games with zero replay value

[Flailing Escapist]

Singularity. All the endings were stupid, in my own opinion. Not to mention the HUGE plot hole that's noticiable in the beginning:

Spoiler

"Hey, I shouldn't save this guy. He's an ass. What makes him more special than any other russian here? Plot device, you say? No thank you. I HAVE to save him, you say? His statue takes the place of Stalin's statue after I save him, you say? Fuck me. And we're only 15 minutes in.

Seriously. The whole game fixing the mistake you HAD to make. You didn't even have to but the game MADE you.

Game, if you're going to shove plot devices down my throat at least buy me dinner first.

 

[Shocksplicer]

Any Metal Gear Solid Game. I enjoyed them the first time around, but on subsequent playthroughs I the insane amount of dialogue and cutscenes just make me want to stop playing almost straight away.

 

[Soxafloppin]

Terminator Salvation, never played it myself but my friend got with high expectations, You can only play through Storymode, no collectables no hidden difficulty nothing!

 

[tehlordofmyownworld]

Mass Effect 2.
I haven't even finished it once, but I considered replaying it just to see what all the other stuff I missed was. The scanning mechanic ruins the replay value for me. Sitting through that tedious radar scrolling up and down each planet every time I wanted an upgrade.

 

[Capt. Crankypants]

Simple. Mystery/puzzle games. Once you know, you don't really ever un-know, and you just can't play through again.

 

[legendp]

Umm... to anyone saying 'the Portal games,' I don't know about anyone else, but I replay them all the time for the humor and plot.

OT: probably Mirror's Edge or Assassin's Creed 1, I keep wanting to play those games again, but I get bored pretty early in.

I think mirror edge has great replay value, finished it several time's. the best way to play it is without using weapons and once you get really good at it, it's really fun. But I would agree with AC1, that one does not have much replay value

 

[TxMxRonin]

Black. A game that could have clearly benefited from multiplayer and didn't have any or could have at least been longer.

 

[CleverCover]

Fable II, after that ended I was like "nope, goodbye and thanks for the crappy ending".

This. I'm pretty sure at the end I said. "F%^k you Peter, F&*k your game, F*&k the husband and son, F*&k my dog, and F*&k my group. This game sucks and I'm never ever playing it again."

Never thought an RPG would end up on that list.

More recently there's Bully. The ending kind of ruined everything for me.

 

[Corpse XxX]

Heavy Rain...

After first round through, the game is broken. No suspense anymore at all..

They so should have made it so that there was different murderers on each playthrough.

There was at least 4 possible ways that could have ended..

 

[RuralGamer]

The campaigns in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and Black Ops; only played through them fort he intel and achievements and have never gone back to them; there is just nothing in them for me at all.
Oh and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed; after playing through that once, I put the controller down and said 'Well that's not happening again' and returned it to my friend. Seriously, what a waste of time; LucasArts could have spent less time making a spectacle with 2 dimensional characters and storyline and made something with substance, but no. Major disappointment for me.

 

[Zeema]

Heavy Rain

because you know who the killer is

IT IS [Comment Removed because i don't spoil]

 

[TornadoFive]

Time Hollow. It was an adventure game on the DS that had one of the best stories about time paradoxes I've seen in a game. But the story really carried the gameplay, which was just a matter of figuring out where you had to go next. And the problem with that is, once you've finished the story, you know what happens, you know who the bad guy is and what his motivations are, so it's boring.

As a side note, it DID have one easter egg for people who DID play it again. And it worked really well within the story. To sum it up, because you (ie. the player) know what happens, you could change something right at the beginning which would solve everything. And the game allows you to do that, provided you completed it once before.

No replay value beyond that, but quite clever in my opinion.

 

[StriderShinryu]

Any Legend of Zelda, especially Twiight Princess. I just remember all the shit I have to do and go, "Well I'm not going through that again."

This is pretty much how I feel, and not just for the Zelda series. Every once in a while I'll decide to play something again, and I may even get an hour or two in, but then I'll remember how much stuff there is to do between the few good parts I remember and I often quit. All told, I'd actually say there are far more games that I would probably never play through multiple times than there are games I would play again. If anything I'd say it's not about the length of the game but more how much of the content just feels like filler.

 

[Bagk Nakh]

Any game Bioware makes. Way too much unskippable beginning bullshit to warrant a second playthrough.

 

[godfist88]

pretty much any beat'em up, unless it's something like urban reign.

 

[Michael Brunson]

LA Noire... especially considering it can be beat in a couple days. The Witcher...It boasts a massive amount of play time what they don't tell you is that a lot of that time is spent trying to make it to a fireplace while drunk... or trading food items to the gardener for roses in chapters 2 and 3 so you can make the money to buy that Excellent leather armor. Too Human which I didn't even bother to play through once.

On a side note not everything is so glum. To this day I still pick up and play through Resident Evil 1 and 2 Half-life 1, Final Fantasy 7 and 8 (granted I use gameshark cheats to give me all items, but that's it. I've already beaten them fairly, and I'm really just looking to relive the story.) Oh and the Fallout series