Games you actually found boring

[Treeinthewoods]

Half-Life
Half-Life 2 (both episodes)
Counter-Strike
Team Fortress 2
Portal
Portal 2
Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead 2

Total snoozefest set of games, I really just can't get into anything Valve does.

 

[Vibhor]

Call of duty 1
Actually FPS in general.
I cannot play a FPS if the background music isn't concentrated awesome.
The only reason I liked Doom, Painkiller and Crysis 2

 

[ScrubberDucky]

I have to vote The Witcher. I love western RPGs, I really do, and I really tried to like the Witcher, but it panders to the old-fashioned crowd far too much for its own good. It was so drearily boring that I felt like pulling my eyes out, and I honestly, cross my heart, almost fell asleep while playing it once.

It might've been saved if the combat didn't wrap its lips around someone's posterior, but even then the micromanagement and constant running back and forth would drain most of the fun away.

 

[Mudze]

Borderlands. Holy crap, Borderlands. I can't stand that game. I can't stand the environment, I can't stand the system, I can't stand the graphics, I can't stand what little plot they crammed into that piece of ****, and I really, really can't stand Claptraps!


It's not that I find this game boring, it's more than that. I find it horribly offensive to my eyes and everything I know about literature and gaming.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Prince of Persia '08 and Farcy 2, to some degree.

 

[Extravagance]

MoH Tier 1 and Borderlands. Atleast I completed MoH, if only with the hope that my character would just give up and die already.

 

[Blood Countess]

for me it has been bioshock 2, half life in general and the call of duty games, no hate for them just they bored me is all

 

[funguy2121]

Not bad because even bad can keep you awake if it's frustrating and certainly not good, just slap bang bloody boring and worthy of going right back to the shop.

Has any game seriously tested your patience to the max, either taking too long to get to the juicy parts or you simply found the gameplay mechanics far too dry, monotonous and easy to be considered worthy of your brain usage.

That might not mean the game is bad, it simply wasn't your cup of tea.

Pretty much any olderish RPG I've tried to play or even watched someone else play. The idea of taking tactical skill out of the equation and replacing it with a virtual dice roll has never appealed to me. In fact, at first I was reluctant about Mass Effect and Fallout and Deus Ex because everyone described them as RPGs, but instead of talking to NPCs in Le Towne and pressing X for magic and Y for attack that may hit or may fail and Triangle for summon God to do all fighting for you, go fix dinner, these games are a blend of different genres. It looks like RPGs are evolving into something more interesting than text battles.

But I still find Final Fantasy to be absolutely banal.

 

[Blood Countess]

Half-Life
Half-Life 2 (both episodes)
Counter-Strike
Team Fortress 2
Portal
Portal 2
Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead 2

Total snoozefest set of games, I really just can't get into anything Valve does.

Just saw this after I posted, I can't agree with you more. I haven't played Portal so can't judge those two games but the rest bored me and I find the company highly overrated

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

every single half life....i have never been able to like them. at all.

portal was..a push but i made it through, although i could've cared less for still alive and all the other quotes that are overused a million times online

bioshock, i restarted it 3 times because i was getting so bored with it each time, and every single time i got bored again and stopped around the same parts.

fallout 3 the game..i just did not like the "atmosphere" at all (which is odd considering i loved NV) and the main plot? you've gotta be kidding me, the literal ONE saving grace was liam neeson and he obviously is only there for half of the main plot.

there are probably a few more, but just not really caring to think right now.

 

[Cyrin]

Oblivion.

I loved Morrowind but oblivion was too.. paint by numbers....

 

[crudus]

I am going with Demon's Souls. You had to go through the game so gingerly it took hours to get anything done. If you didn't you just died so many times you were just frustrated with the game.

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

I doubt that, but ok.

 

[itsausernamewhatofit]

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.

I agree completely, I'm sure most of the folks who play Oblivion are wonderful people but the ones I know are a bit eccentric.

 

[Drummie666]

Fallout 3, due to lack of atmosphere.
Mass Effect 2, due to boring gameplay.

In terms of boring, that's all I've got.

 

[Titan Buttons]

The wastelands in New Vegas, the walking was boring at times, liked every other aspect of the game and the random assassination attempts on my life spiced things up as did deathclaws when I saw one charging at me. The travel was just a pain in the ass for me.

 

[MicrosoftPaysMe]

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

Modern warfare 3 is so boring right? i got it the other day and it sucks

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OT Oblivion never grabbed me. I got to the first gate and my stealth character couldnt handle the enemies. Dragin Age Origins bored me too, which is strange because I love Mass Effect and Fallout but not these ones. I guess I just like games in the future more than games in the past

 

[FirMothoth]

I've played a lot of the games others have listed here and now find them kind of boring, but that isn't the fault of the games. They're kind of boring now because in the past I played the ever-living shit out of them. In Oblivion alone I've played almost 300 hours ... hm. That's depressing. I could've learned another language or played an instrument. Instead I got a dude who can single-handedly turn Skingrad into a ghost town.

 

[Jubbert]

Borderlands. The guns felt bad and story was nonexistant.