Games you actually found boring

[S'moorejunk]

I found the original Half-Life boring. Then I found out the Steam version didn't play the music without a CD.

I thought the weapons were balanced, and the AI was good, but without the music, there was a lack of excitement in many of the encounters, and the game seemed to drag on forever underground without a change in scenery.

 

[likalaruku]

Psychonaughts. The difficulty curve was like a steep mountain on an flat endless plane. I went back & forth between almost falling asleep to having an anxiety attack.

 

[platinawolf]

Gratuitous space battles. Very very dull Cant control your ships midbattle.
M.U.D. TV. Interesting concept, awful execution.
Kings Bounty. Just didnt click.

Probably tells something of how forgiving I am,,, Went through my enormous game library and only found those three...

 

[inFAMOUSCowZ]

LA Noire, just boring. At first I thought it was amazing, then I got to the midway point wishing it to end.

 

[Gaiseric]

Oblivion and Halo are both games that come to mind.

Those and Mass Effect 2 standout for me.

[sub]goddamn Oblivion Gates....[/sub]

 

[krazykidd]

CoD Black Ops. Played a couple of hours, dropped it. The singleplayer that is, I still enjoyed the multiplayer at the time. Just a shooting gallery. Nothing else to it.

Dude the campaign only lasts a couple of hours , like 5 max.

You can't present that as a positive.

It isn't a positive , but he droped a 5 hour game after playing a few hours , meaning he was already like half way through.

 

[TheAmokz]

Final Fantasy XIII. I fell asleep after 1 hour.

 

[intheweeds]

Also, I do not for the life of me understand people who like Oblivion. I think I've played it for all of like three hours. I just couldn't do it. I just kept thinking "but people love this game! I love RPG's, why does this suck so much?" and then i gave up and moved on. It's soooo ugly and sooooo boring! It's not Bethesda, I love New Vegas. It's just The Elder Scrolls.

YES finally another of my kind! Fallout is pretty good but Oblivion put me to sleep. The thing that bothers me the most about it though is that anyone I know that likes Oblivion will constantly tell me that I must have been playing it wrong and that I should try again.

"you're playing it wrong" or any permutation of that statement is just silly. I'm sorry, but I've been playing video games for well over 25 years now and I'm pretty sure I've figured out how to do it by now. Some people love that kind of thing, but personally, I will never understand Elder Scrolls people.

 

[James Joseph Emerald]

Half Life 2 is terribly slow moving and boring, and for fuck's sake Valve, I'm pretty sure you can afford to put in some ambient music, it's so damn quiet.

I agree. Plus the characters were not engaging at all. They just kind of shouted advice at you or shoveled a ton of expository monologues your way.


The one that sticks out in my mind, though, was Devil May Cry 2. I remember there was this one giant moth boss that just flew away from me all the time, and I was forced to chip away at its health with my shitty pea-shooters, occasionally stopping to dodge a lumbering, obvious dive bomb attack. I literally fell asleep it was so deliriously dull.

 

[IncredibleKoosh]

CoD Black Ops. Played a couple of hours, dropped it. The singleplayer that is, I still enjoyed the multiplayer at the time. Just a shooting gallery. Nothing else to it.

Dude the campaign only lasts a couple of hours , like 5 max.

You can't present that as a positive.

It isn't a positive , but he droped a 5 hour game after playing a few hours , meaning he was already like half way through.

True, but he wouldn't have known it at the tim!

 

[Cpu46]

I rented Jumper once. Interesting thing happened while playing. I fell asleep, it was late and the game was so repetitive, however I must have just zoned out for a good ten minutes or so before falling asleep because my sister said that I kept playing past the last point I could actually remember.

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

Portal. There I said it, we were all thinking it.

Hardly. Keep your opinion, but don't force it upon the rest of us. Thanks.

OT: Dragon Age: Origins absolutely bored me to death. I purchased the game solely on the regard that Bioware made it, as I love both Mass Effect titles to a large degree. Origins however, was incredibly dull, and lacked the "epic" feeling that came from what I loved in Mass Effect.

Started a mage character, finished the Fade portion of the intro, and returned the game two days later.

It just wasn't for me.

 

[Robert Ewing]

Hmmm, L.A Noire.

As amazing as it was, and it was amazing. Everything in the game was of a high quality.

It's just... It didn't grab me at all. I actually had to come back to it a few times as a rebound from a more exciting game.

 

[Warrior Irme]

Oblivion. I wouldn't mind the combat, and the story, but dear lord make a leveling system that doesn't actively impede progress in the main quest. I lacked any sort of challenge up until a quest that wouldn't let me continue because my level was too low. If I'm grinding in an open world RPG then something is seriously wrong.

 

[Coldster]

I actually thought really hard on this one and this is what I came up with:

Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy Tactics Advance: I didn't even buy these games, I got them at two seperate birthdays from a friend of mine. Now, he keeps insisting that FF games are the best games of all time. I stand almost completely opposite of that statement. Main problem, THEY ARE JUST TOO FREAKING BORING! Seriously, if you really like these games, go back and count how many minutes (or hours) you wasted wacthing cutscenes or reading entire essays of text. See? Told you.

Heavy Rain: Zero Punctuation pretty much covers it. Literally takes the words right out of my mouth. I would rather play FF games forever than play that game again.

 

[FateOrFatality]

Its strange to see that every single one of my favourite games has been mentioned multiple times. Do I just have strange tastes?

 

[busters]

Company of Heroes
Manhunt
Gratuitous Space Battles
The Ball
FUEL

These games were total borefests to me.

 

[Pyroguekenesis]

Crysis. Call of Duty 4 and Modern Warfare 2..and 3.