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Fastest you've completely abandoned a $60 game after purchase

Assassin's Creed Unity.

Couldn't even make it an hour at launch. Glitchy, ran like shit, and the first missions were terrible. Once the map opened up I went to one of the billion markers and it asked me for money to one something. Fuck. That.

Edit: after the big patch that allegedly fixed it I tried again but the opening missions were still boring and janky. Made it to a mission where I was supposed to ride somewhere by my horse was glitching out and the NPC talking to me was mounted backwards. Quit and uninstalled the game again.
 
After heavily invested on Wasteland 2: DC on PS4 which I loved it to death, i was looking for a new cheap game on PSN. I saw DA: Inquisition GOTY got discounted and bought it for like 10 dollars. Jeez the file size was big almost reached 70 gigs. Done with downloadin and stuff, it's time to play it. My God the combat was so boring and I stopped playing it in an hour or so. Didnt look back and started downloading Pillars of Eternity on Steam.
 
_Spr_Drnk said:
Last years Star Wars Battlefront. Paid full price, got less than a couple of hours out of it.
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This and Brink (that game is hot ass). Also Shadow of Mordor I think I only play like 10 hours or so but eventually I want to go back to it.

I have a bunch of games I bought that I never even started (Diablo 3, Dragon Age Inquistion, Infamous Second Son) but most of those I got on sale so I'm not sure they count.
 
FF Type-0. Just bought it for Duscae demo. Played like 3 hours and then never touched it again. But will get back to it because I enjoyed it. Just had Bloodborne at the time and then never got the chance to play it.
 
TwistedFate said:
No man's sky: the thread
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This.

I lasted 1-2 hours maybe. Fixed my ship went to a second planet, explored and mined, visited a couple aliens, realized the gameplay loop was not for me at all. Deleted the game right after that first session.
 
I don't often buy games at $60 but the closest thing to it was getting CoD MW3 for Christmas. Only played it for like an hour or two. Just wasn't fun. Last CoD game I ever got and the only one I still have is Black Ops 1 for zombies. Think I ended up selling it for like $30 the following summer which was not a bad return.
 
Probably Star Fox Zero. And that's not because I hate it per se, just that score attacks pull me back less than they use to.
 
GorillaJu said:
Angry at myself for buying Fallout 4. Abandoned this game in the blink of an eye.
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Yep that too also agree with Bloodborne.

A lot of these come from gamesharing with my brother but yeah it's really hard to find games that I'll stick with long term.

I've only played Destiny, Witcher 3 (nearly done with it!) and I played Uncharted 4 to completion.
 
Recently? Deus Ex Mankind Divided. It's not even that it's bad or anything, it just never grabbed me. I'm a huge Deus Ex fan, ever since 2000, but I feel too much information was dumped on the player at the beginning of MD that it just felt overwhelming.

I'll go back to it one day, but I regret buying it day one.
 
King of Fighters 14. Not because it is bad, because I suck at fighting games. And I bought the Limited Edition :(

At least I had the Prime discount. And the artbook is good.
 
I've always been into parts of Halo, specifically the bigger open-ended combat scenarios, the fun AI and vehicles. But I've never liked Halo as a whole. Think not caring at all about the story, world or characters of Halo has a lot to do with it failing to grab me. Master Chief is the worst.

Halo 5...I literally had to go check that I'd actually bought it. Played MP for like 30 minutes.
 
Star Fox 0. While I enjoyed my time playing it, the incentive to replay stages for higher scores didn't appeal to me like it did for SF64, not to mention that most of the game extra stages were simply the same levels or smaller scenarios remixed. I played through the game twice and moved on to other stuff.
 
Fallout 4. Pre ordered PS4 digital gold edition (game+SP), played the day of launch for about 2-3 hours, just never really clicked with me and haven't launched it since.

I did love the fuck out of F3 and FNV and I will definitely return to the game some day, but probably on PC with mods aplenty.
 
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (1 hour). I bought the game because I loved Human Revolution and one of my friends has been working on it. My laptop couldn't handle it well and I bought WoW: Legion two days after. I bought a new desktop and intend to give it another try this week with MUCH better performance.

Otherwise, Mass Effect (2 hours). I remember waiting it like crazy and couldn't embrace the clunky and static gameplay. Fortunately, I gave it another shot a year after and it is one of my most beloved franchise.
 
Quantum Break. It looks nice with the dynamic resolution etc but the gameplay is just bad to me. It's just spamming a few cooldown abilities over and over. They could have made it like building on Max Payne, Vanquish, whatever, sadly not.
 
Guild Wars 2. Wanted to try an MMO but didn't want a subscription and didn't want a F2P to hit me up for cash all the time. Learned quickly that it wasn't for me and haven't touched it since day 2.
 
There aren't very many games I abandoned after paying full-price for them. The only one I can think of right now is inFamous: Second Son and I probably played that for about a week or a week and a half (not 24/7, though) before growing tired of it. There are probably games I completed in less time but then I completed them, so that doesn't reall count as abandoning them. If we're going to count games I didn't pay the full price for, I guess it'd probably be Assassin's Creed: Syndicate. Played that for maybe three hours or so and was just so bored that going any further would've felt like a total waste of time.
 
Project Cars PS4. Worst online purchase ever. Controls were abysmal . Was stuck with it since i bought it online.
 
Dark Souls II was absolutely insane for me.

I had, literally, never been more hyped for a video game release in my entire life probably...or maybe since I was 10 or something, whatever. Went to the midnight release at GameStop for the $69.99 or whatever collector's edition, took the next day of work off and booted it up around 1AM.

After one 5 hour binge and then another 4 hour binge later on in the day, I came to the conclusion that the game looked, played and felt nothing like I would expect a Demon/Dark Souls sequel to be. And obviously in the worst way possible.

I've still never been so utterly disappointed by a game in all my years of video game fandom. I was so confused and pissed off that I resorted to the absolute lowest pits of 'criticism'...bashing the game in comment sections on Facebook :/

Anyway, I threw the box in the back of my closet in a rage and only ever touched it once again about 6 months later only to realized that it might actually suck even worse than I initially had thought. Fuck you Dark Souls II and fuck you twice for Scholar... for making me pathetically dream that somehow, magically they'd right all the wrongs and maybe give me something close to the pre-release footage. Right.

*Price Is Right Losing Horn*
 
Oh man.

Fallout 4
Just marred with technical issues and felt antiquated

COD BLOPS III
Don't know what I was thinking buying this. Hated the feel and campaign production values

AC Unity
Forgot how terrible this franchise felt to play
 
Stabby McSter said:
I've purchased plenty of games at $60 and never played them :V
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Pretty much.

One of the most recent ones for me was Star Wars Battlefront. BOught it last year on a whim after hearing great things and getting star wars fevor... I played 1 match against the AI, thought it was good, turned it off, then never felt motivated to start it up again.
 
I only have two:

Dragon Age 2. I was wanting Origins: Part 2, so I got sick of DA2 before even getting through the tutorial. I stopped less than an hour in—as soon as I got to the city.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. I put a few hours into it, but I just couldn't get past that first boss fight and I wasn't having fun with any part of the game.


Even though I bought both of those games for myself, my boyfriend tried them and really enjoyed both of them, at least.
 
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