The fastest you found out you hated a game

[GamingAwesome1]

Played any recent Sonic game for about 5 minutes before turning it off in a combination of boredom and pissed off-ness.

The controls.....WHY DO I KEEP FALLING THROUGH SHIT!

 

[Gyrefalcon]

Warrior Within.

One of the few times I've literally felt insulted by a game.

You should play the demo for Wanted:Weapon of Fate. It starts out with the protagonist breaking the 4th wall to call you a loser for playing it. At the end of the demo the protagonist says, "I'm not a loser like you. I make my own destiny. I'm a weapon of Fate." If you can't figure out the problem with that line, then you probably wrote it.

That is absolutely fantastic! What a hilarious bit of dialogue in a game-at least when related back as a story. Thanks for taking a hit for the team on that one.

 

[blankedboy]

Eureka's 1000 FULL VERSION Games!

More accurately, Eureka's 4 or 5 pathetic shitty Scratch games with no challenge or plot to them at all, reskinned 1000 times over!

 

[Nadiril]

30 seconds of the men in black game on the playstation. I walked around the first room wondering what the fuck and then turned it off and went back to Crash bandicoot.

 

[Vianyte]

Prince of Persia, the most recent one. It got so boring after about an hour and a half. I still played it for 2 more hours hoping that something interesting will happen but nope. The environments were surprisingly dull, the combat was shit, the climbing around just got incredibly repetitive and there was pretty much no story, or if there is it was very predictable. I've never played it again. It still lays on my shelf after a year.

 

[Mozza444]

Farcry 2 when i realise EVERYBODY is trying to kill you and the fact that you cant perform a silent kill with a knife :O great stealth factor..

 

[RadioActiveChimp]

fable 2. i hated the first 5 hours. and at the end of the game i still hated it

 

[nebtheslayer95]

Tom Clancy's World at War, 5 minutes(after realizing all i could do was order people around).

 

[DoctorNick]

If it takes you 5 minutes to "hate a game", you're nothing but a judgmental ADD prick.

Which is ironic, because that's exactly what I'm being in regards to most of ya'll. But whatever.

Throwing away a game 5 minutes in is exactly like throwing away a book, say, 1 or 2 pages in. Yes, I assume, the first 2 pages of Lord of the Rings might feel like they kind of suck if you expect something more action-oriented. But if you stop right there, congratulation at failing.

Objection!

If it's the gameplay itself that is causing the problem 'Waiting for it to get better' is an futile action because it by definiton cannot!

For example, I hate fucking car-n-racing games. I don't need to play it for several hours and fully drink in the experience to know that I hate it.

EDIT:

So I guess I should say then, the fastest I've ever hated a game is a couple seconds of just seeing the back of the box.

Forza, may you ever burn in hell.

 

[Insanum]

Solitare.

2 minutes.

HOW THE HELL WAS I SUPPOSED TO WIN THAT GAME?!?

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

20 minutes (each, in several different sessions).

Deus Ex.

I love cyberpunk, I like shooters, and I enjoy adventure games. For some reason I just did not like this game. I picked it up in 2008 due to all the hype and praise it received but this game just did not stand the test of time. Deus Ex might have been wonderful in its day, but a meager 8 years after release it shows its age. Don't get me wrong, I didn't sit down for a 20 minute session just once and never revisit it again. I have tried several times to get into this game but for some reason I am unable to enjoy interacting with it.

I'm not surprised by this. I LOVED Deus Ex but I played it in 2001 when the game was released. Keep in mind, even at the time the Unreal Engine was hardly top of the heap in terms of graphical prowess and this game looked bad for an unreal game of the age. You didn't even have a jump animation for god's sake!

Everything magical that Deus Ex did has been done better in the intervening years. Keep in mind that 8 years is actually quite a long time with respect to a medium that is only a scant few decades old and already has 3 or more distinctly recognized 'ages'. Wolfenstein 3D to Team Fortress took the same period of time and there were giant leaps in every area during that period.

 

[GreyWolf257]

Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom. - 5 minutes if game play.

Me too. I liked the original, so I got this at Gamestop. I immediately took it back. The guy behind the counter started to argue with me over returning the game until I showed it to him. His first response was "I am very, very sorry, sir. Would you like cash or store credit?"

 

[Xeros]

The second I saw some of the poke'mon from Diamond/Pearl, I was done. Magnezone... pffffffft, spaceship...

 

[Candidus]

Tied.

"Half Life 2" in 10 minutes: A wildly anticipated and vastly (over)hyped example of the FPS genre which, after Daikatana, turned out to be the most 'so-so' corridor shooter that ever took ages and ages to make.

All the really cool stuff is taken care of for you (robodog attacks tanks), the amphibious vehicle acknowledged no difference between concrete and water when traversing either surface (pet peeve, but the engine as a whole did not impress me), and Alix was always trying so hard not to stand out for any of the "wrong" reasons that at some stage, I began to think of her as a 'tolerable' male comrade. This view never went away.

"Neverwinter Nights 2" in 10 minutes: Or an hour and ten minutes if you count the time I spent generating my first character, which is where the problems began. The preset faces couldn't be morphed and were awful to look at; this in addition to the fact that they'd abolished character portraits didn't make for a great start. The characters looked as though their only articulation occurred at the hips, shoulders and neck- like Barbie and Ken dolls; they gesticulated in whatever direction you found you had to lumber away at no-miles-per-hour in, leaving you sensibly compelled to stop at times *just* for the relief of their idle stance.

I couldn't get any further than the introduction of Neeshka to the story. The already atrocious voice acting reached its climax here, as the Tiefling/Ameriyank hybrid class introduced herself to my fledgling party. "HAI THEY'R, AHM NEESHKA, AN' AH LIKE GOLD, PISTOLS AND TNT, YEEEEE-HAW!"

To think that Baldur's Gate and NWN2 *both* wore the Forgotten Realms tag. Eugh.

 

[FalloutJack]

No likey FF8. For reasons that are plentiful and don't ask.

 

[Shepard's Shadow]

4 minutes, FarCry 2. It was horrible.