PC games that got high praise that you just didn't like

Team Fortress 2.

Vanilla Elder Scrolls are awful, but i love modding them to perfection.

Mass Effect - I have tried to get into this game (~15 hours playtime) but I can not bring myself to enjoy it.

GTA IV - Very underwhelming and much less enjoyable than San Andreas.

The Witcher, when I first played it I thought it was the most juvenile game ever conceived. Seriously I would of thought it was cool was I was 13. Pale, Anorexic Protagonist with cat eyes and a giant sword in addition to a skimpy busty girlfriend? The devs must either be teenagers or know their demograph pretty damn well, oh and apparently the game has sex, that'll sure the kiddies entering puberty to riot.

In addition the combat was the most horribly boring system ever conceived.

God was that game so juvenile. It hurts my brain. The fact that it's supposed to be the epitome of a PC RPG makes me sad.

half life 1 wasn't that special

mad incoming

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skyrim is terrible

there is no jumping, just floating

combat is terrible compared to a game like chivalry MW

the main quest is so poorly done, I beat the game in 8 hours .

Big budget games should have extremely polished well made main quests, and skyrim's was a total joke.

JigglyWiggly_

Starcraft 2. Never got into it. Played the first few levels when it came out, now its gathering dust on my shelf.

edit: forgot to mention Mass Effect 3. A huge letdown.

Diablo 3, Call of Duty 4 - Modernwarfare... basicly every CoD after CoD2. Skyrim, Oblivion etc.. Basicly games that are single player = instant boring for me. People saying Half Life 1 or 2 probably were still in kindergarden when those were released, because holy god those were like 5 years infront of every other game in terms of physics and graphics.

Starcraft 1 and 2. I could never get into the series. I played from both games atleast the first 5 missions, and I didn't like them at all. Their art style was quite awfull in my taste, and so was the story.

This game does not deserve all the praise it gets imo.

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half life 1 wasn't that special

mad incoming

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skyrim is terrible

there is no jumping, just floating

combat is terrible compared to a game like chivalry MW

the main quest is so poorly done, I beat the game in 8 hours .

Big budget games should have extremely polished well made main quests, and skyrim's was a total joke.

jwsoul

nope

just gave me 20 poorly made ones

I could never get into the total war games. The games are just too slow and simple. It's a lot more fun to watch what is happening on the ground then to actually play the game.

JangoWuzHere

Mass Effect 1.

Dawn of War 2: I find the single player boring and repetitive.

Company of Heroes: What people find interesting in these games it eludes me.

Fallout 3: I find it quite bland.

Metro 2033: Awful gameplay imo.

Guild Wars 2: After a while it gets boring. Not going to deny though, that they graphics and the artstyle is beautiful.

Metro 2033: Awful gameplay imo.

Miroku32

This. I was getting blind playing that game man. So dark and the mask becomes opaque when you breathe. It was so frustrating for me but i know alot of people loved it

I have bought way to many games for the past three years, which have ended with me having a few games i dont like.

Dragon age origins (too difficult)

Risen (too difficult)

Borderlands 2 (boring)

I will go back to my old system that i had back in 2003 - 2008 where i only bought one or two games that i want really bad. That way i wont end up with a pile of games that are too hardcore or boring.

The Longest Journey

Fallout 3 is one of the first that comes to mind. Everyone I say I don't like it I get told that I wasn't playing it right. Will47

half life 1 wasn't that special

JigglyWiggly_

Did you play it before 2000?

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half life 1 wasn't that special

AFBrat77

Did you play it before 2000?

no
but irrelevant
i judge all my games based on how good they are today
unsurprisingly i rate almost all the early 3d games as bad, unless they have very good art style (e.g not grungy textures but pure colors) and simple game mechanics that are fun regardless of age.

e.g I liked quake 1 a lot more than half life 1 because it's really simple. (Inb4 I only like quake)

i played q1 a lot later than playing half life too

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half life 1 wasn't that special

JigglyWiggly_

Did you play it before 2000?

no
but irrelevant
i judge all my games based on how good they are today
unsurprisingly i rate almost all the early 3d games as bad, unless they have very good art style (e.g not grungy textures but pure colors) and simple game mechanics that are fun regardless of age.

e.g I liked quake 1 a lot more than half life 1 because it's really simple. (Inb4 I only like quake)

i played q1 a lot later than playing half life too

every single Call of Duty game that was made after Modern Warfare 1 the series is so stale as hell now and looks like the same ol rehash year after yearProjectPat187

The Witcher 2. I played it for an hour and it didn't do anything for me. I might try it again at some point.

HyperWarlock

Borderlands 1 and 2...

unsurprisingly i rate almost all the early 3d games as bad, unless they have very good art style (e.g not grungy textures but pure colors) and simple game mechanics that are fun regardless of age.JigglyWiggly_

Nights into dreams ofc

dat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa5mZheIwNo&t=2m

i played this about 2 years ago for my first time, this game has aged perfectly and looks great too.

Off the top of my head - Borderlands. The gameplay felt so repetetive, no real sense of progression, the world seemed so empty...it was better when I played with friends though, but still not as good as I was hoping.

The second one blew me away though. It was terrific. One of the best games of 2012.

Dishonored. I found the game really boring, and the characters have no life in them.

[QUOTE="ProjectPat187"]every single Call of Duty game that was made after Modern Warfare 1 the series is so stale as hell now and looks like the same ol rehash year after yearNoAssKicker47

Can I ask what you (or anyone else) didn't like about MOHAA? I played it a good 5+ years after it came out--it's hard to believe we had stuff like Crysis already--and I remember losing many afternoons and evenings to the multiplayer. The single player was kind of a fun but frustrating romp, though multiplayer held up incredibly well. I still get nostalgic watching MP vids on youtube :P

Company of Heroes: What people find interesting in these games it eludes me.

Miroku32

I'm extremely curious about thoughts on this one too. I adore it personally... I have a number of friends who love it, and an equal number of those who hate it but play just to humour the rest of us.

Mass Effect 1+2: Cover Based Shooting, Health Regeneration, Paraphrased Dialogue, Copy paste level design, Shooter "RPG" combat, overly linear level design and hamfisted writing.

Borderlands 2: I should have listened. It was a trap. All I got was an overly unbalanced and not very fun shooter with fetch quests, repetitive enemy design, number inflation, lack of challenge (in normal mode at least), a low drop rate which causes enemies to become bullet sponges in NG+ and annoying characters. It was a bad shooter and an even worse Diablo-like. It was just a waste of time.

Guild Wars 2, Rage (not sure if this one is considered high praise), and TF2

Dark Souls

Okay, for me the list will be a little bit long, and here it is :

1. Hitman absolution- Totally ruined the whole seires. Turn a stealth genre into a shoot them up series.

2. GTA IV- Each and every missions are same. No variety. Just go and shoot them up type. Its something like that it learn nothing from its ancestor. And I played it on a PC and I can say one thing Rockstar forget how to optimize game for the PC.

3. Diablo III- I don't know why I can't able to like this game. Play for almost a week. But after a week I trade it off for Torchlight II.

4. Hotline Miami- I still don't get it. Why this game is so much praised. Its soundtrack is quite good and some peoples are also appreciate it for its retro look. But that look don't work for me. I have some eyesight problem and my eye almost start bleeding after playing it for a while. And it was pretty difficult for me too.

5. Need for speed most wanted (new)- At first I don't know why EA put same name for two games. And I get it after playing the new game for a while. EA use a cheap trick to sell a game using the shadow of one of there mostly praised game.

6. Mass Effect 3- Don't have any clue yet wht the rating is so high. For me its just like another shooting game and most of the mission is linier and people call it RPG, WTH.

7. Dawn of War- I am a fan of old Dawn of War series. I like the old micro management system. But the new approch the developer try to impose from Dawn of Two II totally ruined the game series for me. The new gameplay technique is not actually work for me :(

Diablo 3 and Planetside 2.

Diablo 2 is one of the greatest games and was looking forward to d3 but really let me down.

As for Planetside 2, this is a whole different story. I knew when SOE first spoke of making it that I would be let down. Planetside is by far my favorite game and have devoted almost a decade playing since 2003 so I knew my expectations would be high, and they let me down big time. I understand times have changed but if I wanted to play any generic shooter then I would have look elsewhere.

Mass Effect 3- Don't have any clue yet wht the rating is so high. For me its just like another shooting game and most of the mission is linier and people call it RPG, WTH.dreamerdonkey

Crysis 1alexside1

Along with the borderlands series.

Crysis felt like just another shooter with a suit for cool factor along with its pretty graphics. Gamplay wise, it was pretty much the same as every other shooter. Got all the high praise but for me it was pretty boring. You've played one FPS you've played them all. Ditto for Borderlands. Clap-trap is NOT funny. He's annoying as F**K. If it was a fallout game--I would have shot him dead the moment he opened his trap.

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This man speaks the truth
Also, Medal of Honor Allied Assault and the Hitman series.

NoAssKicker47

Can I ask what you (or anyone else) didn't like about MOHAA? I played it a good 5+ years after it came out--it's hard to believe we had stuff like Crysis already--and I remember losing many afternoons and evenings to the multiplayer. The single player was kind of a fun but frustrating romp, though multiplayer held up incredibly well. I still get nostalgic watching MP vids on youtube :P

Deus Ex Human Revolution: dull story, dull levels, silly boss fights, and an incredibly boring final level (whack da zombies!).

This game was hyped to the rafters, but didn't deliver.

The Witcher 2

Grand Theft Auto series (except #1)

i never like any of the elder scrolls games... but all my mates seem to love it.

The fallout games... i just couldnt finish them maybe they're just not for me

Dragon Age: Origins- Was excited to get this after all of the acclaim it was getting, and was thoroughly disappointed. It felt like a game that belonged on the PS2. Menus and systems were awkward, combat was lame, and the graphics were really awful considering the era.

STALKER- Like Sean, I really have tried to get into the STALKER games. I just can't do it. I don't know why either, because first person open world RPGs are one of my favorite game types.

Far Cry 2- Funny one because some sites gave it awful reviews, but it received a ton of glowing reviews from lots of places. Probably the single most annoying and frustrating gaming experience I've ever had. FC2 was a joke.

For those of you saying Half Life, you must either be young or didnt play it until recently. When HL1 was released it was INCREDIBLE for its time.