Games that you've abandoned playing

[IronMit]

Dragon age origins - what the hell is this D&D combat. This is nothing like mass effect

witcher 1 - this combat is probably worse then origins

Demon souls - too depressing. Dark souls I could do and love, but not this. I feel bad for abandoning this one.

Bioshock Infinite - why am I shooting hordes of police in the face. The narrative to me says it should be more stealthy

Hitman absolution - this is not blood money...why am I walking from A to B . The cover mechanic makes no sense.

Tomb Raider 2014- How is Lara slaughtering all these people single handedly

TOR free weekend - omg, is this what an MMO is?

LA Noire - The rules of this game do not make a lick of sense. I'm rarely making decisions and analysing evidence , just trying to game the conversations

A few assassins creed games -

 

[DirgeNovak]

I stop playing a lot of games before I finish them, but I don't consider them "abandoning" because I more often than not intend to go back to them, even if I trade the game in. Catherine and L.A. Noire fall into that category. I traded them in when I needed some credit to buy another game, intending to buy them back when they're inexpensive and finish them. I still haven't bought those two games back, though. Catherine was getting really freakishly difficult and L.A. Noire pissed me right off at the end of the homicide bureau with that fucking stupid twist, but I still want to finish those games.

Only game that comes to mind for which I just said "Fuck it I'm done" partway through the game would be Final Fantasy XIII. I got to the bit where you rescue Sazh and The Thing on the warship and could not for the life of me get through the fights, and eventually told myself "I'm better than this. I'll go play something I actually enjoy" and never touched the thing again.

 

[FPLOON]

"Abandoned" is such a strong word in my case... because you could basically describe most of my gaming backlog as being "abandoned" in some way, shape or form...

But seriously, I can think of a few off the top of my head:

Shadow the Hedgehog: After finding out a way to only have to play the game (in full) five times in order to get the true ending (including knowing which routes to take that would make me the least frustrated overall), I still only beaten it once and just gave up after that...

Afro Samurai: Went through the first stage(?) and just stopped... (Still loved the music, though...)

Tales of Legendia: Outside of the combat (and, to a certain extent, the story), I don't know why I stopped playing this game...

Eternal Sonata: Same as with Legendia, I don't know why I stopped playing this game...

Game of Thrones: Same as with Legendia only I hated the combat... and that's what made me abonded this game... (Still liked the artbook I got with the game, though...)

Honorable mention to 2006's Sonic The Hedgehog because I have already beaten it twice already... and the last time net me a good $200 due to a bet I thought I couldn't win, anyway...

 

[Ihateregistering1]

Red Dead Redemption: I played for about 10 hours, then realized that the plot hadn't advanced 1 iota and the game didn't really have any sort of upgrade system beyond "you get better equipment!". Same principle applied with GTA IV.

Divinity: Original Sin: Haven't given up on it quite yet, but a lot of people said it was basically the return of Baldur's Gate, so I think I was kinda caught off guard by how silly and tongue-in-cheek the game was, sort of killed some of my expectations. Might go back to it.

Skulls of the Shogun: Neat game, but I just got bored with it after a while. It didn't help that the difficulty curve felt very out of whack: normal mode was too hard and easy mode was too easy.

Just Cause 2: May be the only time I've thought a game was simply too huge and overwhelming. The plot didn't really compel me either.

South Park: The Stick of Truth: I actually really liked the game and I love South Park, but I got about 3/4 of the way through the game and then my saved game got erased, and I couldn't bring myself to play through the whole thing again.

 

[Plucky]

Years ago: Luminous Arc, Tao's Adventure and Hoshigami for the DS....they seemed a bit slow. Tao in particular seemed like a weak spiritual sequel to Azure Dreams. as of recently, maybe Etrian Odyssey IV and Shin Megami Tensei: Soul Hackers, it got annoying at the Astro Museum part, but after bruteforcing questions, i got through. the game doesn't seem internetless-friendly without resorting to looking at guides...yes, im aware that the game is a remake of a game in the Sega Saturn era. probably got a little worse at the airport since i forgotten the order of machines i sabotaged after completing a vision quest.


After checking out Dungeon Q, the questions were translated as expected, but the questions themselves are from a Japanese point of view, like who would know who's the first non-Caucasian baseball player in a Japanese baseball league. feels like bit of a cop-out to sit at a computer just to look up FAQs just to get past a part in a game for a minute then having to look back. less about the Ice Boss, the better....that was just RNG screw as hell.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

Resident Evil 6.

I bought it out of some good fanboy faith knowing it was gonna be pretty not great but I have this theory with co-op: Good games get better with co-op, bad games get funny. So I thought I'll play co-op with my buddy and we'll have a good laugh and we did but it just seemed like there were better games to be playing.

 

[Shuu]

Final Fantasy XIII is THE game I stopped playing. It's the game that broke my heart. It's the game I got my first job to pay for, and after racing home to play it, I came to the gradual realisation which we all must learn sooner or later.
You know the one I mean, the one that goes "wait. you mean... even important people with millions of dollars don't know what they're doing? ...Oh noooo..."

 

[CelestDaer]

Let's see...
FFXII- Just got to the scene where Fran joins in, and I'm just sitting there going, "Yeah, I don't care any longer." Nothing was catching my interest
FFXIII- Got to... um... Gaia? The planet Vanille and Fang come from? Ran around for an hour or so, and just... bleeh... I'd seen Spoony's review of it, and I was kind of enjoying it up to that point, but I guess that's where the game went off the wall bonkers, and I couldn't catch the interest again.
Dragon Age Origins- Cleared one of the areas (forget which one), then watched my roommate slog through the Dwarven roads thing, and went, "Well, I don't care any longer."
Duke Nukem Forever- A duh
Lego Indiana Jones- Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the Lego games, and I just got to the end of the story mode, and went back to start clearing the levels in free play, and, well, I just can't... I have no motivation to go back and 100%...
Psychonauts- Started to record an LP of the game, got to the end of Basic Braining, and the cut scene to get you out started, and then the game just up and crashed. No warning, just, done. So, putting that aside for a bit...

 

[ajr209]

Star wars the force unleashed (PS3). Fucking star destroyer mission. Seriously. I was doing fairly well in the game and getting through it at a nice pace. Then...Fucking star destroyer. The game's working just fine then this hot mess comes along and the targeting goes to shit, the prompts on the screen don't properly sync up with you're actually supposed to do, and the tie fighters. I don't think I've ever rage quit a game so hard.

Dark souls (PS3). You ever play a game where you can see where other people would really enjoy it but come to the conclusion that it's just not your cup of tea? This was one of those games for me. I gave it long enough I felt to make some decent progress, beat a few bosses, and get a good feel for the game. I was doing some grinding in that forest place, you know the one that everyone touts as being a good place to grind early in the game, and I wound up thinking to my self "why am I playing this when I'm not having fun?" I put it away and haven't touched it since. It's a well made game, clearly the product of passion, but it just wasn't the game for me.

Dead or alive 3 (XBOX) Played less like a whole new game and more like a fucking expansion pack. If you already have DOA 2 there is no reason what so ever to get this. Beat a few of the character's stories, touched on some of the other modes and gave a resounding "meh" as I put it away.

 

[The Random Critic]

- Does the Sun ever fucking come out?

It does, and you'd better praise it ************.

Dragon Age Orgin, I got though everything until the meeting during both my playthoughs. Then I never touched the game again...

The worse part is that I beat DA2.

Also, currently it's probably Kingdom hearts 2, but then again. I beat the game like 2 times (3 if you gonna count HD), I know what's gonna happen next. Might give Sephy anther shot though

 

[bishopzz]

Max Payne 3: The story wasn't particularly interesting and I the found the combat awkward.

Every Assassins Creed game I have played: I find no part of these games very gripping, everything just feels so generic.

Call of Jaurez: BIB: My house burned down shortly after I began playing it and I never got around to repurchasing it.

Too Human: Did anyone complete this game?

SplinterCell Blacklist: I just found Sam Fisher's new voice too jarring to continue playing.

Duke Nukem Forever: The Cyclops boss battle was so frustrating it made me break my controller, after I killed it I couldn't find the energy to continue.

 

[Blacklight28]

XCOM: Enemy Within - The war just drags on too far. Eventually I end up without a sense of direction and feel like the game isn't actually progressing anywhere. That and some of the battles are just soul crushing (largely thanks to the RNG), and I'm not even playing on the hardest difficulty.

Tomb Raider - I went into this thinking it was going to be in the same vein as Far Cry 3. It wasn't. QTEs everywhere, platforming was tedious, gunplay was terrible, and the sheer amount of punishment Lara was put though incredibly off putting. I'm not one to shy away from violence, but it was just so gratuitous... I felt like I hear more of her screaming grating at my ears than any actual dialogue. It's closer to torture porn than character building.

The Elder Scrolls/Fallout 3 & New Vegas - I don't really abandon the game as much as I do characters. I usually get bored of characters around level 20-30. It's a pain as I have bought a lot of DLCs for those games that should be started around that level.

The Witcher 2 - I really wanted to like this game. I really did. Unfortunately there is just something I can't quite put my finger on that prevents me from getting into it.

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood/Revelations - Assassin's Creed is sooooo boooooring. The combat is still the same as it was back in the first game, only with additional options to make it easier! The game is basically a whole load of pointless timekillers with Assassin's being shoehorned into every major historical event of the era. I still have abit of hope for the next Far Cry game or two, but the rest of Ubisoft's big franchises have just feel like a chain of factory produced garbage. I might get Black Flag for the ship gimmick, but I ain't paying more than a few bucks for it.

Crysis Warhead - The gameplay is just a chore, story is little more than "Shoot the Koreans! Oh no aliens!" (though I must admit I like the alien in the first games).

Dark Souls - The game broke me in Blighttown. I have no will to keep pushing.

Dragon Age: Origins - It's alright, but either the combat is too hard or I'm just incapable of getting any good at it. I'm still trying to get the blood and scrolls for my trial to become part of the grey wardens, but I've been closed into too paths, both leading to gangs of guys that just massacre my party.

 

[Evonisia]

Already posted I know, but would it count as "abandoning" a game if you've played it before? I've played through XCOM: Enemy Unknown three times and Enemy Within once, and I started another game of EU a few months ago and just stopped midway.

 

[Trunkage]

There are two types of abandoned games: 1) games you feel guilty about abandoning, and wish you had the mental fortitude to play again. 2) Games that you are indifferent about or just glad you stopped playing.

To this day, I haven't forgiven myself for never finishing Fallout 2 (not a typo, that's a 2), and The Witcher 2.

Oh God Fallout 2. Why did it have to suck so much more than Fallout 1. I've tried a couple of times, I just can't do it.

 

[PoolCleaningRobot]

Most recently would be Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker. I abandoned it a year ago after I "beat" it, then went back to get the true ending after watching some MGS5 stuff. I love game and was doing extra missions to level up my base, get weapons, good units but I lost interest. In order to continue with the extra missions I had to beat Peace Walker 2.0 and fuck that. The fight was impossible and guides I found told me waste time getting weapons and armor in Outer Ops. I loved this kind of gameplay where you gather units and buid a base like in Portable Ops but I played Poops for the online so when it was all said and done, there wasn't any reason to keep getting weapons and units. And then I decided to move onto some of the ps+ games I'd been hanging onto

Honorable mentions go Shadow of the Colossus which I got busy with school and still plan to finish and Mag Runner which I quit when I couldn't beat a puzzle and said fuck it cause this game had some really janky solutions

 

[Hairless Mammoth]

Final Fantasy 13 is just sitting in my game rack. Haven't put it in my PS3 for ages, I'm just stuck in this hellish part. I play for five minutes and just scream "done!". No other game really comes to mind at the moment.

Yeah, at this point, I have to say that I've probably abandoned FF13, too.

It isn't that I wasn't enjoying it. I was actually finally starting to get into it. I was 50-60 hours in (at some kind of tower, I believe), and something else came along that I wanted to play, so I dropped it.

I always meant to come back. But after SO many years, I feel like if I picked it up again, I'd have to start ALL the way from the beginning again to be able to remember what the hell was going on. And fuck that. I am not putting up with that first 30 hours AGAIN, just to find out how it ends.

And all this is compounded by the fact that there are not one, but TWO sequels out, so if I ended up liking it, I'd still have the daunting task of beating TWO MORE epicly long games just to get the full story. And no. No no no. I'm sorry FF13, but I'm done.

And it seems like most people would think that I'm not missing much anyways.

You want to know what happens so dang much? Look up Spoony's revoew of the game. He even kills a stand -in for Snow!

His reviews are the only entertainment I got out of 13 and most of the entertainment I got out of X-2 after quiting halfway through it. I still love the X and VIII reviews, despite playing 10 over and over and liking 8 just enough that I might play it a second time someday. Best part in 13's was when he found out who the voice actor was for a certain annoying character. Can't wait for whatever he's hinting at with 7 and the continuation of the assault against 13's sequels. I still wish he gave 9 another try and his honest opinion on the game.

 

[Qage]

[B/]Mass Effect[/B] - I played it for the first time a few years after it came out and I struggled hard to get into it, which is odd because it seems like the sort of thing I could quite enjoy. So little of the game clicked for me, but a lot of my reasoning for abandoning it was the pacing. Starts off with maybe 30 minutes of action, yeah, get me pumped up for the following [I/]3 hours[/I] of incredibly dry space politics, which is immediately followed by having to go down to the surface of planets and "drive" around in that hideously controlled car. No thanks, Mass Effect.

[B/]Skyrim[/B] - This is an interesting case. I have sunk over 100 hours into Skyrim according to Steam, but I don't remember any of it. What I do remember is playing the game and suddenly going "Wait a second, this is profoundly disinteresting, why am I still playing this?" and have never played it since. Thinking back to it now, I suspect the main reason I lost interest was that not a single one of the NPCs seem at all interested in anything they're saying and I just found it hard to care when they didn't seem to at all. Oblivion's dialogue system gets a lot of hate (and I can sort of see why, don't get me wrong) but it seemed as if the voice actors actually gave a shit that time round, even if they were hamming it right up.

[B/]Legend of Grimrock[/B] - LoG is a fun game, and yet, I just stopped playing one day and have never gone back to it. I don't even know why, just haven't wanted to go back and try it. As fun as it was, I feel that it got quite tedious in later levels, especially if you wanted to explore absolutely everything on a single floor.