Games Everyone Else Loves, But You Just Can't Get Into

[noisyturtle]

We've all encountered this game at least once. It has fantastic reviews, all your friends love it, people are saying "Just buy it!"
Then you buy the game, ready to be whisked away, and you realize you hate the experience. Either the mechanics are not for you, you can't stand the play loop, or it is just straight up boring to you.

For me, that game is Stardew Valley. Everyone seems to adore this game, and I find it to be the most tedious and boring game ever. Right away, when starting the game and looking for something to hook me in, the game is like 'Clear 20 rocks and logs off your property' That's what you open with? That is supposed to make me want to play more? Then I see doing this will take like 2 weeks in-game time and I am automatically checked out. Even when I power through the utter slog of unrewarding tedium that is the beginning, the gameplay loop is just "collect/do XX amount of this to unlock the next level of doing the same task over and over"
I just don't get the appeal. It feels like I am doing actual work, slowly plodding through each incremental task that ultimately means nothing, and just leads to the same task with a different paint job. People keep telling me the game gets really good at like 60-80hrs in. If it takes that long to ramp up, I am just not interested.

[fohat.digs]

Everyone Else Loves Games, But I Just Can't Get Into Them.

Maybe it is the combination of time expended and prolonged frustration that leaves me feeling unsatisfied.

I do enjoy a few word games on the cell phone or maybe the odd game of solataire while I am waiting for something else, such as an appointment, but when I have a block of time to fill I much prefer reading a book or listening to music.
 

[tp4tissue]

It's hard to get into Vidya once you're older. Without our current Disney system of marriage, a successful human male would've started a second or third family in their later life stages.

[noisyturtle]

Thought of another one: Breath Of The Wild
I just find it so incredibly repetitive and tedious. The dungeons all feel the same, the weapon durability drives me batty, the framerate is noticeably bad. Everything just feels the same, same scenarios over and over and over. Other Zelda games each area has unique mechanics specific to make it feel different and challenge your play style, enemies are varied, dungeons are all totally different, there are memorable characters. BotW is missing all of that.

Funny thing is BotW still not even my least favorite Zelda game. But I give Twilight Princess much more credit as a cohesive and engaging experience, even if it frustrates me to no end.

[tp4tissue]

BOTW is a really good game, for kids.  When you're older, you can't play this sort of thing, because you see the spreadsheet behind the graphics, and your brain calculates that you're just throwing your life away..

[TomahawkLabs]

I don't have have time to sink into games so lore heavy games or games that you need to put 20-40 hours for it to "get good" are just off the table. I need a game I can pick up and play for 30-60 minutes. Maybe 90 on a good day, save and pick back up later. This removed almost any online games because I don't have the time to learn the game to get competitive enough to enjoy it.

I have been playing Hitman 3 because I can save as many times as I want and pick it up and set it back down as needed.

[phinix]

I guess it was Fallout for so many years for me.
I mean, I remember playing Fallout 1 and 2 for some time, but never finished it, like loads people did. Then any new iteration was just not cool for me.
Now, when I'm older, I think it would be nice to return to it and play 1 and 2 again, as those isometric versions were more interesting for me, not those FPP newer ones.
There are few more titles there that never pulled me in. But most annoying thing is that most games are repetitive grind-fests, you play for few hours, notice the pattern and drop it. This is my main problem.

[blondie]

All competitive games (Call of Duty, Rocket League, Fortnite, etc.) and all Souls likes. The Last of Us.

[Leslieann]

So many.

Sims gets old fast and OMG is it a money grab, go add up all the DLCs.
Sim City (and its ilk) is just tedious, monotonous, micro-management of a city... Snoooze.

I first played Fallout 3 and just couldn't get into it, I recently tried it again and just got bored a few dozen hours in. I love Fallout New Vegas, 4 and 76 and I actually do love the horror and story so it just baffles me that I keep getting bored of 3 but I do, maybe I'm just more casual with my gaming.

Battlefield, COD, etc. I won't even bother with Fortnight and such.
I liked these early on but as they added more and more players to each map it just became chaos. Then they added voice chat and made it worse, so much worse (rarely does it make a game better). The competition of it makes it even worse.

Adventure/puzzle/problem solving games where you have to figure out how to open random doors and or collect specific random stuff to progress (Myst is a good example). I love the idea but I completely overthink these every time or they simply just make no sense. And after writing that I now have zero desire to visit an escape room.