Games you cannot understand the appeal of

Splinter Cell


This game series has always been bizarre to me. It is one with a dedicated fanbase yet every game I've played, boredom ensued within the first hour.
Admittedly I had high hopes for the PSP Splinter Cell in which in the first mission you walk across a church patio to visit your daughter's grave. It seemed bleak and atmospheric but all that was shattered the moment the second mission came about. The over-reliance of night-vision due to the pitch black locations, the annoyingly cramped industrial areas... it's bland to me. I've given about 4 different Splinter Cell games a try and they are extremely unappealing to me.


Uncharted


I don't really need to say it because I think you know it by now, but I'll still go for it. The games are so damn tedious to me. Of course there is some satisfaction to be had from the stunning visuals. But then the gameplay is weak tomb-raider esque with weaker gunplay and it's horribly contrived. If I wanted a game of that style I'd go for Heavy Rain for the cinematic value or Tomb Raider for the actual platforming or Gears of War for the quality combat. Hell even 007 Everything or Nothing I'd rather play.

Halo


Don't get me wrong, I completed Halo 3 and ODST and I think the series has some of the best multiplayer out there. But come on, every game is practically the same and the campaigns are VERY FUCKING DULL ... to me at least. Clearly people out there enjoy it, so good. But seriously I'd find reading the bible more entertaining.

Grand Theft Auto


I'm bullshitting a bit here. I mean GTA 1 & GTA London are some of my childhood games and I fell in love with them. And I consequently bought every single game since, some of them on multiple systems (the exception being Chinatown Wars), and Liberty City Stories is one of my favourite games of all time with some of the most hours I've poured into any game. But honestly, I only enjoy these games in extreme moderation, Liberty City Stories aside. I found them all severely lacking in character quality, atmosphere and emotion. Sure it's not meant to be about those things, but LCS did feature those things and the rest feel weak in almost every area. One of my biggest complaints is the pathetic checkpoint system that hasn't been fixed after years!
I love sandbox games as much as, if not more than the next guy, but when the sandbox is bland, then there's not much motivation to play it.

Well done Mecha, but this thread's asking about games you've actually made the attempt to play.

I did play it. It's called Red Dead Revolver.

Mecha wrote:

I did play it. It's called Red Dead Revolver.

No you're confusing the amazing GUN with some weaker, far more linear game by Rockstar.

Nah mayne, there is no way a great game can have a generic title like GUN.

Mecha wrote:

Nah mayne, there is no way a great game can have a generic title like GUN.

So you admit Gun is good, just has a bad title. Fair. But I think the title's fine. It's like it's the definitive gun-game.

I totally agree with you on GTA and Splinter Cell. I play these games for like 30 minutes and I'm bored to tears.

Bully

I don't like Assassins Creed or Mass Effect, two very popular and acclaimed franchises, but I do get the appeal of them so I'm not including them. Also, Splinter Cell is awesome. Give Splinter Cell: Conviction a shot if you want a little more action in your SC games, Lykos.

- GTA
- Call Of Duty
- Half Life
- The Elder Scrolls

TheCinemaJack wrote:

I don't like Assassins Creed or Mass Effect, two very popular and acclaimed franchises, but I do get the appeal of them so I'm not including them. Also, Splinter Cell is awesome. Give Splinter Cell: Conviction a shot if you want a little more action in your SC games, Lykos.

Yeah the demo of that seemed alright. Still not my ideal game but I'd certainly enjoy that more than the others. It seemed a lot more slicker and streamlined. Btw was this in the final version of the game?

Military shooters, they're all basically the same, boring, drab, repetitive and quite possibly the worst community of gamers I've ever came across.

Lykos wrote:

TheCinemaJack wrote:

I don't like Assassins Creed or Mass Effect, two very popular and acclaimed franchises, but I do get the appeal of them so I'm not including them. Also, Splinter Cell is awesome. Give Splinter Cell: Conviction a shot if you want a little more action in your SC games, Lykos.

Yeah the demo of that seemed alright. Still not my ideal game but I'd certainly enjoy that more than the others. It seemed a lot more slicker and streamlined. Btw was this in the final version of the game?

Not that I recall but I haven't played the game in like two years so I dunno.

Never really understood the appeal of story over gameplay in games like Uncharted.

Padders wrote:

Never really understood the appeal of story over gameplay in games like Uncharted.

Is the story even that good?

Some games with the great storyline are fantastic. Ie: Broken Sword, Grim Fandango, GUN, Final Fantasy Crisis Core, Halo - lol jk

Sexton_Flashheart wrote:

The "story" of Halo is actually great. It's just that its possibly the most poorly executed series i've seen...its just levels of knocking down bad guys and i think its mainly down to Master Chief being so robotic.

Yeah I'm sure it's alright but I've never been remotely interested in the storyline because of exactly what you said.

Yeah I fucking can't stand the single player of that game. It gets horribly tedious, and to this day I still haven't got round to completing Reach. I bought it a week or two after its release!

If Halo developers actually gave a fuck they could make it into a space opera to rival Mass Effect with multiple story arcs, consequences and endings while maintaining the FPS factor...look at Deus Ex Human Revolution. But no they insist on this whole shoot teh alienz with fruit gums thing :areyoufuckingk

Sexton_Flashheart wrote:

If Halo developers actually gave a fuck they could make it into a space opera to rival Mass Effect with multiple story arcs, consequences and endings while maintaining the FPS factor...look at Deus Ex Human Revolution. But no they insist on this whole shoot teh alienz with fruit gums thing :areyoufuckingk:

YES! They could have a deep world with more than just merely "pew pew pew" gameplay and actually some character interactions and slow bits. A first person game doesn't always have to be in combat.

Sexton_Flashheart wrote:

If Halo developers actually gave a fuck they could make it into a space opera to rival Mass Effect with multiple story arcs, consequences and endings while maintaining the FPS factor...look at Deus Ex Human Revolution. But no they insist on this whole shoot teh alienz with fruit gums thing :areyoufuckingk

I agree

I can see Halo 6's ending now, "Choose to activate Halo array with red light, blue light or green light"

The thought of it REALLY excites me!

Padders wrote:

Never really understood the appeal of story over gameplay in games like Uncharted.

I think it was the graphics that people played uncharted for, not the story. Not saying the story is bad, it was just average.

Speaking of uncharted that's one of the games i never understood the appeal of either. Way too linear and "movie-esque" for my tastes. In fact any game that feels like a movie I automatically hate. Not because I hate movies, but because I want to play a game not watch it. Excessive amount of cutscenes are annoying too.




On-rails shooters, they're just so boring never liked them never will.

iPhone games. I dislike the control scheme, touch screen would be great for strategy games but the problem is that most iphone games are action games with shit controls and most games under the "strategy" genre are tap this button and wait 3 hours games. Most of the good games I've played like Plants vs Zombies, Space Harvest, and Conquist 2 are few and far between, and often don't have enough content to be enjoyable for long. Space Harvest for example was a pretty solid rts game, but it only have 9 campaign levels...no skirmish mode and no multiplayer. Also infinity blade sucks.

Metal Gear Solid, I've tried so hard to get into this series but I just plain don't enjoy it, the stealth is pretty good but all the talking and cutscenes (especially snake eater where you couldn't pause them...) are too damn annoying.

Red Dead Redemption is another one, too much "empty space" and the lock on is ridiculous. You don't even need to aim just press LT move up the analog stick a bit and instant headshot. In addition, this goes for all rockstar games, but tapping a or x to sprint is annoying as hell...

Fighting games too, i've tried pretty hard to get into them, but a few online matches and i'm like "fuck this shit".

Lykos wrote:

Padders wrote:

Never really understood the appeal of story over gameplay in games like Uncharted.

Is the story even that good?

Some games with the great storyline are fantastic. Ie: Broken Sword, Grim Fandango, GUN, Final Fantasy Crisis Core, Halo - lol jk

Its just Nathan Darke destroying another hidden ancient city for his own personally greed. All he did is knock down the stick which was holding the entire ancient city up.