Games that you couldn't wait to quit

[09philj]

Metal Gear Solid 2. It's just so sluggish and unintuitive. There were good ideas there, but they were hidden behind the awful controls.

Conversely, I didn't want to quit Dark Souls, but had to admit defeat. I tried, God knows I tried, but I just couldn't do it. I don't care if that makes me a filthy casual, it was just too much for me.

 

[Zaltys]

Fallout 3. It was utterly bland and repetitive, but I sank over ten hours into it. Hoping that it'd get better. It never did. Just endless wasteland full of junk and repetitive combat that dragged on for far too long. After finishing yet another long battle (against giant ants, hard to get more cliche than that) and finding nothing even remotely interesting, I simply gave up.

 

[Joshroom]

Dragon Age Inquisition.
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Agree with all your points. For me though the experience was ruined before I even started the damn game due to:
Updates, patches and dlc loading taking over an hour.
Finding that to import a history - something I had been carefully creating before getting the game - I now instead had to go through that whole Dragon's Keep business. Which also meant;
Signing up to Origins and syncing it to my PSN account. Something I was in no rush to do and took extra time.

And then the bloody game had the audacity to end up crashing twice before the end of the underwhelming prologue section - despite all the updates I had to sit through.

Loved the series, I really did, but this game killed it for me.

 

[Xerosch]

Fallout 3 and Borderlands 1 and 2. Don't get me wrong, I really liked them, but playing through the main story and the Addons afterwards made all three games overstay their welcome.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

Dragon Age Inquisition.
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Agree with all your points. For me though the experience was ruined before I even started the damn game due to:
Updates, patches and dlc loading taking over an hour.
Finding that to import a history - something I had been carefully creating before getting the game - I now instead had to go through that whole Dragon's Keep business. Which also meant;
Signing up to Origins and syncing it to my PSN account. Something I was in no rush to do and took extra time.

And then the bloody game had the audacity to end up crashing twice before the end of the underwhelming prologue section - despite all the updates I had to sit through.

Loved the series, I really did, but this game killed it for me.

I had a similar annoyance, since I replayed Origins, Awakening and II just so I can get a perfect, new save file.

Made it all rather irrelevant :/

 

[Zen Bard]

Brutal Legend

I barely made it to the second chapter. The game was basically a long series of cut scenes with some basic button mashing wedged between.

Shame really, because it was such a great concept. Especially to a metal head/RPG fan like me.

Sadly, it went back to the bargain bin from whence it came.

I've finished Brutal Legend. I liked it and it to this day has a special day in my heart because it introduced me to, well, rock.
However, I cannot disagree with you. I mean, you are a tad bit wrong, it wasn't just a button masher, it was mostly a, um, tower-capture RTS, but you are still mostly right. The RTS battles were really uncomfortable to play and it was also not what I wanted from the game. I would've preffered if it was actual hack'n'slash and all those units you acquired you could summon to aid you during certain moments.
But hey, the characters, story and most importantly atmosphere were great.

Fair enough. I really wanted to like the game. The atmosphere was incredible. And the characters, voiced by some metal legends themselves, were a blast! Guess it just didn't click for me.

But hey, if that's what brought you to the world of great music, then rock on, my friend!

Overlord. Don't like the controls, was occasionally funny but mostly not to my taste. I gave it 10 hours before dropping it. It's a shame because playing an evil overlord with army of minions in game taking the piss sounds like something I would like, I just don't really like this one.

Overlord for me too. I was also looking forward to playing a big bad guy that was aiming for world conquest, but controls were TERRIBLE. I had this game for both PS3 and PC and both Gamepad and M+KB didn't allow me to properly control my minions.

Funny you mentioned this one. I recently picked it up at the bargain bin and played it for a few days. I got to the green minion part and had to take a break. Haven't touched it since and it may also end up on this list.

The awful controls and restrictive camera angles just sucking out of the joy out of this game.

Plus I feel more like a camp counselor micromanaging a bunch of unruly kids on a field trip than an Evil Overlord.

 

[THM]

Out of curiosity, did you play the Scholar of the First Sin version of the game?

No, I was playing the regular game on PS3. I take it this other version isn't any better?

 

[OpticalJunction]

Assassin's creed the first one, got very repetitive

And witcher the first one, I just couldn't really get into it.

 

[Abomination]

I'm getting close to putting down Mad Max due to how much busywork is involved in the game.

In order to open up upgrades at a Stronghold I have to find all the resource caches essentially manually or get lucky and find some dehydrated travels and give them half my water.

If I want to clear mines I have to drive a sub-par buggy out from a stronghold which are only in 4 places in the entire map.

Combat's solid, vehicle combat is real nice, it's a pretty game and the characters/setting is engrossing but the busywork URGH

 

[marioandsonic]

Batman: Arkham Knight for the PC.

Got it on Steam at midnight when it came out. By 12:30 AM, I was already asking for my refund. Just a clusterfuck of a port.

 

[Drops a Sweet Katana]

Out of curiosity, did you play the Scholar of the First Sin version of the game?

No, I was playing the regular game on PS3. I take it this other version isn't any better?

Narp. Basically they added a bunch of needlessly tough enemies to various locations where it made precisely zero sense. It also included all of the DLC, some improvements to the graphics and changes to item descriptions and placements.

 

[THM]

Narp. Basically they added a bunch of needlessly tough enemies to various locations where it made precisely zero sense. It also included all of the DLC, some improvements to the graphics and changes to item descriptions and placements.

Yeah...definitely going to stick to watching Yahtzee N' Gabe go through it. They're having more fun doing it than I was.

 

[Drops a Sweet Katana]

Narp. Basically they added a bunch of needlessly tough enemies to various locations where it made precisely zero sense. It also included all of the DLC, some improvements to the graphics and changes to item descriptions and placements.

Yeah...definitely going to stick to watching Yahtzee N' Gabe go through it. They're having more fun doing it than I was.

Amen, even though watching that game is enough to shit me off at least a bit.

 

[THM]

Amen, even though watching that game is enough to shit me off at least a bit.[/quote]

Yet the 'Story of Steven Uppity' is strangely compelling.

 

[FirstNameLastName]

The Witcher 1. It was just so damn tedious, but I did power through it before playing The Witcher 2 before The Witcher 3 released. I wanted to have a save ready for The Witcher 3 as my old Witcher 2 save was lost somehow, so I thought I'd play through the first game before I played through the second again. And holy shit, I did not like it. When I finished it, I cheered because the game was finally over. I'm never touching it again.

I never finished The Witcher 1, and I haven't even installed The Withcer 2 (even though I have it in my library). I went straight on ahead to play The Witcher 3. I just lost interest in the Witcher 1, especially after that part where I wandered around in the swamp for seemingly (and possibly quite literally) hours, searching for the last fucking totem, or obelisk, or whatever they were. Maybe I'm some kind of simpleton, but the story seemed to be filled with so much side tracking that I completely forgot who I was fighting against and why.

Dragon Age origins. Hated the story. Hated the characters. Hated the gameplay. I can't figure out why I stuck with it so long. It's not even that it was awful. It was just the most painfully average thing I'd ever played in my life. Which is worse.

You mean ... there are others? Seemingly everyone who's ever mentioned the game has praised it as being one of the best RPGs, but I just found it so bland.
I completely lost interest when I reached those tunnels underneath Moria. Wait, did I just say Moria? Sorry, I meant the totally not generic and cliché, paint-by-numbers dwarvern area that I definitely haven't seen in every other uninspired fantasy story every. Seriously, it looks like one part Moria, one part Ironforge, one part Dwemer ruin, and one part Google Image search for "dwarven architecture". I rolled my eyes so hard when I saw the massive underground city made of stone with rivers of molten metal, braided beards, taverns everywhere, angled architecture and battle-axes.
Even the elves seemed to be ripped straight from Middle Earth with only minor alteration.

I haven't played any of the other games, and I haven't finished the first one all the way through, so perhaps my limited knowledge of the setting negates my right to accuse it of being completely standard fantasy 101 transcribed directly from the big book of fantasy clichés. But I don't care, despite the few aspects that I found rather interesting, the majority of the setting just repelled me with its blandness, and when the combat became repetitive I lost interest. Good thing too, because apparently it was right before one of the most notoriously boring sections in the game, the Deep Roads.

 

[Loonyyy]

Uncrowded and Bad Rats.

Apparently, letting people know that I'm open to Steam game gifts to play in Youtube videos has opened the gates to just becoming Jim Sterling, and it's hilarious to watch people play really terrible games.

Sorry if those aren't the edgy, "look at how much I hate [Popular Game]" responses people want.

Fresh off the hate train of those two, are ya? xD

As good as those videos turned out, the games are atrocious. I'd lobby for Steam to let you remove games from your library just so that I don't have to occasionally see them festering and rotting in there.

Use the Tag feature. I have a section tagged "Finished" for single players I've run through, and a "Not playing" for games which have disgusted me to the extent I never want to see their faces again. It's like a dungeon where they only have other shitty games for company.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Final Fantasy XIII which I took as an insult and refused to let beat me. I felt a bit of enjoyment upgrading my weapons but I still felt like every time I fought something I was giving it butterfly kisses until the limit gauge filled completely and I actually started doing damage. I didn't like the characters, I didn't like the plot, and while I loved how everything looked I could have just saved some time and watched Advent Children a few extra times while playing Bravely Default for an actual Final Fantasy experience.

Shout Out to Shadow of the Colossus and, Bioshock Infinite which I disliked so much that I couldn't even be bothered to finish them.

 

[Sylveria]

I havent really had anything that I couldn't wait to "quit" as much as I've had a lot of games that I was like 'OH MY GOD IS IT OVER YET?

God of War especially. I bought the collection for PS3 based on how much I tend to love character action games, and frick GoW had 5 games by that point, there had to be something to it right? Good lord that series has some of the least satisfying combat I've ever experienced made worse by the intrusive QTEs. Then there's the horrendous platforming segments, Hades especially being some of the most irritating shit I've ever experienced, and the idiotic balance beam segments. I did finish it after suffering through the broken ass Aries fight. I tried God of War 2 next and within 5 minutes I'm doing a prolonged balance beam segment, turned the game off, traded the collection away.

 

[cojo965]

That honour goes to Bioshock actually.
Combat is bland, story didn't grab me (if it had any) and as a spiritual sequel to System Shock it misses everything that made both SS games so fun.

Only game that I had in my collection that ended in the garbage bin.

It literally took me 3 years of off and on play to beat Bioshock. About half the game (the entire middle section) is just tedious side-questing. Bioshock Infinite has the same problem but I found the world and combat much more enjoyable so I beat Infinite rather quickly.

I didn't like Bioshock because of the aesthetic, WAY too much grey in some areas. At one point in the game I got stuck, not because of any enemies or puzzle, but because the door out of the room I was in looked EXACTLY the same as the wall! I was trapped for fucking hours by this room before the door made itself known.