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Games you really wanted to like...but couldn't

Started by TheShadow, April 02, 2011, 08:30:29 AM

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TheShadow

April 02, 2011, 08:30:29 AM
With every new edition of DnD, I try to like it in order to rejoin the mass of my fellow gamers. But I just couldn't bring myself to like 3.x (too crunchy and too much dungeonpunk) or 4e (combat takes way too long and overshadows other aspects of the game).

So what game have you tried to love but just couldn't? (Proviso:you've actually tried the game.)
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misterguignol

#1
April 02, 2011, 09:09:43 AM
Unhallowed Metropolis.

Great art, interesting setting, but...uninspiring system and a lack of "this is what you do with the game" meant that I sold this off after reading it.

Soylent Green

#2
April 02, 2011, 09:10:54 AM
Rune. It sounded like such a fun and original game idea and who doesn't like Vikings? In play it was a whole new level of awful.
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#3
April 02, 2011, 09:17:37 AM
(Not a game specifically).

- 3E/3.5E era Forgotten Realms

- 4E post-spellplague Forgotten Realms

- Pathfinder's Golarion

I wanted to like these settings, but they all largely fell flat for me after awhile.

Aos

#4
April 02, 2011, 10:08:59 AM
Hollow Earth Expedition. It has some of the best art I've ever seen, but every time I look at it I just think about how I'd rather rewrite the setting and use another system. Beyond that, like far too much neo pulp, it is set in the 1930's and features Nazis as bad guys (boring and done).
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hanszurcher

#5
April 02, 2011, 10:49:42 AM
I have been lucky so far, I have yet to play a game I didn't like. Keep in mind my desire to be entertained is very strong...I saw Æon Flux in theaters three times before I realized how bad it was.:)
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Ian Warner

#6
April 02, 2011, 11:47:50 AM
Red Dwarf, best Sci Fi setting ever but the system is so awful!
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Dirk Remmecke

#7
April 02, 2011, 12:25:22 PM
D&D 3
WotC fooled me into liking this game from the previews. The biggest disappointment I ever got from a game.

Sovereign Stone
I still like the system to this day but totally disliked the setting. If that game was a generic fantasy game it would probably have become my go-to game, back then.

Earthdawn
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Pseudoephedrine

#8
April 02, 2011, 12:38:04 PM
Nobilis - The triumph of style over substance

Shadowrun 4e - The modifiers and bonuses in firefights require complete reworking; computer are unwieldy; magic is extremely easy to abuse

Pathfinder - Just 3.x with a few minor changes. Not enough of a change to interest me.

Exalted - Became too anime-influenced, other influences dropped out
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stu2000

#9
April 02, 2011, 12:53:41 PM
CthulhuTech--enormous wasted opportunity
Unhallowed Metropolis--seemed right up my alley, but no.
Serenity, Supernatural--any of the nifty licenses saddled to that butt-stupid Cotex system
Burning Wheel--I don't hate it, but I wanted to like it.
Savage Worlds--I like it for skirmish, but I don't like roleplaying with it.
Shadowrun--I had a little fun with this, because I was in a couple really fun groups. But the game itself never grabbed me.
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Dan Davenport

#10
April 02, 2011, 01:11:29 PM
Earthdawn
I love the concept and the setting, but I just couldn't deal with the system.

Whispering Vault
Cool setting with some annoying holes and an innovative system that unfortunately turns supposedly bad-ass PCs into chumps.

Spaceship Zero
Great gonzo comedic 1950s sci-fi meets Cthulhu, but the PCs were so incompetent that my players got fed up.
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#11
April 02, 2011, 01:12:01 PM
Savage Worlds for me.  I read the quickstart and kind of like the gist of it, but the actual rulebook was about as engaging and interesting as an algebra textbook.
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#12
April 02, 2011, 01:40:21 PM
Shadowrun, in every version ( I actually tried to play 1st and 3rd).  Excellent setting (every time), horrible system (every time).

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#13
April 02, 2011, 01:47:44 PM
Quote from: Pseudoephedrine;449403Exalted - Became too anime-influenced, other influences dropped out
Agreed. For the exact same reason.

Simlasa

#14
April 02, 2011, 03:30:56 PM
Deadlands... because I was expecting Western horror and got Steampunk mixed with Blazing Saddles instead.

Savage Worlds... because it isn't really all that Savage after all.

Earthdawn... because I like the setting/ideas but the system keeps getting in the way.
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