Ever just lost interest in a long game?
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This happens to me a lot, even though I like and do not mind long games. If I get to a part that is particularly hairy, I sometimes have the habit of simply dropping the game for a while before I decide to pick it up again. I guess it just comes with the fact that these kind of games take a long time to complete.
The new Prince of Persia did this for me as well as Devil May Cry 4. Repeating boss battles is a game killer for me.
Seriously, I'm a bit baffled by this statement. I'm curious as to where you got stock on in portal? It was literally an hour and half (maybe hour if you've already beaten it) game.cornmancer said:
OT: Despite being a final fantasy fanboy, I have only ever actually finished 2 of the games in the series. I don't know if it's just that I don't want the game to be over or that I just get bored but I've gotten to the final boss fight of 8,9,10,10-2,12,and 13. And only actually beaten 10 and 13.
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Oh yeah, it happens all the time. But what usually happens is that after a few months pass i get the desire to replay it, and i don't load a saved game, i start a new one. Then i have this great mix of familiar territory at the beginning, and when i get to the part i haven't played, i get "new content", so to speak. And the second time i finish it. Happened with a lot of great games, Bioshock, Dragon Age, Mass Effect are recent examples.
FF1. boring after a bit. that and every harvest moon game i have ever played. i love HM but after about year 3 i give up.
I don't really find myself getting bored when it comes to JRPGs. It happened with Final Fantasy XII but no others that I can think of. I did lose interest in Assassin's Creed about 5 missions in. It just wasn't changing up enough. I also lost interest in Oblivion after I lost my 50 hours of play. I was already bored and that was the final straw. Some other games dragged a little bit too much for me as well God of War II, Dragon Age: Origins, Overlord all had just a few too many hours for my liking.
I think it has to do with advancement, for me. I always like to feel like my characters are really getting better. With many of the Final Fantasy games I can easily quantify this, I see the numbers going up and I'm unlocking new abilities, this is punctuated by the series usually having environments changing over the course of the game. Oblivion didn't really change to me, ever; especially with the prevalence of leveled enemies, I didn't feel like I was advancing at all.
Sometimes a game will keep me enthralled past the nth hour, sometimes the end of the game seems so close and just pulls me along its grey and unchanging landscape for a few too many hours. I some games I notice it more than others. Right now I'm on my 60th hour or so of Final Fantasy XIII and still love it. I played through Mass Effect 2 twice and wasn't particularly bored. It's very dependent the game.
I think it has to do with advancement, for me. I always like to feel like my characters are really getting better. With many of the Final Fantasy games I can easily quantify this, I see the numbers going up and I'm unlocking new abilities, this is punctuated by the series usually having environments changing over the course of the game. Oblivion didn't really change to me, ever; especially with the prevalence of leveled enemies, I didn't feel like I was advancing at all.
Sometimes a game will keep me enthralled past the nth hour, sometimes the end of the game seems so close and just pulls me along its grey and unchanging landscape for a few too many hours. I some games I notice it more than others. Right now I'm on my 60th hour or so of Final Fantasy XIII and still love it. I played through Mass Effect 2 twice and wasn't particularly bored. It's very dependent the game.
Well, most of the time I lose interest even if the game is fairly short. I guess I've lost patience or something...
But back in the days when I actually sat down and played a game all the way through before moving on to the next one, there was one game I stopped playing because of it's absurd length: Rogue Galaxy. Gameplay? Excellent. Voiceacting? Really good, for a dubbed JRPG at least. Story? Good, but a bit disjointed. But I stopped playing when I got to Margareth, because in my viewpoint, it just seemed as if the game was about to end five hours after it was supposed to. There just was no bloody end in sight.
That, and the relationship between Jaster and Kisala never f*cking evolved...
But back in the days when I actually sat down and played a game all the way through before moving on to the next one, there was one game I stopped playing because of it's absurd length: Rogue Galaxy. Gameplay? Excellent. Voiceacting? Really good, for a dubbed JRPG at least. Story? Good, but a bit disjointed. But I stopped playing when I got to Margareth, because in my viewpoint, it just seemed as if the game was about to end five hours after it was supposed to. There just was no bloody end in sight.
That, and the relationship between Jaster and Kisala never f*cking evolved...
Most recently - Heavy Rain. Dunno why, honestly. It was interesting for a bit, then I took a large break from the game and it stopped being all that attractive. It just seemed irrelevant or something... I think it's the kind of a game you have to play in as few sitthroughs as possible.
Any game with free roam
I tend to have a bunch of fun but never get around to completing the missions at hand. When I DO start to pay attention to the plot/mission, I realise I've already exhausted all the potential in the game simply by running around having a hoot
EG. Fallout 3, Assassins Creed (1 and 2) and others
I tend to have a bunch of fun but never get around to completing the missions at hand. When I DO start to pay attention to the plot/mission, I realise I've already exhausted all the potential in the game simply by running around having a hoot
EG. Fallout 3, Assassins Creed (1 and 2) and others
System Shock. It's a great game and it held me till then end with much enthusiasm but one night at 5 o'clock(morning) i turned turned it off and never felt like turning it back on.
Final Fantasy games are a good example of this - they're just so long that you lose all sense of a narrative arc. I remember playing Final Fantasy V and pouring hours into exploring the huge world, grinding, and progressing through the story. Then suddenly, after a big climactic battle with the archvillain, one of my party members declared "Okay! Now we have to open a portal to another world and go there!" Some airship flights and a few battles later, I was sent to an entirely new planet of equal size to the first, with no way back. It was as if the first twenty-thirty hours hadn't happened. I felt like I'd been building this elaborate sandcastle as I traversed the world, built up my characters, and followed the storyline and various subplots, and then the game had come along and stomped all over the sandcastle and told me to start again. Never got any further than that.
Also, Morrowind was a very stop-go experience. I would get very into it for a few weeks, and then take a break for a month or two. But I could always slip right back into my character when I returned. Still haven't completed the Bloodmoon expansion...
Also, Morrowind was a very stop-go experience. I would get very into it for a few weeks, and then take a break for a month or two. But I could always slip right back into my character when I returned. Still haven't completed the Bloodmoon expansion...
I bought a copy of Spiderman: Web of Shadows on eBay once, but never really got around to playing it. About two months later, I finally opened the package and discovered that it was the Japanese version, and wouldn't run on my 360. Fan-goddamn-tastic.StBishop said:
I strongly have to disagree on the Strategy guide needed. Ok I grant for some bits if you're stuck on some games but they don't need a strategy guide. Do you need it for battles or sovling puzzles? As sometimes I got stuck on puzzles but bosses shouldn't give you any trouble.Chancie said:Another point that I hate about Final Fantasy. Unless you have a guide the whole way through, you're going to get your butt kicked. D:De Ronneman said:
I love the characters and stories just...not everything else.
You get a cookie for being one of the few that's played Resonance of Fate.Ando3242 said:
I'm playing it at the moment and luckily, it seems to be one of the few that exempt from this "long game problem" I have. I think it's because I like the characters so darn much.
OT: Megaman X4 as Zero I just can't beat Sigma with Zero I just can't do it.
swkotor2, it was fun playing it and i was almost finished with it, then i just stopped playing for no good reason.
