Games you never got into or understood.

[Jorath Calar]

Have you ever come across a game that you had no idea how to play it?
I'm not talking about a boring or a bad game just a game that you had no idea how to play no matter if you read the manual or did the tutorials.

I remember trying Colonization for the first time. It was terrible, I had no idea what to do and it was all very complicated. Then I spent a whole night playing it, learned it extrememly well and got seriously hooked, today it's still one of my favorite games ever.

I tried Gangsters 2 recently and even if I learned eventually what I had to do I had no idea how to do it... it was like the interface was missing a few buttons... [img]smile.gif[/img]

I also had lot of trouble getting into Morrowwind, never did actually, tried it for a couple of days but just felt lost... so I gave up and went back to playing Neverwinter Nights... [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Bozos of Bones]

The longest leanring how to play for me was X: Beyond The Frontier. Man was I lost on that one. I accumulated 65000cr without knowing I could buy factories.

[Aelia Jusa]

For me it's definitely Europa Universalis. My brother bought it for my birthday (read: he wanted it for himself ) but I couldn't get what you were supposed to do, especially when you started with already developed countries. Seriously had no idea at all. My brother enjoyed it though

[johnny]

AFL 2003, Australian football. I can't get the hang of it. Not just the gameplay, but the rules are a mystery to me as well. Too bad, because it looks pretty good.

[Nerull]

Do boardgames count on this? If so, Rise and Decline of the Third Reich was just plain ugly. It had a magazine for a manual, and I was lost after page 3.

For computer/console games, it had to be this one wrestling game I rented one time (I believe it was Wrestlemania 2000). The controls were beyond complicated; I eventually gave up, and started designing my own wrestlers and having the computer play them both (i.e. watched it like wrestling on TV).

[Kakero]

Gothic, I can never really get used to the controls. That is so frustrating that I stop playing it.

Planscape Torment, I really don't understand the storyline at all. What am i searching for? Why the hell am I going from one place to another place? And what's the meaning of that ending?

[Gnarf]

I didn't figure out much of Dominions... until I played Dominions 2, which has a tad better interface (so then I donwloaded the first Dominions demo again, and understood the everything [img]smile.gif[/img] ... great games, btw).

[Paladin2000]

An old game: Of Light and Darkness. The puzzles are weird, timed and confusing. I gave it up after playing for 10 minutes or so.

[philip]

Originally posted by Aelia Jusa: For me it's definitely Europa Universalis.

Great game! [img]smile.gif[/img]

For me it was Empire Galactica or something like that. I did demo missions and all but once I tried in the real game it didn't work. Besides I didn't know what to do anyway. I found it looking very cool though, I don't have it anymore as I threw away all my copied CDs a couple of years ago.

[Albromor]

Kakero, I was waiting for someone else to mention Planescape: Torment for I was too chicken to mention it first! The PS:T fans are rabid and I have read enough over the years on various forums how they exclaim that it is *the* roleplaying game of all roleplaying games. They'll probably tell you that you just don't get the existential flow... I tried to get into it at least 3 times and, yes, I played longer than 15 hours [I actually saw a PS:T fan rip another non-fan claiming the latter had to play longer than 5 hours to really appreciate it; how did he know how long the guy played it?]. But, "ZZZZzzzzz", it put me to sleep. [img]graemlins/yawn.gif[/img] Okay, let the flaming begin! I'm not afraid. [img]graemlins/1disgust.gif[/img]

[ 02-25-2004, 02:49 PM: Message edited by: Albromor ]