"Well That Didn't Take Long"

[The Rogue Wolf]

Resident Evil 5 and 6. RE5 I quit 55 minutes in because I despised the controls and the fact that AI Sheeva was an imbecile; RE6 I quit 22 minutes in because I'd realized that I'd encountered more quicktime events than zombies.

Also, Brink. I was promised an engaging and evolving story; I was given multiplayer maps with bots- bots that didn't hesitate to cheat. I spent more time downloading it than playing it.

 

[MrCalavera_v1legacy]

In Skyrim i've spent most time in the character creator(which isn't that surprising) and then dropped it after finishing the Golden Claw quest. That is the very first "big" quest in a game, that you can obtain in the first settlement you are supposed to stumble into.

There was this, probably obscure game called Airline Tycoon from 1998, but i rather enjoyed it. The sequel to it that came out in 2011(!), i've uninstalled after about thirty minutes? It somehow managed to look uglier that it's predecessor, mixing mobile-phone quality graphics with archaic interface. And the loading times were bad. And the humor went to shit. And i'd like to remove it from my Steam library.

 

[Dornedas]

The fastest i've ever given up in a game was with "omgwtfgameoftheyear5evar" undertale.
Followed the goat lady, she told me to wait in a room, I run in circles for 30 minutes and nothing happens.
Wasting my time is a straight red card.


Another quick expulsion was Grandia 2.
Managed to get to the first boss. (Don't know the exact time)
And then I realized that I commited the mortal sin of watching the tutorial.
Because if you Do that the boss is undefeatable. (He is anyway but if you watch the tutorial he won't kill you in the correct way).
Gamebreaking bugs in the re-release of a 15 year old game? That is an actual mortal sin.

 

[JCAll]

Resident Evil 5 and 6. RE5 I quit 55 minutes in because I despised the controls and the fact that AI Sheeva was an imbecile; RE6 I quit 22 minutes in because I'd realized that I'd encountered more quicktime events than zombies.

Also, Brink. I was promised an engaging and evolving story; I was given multiplayer maps with bots- bots that didn't hesitate to cheat. I spent more time downloading it than playing it.

I quit Resident Evil 5 on the first real zombie encounter. I couldn't get past it. I couldn't fight them off, I couldn't escape, I couldn't hide. Nothing I tried worked. I played the hell out of 4, I don't know why I found 5 completely unplayable.

 

[vledleR]

Other than games that flat out didn't work, my least amount of time was Mindjack . After moving around and shooting and witnessing the horrible AI, I put it down in less than 20 mins

 

[MerlinCross]

For me it was Valkyria Chronicles II. I tried to play it, but characters that were offered to me to play as were so boring I couldn't play further than the first mission.

Did you play the first game? The scenes where the characters try to handle racism is just awful.

Person1: "racist remark!"
Person2: "Actually, that's a misconception"
Person3: "Hey, what's happening here?"
Person1: "Nothing, I'm leaving! Racist remark!" *leaves*
Person3: "You know, you shouldn't talk back at her. It only upsets her.
WTF, Japan

Eh, I can think of a few scenes but said people either get better or are just asses that get what's coming to them. Been awhile, like a lone while.

As for me;

Xenonauts - I dunno it feels like it tries to be old Xcom but at the same time falls short. Research and Buliding seem to take way longer, enemy ramps up way faster on top of this, air combat was a bit confusing and not fun. Yeah I'm done with this.

Wakfu - I tried it, was pretty good. Then I just fell into doing the same thing in each fight. The dungeons also didn't help as they were just slogs OR complete push overs(Oh wow this guy I partied with dead 50x my damage). Seems cool but also way too confusing, tutorial didn't help much. Unless I can get with a band of people I like, not going back. And I have FF14 for that.

 

[Lightspeaker]

Happens quite a bit with horror games for me. I'm really not a horror person so I don't know why I keep buying them. I either get freaked out or frustrated within minutes. I managed about an hour of Alan Wake before I gave up. About twenty minutes of Amnesia was too much.

What else...well I played about four hours of Arkham City before I realised I just wasn't having any fun. And I slogged through six hours of Borderlands before realising the same there.

Probably the fastest are two games I don't even own. The Witcher and Bioshock. I've tried the demo of both of these several times but I can't even bring myself to finish the demo of either because I'm bored to tears so fast.

Also I put Brutal Legend down after forty minutes and haven't been back since.

 

[cojo965]

For me it was Crysis. I had heard nothing but praise and glory for its amazing graphics and wonderful, open world gameplay. Within fifteen minutes I was bored, lost, stuck in a vehicle maint' pit and had a "sniper" shooting at me with deadly accuracy. OPKay, better find this sniper then, because this is getting old fast! So I try nineteen different ways to get out of the pit, the building and into the open, run from cover to cover and finally, FINALLY find the "sniper" firing through two windows of the building he is in, through a wooded area, through the window of the building I was in and into the pit. I make it up to where the "sniper" was, only to find it was a two man crew, facing backwards, firing a friggin' machine gun.

Seriously? They shouldn't have been able to even SEE me, let alone shoot at me through 50 obstacles with pin-point accuracy. Uninstalled and never went back.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but are you saying that not only were you getting shot at by two guys with heavy machine guns, through a ton of shit that should have blown up under that sort of firepower, but they weren't even looking in your direction!? THE FUCK!?

 

[Dr. Thrax]

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.

This was one thing that made me nervous as I was playing Gat out of Hell, but I kept playing and found out that even after the Angry Satan Bar fills up, it doesn't immediately launch you into the final mission. It simply makes the final mission available, but you're still free to complete the rest of Hell and collect more souls and cash until you feel you're ready to take on Satan.

 

[Ravinoff]

Hm. I've got some astoundingly mediocre 360 games around (Section 8, Battlefield 2: Modern Combat, Frontlines: Fuel Of War...) that might have lasted a couple hours before getting tossed aside.

At the moment, the one I'm most ashamed of is probably The Witcher 3, which according to Steam, I've put 2 hours into. I've heard a lot of good things about it, and now that I've upgraded to a GTX970 (from my 770 that it sorta chugged on), I keep meaning to revisit it. Most of the reason I ditched it so fast, though, was the controls. I went straight from playing 2 to playing 3, and the way the controls got totally changed (thanks, console port!) completely threw me. What's all this parkouring, jumping shit? And what possible reason was there for changing the weapon selection and attack buttons? 1 for iron sword, 2 for silver was easy to remember. And LMB for light attack, RMB for heavy was perfect.

 

[Fijiman]

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.

Same here. I almost felt like they were trying to shove too much info about the game on you at once and expects you to master it in five seconds. I'm sure I would have mastered the potion crafting and such eventually, but if I can't even get a decent grasp on the combat after going through the tutorial three times the rest of the game would have been an extremely frustrating nightmare. It's a good thing I had only gotten the free version when it was on offer otherwise I'd have been pissed.

 

[Bilious Green_v1legacy]

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.

Same here. I almost felt like they were trying to shove too much info about the game on you at once and expects you to master it in five seconds. I'm sure I would have mastered the potion crafting and such eventually, but if I can't even get a decent grasp on the combat after going through the tutorial three times the rest of the game would have been an extremely frustrating nightmare. It's a good thing I had only gotten the free version when it was on offer otherwise I'd have been pissed.

Witcher 2 is a fantastic game, but it's controls were utterly bizarre. I played the whole game and never entirely got to grips with it.

 

[Fijiman]

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.

Same here. I almost felt like they were trying to shove too much info about the game on you at once and expects you to master it in five seconds. I'm sure I would have mastered the potion crafting and such eventually, but if I can't even get a decent grasp on the combat after going through the tutorial three times the rest of the game would have been an extremely frustrating nightmare. It's a good thing I had only gotten the free version when it was on offer otherwise I'd have been pissed.

Witcher 2 is a fantastic game, but it's controls were utterly bizarre. I played the whole game and never entirely got to grips with it.

I'm sure the story and environment are fantastic, but those do indeed not make up for crap controls. I imagine that had I played through the first game it might have been easier, but what little interest I had in the series has already been killed

 

[Bilious Green_v1legacy]

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.

Same here. I almost felt like they were trying to shove too much info about the game on you at once and expects you to master it in five seconds. I'm sure I would have mastered the potion crafting and such eventually, but if I can't even get a decent grasp on the combat after going through the tutorial three times the rest of the game would have been an extremely frustrating nightmare. It's a good thing I had only gotten the free version when it was on offer otherwise I'd have been pissed.

Witcher 2 is a fantastic game, but it's controls were utterly bizarre. I played the whole game and never entirely got to grips with it.

I'm sure the story and environment are fantastic, but those do indeed not make up for crap controls. I imagine that had I played through the first game it might have been easier, but what little interest I had in the series has already been killed

Witcher 1's controls were worse. It was really only in Witcher 3 that they became decent, and even then it took a post release patch to really get it right.

 

[Dalisclock]

Witcher 2 is a fantastic game, but it's controls were utterly bizarre. I played the whole game and never entirely got to grips with it.

I'm sure the story and environment are fantastic, but those do indeed not make up for crap controls. I imagine that had I played through the first game it might have been easier, but what little interest I had in the series has already been killed[/quote]

Witcher 1's controls were worse. It was really only in Witcher 3 that they became decent, and even then it took a post release patch to really get it right.[/quote]

I'm playing through the first one for the first time, before I go on to the later ones. Yeah, it has a lot of issues as far as gameplay is concerned. The intro/tutorial level is particularly bad. In theory it should be good, but instead it comes across as boring and confusing and the game doesn't really pick up until chapter 2.

 

[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.

Well playing the Witcher games before reading the books is sacrilegious anyways... so you were saved

I have a feeling that's just what hardcore Witcher fans tell non-fans who don't give a shit to justify their own hardcore fan-ness xD Either way, more for you. Now I'm ESPECIALLY not interested knowing I have to read a bunch of books about said stuff I don't care about. Thanks for saving me the trouble, now I can read books I actually like! -thumbs up-

Dragon Age 2. I played the intro bit that seems like an end and saw that it was hack and slashy. Then I got into character select and ejected the game and returned it for a loss when I realized they didn't have any options for race. I think I had it in my system for less than 10 mimutes. I haven't given EA/Bioware a dime since then.

I wish I could say I also didn't even bother with it. But I did for some reason even though they didn't have my preferred race available, either. Or... like, ANY enjoyable characters outside of Varric and MAYBE Isabela. And the tragic irony is that I never needed either of them because in my stupid finite wisdom I always play as a rogue and wouldn't you know it but the rogues are always my favourite characters. *snaps fingers* But yeah no. I wasted so much time on that game. -quiet weeping-

 

[Gorrath]

For me it was Crysis. I had heard nothing but praise and glory for its amazing graphics and wonderful, open world gameplay. Within fifteen minutes I was bored, lost, stuck in a vehicle maint' pit and had a "sniper" shooting at me with deadly accuracy. OPKay, better find this sniper then, because this is getting old fast! So I try nineteen different ways to get out of the pit, the building and into the open, run from cover to cover and finally, FINALLY find the "sniper" firing through two windows of the building he is in, through a wooded area, through the window of the building I was in and into the pit. I make it up to where the "sniper" was, only to find it was a two man crew, facing backwards, firing a friggin' machine gun.

Seriously? They shouldn't have been able to even SEE me, let alone shoot at me through 50 obstacles with pin-point accuracy. Uninstalled and never went back.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but are you saying that not only were you getting shot at by two guys with heavy machine guns, through a ton of shit that should have blown up under that sort of firepower, but they weren't even looking in your direction!? THE FUCK!?

They actually were looking in my direction, but what was infuriating is that they were in a machine gun nest that was set up to face the opposite way. So while the character models themselves were looking (ish) through the window they were shooting through, the machine gun itself was facing away from the position I was in. The whole game was kind of like this, but this was the most egregious example I found and it was the one that made me finally quit the game. I've never been more frustrated by an FPS.

 

[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.

Well playing the Witcher games before reading the books is sacrilegious anyways... so you were saved

I have a feeling that's just what hardcore Witcher fans tell non-fans who don't give a shit to justify their own hardcore fan-ness xD Either way, more for you. Now I'm ESPECIALLY not interested knowing I have to read a bunch of books about said stuff I don't care about. Thanks for saving me the trouble, now I can read books I actually like! -thumbs up-

There is nothing hardcore in reading books... especially when those are the original work and the "games" based on them are just fan fiction.

... the days are sad when people equate reading a book to something hardcore It should be the opposite, taking part in the younger, still inferior art form should be reserved as the hardcore thing... such is life I guess.

If you don't think reading is hardcore than I actually feel bad for you because reading is badass. Books are awesome. I love reading. I just think calling it "being saved" by not doing something "sacrilegious" like playing "fan fiction" of a game before reading the books they were based off of is kind of pretentious. Like... I didn't give my kid brother shit for watching J.R.R. Tolkien movies though he hadn't read the books; if anything, watching the movies made him want to read the books and that's fine with me.

Are people who play Batman games or watch Batman movies being sacrilegious because they don't read the comics first? Or does that not count since comics are a more visual media so therefore they're also "inferiour" to regular books? What about people who read Star Wars books through essentially they're "fan fiction" of the movies? WORSE: what if they want to read the fan-fiction books -gasp- FIRST??

This is a broad brush you're painting with here, pal.