Fallout 1 is the game for me. I love RPGs and I love the post-apocalyptic setting. But everytime I try to play it, I get completely bored and annoyed (e.g. by the clunky inventory and several other flaws and design choices) and quit playing somewhere in the middle of the game. I was never able to complete it (and I tried several times by now).

I have two games I get that sort of feeling: Fallout 2 and Blocks That Matter.

I got bored just trying to finish the main campaign in Fallout 2. It was just too much of "go here and do stuff, go to the next place and do more of the same stuff". I much preferred the shorter campaign in Fallout 1.

I just straight quit playing Blocks That Matter half way through. I like the puzzle aspects, but some of the pure platforming areas became tiresome and frustrating.

Thief 2 and 3. I loved the first due to being able to stealthily wipe out all guards in each level. Thief 3 would replace guards which is more realistic but it took the fun out of the game for me. The mechanical sentries in 2 just frustrated me and I got bored very quickly.

Half-Life and Quake. And Doom a little bit too. They are good games, but they never "touched me" they way I expected them to.
I guess I'm not much of a FPS guy.

GTA IV

The satire was too "realistic" (for lack of a better word), the world was filled with useless time-wasting activities that weren't actually fun and hence it felt paradoxically empty, the "friends" were annoying fucks I didn't want to spend time with, Nico Bellic was well-written but completely unrelatable as my player avatar and so I wasn't invested at all in the story,...

I lost all interest in the game somewhere around the half-way point and have never touched it since. The only 3D GTA I didn't finish, and before trying I'd play Vice City or my personal favourite San Andreas again anytime.

Basically Saints Row the Third and especially Saints Row IV delivered on all the fun, insanity, and balls-to-the-wall parody I had hoped to get from GTA IV.

Half Life 1 + 2. I had always been into shooters, especially horror/survival/gory/grotesque ones. I always knew those 2 games were the top dog in the FPS genre. Yet, for some reason, even though i wanted to love them, i couldn't. I got Half-Life 2 with episode 1 gifted from a friend that had them double, upon his buying of the orange box. I simply couldn't. From the regular bugs to the regular crashes, to the game itself that for some reason didn't stick with me and my tastes, i abandoned it nearly in 1/3. That was the very first thing that made me ride the evil steam train.

I regretted both getting on steam, and playing Half-Life. I found Vampire Bloodlines MILES better game and more interesting, even though it wasn't anywhere near being a shooter, but it utilized the source engine too. And i was always angry of it being forced to be delayed, so HL could come out first. One of the reasons that doomed it and left it in that sad, sorry state.

Yup! Both Arcanum and Jagged Alliance 2. I could feel the great games there, but for some reason neither really struck a chord with me.

I loved the character creation of Arcanum and I think I'll go back to my original (fairly recent) save to try to get into it again. JA2 I think just wasn't for me - which was a letdown because like I mentioned, I could just feel the deep, awesome and engrossing game there; it just never "clicked" for me :(

Half Life 2: I found it to be very bland and devoid of atmoshere, as well as having boring enemies and simple puzzles that felt extremely annoying and interrupted the flow of gameplay. No clue why it was so highly rated, outdated perhaps?

Even if you didn't like Witcher1 you should really try Witcher 2.
I can understand why people can't get into Witcher 1.
Still, Witcher 2 it's totally different, in my opinion. :)


One game that I really tried to like was Skyrim. I have to admit that I expected too much, but I still don't understand why many people consider Skyrim a good game...

Halo.
Well, I didn't *want* to love it. I admit, we had a relation once. A rather quick one. Completely forgettable. There wasn't hard feelings on my side : what happened between us was purely circumstancial. The result of boredom more likely.
I wonder what became of it, today. But I would mind us being in the same room again, it would be really awkward.

Now you calling it crap hurt my self esteem ! ;-)

Really? I always loved the dirty dystopian future city atmosphere of HL2. I do agree it is outdated in the sense that a lot of what HL and HL2 did that made them so huge is now par for the course. At the time, there really wasn't much in the way of story driven FPS gameplay. There were examples of it don't get me wrong but HL took it to the next level and put it in a polished AAA package with fantastic A.I.

Now we take for granted that a shooter will be a somewhat cinematic plot driven experience and pan a game if the A.I. consists of waves of guys running at you. But before HL, most FPS games were exactly this. Monster Closets that pumped out weird enemies with the entire plot being "shoot shoot shoot, then shoot some more."

HL didn't even give you a gun until over an hour into the game.

I thought this was going to be a different topic. My reply was going to be:

"Yes I wanted to love the disc version of betrayal at krondor..but the hole wasn't big enough."

I don't think it was crap (the impact it had on gaming was crap), but players praised the weirdest parts of it, like the story and characters. I've played three Halo games and could barely tell you anything about the series outside of the fact that there's a man in a green suit called Masterchef. And now we've gotten the freakin' lady AI voice on our Windows phone because of reasons.

Okay, I laughed.