Great Games You Don't Like

I think once you get past the first couple and get your tactics sorted and have better weapons and plasmids, there much easier.

I personally like the challenge. I always play games on the hardest difficulty, even if they do get ridiculously frustrating. Try Call of Duty World at War on Veteran – that’s probably the toughest game I have played.

i read somewhere that setting the little sisters free means i get less of a upgrade from them, having set free all of those that Ive found so far would that have had a significant effect? significant enough for me to blame or am i just shit at this particular game?

I did COD WAW on the basic setting but not Vet and unfortunatey I dont have it anymore. Enjoyed the game though, the russian sniper mission in particular was awesome
 
Oh, no, WoW's a terrible, repetitive, unrewarding game. It's just addictive.

I was addicted for about 3 months. Then i got to the stage where you had to go around in groups with people you didn't know, getting abuse from people because you weren't as much of a nerd as them. That's when i bailed, before i became one of them.
 
Out of interest, how many of its "forerunners" have you played? System Shock 1 and 2, Deus Ex? I find most of the people who adore Bioshock haven't played those before it, which were very similar yet better. I also find - and I don't mean to be insulting here - that most are console gamers, too, and so haven't really had the same exposure to that sort of game that PC gamers have.

No i havnt played them, but i know it was made by some of the same developers of that series.
 
Oh, no, WoW's a terrible, repetitive, unrewarding game. It's just addictive.

Actually i should've put WOW in the OP - despite having spent close to a year of my life playing nothing but that game i fully endose your post

those still playing it need to quit and go cold turkey with it, its the only way out. WoW completely destroys your perspective of other video games
 
Halo, Halo 2, and Halo 3.

Avatar of course. I don't know if it's great or shite, there's a videogame, I hate it.
 
Saints Row 1+2: I've heard it being talked up so many times, but when I finally player it I was let down.

Soul Calibur 4: the 2nd one was very good, in fact I'd go so far as to say it's the best arcade style fighting game I've ever played. But the 4th is just so stiff. Earlier versions excelled when they threw the physics books out the window.
 
i read somewhere that setting the little sisters free means i get less of a upgrade from them, having set free all of those that Ive found so far would that have had a significant effect? significant enough for me to blame or am i just shit at this particular game?

I did COD WAW on the basic setting but not Vet and unfortunatey I dont have it anymore. Enjoyed the game though, the russian sniper mission in particular was awesome

You get ADAM from the little sisters, the more you get, the more powerful you become. The first big daddys aint to hard as you can respawn and they dont regenerate health.

COD WaW was a great single player game.
 
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I'm not a fan of all these FPS games. They all seem the same to me, except Bioshock. Well, actually I'm a huge fan of Goldeneye and Timesplitters 2, so maybe I should say it's these realistic, and war ones I don't like.

Also never been a fan of the Final Fantasy games. I don't see the hype in Gran Turismo, WoW, and probably a lot more :angel:

I forgot San Andreas, found it boring compared to GTA 3 and Vice City.
 
I think IX is criminally underrated with the best set of characters outside of VII

Thank god there is someone out there who shares this view. It is arguably my favourite Final Fantasy and I probably spent more time on this edition than I did with any other. Storyline, characters, sountrack, magic and levelling system...everything was brilliant.

I personally loved X myself. Thought it had all the key ingredients to a great FF title with the only exception being that it was a little more linear with a set path to follow as opposed to exploring a world map.

I'm not quite sure why you're having such trouble with the Big Daddy's on Bioshock, I managed to get through the game with relative ease. Well, I never found myself retrying the same enemies over. I really hope you can get into by the time the second installment drops as it looks immense and is probably my second most anticipated release on the 360 since I've had one. Only topped by the arrival of Mass Effect 2 :drool:
 
Thank god there is someone out there who shares this view. It is arguably my favourite Final Fantasy and I probably spent more time on this edition than I did with any other. Storyline, characters, sountrack, magic and levelling system...everything was brilliant.

I only learnt to appreciate IX a few years after first playing it. I went through it again and realised that this is what a Final Fantasy is meant to be. I think i was just let down by the fact that they went back to the medievil style when after VII and VIII i was expecting some big futuristic world. Playing it through again now, in between Persona 4 sessions, and loving it more than ever. The skills system is at it's best in this one in my opinion.
 
My problem with IX is the slow battle system, one battle can take such a long time. Even when you get auto-haste later on it barely helps. Also some of the characters are a bit iffy, Quina, Amarant, Eiko, Garnet...pretty weak really. Vivi and Freya are very good though. Oh and the final boss, I don't think they put much thought into that one lol
 
I have never liked any of the Tekken's, I appreciate people love them but I never liked them. Halo is another one, I actually couldnt play it for longer than 10 minutes without becoming bored of it.
 
I only learnt to appreciate IX a few years after first playing it. I went through it again and realised that this is what a Final Fantasy is meant to be. I think i was just let down by the fact that they went back to the medievil style when after VII and VIII i was expecting some big futuristic world. Playing it through again now, in between Persona 4 sessions, and loving it more than ever. The skills system is at it's best in this one in my opinion.

the change of style is one of its best features though imo. After VII & VIII it was good to change direction and the almost disneylike visuals lent it a real charm that its recent predecessors lacked (not that VII lacked anything of course) but i appreciate that those changes did put some people off. Also it was the last one to feature some of the more extraordinary FF characters, given the games X-XIII i doubt we'll ever see a Cait Sith or Vivi type character again.
 
Just checked Metacritic.com and saw something I didn't expect.

Final Fantasy IX: 94%

Final Fantasy VII: 92%

Final Fantasy X: 92%

Final Fantasy VIII: 90%

Quite surprising really and I really couldn't argue any differently myself.

Edit, just realised what I typed here was a complete contradiction :lol:

Most people I know don't really like 9
 
Final fantasy and gran turismo. Played Fnatasy as a kid and just didn't get it, maybe now I'd appreciate it more but it just kinda put me off.

Gran turismo, has very little fun factor for me and the car handling is very rigid.
 
Just checked Metacritic.com and saw something I didn't expect.

Final Fantasy IX: 94%

Final Fantasy VII: 92%

Final Fantasy X: 92%

Final Fantasy VIII: 90%

Quite surprising really and I really couldn't argue any differently myself.

Edit, just realised what I typed here was a complete contradiction :lol:

Most people I know don't really like 9

i can't believe X is rated as good as VII?!
am i really the only one who thought it was dull?
 
When was the last time you played X? I think it takes an hour or two to get into but once you do it's a fantastic game.

I remember on one of my old levels I'd racked up a game time of over 100 hours. Had pretty much everybody on 255 for every stat, 99,999HP, 9,999MP, then I just stopped playing. I over-killed it I think.
 
I hate it when I try to replay a game and it takes hours to get going. Zelda games are really bad for that, especially in the 3D era.
 
Well actually, the Nintendo 64 ones are fine, its more the Gamecube ones and onwards. I tried replaying Twilight Princess and it took so fecking long with all the tutorial bullshit, I gave up, haven't bothered since.
 
Unreal Tournament 2003 and onwards for me are games i really hate, this was the time EPIC started to believe they could get away with just making a game that was only eye candy. So from Unreal Tournament which was the best version of the game we ended up with following game with no fun, horrible to play and just adverts for their engine.

Star Wars Galaxies after the Combat update then the NGHell as the original players decided to call it. Sony took a game that was thriving in accounts and loyal players turning it into Jedis online due to mysterious focus groups who couldn't get to grips with the game and wanted it dumbed down, no offence to any Americans here but the ones they used in the focus groups were some of the dumbest, laziest American kiddies they could find to justify their changes. So now all thats left if the whining kiddies in game while the long term players in 99% of cases left as soon as they could.
 
Unless it's a sports game, I won't be interested.

I'll await the inevitable abuse.