What game is immensely popular that you just can't seem to get into?

Total War SHOGUN 2, or any other real-time strategy game. Just can't get into them at all.
 
Was a hardcore 1942 player and just subbed to PlanetSide 2, but BF3 just never appealed to me for some reason.
 
I've been unable to get into dark soul; mostly because the controls make the game difficult. I'll probalby give it another try in a few weeks; just started xcom which is easy to get into but I suspect it will get old after 30 or so hours; they need more diversity in the base and strategic maps.
 
BF3 - never appealed to me at all

Assassins creed - tried to play these, but, so boring.

Metal Gear Solid 3 - Game play good, but, cutscenes every few minutes. Too much time watching the game not enought time playing.

Grand Theft Auto V - Interesting diversion for a few hours. That's it, boring after that.
 
Minecraft. I just don't see it. I played it, and wanted to shoot everyone around me, in the face.

reaper12 said:
Assassins creed - tried to play these, but, so boring.
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You're dead to me.
 
Cannot get into Battlefield 3 whatsoever, even though I got it free. Might be because of burnout from BC2, or possibly due to the login and loading process, but I refuse to reinstall.

Final Fantasy 7... I even bought an old used copy to try it again back in 2007. Made it all of 25 minutes in. Overrated POS.

Team Fortress 2. Couldn't make it more than two rounds and gave up for good. Play style was not my thing.
 
JustinCorrigible said:
Cannot get into Battlefield 3 whatsoever, even though I got it free. Might be because of burnout from BC2, or possibly due to the login and loading process, but I refuse to reinstall.

Final Fantasy 7... I even bought an old used copy to try it again back in 2007. Made it all of 25 minutes in. Overrated POS.

Team Fortress 2. Couldn't make it more than two rounds and gave up for good. Play style was not my thing.
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I have to say that BC2 was just overall more fun for my friends and me, but maybe that's because we got so used to it, and then BF3 came out, changing everything. It's not a bad game, but it's not awesome, that's for sure.

FF7...where to begin with that...I'll just leave it at #9 was my all time favorite Final Fantasy, and 7 was A final fantasy. It wasn't my favorite, and never will be.

TF2 was good with friends....horrible alone.
 
LeninGHOLA said:
Controlling a battlefield vs. being a bullet sponge.
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I guess it depends on whether you want to play commander or soldier.

yourgrandma said:
Angry Birds
What the F*ck is wrong with people.
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It took me a while before I even bothered with it, but as it turns out there's something strangely satisfying about physics-based games for me.

LordVampyre said:
Let me see.. Driver San Francisco.. EYE .. Fable Lost Chapters..
Flat Out series.. Metro 2033,, Rage.. and Velvet Assassin..
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I don't know if some of those could be considered "immensely popular."

Godmachine said:
Any Stalker game , I serious hate them. I simply can't understand why people love them so much , they are honestly to me .. some of the most boring gaming on the market.
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I'm almost with you on this one. I've tried playing SoC 3-4 times and always stop playing after a while. I think initially it was because the beginning was frustrating and difficult because your character is so weak, but the last time I played it I got well past the beginning and still put it down for some reason. Yet there are people on here who think of STALKER like I think of Half-Life so there must be something to it.

Rayman (more a console game for sure) , can't stand any Rayman game.
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Never gotten into them either.

Tried like hell to like Dark Souls and I just couldn't. I don't understand why people would want to play a game so hard that it constantly is trying to get you to quit playing it...
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I think part of the appeal with Demon's Souls/Dark Souls is that games were in a bad habit of becoming so dumbed down and easy for the masses...Demon's Souls came out and it was a breath of fresh air for those who love a challenge. I haven't played those games; they just sound frustratingly brutal but people say they are rewarding if you dedicate yourself to them.

drako said:
Well there's your problem. :D

It obviously won't be as amazing now, but back in 1998 it was revolutionary.
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Damn right it was. GOTY. I still enjoy it to this day.
 
I'm only going to list the ones I've purchased and was interested in at one point.

The Witcher
Assassins Creed
MGS3 or 4, can't remember which one I bought & tried playing on the ps3.
Quake 4
Bioshock
Guild Wars 1
(Guild wars 2 is on my current list of purchased and want to play, but haven't had the time)
Total War SHOGUN 2
Empire Earth
Civ 4

Starcraft 2
D3.... oh wait, this one isn't "immensely popular"... more like red headed stepchild
WoW (I will not pay a monthly fee)
 
I think as I have gotten older more and more games just don't appeal to me at all. I loved WoW at first, but over time got burnt out on the grind. Haven't even seen the last two expansions.

Played the *shit* out of TF1 and Counterstrike, before it became real popular and valve absorbed the project. Beta 5 forever!!!! Loved BF1942, BFV, BF2, but soon after lost interest in the cookie cutter FPS games.

Loved TF2 a lot as well, until the hats and other shit came around. What a joke.

Now mostly I play older strategy games, some 4X stuff. Supreme Commander, Distant Worlds, a few others. I also loved the GTA series up until IV. Something changed that just made it no longer fun. Too complex maybe with the controls? Too console-y? I dont know. I like Starcraft single player experience, but multiplayer is such a rage-fest, why bother?
 
Doom (entire franchise) for me. It came out when my family couldn't afford a computer so we had a hand-me-down PC that a relative's office was discarding which couldn't play it. I've never been able to get hooked on it since then, even though it's still actively modded and played by a number of people. Quake 1 and Serious Sam filled the "fast paced, not-serious-business shooter" shaped hole in my heart, instead.
 
For me, generally single player games. There is something about the randomness of a human that makes MMO's and multiplay something exciting.
 
Pretty much any and all MMO's.
While I like the idea of Call of Duty (fast action, high framerates), I don't care for the gameplay at all.
I've never really liked the RTS genre much either.
 
Some of these responses are awful. People have different tastes, so really, saying something like "single player games" or "turn-based RPGs" doesn't really say much. Some people just don't like that style of game. I hate action RPGs, so it's not really groundbreaking when I dislike one that others like.

For me, I was surprised I couldn't get into GalCiv2, since Moo2 is probably my favorite game ever.
 
Borderlands. I've tried playing this game a few times, but can't stay interested. Maybe because I mostly play single player games. Being in my late 30's, I don't know anyone else in my personal life that's into gaming.

Despite much nudging, my wife refuses to try any games beyond the original NES Zelda and Super Mario Brothers.
 
BiH115 said:
You're dead to me.
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He has a point, and this is coming from a pretty decent AC fan. I played entirely through AC1 through Brotherhood and to be perfectly honest, it is essentially the exact same game over and over and over. The only real redeeming quality (which is a good one) is that the story is engaging and interesting. However, I recently watched through all cutscenes of Revelations (which I never played) and I felt like I basically played the entire game without having to muddle through the actual gameplay.

Basically, the free running mechanic was unique and interesting in the first game, and maybe the second, but beyond that it was just more of the same tedious shit.

Ticker305 said:
Was a hardcore 1942 player and just subbed to PlanetSide 2, but BF3 just never appealed to me for some reason.
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That's because BF3 is barely like BF1942 at all. :p
 
PORTAL! god that game looks dumb i have both of them an haven't even installed them. my friends rave about them but the just look stupid an i don't find anything about the videos i watched to be funny.

basically any console only game

COD
starcraft
D3
bf3
assassins creed ( combat system sucks hard, "oh no i am getting attacked by 15 guards". parry counter 15 times. "hey i took no damage"!
mech warrior online. i wanted to like it an i did until they decided having more than 4 friends was op and capped the party size to 4.
half life 2. that game just plain sucked compared to the first on. the story was crap the levels were boring the flying things were annoying an the boat/ car missions were just plain tedious.
guildwars
All c&c games after red alert 2. man did each murder that franchise.
all modern platforms. i had enough of them in the 90s
racing games nothing against them just not for me
sports. Same reason as racing
Final fantasy/any game with those stupid jumbo swords that are 20 feet tall and look like they weigh 500 pounds which a 90 pound girl (or any one for that matter) can swing like its made of foam.
all cod games since moh
Turn based rpgs. i don't have a problem with turn based rts's
Angry birds. i agree with a previous poster in his statement "wtf is wrong with people".
rage!!!! that was the worst launch of a game i have ever seen, well next to D3 of course. It was really only bad if you had an amd video card since rage hated amd drivers when it was released. i couldn't get more than an hour into the game before it would start crashing.
sniper elite. that game had so much false advertising i got it on sale and still felt cheated.
Bioshock 2. just terrible.
 
Western RPGs in general - Mass Effect, Dragon Age, TES, etc. I suppose a lot of that has to do with me having cut my teeth way-back-when on the popular Japanese RPGs from the early 90s (Final Fantasy, Dragon Warrior, etc).
 
The Witcher 1 & 2.

I have tried. Oh lord, how I have tried. I just don't get how the combat is fun at all. It's too convoluted to be hack and slash fun, but too hack and slash to be tactically fun. I would love to be able to enjoy them, but I just can't get beyond the combat, unless I am doing something horribly wrong.
 
you2 said:
I've been unable to get into dark soul; mostly because the controls make the game difficult.
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Are you using a KB/mouse setup? I hated DS until I broke down and got a 360 controller. Made the game so much easier to me.

As for games I couldn't get into, I'd say Fallout 3. I still enjoy playing Fallout 1 and even 2, but I could never play past a couple of hours in 3. Also I never got the Starcraft hype.
 
halo 2, unreal 2, TF2, F.E.A.R 2, deus ex HR, CS GO ,dayZ, borderlands

guess I'm [H]ard to please :)
 
The Witcher. It was kinda fun at first, but then I stopped playing after I got stuck at some point early on and never picked it back up. I think part of the problem is that I prefer a more D&D-like game.
 
drako said:
Well there's your problem. :D

It obviously won't be as amazing now, but back in 1998 it was revolutionary.
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seriously. i still remember the opening train ride... thinking this was the best graphics we will ever see


Serpent said:
Just remembered .... FF7. I liked the system, but the story lost me like 5 times after the first part that I quit. Took me forever to grudge my way through it and beat the game.

And by lost, I mean bored me to death.
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>:O


i remember when aeris died i was devastated
 
soulesschild said:
For me it's the Fallout series. I love the franchise's story but for the life of me I just cannot like the game itself.

Same goes for Morrowind and any of the Skyrim series. (Thought I haven't tried Skyrim itself, I did try Oblivion)
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Mass Effect series.

Mass effect 1 was just pants and boring yet people hale it as one of the greatest games ever.

Another is COD. cant udnerstand why thats popular
 
jonneymendoza said:
WOW u played the new GTA!!!

any good? are us PC gamers missing much by the game not being released on pc?
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mass effect took me several tries to get into, the first mission is very slow and i wasnt playing a fun class imo.

then i learned about the adept and i got passed the first mission and shit gets real.

a space rpg 3rd person shooter. fucking genius. there were a lot of improvements on 2
 
Sycraft said:
Ya I never got the Half-life love. I never played HL1 single player, I tried Action Halflife since I liked AQ2 but the HL multi-player engine was so bad it was pretty intolerable.

However I gave HL2 a shot, since everyone couldn't shut up about it. I was seriously, seriously unimpressed. The shooting was only so-so and the rest of the game was very bleh. Long, repetitive sections of just driving down corridors (punctuated by loading screens), lots of silly "Look! We have a physics engine!" kind of puzzles. I just couldn't finish it, I got way too sick of it.

Never got why people loved it so much.
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Oh my god AQ2 and AHL were the shit. I think the day I found AHL was the day I quit CS and I played CS from like beta 6. I also played AHL very early on too. Was in one of the "big" clans. ARG and WM.
 
Most single player games... they are all repitive BS. The last single player game(s) I finished where God of War trilogy and that was only because I wanted to know how it ended. The game itself was just button mashing snooze fest.

I still get into side scrolling games and some of the nintendo IPs (Mario).

Now a game has to be multiplayer quest/farming (diablo III) or a PvP (BF3, DotA2, LoL, HoN, SCII, etc)
 
soulesschild said:
Oh my god AQ2 and AHL were the shit. I think the day I found AHL was the day I quit CS and I played CS from like beta 6. I also played AHL very early on too. Was in one of the "big" clans. ARG and WM.
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AHL was meh at best. I played AQ2 religiously, though. Awesome game.
 
XvMMvX said:
Most single player games... they are all repitive BS.
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Huh?? How is that even...

I would say it's the opposite unless you're playing the same types of single player games over and over again. With multiplayer games you're usually doing the same things over and over and over and over again, just with different people. Whether that be raiding in WoW, killing people in BF3 or capturing a point in TF2...

I have literally hundreds of games in my Steam account and other than certain games like Assassin's Creed I don't feel like there's a lot of repetition. I can see your point in games like GoW that are hackfests (I found it hard to get into Torchlight for example) but there are plenty of single player games that aren't repetitive, unless you call using the core gameplay mechanics over and over (by design) to progress through the game...and if that's the case, almost any game can be considered repetitive.
 
Microsoft Flight Sim
Mario Games
GTA Series
Half Life
Fable Series
Assassin Creed 1&2 (only ones I have tried)
Arma
World of Warcraft
EA Sports Franchise
The Sims series
 
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Solhokuten said:
Mario Games
GTA Series
Half Life
Fable Series
Assassin Creed 1&2 (only ones I have tried)
Arma
Starcraft
World of Warcraft
Madden NFL games
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Outside of Madden (which blows dick) please, indulge me, in what you think is fun then? I'm dying to know. :confused:
 
imyourzero said:
Huh?? How is that even...

I would say it's the opposite unless you're playing the same types of single player games over and over again. With multiplayer games you're usually doing the same things over and over and over and over again, just with different people. Whether that be raiding in WoW, killing people in BF3 or capturing a point in TF2...

I have literally hundreds of games in my Steam account and other than certain games like Assassin's Creed I don't feel like there's a lot of repetition. I can see your point in games like GoW that are hackfests (I found it hard to get into Torchlight for example) but there are plenty of single player games that aren't repetitive, unless you call using the core gameplay mechanics over and over (by design) to progress through the game...and if that's the case, almost any game can be considered repetitive.
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Note who you are responding to for future reference. It will save you time.
 
imyourzero said:
I think part of the appeal with Demon's Souls/Dark Souls is that games were in a bad habit of becoming so dumbed down and easy for the masses...Demon's Souls came out and it was a breath of fresh air for those who love a challenge. I haven't played those games; they just sound frustratingly brutal but people say they are rewarding if you dedicate yourself to them.
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People have overhyped the difficulty of the game it's very far from the hardest game i have played and i have been playing the game completely blind with no guides. The game becomes considerably easier the longer you play it and not because you level up but because you gain knowledge. "prepare to die" is a good phrase to start from because dieing is just part of the game. Expect to die first time you encounter new enemies until you learn their weakness then it starts to become formulaic and really fun just conquering the game. Some people just can't get over having to learn how to play a game without their hand being held all the way through.
 
Total War games. Just doesn't do anything for me. Boring

Assassins Creed. I played the first one and after the first hour or so, it felt like I was really griding to get to the end (doing the same things over and over again). I know a lot of people that like it but I just couldn't get into it.

Devil May Cry and other button mashers (Ninja Gaiden, God of War, etc). Again, know a lot of people that love the series, but just can't get into it. Find it way too repetitive.
 
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