Looks like Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 is my latest casualty. I put about 14 hours into it before I uninstalled. I simply couldn’t get immersed into the world of Medieval Bohemia and I often found the pacing to be very uneven (ie long periods of just cutscenes and talking). I’ve had a couple of other recent games where I also uninstalled because I couldn’t get into them:
UBoat - this one surprised me because of my big interest in naval warfare but the gameplay itself bored me.
Elden Ring Nightreign - this was my fault for not thoroughly reading the major changes to the gameplay before I bought it.
Ha! I played through all of Cyberpunk 3 times and put in well over 300 hours into it. It just goes to show that each person’s tastes can and often does vary wildly
The amount of objectively great games that I just couldn’t get into is staggering.
I should LOVE Divinity: Original Sin because it is almost like BG3 which I love.
I really liked Witcher 1 but Witcher 2 just failed to grab me.
European Air War was a good flight sim but I somehow hated it.
Deus Ex I just couldn’t get into.
I am somehow too dumb for Age of Wonders although I really like it.
Same goes for Total Annihilation and Age of Empires. I somehow suck at those so much that they quickly stop being fun, before I can get good.
Edit: Add GTA to the list. I drive around for a bit, enjoying the graphics and stuff, steal a few cars, but… I suck at being evil.
I can’t.
Like with TV shows and books I cannot enjoy the next part of a series without finishing the previous, not in story driven games that build their story upon their predecessor. I’d miss all of the hints and Easter eggs and stuff.
For example I never played through the campaign of Warcraft3 because I couldn’t be bothered to play the old Humans vs. Orcs first. I almost wouldn’t have played WoW because of that, too.
Nowadays I might do it if I have watched a Let’s Play on YT. Seeing is almost playing in that regard.
Jedi Fallen Order and Survivor - I really, really tried to get into both games, but I really didn’t enjoy them. They were very pretty, but the combat and powers didn’t feel like Star Wars. Probably because I played the Jedi Knight series religiously back when they were new, and had recently installed the remastered versions of the older games.
Star Wars Squadrons - Same thing, very pretty, and I really, really wanted to like it, but it didn’t feel like Star Wars. It felt more like an arcade shooter that happened to feature space ships than it did a spiritual successor to the X-Wing series. And don’t even get me started on the nightmare of setting up my HOTAS.
No, I’ve always hated that period of “history” but everyone always says its the best thing ever and whilst it is undeniable that it is a phenomenal looking game, i find incredibly dull.
The witcher 3 is another one that gets near universal praise, but i can’t stand
I forgot about Hearts of Iron 4. Love WW II history, love military history but I found the game to be WAY overly complicated. In fact I’d say it was overly complicated for the sake of being overly complicated.
Red Dead Redemption II - Never played the first one and got it for less than half price. Although I’m not a fan of that period in history, I actually like Westerns and everyone was raving about it. It is graphically gorgeous and a stunningly realised open world but I just couldn’t relate to any of the characters, least of all mine. Gave up just after coming down from the first hideout in the mountains.
Jedi Fallen Order - Looks superb and I liked the characters and the story. But, like Ted, I couldn’t get into the combat mechanics and there was way too much platforming for my taste. Gave this one up about half-way through.
Cyberpunk and Witcher3 are incredible. There are bits in those that are so well written, they are true examples of why games are as rich an artform as literature is.
Red dead 2 is almost as good as the above two games, even if it takes some time to get used to them, and like most of the worlds’ literary canon, it has a bit of a pithy shell you need to chew through to get through to the good bits. I shed tears over RDR2’s ending. It was that moving.
The modern jedi games, I ate all of them up, they are fine starwars. In fact, what happens at the end of the first fallen order game is one of the smarter and wiser things I ever saw starwars writers do prior to Andor.
Now starwars squadrons, I get you guys. For some reason it sucks. It’s just a tad too fast, too small.
I bounced off of the paradox grand strat games. I am just too fook’n dumb for 'em I reckon. I love reading HOI after action reports however, how people take prewar England and make it into a communist superpower ruling the world using nuclear aircraft carrying submarines and things.
