Games that you've abandoned playing

[Elijin]

Almost every Final Fantasy / JRPG game.

I hit that point where it says 'This is the point of no return, go do everything else first'. And I start doing everything else, and then I either lose interest because it takes so long, or I take a break and forget what I was doing when I load it up again...so I stop loading it up again.

Bonus points for the few times I have gone on to finish the game and been really 'meh'. When you do everything, as suggested, the boss fights to 'end the game' tend to take about 2-3 hits from your crazy overpowered characters.

This also applies to every Elder Scrolls game. Where I have immediately run off in search of adventure, and never even done like the second story quest.

 

[KoudelkaMorgan]

I've abandoned Borderlands 2. I never really liked it until Gaige was added, and I've run my course with her. Or more accurately I've done every thing I wanted to.

What I didn't want to do was have to farm Flynt the rest of my life for some damn Thunderball fists but after 300+ runs I have nothing to show for the time I wasted.

I also went through the trouble to glitch my way back into the treasure room in Pirate DLC like 15 times and also have nothing to show for it. I can't even find any public games worth joining because I don't have the other 3 dlc/people just stand around or port to sanctuary for 20 min for no reason.

I would be mildly excited about the Pre-Sequel, but I despise the direction they are going with the classes. Nisha looks broken as hell what with not even needing to aim at all with her action skill.

Athena is the only one of them I would play, which would continue the series tradition of there only being one character per game I could stand to play as.

Moreover I'm beyond sick of Anthony Birch. I like his sister in her own works, and even together to a degree in HAWP, but I'm fairly certain his hand is what made me dislike BL2 so much.

That and the .0000000000000000000002% drop rates on the more interesting gear.

I got plenty of good stuff just playing the game, and even killing a few things a dozen times. But I spent days farming Doc Mercy and Flynt, only to find that they were actually bugged for drops. And after the fix, Flynt still rarely drops ANYTHING let alone something good. I think I got an infinity out of a random chest, because I don't remember ever killing Mercy again after learning I wasted 1200 kills.

 

[Bvenged]

Dead Island 1
- One dull, dull game. Gave up after 30 minutes.

Dark Souls 1
- One faulty and repetitive game on PC. Not to mention if you fuck up you got to replay 10 minutes until you get it right.

Far Cry 2 and 3
- They were just dull games to me with cliché mechanics, average story lines and crappy voice quality. Bad RPG, average at best shooter.

Borderlands
- Got highly repetitive 3 hours in. Sold it. Bought it again to play coop with a friend, and made it further before getting inevitably bored.

(Not) surprisingly, I play a lot of games, so it's very rare that I ever outright stop playing a game. I even persevered LA Noir despite how bland it got and how long it dragged on.

 

[Revolutionary]

This I can actually answer quite well because I keep my steam library fairly well organised. I have a category for games i've given up on and will eventually come back to or just don't have time for and may eventually try.

Filed Under : "Aint nobody got time for that" Steam Category
Amnesia
Botanicula
Cargo Commander
Dark Souls
Dead Space
Dota 2
Dust: An Elyisian Tail
FF VII
Guacamelee
Hard Reset
Jet Set Radio
Magicka
Pay Day 2
Risen 2

 

[Pikey Mikey]

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Half Minute Hero, Space Hulk, Hotline Miami, Papers Please, Bioshock Infinite, Torchlight, Ocarina of Time, BALDUR'S GATE, Valkyria Chronicles 2: All complete shit.

But...But...I like Baldur's Gate ='(
(Just kidding, I LOVE 'em, (but you're free to hate them =P))

 

[Pikey Mikey]

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.

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

I raged more than a little on Witcher 2, because I had somewhere around NINE quests, but I could only progress with ONE and FINDING that one was such a fucking hassle I almost went insane (but a giant Riesen-wrapper draped in the skin of a rhino descended from down below to calm me up)

Dark Souls. I spent such a colossal amount of time in Blighttown (at least it felt like it) before I went to a wiki and saw that the boss was literally "down and right" and then I killed her first try in like two minutes... The apathetic rage =P

 

[Ishal]

Dark Souls 2: Unless it's the DLC, the vanilla game's levels and bosses are just not enjoyable. [Rant] WHY IS THE DLC BETTER?! YOU HAD TIME THIS TIME! [/Rant]

Have you played Crown of the Old Iron King yet?

Because for someone who thought the base game was bad, I find it hard to believe you'd like that one.

As for me, I thoroughly enjoyed Dark Souls 2. The B-team analysis has merit, but even then I loved it. It's a different game than Dark Souls, and I'm able to enjoy it on those terms.

OT:

Skyrim: for as a much as I love the game. There comes a point where it just kinda get's boring. I always end up coming back to it though.

Pretty much all of Ubisoft's open world games with the exception of Far Cry 3. Especially Watch Dogs, what a steaming pile of garbage.

My friends try to get me to play old JRPG games, and I just can't. I get going and it just wears on me.

Roguelikes. But that's not a criticism against the games. They're designed to be played like that, then put down for a while if you get bored or burnt out. And like Skyrim, I always come back to them.

 

[MeatMachine]

Portal.
I didn't even make it to the part where you incinerate the Companion Cube. Got stuck, got frustrated, shelved it. Great fucking game, don't get me wrong - I just wasn't enamored by the gameplay as much as most people were.

Killing Floor.
Far surpassed Level 6 in all perks, even beat most of the levels on Hell on Earth, which is damn near impossible - 1 slip-up, and everyone is dead instantly. Picked it back up last week, and now I can barely handle moderate difficulty.

Skyrim.
It's just too damn easy to break the game with overpowered crafting. Once you get enough enchantments that reduces Destruction magic cost by over 100%, you can rain fireballs at everything without consequence.

Age of Empires 2.
I thought I was hot shit at this game because I beat all the campaigns on Moderate difficulty back in 2004. Then it came out on Steam a while back. Then I played online. Saying I got "thrashed" is an understatement.

Doom II.
I've literally been playing this game my whole life. I am omniscient about this game. Only reason why I don't STILL play it is because the Steam version's controls suck, and you can't change them.

 

[JagermanXcell]

Dark Souls 2: Unless it's the DLC, the vanilla game's levels and bosses are just not enjoyable. [Rant] WHY IS THE DLC BETTER?! YOU HAD TIME THIS TIME! [/Rant]

Have you played Crown of the Old Iron King yet?

Because for someone who thought the base game was bad, I find it hard to believe you'd like that one.

What can I say, I'm a sucker for interconnected levels and hidden nook and cranies. And minus the... Blue Smelter and some boring looking local, the DLC had the better bosses and shiny new gear. But Sunken definitely wins in the atmosphere department that I hope Ivory can get back. THE PLACE IS MADE OF SNOW, THERE IS NO EXCUSE TO F*** UP.

As for Dks2 as a whole, the vanilla game is not enjoyable in the fact that it's so straight forward to the point of being too easy. In Dks1 I'd breeze through the game yes, but at least I had fun navigating my way through the labyrinth like locale and staying on my toes. Whereas Dks2 it feels like I'm running a marathon on a bicycle (a bicycle I like to call the MACE) vs no one. 0 invasions a whole NG, and no incentive to go to NG+ since you can get the +2 stuff with ascetics. Nice going Tanamura.

 

[Sherokain]

I'd have to say Metro 2033, great game ruined at the end by the plague we all know as terrible AI companions. Im stuck at the part in deep 6 where you need to "wade" (This is what the AI does rather than either run or actually shoot them) through the exploding spores and his life what ever the difficulty is abysmal causing me to be stuck.

 

[Ishal]

What can I say, I'm a sucker for interconnected levels and hidden nook and cranies. And minus the... Blue Smelter and some boring looking local, the DLC had the better bosses and shiny new gear.

Spoiler

Gonna spoiler this just as a precaution.

So you must not be one of the people who hated all the "big guy in armor" bosses in the base game. Since that's essentially what the Fume Knight and Sir Alonne were.

I myself find that to be a curious criticism, since the bosses people remember from the Souls games are rarely the monsters. In Demon's Souls it's Allant, Penetrator, and Tower Knight. Flame lurker being the notable exception. Dark Souls was O&S, Artorias, Gwyn, and I'll count the Tauros Demon and Capra as well since they were humanoid.

Don't get me wrong, I'd have loved there to be a little bit more monsters in DKS II, but the bosses in DKS II didn't bother me like they did so many others. That, and I'm not the type of Souls fan who bends over backwards to praise every single one of the monster designs in DKS. I think some were rather silly. Eh, different strokes I guess.

 

[Darxide]

Skyrim. About a month into playing it just got more and more boring and unbearable.

 

[JagermanXcell]

What can I say, I'm a sucker for interconnected levels and hidden nook and cranies. And minus the... Blue Smelter and some boring looking local, the DLC had the better bosses and shiny new gear.

Spoiler

Gonna spoiler this just as a precaution.

So you must not be one of the people who hated all the "big guy in armor" bosses in the base game. Since that's essentially what the Fume Knight and Sir Alonne were.

I myself find that to be a curious criticism, since the bosses people remember from the Souls games are rarely the monsters. In Demon's Souls it's Allant, Penetrator, and Tower Knight. Flame lurker being the notable exception. Dark Souls was O&S, Artorias, Gwyn, and I'll count the Tauros Demon and Capra as well since they were humanoid.

Don't get me wrong, I'd have loved there to be a little bit more monsters in DKS II, but the bosses in DKS II didn't bother me like they did so many others. That, and I'm not the type of Souls fan who bends over backwards to praise every single one of the monster designs in DKS. I think some were rather silly. Eh, different strokes I guess.

Spoiler

It had more to do with the fact that the " plethora of big guys in armor" bosses (or just any boss in Dks2 minus the Darklurker) in Dks2 weren't interesting at all, to the point of lazy, to the point of "you could have made something as nito as Nito" levels of missed opportunity. Dks1 had a lot going for it with it's "armor bros" like for example Artorias. They hyped up his lore post DLC, people wanted to fight him, you find him accompanied by a sick cutscene, a fight that feels like you're 1v1ing Guts from Berserk, and MORE interesting tid bits of his lore even after you kill him!

Now lets take the Dragonrider from Dks2. Easy boss, no dragon to ride, easy gank boss in drangleic castle, he still isn't riding a dragon mind you, you can make him fall off a ledge... a dragon would have probably have been useful there don't you think?
It's definitely why I enjoyed the DLC's Raime and Sir Alonne. I went in realizing "hey it's that guy in the item stories!", and then I proceed to get decimated by their unpredictability ie. good/interesting boss design. (Although Raime's fight is debatable considering that his AR and DEF is insane even for NG, but I still had fun)

And I get what you mean about the monsters, which is why I would have thought Sinh was a step in the right direction in terms of a great boss if he didn't have such insane defense and stayed in the air for 50% of the fight. Again, there's always Ivory to not make the same mistakes on.

 

[putowtin]

Everything... I haven't played a game in over a month...

seriously everything started to p1ss me off, and then games that I've been looking forward to (DA: Inquisition/ AC: Unity) all of a sudden I can't be arsed with them anymore... so I bought the most recent humble bundle, there's plenty of games I've been promising myself for years... I can't be bothered to even download them...

Have I caught gamer flu?

 

[Lunar Templar]

White Knight Chronicles, FF12, FF13, and LoZ;OoT

FF12; I just stopped caring. Hard to stay interested when your stuck controlling a character who has no real reason to exist.

FF13; It was FF13, why one would stop playing this is pretty well established at this point.

LoZ; OoT: got bored, stopped playing. that simple. I did send it to a friend that likes the game though.

WKC; god I hate this game. it forces you to create a costume character then side lines your ass in the story. it does give your custom character access to the 'super cool thing you bought the game for' until WKC2, its full of cliches so poorly written and over used I couldn't make it more then a couple hours into the story before I said 'fuck it' and traded it in for something else.

 

[Idlemessiah]

Ass Creed 3. I just couldn't do it. The bit where you play as the main character's dad was really fun, the plot twist good even though it was telegraphed right from the start so it wasn't exactly a shock, and then there was the boring childhood slog through all these rites of passage. The game looked like it might get interesting once Connor becomes an adult but the boring blank slate continued to be a boring blank slate doing boring jobs and generally being a one dimensional bore. I finally quit during the Boston Tea Party memory because the full synch criteria were obnoxious and I couldn't bear the thought of having to manage my trade routes afterwards. I actually enjoyed the Desmond parts better than Connor's.

 

[Ephidel]

State of Decay's Lifeline DLC. This is the only thing in recent memory where I've just said "Fuck it!" and stopped playing. Back when it released on 360 a few months ago, I got hit with no end of glitches and bugs. I thought "I'll just wait for the inevitable patch", and so far? Silence.

I check the Undead Labs Forums and I find nothing. Maybe I can't read or maybe nothing has happened, but until that DLC is fixed, I really cannot be bothered with it.

Aside from that, I don't think I've ever really "abandoned" playing a game. I finished Mega Man 9, but I can't be bothered going back for the Achievements. Does that count?

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

The Witcher 1: Wrestled with the horrid controls for an hour and a half, got to the first "sex scene" and thought "...yeah, no thank you".

Dishonored: Got a fair way in before thinking "I'd rather be playing Thief". Trying to do a Let's Play of the game probably helped turn me off.

Thief ('14 Remake): Got a fair way in before thinking "I feel like I'm playing Dishonored". No Let's Play to blame this time.

Dead Island: It ignored all input the first time I ran it; it stopped letting me bind keys after 20 seconds the second time. I decided I had better things to do than wrestle with a game just to get it to listen to the keyboard.

Mass Effect 1: I guess I was expecting more of a shooty experience than an RPG with TPS elements glued on. I have ME2 as well, which I've heard seems to be more my "bag", but I haven't even bothered with it.

Brink: The game was shit. Spent more time downloading it than playing it.

Duke Nukem Forever: See entry for Brink.

 

[Gergar12_v1legacy]

Dust 514. Two words Project Legion.

Skyrim- The vampires, and dragons keep killing my freaking shop keepers, and players are DEFENDING it, how the heck am I suppose to trade, when everyone is dead. I play on PS3 by the way.