Poll: Quiting a Game

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flagship

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When it stops being fun, I really hate games that become challenging due to unfair AI advantage. For instance Fire Emblem games love to deploy enemy troops about halfway through a level at places where they can one-shot a unit. Other games tend to make the end more difficult by giving your enemy amazing luck, I barely beat Puzzle Quest because the end boss had this amazing ability to drop 10+ matches a turn.
 

Greyhald

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When, for whatever reason, it stops being fun. Bad design, repetitive gameplay or I've just played it waaaayyyyy too much. It all ends up at the same place.
 

kasperbbs

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Only game that i can remember quiting was farcry 2 ,getting around the map was too much of a pain in the ass ,also darksiders is currently benched for having confusing map design which requires a lot of backtracking and it doesn't give you any indication on where you are supposed to go. I'm currently stuck on one level because i got lost ,i know where i`m supposed to be ,but i have no clue how to get there ,after wondering for 40 minutes i said f-ck it.
 

That's Funny

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Infuriatingly bad, like a boss that has you convinced that the game is actually Skynet and is laughing at you on screen.
 

Orcus The Ultimate

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that's an easy question: EA.

now seriously, i'd say i quit a game, when it becomes like an infernal wheel of repetition or if it's story is too obvious and the game is UN-FUN.
 

Savagezion

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It's rare but it happens. Just depends really.

-Oblivion: Tedium and dull story.
-Infamous: Horrible morality system and poor story.
-GTA4: I don't know. It is still on my backlog I just never want to play it.
-Fallout 3: Too dull. Again, on the backlog but never inclined to play.
 

Russian_Assassin

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That's an easy one. When I am bored to tears. Unfortunately there is a game I can never quit. Once you start playing you are in for life! And you can never win, since you are destined to LOSE IT every time someone reminds you of it. Such cruelty...
 

FoolKiller

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ADHD....

I really just gamehop like mad. If I can't beat it in under ten hours I have real trouble with clearing it then... unless it is playing NHL 94 on my SNES. I never seem to get bored of that.
 

Zaverexus

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If the last boss is so ridiculously hard that its not worth it. Then I will look up the ending online and quit.
More often the last boss is not so much hard as time consuming, and I rarely have hours on end to sink into slowly lowering a big baddie's health meter, let alone to try again should my finger slip and kill me (I'm lookin' at you Metroid Prime 3)
 

Ice Car

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Is it bad? Is it way too difficult (As in, I get stuck on a single level for a whole month)? Is it boring? etc.
 

qwertyzxy27

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the only reason i stop a game when im into it is is because i forget to save for a long time and the games auto save is shit. I play all my games for the RP and if i have to Redo a bunch i just loose interest...
 

mireko

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When I'm bored.

This also assumes that I've stopped caring about the story, otherwise I'll usually soldier on.
 

Sniper Team 4

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I'm going to assume that "quitting" a game means "never finishing it." Eventually everyone quits every game because of one thing or another. Now, there are only two games that I never finished: H.A.W.X. 2 and Bayonetta. Both of them had boring stories to me, so boring that it got to the point that I literally did not care about what happened next. Bayonetta also suffered from "What the Hell am I doing here?" feelings. I could not follow why she was doing what she was doing, where she was, and especially how she had gotten there. I know it's supposed to be fantastic and that's fine, but the events simply weren't linked. Compare it to the new Ninja Gaiden series: Both of them have nonsense plots that won't be winning any storytelling awards. The difference is that NG EXPLAINS why Ryu suddenly went from New York to Italy and then to the Jungle. Bayonetta is at one point riding on top of cars, then she's suddenly in some ruins and then up in space. What the Hell?
And anyone who's played H.A.W.X. 2 knows what I'm mean.
 

DustyDrB

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I will quit a game if I don't enjoy it for gameplay reasons.
I'll also quit a game if it's got too much horror. I quit BioShock less than two hours in. Playing Uncharted: Drake's Fortune for the first time a week or two ago, I almost quit at that sudden and drastic shift into horror. I just can't handle it, it gives me so much anxiety.
 

bassdrum

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In what context?

If you mean multiplayer, then I tend to stick through until the end, but I've been known to ragequit on occasion.
If you mean not finishing the campaign, then that happens when the game is terrible (which has only happened once or twice) or if I simply don't have enough time to play it, forget about it/lose interest over time and go play something else. Speaking of which, I still need to go back and finish Fallout: New Vegas...
If you mean something smaller (i.e. when replaying a level of a game), I'll quit once I've finished the good bits. For instance, there are certain segments of games which I find to be amazingly fun followed by decidedly mediocre segments (or segments of exposition which I don't feel like sitting through for the 10th unskippable time). Alternately, if I mess up badly enough, I'll just quit and possibly start over. This usually happens whenever I play Civ 5 and accidentally set it up wrong so that I can't win the way I was trying to--I spent HOURS trying to get a cultural victory only to find that I'd accidentally unchecked the box and couldn't win that way. That was frustrating.

I hope that this answers your question.