Purple Site Darlings, mainstream releases you're "supposed" to love, Monumental Works of Small-Press Genius--it seems like everyone around you is digging these titles, but you just can't seem to get into them?  What's your list of these products you just can't seem to dig?

For me, I'd have to list Purple Site Darlings Nobilis and Weapons of the Gods, though those games have seen limited exposure outside that forum.  I just plain hated the style of Nobilis, and though I really, really wanted to like WoTG, I couldn't get past the writing style, the non-intuitive (to me) rules, and a lot of required errata (which, to their credit, they later put on their website, but I had already gotten rid of the book by that point).  I also picked up SpirosBlaak, which was recommended rather enthusiastically to me, and I did not like it at all (cool cover, though).

Some Forge games, but then I have to define "popular" in my title post, and I'll let some more argumentative soul take care of that.

Exalted.  There, I said it.

Outside of that, I can't get enthused about Eberron.  I mean, I'd play it if it were the only setting in town, but its pretty far down on my list for D&D.  It's not dislike, just apathy, really.

I don't know about cold, but Mutants and Masterminds, while it seems like a thoroughly competant effort, never really EXCITED me enough to consider using it in place of my old supers gaming standbys -- Hero and DC Heroes.

Exalted - enormous dice pools, super powers, over the top setting (heroin pissing dinosaurs?,) anime illos, fake oriental martial arts, pretentious naming systems... everything guaranteed to turn clash off, all in one book. I'd rather have a nail in the foot. Any one of those is fine, I can deal. Two makes it iffy, but all together in one book? OUCH!

-mice

Quote from: flyingmiceExalted - enormous dice pools, super powers, over the top setting (heroin pissing dinosaurs?,) anime illos, fake oriental martial arts, pretentious naming systems... everything guaranteed to turn clash off, all in one book. I'd rather have a nail in the foot. Any one of those is fine, I can deal. Two makes it iffy, but all together in one book? OUCH!

-mice

I don't want to system bash here, but I'm completely with you on this one. Nobilis is another one that didn't particularly excite me.

Quote from: mattormegI don't want to system bash here, but I'm completely with you on this one. Nobilis is another one that didn't particularly excite me.

It isn't system bashing - I didn't say anything was wrong or broken with it, just that the game designers didn't have me in mind...

-mice

Quote from: flyingmiceIt isn't system bashing - I didn't say anything was wrong or broken with it, just that the game designers didn't have me in mind...

Personally I find the setting of Exalted gorgeous and evocative, but unfortunately the system is much too crunchy for my taste.

Quote from: GrimGentPersonally I find the setting of Exalted gorgeous and evocative, but unfortunately the system is much too crunchy for my taste.

That's why there's more than one RPG.

-mice

Quote from: flyingmiceThat's why there's more than one RPG.

What, like Wushu?

Wushu doesn't really do anything for me, either, by the way.

Exalted
Nobilis
Weapons of the Gods
D&D

If it wasn't for that last one I'd be fitting in just fine around here, wouldn't I?

I actually bought Exalted because of the hype (which was what the hype was intended to do, of course).  All I can say is that those fanwanks/spammers on RPGnet read a completely different book than I did, because the book I read bore no resemblance to their decriptions, nor did it give even the vaguest inkling of being about the kind of stuff they claimed it was.

I cannot even begin to get interested in a game involving Mormons, so Dogs in the Vineyard, despite being a darling of many RPGnetters I respect, is a complete nonstarter for me.

Talislanta (sp?) never really appealed to me.

I never liked the WoD (old or new), although that probably is not too unusual here.

Quote from: Zachary The First... Exalted.  There, I said it.

Outside of that, I can't get enthused about Eberron.  I mean, I'd play it if it were the only setting in town, but its pretty far down on my list for D&D.  It's not dislike, just apathy, really.

100 percent agreement with both of these.

Quote from: AkrasiaI cannot even begin to get interested in a game involving Mormons, so Dogs in the Vineyard, despite being a darling of many RPGnetters I respect, is a complete nonstarter for me.

Talislanta (sp?) never really appealed to me.

I never liked the WoD (old or new), although that probably is not too unusual here.



100 percent agreement with both of these.

Mow I actually like the setting in Dogs - it's just the system I don't care for.

I know I'm wierd...



-mice

Very few games have no merit, and the following titles are not they.  However, it's not unfair to say that, man, I just don't dig 'em:

Exalted -- The Best Game Other People Like But That I'm Not Interested In, Apparently.

Nobilis -- Revolutionary, from what I hear, but...my disinterest in it borders upon the epic.  The bards will write sagas!
      
And thus he came, Pink Tie blazing,
Upon Borgstrom's Book, the Flower-Tome,
The Book of Nobles, Coffee-table game.
His eye fell upon it, and then fell right off.
"Where's the damn robots?" he said,
And went off to play Toon.[/SIZE]

Shadowrun -- You got ice cream in my soy sauce!

Quote from: droogExalted
Nobilis
Weapons of the Gods
D&D

If it wasn't for that last one I'd be fitting in just fine around here, wouldn't I?

Same here...except for the last one on the list. Not cold exactly, but definately lukewarm.

Regards,
David R