Great games you own but don't like or never even installed

**ElectricEel** · 07-31-2009, 15:35

Homeworld. I like Homeworld 2 just fine, just a shame about the uninspired plot/scenario design (which has gotten a lot of flak from the first game's fans too). But the original Homeworld...

The game operates on the 'rock-paper-scissors' principle. Say you've got Interceptors, that are quickly dispatched by corvettes, which die messily upon contact with assault frigates, who are highly vulnerable to bombers, which tend to explode upon encountering an interceptor. Units die incredibly quick when they encounter their designated counter, so you have to keep your interceptors away from enemy corvettes, and your corvettes at a long distance from enemy assault frigates, and of course you need interceptors to give your frigates fighter cover so they don't die when attacked by bombers, and make sure there aren't enemy interceptors around when you attack enemy frigates with your bombers (or else they'll get massacred), and make sure to keep an eye on your combat support and resourcing ships so they don't get massacred by any random combat unit that happens to be nearby, and don't forget to use your ships' special abilities too, and keep building more units and give orders to your research ships, and manually pick out damaged combat units and order them to dock for repars and and and ...

There's just a ludicrous amount of stuff going on at once, you need to micromanage everything and every second you're not 100% on the ball, you lose units; and as such, the game doesn't leave much room for learning or experiments. I've installed it twice, and uninstalled it soon after both times.

**Whacker** · 07-31-2009, 16:01

Thief II - Same. Couldn't get into it as much. Thief I was great and a classic but had little replay value for me.

Mass Effect - I'm going to see if I can't force myself to play this one again, and maybe end up liking it.

Earth 2150 - $5 budget game, just never installed it. Meh.

Ghost Recon - Huge stinker. Hated this, it paled next to Operation Flashpoint, which was a bugfest. It was installed for maybe an hour total before being promptly uninstalled, never to see the light of day again.

Call of Duty 4 - Disappointingly shallow game. Crysis blew this away hands down in every category. I made it through one playthrough, forcing myself, and that was it. The only thing that made me not regret buying it was the AC-130 mission. Sad, huh?

Star Wars Empire at War - Poster child for how NOT to make a stupid RTS. Glad I bought this as part of that budget SW game pack for $30. I tried it when it was released and said screw it after 30 minutes.

Far Cry - Doom 3 far outshadowed this. The gameplay was boring as snot. Lasted a total of 15 min on my HDD. Thank god for budget games

Splinter Cell - Horrible, awful port to the PC of what's probably a great console game. Again I forced myself to play about 2 hours and it got uninstalled. This one was free, so no regrets.

**Hooahguy** · 07-31-2009, 16:20

Age of Empires 3
i loved AoE2. i hated AoE3. the reason? the time period. the game flouts having huge battles and the like with cannons and muskets and such. but, when you have cannons that can reach a third of the map away, infantry that know no tactics, and a 200 population limit, i found it hard to like. there is no real tactics in the game. if you have a lot of cannons and some anti cavalry units, you can defeat everyone. and i mean, everyone.
so, it sits in my shelf.

Ghost Recon Advanced warfighter
paid $60 to get the collectors edition. dont know why, mayve because i got a $70 gamestop gift card and i didnt know what else to buy. well, i got it then found out it couldnt run on my computer. put it away until last year. played the frst two missions, got stuck, uninstalled when my hard dive got wiped, played a bit of it a few months ago, uninstalled it to make room for ETW.
it was a tactical, but kinda lame, game. the tactical options were limited, and your stupid teammates always got themselves killed. i hte the non rebounding health meter becase there are some places where you get killed very quickly, or your health gets really low and you end up restarting because if you dont have full health for the enxt mission you would die in the next stage. as i sad before, tactical options were limited, and the multiplayer is the definition of lame.

**Reverend Joe** · 07-31-2009, 17:26

Originally Posted by Whacker

Far Cry - Doom 3 far outshadowed this. The gameplay was boring as snot. Lasted a total of 15 min on my HDD. Thank god for budget games

Doom 3?! Wow, Whacker, you just lost 20% of your Nerddom.

**Crazed Rabbit** · 07-31-2009, 17:29

ARMA I
Occasionally I try to play it and enjoy it, but I just end up hating it more and very seriously considering using it as target practice.

CR

**Hooahguy** · 07-31-2009, 18:05

Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit

ARMA I
Occasionally I try to play it and enjoy it, but I just end up hating it more and very seriously considering using it as target practice.

CR

thats what i did with my Empire Earth 2 cd. shot it to hell with BBs.
i would have put it in my list, but its not considered a great game.

**Whacker** · 07-31-2009, 18:06

Originally Posted by Reverend Joe

Doom 3?! Wow, Whacker, you just lost 20% of your Nerddom.

I liked Doom 3 a lot. In fact I just got done re-playing it last night. id Software is one of the few dev houses that I've been essentially 100% loyal to over the years. Only game they co-dev'd and I didn't buy or like was Quake Wars.