Games with Too much content

[Imper1um]

I'm sorry, the game with the most useless amount of content is Metal Gear Solid 4.

Hideo, if you wanted to make a movie, just sign up with Sony. They'll give you three hours to get all your exposition on stage.

When I was getting into the action, it zips me back into a cutscene, like it was afraid that I would mess up the exposition if I could get control of the game. Too much framing, too many lingering looks, and too many points it has to figure out. It was a cool game, and I love storyline, but I'm playing a game. I want to play a game for a while before you throw a pound of exposition in my face.

 

[Simeon Ivanov]

Fallout 3 maybe.

 

[2xDouble]

It was also the case with DA2, but that was less "too much content" and more "bad game design"

I'm going to echo this sentiment. There is no such thing as "too much content", only too much bad content.

 

[Squilookle]

I would have left out the vehicle sections of [Shadows of the Empire] and focused on the shooting aspect, but then the game would just be Dark Forces version 2. And fuck the speeder bike chase my god was that tedious.

There was a cheat you could type in as your player name- I think it was 'Joe' which removed all the flying levels and just had the on foot ones. Really annoyed me too, as I would have preferred they did it the other way around, yet there was no cheat to ditch the foot levels and just have the flying ones.

Oh well- at least there was a secret that allowed you to fly the X-wing and TIE fighter in space in the last level. Even Rogue Squadron didn't do that.

 

[Squilookle]

Ignore double post- Firefox is lagging like nothing else at the moment...

 

[Chased]

I keep trying to climb through Dragon Age 2 but the mass amounts of side quests I gather every time I play it makes me want to do anything else.

 

[Zanaxal]

Most likely every sandbox game in existence. Trying to follow the main story usually is more a chore in those games then anything else. And when the story is just bad or overly stuffed with dialouge its just not worth it. Generally whenever i play a sandbox just blowing stuff up for giggles is the only entertainment to be had As the good story parts are just so few and far apart. It's like almost guaranteed they are gonna Drag you down into the Greyish Brown Dark sewers for 50% of the story or have you do some stupid Escort quest. Like people cant walk with their own feet.

 

[Iron Lightning]

Games with too much content do not exist.

Even if a game has so much content that you can't be arsed to finish it in a reasonable time you can still go back later to play more.

Beats the hell out of those 6 hour games, I tell you that much.

 

[theevilgenius60]

This is so me. I am mostly an RPG guy, though i do love shooters and action games. What gets me is when I'm playing on of my RPGs and I can't make myself get on and play, even though I am in love with everything about the game because it's just too much. Dragon Age: Origins, Mass Effect and Oblivion were just a few of the semi-recent games that did this to me. I will be in a drought in which I don't have a new book, comic or anything on tv worth watching(oh, never mind, it's been like that since Farscape was cancelled) but yet I can't make myself play a game that's fresh, new and just too much.

 

[HobbesMkii]

I've started yet never finished Dragon Age 2, Fallout 3, and Fallout: New Vegas because they're too large. I always want to have the right gear and have completed quests in the order and way I want things to play out according to the game's decision making so much that I've essentially been frozen out of them for fear of making the "wrong" decision.

 

[jthwilliams]

For me, any single player game that lasts longer than 50 hours is pushing it.

As for specific examples, Dragon Age: Origins had way too much extraneous side bullshit. Also, Fallout 3 outstayed it's welcome by a considerable degree.

According to steam, I've put 150+ hours into evil genius. Of course some of that was gold mining by setting it up and letting it run over night

 

[MASTACHIEFPWN]

Fallout New Vegas.
10 followers with like 12 super difficult missions each.
And 4 content packs I didn't download.