Most boring game you've ever played.

[Ironman126]

Legends of Pegasus. Saw it on a Steam sale, thought I pick it up. Christ was that game boring. Not only did it need a real tutorial level (RTS games don't work with a Portal-style "make half the game a tutorial" approach), once I figured it out, I had no reason to play it. The plot was banal at best, the gameplay was designed for five-year-olds who are incapable of even the slightest micro-managing or multi-tasking, and the voice-acting was so far below sub-par that I actual dozed off during a cutscene.

 

[Nomanslander]

Dragon Age.

Oh, thank you for reminding me of that gem of a game. It took me an hour to thoroughly get bored with Farcry 2. That game took me 3 mins.

 

[Pink Gregory]

The latter half of Assassin's Creed Brotherhood felt like swallowing an entire loaf of bread; even though the chase music was awesome.

And yet I found AC2 and Revelations more compelling. Go figure.

 

[NeutralDrow]

Do You Like Horny Bunnies 2.

Couldn't get more than a half-hour in before being bored out of my skull, though I'm pretty sure the inescapably transparent setup helped.

 

[Zetona]

With all due respect, GTAIV. And I say this because it simply is, at times; as much havoc as I'd like to wreck or traffic laws I wish to follow, its immersion factor just never seems to rise above the very threshold of engrossment -- in other words, it just feels too 'distant'.

And yet, it's not by any means a bad game. It's a technical behemoth and employs numerous game mechanics to a rather cohesive whole, and most essentially it has an excellently woven storyline starring GTA's most rounded protagonist yet.

In the end, though, the overall sum does not better the potency of its parts, I'm afraid. But then again, this is just my opinion.

This made me think of LA Noire, which created a huge and incredibly faithfully recreated open world and gave the player almost nothing to do in it. I suppose it's fine if you view it as a linear progression of story missions, but it's such a waste of the world they created. Not to mention the game does little beyond the visuals to create a sense of the place and time, making it feel distant and static.

 

[Zhukov]

Knights of the Old Republic.

I remember enjoying two parts and two parts only. Bastilla meeting her mum and murdering my way through the sith academy. Everything else was a continuous stream of "blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah". The characters were blah, the gameplay was blah, the RPG mechanics were blah, the setting was blah. Oh, oh, I forgot to mention, the Big Twist was pretty cool. But the rest was blah. The absolute nadir was an underwater stage which involved walking excruciatingly slowly down long and completely empty hallways in a diving suit.

Dungeon Siege 3.

Take the most generic sword-and-sorcery fantasy game you can remember. Now remove anything and everything that could possibly distinguish it from every other fantasy thing ever. You are now imagining Dungeon Siege 3.

 

[Kaamos]

Probably going to get yelled at but whatever: Bayonetta. The combat was just so boring. I breezed through most of the game just mashing random buttons and occasionally dodging, only dying because of instant death QTEs. All the "cool" stuff just takes place in cutscenes, which I just skipped because I just couldn't stand any of the characters and didn't care about whatever stupid story there was. The whole time I was just sighing and hoping the game would end. Then I realized I could just turn off and play something else. So I did.

 

[Baldry]

I tend to enjoy all the games I play so the most boring game I can think of is Just Cause 2, all you do is fly around blow shit up and shoot people. What really upset me is I love Just Cause 1 and it's the same formula! I guess I've just matured.

 

[DrunkOnEstus]

The Xenosaga trilogy. Yes, I do have all three of them, and I never made it more than an hour into any of the three. Most of the characters just completely do not resonate with me. And I know there's merit in being slow-burning, but holy balls can we pick it up a little bit or have something interesting happen, please? I own these because I love Xenogears and figured they were a no brainer. It's made me reluctant to pick up Xenoblade, honestly.

MGS4. I'm a big fan of 1 and 2 (couldn't stand 3, I know right). I've tried 4 about...5 times and I just can't do it. I hate what happened to the controls, mechanics, and flow of the game. Oh, and that "gameplay" is hardly what it's shooting for in the first place. And the cutscenes seem to be directed by a Quentin Tarentino locked in a room for a month with a sheet of acid and an encyclopedia of military history.

 

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

Of the ones I can remember, Dragon Age (the original one) and Final Fantasy VII.

Some games are just terrible and you stop playing straight away, but these were functional, you could play them but an hour or so in I just realised that something was missing, I was just going through the motions and didn't really give a crap about anything they had to offer and stopped playing.

 

[Mutie]

Oblivion comes to mind (at least for me) but I think this game even tops that.

Do you smoke weed? It may be an intrusive inquiry, but it could help you're enjoyment of such "boring" games. It took me years to finally roll a decent oblivion character and smash that game thoroughly, but I couldn't have done it with out Nirnroot.

 

[The_Echo]

I'm sure I have more that are better examples, but...

Katawa Shoujo. That is, after I finished my first girl. After that, I don't know why, but I couldn't be bothered to care for the others. So I just skipped through them all to unlock the art and soundtrack I was missing.

EDIT: Part of me wants to say Ico, but I think I found that game more frustrating than boring, really.

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

Morrowind. Couldn't play it for more than half an hour before deciding "nope, not for me". I mean the game just didn't give a rat's ass about anything I did, and didn't give me any instructions on how to do pretty much anything. It might be incredibly deep and full of rich content, but if the game doesn't care one bit about me, why should I care one bit about the game? And by God, it looked ugly.

Awww you guys... I really like Far Cry 2

 

[Bvenged]

Far Cry 2. It was repetitive to hell and back, had no story to it, the character was one of the most bland I've ever seen (all of them) and the AI talked so fast I barely understood them, and I'm generally quite good with understanding strong accents.

The only entertaining thing about that game was its world editor... but even that got boring, quick. Two features I liked were fire spread, and that you actually fixed yourself up as a form of healing. It wasn't that they made a bad game, it's that they made a terribly boring, limp game.

 

[OpticalJunction]

Assassin's creed 3. Incredibly boring start and boring characters, gameplay wasn't much of an improvement from assassin's creed 2 either, and I much preferred Italy as a setting than Colonial America. It has got its upsides though, such as the impressively detailed graphics and voice acting, but overall it was disappointing.

 

[Bestival]

I don't know if MOST boring, but Assassin's Creed 3 is well up there, god damn. All you do in this game is talk to people and travel and talk to more people.
And I don't give a flying fuck about the story in this one either, nor do I know any of the bastards you have to do all this talking to.
Seriously, who the fuck is Sam Adams!? The only thing I ever heard that name in before was Dave Chappelle's Samual L. Jackson Beer skit.

 

[beastro]

Single player campaign on Neverwinter Nights.