A game you wanted to like....

I got two:

- Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (I absolutely loved and adored Sands of Time...what have they done.)

- FF12 (the execution of the Story was boring, the characters were lifeless... )

Driv3r

Lair

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

All of these ended up as ugly, bug filled messes. Yet they each had the potential to be mind blowing.

Halo 3.

I disliked the first one a lot. Halo 2 was pretty good, a step in the right direction, very much worth playing more than once and in multiplayer. I then read about 4 player coop, all this cool stuff and from the screenshots found that this game was going to have epic graphics and all these cool new features.

Wrong... so wrong. Instead we get Halo 2.5. Same gameplay, more or less the same graphics with bigger environments.

I prepaid this months in advance hoping it would be the game that made me see the light so to say. I'm sorry, but I can't see it. Right now this is a strictly for gamerscore game to me.

And you want one good concrete reason (which caused one of my friends to completely stop playing the game already)?

The first level where you go rescue Johnson and the other Marines. You can get a sniper rifle, but the instant you shoot and anger the whole level of Covenant forces, they instantly target you and you can't get a shoot off without the zoom retracting from a shot. It's like you have a pungent smell, a reflective and luminescent armor, and they have radar and infrared cameras knowing exactly where you are from a distance under the cover of bushes and shadows... Seriously... so annoying and unfun.

I really wanted to like Prince of Persia: Warrior Within....the story was pretty interesting, the gameplay was there....but the baditude was a big of a letdown...and the music was horrible, god was the music awful.

DX2: Invisible War was another game I wanted to like, I gave this game a chance, played it through, but it was such a mess....and I couldn't help thinking how much better the first Deus Ex for PC was as I was playing the sequel.

Jak & Daxter series....played and beat the first one and somewhat enjoyed, but I just found the second one to be boring and in a way a GTA ripoff.

GUN....great story, horrible gameplay. The story is the only thing that kept me playing.

Lastly....Devil May Cry....I just couldn't get into it.

Zelda...all say it´s about gameplay,but I always felt like I´ve seen everything before and it bored me after a few hours.It just has nothing to keep me playing.

Tomb Raider...exept the lat one maybe one of the most boring games series ever.Searching around a dungeon for hours without action and just looking for a small statue somewhere in some corner ist just my thing.I even bought the first one,but I couldn´t find any fun.

Half Life : Still searching for a Storyline,while reasonless running around for hours...everyone says it´s the way the Story is told,well after 6h in HL2 I didn´t find anything but a handfull of enemys,people saying "Hey Mr Freeman I´ve heard of you,go there and there" and a bunch of big enviroments,but no Storyline.I felt have of the game like I´ve been lost or skipped something.To that point the game just can´t be serious...

Zelda...all say it´s about gameplay,but I always felt like I´ve seen everything before and it bored me after a few hours.It just has nothing to keep me playing.

Ash2X

i acouldn't agree more.

Tomb Raider...exept the lat one maybe one of the most boring games series ever.Searching around a dungeon for hours without action and just looking for a small statue somewhere in some corner ist just my thing.I even bought the first one,but I couldn´t find any fun.

Half Life : Still searching for a Storyline,while reasonless running around for hours...everyone says it´s the way the Story is told,well after 6h in HL2 I didn´t find anything but a handfull of enemys,people saying "Hey Mr Freeman I´ve heard of you,go there and there" and a bunch of big enviroments,but no Storyline.I felt have of the game like I´ve been lost or skipped something.To that point the game just can´t be serious...

Ash2X

as far as these 2 games i disagree. tomb raider is one of the greatest games ever. i don't know what dungeons you are talking about but tomb raider 2 (the one i played) was mostly outdoors. there is alot of puzzle solving in this game. you have to know what you are doing.

and as for half life, the story is kinda weird. you are a scientist and something goes wrong. and then there are all the weird creatures that come up. and you have to fight them as best you can. hl2 is more of the same. you have to fight the cp as best you can. hl2 ranks up there among the best i have ever played. you should try and play it more, it is very addicting.

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Zelda...all say it´s about gameplay,but I always felt like I´ve seen everything before and it bored me after a few hours.It just has nothing to keep me playing.

skyyfox1

i acouldn't agree more.

Tomb Raider...exept the lat one maybe one of the most boring games series ever.Searching around a dungeon for hours without action and just looking for a small statue somewhere in some corner ist just my thing.I even bought the first one,but I couldn´t find any fun.

Half Life : Still searching for a Storyline,while reasonless running around for hours...everyone says it´s the way the Story is told,well after 6h in HL2 I didn´t find anything but a handfull of enemys,people saying "Hey Mr Freeman I´ve heard of you,go there and there" and a bunch of big enviroments,but no Storyline.I felt have of the game like I´ve been lost or skipped something.To that point the game just can´t be serious...

Ash2X

as far as these 2 games i disagree. tomb raider is one of the greatest games ever. i don't know what dungeons you are talking about but tomb raider 2 (the one i played) was mostly outdoors. there is alot of puzzle solving in this game. you have to know what you are doing.

and as for half life, the story is kinda weird. you are a scientist and something goes wrong. and then there are all the weird creatures that come up. and you have to fight them as best you can. hl2 is more of the same. you have to fight the cp as best you can. hl2 ranks up there among the best i have ever played. you should try and play it more, it is very addicting.

Tob Raider seem just boring to me...the 2nd wasn´t all bad,but somehow all that climbing stuff with the strange controls(the strange controls was the worst about it,played all on console which had afaik worse camera)...nah,I just didn´t have much fun with it,even if I liked Flashback for example.Maybe just a thing of personal taste.

In case of Half-Life I will maybe get the Orange Box for 360.Even if I couldn´t get much out of HL1 on PC and HL2 on XBox and even if I maybe still dislike it theres egnough other stuff to play (I want TF2).Maybe Ep 1+2 is better.Or I can maybe play without framerate problems which affected the atmosphere a bit.I got Archivement Points to motivate me anyway :D.I played Pac-Man for hours in Ridge Racer 6 to get 15.000Points,so it seems to work :P

Which offers th Question:Whould Zelda be better with archivement Points? *rofl*

I agree.....gun had a great story but the gameplay was just horable.The controls are so freekin hard to learn!

Legend of Zelda: the Wind Waker - I thought it was very mediocre

Dead Rising - Game was too confusing and more difficult than it needed to be.

Silent Hill 3 - second one was great, third one was "meh."

Dead rising and final fantasy 10

I concur on Deus Ex: Invisible war. I loved the first game and had great expectations about the sequel, but this one was some kind of scripted railshooter in comparison. Futhermore, they removed the perfect grid inventory system and replaced it with a dumb slots one. And the game crashes a ton.

Also Kingdom Hearts is a good game but it is kinda unappealing to me, I don't dislike kiddie games, but this one is way too kiddie. Too bad because the idea was awesome.