Games that you couldn't wait to quit
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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.
Fresh off the hate train of those two, are ya? xDshrekfan246 said:
OT: Have you ever played The Experiment? No? That's probably a good thing. It was the first and worst of the "You Can Only See Through Security Cameras" games.
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.lacktheknack said:
Borderlands 2
After thoroughly liking the first game and (half of) it's DLC, I'd bought 2 at full price on launch day. All the reviews gave it singing praises, so I thought it had to be at least as good as the first.
I was wrong. I tried playing as far into the game as I could but the longer I played it the more I disliked it. By the time I found myself mindlessly hunting animals so some one-eyed jackass could name them "Bonerfarts", I stopped and thought to myself, "I hate this. I actually hate this." I tried to continue but never managed to finish the game.
The writing was so unimaginably juvenile I'm convinced the game's script was written by a 13 year old. A 13 year old who still thinks 'poop jokes' are the greatest thing ever. Plus, I found Tiny Tina, Claptrap, Handsome Jack, and much of the cast to be insufferable.
It's the only game I've purchased within the last few years that I'm actually upset that I can't get a refund for. There've been a few other games I enjoyed far less than I'd expected, but at least with those I just stepped away disappointed. Borderlands 2 genuinely made me angry and cheated for spending $60 on it.
After thoroughly liking the first game and (half of) it's DLC, I'd bought 2 at full price on launch day. All the reviews gave it singing praises, so I thought it had to be at least as good as the first.
I was wrong. I tried playing as far into the game as I could but the longer I played it the more I disliked it. By the time I found myself mindlessly hunting animals so some one-eyed jackass could name them "Bonerfarts", I stopped and thought to myself, "I hate this. I actually hate this." I tried to continue but never managed to finish the game.
The writing was so unimaginably juvenile I'm convinced the game's script was written by a 13 year old. A 13 year old who still thinks 'poop jokes' are the greatest thing ever. Plus, I found Tiny Tina, Claptrap, Handsome Jack, and much of the cast to be insufferable.
It's the only game I've purchased within the last few years that I'm actually upset that I can't get a refund for. There've been a few other games I enjoyed far less than I'd expected, but at least with those I just stepped away disappointed. Borderlands 2 genuinely made me angry and cheated for spending $60 on it.
Blame Burch for the writing. Anthony that is. As for Tina, have to agree on that part, but only if we talk about the base game. Ine the DLC's she appeared in she had her character toned down to bearable standards. But I can't blame you for giving up on the game. The writing is just wack. Handsome Jack killed any reason to make new characters for me (quite an achievement that I have 4).Vigormortis said:
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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.
Shadow of Mordor.
Paper thin story, boring environments, piss easy combat broken up by quicktime events, very little real enemy variation, unlikable and boring protagonist, one meaningless task after the other, doesn't care about LOTR lore...
Wonder why I bothered after the first 10 minutes in the first place.
I still haven't got a clue what made my units realise that they actually had a heal move in their abilities and that they had the resources to use it. Because half the critical turns they simply forgot that they had the moves I gave them.
Also, retarded storyline.
Paper thin story, boring environments, piss easy combat broken up by quicktime events, very little real enemy variation, unlikable and boring protagonist, one meaningless task after the other, doesn't care about LOTR lore...
Wonder why I bothered after the first 10 minutes in the first place.
Oh yes, forgot about that one. I finished it like I finished SoM, but only with copious use of cheats. Even then I wanted to quit nearly every moment of the experience.Fallow said:
I still haven't got a clue what made my units realise that they actually had a heal move in their abilities and that they had the resources to use it. Because half the critical turns they simply forgot that they had the moves I gave them.
Also, retarded storyline.
RACIST!!! Just kidding, but every time I see someone use that word it reminds me of when they tried to fire a guy for saying it.BloatedGuppy said:
Anyhoo, couldn't agree more on Inquisition, and this is coming from someone who loved the hell out of Origins (never played through 2). The combat was so all over the place, it felt like they made two systems (tactical or action-packed) but only half completed each of them, and then just threw them together. The characters largely felt boring, the maps seemed huge and jam-packed, until you realized that 90% of it was just running around gathering crystals and random loot that brought about minor character enhancements. The world never really felt alive.
Keeping track of all your equipment, runes, castle upgrades, and retrieving ingredients and what-not just turned into a slog. Not to mention, if I'm supposed to be in command of this giant Army, why am I doing all these dumb little treasure hunts? Don't I have Soldiers who I can send for this?
I got about 40 hours in and then was dreading playing the game anymore, but I wanted to finish the saga. But then I started playing Witcher 3, and after that DA:I seemed even more pathetic, and I just could't go back to it.
Alan Wake had wayyy too much gameplay. I just wanted to get through the story. Still finished it, but I was quite ready to play something else right afterward.
Speaking of PS+, a lot of those games. Most recently Tower of Guns and Ether One.
You've changed, man, you used to be edgy!shrekfan246 said:
Perhaps somewhat ironically, I became so much more dull after largely losing my rotund figure.Something Amyss said:
Ghost Recon Future Soldier is a online shooter I still play and continually hope for a better 3rd-person shooter to come out. I do really love the cover swap mechanic of the game. But there's so many little issues with the game from bad netcode to poor gun mechanics that I play it because it's the best of the worst really. I hope MGS5 or the new Rainbow 6 delivers a great online MP.
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I can see that. I never finished Okami because of how freaking long the game is, it ends like 2 or 3 different times and keeps going. I hated the slow ass text dialogue as well. For some reason, the characters and such sorta worked for me but I can see them annoying a lot of people. I found the Zelda-like fairy thing funny do to it coming off as like a parody.Zhukov said:
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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.0takuMetalhead said:
Yeah I cringe a little every time I say it, wondering if someone will take it the wrong way. Might be a sign I should stop using it, but damn it, that would be letting the racists win!Ihateregistering1 said:
Playing Witcher 3 calcified my Inquisition hate, but didn't ignite it. It's a pretty bad sign when I finish a game and the first post-ending impressions I have to share with the GF is a torrent of scorn.
The Evil Within
I don't know what the hell went on behind the scenes of that production, but Shinji Mikami making a game this shit still boggles my mind. Literally every aspect of this game is garbage. The shooting mechanics, the running animation, the visual design, the rendering, the framerate, the fucking letterboxing, the enemy placements...
Thankfully I quickly decided to spare myself the agony of seeing whether anything good might actually emerge from this pile of vomit and I simply stopped playing it after two hours and returned it to the store. No more Max Payne 3-levels of anguish for me.
I don't know what the hell went on behind the scenes of that production, but Shinji Mikami making a game this shit still boggles my mind. Literally every aspect of this game is garbage. The shooting mechanics, the running animation, the visual design, the rendering, the framerate, the fucking letterboxing, the enemy placements...
Thankfully I quickly decided to spare myself the agony of seeing whether anything good might actually emerge from this pile of vomit and I simply stopped playing it after two hours and returned it to the store. No more Max Payne 3-levels of anguish for me.
It is such a pity about twisted metal. I always wanted a brutal vigilante 8 and twisted metal was singing all the right tunes for that. But no. Such another great idea ruined by terrible execution. Please show some love for your work, developers. That is the type of game where you aren't suppposed to hold back. Just go fucking nuts with it. I garuntee it would raise an eyebrow or two.
Ok personally I did try to like FFXIII. I wanted to see all the pretty cutscenes, lovely scenery and over the top action. But those characters. That script. The endless clop clop through the (admittidly pretty) corridors. It was too much slog and no amount of self induced brain damage could polish that lumpy turd experience.
Metro Redux. Egh. Fine I'll just plug in the 360 and pretend that Redux never happened.
Borderlands. Any of them. Am I shooting numbers? I am, aren't I? I'm damn well shooting lines of numbers. Don't fool this fool. Maths was never that cruel.
Witcher 2. The dwarven area...whatever was going on there, it lost me. I tried to enjoy getting lost amongst the stone corridors littered with scottish, ginger accents. But I'm awful at lying to myself, can always see right through me.
Thief (the reboot). It was all kinds of wrong. A release day buy, which means it gets played till the eyes bleed. But it made everything bleed, I tell you. Everything!
Point and click adventures. They are really not for me. No nostalgia here to work from. One day, maybe i'll try Monkey Island agian and it'll be ok. One day.
Ok personally I did try to like FFXIII. I wanted to see all the pretty cutscenes, lovely scenery and over the top action. But those characters. That script. The endless clop clop through the (admittidly pretty) corridors. It was too much slog and no amount of self induced brain damage could polish that lumpy turd experience.
Metro Redux. Egh. Fine I'll just plug in the 360 and pretend that Redux never happened.
Borderlands. Any of them. Am I shooting numbers? I am, aren't I? I'm damn well shooting lines of numbers. Don't fool this fool. Maths was never that cruel.
Witcher 2. The dwarven area...whatever was going on there, it lost me. I tried to enjoy getting lost amongst the stone corridors littered with scottish, ginger accents. But I'm awful at lying to myself, can always see right through me.
Thief (the reboot). It was all kinds of wrong. A release day buy, which means it gets played till the eyes bleed. But it made everything bleed, I tell you. Everything!
Point and click adventures. They are really not for me. No nostalgia here to work from. One day, maybe i'll try Monkey Island agian and it'll be ok. One day.
The Path.
Okay, I know it technically isn't a game but I wanted to like it. I generally like quirky wierd games(I'm still eagerly waiting for the next two episodes of Kentucky Route Zero) but the path was so....boring. I don't feel bad that the company that made it went out of business(Let me rephrase that. I don't feel the company was making any real contributions to the gaming industry, but I do feel bad that their employees are out of work now).
Okay, I know it technically isn't a game but I wanted to like it. I generally like quirky wierd games(I'm still eagerly waiting for the next two episodes of Kentucky Route Zero) but the path was so....boring. I don't feel bad that the company that made it went out of business(Let me rephrase that. I don't feel the company was making any real contributions to the gaming industry, but I do feel bad that their employees are out of work now).
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.
I had demo for Castlevania: lord of shadows because I had been considering buying it. I never even finished that and was wanting to drop it before finishing the first tutorial fight sequence. I not actually sure what turned me off this game so completely and so quickly.
Penumbra: Requiem. The first 2 were ok although they failed at being scary (despite what screaming youtubes would have you believe). Requiem however is just a bad puzzle game. I didn't care about the story any-more and without Red or Clarence to add some personality it was just dull.
I had demo for Castlevania: lord of shadows because I had been considering buying it. I never even finished that and was wanting to drop it before finishing the first tutorial fight sequence. I not actually sure what turned me off this game so completely and so quickly.
Penumbra: Requiem. The first 2 were ok although they failed at being scary (despite what screaming youtubes would have you believe). Requiem however is just a bad puzzle game. I didn't care about the story any-more and without Red or Clarence to add some personality it was just dull.
If you stopped using it, that would be letting the stupid people win, so you might be screwed either way.BloatedGuppy said: