Comments on: Games That You Are Supposed To Like

By: Eumel

Eumel — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:35:19 +0000

Company of Heroes here, too. Rather well designed, but all to soon I remembered why I don’t like RTS games. Too many things happening at the same time — so I end up constantly pausing the game, especially when I’m fighting on several fronts. This is too fast for me, or I am too slow.

I also never liked the Baldur’s Gate games. They are vast and looked very interesing at first sight, but there was too much (real-time) combat for me, so I got bored very quickly. Planescape: Torment on the other hand…

By: Krupo

Krupo — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:20:00 +0000

Should’ve stuck it out with Homeworld – if anything, their missions were pretty unique, but I totally understand where you’re coming from looking at it from other angles.

I think I hit that problem – games I should enjoy but haven’t – with flight sims. I have two sitting around gathering dust which I should’ve flown tons of sorties in, but the desire to do it in ‘true sim fashion’ was shot down in flames by the lack of committment/time to learn HOW to do it in true sim fashion. Sigh.

By: Taranis

Taranis — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:34:58 +0000

For me it has to be COH, I have only played the demo but I really just didn’t feel it. Sure it has amazing graphics, sound and it looks like a great MP game but I felt like I was interacting with a movie instead of contemplating different strategy’s to defeat the enemy and the pace of the game was also a turn off for me. I’ll probably buy it once it hits the bargin bins and give it a second chance, right now though I really don’t have the urge to go out and buy it.

By: JonathanStrange

JonathanStrange — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:55:29 +0000

I like 4x turn-based strategy games and I like space settings, but I’ve never enjoyed GalCiv or GalCiv2. And I’ve tried many times. It’s just rather dull. I’ve no real feeling that I’m dealing with several idiosyncratic alien species with weird techs and strange combat tactics. I mostly look at the universe map and think “Oh. Orange is expanding. Red is collapsing. Green is at risk.” And click the end turn button. There’s no need for me to devise new battle tactics or outfit new warships with point-defense systems or plasma cannons to counter this or that threat. Just click end turn and move on. At least with CivIV, for example, there’s strategic territory: bottlenecks, high ground, ocean barriers, river crossings; and the terrain’s interesting to look at to boot. I still recognize that this game seems to have the ingredients all there, I’m just not enjoying the results.

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:46:19 +0000

I'll begrudingly admit that there are plenty of games that I'm supposed to like, but for whatever reason I simply don't care to play them. Homeworld is on the list, not because it's a bad game, but because I consider it just another RTS-by-attrition. I blame Westwood and the early Command & Conquer games for establishing what turned out to be a really crummy mission design, which everyone else saw fit to copy up until Age of Empires arrived on the scene. As much as it pains me to say it, GalCiv and GalCiv II also fall into this category, but for entirely different reasons. Mostly, I never felt like I ever had a good grasp of how the games worked, at least not in the same way that I felt I understood other turn-based games like Civ IV or Age of Wonders. Maybe it was the lack of tutorials, or perhaps just that too many game mechanics were hidden "under the hood" for my liking.