Games you acknowledge are good but still don't like.

[BigEd781]

The recent Final Fantasy games - I lost interest after FFX. Not saying I disliked FFX though! Just saying the games afterwards didn't seem too appealing to me.

Same.  It makes me sad.

 

[serialsleeper]

Any game in the Zelda franchise. Try as I might, I just can't get in to them.

Yes, this even refers to Ocarina of Time and Link to the Past.

I probably shouldn't admit that on a forum specific to RPG's. 

I feel the same way. I've tried really hard to like Zelda games. In theory they are perfect for me but they just don't click.

 

[MountainLynx]

Oh, Final Fantasy... It was a glorious franchise for a good, long while. Now, every time I hear an announcement of a new FF title, I can't help but picture a Japanese man in a business suit swinging a club at a brutalized equine skeleton...

 

[West Mains]

The original fallout games. I started off with Fallout 3, so it was just too weird to go backwards into the different playstyle. I loved the 3D openworld too much.

 

[servantb7]

Earthbound. I don't think its a bad game, it had a lot of fun and really unique stuff. I just never got into it as much as some other RPGs.

 

[Lava Breath]

World of Warcraft - It was very easy to for me to see why this game was/is so damned popular. I never played it until I got into college thanks to me gf who told me to play it with her and a friend. But, I got bored to tears and only continued playing because my gf played it and a few other folks I knew. I thought the art style was really slick and I liked the class I played (ranger, and I always tried catching pets no one else seemed to have), but outside of those things. Meh... I got bored pretty fast and once I got to one of those territories where you could attack the players from the other faction, I did. Then I got bored of that and essentially quit playing. This sort of goes for most MMOs. I usually try exploring the game world, interacting with the various NPCs and doing all the quests to see the world get fleshed out but I hate the aggro and it made exploring the world rather tedious.

Sins of a Solar Empire - It was a fun game but every time I started a new game it ended up feeling completely the same no matter the size of the system or galaxy I played on. I saw the addons that were later released but none of them made me want to go back and play it. I did enjoy it I'm never going back to play it again. I think the biggest thing was that carriers made no sense and I had to do a lot of micro-managing. I know the add-ons alleviated certian issues but I just...cannot for the life of me garner any interest back in the series.

Sports Games - I played a lot of Sega Sports Y2K - Football, Baseball, and especially the Fifa games. (Never really did the racing games, *yawn*.) But I could only play them in 30 minute increments before I got tired and bored. Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed the managerial aspects of the games (especially Fifa because of the tiered leagues) but even with those I got bored as well. I don't think I own a single sports game right now...

Grand Theft Auto III- And maybe the entire series. I thought the game world was great and fun to play in and did a lot of other side quests or whatever they were called. Never did the main storyline (never do in these types of games) and just did everything else as it didn't really interest me. I just mucked about mostly and rather enjoyed it more watching my friends play but when it came to me. I ended up always switching to something else. Nowadays I can't even touch a GTA game. However, the radio talk show guy was too much fun listening too and I still quote it to this day.

 

[zacheatscrackers]

Half Life 1 (it was revolutionary at the time, but it bores me to no end nowadays, especially considering HL2 is far superior imo; has all the thought-provoking puzzles and crazy shooting of the original combined with an interesting story and awesome graphics [and I know HL1 was released in the 90s but I find the Quake games to be much better looking for that time period])

Team Fortress 2 (good is debatable for the current state of the game, but I honestly hate the game with a PASSION now; it's had so many atrocious updates and the community is so mangled of any tolerability that I just wince at even thinking of the game)

FF7 (again, good is debatable but I just couldn't get into the game at all. Really, though, apart from some of the PS2 entries I prefer the 2D ones alot more anyway)

WWE '12 (huge engine/physics improvement from the other WWE games, I admit, but it felt dull compared to how incredible '13 is. That and ATTITUDE FOREVER sexy)

Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction (it's a technically good game but Crack in Time takes every last good thing about it and powerhouses the quality to infinity)

 

[Destinaxe]

Minecraft

The game is great, but with it being open world, sandbox styled I just can't enjoy it. I feel as if Notch can use the Minecraft engine for something like a first person dungeon crawler. The "try hard to be funny" community doesn't help me enjoy the game either.

Notch didnt do this on purpose, due to the fact he has allowed everyone to create mods for the game. If you want it to be a dungen crawler just simply download the Hack Slash Mine mod, this adds randomly generated dungens a minimap and tons of new mobs to the game like a creeper snake and dire chicken.

Pokemon games, I absolutely hate them but to some degree they are good. The way you go about in the games are stupid and the long tutorial at the start wich you cant even skip. And when you fly c'mon let me actually fly not just teleport to any location ive been. Also the game isnt very challenging, yes they added a hard mode to the newer ones, but you have to unlock it by completing the game and why would i want to do it all again if ie completed it.

 

[JohnnyR]

Well, I know about THOUSANDS of people that LOVE the game God Of War... Well, I know it's really good, it has amazing graphics and stuff, but still... I can't see it as a fun game, anyone could make a game like that, you just need an overpowering character that can kill a God, a lot of blood, Ultimate weapons, massive destruction and a lot of enemies! I know it's not really true everything I said above, but it's just my opinion, I'm more the Diablo kind of guy. 

 

[Milkdud]

The Walking Dead. The game started off really strong with the first two episodes, and the choices I made really did feel like it was building up to have an impact like everybody was hyping about. Then I got to the middle part of Episode 3 and all my hopes were crushed. From then on out it just felt like playing a game by Bioware (choices with very little no impact) with very little gameplay. Not only that but I had to deal with corrupted save files throughout the entire game. Luckily I picked it up on sale for $10 because that's about as much Telltale will ever get from me anymore.

 

[Amarysse]

The Bioshock series. Objectively, I recognise that they're good and pushing the mainstream forward with their tackling of Big Issues blah blah blah... but man. Did it have to be an FPS? (That's a rhetorical question.)

I also respect Skyrim for its world-building and impressive visuals (particularly when modded on PC) but I personally don't find Bethesda's games at all interesting to play because they don't tickle the happy places in my brain that many JRPGs do, particularly when it comes to characters and story. I couldn't name a single character from or tell you what happened in Oblivion or Skyrim, but I do respect the amount of work that must have gone into building those incredible worlds. I just wish there was more fun stuff to do and more interesting people to talk to in them!

If it helps, I don't really like the Zelda games, either, though again I respect what they do -- they just don't hit enough of my personal appeal elements.

 

[Travatar]

Just about any of the high-profile shooty-bang (FPS) games, really. I mean, I sort of liked Duke Nukem 3D and Serious Sam, and the one time I played Portal was really fun. But Halo, Crysis, Gears of Honor, Medal of Warfare and the rest? Not my thing. They're about as polished as can be, but I just can't have fun.

Now Chex Quest, on the other hand. That's a FPS I can really dig.

 

[Conect11]

Ok, I'll chime in like others have with Skyrim. Oddly enough, I did like it when I played through, but there just was no replay value for me. So I'm not sure that really goes with the spirit of the topic, but...

I hate to admit it, but anything in the Ultima series after Ultima 6 or 7.

 

[MyLordRobinson]

The Walking Dead. The game started off really strong with the first two episodes, and the choices I made really did feel like it was building up to have an impact like everybody was hyping about. Then I got to the middle part of Episode 3 and all my hopes were crushed. From then on out it just felt like playing a game by Bioware (choices with very little no impact) with very little gameplay. Not only that but I had to deal with corrupted save files throughout the entire game. Luckily I picked it up on sale for $10 because that's about as much Telltale will ever get from me anymore.

If you would have continued to Part 4 and 5 then your decisions will come full circle. 

 

[Milkdud]

If you would have continued to Part 4 and 5 then your decisions will come full circle. 

I did.

From then on out it just felt like playing a game by Bioware (choices with very little no impact) with very little gameplay.

 

[zacheatscrackers]

Just about any of the high-profile shooty-bang (FPS) games, really. I mean, I sort of liked Duke Nukem 3D and Serious Sam, and the one time I played Portal was really fun. But Halo, Crysis, Gears of Honor, Medal of Warfare and the rest? Not my thing. They're about as polished as can be, but I just can't have fun.

Now Chex Quest, on the other hand. That's a FPS I can really dig.

Portal's more of a first person puzzle game, tbh.

But yeah, I can see where you're coming from; I love FPSes but alot of them feel the same in a way.

 

[JJK_42]

Well, I just hate FPS games. Unless I play against my friends, but then we usually don't play seriously. I just don't like shooting people. I prefer to command my army to shoot people or kill them with some epic magic spell

 

[zacheatscrackers]

Understandable. We all have our own personal preferences.

 

[Travatar]

Anything in the Sakura War--oops, I mean "Taisen" series. (Heaven forbid you translate a japanese word into an english word that means the exact same thing, after all.)

The games look good, and the art is definitely nice, but there's absolutely nothing I find interesting about them, even the one they released in English.

Even worse, the extreme part of their fanbase tends to be down-your-throat-jumpy with OMG THIS IS THE BEST EVER WHY ARE YOU WASTING YOUR TIME WITH OTHER GAMES WHEN YOU CAN IMPORT A BUNCH OF EXPENSIVE GAMES IN JAPANESE AND PRETEND YOU UNDERSTAND THE TEXT?

 

[SoulPour777]

All non-Japanese RPGs. I don't really like the touch of the other games out there.