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Here's a list of games I tried to give many chances to but became too frustrated to play.

1. Jet Force Gemini: Played up until collecting one last ship part. Level design has me going in countless circles. I often accidentally exited the stages while being forced to slowly watch my ship take off. Painful

2. Witcher2. Theres so much to like about the game, but the missions and GPS confuse me into a whirlwind. After killing the first boss, got lost in the same spot where I fought him. Gave up because there is so many sections like that where slight miss direction frustrates me into insanity.

3. Metroid Prime3. Got far into the game, but I'm suppose to fly to planets searching for god knows what. I scanned the hell out of every nook and cranny. I bet its right in my face. If the game gave me the slightest clue of where to go, it would make all the difference in the world.

Banjo Nutts and Bolts: I love Banjo more than life. Building is my least favorite thing unless it's not required. In Nuts and Bolts I created so many failed contraptions that fall over, have poor controls. Designing with a game controller is not possible. You need a mouse or touch screen. The idea might work today if they fix the controls and use smart glass. Trying online player vehicles is a shot in the dark. Reviews would be bennificial because I'd gladly rate a low if the handling was off. It this games case, everything felt slippery. Also, Banjo looks like crap. Why did they perfect him on the n64 then redesign his look to an abomination?

 

[Noobcraft]

Dark Souls (360). The frame rate is so bad.

 

[desmax]

Tales of Xillia 2

I'm not doing that final dungeon.

 

[daninthemix]

2. Witcher2. Theres so much to like about the game, but the missions and GPS confuse me into a whirlwind. After killing the first boss, got lost in the same spot where I fought him. Gave up because there is so many sections like that where slight miss direction frustrates me into insanity.

I gave up during the Witcher 2's tutorial.

 

[Doombacon]

Knack. Final boss on hard. Just.... no.

 

[Iva Demilcol]

Project Sylpheed: so boring. =/

 

[Joey Ravn]

Dark Souls II. After loving the shit out of Dark Souls, I just couldn't bring myself to finish the sequel. Bloodborne looks like more of the same, so I guess I'm done with the Souls series.

 

[Sai-kun]

Zelda Skyward Sword: tutorial was so fucking mind numbingly boring that I gave up on it before I ever got to the first dungeon

 

[jamsy]

Persona 3.

Fuck this game. Fuck Tartarus and fuck grinding. Got about 50 hours in but couldn't take it anymore.

 

[emrober5]

Evil Within on ps4. I actually enjoyed the game, but the framerate literally made me nauseous at times so I sold it.

 

[grosvenor_92]

Metal Gear Rising - The final boss fight just drives me insane. However I might go back after I've finished the witcher 2

 

[DNAbro]

Tales of Graces F. Hated the characters so much. Only got like 8 hours in.

 

[zackmorris]

Assassins Creed 3. I played it for like 5 hours or so and it was still the tutorial.

 

[EmptySpace]

persona 3 portable.


after a couple of hours, ehhh...not for me.

i don't mind trying to level up. i love doing that in tactics ogre and disgaea, and i know i am open-minded about the games i try to play.


p3p just does not hook me. i don't know why. i don't think i've even gotten to the point where i can collect personas or something.

 

[doemaaan]

Tales of Graces F. Hated the characters so much. Only got like 8 hours in.

Man... I suffered 60+ hours through that crap. Why.

 

[Conkerkid11]

Both Dark Souls games and Dragon's Dogma.

Dark Souls 1 because I couldn't tolerate the janky PC version.

Dark Souls 2 because I couldn't tolerate how poorly invincibility frames were handled while rolling.

Dragon's Dogma because of performance.

 

[-MD-]

Ryse - It's Ryse lol, shit is terrible
Red Dead Redemption - Felt like GTA4 in the west, performance was all over the place and I just lost interest halfway through it.
GTA 4 - 35% story completion, had enough of that slop
Divinity Original Sin - 30 hours, just got tired of it. Wasn't a bad game it just felt like it took forever to go nowhere and the battles got boring after awhile
Pokemon X - snoozefest

Tales of Graces F. Hated the characters so much. Only got like 8 hours in.

I managed to finish that shit, good lord was it a waste of time.

 

[KazenY2J]

Dying Light.

The story was just too generic and the combat was too slow and not fun to me. Night missions are frustrating too.

 

[LookAtMeGo]

DA:I and FC4 recently. Both good games, just not good enough to maintain interest all the way through.

 

[AnnTiPa]

Ni No Kuni. I can't stand grinding in JRPGs so I always skip as many fights as possible. Usually this means that the bosses are a bit difficult but can be beaten and their XP rewards are large enough to keep my level high enough to finish the game. In Ni No Kuni, however, I've hit a wall. Simply can't beat the boss I'm currently stuck in, changing to easy is not an option and really don't feel like going back to level up.

 

[Overdoziz]

Quite a few.

 

[entremet]

Binding of Isaac.

I wanted another Spelunky, that I could play daily. This just didn't stick with me.

 

[Canucked]

Dragon Warrior back in the day. I got it with nintendo power when I was seven. I hated it. Replayed it years and years later and loved it.

My give up on farcry 4. It's getting boring at this point.

 

[Fbh]

Peace Walker: The game was just bad. Boring small levels and the worst bosses in the franchise. Story didn't seem that interesting either

Star Ocean a New Hope: When I was like 30 hours into the game my 360 died (RROD), when I got a new one it told me my save file was corruped. The game wasn't good enough to play those 30 hours again just to be able to continue

Monster Hunter 3 U: If I'm going to grind that much I'd rather just play an MMO wth more people and bigger worlds and more things to do

The Witcher 2: Graphics are nice, story and characters are good. But I just found it really tedious and boring to play. Plus I hated the combat system

 

[mcz117chief]

Killzone 2 and up. I LOVE the first game and the PSP one but I can't but hate the following games.

 

[Kas]

I have a few.

The Witcher 2 because even though its fun, it just doesn't mesh with me well.

Ni No Kuni. That game needed a whole new battle system. The mix of action and turn based combat wasn't fun and the AI was stupid as hell.

Darksiders 1. I've played it once and I'm pretty sure I beat it. I went back to play it and I just couldn't get past the damn sand worm thing. I'm not really sure how I did it to begin with.

ACNL. I just hate games that gate me behind stupid time restraints.

 

[Mac the KNife]

Red Dead Redemption.

Must've started it 3 or 4 times, only made it as far as Mexico once.

 

[Sölf]

.hack//QUARANTINE

I probably have to farm for a few hours in order to progress the story. And not because it's difficult but because I need specific items in order to hack doors. No thank you.

 

[wmlk]

persona 3 portable.


after a couple of hours, ehhh...not for me.

i don't mind trying to level up. i love doing that in tactics ogre and disgaea, and i know i am open-minded about the games i try to play.


p3p just does not hook me. i don't know why. i don't think i've even gotten to the point where i can collect personas or something.

P3P lacks any of the visual flair from the recent Persona games because it was on PSP. The director himself has commented on this.

Thankfully, I played P3P before P4. I can't really imagine going back to P3P now.

 

[Omadahl]

Ryse
Red Dead Redemption
GTA 4



I managed to finish that shit, good lord was it a waste of time.

I would give Red Dead Redemption another crack. I can understand how you can get so distracted by the world that the story falls away but the story was very well written.

 

[ta155]

Assassin's Creed III, which just had no respect for the player's time whatsoever.

Dragon Age Inquisition will get done eventually, but only because I bought it full price. If I didn't feel obligated to play it, I think I'd have given up.

 

[Zeyphersan]

Actual Final Fantasy 3. The final dungeon is the longest grindfest I've ever seen, with no save points. It's not happening.

 

[13randO]

Kingdom Hearts: Blahblahblah Days. I tried to play that game from the start twice and gave up in the same place...

 

[-MD-]

I would give Red Dead Redemption another crack. I can understand how you can get so distracted by the world that the story falls away but the story was very well written.

RDR is the only game from my list I want to try again, hopefully a PC or PS4 port happens one day.

Dying Light.

The story was just too generic and the combat was too slow and not fun to me. Night missions are frustrating too.

Coop is a must for that and the Dead Island games.

 

[Permanently A]

Dark Souls. The combat is good, I just have no motivation to play. I don't have fun with it.

Max Payne 2. Another game that is pretty good that I don't have fun with. Probably because I bored myself abusing quicksaves.

 

[Machinehead]

How can one get lost in MP3?
It is the most streamlined of the 3.

Metal Gear Rising - The final boss fight just drives me insane. However I might go back after I've finished the witcher 2

It took me a while to realise he drops that life recovery thing after a certain attack, made the fight MUCH easier.

 

[Damerman]

Assassin's creed 4
Deus ex
Planescape torment
Divinity: original sin
Star ocean 3

All of these because life got in the way.

 

[gelf]

Skyrim. There was no way I could tolerate hours of that unsatisfying combat.

 

[soulassssns]

Way to many to list to be honest.

 

[Fermbiz]

Im just about to give up on Bravely Default. Playing that game on hard mode. Stupidest decision Ive made. I know I can change difficulty whenever I like but the gamer in me won't allow that. And playing on hard mode in this game isn't about skill... Is about grinding your ass off.

 

[Damerman]

Assassin's Creed III, which just had no respect for the player's time whatsoever.

.

lmao

This is so spot on.

 

[Dominic_Shade]

In recent memory:

Assassin's Creed IV - Got bored.

Dark Souls - Almost gave up on it when I first bought it. Very glad I didn't. It's now one of my favourite games of the seventh generation.

Thief (2014) - Got bored.

Deadlight - Got bored.

There are probably a bunch more I'm forgetting, but they'd amount to the same thing. I stopped wanting to play them because I got bored.

 

[vypek]

.hack//QUARANTINE

I probably have to farm for a few hours in order to progress the story. And not because it's difficult but because I need specific items in order to hack doors. No thank you.

This is the 4th one, right? I think I had the last dungeon left in the game and just couldn't do it. Every single enemy was infected. I didn't want to grind to max level and see if that would help or not. And I couldn't be bothered to find out if the dungeon had a correct path that was better

 

[EmptySpace]

P3P lacks any of the visual flair from the recent Persona games because it was on PSP. The director himself has commented on this.

Thankfully, I played P3P before P4. I can't really imagine going back to P3P now.

i don't really care much about the graphics. i probably just did not like the dungeon-crawling aspect of it because it looked boring and tedious. the main difference between p3p and tactics ogre is that in p3p i just go to one place and find enemies to kill, kill and kill.


oh and honourable mention to red dead. i made it to the last area but i just couldn't take how boring the game is. seriously the epitome of boring. nothingness in-between towns. ugh. i had very bad memories of that game.

 

[Steve McQueen]

Lately.... The Order 1886.

Disappointed. I don't feel the game at all.

 

[AgentLampshade]

Dragon Age Inquisition. The grind is just wearing on me, and I accidentally spent my power on some side mission or something instead of the main mission I wanted to unlock. Nah, can't be bothered going back to it.

 

[Rezae]

Skyward Sword. Tedious and just not fun.

 

[Sölf]

This is the 4th one, right? I think I had the last dungeon left in the game and just couldn't do it. Every single enemy was infected. I didn't want to grind to max level and see if that would help or not. And I couldn't be bothered to find out if the dungeon had a correct path that was better

Yes, the 4th and final one, after I don't know, 80 hours of playtime? It's the part were you suddenly have to hack 3 doors and each requires 4 different of the infected/virus cores/whtaever they are called and 2-3 each. So 8-12 cores per door. Yeah, I am not farming those because of that stupid infection mechanic.

 

[Krusenstern]

Dark Souls (360). The frame rate is so bad.

Evil Within on ps4. I actually enjoyed the game, but the framerate literally made me nauseous at times so I sold it.

Y'all need a PC.

 

[NeoFaff]

Cave Story. The game lets you play very far into the game even if you're crap at platformers, then out of nowhere you have to go through a screen of tight spike filled corridors and shafts. Can't do it