What are some of the games that you want to like, but just can't?

**MrPaladinGuy** · 2017-09-06, 05:38 PM

Day Z mod

It's the clunkiest piece of garbage I've played since Blue Stinger on the Dreamcast. It's like a drunk and blind Mr Potato Head was rebuilt by a slightly retarded 10 year old and they decided to ask Lara Croft from the first Tomb Raider and a Picasso painting for its interpretation on how movements should be handled.

Skyrim

Super boring/dull/repetitive combat/quests/music/zones with outright pathetic audio design/fidelity. In comparison, I loved everything about Oblivion except its leveling system. I'm aware of the Realtek issue with Skyrim, that's not part of it. It's possible the game relies on simple FMOD implementation and players having a 5.1 system to prevent muffled audio playback and accurate dynamic range reproduction so the stereo mixes are terrible. If I shared what I truly thought of it and why it turned out that way I'd be harassed into Oblivion, pun intended. I also spent more time modding/maintaining the mods in case I ever wanted to give it more chances than actually playing it.

**AcidicSyn** · 2017-09-06, 05:39 PM

Black Desert Online - holy moses is that game beautiful; and the combat? I spent hours in the starter areas just bashing mobs around on my tamer before realizing I was out leveling quite a few of the areas the quests were steering me toward.

Why can't I like the game? For a game with such stunning visuals; if you don't spend real money in the payshop; your character will look almost exactly as they did when you first clicked confirm at character creation all the way to max level. After that you'll get some new stuff that will change the armor appearence on your character, but then you're stuck there again.

The game isn't exactly what I would call P2W; as everything in the payshop (when I played at US launch) was cosmetic or had some minor QoL property (like a pet that would go and loot a nearby corpse for you) - but in an MMO; I really feel like not being able to change the look of your characters gear severely hinders the feeling of progression. If they had completely done away with the payshop and merely had all of those items available in game as well as make your characters appearence change through equipping different gear; I would probably have stayed there for good. I could easily spend hours just managing my workforce sending them out for resources and what not. Was so close to loving that game; so very close.

**Muadiib** · 2017-09-06, 05:44 PM

@Aeula Have you tried Divinity: Original Sin? That had great combat, the sequel is out on the 14th, I'd check it out.

I'd have to agree with people about The Witcher series, bought the second for £3 after Dark Souls (brilliant game) and just couldn't get over how bad the combat was, didn't even try the sequel because they didn't fix it from what I could tell.

**Aeula** · 2017-09-06, 05:50 PM

Originally Posted by Muadiib

@Aeula Have you tried Divinity: Original Sin? That had great combat, the sequel is out on the 14th, I'd check it out.

I'd have to agree with people about The Witcher series, bought the second for £3 after Dark Souls (brilliant game) and just couldn't get over how bad the combat was, didn't even try the sequel because they didn't fix it from what I could tell.

Played it. Love it. Backed the second on Kickstarter. Turn based combat is fun, real time with pause and a really tiny actionbar is... less so for me. Dragon Age Origins, II and Inquisition being the exceptions since the pause is not as needed.

Also as someone who hates Witcher 2 combat, but played it for the story; Witcher 3 is significantly better. The combat is pretty good imo.

**Schattenlied** · 2017-09-06, 06:15 PM

The new Battlefield games.

I want to like them, but the devs make a just a couple horrible decisions in gameplay mechanics that ruin the whole thing for me.

I miss the days of 1942, Vietnam, and BF2/2142, when we could MOD THE GAMES... I absolutely hate it when developers remove the ability to mod a game series after allowing it for years on previous versions, when the mods(like Desert Combat for 1942) were what gave them so much of their popularity to begin with.

I mean, can you imagine if Bethesda just stopped letting us mod FO and TES in FO5 and TES6? Would be absurd... The hell was EA/DICE thinking.

**AcidicSyn** · 2017-09-06, 06:40 PM

Originally Posted by Schattenlied

The new Battlefield games.

I want to like them, but the devs make a just a couple horrible decisions in gameplay mechanics that ruin the whole thing for me.

I miss the days of 1942, Vietnam, and BF2/2142, when we could MOD THE GAMES... I absolutely hate it when developers remove the ability to mod a game series after allowing it for years on previous versions, when the mods(like Desert Combat for 1942) were what gave them so much of their popularity to begin with.

I mean, can you imagine if Bethesda just stopped letting us mod FO and TES in FO5 and TES6? Would be absurd... The hell was EA/DICE thinking.

I'm pretty sure Bethesda relies on the modding community to make their games more stable at this point; discontinuing mod support for their games would be suicide in my opinion lol.

For the BF series; meh. Desert Combat was fun don't get me wrong; but I am not sure if it (modding) was as much of a focal point for the players as it was in say; games like half life; which spawned entire games from their mods. I do agree with the overall "Wtf EA" vibe though; Battlefield 2 was the last "pure" fps I remember genuinely enjoying.

Deleted · 2017-09-06, 06:50 PM

I want to like WoW as much as some people like WoW, staying subscribed for years and years, always finding something to do and have fun with in-game.

I buy gametime once in a while and play for a couple of weeks at most.

**Rorke** · 2017-09-06, 06:53 PM

Bloodborne is a game that could've been so good but the devs completely half assed it. Such a short game with awful designed bosses and extremely limited character builds.

The first half of the dlc is literally fucking cathedral ward and upper cathedral ward with a different color. Lame. And the npcs + story sucks like in all souls games but Bloodborne made sure it had the worst of the bunch.

Bloodborne sucks and I hate the fact that it sucks when it had way more potential than just being a shitty R1 simulator game.

**Jastall** · 2017-09-06, 07:00 PM

Divinity Original Sin. I dunno why. The combat is well thought out, if a bit repetitive. The writing is sometimes clever. The game's systems are fairly unique and interesting. Yet I've tried 3 times, and could never get past the first area.

Then again I've also tried and been unimpressed by Divinity II and Dragon Commander. Maybe I just don't like what Larian does.

**Valeron** · 2017-09-06, 07:05 PM

Originally Posted by Aeula

Also as someone who hates Witcher 2 combat, but played it for the story; Witcher 3 is significantly better. The combat is pretty good imo.

I agree that the combat in W3 is loads better. However, I found the story in Witcher 2 better (the main story anyway)

**Schattenlied** · 2017-09-06, 07:14 PM

Originally Posted by AcidicSyn

but I am not sure if it (modding) was as much of a focal point for the players as it was in say; games like half life; which spawned entire games from their mods.

Project Reality and Squad say hi.

The vast majority of the servers running back then were modded in some shape or form, and a great many of those were running DC.. There were almost no vanilla servers.