Games That Look Incredibly Dull To Play

[Someone Depressing]

Yu Gi Oh. Especially with the effects turned off.

Move this card here, that guy does stuff, get rid of your card, get new card, make his card go away...

How is that franchise not dead yet?

 

[Darkbladex96]

This is not a thread about games you play yourself, but ones you watch from an outsider's perspective. I'm currently watching SuperJeenius' Lets Play of Persona 4: Golden, for example, and what jumps out at me is that the turn based combat just looks SO FUCKING BORING! See I like Xcom: EU/EW because if I'm on a roll in the single player missions the game moves rather quick and if a roadblock pops up I can stop and take stock of the situation before making a decision. P4, by contrast, seems to have stop and take stock down but never gets to the "on a roll" quick part. This appears to be a result of the game being very keen to stomp you into the dirt if you don't micro-manage absolutely fucking everything your party does and it gets really boring, really fast. That is not even mentioning just how long the bosses take to down. Four-thousand hp drained one-hundred a hit, is not something that appeals to me and makes me have unpleasant flashbacks to Daimon's second form from Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen.

I think I've blubbed enough, so do you guys have any examples?

(I am not bad mouthing people that like Persona 4, I am an outsider looking in after all, so don't take it bad.)

I use to hate Daimon's second form, then I learned how the classes affect lvling stats. Stayed an assassin for till lvl 100 then switched to Ranger. Had clout and some other strength augment. Whirling Arrow, Ten Fold Flurry, and Encadad shot plus conqueror's p's and a fuckton of silence, blind, and poison arrows made sure Daimon was pretty much helpless during our bout.

Pokemon.
So repetitive, so simplistic.
Then again they were made for little kids, so I guess I can't complain that much.

I use to think this, then I found my self getting smashed repeatedly by a friend who actually knows how to play the game. Type advantages, type immunities, resistances, and weakness, stabs, secondary effects, abilities, natures, evs, base stats, items, and movepools all make for a ridiculously deep meta-game with hundreds of playstyles where you can't just do stuff and be successful. (That's competitive, not campaign, btw)

Yu Gi Oh. Especially with the effects turned off.

Move this card here, that guy does stuff, get rid of your card, get new card, make his card go away...

How is that franchise not dead yet?

Same way MTG is still around.

 

[Vivi22]

Pretty much every MMO out there, especially EVE Online.

I don't think that it helps that without the social aspect, almost every MMO ever made really is boring to play too.

 

[NoeL]

Not into FARMING, you say?!

That was way funnier than I expected it to be. The game still looks boring as shit though.

OT: MOBAs, RTSs, spunkgargleweewees, SIM-whatevers, MMORPGs, long-winded JRPGs... they can all go to hell. If I have to use a mouse to click on things to make them move or attack I'm probably gonna have a bad time. If there's any real-time action going on I need to be in full control of my player, not just issuing commands.

 

[ThreeName]

Anything by recently David Cage, I suppose. I watched someone play Beyond: Two Souls, and it looked fucking horrible. I asked "How do you lose?" and they said you couldn't. What's the point then? Just watch a movie, Christ.

And I suppose any turn-based RPG. But that's probably because I can't stand turn-base RPGs.

I played through Persona 4 with all the cheats on because the gameplay was atrocious.

 

[TheMigrantSoldier]

Mount and Blade. Little polish but loads of substance and one of the best melee combat systems I've seen in a Medieval-themed game.

 

[suitepee7]

Every MOBA ever made.
They all look so boring I don't understand how people can play them.

That, and I might as well get double the hate by naming the Monster Hunter Games. I pretty much have the same problem with them Yahtzee has

i got monster hunter 3 on Wii, i killed a grand total of 4 monsters, got pissed off at the inventory system, and sold it. i didn't give it a fair chance, but i enjoyed none of it, so i didn't want to...

OT: every sims game ever... i enjoyed playing 1 and 2 back in the day, but i despised it when somebody else was on my computer and i was watching them play. watching other people micromanage is very dull

 

[EyeReaper]

Well, no game looks more boring than a Visual Novel, especially to outsiders. It's just words and words and words and words and then a sprite changes and then back to words. Don't get me wrong, I love them, but I wouldn't want to sit through a let's play of one (Minus dangan ronpa but that was the exception to the rule)
Any game that's all about the grinding (like most mmos) Oh, wow. Kill a mob of monsters, kill 20 more of those monsers, move on to next monsters. ugh. Snore

 

[Dalisclock]

I've seen a bus riding simulator on steam. After thinking about it for a few minutes, I decided that, varying tastes aside, I don't see the point of that game existing. Particularly because for less money you could go and ride an actual bus...and get somewhere as a result.

 

[Tanis]

*something-something* SIMULATOR (20XX):
The vast, vast, majority of sim games I've seen/played have been painfully boring/dull.
Like 'hey, this is probably ban even in GITMO' levels of painfully boring/bull.

*insert sports yearly sports game here*:
Again, I'd rather PLAY most sports than watch then or play some game that feels like random button presses and a whole lot of prayers that you actually score points.

 

[DelinquentTurtle]

For all those suggesting MOBAs, as a newish player of Dota 2 myself, I find it's actually easier to relate to them as a sport more than a video game IMO (sounds a bit weird I know). Also it's not for everyone definitely and I can see y a significant amount of people dont like them.

OT: Minecraft is definitely up there. I love legos and was pretty keen on Minecraft when it first came out. Checked it out, both watching people play and playing myself and was bored so quickly. Another would actually be games like Dear Esther and Gone Home (the latter of which I still don't understand why people like so much... but to each his own.)

 

[Specter Von Baren]

Skyrim. The scenery may be very grand... but it looks very... dull. I guess my issue could be summed up by this quote.

Mark Filipowich: Photorealism and believability be damned. I want my lava worlds bordering my ice mountains, I want deserts at the coast of oceans, and I want a beanstalk that will take me to the moon. And while I?m on the moon, I want to ride eight foot chickens that live off seeds and nuts the size of my head. The more colorful and imaginative the world, the more I want to save it.

It just looks too normal and realistic for me.

As a general rule though, I think a lot of turn based RPG's must be incredibly boring to watch if for no other reason than a lot of them having random encounters and most of the strategy taking place inside the mind of the person playing before it get enacted in real life.

I've seen a bus riding simulator on steam. After thinking about it for a few minutes, I decided that, varying tastes aside, I don't see the point of that game existing. Particularly because for less money you could go and ride an actual bus...and get somewhere as a result.

And quoting this just because I think it's rather cleverly said.

 

[Directionless]

Minecraft. I just don't see the appeal of virtual Lego.

 

[TheRiddler]

Dwarf Fortress always seemed a bit too abstract and convoluted for me to get into. I mean, I get that this is kind of the point. I keep on feeling like I should get around to trying to play DF, but I just can't get into it.

 

[xyrafhoan]

[sub]Oh you did not just insult my Persona 4![/sub]

[sub][sub][sub][sub]Calm down, remember your therapy[/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub]

I guess like DOTA or League. For someone just passing by it must look really strange.

"Hold on mother, I need to last hit these 5 minions, walk around in circles for a bit then last hit again. It's really fun I promise"

I have to say, the way the commentators in the pro tourneys can keep both teams AFK farming entertaining is beyond amazing.

I find when pros play, the harass is a lot more aggressive and big plays are made with more frequency. There's more action per minute than a game of football, anyway.

I love me some turn-based RPGs but I can't watch Let's Plays of them without being terribly bored. Maybe if I'm playing in the same room as someone, I might be able to scream in their faces and be half-tempted to drag the controller out of their hands so I can strategize better than they can, but there's no possibility of that on the internet. The only turn-based games I can seemingly tolerate are all Fire Emblem games, since the results are so meticulously planned out in LTC videos and the gameplay is usually set to play as fast as possible.

 

[FFP2]

I know how you feel OP. I got around a third of the way through Persona 4 before I said "fuck this boring/repetitive gameplay. I'd rather watch the anime". How people call it one of the best RPGs ever blows my mind.


OT: Would VNs count? You technically "play" them...

Also Nier. Combat didn't look that dull but it seems so repetitive.

 

[The Wykydtron]

[sub]Oh you did not just insult my Persona 4![/sub]

[sub][sub][sub][sub]Calm down, remember your therapy[/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub]

I guess like DOTA or League. For someone just passing by it must look really strange.

"Hold on mother, I need to last hit these 5 minions, walk around in circles for a bit then last hit again. It's really fun I promise"

I have to say, the way the commentators in the pro tourneys can keep both teams AFK farming entertaining is beyond amazing.

I find when pros play, the harass is a lot more aggressive and big plays are made with more frequency. There's more action per minute than a game of football, anyway.

Yeah I have noticed that (especially the the new EU LCS going on) but I remember a specific game, don't ask me who was playing where both teams literally sat there and all farmed their lanes for at least 5 minutes straight once mid game hit. The commentators had to pull build commentary and then overall EU/NA meta differences to kill time.

Do Football games even have proper commentary? (I'm speaking Soccer by the way if you're on the wrong side of the Pond) It's literally two guys speaking the name of who has the ball at the moment so the people listening on the radio can keep up. Then they get all hyped when a goal may or may not happen. I guess a lot of time and effort goes into the half time and post match analysis? Is that meant to be the focus there? Yeah I guess so thinking about it.

 

[hermes]

Elders Scroll games. Especially if playing a melee based character...

Swing, swing, swing... Back away, heal... swing, swing, swing.

 

[In Search of Username]

MOBAs. Like, holy hell, how can people possibly get any joy out of that? I guess it's because MOBA tournaments are basically the gaming equivalent of sporting events that I'm so put off them; I really just don't get the appeal at all.

 

[The Almighty Aardvark]

Assassin's Creed: Revelations. To watch and play. I can't speak for the others since I haven't played them in quite a while. But seriously, there's a mission where, over the course of 15 minutes, you do nothing but walk around and press A at marked locations to distract people so that other people can assassinate them. Exciting! Although I guess in that situation it'd be more exciting to watch, because you at least get to watch someone else do something