Games that took you five minutes to realise you hated.
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Suprisingly, no. Every time I've bought a game, I've enjoyed it and also came back to it at some point after it's laid at the bottom of the pile for at least a month.
Edit: Scratch that, I just remembered Forza 2. A friend gave it to me, I tried it, then snapped the disk in half.
Edit: Scratch that, I just remembered Forza 2. A friend gave it to me, I tried it, then snapped the disk in half.
Rainbow 6: Vegas. It's strange because I love COD, Gears and enjoy Halo, but right from the start I never liked R6V, took me 20 minutes to put down.
It really comes down to yahtzees point about "the promise of fun isn't really a good reason to sit through dullness in a game designed to be entertaining"s69-5 said:
Its usually when a games key or sole mechanic strongly disagrees with me that I don't give it a chance.
Far. Cry. Two.
Admittedly, the first twenty minutes were spent riding in a jeep listening to dull conversation and contracting malaria. Once I actually got to play, though, I realized it was just a poorly done FPS with a penchant for roadkill.
Admittedly, the first twenty minutes were spent riding in a jeep listening to dull conversation and contracting malaria. Once I actually got to play, though, I realized it was just a poorly done FPS with a penchant for roadkill.
Sorry, bit of hyperbole there. I was referring to the fact that the first hour or so is just being sent on menial tasks around the town by your various uninteresting family members.Woodsey said:
Thankfully half of them die afterwards.
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I just didn't like Ezio. And not in a, well he's kind of annoying now but I'd like to see where his character goes! kind of way. The "Ladies Man" archetype incites a mini-rage in me, plus the wonky controls from being forced to play it on a console and lack of anything interesting happening both in gameplay and in story and in characters spelled the end of it for me. And when the above spoiler-tagged scene happens with his family, it was very narm for me.igissx said:
Oh right, fair enough - the start is a bit slow I'll admit, although I think it helped with the story set up.MisterShine said:
I just wanted to check that you weren't referring to the race up the church with your brother; I've heard people say that's taken them forever to complete before when it should take all of 10 seconds...
I'm bracing myself for possible backlash here, but World of Warcraft. I got my hands on the free trial, and by god was I bored by it: hours of being told to kill X amount of monsters with only the thinnest veneer of a story to tell me why I should. In fairness though, I ended up stealing time on my brothers account after he swore the game would improve, and got a character to about level thirty before I decided that I'd had enough.
I gave it a chance, but if I have to spend so much time playing to even get to 'the good bits', then it's not the game for me.
I gave it a chance, but if I have to spend so much time playing to even get to 'the good bits', then it's not the game for me.
Halo 2 took me five minutes to realise that I hated it. Still played it for an hour or so more though, because five minutes is almost never enough time to judge. For example, the first five minutes of Ocarina of Time ? one of my favorite games ? were annoying and boring.
ragon Song.
Def Jam: Icon. I was so excited to play this game, considering fight for New York. I started to play it and I had absolutely NO idea what the heck was going on. I threw my controller down i disgust. and since then I've been lamenting just how good a sequel to Fight for New York could be on 360, and how much they just rueened it. It's was just rueened.
City of Heroes, Aion, Everquest, Final Fantasy 11, and Star Trek Online.
Although I stuck with the last one for two months trying to convince myself I'd like it, I can't get into MMOs. I've played all of the following for a collective amount of around 2 hours. And 2 months for STO.
I think it's because I played WoW first, then quit, and tried others. It never worked.
Although I stuck with the last one for two months trying to convince myself I'd like it, I can't get into MMOs. I've played all of the following for a collective amount of around 2 hours. And 2 months for STO.
I think it's because I played WoW first, then quit, and tried others. It never worked.