Most Boring Game You've Ever Played
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Final Fantasy 13
Dead Island
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Dragon Age 2
Dungeon Siege III
Left 4 Dead 2
Bulletstorm
All games i didnt bother putting more than 3-4 hours in. FF13 i think i put about 10-12 in and still just nothing. DA 2 i put 26 into with a couple chars but didnt bother finishing compared to DA:O which i put 100+ into. All games that have very repetitive encounters and combat but no good story to bind them together. Deus Ex was the most disappointing. I honestly just didnt give a shit about what was happening in that world even after about 8 hrs of gameplay.
Dead Island
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Dragon Age 2
Dungeon Siege III
Left 4 Dead 2
Bulletstorm
All games i didnt bother putting more than 3-4 hours in. FF13 i think i put about 10-12 in and still just nothing. DA 2 i put 26 into with a couple chars but didnt bother finishing compared to DA:O which i put 100+ into. All games that have very repetitive encounters and combat but no good story to bind them together. Deus Ex was the most disappointing. I honestly just didnt give a shit about what was happening in that world even after about 8 hrs of gameplay.
"Swordquest: Earthworld"
(link is not mine, but might give you some idea
[link]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pf0s1PvnVQ[/link]
...Dear God. Running from room to room, playing the occasional mini-game from a short list that are mostly poor variants of Frogger, trying to figure out what combinations of items might make something happen with little rhyme or reason or feedback as to what you might be doing right or wrong.
I had pretty low standards for entertainment value from video games as a child (I even played, and enjoyed, the infamous E.T.), but that one got kicked out of regular rotation fairly quickly.
(link is not mine, but might give you some idea
[link]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pf0s1PvnVQ[/link]
...Dear God. Running from room to room, playing the occasional mini-game from a short list that are mostly poor variants of Frogger, trying to figure out what combinations of items might make something happen with little rhyme or reason or feedback as to what you might be doing right or wrong.
I had pretty low standards for entertainment value from video games as a child (I even played, and enjoyed, the infamous E.T.), but that one got kicked out of regular rotation fairly quickly.
The only game that I remember just dropping because it was literally a waste of my time was GTAIV. By the time I had gotten to the third island and was still getting annoying calls from my cousin and random other people I hated, I put it down. If I wanted to socialize with family and friends, I wouldn't be playing a single player game. The game had no redeeming qualities to it except it's somewhat interesting plot. Here's a general tip to game makers; if your one interesting aspect of the game keeps getting interrupted by hour-long "dates" with npcs, something's wrong.
SimEarth. The idea of creating a planet may sound cool, but the problem is that planets are generally self sufficient; so once you've got life on your planet there really isn't much for you to do. So once the novelty of smacking meteors into your planet wears off, the game is boring as hell as you just sit and watch your planet sustain itself.
Red Dead Redemption, sadly. It had everything it needed to be a great game to me, but I just wasn't enjoying it.
Oh, and the Total War series. I know people who have become obsessed with them, and will show me their efforts and conquering the world. I couldn't give less of a shit. It just looks way to boring to even be labelled as a 'game'.
Oh, and the Total War series. I know people who have become obsessed with them, and will show me their efforts and conquering the world. I couldn't give less of a shit. It just looks way to boring to even be labelled as a 'game'.
90% of Final Fantasy XIII.
Some of the boss fights were good and made good use of the battle system, I generally had fun running around and exploring the open-world section and taking on monster hunting sidequests, and there were some moments where I found myself getting at least a little interested in the story...
...but the vast majority of the experience was running down a linear corridor, fighting repetitive and disengaging battles, wondering when the plot was going to develop in an interesting and sensible direction.
No game has left more bored and disappointed, especially when you consider that I sunk 50+ hours into the game only to get an ending with no payoff.
It was only after the fact that I was told that I could get really into the story and make sense of the ending if I read the Datalog entries. So that's where all the fun in that game was? Reading on-screen text that explained the story rather than having the game story in those glossy cutscenes presented in a way that made sense?
(facepalm)
Some of the boss fights were good and made good use of the battle system, I generally had fun running around and exploring the open-world section and taking on monster hunting sidequests, and there were some moments where I found myself getting at least a little interested in the story...
...but the vast majority of the experience was running down a linear corridor, fighting repetitive and disengaging battles, wondering when the plot was going to develop in an interesting and sensible direction.
No game has left more bored and disappointed, especially when you consider that I sunk 50+ hours into the game only to get an ending with no payoff.
It was only after the fact that I was told that I could get really into the story and make sense of the ending if I read the Datalog entries. So that's where all the fun in that game was? Reading on-screen text that explained the story rather than having the game story in those glossy cutscenes presented in a way that made sense?
(facepalm)
Modern Warfare.
The story is a bad joke, the gameplay is repetitive and boring to begin with, the characters are totally unlikable and I generally wish I had my eighty bucks back.
I'll never play another modern war game because they all look like the same shit.
The story is a bad joke, the gameplay is repetitive and boring to begin with, the characters are totally unlikable and I generally wish I had my eighty bucks back.
I'll never play another modern war game because they all look like the same shit.
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.
lol i played origins first so i didnt have that problem but yeah take your time theres no time limit and the game takes 60+ hours to do right yeah its boring at points but its fun as hell once you get past 2 things the fade and the fucking deep roads.TorchofThanatos said:I also made the mistake of playing DA2 first. Trying to go back and play DAO is really hard! I have played all the origins but i still need to finish the game at least once. I am running around in the Deep Roads right now and I want to kill myself!ecoho said:try to slog through it i personally refuse to play more then an hour at a time cause if you spend longer then that the constant walking from place to place will drive you mad. that being said DATorchofThanatos said:
Oblivion.
I played it for one quest, got an achievement, then turned it off. Years later I came back to it because I'm a completionist and I wanted 100% achievements for it. I then entered the most boring playthrough of my life (and I have 1000 GS in Fairytale Fights mind you...that wins second) and several times I found myself watching netflix on my laptop while just grinding out the bs plot...
It was then that I felt what every WoW player must experience on a daily basis...
ZING!
Srsly though. Oblivion wins this for me.
I played it for one quest, got an achievement, then turned it off. Years later I came back to it because I'm a completionist and I wanted 100% achievements for it. I then entered the most boring playthrough of my life (and I have 1000 GS in Fairytale Fights mind you...that wins second) and several times I found myself watching netflix on my laptop while just grinding out the bs plot...
It was then that I felt what every WoW player must experience on a daily basis...
ZING!
Srsly though. Oblivion wins this for me.
Wow, so many people in this thread who clearly has never played a really utterly soul crushingly boring game. At least the CoD/Just Cause games have some action and something happens in those games. At least you don't have really long and extremely boring cutscenes that say bugger all.
Avatar: The Game and Too Human are without a single shred of doubt the most boring games I've ever played. I could not make it for more than an hour into each game.
Avatar: The Game and Too Human are without a single shred of doubt the most boring games I've ever played. I could not make it for more than an hour into each game.
Infamous bored me senseless. It was not a bad game, but after a while it felt like a chore to play, the story and characters were very poor and the main pull of the game seemed to be just messing about aimlessly.
I did get it for free though with the PSN thing so I shouldn't complain too much. I got it along side wipeout which I also found a chore to play (as I'm so so bad at racing games) but at least that had the bonus of a killer soundtrack and flashy visuals.
I did get it for free though with the PSN thing so I shouldn't complain too much. I got it along side wipeout which I also found a chore to play (as I'm so so bad at racing games) but at least that had the bonus of a killer soundtrack and flashy visuals.
This is the first game that springs to mind:
Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard. It was supossed to be a self aware third person shooter designed to parody popular video games. What it really was, was BORING AS HELL. Never before have I played a game that made me physically want to put the controller down and stop more than anything else. I forced myself to finish it JUST to see if it got better or to see if there were any good jokes. It didn't and there really wasn't.
Also on my list would be LOTR: Conquest. How could you successfully make LOTR BORING? Even the movie tie-in games were better!
Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard. It was supossed to be a self aware third person shooter designed to parody popular video games. What it really was, was BORING AS HELL. Never before have I played a game that made me physically want to put the controller down and stop more than anything else. I forced myself to finish it JUST to see if it got better or to see if there were any good jokes. It didn't and there really wasn't.
Also on my list would be LOTR: Conquest. How could you successfully make LOTR BORING? Even the movie tie-in games were better!
Too Human. It's. Just. Horrible. Basically everything Yahtzee says about that... game, is true and yet it's even more terrible than what he says.