Popular games and series you just don't get

[Sephex]

Kingdom Hearts. Sorry guys, I just don't get it. I wanted to like it so bad. I didn't just play an hour and give up. I did play a large chunk of the first game and I just couldn't do it. The gameplay was just so janky and the camera was atrocious. Most rooms had these weird angles where it obviously was textured to look big, but I felt claustrophobic the whole time. The second game seemed a lot better, but now my problem is that there are at least six thousand side titles and ports. Even hardcore KH have difficultly explaining the story without busting out a flow chart or diving into a deep lecture. I like a deep story, but I think Square bit off more than they could chew and they drug their ass when it came to actually releasing a proper sequel.

[Formalhaut]

Kingdom Hearts. Sorry guys, I just don't get it. I wanted to like it so bad. I didn't just play an hour and give up. I did play a large chunk of the first game and I just couldn't do it. The gameplay was just so janky and the camera was atrocious. Most rooms had these weird angles where it obviously was textured to look big, but I felt claustrophobic the whole time. The second game seemed a lot better, but now my problem is that there are at least six thousand side titles and ports. Even hardcore KH have difficultly explaining the story without busting out a flow chart or diving into a deep lecture. I like a deep story, but I think Square bit off more than they could chew and they drug their ass when it came to actually releasing a proper sequel.

*Patiently waits for Fynn to enter*

[Fynn]

Kingdom Hearts. Sorry guys, I just don't get it. I wanted to like it so bad. I didn't just play an hour and give up. I did play a large chunk of the first game and I just couldn't do it. The gameplay was just so janky and the camera was atrocious. Most rooms had these weird angles where it obviously was textured to look big, but I felt claustrophobic the whole time. The second game seemed a lot better, but now my problem is that there are at least six thousand side titles and ports. Even hardcore KH have difficultly explaining the story without busting out a flow chart or diving into a deep lecture. I like a deep story, but I think Square bit off more than they could chew and they drug their ass when it came to actually releasing a proper sequel.

*Patiently waits for Fynn to enter*

What? Everyone's entitled to their own opinion. Sephex didn't like it - it happens.

It's another matter when fans choose to neglect non-numbered games, especially as they're now collected in one place, because there's no such thing as a KH spinoff and they should all be treated as main games, and the story is not more convoluted than anything that runs a continuous story for so long but I digress

[krissy]

no he's right
i tried watching the story of kh on youtube and still don't get it

also

call of duty

i just dont care

[Fynn]

Am I the only person who never had any problem getting any of it?

[Laddy]

Dark Souls, Undertale, Mass Effect.

[Fynn]

Devil Survivor is apparently the favorite of many a MegaTen fan.

Ooh, and I almost forgot about the Last Story. That game did not deserve the amount of hype it received.

[Forsaken Lover]

It used to be hands down my favorite FF but over the years I've become very disenchanted with FFIX and the fanbase's blind adoration of it irks me.

[Bubba]

Skyrim, Fallout 4 pretty much anything by Bethesda.

The gameplay just doesn't grip me at all

[blackmage_nuke]

Open world survival multiplayer games (sometimes with zombies) . I can enjoy them for maybe a few hours if I have friends to play with and Im discovering new mechanics but after the first base gets destroyed I just lose all interest. Not to mention all the time spent at night time holed up inside waiting for day. I keep buying them too, my friends egg me on to play and I think "this time it'll be different" and cave in then end up bored fairly quickly.

[Mirage]

Disgaea. I love what the series represents, but good lord that grind... I have no idea how people manage to stomach hundreds of battles just over and over..

You can stop the game after the main story

I put some time into the first one, and one of the things that did it in for me was the fact that everything required battle grinding. The kicker was for equipment. You had to enter that equipment and fight a battle. 10 battles, minimum I believe. To unlock an exit where your progress was kept for that item and it got a level up. If you want to level up your equipment, you then have to fight 10 battles for each piece of equipment. So if you want like level 2 equipment for your party, you then have to fight 100 non-essential battles. I'm sure I've forgotten some of the specifics, so this is likely not entirely true. But the issue itself still stands. You have to grind inside equipment, a lot. No thanks...

You don't need to start leveling up equipment until you're planning on take down the postgame bosses. Also, you can use a mr gency's exit to leave before 10 battles are up. Also, people don't actually fight those item battles, they just beeline to the exit without fighting, treating it more like a puzzle stage.

Like i said, you don't need to grind for the story part of the game.

[Slothy]

Every Bioware game I've ever played. I'm not getting into the reasons why for the hundredth time.

And i loved the first Kingdom Hearts but the second was a complete piece of trout. It made no sense and was even worse in terms of gameplay. Gave up on the series then.

[sharkythesharkdogg]

Obligatory mention of Valkyria Chronicles. I really want to enjoy this game but it just rubs me the wrong way for some reason.

My feelings aren't as strong as Wolf Canoe's, but I'd have to agree. I was all excited to play it, and it is fun, but it's not everything I thought it would be. I think it was talked up too much, and couldn't live up to what I was expecting.

[Fynn]

Obligatory mention of Valkyria Chronicles. I really want to enjoy this game but it just rubs me the wrong way for some reason.

My feelings aren't as strong as Wolf Canoe's, but I'd have to agree. I was all excited to play it, and it is fun, but it's not everything I thought it would be. I think it was talked up too much, and couldn't live up to what I was expecting.

That's a big problem with many things for me, really. It's one of the reasons I'm wary about trying Undertail. It's hailed like it's the Second Coming of Christ but at this point, I just know I'd be disappointed.

That reminds me of another one: Child of Light. Yeah, it was a cool throwback to older games, but I'm not a fan of the sidescroller style, and the story was very barebones. This was especially disappointing because so many people called the story specifically genius, but it was so, so basic. There really wasn't anything stand-out about it.

Still, Oengus is love.

[maybee]

Animal Crossing, sorry it's just really adorable and all ? But it's basically go fishing, collect apples, sales -repeat over and over again. I don't compute what's so awesome about it ? Cute visuals and characters though.