Do you always finish a game, or admit the crap ones are crap and leave em?

[Legion]

I promised myself that if I was asked to walk down another spooky bloody corridor blasting limbs off another 'terrifying' enemy plundered from H R Geigers off-cuts in order to find a key/press a button I'd turn it off. This duly happened, and not even the promise of another zero G section prevented me turning it off and playing a game made by people with ideas of their own beyond 'lets make a deathly game.Raaaa" (I'd bet money the entire team have lip peircings, funny coloured dreads and lived in their mums basement till the age of thirty).

(yes yes, loads of people thought Dead Space was amazing-please spare me, this isnt a question about that frankensteins monster of other peoples sci-fi)

Well you see, you can't slate a game and then give yourself immunity to criticism by saying "but this wasn't the point of my thread". If you say something like that then people are free to comment on it regardless of whether it was the original point, because you chose to include it in the post in the first place.

In reply to your "main" point, I have never bought a game I disliked enough to stop playing. I always finish them unless I found them too hard; although that hasn't happened to me since the Tomb Raider games on the PS1.

So what your saying is I can't cite an example of what I'm talking about and request the example itself not become the main thrust of the thread. That's ridiculous- if I wanted to ask what people think of Dead Space I'd put;what do you think of dead space? The point of the example was to show how myself and a friend had different responses to finding ourselves playing a game we didn't get on with, the request that people not go on about it was borne of experience on previous forums.

No, my point was that you can't just outright insult something and then ask people not to comment on it. You could have easily said you didn't like Dead Space without stating that dislike in a way that is guaranteed to annoy those that do like the game.

The way you wrote (calling it a rip-off and mocking the fact you didn't find it scary) is clear flame-baiting/trolling. For example: "Dead Space, I personally couldn't stand the game and so couldn't bring myself to get past ... level." is all you would need to put to provide an example.

 

[MiserableOldGit]

I promised myself that if I was asked to walk down another spooky bloody corridor blasting limbs off another 'terrifying' enemy plundered from H R Geigers off-cuts in order to find a key/press a button I'd turn it off. This duly happened, and not even the promise of another zero G section prevented me turning it off and playing a game made by people with ideas of their own beyond 'lets make a deathly game.Raaaa" (I'd bet money the entire team have lip peircings, funny coloured dreads and lived in their mums basement till the age of thirty).

(yes yes, loads of people thought Dead Space was amazing-please spare me, this isnt a question about that frankensteins monster of other peoples sci-fi)

Well you see, you can't slate a game and then give yourself immunity to criticism by saying "but this wasn't the point of my thread". If you say something like that then people are free to comment on it regardless of whether it was the original point, because you chose to include it in the post in the first place.

In reply to your "main" point, I have never bought a game I disliked enough to stop playing. I always finish them unless I found them too hard; although that hasn't happened to me since the Tomb Raider games on the PS1.

So what your saying is I can't cite an example of what I'm talking about and request the example itself not become the main thrust of the thread. That's ridiculous- if I wanted to ask what people think of Dead Space I'd put;what do you think of dead space? The point of the example was to show how myself and a friend had different responses to finding ourselves playing a game we didn't get on with, the request that people not go on about it was borne of experience on previous forums.

No, my point was that you can't just outright insult something and then ask people not to comment on it. You could have easily said you didn't like Dead Space without stating that dislike in a way that is guaranteed to annoy those that do like the game.

The way you wrote (calling it a rip-off and mocking the fact you didn't find it scary) is clear flame-baiting/trolling. For example: "Dead Space, I personally couldn't stand the game and so couldn't bring myself to get past ... level." is all you would need to put to provide an example.[/quote


Tell you what - every one feel free to add your opinions on Dead Space- it'll take up less space than this solitary pedants persistant post mortems on the composition of my question.
Will you fuck off and leave room for the actual question now, Dad?

 

[riskroWe]

Assassin's Creed was so repetitive, couldn't bring myself to finish it.

World in Conflict failed to grasp my interest, played it a few times then never picked it up again.

I nearly gave up on Bioshock too, because the controls were so clunky. I just wanted the game to be smooth and fast paced, but it wasn't.

Clearly I have a short attention span and I will never be able to hold permanent employment.

 

[FROGGEman2]

I rent games first, so I make that judgement beforehand. Like I tried Battlefield: Bad Company and realised it was shockingly bad, and therefore didn't buy it. The inverse for, say, Okami.

 

[Harlemura]

I used to give up on games pretty quick if they were bad, but that was before save files.
If I play a bad game nowadays, my mind kinda filters the bad stuff and tells my brain it's not such a bad thing.
Of course, that doesn't stop me thinking afterwards "Why did I just waste a small portion of my life on this load of junk?"