What AAA series of games can you not get into

Skerries

and why?
to stop this turning into a list thread explain why if you can why you don't like a certain series of games?
for me it is the following

Deus Ex- even though it was hailed as the great open world game for achieving the objective I never took to them despite owning all of them and giving up multiple times

Borderlands - it just felt like an MMO in a single player game, I know it should be played co-op but that doesn't interest me

I don't know if they have a category name but the Dark Souls/Bloodbourne games as I am not a sadist

Assassin Creed games - yawn!

J. Marston

Final Fantasy. I've given nearly every AAA/big title game a chance over the last 20 years but I've never touched an FF game and probably never will. Don't know why either, I love RPG games and I don't mind turn-based gameplay.

Digital Solitude

Fallout, gave NV three good attempts over the years, hated it each time. I enjoyed three but forgot about it after about 10 hours, just wasn't mad on it.

GTA. Enjoyed SA but GTA IV was fairly boring and V just doesn't appeal to me, I'll give it a stab yet though.

Total War and Crusader Kings, CK was just way to in-depth for me to be arsed with, I really dislike the style of TW for no good reason, I just feel I wouldn't like to sit looking at them

Deus Ex HR took me 2 years and about 4 restarts to get into Skerries I see where you're coming from, I bought Dark Souls like 3 times before it clicked with me.

CiDeRmAn

Turn based games.
And pretty much all of them.
I own tons of the buggers, from Advance Wars and Ghost Recon on the DS and 3DS to Final Fantasy XIII and Chronotrigger on the PS3 and SNES, not forgetting fare like Parasite Eve or Disgraceful on the PS1 and PS2, just can't get into them.
The only one I have enjoyed was the combat in Knights of the Old Republic on the Xbox back in the day, but even that's fudged.

Turtyturd

Destiny: Can't quite put my finger on what puts me off it. I think part of it was my own expectations of a Halo 2.0 from bungie. I also thought the fact that they released an introduction under the guise of a game originally was a big factor but having bought the complete edition recently I still can't get into it. Maybe it's the fact that my contributions to the score in multiplayer don't seem to actually have any impact on the outcome of the game.

Metal Gear: Enjoyed the one everyone else did back on the PS1, and gave the sequel a go but the story has just gotten so convoluted now that I have no interest in them.

Taltos

Batman series - don't get me wrong, I have nearly all of them but haven't finished one since Asylum. In each one there's come a point where the difficulty spikes just around the boredom threshold and I've walked away from each wondering why I didn't learn from last time.

Assassin's Creed - loved the first few. Once it went to climbing trees and hunting rabbits, never ever looked back and don't intend to. Shame I liked the real world story arch but learning how to hunt every time from scratch with the same game play and then just climbing trees, nope.

Destiny - demo was enough for me. Didn't feel like it even scratched the surface of the worst of the handsome jack collection

Mr E

The Halo games did nothing for me.

Drexel

Fallout for me. I got a really fancy version of fallout 3 as a present and I tried a good few times to play and like it but I hated it. Haven't even attempted anything in the series since 3

RobertFoster

Strategy and tactical games, even the popular ones. I've started all the ones I own couple of times and I just lose interest after an hour or so. Valkyria Chronicles, C&C, CIV5, XCOM - I try them hoping one will click and I'll get into the genre.

I used to feel the same about RPGs, but I eventually got into them after realising there was more to RPGs than Final Fantasy. That said, I still don't like (high) fantasy much. I have played and enjoyed Skyrim and Oblivion, but couldn't get into Morrowind or Dragon Age.

Oafley Jones

Halo. Not for want of trying. Completed them all up until Reach and struggled to finish each one. Never got on with the multiplayer either.

Umekichi

I could not get into Borderlands, at all. I played the first one and it felt so empty for a single player. Ended up getting my partner to play it with me, it still felt quite empty but it was better played as a coop. Ended up selling it not long after.

I also can't stand the dark souls games, I tried playing them a few times but got fed up. I know they are meant to be very difficult but honestly I didn't find dying 20+ times, before I can move onto the next part fun.

zl1whqvjs75cdy

Dark souls. I'd say if I was 10 years younger and had no responsibility then I'd love it. But I just don't have the time to get good enough at it for it to be enjoyable.

Batman, felt a bit gimmicky or something I don't know. Played the latest one on the ps4 which was pretty OK, but the batmobile was total **** and put me right off the game.

zzfh

Batman series for me too.

sheep?

Call of duty.

Modern Warfare was great, but then.....Jesus Christ what an absolute monster it's become.

Oafley Jones

zzfh wrote: »

Batman series for me too.

Arkham Asylum is a an excellent, tightly focused, well paced piece of entertainment; but the rest of them really suffer from the law of diminishing returns. The bigger they made them the worse they got. I've no motivation to finish AK..seriously, fawk the batmobile.

The_Valeyard

Borderlands, just could not enjoy it.


Rome II : my save files got deleted so this game is dead to me as I am not restarting. Also army limits annoyed me.

Halo: loved 1-3. No interest after that.

C&C 4: no base building, not playing. Same with DOW2

Links234

Far Cry 3 absolutely bored me to tears, haven't looked at another game in the franchise since.

GerB40

Fallout 3 was one of the best games I've ever played.
Fallout New Vegas bored me to tears.
Fallout 4 was utter shyte.

Assassins Creed was one game I could never get into. The first one was okay but I felt it was style over substance.

Final Fantasy 7, 8, 9 and 10 were, in my opinion, nothing short of astonishing. Every one since have been major disappointments.

Grand Theft Auto. San Andreas is in my top five games I've played. Every one since just didn't do it for me.

Call of Duty. Black Ops was the last good one. The following CoDs are the reason I play Battlefield now.

DontThankMe

Fallout 4 for me too never played the series just couldn't get into it traded it into cex about 2 weeks after launch

zzfh

Links234 wrote: »

Far Cry 3 absolutely bored me to tears, haven't looked at another game in the franchise since.

yeah,im hoping it come up on the gamestop trade in list sometime soon.

astonaidan

Fallout: Loved Elderscrolls, fallout series just meh
GTA: No, just no
COD: If I wanted interaction with kids, Id hang out with my nephew
Modern day PES: It lost its mojo
Destiny: This one is funny it has all the aspects I like in sci-fi but not for me

Im sure their is more

Underground

Uncharted.

Never played them before until I bought the Nathan Drake collection recently. I understand this series is a trendsetter and broke new ground and what not. This kinda explains why the games felt ubiquitous, boring and derivative as all hell.

Id never played the game before and yet it felt like a game I'd played 10,000 times. Obviously other AAA games that I've played followed Uncharted's lead and adopted many ideas as from it. Unfortunately, this means that this series just bores the pants off me.

Retr0gamer

GTA games. They're not bad and I've beaten most of them. My main problem is that for open world games there's too much scripting in the missions were unlike GTA 3 where you could approach missions in interesting ways there's now very little difference between the latest linear snore fest.

Shadows of Mordor, mad Max etc. Games that rely on 'batman combat'. I just hate the combat systems in these games. I guess I was just spoiled with games with intricate combat systems that something that reduces the whole thing to a qte is just boring. Batman gets a pass due to having a nice variety of gameplay styles.

Borderlands. I've never really gotten into loot based games. I also found the so called humour obnoxious. Having it based on nothing but stupid internet memes is not my idea of funny.

Bioware games. I find them incredibly generic and directly rip off other source material. Dragon age is a bad game of thrones rip off, mass effect rips off the classic sci Fi book Gateway poorly. The lore and codex entries they try to ram down your throat are also badly written tripe and the games become better when you ignore the lore. They aren't bad games but for every Bioware game there's a Witcher 3, planescape torment or tactics ogre I've yet to play or finish which are of a far better quality.

Halo. As a PC gamer I found the first fun but nothing special. 2 was a bit crap, 3 was decent, ODST was meh and Reach... Well I loved that one other than the muck story. Then Bungie left to make the boring Destiny and Halo 4 was ****. Oh well.

Anyone that says there's been no good Final Fantasy games since 10 needs to play FF13-3 (also 10 is not so good in hindsight). Secret best FF game in years... Even if it's more a Tri-ace game.

5uspect

Underground wrote: »

Uncharted.

Never played them before until I bought the Nathan Drake collection recently. I understand this series is a trendsetter and broke new ground and what not. This kinda explains why the games felt ubiquitous, boring and derivative as all hell.

Id never played the game before and yet it felt like a game I'd played 10,000 times. Obviously other AAA games that I've played followed Uncharted's lead and adopted many ideas as from it. Unfortunately, this means that this series just bores the pants off me.

I have to agree. Loved the whole style of it and the fun characters but the gameplay was just awful. The endless shooting galleries... Ugh.

Similarly, as a bit of an fps fan, I never got into shooters like Borderlands or Halo. They felt too much like a grind with bullet sponge enemies.
As above MW2 was the final nail in the COD coffin for me. Such a bizarre tonal switch.

Assassins Creed was a series ruined by its own success. After the Italian series of games it veered into an utter mess. Horrible controls and awful missions. They should really make made the pirate aspects of Black Flag into its own IP.

I've never been one for MMO games either, but that's hardly a controversial opinion.

CoD, because I dislike the playerbase.

Halo, because I didn't like the first game.

Assassin's Creed, because the first game was ruddy awful.

Any sports game.

Sonics2k

Far Cry 3 and 4. I wasn't a fan of the first two at all and never really gave them time, but I did try 3 and 4 and I really really just could not enjoy them at all.

Fallout 3 and 4. Tried them, put about 20 hours in and just did not like them at all. I think people are way too soft on Bethesda and the bugs in their launch games. Also just found them to be honestly boring.

C.O.D and other FPS games. I used to love the single player COD games, but I suck absolute balls and Multiplayer so I can't really get into them.

pumpkin4life

Underground wrote: »

Uncharted.

Never played them before until I bought the Nathan Drake collection recently. I understand this series is a trendsetter and broke new ground and what not. This kinda explains why the games felt ubiquitous, boring and derivative as all hell.

Id never played the game before and yet it felt like a game I'd played 10,000 times. Obviously other AAA games that I've played followed Uncharted's lead and adopted many ideas as from it. Unfortunately, this means that this series just bores the pants off me.

never understood the appeal either. the boring as **** "press x and point in direction" platforming, the spongy shooting with guns that feel like peashooters, and there's something incredibly irritating about Nathan Drake which i just can't put my finger on.

good graphics though.

joe123

Gears of War - Usually don't enjoy games with Aliens/Monsters so sort of made sense I wouldnt enjoy this.

Halo - The second one was my favorite as you could use stealth and its generally the least liked by the community.

Uncharted - Feels like a quick time event spruced up.

Assassin Creed - Found it incredibly boring.

All CODs/MWs after MW2.

To an extent all Bethesda games. Always fun at the beginning but their level scaling in those games just completely ruins it for me. Fallout 4 at first seemed amazing but then I realised how empty it actually was. Felt like a remake of Fallout 3.

Generic Dreadhead

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Borderlands. I've never really gotten into loot based games. I also found the so called humour obnoxious. Having it based on nothing but stupid internet memes is not my idea of funny.

"Stairs?!?!?"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"

Shiminay

Halo: utterly, utterly boring and seems like babby's first shooter - most FPS' are if you have to use a controller and you cut your teeth on Quakeworld though.

Final Fantasy - the worst games I have ever played in my life. I cannot understand why anyone would sit through that rubbish. First one I saw was 7 on the PC, rubbish port, couldn't even play the video files properly. Saw my brother take literally 2 hours to fight some sort of boss that would just keep healing itself. Fascinating gameplay :rolleyes:

ShadowHearth

FarCry 3 and 4 - I just could not stomach the amount of bloated content, that just makes game a lot longer then it should. I still want to play Far cry 3 at some point just due to Vaas, but it wont be soon. I heard they good games, gave it a go and got annoyed with endless to do lists. Funny enough I am playing Mad Max in short bursts right now and Loving it to bits. I guess setting and my love for post apocalyptic and cars wins over.

Ass creed - Tried 1 and 3. Both times just did not clicked with me. Got bored of repetitive gameplay very fast.

Kimbot

Turtyturd wrote: »

Destiny: Can't quite put my finger on what puts me off it. I think part of it was my own expectations of a Halo 2.0 from bungie. I also thought the fact that they released an introduction under the guise of a game originally was a big factor but having bought the complete edition recently I still can't get into it. Maybe it's the fact that my contributions to the score in multiplayer don't seem to actually have any impact on the outcome of the game.

Destiny really comes into its own when your playing in the clan etc doing raids

Taltos wrote: »

Destiny - demo was enough for me. Didn't feel like it even scratched the surface of the worst of the handsome jack collection

You should actually try it now :P

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Ass creed - Tried 1 and 3. Both times just did not clicked with me. Got bored of repetitive gameplay very fast.

I could never ever get into Assassins Creed.

Nailz

astonaidan wrote: »

Modern day PES: It lost its mojoe

Have you tried this years one? Streets ahead of the last gen iterations of PES and FIFA post-2012.


For me it would have to be Fallout 3, I played it after I played New Vegas (which really impressed me, loved it) and I was just bored. Wasn't as fun, colourful or immersive as what I was used to from Fallout NV.

Can't stand turn-based games, I love my Vita and I tried so desperately hard to like what would be considered it's very best game - Persona 4 Golden - but I just couldn't get it. Same goes for Chrono Trigger, the popular Final Fantasy's, and the likes; gave them a go and it just wasn't for me.

Current-gen FIFA. Absolute gash. Stuck with FIFA 15 for the year, there's very little game there, the presentation and animations are all very impressive, but just couldn't abide it any longer with 16. 15 was bad, but with what little changes they made for 16, it's worse.
It's essentially The Sky Sports Experience now, it's now so far from the soccer sim that FIFA 12 was it's incredible. Such a regression.

astonaidan

Nailz wrote: »

Have you tried this years one? Streets ahead of the last gen iterations of PES and FIFA post-2012.


For me it would have to be Fallout 3, I played it after I played New Vegas (which really impressed me, loved it) and I was just bored. Wasn't as fun, colourful or immersive as what I was used to from Fallout NV.

Can't stand turn-based games, I love my Vita and I tried so desperately hard to like what would be considered it's very best game - Persona 4 Golden - but I just couldn't get it. Same goes for Chrono Trigger, the popular Final Fantasy's, and the likes; gave them a go and it just wasn't for me.

Current-gen FIFA. Absolute gash. Stuck with FIFA 15 for the year, there's very little game there, the presentation and animations are all very impressive, but just couldn't abide it any longer with 16. 15 was bad, but with what little changes they made for 16, it's worse.
It's essentially The Sky Sports Experience now, it's now so far from the soccer sim that FIFA 12 was it's incredible. Such a regression.

Yeah tried this years, meh
Like I know guys who love it, I just dont

Blazer

Far Cry 2+3+4 - awful rubbish.
Skyrim - Boring after a while
GTA - Just cannot get into it...

I loved original games like Deus Ex which allowed me tonnes of different ways of playing the game..but I find games like Far Cry and Skyrim etc too boring and monotonous.

Temptamperu

Nathan Drake Collection, its just tedious and the shooting/combat is shít (ive only played half the first one)
Call of Duty, It just looks the same game every november.
Zelda, its on nintendo and im not buying a nintendo.
Final Fantasy, I hate turn based combat.

jcd5971

Metal gear phantom pain
Thought it was one of the ****est games I ever played

RebelSoul

The Witcher 3. - Can't seem to get into it. I don't like the potions, crafting and upgrading pieces of kit bit by bit aspect of it. Obviously not a fault of the game as this is the genre of it.
The game looks great though.

RebelSoul

RebelSoul wrote: »

The Witcher 3. - Can't seem to get into it. I don't like the potions, crafting and upgrading pieces of kit bit by bit aspect of it. Obviously not a fault of the game as this is the genre of it.
The game looks great though.

I can't say I liked any of the stuff you mentioned but it was my GOTY. The characters and the brutal world is what sold me. I definitely played it in "casual" mode.

Mass Effect. I tried the first and second one. The combat is so, so boring. I cannot stand cover based shooters. Corridors full of waist high walls and boxes. Same thing over and over. Not a single weapon felt satisfying. The story itself wasn't the worst but I just couldn't get through it with the chore-like combat.

Saipanne

The Arkham series

GTA V

CoD

Assassins Creed

Captain Chaos

God of War series. To me it's just mindless hack and slash with some boss fights thrown in. I don't see the appeal of the series at all. Played about half of the first game and demos of the others, just not doing it for me.

Generic Dreadhead

Devil May Cry games.

I blame the fact I legitimately got a f**king repetitive strain injury in my hand trying to play the 3rd game of that s**t

TitianGerm

Never gave Gears of War a chance but I do own the first three

Haven't played GTA since GTA2

emmetkenny

emmetkenny wrote: »

Never gave Gears of War a chance but I do own the first three

Haven't played GTA since GTA2

Jez I'd say you owe it to yourself to play 3 and Vice City but given their age and the amount of sandbox games and imitations you have likely played over the years they wouldn't have as big an impact on you as playing them on release. GTA 3 when it came out was a revelation to me. I'd never played anything like it. One of I'd say 4 or 5 games that has had that kind of impact on me over 25 years gaming.

GerB40

jcd5971 wrote: »

Metal gear phantom pain
Thought it was one of the ****est games I ever played

As a metal gear fanatic I completely agree with you. It's was chronic

SeantheMan

GerB40 wrote: »

As a metal gear fanatic I completely agree with you. It's was chronic

So you both played Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2 , 3 Snake Eater, Metal Gear Solid 4 ?

If you did...well then you kind of 'got into' the series in a big way, and completely missed the point of the thread.

kunst nugget

SeantheMan wrote: »

So you both played Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2 , 3 Snake Eater, Metal Gear Solid 4 ?

If you did...well then you kind of 'got into' the series in a big way, and completely missed the point of the thread.

I think the first guy was saying he played Phantom Pain and thought it was shíte - he never said he played any of the others - and the GerB40 was just saying that as someone who enjoyed the MGS series he too thought it was shíte. Are people not allowed to discuss stuff like that on this thread?

For me, it's probably Mass Effect. I bought the third one and tried playing it and thought it was pretty terrible. I figured it must have been because I hadn't played the other two and ended starting from the start. Playing 5 or 6 hours of it and just not getting into it at all. Now the whole trilogy is taunting me, laughing at the foolishness of my spendthrift ways.

Bought Fallout 3 and Fallout: NV and tried several times to get into them but I can't enjoy them no matter how many times I try to fool myself into thinking I'm having a good time playing them. Thankfully, they only cost me €3 each in Tesco.

Spudman_20000

All these have been mentioned already

Dark Souls: Do not get the appeal at all.

Halo: I've played them all, but the storyline is beyond my comprehension. Playing 5 at the moment, and I've literally no idea what I'm doing or why. The learning curve for the multiplayer is a big turnoff too, can barely get a kill.

Borderlands: All the looting and seemingly thousands of weapon variations turns me off completely.

Any turn based game: Just seems like such an outdated game mechanic.

Forza games: Look great, but find the racing very sterile.

Hitman: Spend my time wandering around, looking for the objective.

Assassins Creed: Thought number 2 was one of the best games I've played, but there's just too many of them at this stage. Played a bit of Black Flag. Were the controls always this atrocious?

SeantheMan

I never got into Zelda.

Never had a Nintendo system, and when I got a lend of you...I didn't like it...even back in the day with Ocarina of Time

jcd5971

SeantheMan wrote:

So you both played Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2 , 3 Snake Eater, Metal Gear Solid 4 ?

Nope just got tricked with all the game of the year reviews.

I just don't get it at all. It was awkward to control, story was all over the place, open world felt empty almost like the first open world sandbox games.

Don't get me wrong graphics were amazing soundtrack was good, weather effects were brilliant.

Just gameplay was dire.