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KimberlyGoreHound

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World of Warcraft. Self explanitory. All other games, I still replay, from Super Mario Brothers, to Donkey Kong Country, to Goldeneye, Super Smash Bros, and on, and on.

And on.
 

The Heik

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Mass Effect 2, I think I may have heavily overplayed it in it's release week....
Funnily enough, I'm playing it even more, ever since I put that stuff from Cerberus Network on

OT: Uncharted 2. When I got oe the temple in hte mountains I just gave up. Not because it was tough, but because I just couldn't take another totally implausible location that can only be traversed by means of a few too many conveniently falling rocks, or rickety bridge that collapses after me, yet which an entire army could get to without losing everyone.
 

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RadicalDreamer90 said:
Every Western RPG I've ever picked up -.-...Fall Out 3, Elder Scrolls 3 and 4, hell I dropped Dragon Age at the intro screen.

Western RPGS have a tenacious tendency to copy D&D so closely I may as well make up the story on the fly, because thats about as creative as it'll get. Fall out 3 would have broken that chain because I actually got into the story for once, but it made the same mistake Oblivion did when it almost had me. It enclosed me in a tight packed environment and then on a whim thrusts me out on to a giant expanse of land, and with the game expecting me to respond "Look at all this!! I want to explore and see where it all goes!" I instead responded plainly, "The Fuck would I look around here for? I'm done"

For as silly, outrageous, and downright spectacular feet's JRPG's pull off in game, at least they do stuff differently. RPG's are based on a common system, but Western RPGS tend to dick ride the rules like a five year old to there mum, while Eastern RPGS are more like the grown up and independent older brother willing to take chances and make mistakes. With that said,I'll take a shitty JRPG that at least tried over a knock off piece of shit like Dragon Age and the Elder Scrolls Series that didn't put in an ounce of effort.

Disclaimer: Not hating on Western RPGS since I haven't played ME yet, and it's suppose to remedy the horrid cliche' it's predecessors established for it, and these comments go more towards story than game play even though Dragon Ages' combat system is almost word for word the exact same system from Final Fantasy 12 and that was a generation ago, and Elder scrolls has moved maybe a few inches from its original play style.
Um, what? Sorry, but you're opinion holds no validity when talking about RPG's anymore. Especially considering the fact that Final Fantasy 12's battle system was a copy of pretty much every Western RPG from 10 years ago. Most of them don't even have very strict or ridiculous rules like D&D, although since you think they are, obviously they do. Never mind the fact the Elder Scrolls have changed in each iteration with different rules, overall gameplay style, story, and lore, since you played Morrowind and Oblivion, and both of those included first person gameplay as their form of combat, it's completely the same. And just because there is the rare Eastern RPG that doesn't follow the same form as every other JRPG ever made, with the only difference being another convoluted or stupid plot with either massive holes or just being easy to predict, doesn't mean that apparently every JRPG every is unique. Even though the only JRPGs that do anything different are still on like their 5th sequel, which minds that for several games they've been the same with nothing different but their story. The only JRPG that ever has a system that REALLY changes is Final Fantasy. And even most of those were consistent for a while with nothing changing but story, or tiny changes in the battle system like Materia or a Battle Bar instead of simply taking turns.
 

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Overlord 2. Just kinda stopped once I got to the Roman capital. Not because it was bad or anything, I think I just got called back to Oblivion for the sevententh hundred time. The adoring fan is just such a charming character, I cant stay away :p
 

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Has anyone here just stopped playing a game and never played it again? It could be unfairness, boredom, anything really. For me it was Brutal Legend with the fight against Ophelia, bloody Reapers.
Naruto: Rise of a ninja, and Odin Sphere. I really need to finish Odin Sphere. Also, Wild Arms 3. Great game, not really sure why I've stopped playing it.
Probably because It's been ages since I last played it, so I'm going to need to look up a walkthrough to refresh my memory on what I'm doing and where I'm going next, and atm i just can't be bothered.
 

Daedalus1942

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Pegghead said:
Mass Effect, anybody who can finish that game deserves a medal.
Then I deserve many medals. I've finished it a dozen times and will happily play that any day over that god awful excuse for a supposed sequel that was recently released.
 

Chewster

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I used to be really bad for that when it came to computer games.

To be honest though, the reward for finishing some games is so incredibly weak, I sometimes don't see the point in even trying. The most convenient example I can think of is BioShock. Great game, great atmosphere, garbage ending, no matter what you picked. A thirty-second cutscene is incredibly unsatisfying.
 

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Ive never played a final fantasy game. Keeping that in mind one day i got a demo for final fantasy 8 or 9...one of those. I popped it into my playstation and tried to figure things out. Unfortunately I was thrust into combat immediately without knowing how to do anything.

The fight wasen't turn based, so i just kept being hit by the enemy while trying to figure out how to move or attack or anything. So i just turned it off, threw out the disc and never looked back at any Final fantasy game ;o
 

Pegghead

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Daedalus1942 said:
Pegghead said:
Mass Effect, anybody who can finish that game deserves a medal.
Then I deserve many medals. I've finished it a dozen times and will happily play that any day over that god awful excuse for a supposed sequel that was recently released.


Hehehe.

It's mainly just my taste in video games that bought me to that, I found the game dull and many others found it great.

EDIT: You have made a powerful enemy medalmaker.com for not saying

Awarded to Daedalus 1942 for extreme patience in the face of elevators.
 

Daedalus1942

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Pegghead said:
Daedalus1942 said:
Pegghead said:
Mass Effect, anybody who can finish that game deserves a medal.
Then I deserve many medals. I've finished it a dozen times and will happily play that any day over that god awful excuse for a supposed sequel that was recently released.


Hehehe.

It's mainly just my taste in video games that bought me to that, I found the game dull and many others found it great.
It's completely subjective. I'm addicted to the first one, but I'm seriously unsure if I will ever play 2 again, and I'm very unsure if I will bother sinking money into Mass Effect 3, unless alot of things either change back or improve from what they dumbed down and became in 2.
 
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I stopped playing Gears of War when I was about halfway through, it was just so generic and uninteresting. I picked it up 5 months later, figuring I'd might as well give it another chance and hoping that the second half would be better. It wasn't 8(
 

vonabor

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Most recently was Dragon Age. Before that it was Age of Conan, and not cause my sub ran out. :)

I find that I will usually play a game a whole lot for a few months and then it'll sit for a few years to be picked back up again.

Also I did stop playing the new Zelda game for DS. That one I may pick up again soon. It was actually pretty fun.
 

ProfessorLayton

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For me it was Fatal Frame. It was just too scary. I have never stopped a game because it was too scary before, but Fatal Frame is just... over the top. It didn't need to be that scary...
 

Tartarga

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I stopped playing Borderlands. I just got bored of, i'll probably pick it back up eventually though.
 

Nick31091

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Modern Warfare 2. I got sick of the hackers, the lag, the hackers, the backwards host-migration system, the mother-effing HACKERS, the 12-year-olds, and did I mention all the hackers?

I might ponder picking it back up if Infinity Ward ever deem it important enough to add a way to votekick the idiots and hackers; I've given up on IW doing the truely smart thing and trashing IWNet in favor of a dedicated server system.