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[Drewfonse]

I'm not sure why I often persevere through games that bore me. I just finished Episode 2 of Telltale's Game of Thrones, and that had to be the most boring 2 hrs of gaming that I've experienced in a long time. What a slog.

What's your recent "oh my god this is boring, why am I playing this" gaming experience?

 

[SovanJedi]

Not very recent, but I took something like 5 years to finish Children of Mana because each time I tried to play it it bored me to tears.

Spoiler: It wasn't worth it.

 

[TRI Mike]

The Last of Us.

 

[ryushe]

I literally just quit Freedom Wars thinking "I really should be playing Danganronpa."

 

[jeemer]

borderlands 2.

 

[Fret]

Same as you OP, after completing Tales from the Borderlands the GoT game was extremely boring to play

The Last of Us.

brave

 

[georly]

I just beat 'Stick it to the Man' last weekend. The core idea was interesting, and the art style was unique, but boy were those puzzles brain-dead. Read mind, guy says he wishes he had nice teeth. Find guy with nice teeth, take them, give to guy. Boring. I forced myself to finish, but there was no clever puzzle in the entire game. Everything was just handed to you and told you how to solve it before you had the chance to try to figure it out.

 

[backflip10019]

Yeah Game of Thones episode 2 was extremely boring. Probably the worst I've played in a while.

 

[Nyx]

InFamous Second Son.

''Hey guys we got this graphically amazing game, but we totally forgot to make it fun for longer than 1 hour''

 

[GoodlifeX]

Recently? Alien Isolation. I found the game very boring and tedious. I'm surprised I was so let down by it.

 

[thefatness16]

I put 30 hours into DA:I. I wish I had those 30 hours back.

 

[Zareka]

It's been a while since I've played anything truly boring, but recently Dragon Age Inquisition was a whole lotta nothin' from start to finish. After I realised how pointless all this neat exploration I was doing was I didn't feel anything up until and after I'd finished it. It defined mediocre.

 

[Putosaure]

Pokémon X.

I was so bored and it never ended. But I made it. My first and last Pokémon experience.

 

[EPaul]

Remember Me

I want to beat it so i can delete it off my hard drive but it so boring than i feels like work when i play it

 

[tait269]

Destiny

 

[TheMan]

I put 30 hours into DA:I. I wish I had those 30 hours back.

i personally wouldn't say that exactly, but yeah i've started to get bored with DA:I. Follow the map to the cirlce, hold the trigger to kill enemies, pick up some trinket or book. Repeat. The story itself isn't enthralling enough to justify the monotony.

I'd sell the game back, but there's nothing else I'd buy with the money...

 

[ohlawd]

Dragon Age: Inquisition. finished it

now that's 70 hours I'll never get back

 

[Drewfonse]

Same as you OP, after completing Tales from the Borderlands the GoT game was extremely boring to play



brave

Yeah, I'm not sure why it's so boring, because TWD was so much more engaging. Bizarre.

 

[Sintoid]

Knack

 

[TheSpoiler]

Dragon's Age Inquisition. Just...nothing about that game drew me in. The combat was boring and too DPS focused and the attacks were sometimes too situational to matter. The story wasn't all that good, especially on how it was played out and executed. I just wasn't feeling it.

 

[Acquiescence]

Put some time into Apotheon yesterday and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. There's no spark to it in any way apart from its art style.

 

[justsomeguy]

I was bracing myself with "Shadow of Mordor" but then I saw this.

The Last of Us.

 

[ShamePain]

D4. So unique, so edgy, so incredibly dull and uninspired.

 

[Phat Michael]

Da:i for me. Stopping doing side missions about halfway through and just rushed through to the end.

 

[Lionel Richie]

Watch Dogs, couldn't finish the side quests because I really don't need to do 21239012 fixer contracts.

 

[Matriox]

Pokémon X.

I was so bored and it never ended. But I made it. My first and last Pokémon experience.

Pokémon X was my recent one as well, but man ORAS is really good comparatively.

 

[Alavard]

Probably Murdered: Soul Suspect. I still kind of enjoyed myself because of the uniqueness of the game, but man, there was barely any gameplay at all there, and even the puzzles basically just consisted of putting things in the right order.

Before that it was Dead Rising 3's DLC chapters. I enjoyed myself up to the end of the main game, but the DLC chapters were just too 'samey'.

 

[HildyB]

Thief - almost made it through the tutorial stage

 

[georly]

Put some time into Apotheon yesterday and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. There's no spark to it in any way apart from its art style.

Hmm, shame. I got it free on PS plus but don't have a PS4 yet. Was hoping it'd be nice and metroidvania-like, but is it just as linear as it looked in the quick look at giant bomb? Go here, do that, no time or reason to explore?

 

[danowat]

Probably Far Cry 4, it was a lot of busy work, with very little meat on it's bones.

I still managed to stick 40+ hours into it, which says more about my mentality to gaming than it does about the quality of the game.

Feeling the same with the Shadows of Mordor and DA:I playthroughs I am currently doing, neither are particularly interesting, just a lot of busy work really.

Think I am also going to agree with TLOU, peaked with the prologue, been downhill ever since, it's all a bit pedestrian.

 

[Ourobolus]

It's not really a recent game, but I recently finished it (like back in late 2014), but Legend of Dragoon. Don't know why I bothered.

 

[Summer Haze]

Assassin's Creed: Unity.

They managed to make the combat even more boring, despite being more challenging. And it's just more of the same old, but better looking. I only managed to get past the prologue before I turned it off and deleted it from my HDD.

Yawn.

 

[MajorTom]

Assassins creed unity. It's still pretty broken but even looking past the technical issues it's a bad game. I'm about half way through it now and I want to finish it just so that I didn't completely waste my money.

 

[Drewfonse]

D4. So unique, so edgy, so incredibly dull and uninspired.

Yup, total snoozer.

 

[Kriken]

Didn't really care for the Battlefield Hardline beta

 

[kurahador]

Only took 2 post, damn.

Bravely Default - I feel like playing it for the second time and completing all the sidequests for some reason, really took a toll on my sanity.

 

[Experien]

If we are going completed route...I'd say Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel.

if we are going played route...probably have to be Apotheon.

 

[Aaron-Lagann]

D4. So unique, so edgy, so incredibly dull and uninspired.

Dragon Age: Inquisition bored me so much I sold it after a week.

 

[ito007]

Went into my backlog and tried playing arkham asylum. I'm still within the first hour or two of the game and I just can't bring myself past this tutorial stage.

Just kept playing thinking "I could be playing sonic generations instead right now"

 

[Tripolygon]

Killzone Shadowfall

 

[Flame Lord]

Knack. I even played it on the hardest difficulty so I would never have to play it again, only to unlock Very hard at the end. I don't care though, I'm never playing that shit again.

 

[Hero Prinny]

well the last game that bored me so much i had to just quit it was dead rising 3 for PC. I got it for free a while back cause of a pricing error and its my first dead rising game. I was really looking forward to it but i enjoyed literally nothing about the game. The enemies took too much damage to kill, especially the humans, map was a pain to navigate through, missions are boring, story is boring, characters are boring. When I would play it I'd just go around killing a bunch of zombies but then I found out the game is actually timed as well so i said fuck it. I tried to like the game, hell, I put 8 hours into it.

 

[djplaeskool]

Watch Dogs

 

[alterno69]

Destiny: after playing the alpha and beta, by the time i got to the Moon i was already bored with it but stuck through it till the end for some reason.

 

[Ourobolus]

Only took 2 post, damn.

Bravely Default - I feel like playing it for the second time and completing all the sidequests for some reason, really took a toll on my sanity.

You're insane. I made sure to do everything the first time, because hell if I was ever going to go through the game again.

 

[Slixshot]

The Last of Us.

Bologna (edited for the kids)

Edit: Mine would have to be Dragon Age. Too many fetch quests and the game is too slow paced.

 

[Barrylocke]

I beat Nostalgia on the DS a few months back, a game I got about a year ago because it was 5 bucks at Gamestop.

Holy crap, I'm so glad I passed on that one when it was new. Everything from the characters, to the plot, to the soundtrack screamed meh. The only things that were interesting was seeing how similar it played to FF3 ds graphically and engine-wise (not surprising, it was made by the same devs that made FF3 DS) and the fact that the game took place in an alternate Earth with real-world continents and cities (the main character is from London for example).

Other than that, it was a giant 40+ hour sack of blah. And I say this as a huge JRPG fan.

 

[teeny]

I finished playing Daxter recently and... uh, well I'm not really sure why I bothered. Looks very pretty but just dull. No variety in the enemies, level design left a lot to be desired. But I still powered through.

 

[danowat]

Bologna (edited for the kids)

Explain the virtues of TLOU without using the word "emotional"

 

[Clarkus Darkus]

Dragon Age Inquisition

pumped 50hrs into it and just cant be arsed anymore with it, So tedious.