That point when you just gave up.

[viking97]

Assasins Creed, Revelations. I"ve never played it, and I doubt I ever will, but when i read the reviews and looked at the new gameplay mechanics, I thought of Assassins creed, and how terrible it was but how amazing it was as well. That game may have made some awful gameplay decisions, but it was just so immersive. Assassins Creed II moved somewhat away from the immersive aspects but fixed a lot of gameplay issues so I could forgive. Brotherhood kept moving in that direction, and i was really hoping that they would pick up their act in time for 3. Then revs came out, and the second I heard the words "tower defense" I resolved to never care about the series again.

Why can't games just stick to mechanics that are different and fun rather than trying to give us a whole bucket load of boring stuff along with the fun? I'd rather Assassins Creed 1 just be remade at this point, with all the running around taken out. Compared to the sequals, that game doesn't waste it's time.

 

[Griffolion]

I came to the very same conclusion evangelical atheists are as tiresome as evangelists with faith both sides know they are right etc. and no middle ground can be found a lesson i learned the hard way as an agnostic. So i steer clear of any such discussions as peoples fangs tend to come out and both sides feel in the superior position till the arguments escalate and escalate.

Yeah I totally agree. And it's those who are open to the concept of faith/belief, yet not entirely convinced by it, who get caught in this ridiculous crossfire between the two poles.

I suppose the most ironic thing for me is that I honestly don't see them as exclusive opposites ("science" and "faith", that is). But trying to talk from an "integration" standpoint to people coming from a "conflict" standpoint is tantamount to speaking another language.

And yes, people do get especially fierce regarding religious (or lack thereof) belief. I've personally been called things like idiotic, memetically diseased (the one who called me that was an especially interesting character), ignorant, brainwashed, etc. You can only take so many before you start wondering what the point of even trying to communicate another viewpoint to them is.

 

[Scolar Visari]

What I gave up on: Everything

When I gave up on it: Roughly 4 years ago

"I don't really care" and "Whatever" have become my most often used phrases in the past few years. "Shit sucks" is a close third.

 

[Chewster]

Probably the Splinter Cell series, since the last installment was all hardcore, balls out action with little semblance of the subtly or pacing or even commentary of the original four. Seeing the trailers for the new ones make it basically look like another idiotic attempt at trying to breath fresh life into a series that should just be left to die quietly. And let's face it, Fisher isn't Fisher without the voice of Ironside. Fuck UbiSoft, they buggered this one up.

Other things I've given up: video games in general. I moved to South Korea to teach about ten months ago, and didn't bother to bring my 360 with me. Since this country has a high turnover of foreigners, you can usually buy them cheap (my mate even got one for free for buying a dude's bike and some other assorted stuff, though he doesn't play it) but I haven't been arsed to get one and haven't really missed them all that much. I have a few free hand phone puzzle games and play some old Steam games on occasion and even gave StarCraft II a swing, but while I was playing it, I found myself mostly unimpressed and annoyed I was wasting so much time on it and realized that maybe I'm just not as into games as I used to be. There are a couple of games I'd be keen to try out (Watch Dogs mostly) but otherwise, I think I might be finished with gaming. I mostly read, watch films/TV, paint, have dinner with friends and lurk around here these days.

Funny that you mention One Piece: that show is immensely popular with the kids here. In my current town, there is a beer bar themed after the show that we frequent fairly often and I sometimes play word games with a deck of cards featuring the characters, which I picked up in Japan on vacation. You see the merch in all the pokeys and in shops and stuff. I had no idea about it until I came, though I've still yet to watch a full episode and don't know much about it other than how big it is. Oddly enough, I have a One Piece T-shirt I bought at a Uniqlo, admittedly because I thought it was pretty hipster.

 

[EeviStev]

I've given up on arguing for marriage equality. Not because my opinion on the matter has changed, but because I realised it's inevitable, and pretty much every argument has been had already. I wrote what I considered a razor-sharp letter to my local newspaper in response to an anti-gay-marriage rally held in town. It got published and I thought: that's it. I've made my key points on as large a forum as can be reasonably expected, and now I'm just going to sit back and wait for the change to come.
[EDIT] Not to say I think my letter tipped the scales or anything, just that I got the feeling I could do no more.

Also, I'm probably going to give up on the Dead Space franchise. I must have played 1 and 2 as many times as I have played Max Payne 1 and 2 (you have no idea), I've played all the mini-game things, read all the comics, watched the animated movie things, but DS3's generic is showing, which will happen when you try to appeal to five million people. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/117931-EA-Aims-to-Broaden-Dead-Space-Audience]

 

[Trull]

Red vs. Blue.
Sure, I prefer shows that have over-arcing plots, but that wasn't what RvB s1-5 was. RvB s1-5 was random bullshit with an almost irrelevant arc, kind of like futurama in regards to fryxleela.

And,
explaining that homosexuals are homosexually wrong.

I get it, you're pro-homo, and I'm all for equality, but still, 2 of the same gender = no baby, which is the whole point of sex.

 

[Trull]

I swear that show was supposed to end like 6 or so times... They even have a series where the hospital is turned into a med school

Yeah, but it was a short few episodes that told us J.D. and Elliot DID have their happy after, which is all I was looking for. Just take the first two or so episodes into account and ignore the rest?

 

[Legion]

Mass Effect 3 has put me off of Mass Effect as a series, and not just because of the ending, it was just the final nail in the coffin for me. When I played Mass Effect 1 and 2 for the first time I loved them. It was only afterwards that I looked at the games and could pick apart all of the flaws in them. The first time I was too immersed to notice the issues, and that says a lot considering I don't know many other games where I can say that. Mass Effect 3 I had that viewpoint from the start. I was thrown out of immersion so often that it was not fun at all. The dialogue ranged from cheesy to ham fisted, the auto-dialogue was far too frequent, the plot points were lacking in finesse, the character relationships contradicted my player character and it was all jarring and felt as rushed as Dragon Age 2 albeit for different reasons.

I never saw the last season of the television show House because I just got sick of it. I hated all of the characters and I hated the lack of decent writing. I had only watched the two seasons before it out of a sense of duty, having seen all of the ones before it.

True Blood season 5. I liked the first two series, the third was okay and the fourth was pretty poor. I watched the first episode of season 5 thought "fuck this" and deleted it from my planner.

Microsoft/Xbox. I have already been getting a little tired of gaming overall, but when the new advertisement drenched marketplace arrived, it pretty much put the nail in the coffin for me, I am not paying money to be flooded with advertisements when there are also countless issues with the design, especially the search features. I sold almost all of my games, and my Live account is set so it won't renew. Once it expires the remaining games are being sold along with the console.

That was pretty much the point I said I was done. I peek in from time to time, but aside from some occasional quality figures (new dragon ogres for a different army are quite good, even if they miss the point a bit) everything they produce has been a joke. Their visual design has run off the deep end in their drive to appeal to younger and younger audiences to replace the veteran players they've alienated with their business practices. Today the ideal GW customer is a child with no knowledge of the company, no taste, no impulse control, and parents with a fat wallet.

I know the feeling, I collected 40K and LOTR rather than Fantasy, but that's more or less what happened to me. The paragraph quoted pretty much sums my opinion of them up.

The increase in price was a killer for me as well. All non-miniature itens are around double the price than they were when I started, and all miniatures are at least a third more expensive. When you also include the frequent rule updates (with a nice new £20 rule book each time) it became ridiculous.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Spoiler: 24

When they "killed" Tony Almeida and he didn't even get a silent clock ticking. I watched the beginning 5 minutes of the following ep to confirm he was dead, and after that I never watched 24 again. Yes, I know they brought him back to life a couple of seasons later, but that was even more idiotic than killing him. He also showed up as a bad guy, which was very meh.

Spoiler: Samurai X

Gave up after the arc about the Christian guru and Sano falling in love with that girl who dies tragically. I thought it was poorly handled and ridiculously brief after the Shishio or whatever his name is arc

Spoiler: PokemonX

Brock had been replaced with some dunce Tracy with no personality except for his annoying eagerness, and I was fed up with Ash befriending every single Pokemon he met rather than try and capture him. It was CATCH 'EM ALL, dammit, not BEFRIEND 'EM ALL. Also the Poke games on the GameBoy were more than fulfilling my Poke needs

Spoiler: Mercenaries 2

The game is just too damn glitchy to play. I gave up 40% in, because of a chopper mission

 

[Fijiman]

The only thing I can think of is when I was trying to beat Jak 2 on challenge mode and got to the rail shooter part on the mining platform. Fuck that shit.

 

[Rastien]

I came to the very same conclusion evangelical atheists are as tiresome as evangelists with faith both sides know they are right etc. and no middle ground can be found a lesson i learned the hard way as an agnostic. So i steer clear of any such discussions as peoples fangs tend to come out and both sides feel in the superior position till the arguments escalate and escalate.

Yeah I totally agree. And it's those who are open to the concept of faith/belief, yet not entirely convinced by it, who get caught in this ridiculous crossfire between the two poles.

I suppose the most ironic thing for me is that I honestly don't see them as exclusive opposites ("science" and "faith", that is). But trying to talk from an "integration" standpoint to people coming from a "conflict" standpoint is tantamount to speaking another language.

And yes, people do get especially fierce regarding religious (or lack thereof) belief. I've personally been called things like idiotic, memetically diseased (the one who called me that was an especially interesting character), ignorant, brainwashed, etc. You can only take so many before you start wondering what the point of even trying to communicate another viewpoint to them is.

Glad to see I'm not alone in this view point still i won't be discussing this further before it begins to descend.

*brofist*

 

[thejackyl]

Making my game:

I originally wanted to make an RPG similar to Chrono Trigger (In the battle system), but found that no one on the "team" (A few friends), myself included liked that type of system. The ATB system just isn't that great, and I was the only one that wanted to do a turn-based RPG.

The story revolved around one person who was sent to "Earth" from "Heaven" to "Help seal away a Demon", who met up with another fighter from "Heaven" who was sent to stop him and his boss, and is aided by another person who may or may not have been his love interest. (There's a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG Back story for everything in quotes)

The whole draw was going to be, you're in control of all 3 people at the same time, but my team wanted to turn it into a real time RPG (a la Star Ocean: Last Hope), which ended up turning into a God of War like Hack/Slash with RPG elements.

It didn't help that we tried to split up the level design between us (We'd all make different set pieces). I made the tutorial area with optional paths, and a few secrets, that still guided the player towards the exit.

My friend made a box with a staircase in the corner, and when I asked him about the rest of the level he got pissed and said that his level was better than mine.

After that I played Dark Souls, and wanted to make a game similar. Not difficulty wise, but style-wise(Think of the "slow" combat and the focus on dodging/blocking as opposed to simply hitting for high numbers). My team agreed to this. So I took my level layout and carefully placed enemies. While My friend took his and basically turned it into a hallway with rooms on each side. He basically made the layout to a hotel and called it a day.

We also made boss designs (mechanics at least): I came up with a rough sketch, a move list and explanation of each move and how the player is expected to counter it(If you're curious I'll post it some other time, since this is already running long... Rants, eh?). He came up with "He throws enemies at you", "Attack him until he's at 50% HP", "He throws more enemies at you" (Kind of like The Joker in Arkham Asylum)

It felt like we were working on two different games, but with the same story, setting, and characters

EDIT: We have other projects too. For example, this horror game we're working on. He wants my help to design it, but when we have time he decides, "You can't help design it, you're going to test it. If you help make it, it won't be scary for you."

 

[DeltaEdge]

A lot of arguments.
Sometimes it was like talking to a brick wall, you just knew you were in for a retarded "argument" (if it could even qualify) when your opponent starts making personal jabs like your mum jokes, calling you a retard, and all that jazz, instead of reasons as to why they are correct.

Also I actually see some progression in One Piece, they're finally in the "last leg of the race" as it were since they're finally in the New World. Then again it's a popular anime and you just know they'll take forever to end, but that's not always a bad thing... Blargh I'm just rambling now.

Well, if you're thinking that this is the last leg of the race, then you're in for a hell of a long last leg. The author, Eiichiro Oda himself said that he already has the ending to One Piece planned out, and that's what has kept him writing for so long. So One Piece is all planned out. I don't ever see it going down the continuation for the sake of popularity route, especially considering that One Piece is pretty out there, and if it wanted to be intentionally popular, it probably would have taken a much more different approach, and would have tried to be more like what is currently "in", like ninjas and buster-blade wielding angsty dark edgy teens that have to be bad ass all the time.

And it was also stated by Oda that the series (as of the time-skip) is at about the halfway point, and that One Piece still has about a decade of story left. This is just my opinion right here, but I don't think that length makes a series bad. I think that One Piece does a great job of pacing itself, and is never trying to rush and make the characters super powerful in a super short amount of time like a lot of shonen anime like to do. I think that One Piece is still going strong, and will continue to move forward without growing dull, and from what Oda said, we are apparently in for one hell of an ending. One that apparently blows the ever popular Marineford War Arc out of the water.

Spoiler: Edit: Spoiler'd for One Piece Plot

As for progress, in the latest chapter it was just announced that the Strawhats and Heart Pirates Alliance are going to work together to take down the Yonko Kaido of the 100 Beasts. He's a pretty damn important guy, so this seem promising in terms of major plot advancement. And also, of course, Doflamingo is heading their way and what not, so things are about to get very hectic, very quickly.

Also, just a side note: The anime I kind of gave up on. They seriously need to condense that thing. I don't think the anime will ever be that great for as long as each episode has to fill a 24 miniute timeslot. It would be nice if they would just release a DVD that condenses the story to strictly follow the manga, with all the crap and filler cut out.

OT: I gave up on organized religion, as I feel that it has nothing to offer me, and it is slow to change because people like to always be by the book and resist any sort of progress or change, which often makes what they preach heavily outdated. I still practice my religion on my own though.

 

[thesilentman]

i gave up making long post with lots of references and links to sources.
no one was even bothered to read it and still made the assumption that my arguments were full of shit even when i had sources that proved my standpoint. or just tried to fuck with me by saying "bla bla bla rambling bla bla" "blabla bla wall of text lol" " i dont get what this link should prove so i wont even bother to read it, bla bla bla full of shit."

I'd read them, and I'm pretty sure that most people feel the same like me: needing a constant [citation needed]. I say don't stop doing that; those people are just not willing to read all the way through.

Just a few moments ago I gave up on following a portrait drawing tutorial of Michael Pfeiffer.

Why? Because no matter how many times I drew a line or tried to shade something it never looks like it's supposed to. I've followed every step carefully and I just can't make it work. Then I had to draw her nose and mouth and everything just fell apart.

Fuck that shit. I need something else to practice on. Gah I wish I could draw already...

The thing with drawing is that you need to go to the basics and go slow. I say take a break for a bit, then try drawing something small at first (for example, an apple) then you go into bigger and bigger projects. Oh, and study anatomy, that will help your drawing skills by a ton, specially if you are aiming to draw people. It'll take time, but if you're patient, it'll be worth it.

Microsoft/Xbox. I was already getting a little tired of gaming overall, but with the new advertisement drenched marketplace arrived, it pretty much put the nail in the coffin for me, I am not paying money to be flooded with advertisements when there are also countless issues with the design, especially the search features. I sold almost all of my games, and my Live account is set so it won't renew. Once it expires the remaining games are being sold along with the console.

I've been on a hate train with MS lately. Their customer service is some of the shoddiest I've seen (from my experiences), and there is no way I'll going to use Windows anymore if they continue this. Why, may you ask? Because all I need is a damn Windows 8 Pro upgrade download as I have the product key and the disks, but my disk drive has a problem. It's not opening. MS refused, and say pay up. And that was the last straw for me. I'm going to Linux only now, this is getting ridiculous.

OT- I have both a high and low tolerance for bullshit. What does this mean? I'm willing to give things a chance, but if they blow it, they blew it quite spectacularly. A recent example would be Sword Art Online. A damned fine setting, but where it went disappointed me. Especially after Kirito gets out of the game Sword Art Online. I've got other issues, but, *sigh*.

 

[Gizmo1990]

Final Fantasy XIII- I got to grand pulse and just stopped. It did not get better it got worse.

XCOM- I enjoyed it but I just had no desier to play it.

Avatar: The Legend of Korra- I finished the whole series but I will not watch the show again. Imo all of the characters are inferior to those in the The Last Airbender and with the exception of Tensin I fould them all to be inoying.

The sword of Truth series- Made it half way into the 2nd book and just could not carry on.