN.
People force themselves to finish game just so they can see what the big deal was about. It's not always about fun. It's about playing until you start getting it. Sometimes it just doesn't click though.
Fair enough. One of the Souls communities most frequent arguments is "just wait, it'll click", haha. There are some aspects of the game that are very monotonous but I suppose the 'click' moment is when you appreciate those tedious segments because of what the add up to or lead to.
Pilgrimzero
Member
The Evil Within.
It's really just so bad and I wanted to like it.
Also, Dark Souls. Played it for 30 min, didn't grab me.
It's really just so bad and I wanted to like it.
Also, Dark Souls. Played it for 30 min, didn't grab me.
Zeyphersan
Banned
SRPGs. I continue playing them in the hopes that one day something clicks, but so far I'm just absolutely terrible at the genre as a whole, and I never get better. Even with easy ones
Iriscomeback
Member
Dark Souls
Alien Isolation
Kid Icarus: Uprising
Alien Isolation
Kid Icarus: Uprising
Lighting Returns. Can't get into the game. It doesn't appeal to me the same way FFXIII did.
? Sometimes you need another person to play to really see the enjoyment. The reason I love the game is bc of the fact you have to constantly farm/hunt monsters to gather materials to make better weapons and armor. The game is pretty in depth. The fighting feels slow but I like it bc it takes away the noob spam hack and slash.
I cannot play the clones. I've only tried Soul Sacrifice, God Eater, and Lord of Arcana and watched gameplays of Freedom Wars and Toukiden. Cannot get into those. It does not feel the same as Monster Hunter.
Maybe play w a fellow gaffer? Add me
(don't know my friend code atm - at work)
Aaron-Lagann
Banned
Every game that doesn't have an anime art style.
It's like, I just can't get into them anymore.
It's like, I just can't get into them anymore.
Aizo
Banned
Persona 3 and 4. I'm near the end in 3, but I haven't enjoyed my experience very much. In fact, I absolutely loathe tartarus. I restarted the game after about 25 hours to play on easy with a level 99 character, because otherwise, I was never playing the game again. I just run through the dungeons and focus on the story and social links. Even so, the story isn't very good so far...
Also, dungeon crawlers in general. I just don't get the appeal. I suppose for someone who likes character development and story a lot, the genre doesn't offer much for me.
Also, dungeon crawlers in general. I just don't get the appeal. I suppose for someone who likes character development and story a lot, the genre doesn't offer much for me.
ispendtoomuchmoneyongames
Member
Dragon Age Inquisition, The Last of Us, Dark Souls
Combat in SS is pretty much nothing like Monster Hunter at all. It's the least like MH of all the hunting games
and it's a much worse game for it.
Jupiter Jones
Member
Persona 4. I love the Persona series, and enjoyed most of Persona 3, but by the end of 3, I really disliked the social links and had to push myself to finish it. Persona 4 has the social links again, plus it made changes to the dungeon exploring that I don't like.
8bitsuperhero
Neo Member
Fantasy Life, everything seems so great on paper, playing it though...
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
Anything by Platinum games.
I've hated all of them.
I've hated all of them.
backflip10019
Member
Dark Souls. It's just too damn frustrating. Maybe if there was a way to save right before bosses so I wouldn't lose so much time fighting through the same crap enemies only to die instantly.
I dislike how slow the game is, and the ridiculously cheap moments.
Many here will hate me for this but the Zelda series and Mario platformers.
With Zelda I've played a few entries to completion and there's only Wind Waker that really left an impression on me and that was more for the art direction then anything to do with the gameplay. I can see they are good games, mechanically their great but they don't grab me and I don't feel I'm enjoying playing them as much I as should and I don't know why. Similarly although I love many platformers and can see they're good games I just can't summon much enthusiasm for Mario either in 2D or 3D.
I'm sorry Nintendo, please forgive me, I thought N64 Paper Mario was awesome at least.
With Zelda I've played a few entries to completion and there's only Wind Waker that really left an impression on me and that was more for the art direction then anything to do with the gameplay. I can see they are good games, mechanically their great but they don't grab me and I don't feel I'm enjoying playing them as much I as should and I don't know why. Similarly although I love many platformers and can see they're good games I just can't summon much enthusiasm for Mario either in 2D or 3D.
I'm sorry Nintendo, please forgive me, I thought N64 Paper Mario was awesome at least.
MaximusPayne
Member
For those saying DOTA maybe try and get your friends into HOTS. I've played more than my share of DOTA in WC3 but after it started becoming tryhard esports bullshit I lost interest. My friends kept playing though, and I like playing games with them, so I'd join and end up miserable because I felt like I was dragging everyone down. I just do NOT care about memorizing what fucking obscure item combination or whatever I'm supposed to be building towards.
HOTS on the other hand does a good job encapsulating the team-fight gameplay without being obnoxious. You still gotta do objectives and use teamwork though. Obviously if your friends are the kind of people who shit on LoL players on forums because they think last hitting is the most important mechanic in the universe then it won't appeal to them. But it's worth a try.
Also, should go without saying but if you don't have people to play that genre with, there's no reason to play it. At all.
Anyways, I love horror games but I can't get into the 'run from everything because you are literally a helpless baby' subgenre. I'd like this fad to pass and maybe see some indie devs start trying to make a survival horror title in the vein of an older RE game.
Also just remembered Nanashi no Game. It's a brilliant premise, about a 'haunted' DS game in the style of a slightly 'off' 8-bit RPG. It even has like fake DS menus and shit. Problem is the actual game outside of the fake RPG is unplayable, the controls are utter insanity.
HOTS on the other hand does a good job encapsulating the team-fight gameplay without being obnoxious. You still gotta do objectives and use teamwork though. Obviously if your friends are the kind of people who shit on LoL players on forums because they think last hitting is the most important mechanic in the universe then it won't appeal to them. But it's worth a try.
Also, should go without saying but if you don't have people to play that genre with, there's no reason to play it. At all.
Anyways, I love horror games but I can't get into the 'run from everything because you are literally a helpless baby' subgenre. I'd like this fad to pass and maybe see some indie devs start trying to make a survival horror title in the vein of an older RE game.
Also just remembered Nanashi no Game. It's a brilliant premise, about a 'haunted' DS game in the style of a slightly 'off' 8-bit RPG. It even has like fake DS menus and shit. Problem is the actual game outside of the fake RPG is unplayable, the controls are utter insanity.
geordiemp
Member
Same here, but for some reason I'm still hyped for Bloodborne.
Never played a sous game, was put off by the coop hoops you have to jump through. Just want to play coop with 2 x Ps4 damn it.
Will Bloodborne have easier coop ?
Back on topic GTA 5 - played half the game, just don't feel it. Need to push myself to go back.
Mobile Suit Gooch
Grundle: The Awakening
Yeah, me too. I've seem to enjoy the Tomb Raider(2013) more than any Uncharted game. ( liked 2 though)
I second Uncharted. Played through Uncharted 2 and it left me cold, even as I understood why other people loved it. I think it was a combination of the platforming not quite ever feeling fluid for me, combined with the often-mentioned quirks of the story.
I think I had more fun in the multiplayer because it felt like a different game there.
I think I had more fun in the multiplayer because it felt like a different game there.
Mookie1515
Member
The Etrian Odyssey games. I caught the Quick Look for IV and it looked so up my alley, the fully custom characters, the mapping, THE MUSIC OH THE MUSIC.
But I just cannot get in to it. Don't even know what the barrier is, it just never clicks with me, and it makes me so sad.
But I just cannot get in to it. Don't even know what the barrier is, it just never clicks with me, and it makes me so sad.