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

I bought Revengeance day one on PS3 and was so turned off by the image quality that I never touched it after my first session. I own it on Steam now, but just haven't felt the urge to give it another shot.
 
I traded Watch Dogs in the day after I got it. I was hoping for an awesome cyberpunk game of subtlety and intrigue, and what I got was a cheap GTA clone. Okay, that's not all. I also got one of the least charismatic protagonists around, complete with painfully obvious backstory to justify his unjustifiable actions. What a mess.
 
No Man's Sky was my first Steam refund. I got my first hard crash and had heard what that game was, so I gave it less than an hour before I decided not to deal with it.
 
Destiny. I didn't know it was just Call of Halo Duty. Hated how someone with less skill plays for 200 hours and is awarded the one shot kill gun. "Pay $15 a month so someone who plays 200 hours a day but sucks will kill you over and over again regardless of skill" Dumb.
 
Final Fantasy 12. 2-3 hours in I lost interest. I am going to pick that game back up and try again, I might consider the remastered edition, but I'm kinda reluctant to buy it.
 
FarFromAnyGame said:
I'd say give it another chance.

For me, Just Cause 3, that game ran like shit on consoles.
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In recent memory, this. It wasn't even the performance, I got the game around christmas and Square Enix's baked in server features made the game literally unplayable for me. Not "this dips to 20 frames a second unplayable" but "stop the game every five minutes saying I was signed out and would take minutes more to log in, then would continue to do so even if I told the game to not sign in and go offline"

fuck that bullshit.
 
Can't say I've dropped anything within an hour of buying it, I try to get my moneys worth out of things and give things a fair shake. I played NMS for like 5 hours before calling it quits, completed all of The Order even after realising it was a pile of shit.
 
I'm pretty sure I have games that I paid full price for and then never got around to playing them.
The most recent example is Star Ocean 5 (although I think that was 50 bucks), played it for maybe 2-3 days, then dumped it as I didn't like it.
 
smash brothers brawl.

went into training mode. saw what they did to cpt. falcon. did some matches and tripped on a guaranteed ko. went online and saw the whole concept of it. dropped that ish HARD.

literally 45 minutes.
 
Closest I can come up with is a $40+tax game, SC2 Heart of the Swarm. Doubt I made it past the 5th mission and gave up on the campaign because it was garbage and realized the Multi just wasn't worth playing because the "meta" changed every other day with streaming being so prevalent.
 
jacob armitage said:
Probably Final Fantasy Type 0 HD, at least for generation 8. Though i did try really hard, a few times even, i could never get into it. I think its actually a pretty objectively bad game.
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I hard quit after getting to the world map. I'm amazed I made it that far. I hear they've cut back on the blur which drove me nuts, but it's just too late now.
 
Hmmm... I don't know if this counts, but I beat Uncharted 4 opening weekend and haven't played it since. I'm going to replay it when I get a PS Pro though.
 
Final Fantasy XIII

Had high hopes but the game was complete crap and I got rid of it after a good 2 hours playing.
Was so pissed of for wasting 65 EUR that it was the last game I ever bought at release apart from Soulsborne games. Now I always wait for a few months and pick up games 2nd hand for half the release price.
 
EA Sports Active 2.

It's actually pretty shit as a workout game. Did I think 3 workouts total. Fuc the running it does not track well at all, plus you gotta run like a bellend.
 
Final fantasy type O or whatever it was called. Figured I would give it a shot since it's the "darkest" ff and had the ff15 demo ad well. Played it for half an hour. Controls are shit. Turned it off and never turned it back on.
 
Wasn't $60, but the MMO Tera ($50) I played maybe a couple days, but only got to level 15 or so. Set it down and never went back to it.


oh, I just remembered, Lords of the Fallen. Bought it on PC when it first came out, got to the first boss, and haven't played it since. i've been meaning to go back to it eventually though.
 
Borderlands. Everything about that game felt like garbage. The shooting was terrible. It was just no fun.
 
final fantasy 14 collectors edition day 1.

i kid you not played the game for about 30 minutes after updating took me about 26 hours.
 
Two titles that come immediately to my mind are Ghost Recon Future Soldier and Deus Ex Mankind Divided. The last one was especially painfull considering how good in comparison Human Revolution was. It's a gorgeously designed game with environments painstakingly crafted for multiple playstyles but the story is garbage and the atmosphere is just not there. Dropped it after a day.
 
Quantum Break

The game was great and the 15-20 hour experience was really satisfying (I replayed it to get all the achievements). But the problem with the game is that there is zero content besides the campaign mode and some extra collectibles to grab.
 
Aladdin for SNES in 1993, though it probably cost more like $100 in Norway back then. Saw the end credits after about two hours of play, that felt like a small kick in the gut after working all summer to afford it... I endlessly replayed it until I could pick up every "special ending" crystal in my sleep, but still...


Edit: Misread, but still...
 
Pre-ordered NMS for $47 on Amazon. Played for less than a week, sold it to a local game shop for $38.

I'd say I got $9 worth of entertainment from it.
 
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