To my Minecraft post :

My five years old cousin likes it .

The Temple of Elemental Evil I found hideously dull. This was mostly on account of the combat engine, faithfully reproduced turn-based to a fault. The amount of menu-navigating minutiae one had to put up with to finish even one fight was agonizingly tedious.

The turn-based combat in Fallout 1/2 & Arcanum, some of my favorite all-time games, never bothered me, but in ToEE I found it unbearable. The cut-and-dried plot and dungeon-crawl conceit probably added to it. If I wanted to play that type of game I'd just load up Icewind Dale again, which at least has Infinity Engine goodness and combat that doesn't flow like molasses.

Oblivion was a game I didn't try that hard to like, but as soon as I played it (briefly), I thought that if it and WoW were to represent the future of cRPGs, then a good part of future gaming was dead to me now And it's pretty much stayed that way five years on. Fallout 3 was a huge disappointment. The "Oblivion with Guns" slur is hugely reductive but that happened to be my experience in a nutshell after all. Bioshock was better, certainly better than F3, though its charms were finite and it wasn't the heir apparent of System Shock 2 2K games heralded it as, not by a long-shot. I couldn't be bothered to finish either game, though I played Bioshock much longer than Fallout 3. I haven't bothered with Dragon Age. I just can't drum up any interest in it, and what I've read on the games hasn't changed that. I will play Witcher 1 when it's released here on GOG in a couple weeks to see what the fuss is about with that game.

Sid Meier's Railroads was another game I bought optimistically. I think when I loaded it up it seemed more like work than play--and not the fun and engaging type of the Civ series. Uninstalled it the next day.

Oh yes, all the time, especially if I spent money on it or if it's supposedly a "classic". I tried to like Morrowind and Dragon Age, but just could not...at all.

Yes, I tried to force myself to like Dragon Age. I even beat the vanilla campaign and bought the expansion. Playing the expansion, while fostering my loot-whore part, did not constitute anything even resembling vanilla, let along what little I've played of Baldur's Gate.

I found the DLC to be superior to the official campaign, and far more entertaining, but I chalk that up to EA getting BioWare to hop on the DLC bandwagon and BW losing their way these past couple of years.

Another one that I liked but didn't love despite wanting to was Mass Effect 2. I found 1 to be superior to it in every way.

I'm playing Turok right now, the one from 2008 not the original Turok: The Dinosaur Hunter.

It's pretty terrible. It has the lowest FOV I have seen in an FPS and the hack to fix it is buggy as hell. I literally get sick playing the game. On top of that and probably most importantly the dinosaurs are not fun to fight. They knock you over constantly and they respawn endlessly, forcing you to run away (which then spawns more dinosaurs). Lastly the game is uggggly, probably the worst offender out there for the blurry and brown Unreal Engine 3 syndrome.

And yet I am still playing it.

Last night I didn't feel like playing Baldur's Gate, but I loaded it up anyways, got into the swing of things, and had a fulfilling playthrough despite how I initially felt! :OD

I've tried to force myself to like Elemental: War of Magic because the idea of it was so grand. But despite aggressive patching, the game is still plagued by memory leaks, mechanic flaws, and weak content. I initially liked the game very much. But that faded fast once I got to know the game. Now its a lame duck residing on my harddrive. I want to delete it, yet at the same time I still ache to play that sort of game. Maybe someday Stardock will fix it proper. I've grown doubtful of that though. My best hope is that some talented indie developer should fill that void... a fantasy based 4x TBS with strong RPG elements and tactical battles ala Master of Magic.

You're crazy. Desperados is an awesome game.

Although it'd be better if GoG fixed that annoying crash that seems to be happening to everyone.

Try playing Oblivion on the HARDEST DIFFICULTY you'll be tearing your hair out

Oblivion opened me up from being just a FPS fan to being both a FPS and a RPG fan Morrowind is just WAAAAAAY to CONFUSING?!?!? it's like every person I meet I have to ask where such and such is NOT FUN AT ALL only to realize I've gone in the exact opposite direction from where I should be and the witcher demo I said "mouse button 2 for move forward" tried to click it Oh WHY.. Why must they insist on using Dennis fong's WASD setup I HATE WASD it is the WORST INVENTION EVER::

The Perfect setup for me is::

Move forward=Right Mouse Button
Shoot primary=Left Mouse Button
Shoot secondary =G
Throw Grenades = C
Strafe Left= S
Strafe Right= F
Move backwards = D
DUCK = A
Reload = R
Look Left = W
Look Right = E
Use = Middle Mouse button
Weapon select up = Mouse Wheel Up
Weapon select Down = Mouse Wheel Down
Inventory = TAB
Flashlight = Q

That's My most Basic Setup and 10-1 if you try it you'll love it and your Fingers will thank you.

I had to force myself to play and like a game few times. Gothic 1, Hitman: Codename 47 to name just two. Both turned out to be great.
I only do it when a game gets a great reviews, lots of positive comments from gamers etc.

Yes, but at the point the game is boring ;)

Most stealth games. I think I like the idea of stealth better than the execution.

The Hitman games. I always thought they'd be far more strategic than they are. I like a plan but the games don't seem to reward studying maps and coming up with clever ideas, I always end up getting bored and just spraying the whole area with gunfire.

Most space dogfight games, I usually find myself disappointed and bored, with the exception of Freespace.

I was smiling cheek to cheek at that point. Sweet, sweet revenge for making me reloading repeatedly at the start when I was shit. I was literally screaming in my head: "Die Ethereals, you bastards. Chrysalids, how do you like being my scout now, muhahaha, DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!"