Video games you want to like, but don't? / Video games you wished you liked more?

GTA4. I’ve given it chance after chance, because so many people say it’s the best one. But it isn’t, it soooo is not. It’s boring and its fiddly on foot controls and frankly terrible driving physics make it basically unplayable for me. I much prefer GTA5, although having played through it once and messed around in online a bit several years back I have no desire to play it again. The PS2 trilogy I come back to again and again, maybe less so GTA3 than the other two. They’re absolutely great.

I am still immensely looking forward to GTA6 though.
 
Breath of the Wild, sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry.

Maybe I’m just not that into RPGs. But I got through the early stages, the shrines etc then unlocked the whole world and was like ‘right come on, let’s go have the Greatest Gaming Experience Ever tm’ and after a few hours kinda aimlessly running across a massive empty field getting lasered by those incredibly annoying Guardian things every three minutes, I kinda found a village, did a dull side quest, bought some stuff and stayed in an inn, then zzzzzzzzz. It’s a game I keep coming back to just because I really want to love it so much. But it’s been years now. Maybe I’ll try the new one in time.
 
Same here. I remember thinking BOTW was gonna be the game that got me back into Zelda, I'd loved the earlier titles but quit about two thirds of the way into Phantom Hourglass and just never went back or tried any of the others after that. I got the Wii U version near launch (one of the games that made me buy the system in fact... this was right before the Switch was revealed) and absolutely could not get into it at all. Stuff like Skyrim and Fallout never kept my attention long either, so I'm sure its a me problem that I have with these massive open worlds more than anything. I doubt it'd reach many peoples #1 spots on hype alone, and there's no denying it is an impeccable game, but it just isn't for me.
 
2Xtreme.
Grew up playing a demo of the game on an old demo disc and eventually got the full game many years later, but it didn't quite do it for me like I wished it could have. Theirs just way too many objects on the track to collide with, the AI feels like it's always faster than you, and like another game I mentioned here, it seems if you mess up once, you won't stand much of a chance of catching up again. I want to love it, I really do, but I just can't.
 
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Almost all JRPG's. I wish I liked them, I feel like I am missing out, but I always find them so similar, and I am not a fan of Anime or Manga so that doesn't help. Tried so many big games but can't make it past the first hour.

The only one that slipped through the net was FF7 Remake, I loved it.
 
Have to go with Zelda Breath of the Wild, I really wish I liked that game. Back in the day I was really into Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker and was super pumped to play BOTW. It was hyped up and people seem to consider it a near perfect Zelda game so I got it a few years after it launched and thought it was very underwhelming. I kept trying to like it, but it didn't click. Hurt to put it down but after maybe only 2 hours in I just couldn't keep playing.

It is a good game for the right people, don't get me wrong, it's just not for me. I'm at a stage in my gaming life where open world games in general are too time consuming so I tend to be picky about which ones to invest in. If I don't get into a game in the first 2 hours then I won't enjoy 10, 20, or 30+ hours.
 
Starfield was the obvious answer for me, same for ForzaM, bought both and played probably 20h tops on both. Both while beeing what I like, got me extremely bored while playing them. Starfield, I coulnt get around the weird faces and super slow paces. Forza is just not good enough again. T10 promised so many things just to have something that feel slightly different than FM7. And still no real good single player mode or something that make me want to play the game regularly. Instead GT7 just did that and hook me up again.

Also Zelda BOTW, heard a tons of really good things about it but once I tried it I just couldnt get into it, It was so empty and uninteresting once you get to the proper open world, I got bored super quick and didnt found the magic I liked in Ocarina of time (yeah I havent play a zelda in a long time).
 
That’s it - the open world feels so empty. In GTA V or something there’s always something going on wherever you go, you feel like you’re in the middle of something living and breathing. BoTW just feels like a big empty green landscape with a few villages and stuff. I find open world games very hit and miss generally but I can see why the likes of GTAV and Red Dead Redemption 2 are so popular.
 
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