As someone who effectively finishes every game i start (bar the really, really, REALLY appalling ones which amount to only a handful) i sometimes run into games that on balance i don't really enjoy, but sometimes thanks to the gameplay it gets fun. If that up/down ride is dangled like a carrot in front of me i end up not really enjoying a game but ploughing through it to finish it in the hopes that the sum will be better than it's constituent parts (most of the time it's not).
I've just finished Sly 2 Band of Thieves and really wanted to enjoy it. It looks good, i like the characters and levels and it's enjoyable to leap around exploring - there's a decent platformer there....which is what i wanted after the first game. However, the actual gameplay boils down to what i'd effectively describe as a minigame-athon. You never get the chance to be a platforming adventurer for very long, and i ended up playing it in the hope of fun, rather than YET ANOTHER FORCED SLOW STEALTH SECTION, or YET ANOTHER RC HELICOPTER SECTION, or YET ANOTHER PICK POCKETS SECTION...etc...
So......What games have you played that you've battled with to enjoy, and played to the bitter end in the hopes that the fun will remain in the green rather than the red? Which games just don't live up to being fun even though you felt there was a good game in there? (also if you disagree with a choice say why you disagree)
I've just finished Sly 2 Band of Thieves and really wanted to enjoy it. It looks good, i like the characters and levels and it's enjoyable to leap around exploring - there's a decent platformer there....which is what i wanted after the first game. However, the actual gameplay boils down to what i'd effectively describe as a minigame-athon. You never get the chance to be a platforming adventurer for very long, and i ended up playing it in the hope of fun, rather than YET ANOTHER FORCED SLOW STEALTH SECTION, or YET ANOTHER RC HELICOPTER SECTION, or YET ANOTHER PICK POCKETS SECTION...etc...
So......What games have you played that you've battled with to enjoy, and played to the bitter end in the hopes that the fun will remain in the green rather than the red? Which games just don't live up to being fun even though you felt there was a good game in there? (also if you disagree with a choice say why you disagree)