When was the last time you walked away from a game?

[Cowabungaa]

Last time? Fallout: New Vegas. Really, I want to love it, but after I've apparently broke the main quest even after going through lots of annoyance to fix it, I just gave up. It was such a pain to get the Platinum Chip in the first place as I couldn't get into the Fort without getting swarmed by Legion dudes, which is an especially humongous pain when going into Caesar's tent (super-punching SPAM!). I eventually had to, well, I'd say exploit certain things to get it. And after all that I still couldn't do what I want. New Vegas, I am disappoint.

Before that I gave up on Need for Speed: Shift, the first proper race game I bought in ages. At first everything seemed fine, and it was one of the most adrenaline pumping experiences I ever had in a game. Then I broke my PS3 controller playing it (which I expertly fixed afterwards despite never opening one before /proud) and walked away from the game straight away. It'll be a looooong looooong time before I'll be playing that.

There have been quite a few more over the years as well; StarCraft, for getting my ass so royally handed to me in multi it was just...depressing; Dawn of War 2 thanks to GFWL's absolutely fucked up matchmaking system (I. want. LOBBIES!); Assassin's Creed 1 for being so horribly repetative (I adore 2 and Brotherhood though); Dead Space for not being even remotely scary (that and my save got deleted); Spore for just...just...*cries*; Unreal Tournament 3 for not being a worthy succesor to UT99; Mirror's Edge for grinding my teeth on some detection issues aaaaand...well probably some more but that's all I can remember right now.

Mafia 2 springs to mind. Crikey, it's design and structure is just terrible; 90% of the game is just driving monotonously slowly across the entire map to trigger a handful of lacklustre missions.

Well, I'd say that the cover based shooting was the best that I've experienced in any game. Quite challenging and really engaging. You're right about the driving though, but as somewhat of a retro-head, I often actually took detours because I simply loved cruising through that 50's town with them 50's tunes. Despite all that I still was disappointed with it though. Hope L.A. Noir will make up for it.

 

[Colinmac93]

Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass.
I got really annoyed with the fact that I had to go through the Temple on the main island over and over again, and when I kept dying, I had enough and stopped playing. I did go back to it eventually and finish it though.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

FF7, I couldn't give two shits about any of those characters and their constant whining about whatever it was, I couldn't be bothered.

Another one was Mafia 2, to me it was like GTA only it's now the 50s, only the driving was incredibly annoying and way too much of it. Shooting was actually pretty good, but not enough of it, or rather not enough of it to make me keep on playing it.

 

[BoredDragon]

Geez, there are definitely differences of opinion in this thread. I see people listing some of my favorite games on here.

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For me, a game has to strike out with story first then gameplay for me to quite. I can take a bad story as long as the gameplay is still fun. With that being said, the last one I walked away from was Splatterhouse. The only thing I found likable was the game was the banter between the protagonist and the mask, but that couldn't hold up the god of war-wannabe gameplay and the mario-esk storyline.

 

[BoredDragon]

Mafia 2
Sacred 2
and probably going to be Dragon Age 2. hell, id rather play minesweeper than that shit now.

That's not fair, minesweeper is loads of fun

 

[BoredDragon]

Dead Rising 2. Monotonous. Boring. Terrible port. Terrible storyline. Terrible AI.

Fuck, if you think that game was bad for those reasons, then stay away from its predecessor

 

[Cobster]

Dragon Age 2. I just don't care about hawke.

This 100%, but more recently Crysis 2, just didn't enjoy it at all.

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

Final Fantasy XIII

I just couldn't last.

Final Fantasy 13...god that shit was TERRIBLE!

Final Fantasy 13.

i got stuck on that afro guys special monster thing that you have to beat to recruit, and i just couldn't care to finish. it. graphically though i was in awe.

I hated that game. I was warned not to buy it, but I did anyways. It was so boring, in fact, that I fell asleep while playing it. No other game can ever claim that for me. I have nothing against JRPGs in general, but this one was just far to bland. Also, I hated Hope. He looked like Tidus and Sephiroth's love-child.

 

[s0m3th1ng]

Gave up on dragon age right after the dwarven section. How a game with such a solid plot could be so much of a chore to play through I'll never know.
And Phantom Hourglass...for that goddamn Temple. They should have at least thrown in a plot device that allows you to skip to the section you are currently on...

 

[CheckD3]

Sadly, mine was Fight Night Champion. I love Fight Night Round 4, and heard FN Champ had better controls. It was the 2nd mission where I had to KO my opponent in 3 mins that I got frustrated and said fuck it. I didn't feel in control of my actions and the game didn't really help me learn how to KO quickly, and my heavy swings didn't feel heavy. I was immensely disappointed

 

[Dizzle26]

Other than Vampire Rain, the only game I actually said "FUCK THIS" and switched to something more playable was Street Fighter 4. >_> I'm no newbie to this sort of thing, but God damn it..is it bad that Capcom is making game AI that can be as cheap as some players can be?

Oh. And the combo system. Really? With all this button-mashing this doesn't feel like any fighting game to me. More like a violent Guitar Hero.

 

[WorldCritic]

Going for a classic game here, Phantasy Star III. Now I love the Phantasy Star series and I think Phantasy Star IV may be one of the best 2D RPGs I've ever played, but III was just annoying. I was some dude who had even less personality than Desmond Miles and I was supposed to rescue some girl who had been kidnapped by what looked like a giant housefly. Problem is though that the thing didn't give me any hints on where to go or what to do so I wandered around a field, met a girl, she joined my party and spent the next hour killing the local wildlife until I just said "fuck it."

 

[Lancer873]

Well I suppose that my extensive number of Flash games don't count since I don't really walk away from my computer, so... I suppose it was Rainbow Six: Vegas. It took bland FPS to a whole new level (of blandness, that is). It was kind of like SOCOM Seals: Fireteam Bravo for the PSP, except it didn't have any of the stealth that made that game so much fun, and it was for the PS3, so it didn't have any excuse to be PSP-level entertainment. Didn't even go past the first few levels.

 

[Death on Trapezoids]

The last time I walked away from a game was about 10 minutes ago. It was dead space 2, and I was on hardcore and got killed by the f@#& stalkers after about 5 chapters of progress from my last save point. I HAD to walk away, before I did something drastic like break my controller or my TV. Not to diss dead space 2, it's an awesome game, but hardcore's a ***** and stalkers are to remind players without mine launchers what their asses taste like.

My contribution would be Battlefield: Bad Company 2. It's not bad, but it just does the same thing all the other shooters do a little bit worse.

 

[nuqneh1]

I would have to say Gran Turismo 5. They forced you to play for ten hours of monotonous races to unlock stuff that was what I hoped to play when i got it! I want my Top Gear Test Track damnit.

Haven't touched it since November

 

[Raziel_Likes_Souls]

Final Fantasy XIII

I just couldn't last.

Final Fantasy 13...god that shit was TERRIBLE!

Final Fantasy 13.

i got stuck on that afro guys special monster thing that you have to beat to recruit, and i just couldn't care to finish. it. graphically though i was in awe.

I hated that game. I was warned not to buy it, but I did anyways. It was so boring, in fact, that I fell asleep while playing it. No other game can ever claim that for me. I have nothing against JRPGs in general, but this one was just far to bland. Also, I hated Hope. He looked like Tidus and Sephiroth's love-child.

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Pretty much what these guys said. My friend and I took a bet to see who could last longest playing a JRPG, me, FF XIII, him, Persona 4. I knew I was going to lose the bet, because he beat the game, without the proper ending, mind you, and I only made 12 hours in before all the attempts at WW 2 allegory started piss me off. And don't even get me started on the writing.

So stay the fuck away from FF XIII.