Most Boring Game You've Ever Played

[DanielBrown]

Gonna have to go with the same one I put up as one of my worst games ever played; Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom.
Apart from the extremely dull combat, it was mainly about backtracking and doing simular stuff all the time. I'm sure I'd like the game a bit more if they didn't make the Majin a retard(bad choice of description, but if you've played the game you would feel the same way) and made the story a bit more compelling. The game did have a pretty good story, but I just wasn't able to... care.
Overall I couldn't play for more than an hour at a time before having to take a few days break from the game.

 

[C117]

Indigo Prophecy (AKA Fahrenheit). You basically just strut around, interact with stuff in the vicinity, and do the occasional QTE. The story is really the only thing I played through the game for. And since I managed to get the best ending on my first try, I'm pleased to say I've got no reason to play through it yet again.

 

[Wintermoot]

Ninety-Nine Nights
BOOOORING!!!!!!
turned the damn thing off and watched the watching-paint-dry channel waaaay more interesting.
it,s like Dynasty warriors if it was boring.

 

[tombman888]

GTA4... got it for my birthday from someone who knows i like games, but doesn't know what games i like.... never played more than 30 minutes of it.... boring as shit

 

[M4t3us]

Dark Side of the Moon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Side_of_the_Moon:_A_Sci-Fi_Adventure]

You'd think with 6CD's it'd be even mildly interesting... it wasn't...

 

[putowtin]

definitely the most boring game i have ever played is dead space. i could barely get 20 minutes into it. i tried four times, and two of those times i fell asleep with the controller in my hand. that game is terrible... unless you suffer from insomnia.

trust me I suffer from insomnia and I ain't going back to that game! I didn't fall asleep I just stared at the screen wondering why all my friends had told me it was a "great game"

 

[Aeope]

I tried my hardest to play the Dragon Age series (and I might give it a shot again this weekend), but I just cannot stand the combat system and writing.

I'm all for medieval RPG, but my goodness.. the combat system was so boring and stagnant.

 

[putowtin]

I tried my hardest to play the Dragon Age series (and I might give it a shot again this weekend), but I just cannot stand the combat system and writing.

I'm all for medieval RPG, but my goodness.. the combat system was so boring and stagnant.

I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect series but have avoided Dragon's Age in fear if I didn't like it, it might spoil Mass Effect for me

Oh and welcome to the Escapist!

 

[Yugeky20]

Call Of Duty: Black Ops, I found the story to be nonsense and the multiplayer was nothing special and even though I played the game all the way through (how else can you properly rate a game?) i found that I had wasted those precious hours. Although JFK is my third favourite American president so he was fun to play with in Zombies.

 

[Olo_Burrows]

L.A. Noire. So much potential just wasted

 

[Aeope]

I tried my hardest to play the Dragon Age series (and I might give it a shot again this weekend), but I just cannot stand the combat system and writing.

I'm all for medieval RPG, but my goodness.. the combat system was so boring and stagnant.

I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect series but have avoided Dragon's Age in fear if I didn't like it, it might spoil Mass Effect for me

Oh and welcome to the Escapist!

Thank you kind sir! I've lurked the site for a while, but just decided to make an account today.

It might just be me, a lot of people seem to enjoy the first Dragon Age... And then there's Dragon Age 2.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

I'll go first and to some this maybe controversial but, well that's half the fun!
Just Cause 2 I played this game till I'd completed a good 35% (and for those that have played they'll agree how long that takes) when I realised, I was going round in circles, raiding the same base/village/city over and over. In the end for the sake of my sanity I had to give up!

Your turn!

You played the story for Just Cause 2? I think you were doing it wrong.

OT: Misreading the thread title completely like everyone else and adding the word "popular" in between "Most" and "boring", I'm gonna go with Mass Effect 2.

Look at how edgy I am. I put in a popular game. People are going to double check what I posted because it's so edgy and unheard of, despite the fact that probably 3 other people said the exact same thing.

Because I'm a rebel. And edgy.

Anyways, It wasn't particularly boring (I even picked it up a few days ago), it's just that there's so much running around and rather samey fighting in between, that the parts that are amazing and stand out (the dialogue options and relationship building with other team mates), suffer a little bit too much.

 

[putowtin]

I tried my hardest to play the Dragon Age series (and I might give it a shot again this weekend), but I just cannot stand the combat system and writing.

I'm all for medieval RPG, but my goodness.. the combat system was so boring and stagnant.

I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect series but have avoided Dragon's Age in fear if I didn't like it, it might spoil Mass Effect for me

Oh and welcome to the Escapist!

Thank you kind sir! I've lurked the site for a while, but just decided to make an account today.

It might just be me, a lot of people seem to enjoy the first Dragon Age... And then there's Dragon Age 2.

Don't say Dragon's Age II, it cause some people around here to explode!

I'll go first and to some this maybe controversial but, well that's half the fun!
Just Cause 2

You played the story for Just Cause 2? I think you were doing it wrong.

Yeph played it, still bored!

OT: Misreading the thread title completely like everyone else and adding the word "popular" in between "Most" and "boring", I'm gonna go with Mass Effect 2.

Look at how edgy I am. I put in a popular game. People are going to double check what I posted because it's so edgy and unheard of, despite the fact that probably 3 other people said the exact same thing.

Because I'm a rebel. And edgy.

Anyways, It wasn't particularly boring (I even picked it up a few days ago), it's just that there's so much running around and rather samey fighting in between, that the parts that are amazing and stand out (the dialogue options and relationship building with other team mates), suffer a little bit too much.

You see we're all different I class ME2 as one of my favourite games! And you can say what ever you want, it all good!

 

[bader0]

I'm going to piss off some people by saying this but... BioShock.

Don't get me wrong, there is some aspects of the game that I love. I love the whole setting, the Art Deco style is beautiful, the story is good, if a bit shaky near the end. I pretty much like everything about the game except for one thing.

The gameplay. It's dull. I haven't played a shooter with such boring, unsatisfying combat as BioShock before in my life. There are no satisfying weapons to use (Save for the shotgun, but even then it's not very good) and almost no variety in enemy design. Plasmids really weren't fun to use either. I could almost get over that, as there isn't a huge amount of combat in the game at first, but after the big reveal, the game decides to up the ante by sending endless waves of splicers after you and it gets really, really boring.

so you basically just said that bioshock had dull gameplay. i was like yeah okay, then looked at your fallout avatar. lol wut.
OT fallout 3 has the most dull gameplay i have ever experienced. i gave up half way through because i couldn't bear to enter vats one more time.

 

[bader0]

so recently, like last weekend, i decided to start playing world of warcraft's free trial to see what all the fuss is about. i was a been apprehensive about getting addicted since it does have that reputation. but how could i? it is one of the most boring, repetitive, poorly paced games ever made. i played 2 hours and got to level 5, so don't say i didn't give it a fair shot. right after a mission where i had to kill 10 of the exact same enemy, using one of two of the exact same attacks (which are accomplished by pushing one button over and over), and then killing a bigger version of that same enemy, my mind broke, and i gave up.

so anyone curious about WoW and havent tried it yet, i can tell you it is TERRIBLE. the world is fairly decent, but everything is just plain dull and generic.

just curious how you managed to sink 2 hours into getting to level 5. you can seriously do that in like 20 minutes.
also i wouldn't say you have given wow a fair shot until you have actually played endgame. That's what sets it apart from other MMOs. so basically you didn't give it a fair shot. But i would say that if it took you 2 hours to get to level 5 then you never will give it a fair shot because it will be far too much effort for you to do those levels near the end that actually take about 6 hours each. and that's after you know what your doing.

 

[tharglet]

One of "The Sims" games. Can't remember which it was, my brother borrowed it from a friend and I decided to give it a go to see what the fuss was about. Played for a couple of hours or something, and was intensely bored by it. Yep, really not my sort of game.

Never got far in Fallout 3 - the starter missions I had were too annoying for me. First character I specialised in a way that turned out wouldn't work all that well, and was a failure. Second one I died with less, but just couldn't get into it.

Haven't completed Dragon Age: Orgins yet, because I got stuck in a fight I seemingly cannot win :/. Turned the difficulty down, and don't think I can escape the fight -.- Game really does seem to screw you if it doesn't like the chars in your party.

 

[Project_Xii]

Final Fantasy 13.
It's like being forced to watch a shitty Japanese soap opera for 40 hours (that's when I decided that I was done with the game), broken up by periods of linear corridors and terribly uninteractive combat.
I can't help think Squeenix spent more time trying to make it the best looking game at the time, rather than the best game.

This. Oh, so many times this. I'm usually all for JRPG drama, and love almost every other FF (bar FFX-2). BUT XIII.... dear god I hate that game.
X X X X X X X X X X (heal) X X X X X X X X X.

Ok, so apparently it got slightly more involved later on. Like as in, 30 hours later on. Fuck that. I'm not going to sit there and wait 30 hours for a game to get good, when I could just trundle over to Resonance of Fight and play some of the most awesome and innovative turned based gameplay I've seen in a RPG for years. Plus it had one of the most difficult and rewarding end bosses.

XIII... bad story, bad characters, annoying voice overs, J-pop music, thick-as-bricks hand holding tutorial that lasts 15 hours, so linear it's practically a straight line, far to many cutscenes, and an awful, awful battle system. The only thing the game has going for it is it's graphics, and even those aren't enough to ever bring me back to that game. I'd rather beat my face into it repeatedly, not even caring if it became a bloody pulp, as long as I knew the disc was destroyed for good.

 

[KingofallCosmos]

Uncharted. I Thought i t had to be good, so I've finished it. Bored out of my mind all the way.

Probably not the most boring game out there, but the combination of high expectations and positive reviews made it more tedious to me.

I 2nd you, good sir and/or madame.

A good friend of mine told me he doesn't like PS3, but he would have bought one for Uncharted. He's a good friend whose recommended me good games and movies before, but Uncharted is one of the misteps.

Is it sad that when the game jumped the shark is when I started liking it, BTW?

No, I can imagine that. My main gripe is the so called humor in the game. If they'd go completely over the top it might improve the game. I have played the first and only touched the second, so I wouldn't know about that.

Thanks for the backup anyways.