Games that I just don't get

[LightPhoenix]

Snagged shamelessly from the Movies forum.

I'm gonna put a restriction on it though - please use specific games, and not entire genres. Everyone has genres they do and don't like. I'm talking real specific games.

My first would be GTA3, and Vice City. I bought GTA3 on the advice of a friend, and just didn't find anything I really liked about the game at all. One of my roomies (later on) bought Vice City, and while the story was a bit better, the game still just didn't appeal to me.

My second would be Dark Alliance. I didn't think the story was all that great, I thought the gameplay was repetitive and done much better in Diablo II. I had a lot of fun with it in the first few hours, but after a while it just got stale.

My third is going to be a "safe" choice - FF7. Putting perspective on it (despite rants on other threads) I didn't think 9 and 10 were bad games. Vivi owns my soul. I know a lot of it is nostalgia factor - it was a lot of people's first RPG. I just found the story to be a little too goofy, especially towards the end concerning Cloud and Sephiroth. None of the characters really grabbed me at all. In fact, the only thing I liked about the game was the thing most people didn't - the very ending.

Finally, I'm going to round out my choices with Halo. It looks pretty, but it doesn't seem to me like it really did anything innovative beyond that for FPSs. I played it, and it rang decidedly meh. Admittedly, I haven't playing it with other people, and that's biasing my decision a bit, I'm sure.

 

[KenM]

Part of the appeal of the GTA games is the free roaming, do anything to get the job done way of playing.
The game I don't get is Everquest. I pay money to buy it in the store, then I have to pay more money each month just tp play a game I already paid for? I also don't see where all the so called "roleplaying" in EQ. All it was to me was killing monsters until you don't get any XP for them anymore, then you move onto the next area and spawn points, reapeat. I have alot better computer RPG experence with Neverwinter Nights, and I don't have to pay $12.95 US/ month just to play it.

 

[Dark Jezter]

I don't get Final Fantasy VIII.

Granted, this one is an easy target; most Final Fantasy fans consider FF8 to easily be the worst in the series.

FF8 featured an unlikable, angsty hero character, his irritating love interest, and several other supporting characters who managed to get on my nerves. In addition, the game featured a slow-moving story, a magic system that was way too complicated, plot twists that were completely rediculous (the characters all knew each other as children, but they couldn't remember it because magic erases memories), more teen angst than a warehouse full of Nine Inch Nail albums, and a villain who didn't show up until the game was almost over.

On the plus side, FF8 did have impressive graphics (at the time) and a pretty cool soundtrack.

 

[Wombat]

My problem is that I "get" very few games...

I mean, the Civilization series (barring the awful Call to Power offshoots) are great, as was Alpha Centauri, but most others hold my interest for about one play

BGII was also good, but I hated the follow-up to it; NWN is only okay for me -- what I liked about BGII (character interaction, gripping story, etc.) was totally missing -- instead I got a very nice game engine, but as I am not a programmer, nor do I intend to become one anytime soon, the engine alone is far from a selling point and, so far, all the stories have been forced and boring

First person shooters? Never liked 'em

**sigh**

Guess I'll just crawl back inside my books like the trog that I am...

 

[LightPhoenix]

Part of the appeal of the GTA games is the free roaming, do anything to get the job done way of playing.
The game I don't get is Everquest. I pay money to buy it in the store, then I have to pay more money each month just tp play a game I already paid for? I also don't see where all the so called "roleplaying" in EQ. All it was to me was killing monsters until you don't get any XP for them anymore, then you move onto the next area and spawn points, reapeat. I have alot better computer RPG experence with Neverwinter Nights, and I don't have to pay $12.95 US/ month just to play it.

I would have mentioned Everquest, but my problem is with the entire MMORPG genre for a number of reasons, not the least being I don't like playing online with people I don't know. And I'm not hypocritical enough to break my own restrictions in the very first post.

 

[Null Boundry]

My problem is that I "get" very few games...

I mean, the Civilization series (barring the awful Call to Power offshoots) are great, as was Alpha Centauri, but most others hold my interest for about one play

Same here, I tend to buy very few games as most just don't appeal. Mainly I just play the various Civ games and the odd game of Cossacks.

Baldurs Gate - in fact any "roleplaying" game for computers. Its not roleplaying, you have a few selections to make and some preprogrammed responses. That does make it roleplaying.

Driving games and fighting games - Ok if your competing against someone I could see the appeal for a few games but most people don't.

 

[shadowlight]

Baldurs Gate - in fact any "roleplaying" game for computers. Its not roleplaying, you have a few selections to make and some preprogrammed responses. That does make it roleplaying.

Try Knights of the Old Republic (PC or XBox). It may change your mind.

 

[Henry]

Snagged shamelessly from the Movies forum.

I'm gonna put a restriction on it though - please use specific games, and not entire genres. Everyone has genres they do and don't like. I'm talking real specific games.

Splinter Cell, Thief, and others of their concept. I found out last night by playing Splinter Cell for the first time. I enjoyed the concept for about an hour, and ofter that point I snapped, and started shooting Georgian special police left and right. I got killed a minute later, of course.

That much sneaking around in a game drives me NUTS.

 

[gfunk]

Frankly, I don't get the appeal of any MMORPGs. I too, do not see the benefit in paying a monthly fee for a game that I already paid for.

Also, I am very uncomfortable with the fact that there are people who play these games unceasingly and make god-like characters which they then sell for $300 on Ebay. I have neither the time nor inclination to compete.

 

[Lazybones]

I agree completely on GTA3. I played a few missions, but got bored with it real fast.

I'd also add Warcraft III. Maybe I've just played too many RTS games (Dune2, C&C, C&C Red Alert, Dark Reign, Total Annihilation, Age of Empires, Age of Kings, Warcraft, Warcraft 2, Starcraft)... they all just seem like the same game by now.

I did enjoy Halo, but didn't end up finishing it. Single player FPS games don't keep my attention as much now that I've discovered multiplayer action in BF1942/DC.