Games you tried to like but couldn't

[ReloadPsi]

The other day I played Sonic Adventure again, despite the fact I can't stand any of the 3D Sonic games, or Sonic's taller, slenderer design in general.

It was quite fun for the first couple of levels (especially when I was laughing my dick off at some of the hilariously awful cutscenes) but soon the game's fall-through-the-floor glitches (I died falling through the same floor about three times on one occasion) and awful camera got the better of me and I just couldn't take any more.

Sonic Adventure has always been one of those games I for some reason think I'm supposed to experience and I really have tried to enjoy it, but I just can't.

FF12 on the other hand, I did somehow force on myself enough that I now quite like it.

Anyone else have any games they tried to like but couldn't?

[Madame Adequate]

Zelda. All of the Zelda. And FFIX. And FFXII.

[I Took the Red Pill]

Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door

[Jowy]

Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door

it gets really good after rogueport

really good

[Araciel]

Final Fantasy

....

[Slothy]

Zelda. All of the Zelda. And FFIX. And FFXII.

Pike, I'm a little concerned that this guy isn't right for you. I think we should have a talk.

Anyway, RE4 certainly qualifies. The opening village is kind of cool. Then I realized the movement controls hadn't changed at all from the clunky earlier games. Then I wasn't in the village anymore. Then the game went on for at least twice as long as it should have. And I fought the aiming system the entire way.

Ugh...

[Raistlin]

FFVIII
Xenogears
Every Spider-Man game I've played since Spider-Man 2

[Edge7]

...Chrono Trigger *runs away from angry mob*.

To be fair, there are some things about this game I LOVE, I just can't ever motivate myself to finish it. Actually, I guess that counts as a game I like, but can't enjoy.

[Alpha2099]

FFXII
Vagrant Story
Medal of Honor: Rising Sun

I'm trying to think of games that I genuinely don't like, rather than games where I just lost interest, else this list would be longer and perhaps more inflammatory.

[Slothy]

FFVIII
Xenogears
Every Spider-Man game I've played since Spider-Man 2

What about Ultimate Spider-Man? I didn't play 2 but I heard the web swinging mechanics were similar and it had a great story.

[CimminyCricket]

Infinite Undiscovery was horrible. The voice overs were horrid and it felt like they had stolen characters from other games they've done, but with a twist that made them obnoxious.

[Jinx]

Shadow of the Colossus

[Wolf Kanno]

FFX - I've played it through 3 times and I still find the whole game to be one of the most boring entries in the series. There are elements I like (battle system sounds great in theory, it is terrible in practice...) and some of the story and symbolism could have come off really good if the cast wasn't so flat and Square went out of their way to push the melodrama up to eleven in every cutscene.

Mirror's Edge - You know, when I'm actually just parkoring through the stages it's fun, combat is a chore and feels really out of place in the game's scenario and the story is not terribly good either. I'd probably just prefer a time attack mode with the engine and good set designs over a plot and combat.

Resident Evil (whole series) - Zombies are not scary and the games have awful controls.

Valkyria Chronicles - A lot of great ideas bogged down by a unnecessarily slow gameplay, tedious menu system, and a generic war story that tries to fit in every single anime anti-war series cliche it can find.

Steambot Chronicles - An odd anime steampunk GTA clone that has quite possibly the worst mecha controls I've ever seen for a game. The music games are fun though...

God of War - It's just a violent DMC clone that is more sluggish, filled to the brim with annoying QTEs, and has one of the most unlikable protagonists in an action game. If it wasn't for some of the game's clever puzzles, I'd say it was all visual flash and gore with little substance.

Super Mario Galaxy - I blame part of this on this game being the first 3D Mario game I've really spent some time on, but I don't know... I find the stages are pretty small and unnecessarily simple, not to mention that I bowed out of the series before collecting arbitrary McGuffins to get a perfect game became a core game mechanic. So that just seems like busy work rather than something I would care to actually do.

[Shorty]

Civ.

come at me, huxley

[ReloadPsi]

Resident Evil (whole series) - Zombies are not scary and the games have awful controls.

Another one I had to force on myself, but only the very first one, because the voice acting is hilarious and was well worth playing through to hear it all. Watching it on YouTube was just a bit too boring a way to access it, sadly.

What this means is that the rest of the series is very "eh" to me :P

FFX - I've played it through 3 times and I still find the whole game to be one of the most boring entries in the series. There are elements I like (battle system sounds great in theory, it is terrible in practice...) and some of the story and symbolism could have come off really good if the cast wasn't so flat and Square went out of their way to push the melodrama up to eleven in every cutscene.

Well that's more times than I, but then I wasn't trying to like it