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Games you Disliked Yet Continued to Play

I keep remembering some out of nowhere. Just remembered Phantom Hourglass. Pretty much everything I loved about Windwaker was absent from the game. The sailing was seriously gimped and the dungeons were meh. I also couldn't get into the stylus controls. No matter what the game, I will never say stylus should be used for movement over d-pad (this is why Scribblenauts is criticized for it's control).
 
Brutal Legend

I wanted to like it so much... but the gameplay makes it so hard to do so. Thankfully, I made the right decision in renting it but even then, it's still sitting there, waiting for me to finish it... and I'm uncertain if I even want to (but probably will).
 
Super Paper Mario. After level 3 you had seen everything good about. The rest was just an awful, awful game. I forced myself to finish it though, but man... what a chore that was.
 
Need for Speed Shift. Reviews lied. I tried to lie to myself since I had payed 69.99 $ for it (I live in canada..)

Yeah it sucks.
 
Crunched said:
Man, I'm glad I discovered DS RPGs, otherwise I might have to agree with you. Home console RPGs this gen have universally been total disasters, IMO.

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Pretty much this....

I played Lost Odyssey for about 12 hours

Star Ocean 4 for about 9 hours

and Tales of Vesperia for about 4 hours

and man.....yeah...
 
Mass Effect was a game I kept playing because I kept expecting it to hit it's stride. RPGs usually take their time getting set up, but the whole thing felt incomplete in the areas that were supposed to be memorable. And the characters... I just hated them.
 
Metal. Gear. Solid. 4.

I was cringing, dying.. frighened by the terror that was this game from the end of Act II until completion. I trudged on like a warrior seeking only to finish the path..

A true and utter terror for me.
 
Chrono Trigger.

I honestly didn't like the game the first time I played through. It had a swell beginning, but the game turned to crap in 1400 or w/e Zeal was. But I chugged through the remake well enough. I liked it well enough that time. But I'm posting this because I forced myself to go through the fucking awful ass bonus sections of the DS remake. That was by far some of the most miserable gaming I've ever experienced. You want to complain about random encounters? Okay fine, but goddamn unskippable trash monsters placed in an area you have to backtrack through 40 goddamn times is thirty hundred times worse.

That's the only thing that even springs to mind. If I don't like a game, I usually mother fucking quit that shit cold. I end up quitting most games I actually like too.

I forced myself to finish the Overworld 2 demo. I guess that counts. But it was a fucking demo, I felt obligated. Plus I was mesmerized by how fucking awful it was.
 
im probably gonna hear alot of shit for this..but God of War 2..i absolutely hated this game..why did i have combos when the game featured 2 types of enemies. little enemies that can do a 'power move' out of hit stun THROUGH my damn attacks..and giant enemies that dont care that youre hitting them and cant combo either way..i found the constant stream of 'hurry and press this and pull that' puzzles to be annoying as is..but when they spiced them up with being ambushed by the most annoying enemies WHILE carrying a statue WHILE time was frozen on some bridge that is about to collapse i just couldnt get behind it..everything about the design of this game (save for awsome art) annoyed the shit out of me..started the game on spartan..have no clue why i decided to beat it again on both god and titan..i must have thought id change my mind but all it did was amplify my distaste for it..chains of olympus was a much better game...

killzone 2 ..hated the controls..by the time the patch arrived i stopped caring
resistance 2..hey its cod with aliens..awsome..could i get a sequel to Rfom? thanx
odin sphere - if it werent so pretty i wouldnt have had the patience to get all the chars..and the idiocy to keep playing it..on a side note i enjoyed the 'youre doing too good bar stop attacking'
 
Gr1mLock said:
killzone 2 ..hated the controls..by the time the patch arrived i stopped caring
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They fixed the controls? Does the single player now control like the multiplayer?
 
Just thought of another big one; Baten Kaitso Origins. After loving the first one, I was expecting the sequel (prequel?) to be of the same quality. Instead, I found myself hating the plot and only having one deck for everyone rather than a deck for each character. I stopped about 13 hours in. I'll probably try to get back into it one day.
 
I hated Enchanted Arms, but trudged through it because I heard some people say it was good.

Boy, nobody has been as wrong as those people were. :lol
 
While I hate the way these threads degenerate into "Popular games you hate", since someone already mentioned it, and I only just beat it last night...Killzone 2.

I'm actually playing through it again on Easy as opposed to Veteran, and I AM enjoying it more now.

But more in line with what this thread SHOULD have been....

As a bit of an achievement whore, I complete games I don't like al the time.

- CSI
- Beowulf
- Wanted
- Terminator Salvation
- Avatar (Airbender)
- Cabela's Hunting Series

I could go on.
 
The most recent would be Killzone 2 and Little Big Planet.

I loved the charm of LBP but I found the game to be claustrophobic. Strange feeling and I was uncomfortable the whole time. :lol

Halo. Pretty much same as KZ2. Bland.

Every MMO since UO and DAOC. I've spent waaaaay too much time grudgingly finding the next.
 
Gouty said:
They fixed the controls? Does the single player now control like the multiplayer?
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*shrug* no clue..i heard they updated it and fixed some things...i assumed they adressed the controls since so many people complained about them..i literaly havent touched the game since about the second week after it came out
 
Eternal Sonata. I played it through three times and got 1000 achievement points. It's pretty mediocre, although I didn't really hate it that much. Once you figure out the battle system, you can fly through it. Take some photos with Beat, and you'll have more gold than you'll ever need. Cutscenes are also skippable. So it's totally bearable. I just kept playing it 'cause I had no other good RPGs at the time :\

Final Fantasy I, II, III. I played through the PSP and DS remakes, just so I could say I've played all the mainline FFs, except the two MMOs. FFI was okay, FFII was kind of a painful experience, and FFIII was a little too grindy. They really haven't aged well. Meh.
 
That's a hell of a bump.

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines on PS2. It is one of the worst games ever made. I was really bored so I just plowed through it.
 
Dead Rising, for the first six hours or so. Then I realized it was one of my favorite games of all time. Funny how that works, eh?
 
Alan Wake is the only game in recent memory I played while actively disliking. So much potential squandered -- unfortunately rubbed in further by Red Dead releasing at the same time, a game that outclassed it narratively and was better acted and animated across the board.

Now more than ever there's always something better to play.

EDIT: I undoubtedly beat my head against the wall of some fucking terrible SNES and N64 games back in the day for way too long, though. I'd rather forget those times.
 
I could not tell you how many games I've finished that I didn't really care for. There are lots, as I am usually doggedly determined to finish what I start. And many of them are popular games that I got because of the word-of-mouth and I keep playing looking for the appeal that everyone else apparently saw. I'm not going to list them because it would take too long and everyone would hate me and accuse me of "bad taste".
 
Sonic 2006, Dragon Age 2, Monster Madness, it's occurred to me that I've probably finished more games that I've hated than games I've liked this generation for some unknown reason.
 
Simpsons Road Rage
 
FF13, MGS 4 and Dragon Age 2. That was a painful 50-60 hours combined.

I finish what I play outside of a few games that are just so bad I physically cannot put myself through another second of it.
 
Final Fantasy XIII, out of allegiance to the series. Allegiance is so strong (bred by the sheer amazingness of VI-XII) that even a disastrous XIII-2 or XV alone won't break it fully. But two more games in a row made of shit may finally destroy it.
 
Ahhh so many. And so many hours wasted. And these are only of top of my head.

Portal 2 - The puzzles were too easy , and after half or 2/3 of the game the tedious act of "finding the patch of wall you can shoot portals onto" was dull and repetitive.

Half-Life 2 - Didn't like it. Shooting buzzsaws at zombies in Ravenholm was fun, but the rest of it.. geez. The story was ... well not really presented at all to the player it was more of a "Go there! Go there! Go there" marathon. The citadel felt like a Xen rehash, including plattforming. And the G-Man's "BlahBlahBlah Mr.Freeman" left , probably not only me puzzled. After Half-Life 1 ah horrible downgrade

Talking about downgrades:

Crysis 2 - Yeah. Disappointing downgrade. Just forced through it to make space on my harddrive. Soundtrack was great though.

Duke Nukem Forever - Finished it just for Duke's sake. I hope it doesn't stand as the sad ending to the franchise.

BioShock - Serious mouse lag or mouse acceleration, I don't know what it was, but the gunplay was broken on PC. Aiming was completly botched up no matter if v-sync was active or not. Made me hate the whole experience. This and of course the hacking of safes, turrets, cameras, vending machines, security bots, toilets, fishtanks, rubberduckies...

Stalker - Hated it. Every second of it. Just rushed through at the end, ignoring side missions just trying to get rid of this game. AI was horrid, gunplay was unbalanced and monsters were overpowered. And the crashes... oh my god. I had a million of them with the game freezing and the sound going on a endless loop on a endless loop on a endless loop on a endless loop on a endless loop
 
Well, my dad rented me the simpsons game, and I felt bad and played it to make him happy.
 
SMT:Nocturne

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Almost every game i play. 0__________0

Recently, i finished Two Worlds 2. Yes. Ugh. Oddly enough i liked Two Worlds but the sequel was just not fun at all.
 
Magnus said:
Final Fantasy XIII, out of allegiance to the series. Allegiance is so strong (bred by the sheer amazingness of VI-XII) that even a disastrous XIII-2 or XV alone won't break it fully. But two more games in a row made of shit may finally destroy it.
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FUCKING THIS.

GODDAMIT I"M STILL SO ANGRY ABOUT THIS. XIII was so horrible.
 
Killzone 2, didn't really like it after a playthrough but gave it another go on higher difficulty, didn't it like there either.

I usually don't really keep playing if I dislike a game, but I wanted to play a good single player shooter and kz2 got a lot of praise so I went with that, paid 60 dollars so I may as well.

WoW was another game because I wanted to play with my friends, was expecting something like ffxi where we'd coop missions together, but it didn't really have a level sync thing and feels like everyone were kind of doing their own thing.
So I quested for 80 levels and just kind of got burnt out after that and quit shortly after I got there.

I actually did this again on another server and quested for 60 levels and just couldn't get myself to continue, oh well.

Assassin's creed 2, FF13 I had to force myself through the second half, but I actually did enjoy part of those games, just couldn't stand it after a few hours, ff13 I especially skipped most of the mobs in the last dungeon so I could beat it.

FFXIV I played it repeatedly for guild points just so we could get enough to do some of those guild quests, we never actually did any of those because everyone hated that fucking game.
 
Echo Night Beyond, fuck that game was annoying.

Forcing myself to play games I previously didn't like or never gave a chance was how I really grew to love certain games/series/genres. RE1 and RE4 took me 3-4 tries to get through the first 30 minutes, and now they're among my favorites. Same with Rule of Rose, Deadly Premonition, and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Crystal Bearers.

So basically, I will always force myself to play a shitty game in the hopes that I end up loving it, lol
 
Suikoden III. I figured it would eventually pick up and get better, but I would say only like 10% of the game at best, was enjoyable content. And this is from a game that took 45 hours to beat (twice the length of Suikoden 1, and 15 hours longer then Suikoden II)

Longer RPGs are fine, but Suikoden III just didn't have much content to it. The battle system was poor, the dungeons too, and it took forever to get anywhere. The locals were pretty small, and there was only along the lines of 10 towns in the whole game too (Most of the locations you could visit were empty fields, that if eliminated, would of saved me 5 hours). The only thing that was good was the story. If I knew the game was going to be so poor, I would of just read the manga adaptation and called it a day.
 
Enslaved

Still playing through it right now, though I'm not really liking it much. But it's the first game I wanted to clear off my backlog so I'm sticking with it.
 
Friends pressured me into playing starcraft.. I dont mind a game now and then but they always are telling me I need more pratice and such when I really have no intentions of getting good.. just not that fun.

Also I played through GTAIV and freakin hated it. The characters, missions and controls are just no good to me at all. After driving around the city a few times I just never want to play it ever again.
 
-Halo 3
-Halo: Reach (I only liked to end of the game, really nice)

I know a lot of people love them but I can't get into these games, not even in the multiplayer, and I like FPS's.

I finished them despite not liking them but one thing is for sure, they have a beautiful game soundtrack. Loved the theme.
 
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