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ITT, games you wanted to like, but just can't get behind.

I love the visual style, and the huge sprawling towns and everything, it's a game I really feel like I could get lost in... if only it were actually fun to play.

>> No.1865879

Anything heavily character driven with more focus on story than gameplay. Best example would be PS:T.

The first Silent Hill. The first 5 or so minutes are great, but from the cafe and onward I just can't get myself to feel the slightest bit scared anymore.

>> No.1865885

>>1865879
Silent Hill is easily the worst horror game I've ever played. It's like the Final Fantasy of horror franchises; only popular because it's so aggressively marketed.

>> No.1865919

>>1865885
God, I'm glad somebody has finally said it.

>> No.1865930

>>1865919
Gets better after 1, though.
Then promptly dies at 4.
2&3 are fucking amazing.

>> No.1865931

>>1865885
>>1865919
>>1865930

Shit opinion general.

>> No.1865990

>>1865687

got the game setup to work correctly in dosbox

played it for like 1 hour

nope :(

prob would of liked it when it came out ... maybe

>> No.1866070

Baldur's Gate. I wanted to enjoy ad&d rules again, but the best part about games like that, to me, is building your characters into wrecking balls of doom. Untill you get your just right Fighter/thief to backstab someone with a short sword and realize the mage could have solo'd this encounter with summon monsters, web, and cloudkill. Being an assassin, stabing the shit out of the badguys is meh, and the cleric could out dps you with a few buffs and two spells etc.

Maybe i'll give Icewind Dale 2 a shot again because it's not 2e, but then you've got 3e nonsense and that's it's own pile of awful.

>> No.1866276
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1866276

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_gEtc4rAqU

>> No.1866432

>>1866276
Could you please stop spamming in every thread with your shitty YouTube channel?

>> No.1866481

>>1865931
>they don't like muh games
>shit opinion

go home you fucking pleb

>> No.1866610

>>1865687
>>1865990
Play Might & Magic 6 instead

>> No.1866613

>>1865885
>It's like the Final Fantasy of horror franchises; only popular because it's so aggressively marketed.
That's Resident Evil

>> No.1866664

>>1865687
I might have been able to play it if it had roads between places.
It just sort of set off my autism that no one ever travelled from town to town.

>> No.1866671

Way too many, it's shameful to admit

>> No.1866674

Deus Ex

No matter how hard i try, i can't enjoy it, despite i love FPS

>> No.1866689

>>1865687
I never got out of the dungeon you start in, I found it too hard. I always want to try again though, but I'd really wish they could re-release it with no upgrades except new controls.

>> No.1866696

Wasteland is the only one I've completely given up on. maybe one day

>> No.1866738
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>>1865687
>tfw liked Daggerfall more than Morrowind

Maybe I'm a literal shitlord.

>> No.1866810

>>1866070
Well if you want AD&D, there's always the Gold Box series, including the vast library of scenarios for Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures. And maybe Neverwinter Nights, if someone ever reverse-engineers the server code...

Also, there's Eye of the Beholder series, and Dungeon Hack.

>> No.1866860

>>1865687
You played it wrong. The game was about exploring random dungeons from time to time and then take a break.

>> No.1866997

>>1865687
EZ steps to follow for having fun with Daggerfall
>change the controls, mouse settings [make the controls more like morrowind]
>make sure to have a decent amount of speed [it affects your attack speeed]
>set dosbox cpu cycles around 68000 or 50000
>buy a cart as fast as you can
>when not in a quest try to train swimming and climbing up to 9 so you won't have problems with other dungeons
>join a guild
>take guild quests
>take a loan and buy a boat as fast as you can [you can pay off the loan in time so long as you stick to one province]
>it takes 1 month to rank up in a guild, so it might be fun joining other guilds and taking quests to pass time
>if bored, get quests from nobles, or take a break and buy clothes or train skills [with many clothes you can select "USE" on them to change their appearance]

>> No.1867259

>>1866860
>game is a boring piece of shit
>NUH UH YOU'RE PLAYING IT WRONG

Don't do this.

>> No.1867289

>>1866738
Nah, you just have high boredom tolerance. Especially looking at how you've managed to trudge through not one, but two whole TES games.

>> No.1867328

>>1867289

Are you saying the TES games are boring?

>> No.1867354

sneak into the shops and wait until they close. At 12am exactly you can steal anything you want with no repercussions. free carts for everyone!

>> No.1867603

>>1866664
It'd be neat if you could randomly run into trade caravans and stuff.

>> No.1867625

>>1866481
It's fine not to like horror games but to say that Silent Hill is the worst horror game is definitely a shit opinion and there's something wrong with your head.

>> No.1867829
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1867829

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzb4Tonx0WI

>> No.1868648

the original Fallout. The combat was just so fucking AWFUL

>> No.1868651

>>1867328
He is.

They are. Except for Skyline, which isn't, but is for plebs.

>> No.1868653

>>1868651
>Skyline

Fuck, I mean Skyrim. I've been on /o/ too much.

>> No.1868660

>>1868651

They're not necessarily boring. Not objectively anyway. But you have to be a lore-whore for them to be your thing. I love a game with a big codex, or lots of books to read, so they're for me. But I can totally understand other people not caring for them as much.

I wouldn't say they're a niche game, but they are if you want them to have any sort of replay value or lasting appeal for exploration and stuff.

>> No.1868663

>>1866738
The word is actual not literal

>> No.1868671
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1868671

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duVLzMBYh_s

>> No.1868672

>>1866070
>Icewind Dale 2

Yeah, good luck with that. I played all the Infinity Engine games, and IWD2 is probably the worst of the mainline ones.

>Slowest start in any game I have ever seen, ever. You literally spend 6-8 hours running errands and fighting goblins, mostly because you're new to town and totally broke.
>3.5d Rules are a pain in the ass.
>Difficulty is set far higher than other BG and IWD games, so you *MUST* min-max if you have any hope of surviving.
>Obscure, annoying puzzles that will likely halt your progress without a guide.
>Plot makes no fucking sense. A new nation-state of monsters threatens the region, so you must travel to its capital and kill the leaders. However, when you show up, THEY'RE NOT EVEN THERE (and everyone else warmly greets you and is quite friendly), so you have to make a big scene so they return home. You then murder them.

>> No.1868694

>>1865879
I also can not get into PS:T. The morgue was interesting, but when I entered the city, I just wanted to get out to see interesting things and some story. Instead, I got sidequests galore. It seems that RPGs are not my cup of tea.

>> No.1868706

>>1868694

Nigga the city in Planescape contains the most "interesting things" in any videogame ever, it's a shame you dropped it so early

>> No.1868765

>>1865930
I liked 4...

>> No.1868780

I played when it came out (I still have the box at my parents house)... And you're almost right, it wasn't exactly a fun game, most of the entertaining part was the feel that you were part of this massive, open world (with all its flaws Daggerfall is still more open world than its sequels, just for naming a thing: climbing).
Aside from that quests were almost the same, people tell you insignificant things, you could buy a lot of houses in various cities, yet the whole thing was quite pointless except for using them as storage facilities.
A game ahead of its time, and a game ahead of its techinical capability.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtBES8WiR5I

>> No.1868806

>>1868694

Same here. They cockteased a lot about portala to other places, but during the few hours I played nothing interesting regarding that materialized. The city was odd but not highly interesting, except the talking stone-city head that appeared, that was unexpected and interesting. The dealbreaker for me was the combat, it was horrendously bad and tedious to get through.

>> No.1868837

Easily Final Fantasy. Love games with cool storylines, massive worlds to explore, lots of imagination. But ff's storylines are so long and boring.. I also had a 2 copies of Vagrant story that i ended up selling on ebay. Thought the graphics were incredible for ps1, as were the animations, but my god. So much dialogue, so little gameplay. Probably shoudlve invested more than an hour into it but got so fed up..

Also Skyrim, but for completely different reasons. Want to play it, want to like it, but know it will suck my life away if i do. (kindve not what tc was asking but w/e.)

>> No.1868879

I'd have to say the Doom series. I love to play it, but after about five minutes, I just get bored. I really don't know why I get bored of that game so fast.

>> No.1868940

>>1865687
I get lost in it every time I play it op.

>> No.1868963

Are you sure you have the latest version?

Daggerfall 1.0 was shit, get the update patch.

>> No.1869030
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1869030

>>1868963
BOOM!

http://www.moddb.com/mods/daggerxl

>> No.1869050

>>1869030
yeah.

>> No.1869243

I pretty much can't play Arcanum on account of the combat. I already get curb stomped at every turn, but then it's a tedious pain in the ass to get through on top of it. I wish the combat were more like Fallout or something.

>>1868648

The combat is fine in my experience. Once you get past the old game interface, combat is quite straightforward, if a tad simple.

>> No.1869529

>>1868963
Don't be stupid, the patch just fixes bugs. It doesn't magically make the game more fun to play.

>> No.1869568

Final Fantasy Tactics. I heard a lot of good stuff about it, but I found it really slow and boring.

>> No.1869660

>>1866997

I would always just take out a loan for the boat in that tiny africanesque country near Sentinal (forget what it was called). Never went back to the town, never repaid the loan. No problems.

>> No.1869978

itt: games are bad because i no longer have the time or patience to play them

>> No.1870303

>>1866810
read it again, AD&D rules are the problem. The ammount of things I like about most rpgs, outside of the story, is combat and building characters. Anyone in Baldur's Gate who can't cast has the customization of Daytona USA, while anyone who can has the customization of Gran Turismo. And again, the combat is "caster? Enjoy options, not a caster? Enjoy almost always auto attacking"

>> No.1870632

>>1869978
Butthurt Daggerfall fan detected
Just play Might and Magic like >>1866610 suggested

>> No.1870642

I could never get into the TES games except Morrowind. Arena is tedious with shit combat and Daggerfall is way too big and empty for its own good.

>> No.1870651

>>1870632
i'm indifferent towards daggerfall, not my thing. threads like this are dumb as fuck though

>> No.1870782

>>1866613

>> No.1870784

>>1865930
4 was my favorite one you crazy fuck.
>crazy forever loop in the gated area with torch
>creepy ass portals
>ghoulish things coming through walls
>girl with long hair that slithers like the grinch only 50x faster

so many creepy fucking moments in that game

>> No.1870793

>>1867625
She didn't say it was the first, she said it was the worst she's played.

>> No.1871031

>>1870784
4 drives the creepy factor to the max. previous games are just scary, but you can always fight your way through with some effort.

not so much in sh4, where some enemies just don't die.

the trailers alone were enough to thoroughly creep me out at the time of the game's release. esp that baby voices out of nowhere.

i still think there are better games, though.

>> No.1871068

>>1868660
>>1867328
I loved Morrowind but even with all the things to read and put together, trudging back and forth through the plains doing dull fetch or deliver quests for hours on end got boring fast.

>> No.1871129

>>1865687
I absolutely love daggerfall, even to this day. I think it is a ton of fun to play.

>> No.1874041

>>1868660
exactly this. I really really want to play morrowind, each summer I install it, set up mods, and then, after few hours of playing I realize how boring and tedious it all is.

>> No.1874107

Make sure to use go into the options of Daggerfall and set it so that your mouse moves the camera, and switch the keymaps, makes it much easier to get into.