Games you thought you'd like and you didn't

[Mr Spew]

I bought Zelda: The Wind Waker on release day, thought I'd love the game as people were praising it from all angles and bumming it like mad. The end? Boring, repetitive shall game that annoyed the hell out of me and gave me no reason to keep playing.

[lau]

FFX. Loved from VII-IX, sought out VI on an emulator, got into RPGs like crono trigger, earthbound etc. FFX made me question what the hell I was doing. It was like when they turn the lights up at a club when it's over and you realise it was only the dark making most of the people look good. I still like the old ones, but FFX ruined new RPGs for me. It's going to take something pretty special to get me back into them.

[Dandy_Sephy]

Final Fantasy VIII. It was good until Esther, then it nosedived into ridiculousness

I really like my FF games, but I simply have had no desire to go back to VIII.

[Sabreman]

Years ago I suggested that Resident Evil should shake off it's adventurey shackles and become a full-on action game, because by Code Veronica I was getting very bored of the backtracking and tedious puzzles. Someone shot me down with cries of 'Zombie Revenge LOL!!!' and I went away quietly.

Fast forward a few years and Resi reinvents itself as a full-on action game. I don't like it.

[Stroker Ace]

Ico.

I came for the platforming, I left because of the abysmal combat. I just couldn't get over the utter shitness of it - it clouded everything I loved about the game.

[Mr Spew]

I started Shadow of the Colossus, thought it looked terrible, couldn't navigate the first room easily and so I sold it. Couldn't even get out of the first room.

I didn't 'get' Minish Cap either, so I passed it on again.

[H_S_H_24]

Devil May Cry, Devil May Cry 3.

I thought the first one was poor, rather stupidly perhaps I thought that the 3rd one might be better because everyone said it was...but no that was crap too.

[Splendid]

I came for the platforming, I left because of the abysmal combat. I just couldn't get over the utter shitness of it - it clouded everything I loved about the game.

Did it pillage your village and rape your women too?

Devil May Cry. It really is just a load of inaccessible arse. Luckily, God Of War eventually came along and made everything alright again.

[JPickford (retired mod)]

Ico and Collosus (currently renting the latter).

[Sabreman]

Ico.

I came for the platforming, I left because of the abysmal combat. I just couldn't get over the utter shitness of it - it clouded everything I loved about the game.

Spot on. I would have been happy to just explore that castle and work out the way through it, but every time those bloody shadows appeared and I had to spend the next five minutes running around swatting them the experience immediately turned sour. Invariably I'd seek out the nearest save point after a combat section, save it and not play it again for weeks. In the end I just left it.

SotC has left me cold too. 8 Colossi downed and I have no compulsion whatsoever to go back to it.

[drkbfhmmr]

Kingdom Hearts. It looked so amazing in screenshits, but they didn't convey that the game had one of the worst cameras ever. That and the tedious, button-mashing combat system kept me from enjoying it in any way.

[Not Thread Owner]

Sonic Heroes. Everyone said it was crap. I knew it couldn't be. I knew it'd be as ace as Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. IT COULD BE NOTHING BUT GREAT.

It was crap.

Also: PoP: Warrior Within. OK, so I wasn't expecting as good as SoT, but I was hoping for something at least playable. Bugs ruined it completely.

Kingdom Hearts. It looked so amazing in screenshits, but they didn't convey that the game had one of the worst cameras ever. That and the tedious, button-mashing combat system kept me from enjoying it in any way.

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[Gambit]

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. I had high hopes for this game. I read the review in GamesTM (they gave it a 9) and I thought it would be great. However, it turned out to be an ENORMOUS pile of shit. I've never trusted GamesTM since.

GTA: Liberty City Stories is another one. Its started off great, but the abysmal controls and shootin quickly made me despise it.

[Splendid]

FFVII is another one that really didn't deliver for me. I just don't understand the fascination with a game so limited in terms of play.

[Jolly]

I followed the development of Farenheit closely. Sounded interesting, sounded different. And I've always like the idea of a small game, with a million endings and a million different ways of playing it.

I'm sure this is what I was promised.

Instead I got, what I consider to be, the shittest game I have ever played.

I was struggling after an hour; I couldn't leave the diner because I had to find the murder weapon, that the detectives via some kind of magical Jessica Feltcher style conclusion jumping, just knew was there. Whats to say he didn't take it with him? .

I'd totally given up after four hours; an utterly ridiculous CPR "mini-game" which had no indication as to how it should be done and a pair of policemen who would teleport themselves to whichever part of the park I fancied running to.

Add conversations where I had no idea whose response I was controling, a control system that meant I either ran like Linford or crawled like Franklin, a system that also required the minute movements a safe-cracker to ensure that I was within the 3 degree angle required to interact with a certain object, sterotyping to the point of racism and, worst of all, the general aura that surrounded the game that made me feel like I was supposed to think it was some kind of magnificent auteur masterpiece.

WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU DAVID CAGE?! GET OFF MY SCREEN! I SEE ENOUGH FAT BALDING MEN AT WORK WITHOUT THEM INVADING MY GAMES TO TELL ME HOW EARTH-SHATTERING THEY ARE!

I have honestly never felt this way about a game before. My moth-infested wallet coupled with my desire to read up on everything I buy has meant I've avoided a playing anything I really consider shit.

Except Farenheit.

And I didn't get far enough for the story to go all wacko on me. It was still quite normal when I gave up. I've read about it since. I think I'd have rammed my pad down my throat if I'd played much further.

[will2097]

Black - It's turning into a Meh-o-rama for me

I've never been one for the FPS genre but just recently I got the urge. I bought Doom3 and hated it, moved on to HL2 loved it to bits, traded it in for Black - which is just boring. And I so wanted to like it. I really did. The demo was amazing, I played it over and over again. Then I bought the Xbox version and ... well - sigh.

Oh and Star Fighter on the 3DO - it looked amazing and I fell in love with the concept and the physics engine and then once I started to play it ... again

Same for Daytona - I was hungry for 3D racing action after spending every penny I owned and pawning in my granny to play Ridge Racer at the arcade. I wanted Daytona to be the same but sadly it wasn't. The cars didn't move the same.

Will

[Matt Defis]

Beyond good and evil. Picked it up the other day for £2.99 because people rave about how great it is and so far it's all been pretty average platform adventure game. Nothing new in this game i haven't seen in any other game of this genre or maybe i'm missing something.

[Dandy_Sephy]

Beyond good and evil. Picked it up the other day for £2.99 because people rave about how great it is and so far it's all been pretty average platform adventure game. Nothing new in this game i haven't seen in any other game of this genre or maybe i'm missing something.

A soul?

[Matt]

Sonic Heros aswell for me. Personally I loved sonic adventure 1, and like adventure 2.

Allthough tbh i didnt think it was actually that bad, twas just a bit

repeative... and annoying. And VAing drove me fucking mad.

Same thing with Turok Evolution really.

Kinda agree with mr sprew on the minish cap aswell. I thought it was decent, just seemed abit.. bland. either way, NOM were mental to give it 95%

And star fox assult as well. Too fucking easy, and the on foot sections were terrible.

Shemmue just bored me shitless. I just cant undertand how people can play a game this tedious.

back on the theme of bad sequls, spyros 4 and 5 were pretty dreadful, souless games.

and fzero GX just dosent work with the gamecube controller, the anolouge stick is way to loose, would work better with a stiffer like daul shocks one.

[Zero]

Shenmue and Rez. Heard nothing but good things about them, both boring shite.

[Mr Spew]

"Shemmue just bored me shitless. I just cant undertand how people can play a game this tedious."

Where's the option to ban people from my threads?

[squirtle]

Jesus, man alive! Some of my favourite games in this thread.

But I would have to say Collosus for me. I just found it a mean spirited, nasty little game. Once you get over the wow! factor of each collosi, you realise that behind all its art house pretensions there really is very little depth to the whole thing.

Shame, because Ico was fantabulous.

"Shemmue just bored me shitless. I just cant undertand how people can play a game this tedious."

Where's the option to ban people from my threads?

You should ban yourself with your opening Wind Waker comment.

[Dandy_Sephy]

"Shemmue just bored me shitless. I just cant undertand how people can play a game this tedious."

Where's the option to ban people from my threads?

Shenmue can be incrediably tedius.....

You do spend most of the game waiting or doing mundane things

[Sng]

MGS2 and FFX are probably the biggest games I looked forward to, only to not really enjoy either.

[Mercury]

Wind Waker and MGS2 are the first two that come to mind. MGS and OOT are two of my favourite games of all time so maybe my expectations were too high.

[Mr Spew]

Shenmue can be incrediably tedius.....

You do spend most of the game waiting or doing mundane things

Get the fuck out.

[Tiki]

Shenmue 2: I spent an Easter break from uni playing the first one when I should have been revising and loved it. Picked up 2 on the Xbox a few years later and just couldn't force myself to get past the bit where you're moving boxes around with some loser.

Ikaruga: The horror.

[Anadim]

Every Unreal, Sonics, Final Fintasy 4, Kirby DS, GTA: LCS, Wipeout Pure, Burnout: LEgends.

[Jim Miles]

PN.03 and Viewtiful Joe, off the top of my head. PN.03 seemed simplistic eye candy (but then I am quite prejudiced against anything 3rd person and actiony) and Viewtiful Joe was just incredibly frustrating.

The real problem though is that I played each for less than two hours and haven't touched them since. Over the 18 months since then I've convinced myself they're not worth playing, even though they blatantly are. Summer, or something.

[stephen129]

Jet Force Gemini. I thought it'd be awesome, it came from Rare, had decent reviews, looked quite nice. However, it turned out to be frustrating, had a shite multiplayer mode and just pissed me off, probably because it was nothing like Perfect Dark.