When can you declare a game crap?

[Hamsterlad]

my brother got a PS2 and he has little to no games for the damn thing, so i go and get him RE4 thinking he might like the game. no more than 30 min he came down stares to were i was and said it was a shitty game. I usually give the game about 2 hours to let it suprise me in case if the good bits were later in the game.

when is it an appropriate time to call the game shitty?

 

[VaioStreams]

when you feel you just can't sit through the title screen

 

[jh322]

Totally intuitive. Sometimes you just know you don't like something.

 

[Peaterson Is Back]

after about an hour of gameplay

 

[I3uster]

after about an hour of gameplay

yes, unless it is an rts, because in one hour you may not have found the right race for you

 

[Zippy1313]

As soon as it slaps you in the face with its shittyness and screams "Fuck you!" like Halo 3 and Gears of War 2 did to me. I am not trying to start anything, I just thought they were both crappy sequels to previously amazing titles.

 

[devilondemand]

You don't even need to play it or know anything about it:

As long as it is an exclusive for another system then it is shit.

 

[bukky]

the reviews on the internet

 

[bukky]

the front cover

 

[Shadow Law]

When you can finnaly see through the smoke screen of flashy gameplay and see all the bugs and cheap CPU charaters. Also when you realize you just spent sixty bucks on it.

 

[DragunovHUN]

^edit button

I declare a game shit when its lack of quality becomes obvious. I don't declare games shit just by personal preference (like RPG games are all shit because i'm an FPS junkie), even if i hate the setting/style/whatever. I will call a shitty game shit even if it's my favorite genre.

If i never played a game, i won't comment on it. If i do play a game, i really try to like it and unless it's really sloppy, i won't say it's shit.

Fluxuating quality is not quality in my book. So a shitty first half won't be excused with a brilliant second half.

 

[Tegual]

reading the feature list
and sometimes the title
and if you get past that then about an hours worth of gameplay

 

[PureChaos]

usually after an hour or 2. with most games the start is a tutorial but after that then the opinion can start to be formed.

 

[Susan Arendt]

It's up to the individual. Some people are more willing to invest time in letting the game win them over than others. I used to work for a guy who gave movies 17 (not 15, not 20, 17) minutes to grab his attention. If it hadn't done it by then, he walked out.

I usually give games about an hour. If there isn't something there for me to enjoy in that amount of time, I honestly don't care what's to come. There are a whole lot of games out there for me to play, I'm not going to sit there not enjoying one in the hopes that eventually I'll like it.

I think it's also important to distinguish the difference between "this game is shitty" and "I don't like this game." If the OP's brother doesn't like RE4, ok, that's fine. Doesn't mean it's a bad game, just means it's not his thing.

 

[P1p3s]

i think after 30 mins i'd call the player rubbish not the game, although you can tell alot from first impressions i guess.
I'd go with an hour or so and see how I feel about it then - assuming I've made some kind of headway into the game.

 

[Inverse Skies]

Whenever a game stops being fun and starts being a chore - that's when it's time to put it down and go outside (what sunshine? vitamin D? what foreign concepts are these?)

 

[Sixties Spidey]

When I feel like I'm not enjoying myself at all. Max time to impress me is usually an hour, tops.

 

[Davey Woo]

When it becomes a task rather than entertainment.

 

[Tegual]

though even if i call a game shit and it becomes a chore, i spent money on it so i force myself to finish it. Never have i bought a game that i haven't finished. Excluding games that have no ending ie:MMO's