Originally Posted by Pete for President
The first Dark Souls wasn't even what I was hoping it would be. Just a bunch of cheap deaths, and a super cryptic story that just sounds like lazy writing to me. It was interested for a while, but all the "you must die 10 times to advance" crap got old fast. I got it for free. I tried it. Played 10 - 15 hours. Quit. Never looked back
Most GTA games as well. Everyone loves them so much. I keep trying them, to find out why. And keep getting confused. GTA 3, Vice City, GTA 4. Etc. There's just something about them. My biggest complaint with 4 was the driving. You constantly slide 4 blocks when you try to stop. The cars weigh like 2 pounds, and act like they're always on ice
And Final Fantasy Tactics was just battle, battle, battle, story, battle, story, battle battle battle. It's not an what I consider a strategy RPG. It's just a strategy game. There's no walking around towns, dungeons, interacting with NPCs, nothing. This actually turns me off to almost all JSRPGs these days. Disgaea, and every other NIS game included
There's a ton of things that come to mind for my own list though. Final Fantasy VIII. The GBA remake of Shining Force. But I think my saddest disappointments were for games that I found legitimately good, but had flaws that just completely took me out of them. Like Ni No Kuni's 18-hours of hand-holding. Or Valkyria Chronicles' ridiculous difficulty spike barely a chapter or two into the game. I loved both of them. But just couldn't do it. Same with Resonance of Fate. I LOVED the characters, and what little story there was. But their idea of dungeons being just battle, battle, battle. And you get to your destination, THEN you have to go through 20 consecutive battles again, just to get back out. Ugh
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