'Classic' games you just can't get into

hl1 and MGS2.

MGS2 was the first game i ever bought on DVD and i had to buy a DVD drive especially to install it. never did actually play it though. i sold it in the end. :o

and i got hl1 too late. i've played hl2 **** knows how many times but haven't got past the intro of the original. maybe if black mesa source gets finished, i'll play that. :p
 
Any PC game that's significantly dated. Call me a philistine but I just can't enjoy the game if it looks like crap or feels dated to play. I tried to get into Deus Ex and Half-Life 1 recently but they're just too dated to enjoy properly, at least not anywhere near like when they came out.

It's a problem that's unique to gaming as an entertainment medium IMO. Books don't go out of date, music is always as good as when it was written, films are similar in that special effects can look crap as time goes on, or possibly black and white films versus colour, but really nothing compares to playing a game with **** visuals or tech. It may have been a classic when it came out, but it's significantly less enjoyable to play 10 years later, at least to me. You have to play these things while they're fresh or you don't get the full experience IMO.
 
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Oblivion - or any of that series.

Mass Effect - boring texty crap

KOTOR - again, boring. Probably had something to do with the Jedi Knight games i was playing at the time though.

FF7 - Got through the first cd, called it there. Been called an idiot for not liking it on these forums :rolleyes: .

Age of Empires - Dull and slow

Quake - Brown, brown, brown, oooh green, no thats brown, brown, brown. Multiplayer was simple too. No real tatics.
 
I HATED the thief games. Bored me senseless :)

And while I loved HL1 when it was released, I tried playing through Blue Shift recently, and found it really, really dated. Not the graphics so much, but the gameplay. I gave up when I realised the game wanted me to push boxes around to reach a switch. It was just SO 10 years ago :p
 
Kodiak said:
FF7 - Got through the first cd, called it there. Been called an idiot for not liking it on these forums :rolleyes: .
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You ever try FF8?

Now that is a game!:D

Spent hudnreds of hours playing it and never finished it :( everything, psx, ps2 pc, the disks for psx and pc have all died when i get to the same point.

One day i will finish this game i vow it!

Strange really the first time i played it (got it as a birthday present when young) i hated it found ti boring and complicated, then one day a few months later picked it up as i had nothing else to do and fell in love :D
 
Currently thinking that Fifa 10 on the PS3 is the biggest pile of crap game in the history of piles of crap games. Good job I only paid 20 odd quid for it, I just can't wait to trade it in for PES2010. Call me an old git if you will but I simply do not see what the apparent majority are raving about. The game sucks, give me the "simplistic" yet fun PES over this any day, does anyone actually do the so called skill moves in actual play? Defenders have even more telescopic legs than they do in PES, it ridiculous. I fully expect a wave of ridicule for taking this standpoint.
 
Anyone who says Deus-Ex is just weird. ;)

KOTOR - yes OK, its my turn to be wierd I guess. Just found it boring.
 
Matmulder said:
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.
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I got Half-Life within a couple of months of it being released. So, it was brand new at the time, it was innovative, the graphics were great. As I said back on the first page (and was the first to mention it) - I just couldn't get into it. Maybe it'd been overhyped ALREADY by the time I got round to playing it? Or maybe it's because I had Unreal as well, and I spent some time playing that, multiplayer? I really can't remember back that far now, but I've tried to replay it multiple times since it was released, but I still can't get into it.
 
Most FPS - The only fps's I played to the end were Jedi Knight (original), Medal of Honor (another original), Farcry (started great but meh when mutants involved) and Call of Duty. These provided something new, especially the final level of CoD, remember the race to raise the red flag? I had just finished Antony Beevor's Stalingrad before playing CoD - it was a very fitting gesture to the couragement of the red army, but also the desperation of the germans who feared the retaliation.
Since then, all FPS have been stale in comparison with little to offer new.

As for Supreme Commander? They are robots not little people! Robots are cannon fodder and can be recycled. T4 robots are mean to be mega-massive devastating war machines that sweep the land, wiping armies and provide the "Oh Sheeeiiit!!!!" factor. If you want to care for the robots, download the Black Ops mega-mod packs which expand the rpg elements for the Commander units and also improves the exponential veterancy system for all units - When your tank has lvl 25, you will protect it at all costs thanks to its extended range, hit points, health recharge, etc.

Empire Total War - I had the same problem, it's not MWII and it's buggy. Well the latest series of patches have made it stable (still the odd crash), but read Saul David's Victoria Wars (I know E:TW is set 100 years earlier) and you understand the problems and tactics of early rifle warfare - reliability, range, volley, formations and the Officers' incompetence based on commisions gained by wealth and not experience/training.
 
The Witcher, never saw what the big fuss was, I played it for a couple hours, and now it just sits there, I honestly do not see what everyone else seems to.

BioShock, I never even bought it. Played the demo, and I thought it was horrid.

Thats pretty much it for me.
 
I think it depends on the type of mood you are in as well as other factors. For example low dopamine levels and I find myself being bored with nearly everything. This is usually attributed by the fact that some of the anti-depressants I've been on in the past lower dopamine levels, creating apathy and lack of enjoyment. Off them, I'm fine, I can get into any game I want to. Weird but true.

That's a nice deep topic for ya... :p
 
Diablo is a major one for me. I can't stand the game so repedative its just mash the mouse button as quickly as humanly possible to win !

I never could understand why such a basic game really got so much hype. Most likely because it was made by Blizzard.
 
Adsta said:
Diablo is a major one for me. I can't stand the game so repedative its just mash the mouse button as quickly as humanly possible to win !

I never could understand why such a basic game really got so much hype. Most likely because it was made by Blizzard.
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More confusing is why it's considered an RPG. Spells and levels != RPG.
 
Tombstone said:
People rave about it, it usually ends up in the top 10 on top 100 game lists. But for me it was just total meh...not because of the game really though, but because I really just dont like the real time "strategy" genre anyway. The whole churn out dozens and dozens of a unit and just swarm across the map with them doesnt do anything for me. I barely consider it "strategy".
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But that is the thing - if you churn out dozens and dozens of units in Starcraft, chances are you'll lose the vast majority of the time against a player who knows what he or she is doing.
Remember the strategy part comes in developing and maintaining and economy to churn out all these units, not in the battle itself. Battle management shouldn't fall under strategy, but tactics imo.

This is why supreme commander revolves around developing and maintaining an economy, as do the vast majority of RTSs on the market.
 
krooton said:
More confusing is why it's considered an RPG. Spells and levels != RPG.
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Ah, Diablo 1 is definitely one of those games that you have to take in context. When it was released, the online co-op and battlenet system were revolutionary, as was the semi-random level generation and ability for players to jump in and out of games in progress.

These are all things you'd moan about a game not having if it were released today, but at the time they were fantastic additions.

Also, first game I ever played online, on a 56k modem :)
 
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