What Game did you play long after it stopped being fun?

[Rariow]

BioShock. It stopped being fun at the big reveal. Still a bunch of game left. Have... to... complete...

I Wanna Be The Guy. Stopped being fun at the third screen. I pushed through for quite a bit longer, though I never completed it because I'm not a crazy person.

Morrowind. Because everyone said it was better than Oblivion but it was just so painfully frustrating. The combat is garbage, and Cliff Racers just make the game unplayable for me. I was convinced I was "playing it wrong" or something, and that it'd turn into a fountain of awesome that created a game better than Oblivion (Which, at the time, was my favourite game ever). No. It's just people on the internet aren't always right about which game is better. Or opinion is subjective. Yeah. That one.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

Well Yugioh.

For videogames......Metroid Prime after years because I never finished it the first time. Played through the entire thing again. Don't really care to try the sequels.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Family Ski and Snowboard for the Wii... not only that, but I spent hours playing it to completion, but making sure I used the Wii Fit board the entire time!

Man, the game sucked ass in single player after a while... Steering on the Wii Fit was completely random... tricks rarely worked... controls were far too complicated and tricky... When a trick did work the game would wait until you were 3 foot off the ground to start the execution... missions were boring and involved an in depth knowledge of the map... which was boring any way... it made my legs and back ache... when racing, the AI would do random stuff... like run into you from behind, at speed, when you can't tell they are coming... and then the game punishes and slows down you for it, while they speed off scott free...

And still I played until I completed it! :/

 

[Karoshi]

Skyrim. Enjoyed the first week, and the boredom started to sink in. Yet somehow, I always believed that it would get better.

It never did.

 

[Smertnik]

Ehm, what? Why would I play games if they don't entertain me?

 

[K84]

Skyrim, after a month completed the main thingy and a big chunk of sidestuff/beeing an ass.
It just stopped beeing fun for a while, and then new stuff would come.
And i play it on PS3, so **** me, right?
Really Bethesda...really?

 

[CpT_x_Killsteal]

Call of bloody Duty. Why? Because I was young teenage twat who wanted to be like the cool kids,

Same as every person who plays CoD...

 

[RyQ_TMC]

Define "long".

I sank quite a bit of time into KoA: Reckoning. I spent every free moment playing it. It was just fun. But I played both DLCs through early on and around halfway through the story there was just no challenge to the game anymore (and it hadn't been particularly hard in the first place). I plowed through enemies easily, combat became just an inconvenience on the way from one quest waypoint to another, no gear dropped by enemies or scored from quests was better than what I already had. But I pushed on, motivated by the distant prospect of maxing out the detect hidden skill and finding all the lorestones.

Then I hit the level cap. That was it, after maybe 15 hours spent playing half asleep without any challenge or sense of fun, I learned I would never max out DH on my character. And the Fateweaver mechanic collided so fundamentally with my concept of RPG that I couldn't bear to use it. I turned the game off and still haven't come back.

I also kept playing WoW after reaching level 80 for a month or so. I hated the endgame content, but I kept playing because Azeroth was where I would meet my best friend and we would mostly joke and talk about stuff while running from questgiver to questgiver. He's the type of player who would run around and compare gearscores with other high-level characters and he wanted to continue. So we did.

 

[Pink Gregory]

Call of bloody Duty. Why? Because I was young teenage twat who wanted to be like the cool kids,

Same as every person who plays CoD...

Watch those generalisations, sunshine.

Morrowind. Because everyone said it was better than Oblivion but it was just so painfully frustrating. The combat is garbage, and Cliff Racers just make the game unplayable for me. I was convinced I was "playing it wrong" or something, and that it'd turn into a fountain of awesome that created a game better than Oblivion (Which, at the time, was my favourite game ever). No. It's just people on the internet aren't always right about which game is better. Or opinion is subjective. Yeah. That one.

I tried to play Morrowind again recently, started with a breton mage who's stamina would run out in about 30 seconds and health twice as fast. Don't think he even lived long enough to SEE cliff racers...

 

[CpT_x_Killsteal]

Call of bloody Duty. Why? Because I was young teenage twat who wanted to be like the cool kids,

Same as every person who plays CoD...

Watch those generalisations, sunshine.

XP yeah I'm prejudiced.

 

[Xerosch]

The latest 'Deus Ex'. It was fun while it lasted (and not too long), but once I got to 'Missing Link' I thought it had overstayed its welcome. I bought the Addon before finishing the main game, so it was obligatory I pulled through.

 

[Ganath]

World of Warcraft here too. But it gets fun again everytime there's a new expansion or a major patch, so not sure if it counts. I could say Zelda: Ocarina of time. But shit, that is still fun after my 15th playthrough...I'll never grow bored of that game.

Edit: Actually just remembered that I forced myself through Mass Effect 2 just to get a profile I liked in 3. It was rather ardeous as I had already beaten it twice before.

 

[Scrustle]

None. I just don't get "addicted" to games. I get absorbed in some for a long time, but it was always fun. I never play a game if I'm not having fun though, even if all my friends want me to. I guess that's kind of odd since I play a lot of RPGs. They're kind of designed to make you addicted even if it's not fun.

I kind of have the opposite problem. There's RPGs I own and I'd love to get more in to but they just seem so daunting. I just can't get in to a game that I know requires a big time investment if it doesn't grab me as really good on a fundamental level right away. I can't face the idea of having to play the game for like 20 hours before it gets in to its stride, or I start learning how to play it properly. I've got other games that do that far better. No matter how much I want to get in to these games I always find myself just drifting away and forgetting about them and sticking to something else that's more compelling.

 

[Goofguy]

I can't say I've ever played a game past it not being fun anymore. It's kind of the reason I play them. If it becomes a chore, then it's not really worth my time.

 

[Blunderboy]

Nothing really.
When I stop having fun(even for just the individual play session), I quit.

Yup. Thread solved in the first reply.
Anyone else is just doing it wrong.

 

[Dragoon]

Call of bloody Duty. Why? Because I was young teenage twat who wanted to be like the cool kids,

Same as every person who plays CoD...

Pretty much this, I used to play it everyday so it became sort of a habit, but I wasn't enjoying myself a lot of the time. Just sort of stopped playing and haven't touched it in months. Had a game the other day though and I just couldn't understand why I liked it in the first place.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

Superman Returns: The Movie: The Game. The first mission was fun, and it was cool to fly around the city stopping crime for a while, but it is the most repetitive game ever. Play the first hour, and you have basically played the game.

I finished it because I decided to. I wanted to see if they actually did anything new as the game progressed. They don't. The final boss is a tornado.

 

[octafish]

Bioshock. It was never fun, but I slogged away because I kept expecting it to get better. I played through until that point, uninstalled it and played System Shock 2 and Condemned back to back. Much better.