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Games you like but dread playing
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Allez Phill
Banned
Destiny and the Crucible. Fucking shotguns and snipers!!! :'(
LilWayneSuckz
Member
I love Dead Space 1 and 2 but dread having to replay, because I get paranoid if I play them too long.
Wreck-It Ralph
Member
Fighting games for me, for this reason.
Shadow Hog
Member
Kid Icarus: Uprising.
Great game, but the 3DS cramps my hands something fierce (even the XL!), and that game in particular makes it flare up especially bad. I dread the pain, despite looking forward to the silly dialog and interesting plot developments.
Great game, but the 3DS cramps my hands something fierce (even the XL!), and that game in particular makes it flare up especially bad. I dread the pain, despite looking forward to the silly dialog and interesting plot developments.
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
Hah. I'm usually the highest scorer when I play with my friends, but man, when I go into matchmaking solo and play with shitty people I just lose it; I even start legitimately sucking. I decided that I don't play Titanfall without at least one other friend with me, which isn't hard; I have like 10 friends with the damn game. lol
Ugh. I tried to solo the game when it came out, but close to the very end, I just lost my will to fight. I think I just needed to get one last Soul of a Giant, but that huge dragon roflstomped me.
I should add I've beaten DeS and DS1, as well. There was just something about this one that drained me emotionally.
MrAndySchneider
Banned
Dark Souls.
Sure, it seems to be a great game. And I really love the way they ingrained the lore into the world, it looks like every little thing gives a glimpse into a universe that's put together very well.
But I neither have the ability, nor the patience, nor the time for the challenge. I'd like to have some kind of Dark Souls Easy mode, just to soak up the atmosphere and lore, but I also understand that this would destroy the experience that makes it worthwhile.
Sure, it seems to be a great game. And I really love the way they ingrained the lore into the world, it looks like every little thing gives a glimpse into a universe that's put together very well.
But I neither have the ability, nor the patience, nor the time for the challenge. I'd like to have some kind of Dark Souls Easy mode, just to soak up the atmosphere and lore, but I also understand that this would destroy the experience that makes it worthwhile.
There's a 'wrong way' early in Dark Souls but it's pretty obvious you shouldn't be there. Some good stuff if you're not afraid to die a few times to grab it, but it won't take long to get and you don't need it anyways.
It seems that some people end up taking the wrong path in these games and committing to it because they have the games built up to be some kind of impossible ordeal in their minds. So normally you'd have the instinct to turn back but if you think the game is supposed to be impossible then you just figure it's intentional. I have friends who won't even try them because they think they are masochism simulators with constant cheap deaths. But I know for a fact they've finished way harder games.
For perspective I did demon's souls as blind as I could, and died less than 15 times the entire playthrough outside of intentional suicides. But I went REALLY slowly and carefully. And I only played it at the beginning of this year, so I had a lot of random unavoidable knowledge gained via osmosis from the internet like how to make Flamelurker easy.
My approach to Souls games is that if it feels like I shouldn't be there...see how far in I can get. There's probably some good loot if I can pull it off. If not...oh well, come back later.
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
I set an alarm before playing. It's the only way I'll learn.
zephervack
Member
Any FPS online game, including Counter Strike GO, Battlefield 4, etc
I dont turn on my devices every day and I usually only have an hour to play games, so that means everytime I feel like playing those titles, I just dont, because I know upon trying to open them, I will get huge updates that will eat up my entire play time.
Havent touched BF4 since launch because of that, I know its silly, and im glad companies patch/improve games, but it gets in my way to actually play them.
I wish PC worked like the PS3/4 where my updates are always waiting from me.
I dont turn on my devices every day and I usually only have an hour to play games, so that means everytime I feel like playing those titles, I just dont, because I know upon trying to open them, I will get huge updates that will eat up my entire play time.
Havent touched BF4 since launch because of that, I know its silly, and im glad companies patch/improve games, but it gets in my way to actually play them.
I wish PC worked like the PS3/4 where my updates are always waiting from me.
RodanCeros
Member
Another vote for Dark Souls, at least, until I started playing while following a walkthrough. Call it cheating, or cheapening the game, but it's the only way I can get through some of the pain (to me, the frustration comes not from the difficulty, but the lack of a sense of direction). It makes the game a million times more enjoyable to me and I suggest it to any first time Souls players.
Windom Earle
Member
At the moment BF4. I do like the game but I suck so much at it. Doesn't help that everbody on PC is pro at this point.
Jack Videogames
Member
I've bought all Harvest Moon games from Harvest Moon 64. I RARELY play them more than some hours because I'm scared of fucking up. I usually wait for "the perfect moment" to start them and that perfect moment never comes...
oh, I just remembered another one.
Shadow of the Colossus.
I really enjoy the colossi fights, but the empty field and clunky controls makes me feel like I'm playing a beta demo.
inb4 2DEEP4U: I "get" what they were aiming for with that, I just find it kinda jarring in a videogame.
Shadow of the Colossus.
I really enjoy the colossi fights, but the empty field and clunky controls makes me feel like I'm playing a beta demo.
inb4 2DEEP4U: I "get" what they were aiming for with that, I just find it kinda jarring in a videogame.
Madden 15.
I like the gameplay a lot. But it has to be a solid 5 minutes of loading before I can get from the PS4 menu into the game.
Really missing that suspend feature Sony.
And why can't Madden at the very least give me the option to automatically bypass all the stupid prompts when I'm loading up as well. There's a completely superfluous 'Press X" or something screen that takes place after the first 2 minutes of loading but before the next two. Me pressing X does absolutely nothing but ensure I have to be sitting around waiting for the damn game to load instead of going off and making a sandwich or something.
I like the gameplay a lot. But it has to be a solid 5 minutes of loading before I can get from the PS4 menu into the game.
Really missing that suspend feature Sony.
And why can't Madden at the very least give me the option to automatically bypass all the stupid prompts when I'm loading up as well. There's a completely superfluous 'Press X" or something screen that takes place after the first 2 minutes of loading but before the next two. Me pressing X does absolutely nothing but ensure I have to be sitting around waiting for the damn game to load instead of going off and making a sandwich or something.
Lactose_Intolerant
Member
I'm not really having the time of my life with Wasteland 2. I've only put a few hours in it though. I think I'm just spoiled from Divinity: Original Sin
Pretty much any horror game, for obvious reasons. I can't stand ones which offer no means of fighting back whatsoever.
Fighting games, too, cause the same pre-match jitters mentioned by OP. Especially if it's someone with a rank vastly higher than mine or an obviously new account, because I don't know whether I'm going to get destroyed or not. I don't mind a good fight, but if the best I've done in any match is a few light jabs it's annoying.
Fighting games, too, cause the same pre-match jitters mentioned by OP. Especially if it's someone with a rank vastly higher than mine or an obviously new account, because I don't know whether I'm going to get destroyed or not. I don't mind a good fight, but if the best I've done in any match is a few light jabs it's annoying.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
I am incredibly bad at DKC: Tropical Freeze but I love it. If you go into the community thread you can see my recent rants about it. It's pretty pathetic, honestly.
sixteen-bit
Member
win, lose, i always have fun playing fighting games
except in a tournament setting; then it's stressful, lol.
except in a tournament setting; then it's stressful, lol.
E the Shaggy
Junior Member
Any game specifically where you've been playing for a while and die not having gotten to a save point, so you know you'll have to do everything again.
Damn you Persona 4!
Damn you Persona 4!
I'm at the final boss on Darksiders. I have no health potions or Wrath restorations, and I can't beat him when he's in his humanoid demon form. I'm essentially fucked, and I don't want to watch the last cutscene on youtube because I haven't beaten a game in so long now; I have so many in my backlog
AgentLampshade
Member
I dreaded going back to Dark Souls when going through my first playthrough, but it was a good kind of dread. A dread of not knowing what's coming next, and am I ready to handle it. Stumbling through the game for the first time was brilliant. Wish I could go back to that feeling. Roll on Bloodborne.
Oh, and the bad kind of dread: I was stuck on Ornstead and Smough for weeks. I dreaded booting up the game then, even on NG+.
Oh, and the bad kind of dread: I was stuck on Ornstead and Smough for weeks. I dreaded booting up the game then, even on NG+.
Pokémon X and Y, I enjoy the game until I reach Shalour City where the game just falls apart for me.
I know that feeling, unless they are a yellow Pikmin, for some reason they keep disobeying me.
That is exactly how I feel when playing Shadow of the Colossus the empty field is just boring.
Zelda it ain't.
I know that feeling, unless they are a yellow Pikmin, for some reason they keep disobeying me.
That is exactly how I feel when playing Shadow of the Colossus the empty field is just boring.
Zelda it ain't.
Eternal Gamer
Member
This happens to me with every Dota 2 game.
SamuelSupreme
Banned
MGS4 . I love that game but I just don't have the strength to sit through the cutscenes.
I'm still yet to touch the expansions for this reason.
Any game that I know is going to be a big time commitment always takes more effort for me to get started with.
I played it a long time ago, and had trouble getting back into it for this reason. But, there's a "skip peragus" mod out there, so i've been replaying it.
For me, Dark Souls. I like the game, I just rarely feel in the mood to play it.
Fuck.
I was going to play this after I finished up Rogue Galaxy. Now I'm apprehensive as hell.
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