How quickly have you given up?

[Shoggoth2588]

I was just playing Metro 2033 but some time into the hand-car segment early on in chapter one, I had had enough and turned off the console. It took me under a half an hour to get to that point. This isn't the only game that I have given up on after a short amount of play time either. There was also Last Remnant (< 30 min), Saw (2 hours), Halo Wars (1 - 2 hours), Devil May Cry 4 (< 1 hour) and, Dragon Quest VI (< 1 hour). I feel like I should give them another chance or, more of a chance but I just can't bring myself to go back to them.

What about you? What game did you give up on after the shortest amount of play time? The games I listed above were all rentals so no big loss for me there.

I have been on the fence about Metro 2033 but after playing it...no. I couldn't stand the color-changing walls. Also, the mutants I was fighting looked a lot like the slaughtering rat people of Blorch so it was difficult to take the game seriously. Especially when they began to slap at me in their slow and playful way.

 

[Plurralbles]

I gave up on FIFA the first night I had it. Screw you, game!

I usually don't quit too many games. I just have so many games that I dont' have the time to play them all so I have dry spells where they aren't touched for ages.

For example on what games I will keep going through no matter how many times I die:

i brute forced my way through some of Demon's Souls and plan on continuing when either I'm not in school or when Starcraft gets boring.
I got to the first dark world level in Super MEat Boy. I plan on finishing it once I can get my controller to work on my computer again: The Keyboard isn't the right feel, imo, and in the opinion of a lot of people. A lot of games are just boring and seem like really unconstructive timesinks. yeah, Europa Universalis and Civilization IV are great games, but so little gets done in so much time as a college studentit's hard to justify playing them.

Summary: Sports games I throw down in frustration, most other games I don't.

 

[Ace of Spades]

I got bored of Just Cause 2 in about 2 hours. Blowing shit up and flying around with parachutes just got boring after a while.

 

[PlasmaFrog]

Devil May Cry 2 didn't even last past the first stage with me.

Halo 3 suffered nearly the same fate after the huge let-down.

Both Deadrising games were left to rot with the zombies after nearly thirty minutes of gameplay.


I like an engaging story that has plot-twist(Actual plot-twist), character development, and exploration. Sadly, many games don't offer that these days.

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

I gave up on Dragon Age: Origins after two hours. I found the combat boring and the characters uninteresting.

 

[Dark Knifer]

I don't quit often. I only lose interest in games, I rarely ever give up due to the challenge being too daunting.

 

[Distazo]

The only game I have ever quit on is Two Worlds, I just found it so spectacularly horrible and boring. I might have played it for an hour and then I never picked it up again.

 

[Dan Houghton]

I've had that with a few games over the last year - mainly with Brutal Legend, which I got free with the PS3 and only played once (even that was nearly six months after getting it!). It's not because they're bad games, in fact some of the games I didn't play more than once were actually really good (e.g. Singularity), it's just that I was totally addicted to other games and needed to get my fix of those (MW2, Rock Band, Guitar Hero, Civ 5, Thief), and that kinda took all my free time.

 

[Doctor What]

Way of the Samurai 3.

Holy crap. I'm all for, let the player do anything they want, but when the story depends on making the right decision at a precise moment and not letting the player know that's just idiotic.

Spoiler: time lapse

4:25-bought it.
5:00-got home.
5:30-inserted the disk into xbox 360.
5:30-6:00-figuring out that I have no utter clue what is going on.
6:01-restart the game and try a new path.
6:10-restart the game and try a new path.
6:27-restart the game and try a new path.
6:30-look at gamefaqs to try and get an clue.
6:35-notice everybody has the same issue.
6:50-give up on gamefaqs and play again.
7:30-made some progress, but nevertheless mess something up.
7:35-fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
2:00 the next day-traded it in for Alan Wake.

 

[mireko]

Risen, after about five hours.

Because the combat was broken, the leveling was broken, th-actually, I'm seeing a pattern here.

[sub]And what the fuck is Dragon Age VI?[/sub]

 

[Lord Devius]

A fair amount of my gaming to-do list is simply games that I've given up on at some point. (Morrowind, Oblivion, Dead Rising 2, etc.)

Then there's stuff like Dragon Age: Origins and Mass Effect which I got bored of half an hour or so in. Barely enough to get past the origin story on DA:O, and not too much farther in ME. Just haven't bothered uninstalling them.

Actually given up and gone "I AM NOT PLAYING THIS ANYMORE"?

Probably... Hm.

Deus Ex, last time I tried it. Which was a good 6-7 years ago, when my gaming tastes were... Well, less refined.

Played for about 15 minutes and just stopped. Got angry at something.

I have it on my computer now, just haven't gotten around to it yet.

 

[FalloutJack]

I'm a challenge-oriented kind of guy, and so I look into the many ways a problem can be solved. The point of a game is to enjoy doing it. So, for me to quit a game...well, I'm probably pretty far in by this point, and I've hit something that has defied the usual measures (Kill It), and refined measures (Get stronger and kill it.), and finally the really clever methods (Reason with it or snark around it.)...so I might end up cheating when none of my strategies work.

 

[Retardinator]

Dragon Age after ~10 mins. I just wasn't in the mood.
The Witcher after ~15mins. After I realized that combat was a clicking affair. I came back to it eventually and played it for a little longer. Now I'm working up the will to continue.

Incidentally, I played Daikatana for at least half an hour.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Both Deadrising games were left to rot with the zombies after nearly thirty minutes of gameplay.

I got through both Dead Rising but Case West...that one was a waste of money on my part e.e

[sub]And what the fuck is Dragon Age VI?[/sub]

Dragon Quest...I need to go fix that >.> Damned, sudden, over-saturation of Dragon games >.<

...

well, not over-saturation just enough to get me confused every so often.

 

[cgmetallica1981]

The Witcher got so boring after an hour. Boring combat, uninteresting characters, and quests felt like chores.
The other would be Final Fantasy XIII. I hate JRPGs more than anything, but I wanted something new. I tried this, and it was just so linear, and the characters were also very annoying.

 

[Mesca]

Got intimidated by the hyper complex tutorial and confusing menus and quit Knights in the Nightmare in about.. 20 minutes. Traded it for Phantom Hourglass.

Why? Why did I do such a thing? Truly, that was an amazingly poor choice.

 

[SwimmingRock]

Viking: Battle for Asgard. I played the first, and presumably shortest, of the islands. Took me about 3 hours and I ended up getting the achievement for killing 500 enemies. I like mindless hack-and-slash, but there were way too many completely identical enemies. And the big war scenes were a huge letdown.

When I returned the game the next day, the guy behind the counter asked me how long I'd played it. The conversation from memory:
Clerk:"How long did you play?"
Me:"About 3 hours."
Clerk:"Wow. That's 2 hours and 45 minutes longer than I managed. Does it ever stop sucking?"
Me:"Nope. You learn some new unnecessary combos, but you never actually get a 'run' function."
Clerk:"I went through the manual several times trying to figure out how to run. God, what a slow and boring game."

 

[LittleJP]

Dwarf Fortress. The ASCII interface just boggled my mind, I got about an hour in trying to get my dwarfs to build a bedroom, logged off, and never touched it again. That might change, I've heard something mods for a slightly more accessible UI.

 

[DustyDrB]

I'm getting pretty sick of being the worst player online in Marvel vs capcom 3. I'm 0 and 20 something so far (I won once, but the person was away from the controller).