Games you've just stopped playing.
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WEll recently The Saboteur and AC2 because i finished them and collected most everything in them, i don't feel like dissecting my games for the small tiny things.
Final Fantasy 13, I watched a cut scene, seen a fal'ciee boss fight coming up. I cba turning on my xbox and fighting a 20minute battle.
Wow, you've listed the biggest time sinks of my life.FretfulGnome said:
I've got tens to hundreds of hours on every one of those games. Especially Oblivion and CoH.
And I'm surprised about your remarks about DA:O, as I really thought they did the whole "dark" thing pretty well. People do die rather a lot, and you often have to choose between two bad outcomes rather than there being a shining "all is well" result.
Still, I stopped playing CnC3, Red Alert 3 and Fallout 3 recently. The first two are just pale imitations of their predecessors, while the third I'd already completed once and I just didn't get into the "stab everyone in the face" bad karma side ^-.-^
That's impressive. Kudos. I stopped playing it about halfway through the Shadow Moses section. I think it was the hour-long cutscene in which Liquid Ocelot does the "finger gun makes shit blow up" thing that killed it a bit for me.bleachigo10 said:
OT: Far Cry 2, Battlefield: Bad Company, Spiderman: Web of Shadows
- Drakensang (gawd this game is looooooooooooong)
- Wiggles (I rarely can ever go further than half of the second world)
- MW2 multiplayer on PC cause it's a stinking pile of buggy mess that had sex with my neighbors dog. Yeah it is...
- Wiggles (I rarely can ever go further than half of the second world)
- MW2 multiplayer on PC cause it's a stinking pile of buggy mess that had sex with my neighbors dog. Yeah it is...
Honestly, I've done that with a LOT of games.
I stopped playing The Wind Waker after the second dungeon and simply never picked it up again because I just didn't enjoy the game. Final Fantasy 8, for the same reason--after the intro part, I got fed up with the constant stream of random encounters making it impossible to actually advance the plot, and gave the discs to my roommate.
I also quit playing Majora's Mask for approximately seven years (got it when I was fourteen, just finished it while unemployed last summer) because I was really stuck in one particular dungeon and just didn't have the patience to keep trying over and over again. I almost quit playing a second time when I got to the moon dungeons and kept failing the Goron challenge. I really wanted the Fierce Deity's mask.
Ditto for Twilight Princess--though I'll probably finish that one up this summer. Really, the only Zelda title I ever played straight through without stopping was Ocarina of Time; it was such a special game for me.
I occasionally go back to Dark Cloud 2, when I have nothing better to play, but it's not very interesting. I swear I'll get through Suikoden III one day, but the first few hours seem to involve little more than walking from cutscene to cutscene, so I have to clear more time in my schedule.
I got stuck in Metal Gear Solid 2 during the Emma escort section, because the AI freaking HATES me, so it'll be awhile before I get back to that. I played straight through Silent Hill 2 and 3 the summer before last, along with both my roommates--I seem to do more gaming in the summer.
I stopped playing The Wind Waker after the second dungeon and simply never picked it up again because I just didn't enjoy the game. Final Fantasy 8, for the same reason--after the intro part, I got fed up with the constant stream of random encounters making it impossible to actually advance the plot, and gave the discs to my roommate.
I also quit playing Majora's Mask for approximately seven years (got it when I was fourteen, just finished it while unemployed last summer) because I was really stuck in one particular dungeon and just didn't have the patience to keep trying over and over again. I almost quit playing a second time when I got to the moon dungeons and kept failing the Goron challenge. I really wanted the Fierce Deity's mask.
Ditto for Twilight Princess--though I'll probably finish that one up this summer. Really, the only Zelda title I ever played straight through without stopping was Ocarina of Time; it was such a special game for me.
I occasionally go back to Dark Cloud 2, when I have nothing better to play, but it's not very interesting. I swear I'll get through Suikoden III one day, but the first few hours seem to involve little more than walking from cutscene to cutscene, so I have to clear more time in my schedule.
I got stuck in Metal Gear Solid 2 during the Emma escort section, because the AI freaking HATES me, so it'll be awhile before I get back to that. I played straight through Silent Hill 2 and 3 the summer before last, along with both my roommates--I seem to do more gaming in the summer.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl, partly because the game won't stop fricking crashing.
Madworld because the game just plain couldn't hold my interest and wasn't that good. Same reasons for Spore.
Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World for similar reasons, but I'll probably try and play it at some point if only because I loved Tales of Symphonia on the Gamecube. That and it's not really that bad a game, but the writing is incredibly cheesy and cringe-worthy a lot of the time in my opinion. Come to think of it, the writing is probably the main reason I stopped on this one.
Madworld because the game just plain couldn't hold my interest and wasn't that good. Same reasons for Spore.
Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World for similar reasons, but I'll probably try and play it at some point if only because I loved Tales of Symphonia on the Gamecube. That and it's not really that bad a game, but the writing is incredibly cheesy and cringe-worthy a lot of the time in my opinion. Come to think of it, the writing is probably the main reason I stopped on this one.
JRPGs, the world only opens up at the end and I start doing sidequests and suddenly the plot loses all urgency and I put it down, forget the items/party configuration and battle system and then I can never go back to the game again.
GTAIV, mostly because I can't stand doing one mission then getting 16 calls from Roman because he wants to see some American titties.
GTAIV, mostly because I can't stand doing one mission then getting 16 calls from Roman because he wants to see some American titties.
I found a room behind a building where you only ever get attacked by about 5 guys and a dog.fanklok said:
i just stopped playing modern warfare 2. i mean, when it comes to the COD series, there are only so many times i can shoot the same faceless terrorist/nazi/commie antagonist and all of his friends before i need to play something shiny like DDR or zelda, and call of duty games have ceased to be interesting by the time they churn out the exact same thing for the sixth time.
ok, COD fans, you can mock my swooning femininity or whatever now-the games are boring once you get over the blood and time limits.
ok, COD fans, you can mock my swooning femininity or whatever now-the games are boring once you get over the blood and time limits.
Monster Hunter Freedom Unite: Too many rage quits because of Kushala Daora, Monoblos, Plesioth and the combat system that just doesn't want to work for me.
Prince of Persia (2008): Very, very boring game.
Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness: I'm a big fan of tactical RPGs but they added far too much grind for my likings.
And finally:
Overlord II: I died somewhere at the end against a bunch of legionnaire formations, quit the game, put in Oblivion and never played Overlord since then.
Prince of Persia (2008): Very, very boring game.
Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness: I'm a big fan of tactical RPGs but they added far too much grind for my likings.
And finally:
Overlord II: I died somewhere at the end against a bunch of legionnaire formations, quit the game, put in Oblivion and never played Overlord since then.
Yeah, the games I listed are certainly not bad games, and I know a lot of people enjoy them, but they just weren't for me I guess.
I didn't find DA:O to be dark at all, but that's not to say it was all rainbows and puppy kisses. I guess in the video game world DA:O could be considered dark fantasy, but as far as fantasy literature goes, it's not, it's pretty generic actually (the story that is).
These days, I leave so many games unfinished that it's easier to outline the few recent ones I did finish... Mass Effect 2, BioShock 2... that's all I can remember.
Most I quit out of boredom. Seems it's a habit I picked up at about the time I started playing MMORPGs... it's not like they can be finished.
Most I quit out of boredom. Seems it's a habit I picked up at about the time I started playing MMORPGs... it's not like they can be finished.
Little Big Planet(regret buying that game)
Fallout 3 DLC(finished the game, but there wasnt a lot to keep me going and pass all the DLC missions)
Condemed
Oblivion, never passed it I started getting too sidetracked with all of the sidequests and I lost total track of what was going on in tha main storyline, still by the time I stopped playing it I sunk around more than 50hrs into the game.
More recently Yakuza 3, its a good game but I've been sidetracked from it ever since I got Metro 2033.
Fallout 3 DLC(finished the game, but there wasnt a lot to keep me going and pass all the DLC missions)
Condemed
Oblivion, never passed it I started getting too sidetracked with all of the sidequests and I lost total track of what was going on in tha main storyline, still by the time I stopped playing it I sunk around more than 50hrs into the game.
More recently Yakuza 3, its a good game but I've been sidetracked from it ever since I got Metro 2033.