'Classic' games you just can't get into

For me it would be Fallout 3. I tried liking it, I really really did. I must spent over 20 hours on that game without ever once getting into it properly. The whole production and character models screamed Oblivion and I never got it out of my head.
However, I still got it sitting on Steam, fully installed and intend to give it another go after leaving it for 6 months.
 
Starcraft... :o

Only words i can use to describe it are lumpy and slow. It's responsive sure but how all the units moved and how fast they were and the build times and the slower build times killed me. In single player or multiplayer is just couldn't get on with it very well, which is a pity because i love the story behind it but it's a game a don't get on with. On the other hand i loved all the C&Cs, homeworld, TA of the time and even a lot of non conformist or boring games too.

More recently it's fallout3, played it for 30mins and got bored, loved Eldarscroll3/4 but the VATs system (along with all over intrusive slow mo [does not inc bullet times]) ruins all immersion for me.
 
Fallout 3 - Closed it after 3-4 hours and never bothered opening it again.
Deus Ex - Same as above
Left 4 Dead - Completed all campaigns on expert with friends & played a little versus, didn't grip me at all.
 
Oblivion...

I've tried a few times but I just can't bring myself to play it for any length of time. Is it me or is it just a little bit dull?

As for Deus Ex, for all the talk of it being a classic, I've never found anyone else (in reality, not the web) that liked it. I'm the only person I know who appreciated how awesome it was.
 
All this Deux Ex hate makes me sad :(

Although I have to ask - how many people who didn't like (or couldn't get into) some of the classics mentioned actually played them in their "heyday" ?

Deus Ex especially, and HL1, I should imagine won't stand up well. Graphics and AI in Deus Ex were pretty ropey when it was released. The storyline however....stunning. Screw Bioshock and all your modern epics, this ended them all. Intelligent, twisting, extremely deep and most importantly quite relative to the modern world.

A proper, professional remake of DE would be stunning. Same story, but everything else modernised. THAT is what DE3 should be.
 
WOW
Tried the free demo but its just boring. Everyone ignores you too, sure sometimes someone will help but it's all a bit pointless :(
Runescape was the best MMO I ever played tbh.
 
It pains me to say that the 'classic' I couldn't get into was Mass Effect :(
I love rpgs but got really bored really quickly in this game. It sucks because I had every intention of liking it, reviews had me quivering in anticipation for it but.. it just didn't do it for me.
 
Bioshock for me. People bow-down to this game like it's a blessing from God himself. I really didn't see anything special about it and got bored quicky.

My mate was also the same with Dues Ex, didn't like etc. Man you guys are really missing out. I would play it again if I didn't still remember every waking moment of it.
 
The thing with Dues Ex is that i tried to play it a few years after release. Now most games still can look decent after 5 years or so, espically if you crank up the gfx to the max with forced AA etc. But the gfx on Dues Ex was so bad it threw me out of the experiance. now i know gfx don't make the game but it does not half help. Espically if it's trying to drag you into the game
 
Half life:

Surprisingly good for such an old game, but I simply cba to play any further and look where to go, I'm at the point where I ride this mining cart thing and have to get somewhere. I finished all HL2 games but im still at one third I think of HL1...

Empire Total war:
Loved rome, liked medieval 2 very much ( but a tad less than rome, it was much harder and required more micromanaging and more careful use of funds ) but empire, I can't seem to get into it at all...

Oblivion:
I tried 3 times getting into this, furthest I came was through one of the oblivion gates, when I got owned by one of the plants I just gave up, fallout 3 is much more fun imo...

Supcom:
WAY too much contrast between T1, T2, T3 and ''T4'' exp units imo...
Imo 2x or 3x a tech 2 unit should beat a tech 3 assault bot, and all experimentals are way overpowered.

I can't seem to get in to Sins of a Solar Empire. I've been plodding along quite happily, building up my system, and suddenly a fleet of incomparable size shows up on my border and plugs away until I smash alt+f4 in frustration. Same thing happened in Homeworld.
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Try the easy ai ?
You need to expand very aggressively and asap... Don't neglect (economic) research.
And spam ships... But priority is: Colonize worlds, buy the population upgrades and build mines immediately, and research the faster minerals and crystals extraction techs asap...

Never could get into it, every game ended in a space race, and it was either easy to way too hard.
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Play the level you find ''way too hard'', but instead of playing passively, play aggressively, if every games is a space race you are way too passive in your playing style, the slower games speeds like epic or marathon are more suited for an aggressive playing style as units are relatively cheaper ( while they get more expensive, they don't get that much more expensive as you get extra turns, while buildings stay the same in relation to the ammount of turns in the game, eg. in a city with a fixed amount of ''hammers'' production, a building will cost 5 turns in a 500 turn game, and 10 turns in a 1000 turn game, but military units would be 5 turns for a 500 turn game and 7 turns for a 1000 turn game for example) and you get more turns to move them around in relation to the ''normal'' and ''quick'' game speeds... But anyways, try building soliders, rather than wasting time on building wonders ( unless one is really important in your opinion), use the turns/prod on building soldiers instead, and capture the wonders from your foes. Many new players underestimate the importance of spamming military units, early on, if you have 3 cities for example, one should constantly chunk out new military... Use them! Pick on a weak ai/player/neighbor ( that preferably, is disliked by other civs too, to avoid diplo problems).
 
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There have been loads of games that everyone says I should love, A lot of them just bore me to death, the main culprits are :-

Deus ex, I first tried to play this around 2002-2003, an uncle bought it me for xmas, It wasn't long before that that I finished half life and I had always been an RPG geek so I had high expectations, I really didn't get on with it, I have tried to play it a few times in the past few years but have never been able to get into it.

Total War, Back when I worked for game there were a hell of a lot of people coming in asking for Rome : total war, I read a few reviews and bought into the hype, Took it home and played it for a few hours, wasn't that impressed and never played it again,

Spore, For the same reasons as above, I was really looking forward to this and folowed it a lot of the way through development, had it sitting on my doorstep on the day of release, after the first few hours of playing it I got bored and never played it again.

And the biggy :-

RTS genre, I really want to like an RTS but really can't get into it, I have tried loads, I enjoyed skirmish mode a bit on C+C:RA2 and liked that but after a while the story mode got too hard and trying to play online was impossible, Since then I have tried and failed to like, Dawn of war, Warcraft 3, C+C3, Company of heroes, Sup Com, Total war series, Starcraft and probably a few more but I have never been able to get into any of them,
 
half life, when it came out yes it had great AI and was new and interesting, trying to play it now though the AI is worse than every bog standard shooter we've played for years and as they've ripped it off so much it no longer seem innovative and awesome just boring and old fashioned.

It's one of those games you had to play when it came out not years after.
 
Oblivion - Never been bored in all my time gaming, I was actually really looking forward to getting this and then being let down, really enjoyed Fallout 3 though, but that was better built, structured better etc.

Fear - Don't know whether it's so much of a classic but I didn't find it enjoyable at all, wasn't even scary, just a badly photographed image trying to scare me popping up all the time and failing, I think ever since Resident evil 1, most horrors have been a letdown.

Half-Life - Played it multiple times and never been sucked in, Loved Half life 2 and it's successors but never really got into HL1, I will complete it eventually.
 
Oblivion , just did n't like it at all. Probably the most disappointing game I ever played after all the hype and reviews.

X3 , so wanted to get into that but just could n't.

Mass effect , same reasons as X3.
 
Deus ex for me too, its wierd cause i should like it fps and rpg but i just couldnt get into it.

Other then that the bf series i havnt played the earlier ones but bf 2 and 2142, i always got killed and half the time had no clue how, plus i always found the maps too big and borring.
 
Mostly been listed: Oblivion, Deus Ex, Spore, X3 (X1 + 2 as well for that matter, I really wanted to like them), DoW2 (I played 1 obsessively, I dunno what the craic with 2 is but I can't be bothered with it).

Any C&C game released after RA2 has been crap.

The Sims. Urgh.

Any "Sim-" game after Sim City 2000 has been un-engaging to me. Played SC200 to death though.

All that Call of Duty (and similar like Medal of Honour) crap. I swear I suspect more man hours have been expended by gamers playing WW2 FPS sims, than were expended by actual people fighting in WW2. Yes, you might say they've moved away from the WW2 era at bloody last, but its still the same game with a different dress on.

Didn't like Fallout 1,2 or 3 much, but loved Fallout Tactics. Some people probably want to push rusty nails into my face after reading that.

A fair few of these Indie games on Steam. If I want to play a game that looks like it belongs on a free flash games website, I'll play it on a free flash games website. Braid was pretty damn good however.

Any of those Football Manager things that look like colourful excel spreadsheets to me. I don't see the appeal at all.

GTAIV (Singleplayer). Loved the rest, but just can never be arsed finishing this one. Multiplayer is a good fun however.

Warcraft 3. Meh. Its like Starcraft. With Elves. : /

SWAT (or whatever its called these days) too much damn planning needed, why cant I just kick the doors in an shoot the terrorist in the face, and the hostages too for good measure?

Those Lord of the Rings Games. Hell I'm playing them because I thought they would be like the films. They were sadly however not like the films. :( thank god it wasn't me who bought them.

Age of Empire. I just cannot play this game at all, the whole way the entire game works is pretty damn retarded in my mind. Playing it makes me want to chew off my own knuckles so I don't have to put up with interacting with the game any more to find the exit button.

Microsoft Flight Simulator. Where's my damn guns? What is the point in this game? Fly from A to B. And then? Fly back again, or something. I dunno, I love my Flight Sims like but flying Civilian things just isn't fun.

Any Final Fantasy. Just no. Doesn't interest me in the slightest. I tried, I tried so hard when people were going ape**** about FF7, and raving about their giant colourful chickens, and some Round Knight chap. But it just didnt interest me at all.

Consoles in general. Not enough keys! These days to do anything in a console game you seem to have to twiddle several bits of the controller at the same time while licking your own elbow. Why don't they just get a keyboard and mouse and be done with it?

I imagine theres loads more.

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On a lighter note one game I did buy and thought I'd hate was Indigo Prophecy. Absolutely loved it, played through the entire thing in one day, barely moving from the PC, it sucked me in from start to finish.
 
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