"Well That Didn't Take Long"

[Poetic Nova]

2 games come to mind:

Bioshock (the first one): 2 hours in before I realised it was just a slog that couldn't grab me. Maybe that I was expecting it to be more like System Shock but either way I was very dissapointed. The rare case of a videogame ending up in a garbage bin.

Ironically, Bio2 does the polar opposite for me, and I really like that one.

Hotline Miami: couldn't run for more then 10 minutes without giving my laptop a BSOD. Appearantly it wasn't made to run on AMD.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

Goat Simulator probably. I remember walking forward a bit, pushing a button whereby my goat fell over and hit a trashcan. Then people started screaming, a car careened off the road, exploded, many dead.

And then I realized this game can play itself perfectly fine without me.


Also Dark Souls, because Dark Souls sucks. I think I got past the skeleton archers in the first bit, but I can't remember because it was all the same, boring as shit, unnecessarily difficult, slow and obtuse. So if I did, I imagine its just more brown/grey overgrown ruins with more skeletons and maybe a dude in armor.

 

[Spider RedNight]

I didn't get past the tutorial in Witcher 2. I just.... oh god I couldn't care nearly enough to even learn how to play the game.

Also Dark Souls, because Dark Souls sucks. I think I got past the skeleton archers in the first bit, but I can't remember because it was all the same, boring as shit, unnecessarily difficult, slow and obtuse. So if I did, I imagine its just more brown/grey overgrown ruins with more skeletons and maybe a dude in armor.

I'm also seconding this. I didn't get very far at all an I have a friend who did the usual "Oh if you can't play it then you aren't SKILLED enough" so that whole argument pisses me right off. Luckily I didn't have to pay for it. I don't like combat. Period. I don't PLAY games for combat. And the supposed "really good story and tragic characters" are hidden behind a wall that says "do not play if you don't like combat" so... oops.

Uhmmmm At the risk of sounding cliche, I didn't get very far in Undertale because in addition to the excitement-killing hype, I (you guessed it) hate the combat. I don't like bullet hell sequences. I liked Toriel-- oh well there she goes byyyye Toriel. So I went back and played OFF instead.

 

[PsychicTaco115]

I played two matches of Star Wars:Battlefront 2015 and I was so bored that I wanted to castrate myself with the controller

This is why multiplayer games aren't a good idea if you don't have a lot of it to compensate

Good thing I only rented it at a friend's house

 

[BrawlMan]

I gave up on Darksiders after the first 20 minutes. Too much backtracking, overdone art design, and a story that is just uninteresting for me.

I deleted Hotline Miami 2 from my PS4 hard drive at the halfway point where you play as all of the masked vigilantes in one stage. The level is way too long, and so many enemies that can kill you from off-screen that it's ridiculous. You take the worst parts of the first game, and make them tedious and not fun. What the fucking hell guys?!

 

[DeliveryGodNoah_v1legacy]

League of Legends

Played a tutorial
Played one match
"Dude, you're a fucking id-"
Logged off
Uninstalled
Never again

I condensed my experience down a bit, there was a lot more confusion and stress placed on me. I had no idea what I was doing, and since it was primarily an online game I was pretty screwed for practice. Plus I thought the gameplay was dull.

Other than that, I think...The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct?

I heard so much bad stuff about it that I was ready to completely dismiss it, but my friend played it for hours and was pretty adamant about it being "good", so I tried it. Ugly, stiff, boring, and clunky. I'm usually pretty forgiving, but I just couldn't pull myself through it.

 

[JaKandDaxter]

I gave up on Darksiders pretty quick. Saw how lacking the combat mechaincs were and how uninterested I was in the game world. And since reception is somewhat mixed, I gave up on the first mission.

I also didn't get too far on The Force Unleashed before calling it quits. I already saw how pail the combat was in comparison to Star Wars Jedi mechanics with the demo. And the full game was no different. Only gave it a chance because I borrowed it from my bro, and FU got some praise from gamers.

I would say Mod Racers for the PSP with Mugen Souls for the PS3 being a close second.

I tried everything to get good at Mod Racers, but it was frustratingly hard, had little pay off to actually learning the tracks and redoing them, and the fact that it is almost impossible to get 2nd place on the very first track is a true insult. After a few hours, I gladly deleted this game from my PSP's existence.

Modnation Racers was utter trash with potential wasted. Buggy mess on release with frame rate drops despite cartoon like graphics ?

The massive patches didn't fix what the game really lacked from LBP, which is charm and lively characters. The racing mechanics were a lackluster, poor mans Mario Kart. I spent no more than $22 on MNR, but what a waste of an amazon discount.

 

[Harlemura]

Europa Universalis IV for me. My friends are all super into grand strategies, and were always bugging me to try Europa with them. So I caved and did. And immediately regretted it.
I'd made jokes before playing it that it was just a looking-at-a-map simulator, but when I got into the game I found I wasn't far off. All the gameplay did take place looking at a map. But I gave it a chance, picked a country and then waited around until my friends instructed me on what to do next. Knowing I have a short attention span, they got me straight into a war to keep me occupied. Or they would have, if my ruler wasn't too young, so I then had to wait 8 years. 8 years is only like 5 minutes of in-game time, but still, being told I have to wait 8 YEARS before I can play doesn't leave a good impression.
But I toughed it out, and finally got into a war. Great, I thought, now I get to command my army in a battle and something will actually happen. I was wrong. Wars are just two guys prodding each other with a spears as the total count of your army goes down. If that wasn't the last straw, my friend hosting the game disconnecting and losing that little progress we made certainly was.

That took about 15-20 minutes total. I reinstalled it to leave it open for Steam trading cards, but haven't even considered playing the game again since.

 

[Diablo2000]

Saints Row: Gat out of Hell

Yeah, it worked fine. But I realized that the game's plot runs into a bar you fill by doing side-stuff instead of mission based, and you filled that bar the game just triggers a cutscene\mission\whatever and there's not way to delay that in order to take your time and since I like taking my time I just quitted.

 

[Silverbeard]

Agarest: Generation of War.

To the game's credit it wasn't until the 13 hour mark that I ran away from it like it was a black adder spliced with a king cobra but... well, the game has some very weird ideas on how to make two humans (or demi-humans) mate, even for a JRPG.
In fact I ran so far from that game that I actually asked Steam to remove the thing from my library. I didn't even want a refund, I just wanted that thing to stop staining my hard drive by virtue of its very fucking existence.

Alpha Protocol.

It's a shame when a good game manages to put its worst foot forward and fall down three flights of stairs into a septic tank covered in two decades worth of bacteria, isn't it?

 

[SlumlordThanatos]

As sacrilegious as this might sound, it was probably Dawn of War 2.

I love me some Warhammer 40K, but when I discovered I couldn't save my campaign (which, being the filthy cheater I am, means that I can't reload a save when I screw up), I quit and uninstalled.

RTS games just really aren't my forte, and the only reason I gave it a chance was because, well, it was WH40K and there aren't a lot of good games set in that universe.

 

[FPLOON]

Agarest: Generation of War.

To the game's credit it wasn't until the 13 hour mark that I ran away from it like it was a black adder spliced with a king cobra but... well, the game has some very weird ideas on how to make two humans (or demi-humans) mate, even for a JRPG.
In fact I ran so far from that game that I actually asked Steam to remove the thing from my library. I didn't even want a refund, I just wanted that thing to stop staining my hard drive by virtue of its very fucking existence.

Did... did it work?

OT: The multiplayer for God of War: Ascension... Granted, I did have fun for the first day I played it (especially when I got my all-mic team to win a match without using my mic), but I seriously got bored while wishing I was playing the other God of War games instead...

Other than that, I stopped playing the first Afro Samurai game and Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City for the PS3 because I could not get pass their first levels... Then again, I only sold the latter because I realized how much money I wasted on the Collector's Edition...

 

[The Wykydtron]

I got like 5 hours into SFV and just stopped. The only reason I even got it was because a friend said it was the best thing to ever happen to fighting games. I'm not even talking about unfinished content, it's so freaking slow, the combos are dull and the character design is weak.

BlazBlue CPEX came out around a month later, 83 hours and counting into that shit boys. I'm playing the worst character in the game and i'm still having more fun than playing (apparently) top tier Karin by a landslide.

It's definitely the characters I find. You got shit like Ragna vs Terumi being an automatic fuckin' hype fiesta with them firing supers at each other before the game even STARTS. Lambda vs Mu in CSEX was two longwinded monologues twice as long as a fighting game intro needs to be but it worked because of the characters. Too bad they changed it in CPEX but oh well.

Meanwhile stock as hell character intros and outros over in SFV. Oh fuck i'm super hyped for the match now...

 

[Shoggoth2588]

My last 2 steam purchases actually.

ImScared! I went in to this one expecting to be fucked with in new and exciting ways but instead all I get is a folder on my desktop that magically gets read me files and a game that requires me to reboot it every 30 seconds.I gave it less than 20 minutes and want my time back.

Gods Will be Watching! Oh hey, here's some story I guess. I don't know who these guys are, where they are, how they got there and I stopped caring about what they were...Oh hey, flashback! Now what do I do? Oh, I guess the guards arrested me? Did I miss a tutorial? Why are the hostages running away? How do I know when they're about to do that? Ya know what, forget this.

 

[Zipa]

Agarest: Generation of War.

To the game's credit it wasn't until the 13 hour mark that I ran away from it like it was a black adder spliced with a king cobra but... well, the game has some very weird ideas on how to make two humans (or demi-humans) mate, even for a JRPG.
In fact I ran so far from that game that I actually asked Steam to remove the thing from my library. I didn't even want a refund, I just wanted that thing to stop staining my hard drive by virtue of its very fucking existence.

Did... did it work?

OT: The multiplayer for God of War: Ascension... Granted, I did have fun for the first day I played it (especially when I got my all-mic team to win a match without using my mic), but I seriously got bored while wishing I was playing the other God of War games instead...

Other than that, I stopped playing the first Afro Samurai game and Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City for the PS3 because I could not get pass their first levels... Then again, I only sold the latter because I realized how much money I wasted on the Collector's Edition...

Valve will remove games from your library upon request now. [http://wccftech.com/valve-permanently-delete-steam-games/]

OT: The one that comes to mind recently is Battlefront 2015, played a few matches and found it so boring that I haven't bothered going back.

 

[Major_Tom]

Company of Heroes 2. Second mission, let's blow up this bridge a second before our men cross it because losing troops for no reason is such a good tactic. It was a Steam free weekend and I still had 2 days left.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

Batman: Arkham Asylum

"This is kinda neat- *time to read a map*"
"Nope."

Nothing against the game itself, I'm sure it's great, it's just a personal petty thing with maps.
I don't know if some point in my forgotten childhood I had some traumatic experience with a map but I am just allergic to those things in a game; give me a waypoint, quest arrow, quest trail, just don't make me straight read a map.

I've calmed down a bit on that, I let Metroid Prime get away with it because it's got the best 3D map ever and Firewatch because your hiking in the woods, it makes the most sense to have a map.
And because I love those games but I figured I'd throw in a couple good reasons too, I guess.

 

[MHR]

White Noise Online

It's supposed to be some slenderman-inspired horror trek through the fog with friends. With no idea what's going on, eye contact with the thing was killing us and causing constant do-overs, and that wouldn't have been something we couldn't overcome if it wasn't such a dull start. It's probably better solo. With friends, it wasn't scary, it was boring and frustrating.

 

[Dalisclock]

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within.

Got to the part in the tutorial (that was all death metal music by the way, not cool Arabian style music), where they introduce the antagonist....ass first...in her metal thong outfit. Her ass filled the entire screen....in slow motion. I turned the game off at that point, realizing that whoever had made that game, didn't understand what was fun and cool about the first one.

The shitty thing was, it took me a couple tries to actually beat her(and I'd just beaten Sands of Time), which frustrated me so much I thought about giving up. I went on to finish the game but the whole "Death Metal Album Cover" atmosphere didn't do anything for me in Warrior Within.

 

[Bilious Green_v1legacy]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution. That game is right up my alley (cyberpunk stuff), and the story looks pretty interesting, but I just hated the gameplay within minutes of starting. I don't think I even made it through the first mission before packing it in. At least I didn't pay much for it.