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Games you Disliked Yet Continued to Play

Resident Evil 5 - I hate this game and I only finished it because I was playing co-op. If I had played by myself, I never would have seen the tear-jerking ending.

Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex (PS2) - When my brother and I got our first PlayStation 2 so many years ago, we each got our own game. I got The Simpsons Road Rage and he got Crash Bandicoot. I played Crash and hated it. Crash Bash was mediocre, and I knew the series wouldn't live up to the ND days. It was a vexing game with awful load times. Once I finished it, I never bothered to play again. Usually, I liked to attempt a 100% completion score on the Crash series, but I just couldn't do it.

Silent Hill: Origins - I had anticipated this title as soon as I heard a PS2 port was on the way. Unfortunately, it didn't live up to my expectations. While the music was good, every thing else was bad. I hate Travis and his inability to run for five seconds without having to take a break. I will never enjoy getting pounded by those ass-monsters, and the dialogue was cringe-worthy (almost as bad as some lines in the movie). Oh and breakable weapons. They weren't fun in Silent Hill 4, so why the hell would this be better? I played through one more time just to get my revenge with the two-hit kill moon gauntlets. Those ass-monsters got what they deserved. I'm glad it is no longer a part of my Silent Hill collection.
 
Linkhero1 said:
GTA IV...played it and finished it.
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Holy Hell. YES. I spent 60 hours on this game. How? How did I spend 60 hours on fucking Grand Theft Auto IV? I sold the game after I beat it.

Zophar said:
Xenogears. The gameplay was abysmal but I kept at it all the way until the end to see to story resolve itself.

Plus the music and atmosphere were top-notch.
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Yeah, for sure. I mean, I didn't dislike Xenogears. It's just that the gameplay wasn't very compelling or interesting. I remember grinding to make sure that everyone would unlock their full set of combos - and that the characters themselves and their Gears would have the best equipment. I ended up killing the last boss in, like, two hits. :lol

I don't know why I went through all of that. Maybe I was bored? Everything in that game, aside from the oftentimes grammatically incorrect script, was pretty cool. Fei, Citan, and Emeralda were the best party combination in that game.

RadioHeadAche said:
Resident Evil 5
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Knew I forgot one. Game sucked donkey penis.
 
Danne-Danger said:
Call of Juarez

Desperately looking for something to like about it.

I fucking hate that game.
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HEY! you just reminded me of that game. I can't believe how horribly that game starts out... whoever thought they should start out a game by having you run away from people who practically one hit kill you as you try to execute horrible whip-retardo jumps from badly placed rocks should be shot.

However, it was the silly story and the fun clergyman terminator stages that kept me going until I finished it.
 
Oooh one more, though I doubt many people have played it. Time Stalkers, otherwise known as Climax Landers. This may be the worst game I have ever played, yet somehow I decided to beat it, and did. Maybe because it was a DC game and I was a diehard Sega fan who wanted it to be good. Who knows? It goes down as the worst game I've ever sunk major time into, though. Anyone else suffered through that game?
 
InFamous
Kingdom Hearts
Prince of Persia
Donkey Kong Country 3
Mass Effect
KOTOR II

Vilix said:
Metal Gear Solid 2. After they introduced Rayden and the story started going beyond bizarre... However, I was a trooper and finished it.
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His name is "Raiden" and he/she is the best thing to ever happen to video games.
 
Team Vernia said:
Oooh one more, though I doubt many people have played it. Time Stalkers, otherwise known as Climax Landers. This may be the worst game I have ever played, yet somehow I decided to beat it, and did. Maybe because it was a DC game and I was a diehard Sega fan who wanted it to be good. Who knows? It goes down as the worst game I've ever sunk major time into, though. Anyone else suffered through that game?
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I actually liked what little I played of it, but it definitely seemed like something that would get tedious. I should get back into that.
 
fable II, finished it and I was a complete whore( had a GF in every city), didn't feel bad about it either and even let my whore wives die because I was done with buying them shit to get laid.... okay that actually does sound fun maybe I didn't enjoy it as I should because I played it right after mass effect... I even bought them the nicest house in the city with best furniture and they still wanted gifts...
 
Call of Duty 4. I only ever played 1 and 2, loved them both. Can't stand 4, played nearly all the way through on veteran and I say the game is completely broken.

Halo 2. I've probably played through it a dozen times. I really like the High Charity levels, and really, really, really hate the rest. It was the biggest disappointment not only for gaming but for my entire life, and possibly the entirety of human existence. I keep trying to get past that initial disappointment, which is why I've played through it so many times. It never happens though, each time is worse than the last and I keep finding more and more things to complain about.

Metroid Prime 3. After the first two staggeringly good titles, I expected to at least enjoy the third one. My expectations weren't incredibly high because the Wii had sort of shaken my faith in Nintendo. But nothing could have prepared me for just how bad this game was. Unlike with Halo 2, I can't even give this one another shot. It's not like I even hate it as much as I just feel sorry for it, like it's the lonely retarded cousin of the Metroid series or something. Just a pathetic experience.

Mass Effect. Don't hate this game like the others on this list, but was so bored all the way through. I don't have a problem replaying it, just felt really "blah" as I made my way through it initially. I think this one was a result of my expectations being wrecked by the GAF hype train. Didn't know every side mission would take place through the same identical set of tunnels and box filled rooms or the main quest would only be four planets long. Playing through the second time right now, liking it a bit more than that first run. I know what's coming so I don't have to hate it as it comes.
 
SatelliteOfLove said:
Star Ocean 3
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Oh yeah that's a good one. The second disc consisted of me cursing over every story event. All you seemed to do was backtrack from place to place while Fayt occasionally blurted out "What the..." as another irrational bossfight came up.

It got better with Event Skip though, and I've played it many times since because of the battle system.
 
Star Wars Rebel Commando
Heavenly Sword
Zelda Twilight Princess (played halfway before finally admitting to myself that I hadn't been having fun the whole time)
 
There must have been about a thousand weekend rentals and crappy games I picked by cover as a kid that fit the criteria. I know Trojan and Renegade spent more time in my NES than they had any business being there for.
 
Prince of Persia (2008 version). Ugh, boring as hell. If it wasn't for the character design, I'd have stopped on the first chapter.
 
Killzone 2 is the biggest example that sprung to mind. I really, really did try to like it, because the production values were absolutely fucking insane, but I just didn't like how it played at all. :(
 
Team Vernia said:
Don't do it dude. Save yourself.
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I was in console RPG withdrawal (still am) so I was looking for one I hadn't played. ANY would suffice. I got sidetracked with something else at the time so I ended up stopping. Guess I won't bother going back.
 
Crunched said:
Halo 2. I've probably played through it a dozen times. I really like the High Charity levels, and really, really, really hate the rest. It was the biggest disappointment not only for gaming but for my entire life, and possibly the entirety of human existence. I keep trying to get past that initial disappointment, which is why I've played through it so many times. It never happens though, each time is worse than the last and I keep finding more and more things to complain about.
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Yes. Can't believe I forgot this one. I always say that Bungie should have just released an online multiplayer version of Halo much akin to something like Unreal Tournament (Halo 1.5?) - and, while milking the cash cow, they should have developed Halo 2 for the Xbox 360 so that it wouldn't have turned out to be so much of a letdown.

Jade Empire is another one. Great premise, nice story, nice everything aside from the boring ass gameplay.
 
GrotesqueBeauty said:
There must have been about a thousand weekend rentals and crappy games I picked by cover as a kid that fit the criteria. I know Trojan and Renegade spent more time in my NES than they had any business being there for.
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HA!. Trojan was shite. I love those awful games you played for some reason back in the NES days. My crap game of choice was Adventures in the Magic Kingdom. You should check it out.
 
Crunched said:
Halo 2. I've probably played through it a dozen times. I really like the High Charity levels, and really, really, really hate the rest. It was the biggest disappointment not only for gaming but for my entire life, and possibly the entirety of human existence. I keep trying to get past that initial disappointment, which is why I've played through it so many times. It never happens though, each time is worse than the last and I keep finding more and more things to complain about.
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You played a game that you don't like 12 times? That's masochistic. I'm sorry, that just doesn't compute. I understand finishing a game you don't like in the hopes it'll get better...but TWELVE times. Huh.
 
FFVIII: I have actually beaten it twice. The second time was this summer as I thought maybe 10 years ago, I just compared it to FFVI and FFVII too much. No, still hated that trash game.

Oblivion: That was painful.

Jade Empire: Because I was such a Bioware fanboy at the time, I thought the game had to get better. It never did.

Star Fox Adventures: Was a big Star Fox and Star Fox 64 fan.
 
Foliorum Viridum said:
Killzone 2 is the biggest example that sprung to mind. I really, really did try to like it, because the production values were absolutely fucking insane, but I just didn't like how it played at all. :(
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Oh man we must be blood brothers. I fucking love FPS's, but I fucking hate Killzone 2.
 
Metroid Prime - My best friend swore by that game and wouldn't shut up until I played it. Pretty much hated everything about it save for that glorious soundtrack.

Resident Evil 5 - Kind of a mixed bag. It's near impossible for me not to enjoy a co-op game and this was no exception. Both of us pretty much laughed our way through the game though. (COMPLETE. GLOBAL. SATURATION.)
 
Honestly, none... Once they start sucking, I just stop.

Although, I must admit, I played that NiGHTS game for the Wii about 2 or 3 hours longer than I really wanted to. Does that count?

But there were quite a few games for the Genesis I kept playing but that was during the months when the Sega Channel had no games I cared for playing. I can't even remember those games sadly.
 
Call of Duty 4. Good fucking god the campaign was so awful. Lets ignore setting up engaging firefights, no lets just force the player to run through random fucking trigger points to end each fight.

Garbage. Absolute unmitigated garbage. At least the multiplayer was enjoyable.
 
U K Narayan said:
Yes. Can't believe I forgot this one. I always say that Bungie should have just released an online multiplayer version of Halo much akin to something like Unreal Tournament - and, while milking the cash cow, they should have developed Halo 2 for the Xbox 360 so that it wouldn't have turned out to be so much of a letdown.
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Throw me in the Halo 2 haters club too. The online interface was great, but the feel was all wrong. I miss my 16 player/4 TV parties. Those were the days. I'll never have that much fun multiplayer gaming again. Story was crap too in Halo 2. I don't know what happened to Bungie. Halo 3 was barely any better, and because it came out after Gears, it ended up looking like balls.
 
Vesperia. I actually just beat it moments ago and I'm not sure why I bothered. I thought I wouldn't like it. I didn't to begin with, and I didn't really by the end either. Empty button mashing some anime archetypes through 40 hours of sleep inducing gameplay. Yey.
 
Sinatar said:
Call of Duty 4. Good fucking god the campaign was so awful. Lets ignore setting up engaging firefights, no lets just force the player to run through random fucking trigger points to end each fight.

Garbage. Absolute unmitigated garbage. At least the multiplayer was enjoyable.
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How can I forget about it? This was especially bad, because everything else about the game was great. But the single player gameplay was absolutely atrocious due to INFINITE RESPAWNS.
 
mrWalrus said:
Red Faction: Guerilla An awful game with a pretty great mechanic. Sadly, I love to cause mayhem so I continue to play.
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I was so entertained with how well the destruction was done I couldn't stop playing haha.
 
Anything made by Bethesda. Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3, they're all buggy broken boring poorly animated piles of uninteresting crap... and I KEEP FUCKING PLAYING THEM.
 
Man this thread really has me thinking of my idiot gamer past. Someone mentioned Genesis games and I immediately thought of "Rastan: Saga 2." I saw the cover and remembered the awesome arcade side-scroller. Instead, I played an ugly game with some of the stupidest character animations ever. I kept playing, though, and I beat it. It was one of my first Genesis games, and damn it all if I wasn't going to play it all the time with my gaming buddy next door, just like every game I owned back then. Those were the days.
 
drakesfortune said:
You played a game that you don't like 12 times? That's masochistic. I'm sorry, that just doesn't compute. I understand finishing a game you don't like in the hopes it'll get better...but TWELVE times. Huh.
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Might blow your mind then to hear that I bought four copies and even picked up the PC edition when it came out :lol

Used to have a LAN set up in my house between two X Boxes and friends used to come over and bring their boxes to play a few 16 player matches on weekends (we were in high school). It was a regular thing with Halo 1, some of the most memorable and fun weekends of my life. Halo 2 never lived up to that, and I think I sort of struggled to bring back the memories by convincing myself (futilely) that Halo 2 did not suck. That's why I played it so much. I wanted to like it so bad. Still wish I could.

I can remember everyone getting together and pretending to have fun, but the laughs were gone, there was no joy in smack talking or scoring a flag. That's Halo 2. Soulless. Joyless. We just sat on our couches and beanbags in silence, waiting for the terrible thing to disappear.
 
cosmicblizzard said:
Ico took you 12 hours? From what I remember, it's a 5 hour game.



Also thought about putting this in the op. Never again will I play a game I hate for 100+ hours.
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I love the game and it starts wearing on my nerves at around this time, what the fuck is wrong with you. By hour 20 you should have been out of there and by 50, you should have questioned your sanity.

Tisan said:
Did not enjoy Infamous. Got up to the third island and then got rid of it as I found it extremely unengaging :/
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This. I cannot believe i purchased this game full price. I NEVER buy games full price.

Also, i would like to include the travesty that is FFX. The only reason i continued was because i enjoyed the Battle System well enough, and that i wanted my conscience to be clean when i bashed the living daylights out of it on the forums.
 
Pumpkins said:
Infinite Undiscovery...

Why I even began playing it is a question I'd like to know.
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Because it was a JRPG from a respectable developer. Many of us were fulled into playing this one. I knew it was going to suck once the lip syncing was off when that first brunette started talking. I kept playing, though because everyone said the first 4-5 hours were shitty and then it gets better. It didn't get better. FAIL!
 
Pretty much Oblivion (360 version mind you). Loved Morrowind and got sucked in by the hype. Bought it at its launch and got sick of it when I realized how shallow/generic most of it was. But I kept on trucking and beat it.
 
lorddarkflare said:
I love the game and it starts wearing on my nerves at around this time, what the fuck is wrong with you. By hour 20 you should have been out of there and by 50, you should have questioned your sanity.



This. I cannot believe i purchased this game full price. I NEVER buy games full price.

Also, i would like to include the travesty that is FFX. The only reason i continued was because i enjoyed the Battle System well enough, and that i wanted my conscience to be clean when i bashed the living daylights out of it on the forums.
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I'll take your Infamous if you want. Gameplay is king in that game. Had a lot of fun in my rental.
 
Team Vernia said:
HA!. Trojan was shite. I love those awful games you played for some reason back in the NES days. My crap game of choice was Adventures in the Magic Kingdom. You should check it out.
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I just watched a bit of it on youtube. I can see how that could be "one of those" games. I'm a sucker for anything with a haunted house level.
 
U K Narayan said:
Uncharted 1. (Uncharted 2 is incredible, though.)
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For me it would be Uncharted 1 and the last 1/3 or so of infamous. Is Uncharted 2 really that much better? I have been apprehensive in buying it due to the frustrations I experienced in the shooting (bullet sponges) and some of the platforming (hard to tell what I could climb or grab on).
 
Kenichi said:
For me it would be Uncharted 1 and the last 1/3 or so of infamous. Is Uncharted 2 really that much better? I have been apprehensive in buying it due to the frustrations I experienced in the shooting (bullet sponges) and some of the platforming (hard to tell what I could climb or grab on).
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I do not like shooters, but even i know that if you pop someone in the head, common courtesy states that the bastard stays down.
 
Kenichi said:
For me it would be Uncharted 1 and the last 1/3 or so of infamous. Is Uncharted 2 really that much better? I have been apprehensive in buying it due to the frustrations I experienced in the shooting (bullet sponges) and some of the platforming (hard to tell what I could climb or grab on).
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I felt the same way about the first game, and while sadly they didn't fix the platforming they have fixed the gunplay. It's a better game.
 
Ferrio said:
Going to get bashed for this one:

Alundra.
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I actually like Alundra, but I can see how someone else might feel that way. I've actually played pretty far into it a few times now but never gotten around to beating it because it gets a bit same-y after a while.
 
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