Ever hate a game after the first minute?

[SteveW]

So, I pick up the game Crash and Burn for the PS2 this afternoon. I like vehicular combat, and demolition driving type games. I loved Carmageddon on the Mac and Demolition Racer: No Exit on the Dreamcast, so I was hoping it was good. So I loaded it up..... bad music was the first thing I was thinking.... and then the game starts...... Why did they decide to use realistic physics and handling on an unrealistic driving game? I can't keep up with the other cars, and still make all the turns without hitting each and every wall on the track. After half a lap, I turned the machine off in disgust.

 

The sad thing is, this isn't new for me. Especially with driving games. I don't like accurate physics in games that aren't meant to be realistic portrayals of driving. I bought LEGO Drome Racers because it was the final game put out by Attention To Detail, the company that brought us Cybermorph and Battlemorph on the Jaguar. After a lap on the track, I gave up, because the controls were absolute garbage. The same thing happened with Power Drome. I wanted to like Power Drome, since I really liked the original Amiga game. But I don't enjoy hitting walls over and over. There have been so many modern games that I've hated right after starting it. Bad controls, bad camerawork, bad graphics, and an all-around bad time. For example, Sega Classics Collection. Terrible graphics that look like direct ports of Saturn games, and gameplay that just doesn't compel me to keep playing.

 

I can't be the only one who's bought disappointing games. What are the ones you've ended up hating right away?

[joeybastard]

Yup. Kiss :Psycho Circus on the DC. I wanted to love it more than any other game but... it just blows. I don't know why I expected much from a cheap marketing gimmick but hey it's the hottest band in the world.

[sega saturn x]

Oh sure corpse killer grave yard edition and battle arena toshiden ultimate revnege attack. Dumb names worse games seriously i wanted to play corpse killer because im a huge fan of cheesy horror movies really i love them. And whats sad is i would have enjoyed it quite a bit actually if there wasent a lame attempt at making it a "game" and i use the term lightly here. And while ck had its film bits battle arena had no good qualitys at all hell i dont even keep it with the rest of my games. It a shelf with a bunch of old vhs's and a copy of fighting vipers it looks like some one wiped themselfs with.

Edited May 6, 2005 by sega saturn x

[Room 34]

I've had a few games that I hated so quickly that I barely owned them long enough to still remember. I know it didn't take long to realize I hated Super Mario Sunshine. (I only played it once, for about 20 minutes, and I put it up on eBay.)

 

Ikaruga was cool, but just too much for my aging brain, so that went quickly too.

 

As far as car games go, realistic physics suck! I played the heck out of Burnout 2, and decided I needed a new driving game. I picked up Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2, and could never hack the more realistic physics (or maybe it was just that it's too sluggish on the GameCube). Anyway, that one just went on eBay too. (Come to think of it, I gave NFS: Porsche Unleashed for the GBA even LESS of a chance. It suddenly reminded me why for so long I thought polygon-based 3D games sucked ass and was never interested in modern consoles.)

[cryptik76]

Rogue Ops for Gamecube. I hated it before I even finished the tutorial.

 

Ditto Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness for PC.

[jeepnut24]

Enter the Matrix...

 

One of the few games that I truly HATE. I love bullet time, but it was done better in Max Payne long before ETM. Once I beat the game, and got to see all the extra movie footage, it went back to EB.

[cimerians]

Halo 2

 

 

*Ducks for cover*

[beamrider2600]

Actually, a lot of games I hate after the first minute I always end up loving. But one game, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds on GameCube I played for a minute and just couldn't believe how bad it was, and still can't. I mean, there are Jaguar games almost better looking, and it gets worse from there.

 

I know it didn't take long to realize I hated Super Mario Sunshine. (I only played it once, for about 20 minutes, and I put it up on eBay.)

Thats one game that I hated for the first little while, but when I got into it I loved it, the controls are so perfect with practice, theres so much freedom - perhaps you made a mistake.

[Gregory DG]

I hated Knights of the Old Republic from the first minute. The controls ruined that game IMO.

[+FujiSkunk]

Destruction Derby Arenas for the PS2.

 

Destruction Derby 2 on the PS1 was the first 3D demolition-derby racing game I played, and I loved it. When I saw that a sequel had come out for the PS2, I wanted to check it out.

 

Late in 2004 I was given a Blockbuster gift card, and I used it to rent the game along with Burnout 3, which I had just seen at Best Buy and knew I absolutely had to have. I tore into Burnout 3 for the better part of the week, then finally put DDA in. Slow, sluggish, uninspired graphics, generic music... okay, back to Burnout 3!

 

Those ten minutes or so were the only time I played the game the entire week I had it, and I've never looked back.

Edited May 5, 2005 by skunkworx

[A2600]

Revenge of Shinobi (Genesis)

[maibock]

There's quite a few games for the GBA that I've gotten frustrated quickly and never have gone back to play. Mostly because of the seemingly endless chat that seems to go on.

 

I just don't have the patience to sit through a novel before the game starts to kick in. It's a portable system! Generally I'm on the move somewhere and would prefer to get to the action right away.

[Stingray]

Final Fantasy on the PS2, don't even know the number. It was all I could do to keep playing long enough to get to a save point. Saved and never put the disk back in again.

 

-S

[Emehr]

Pure hate? I'll say 'Panic!' for SegaCD (see this topic).

 

As for "can't stand but I keep coming back to it because of all the rave reviews thus I must be missing something": Super Mario 64. A minute of that and I'm ready to chuck it out the window.

 

- Jason

[Elthesh]

Ummm, was it on the Sega Saturn? I think so, but I despised Oasis. Or whatever it was called. I played it for about a minute or 2 then another 5-10 to see if it got any better and I returned it, 1 of only 3 games I EVER returned. I could not STAND the viewing angle or anything else. I also returned SNES Robocop vs Terminator or whatever it was that had the special cool looking box and some NES game. Looked like Legend of Kage or something. I forget the name. Both of those were 1 minute games too.

[sega saturn x]

Legend of oasis i think its called

[tmont]

Despite the fact that you can jump about a mile horizontally and about two miles vertically, Demon Sword for NES was easily the biggest waste of $3. I played it for about 2 minutes before I came to my senses and put it away forever.

[+Random Terrain]

I have rented and purchased many games that I hated after the first minute. Too many to list. Many sad days. Many regrets.

[sega saturn x]

A more recent bad game was red ninja i played for about an hour maybe less i wanted to give it a chance at least. Well i gave it a chance its ugly bad and i hated it.

[Shannon]

Halo 2

 

 

*Ducks for cover*

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*throws a frag grenade at cimerians*

[Shannon]

Sad to say... Super Mario Sunshine is one of those games that just didn't do it for me. Your looking at a "BIG" fan of Super Mario 64.

[moycon]

Evil Dead : Hail to the King.

 

Should have been AWESOME! Sucked major ass.

[+uosipa llamxew]

Hmm,

 

When I bought Super Pitfall on the NES, I realized pretty quick that my money was gone forever and I was stuck with a turd.

 

Pure hate? I'll say 'Panic!' for SegaCD.

Heh, I like that game. It's really dumb, but it's I like the weird humor... kind of like a Japanese Monte Python or something.

[pinball22]

Dark Rift and Gex: Enter the Gecko for the N64 and Pac-Man World 2 for the GCN all

made me want to throw the controller within the first minute of playing them.

[kuifje76]

Starhawk on the Vectrex, but hey, it only takes a minute. I do not like it!!