Strangest Reasons You Stopped Playing a Game

[The Virgo]

Most people quit playing a game because the game sucks or the graphics are bad or it was boring or they lost interest. However, have there been times when you've stopped playing a game for unusual reasons?

For example: Several years ago, to somehow justify the fact that I had once bought a Gamecube (I was 9 when I bought it, I didn't know any better), I bought Harvest Moon: It's A Wonderful Life. For a while there, things were coming along okay. My farm was coming along okay, I got married, yadda-yadda. In the second year, I had a son and, due to a low bank balance, was unable to buy him anything like a new toy. All I could afford were seeds and crap.

I have played many games before and after it. I have had no trouble killing swarms of bad guys, good guys ... I incinerated the Companion Cube without flinching. I killed GLaDOS without any remorse. I can gun down civilians in Driver: Parallel Lines and be entertained. I can watch YouTube videos of the No Russian level and not feel any kind of disgust. But not being able to get my videogame son anything ... God, that was sad. :'-( I stopped playing the game and haven't really touched it since.

What are your strange reasons why you stopped playing a game?

 

[Skorpyo]

I stopped playing Fallout 3 for a while due to the fact that my old computer had a habit of throwing the Windows XP boot file into the aether at a moments notice.

I lost two saves that way, each with easily 60+ hours put into them.

I picked it up again when I built my new comp, so it's all good.

 

[Tartarga]

I don't remember what game it was, but I had stopped playing a game because the music in a certain part that I was stuck in was super annoying. At a certain point I couldn't take it anymore and just gave up.

 

[Keava]

Never really happened to me. I either just get burned out on a game and loose interest completely... or never start playing a game at first place. Never i stopped in middle of play through just because some small detail was annoying me. I value my time and money spent too much to afford such silliness, hence i even forced myself to finish SC2 campaign despite how terrible i consider it to be.

 

[Saltyk]

I'm trying, but every game I quit playing was either due to beating it, getting bored, or just being frustrated.

I quite playing Suikoden 4 when I realized that character's war stats were based on their random encounter stats, which meant getting each character up in level, weapon, and armor. Almost all 108 of them (probably closer to about 80 or 90 of the full cast as some members are shop keepers and such without combat abilities) And it wasn't like you earned tons of money fighting enemies. Also, it might be odd, but I found the idea that my "castle" was a ship that I sailed around in unappealing. Nor did I like the hero's True Rune as it attacked enemies and then him. Not to mention that it seemed like a pale copy of a previous game's True Rune.

This is probably the closest I have to a strange reason to stop playing a game.

 

[Jimmy T. Malice]

I stopped playing Mass Effect because my computer was barely capable of running it and kept eating my saves.

 

[AzureRaven]

Well...I was technically -forced- to stop...but well, while playing Fable 3(Only borrowed it luckily, wasn't worth the 60 to buy.)I ran into a rather bizarre glitch. It made it so that I literally could no longer interact with ANYONE in the game. I tried to restart the system, leave it off for awhile, and everything. But that file was permanently screwed. About an hour of gameplay from the end of the game. Yeaaaa...I was ticked. -.-

 

[Fishyash]

I had to stop playing dragon age: origins because it was hurting my pride with its difficulty. I felt too proud to turn the difficulty down and plan on playing it again later. It's gonna be hard but I will brute force my way through the game into getting good enough at it.

 

[Richardplex]

Temporarily or permanently? Temporarily: I stopped playing Mass Effect 2 because I was worried for my psyche, as I became too attached to my own character. As Ender's Game said: "perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be". Maybe it's enriching my life but, my ethical views are being skewed from what I have logically founded.

Permanently: Final Fantasy X

Spoiler

I wasn't going to give Seymour the satisfaction of me trying to kill him for the third time. That, and I didn't have any holy water and the merchant was on the other side of the damn mountain. And then my ps3 broke (back when they could play ps2 games) and I lost my save.

 

[SmartyShorts]

When I was younger, I was scared shitless by Luigi's Mansion. I think the part with the ghost baby freaked me out or something.

 

[tomtom94]

I have stopped playing several games simply because they stopped being fun for me. I can pick them up again later and still just not find them fun, too.

Stopping playing Golden Sun 40+ hours into a playfile because I got lost probably takes the cake though.

 

[fa_fallen_ye]

Main reason for quitting all video games, I get lost, very easily. I stopped playing Darkness because I got lost (don't ask how, seriously I have no idea)

 

[Stammer]

My friend bought me some kind of Sonic game for the Wii for my birthday. I stopped playing it because even on maximum brightness it was too dark to see where I was going. I got frustrated and haven't played it since.

 

[Rawne1980]

I stopped playing Chucky Egg on my spectrum when my brother stood on it.

It never happened again so i'm putting that down as my strangest reason.

 

[DigitalSushi]

I stopped playing Uncharted 2 because it made me feel like a murderer... I'm a pacifist and the way the game handles killing made me feel really uncomfortable

I've already mentioned that I'm a pacifist and if the option persists I'll go for the "not kill dudes" route (a la MGS), I can handle killing Spaze Nazi'd in KillZone 2 and Merc's in Far Cry 2, but Uncharted 2 made me feel like a stone cold killer of someone's Father/Brother/Son/Husband... hence I have not touched the Evil Uncharted since.

Shame really, I hear its a good game.

 

[UltraDeth]

I quit on Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly and Evil Dead: Hail to the King for the same reason. They were poorly designed to the point of unplayable. God Hand on the other hand (no pun intended, which I bought recently) I kept dying from being outnumbered, but a few days ago I started all over again and finished today.

 

[chiefohara]

Gave up on GTA 4 because it started to feel like work, keeping all the friendships going and keeping npc chars happy kinda ruined it for me. one or two i dont mind but there was too many chars to keep happy

 

[Uber Evil]

I'm on hiatus from Mass Effect because I don't want to choose during the mission on Vimire. This is my second playthrough (want to get to level 60), and I actually talked to the squadmates this time round, so I ended up feeling sympathetic for them, so now it is a hard choice.

 

[Torrasque]

I own some 7 or 8 games that I still haven't beaten because a better shinier game came out and made me forget about the first game.
I intend to go back and beat said games, but with summer almost over, it seems I don't have the time again =/

 

[Phlakes]

I stopped playing Castlevaina LoS because-

1. I hate hack n' slash games (God of War, Dante's Inferno)
2. Some of the mechanics were just bullshit, especially one part where you need to find a hidden thing, but the adventure game-style camera doesn't show any hint of the path so you just have to get lucky enough to run into it
3. The platforming was bullshit and slow and clunky

And several other reasons. But I tried to keep going until I got to that big colossus boss. I was about to get to the second weak spot, but I fell off for no good reason and thought "fuck this, I'm not taking another 20 minutes to climb up there again".

Good thing I rented it.