How quickly have you given up?

[Nexus424]

Final Fantasy XIII due to that shitty battle system...I'm sorry I have no other way to describe my experience of it...Why should I not be able to control the people I need to stay alive to win the blasted game!

As for the time it took...

Without cutscenes around 45 minutes...
Including cutscenes like 6-7 hours...

I'm sure you see my problem here...

 

[Dan Houghton]

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.

Thought someone might mention Dwarf Fortress, it looked like the kind of game I'd find very hard to get into. Also I like your rabbit

 

[Osaka117]

Made it to when you become a Specter in Mass Effect 1, then got overwhelmed by like 20 side missions and stopped playing and haven't played since. I do plan on finishing eventually because I can't go five minutes without hearing from someone how great Mass Effect 1/2 story is, but it probably won't be for a while since I have so much other stuff to do.

Gave up on Lost Planet 2 about 3 missions in when I realized that the game pretty much requires you to play with four people, because it's impossible to beat the big bosses by yourself. And as Yahtzee said, a game has to have a single player mode good enough to be able to stand on it's own.

Probably the fastest I gave up on a game was Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion. I escaped through the sewer and made it to the nearest city and just stopped. Not quite sure why, but I never looked back. I probably won't go back either, since RPGs aren't my thing.

 

[Grimlock Fett]

force unleashed 2! I enjoyed the first game as a star wars fan. There's nothing better than throwing storm troopers off high platforms! In the second game they have two new enemies, one that cant be killed with lightsaber attacks and one that's immune to force powers so when you're attacked by multiples of both at the same time even on a low difficulty its nearly impossible! Also the game may as well have just been a straight path filled with enemies!

Also Dead rising2 Never even finished it. the weapon combos were nice and the friendly AI was much better than the previous game but it wasn't as interesting as the first game! Oh and the boss battles ranged from ott easy to near impossible. I never beat the gimp bunny freak with the chainsaw.. Fricken douche!

 

[drbarno]

Final Fantasy: 4 heroes of light

I gave up around the part when your party (consisting of the little girl and the MC) are turned into animals and have to go up the tree and fight something along with a mouse. The story was already boring and the fact that the bosses were difficult just made me give up and just put it away without a care.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I remember quitting a certain Bubble Bobble pretty damn fast. However, the quickest game I've ever quit was a card game named Mao. Within 30 seconds I had the entire deck's worth in penalty cards. I was terrible.

 

[Magners]

Portal, after I beat it 5 times... because it's *awesome*

 

[Sam17]

Not so much I gave up, but I skipped the intro movie on Bulletstorm because it annoyed me, and I shot one guy before I decided I didn't like the game and deleted the demo off my hard drive...dunno why but thats all it took for me to dislike it

 

[Realitycrash]

Hitman 2 - After second misson. I found the controls inadequate to perform the stealthy movements I wanted to perform.

 

[Kilgengoor]

Armored Core: For Answer.

I found it in a second-hand game bin in my local store. I've always been a sucker for games like MechAssault and I really felt like I'd like to give a mech sim a go. Paid 12? for it, got home, and half an hour in I was already so fucking overwhelmed by numbers and references and corporations and storylines that I nearly gave it away. But I soldiered on. I turned my console on. (yeah, I spent half an hour skimming an AC wiki. This might be the first game that actually turns me off WITHOUT actually playing it)

I played the tutorial and sincerely found the graphics and handling were closer to an Xbox game than a 360 one. I still played a couple of campaign missions to see if the gameplay could save anything from it, but turns out, it's actually worse.

Next day I bought Deadly Premonition.

 

[Dindril]

The quickest I do not recall the name of the game, but it was a ps2 game that I gave up on in about 30 minutes... especially knowing it was a like... 50 hour game. Most recently, I gave up on Castlevania (the new one... well... newest to my knowledge) after a few hours. It felt too much like a cheap/annoying/whythehellareallthebossessofreakencheepandwhycantigetacheckpointhalfwaythroughthetitanbattles knockoff of God of War (with some shadow of colossus thrown in there for the titan battles).

I have been surprised as to how well I have stuck with Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, seeing as I refuse to accept not getting 100% on every mission, and some of them are disgustingly difficult.... Though.... I am only to sequence 8 (with every optional thing up to this point done... other than flags...), so who knows if I will give up in the future....

 

[KarmaTheAlligator]

Sonic the Hedgehog 2006. While not the only game I never finished, it's the only game that made me give up after the third level, and I think I was mad to even stick with it for so long. It's also the only game I never want to pick up again.

 

[rockyoumonkeys]

Occasionally games will throw something at me very early that I just cannot do or overcome, and I'll give it a few tries, but if I don't feel like it's something I can eventually get better at, I'll just quit. I never played most of Majora's Mask because there was one stupid (and optional!) mini-game at the beginning involving whacking posts with your sword that I just couldn't do, and I gave it like fifteen tries before quitting the game entirely. That's the most extreme case I can think of.

Less extreme cases involve racing games like Forza and PGR, where I just couldn't get used to the style of driving, as I was used to games like NFS and Burnout where you took turns at full speed. I've since learned to handle and even appreciate Forza and PGR, almost to the point where I prefer them.

Other examples might include the most recent Halo games, where I played a bit and quit simply because they bored the crap out of me, or Devil May Cry 1 and 3, where the game was just too damn hard.

 

[GBlair88]

I gave up on Halo Wars at the same level Yahtzee did coincidentally.

 

[googooplex]

I gave up on portal after a few puzzles. im not into puzzles. I rage quit Marvel ultimate alliance 2 because its a piece of s**t button masher. I quit dead space because it was crap. Ive been quitting games a lot more of late, i think its my meds.

 

[Woodsey]

Two Worlds. Last about an hour.

Two Worlds 2 could be the greatest thing since boobs and wanking, I'm still not going to buy it.

 

[Super Toast]

Dragon Age VI

That's pretty incredible, considering how Dragon Age II hasn't come out yet.

OT: I can't bring myself to play Morrowind again. It's just not fun.

 

[Daniel Cygnus]

There are only 2 games I've ever quit immediately on: Shadow the Hedgehog, and Two Worlds. Both were my younger brother's, and I just wanted to see if they were as bad as everyone said they were. On both, I gave up after the first level. They were just...so...bad...

 

[ssgt splatter]

I always finish games, it's playing some of them a second time that I have problems with.
For example, I finished assassin's creed brotherhood almost a month ago and I haven't played it since.