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

Tokyo Mirage Sessions FE and Call of Duty: Black Ops 1.

One because of garbage story pacing, the other one because at launch it was an absolute mess.
 
fallingdove said:
Star Fox Zero -

Played through the first 3 levels. Replayed those same levels a few more times trying to get used to the controls. Finally after a couple hours playing the game that was supposed to restore the Star Fox franchise, I deleted it from my Wii U vowing never to play again.

Whoever pushed for those garbage controls, the need to look up and down between the tv and the Wii U game pad, and the multiple control modes throughout a level needs to be banned from making games ever again.
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God damn D: What they were thinking?? Game has been selling for cheap on amazon for months. That never happens with a Nintendo game. Talk about major bomba :(
 
Cod AW . Played for a week or so and just nope . Those famous cod servers . Sheer garbage. Tried to go back twice and never made more than an hour
 
Gears of War. I just gave up after having the same bug kill me twice after the super hard second level.

Haven't touched the series since. Mainly because I don't have an Xbox anymore anyway.
 
Skyrim, 3 hours. I love RPGs but I just didn't like it, everyone thinks I'm weird.
 
SSX (2012) on PS3. If I remember correctly, I only played for an hour tops. I wanted to relive SSX 3 and SSX On Tour but got something else instead.
 
Starting with the PS360 generation, I played everything I bought to completion. I'd have a laundry list of games I got during the PS2 era that I abandoned within hours because I was so addicted to SOCOM.

Recently, RB6 Siege. I had some SOCOM friends who got it, but they were usually unreliable when it came to online shooters, so I waited about a month to see if they were gonna keep playing. I finally decide to take the plunge, they start playing ranked a day or two before it arrived, they didn't wanna play unranked and I wasn't experienced enough for ranked, and I got left in limbo. I started the Witcher 3 a few days later and never looked back.
 
Recently?

The Witcher 3 - Both quickest and most absurd reason. Saw that kid in the prologue that looks and moves like a regular adult that has been shrunken down. Turned the game off.

Fallout 4 - Got out of the first Vault. "This is cool. I'll wait for mods." A year later... still not gone back to it.
 
I actually abandon a lot of my games after one play through. Fallout 4 I haven't played since day 1. Dragon Age Inquisition was the same , Doom and Little Big Planet 3. I almost abandoned Uncharted 1 but I've played that for 3 sessions now, only because people said 2 is really good and I want to do them in sequence.

There's such a pattern to the big AAA games that's a little unengaging and boring. I think most of the time I'd rather play something different from indy game devs or some joyous Nintendo game.
 
I'm sure there have been many, but a semi-recent one off the top of my head would be Star Wars Battlefront. I think I sold it after only a couple of matches. Terrible game.
 
No Man's Sky.

Hollycat said:
The original dishonored. I thought it would be like Skyrim...
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Just curious, how old were you?

Subway Diet said:
Recently?

The Witcher 3 - Both quickest and most absurd reason. Saw that kid in the prologue that looks and moves like a regular adult that has been shrunken down. Turned the game off.

Fallout 4 - Got out of the first Vault. "This is cool. I'll wait for mods." A year later... still not gone back to it.
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You are a strange person.

Bronx-Man said:
I beat BioShock Infinite in two days and proceeded to never play it again after that.
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But if you beat it then you didn't abandon it...

Oblivionmancer said:
I bought The Witcher 3 the week it released... installed it... have yet to load it up.
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I'm also not sure you can abandon something you haven't even started... and you are a strange person.


Isn't strange how wanton some of us are with our money? Why buy games we don't have time to play? It's almost like acquiring games is the real game. I really do think internet video game culture is terrible about enabling each other to buy in excess. We market the games for the companies. We turn our enthusiasm and fandom into the hard sell.

We even make threads asking people what we should buy next, asking for someone to convince us that we want something we don't need. "What is my collection missing?" "Should I buy something from this sale?"

I buy way more than I can play, too. It makes it hard to bitch about the evils of consumerism. The digital age is particularly devilish because I'm not surrounded by the stuff I buy.
 
Starfox Zero got about one and a half hours before gettting ditched and forgotten. I actually cleared it and came back to it twice to try to find the few levels I hadn't played, found the gameplay to be even more tedious than I remembered, and found the method of unlocking these levels to be really unrewarding (I killed Starwolf too fast the first time through apparently and have to deliberately take too long now?) and just ended up ditching it again. What an utterly shitty game. I feel like I gave it more chances than it deserved.
 
No Man's Sky. I tried to love it, I really did. Played it 2 hours and sold it to a local shop and got most of my money back.
 
Bioshock Infinite. Couldn't get past the combat. Seriously, like the first whole combat section was just terrible for me.
 
For me, a toss-up between Dragon's Age Inquisition, Fallout 4, and Witcher 3. I put 10, 15 hours into all three and they all became a chore for me in spite of their positives.
 
Getting really sick and tired of the endless cycle of NMS bashing in almost every thread. Just let it go, what needs to be said about it has already been said.
 
Malice215 said:
Starfox Zero. It's still sealed.

Halo 4. Played it for 5 minutes after buying it.
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If we're talking about games we haven't opened at all then I still have Pikmin 3 and Yoshi's Wooly World untouched.

And I gave up on Halo halfway through 2 when the game took me out of Master Chief and told me to play as the stupid aliens. Fuck. That. Shit. Thankfully Half-Life 2 came along and made me love FPS games again.
 
Mafia 3. Made it to where the game seemingly starts after the intros and then put it down to wait out patches.

Edit: though to be fair I paid 34 on cdkeys.
 
Didn't actually pay 60 bucks for it, but I dropped Demon's Souls pretty quickly. I just couldn't stand the consumable healing items.
 
Probably Dragon Age 2.

I loved Dragon Age: Origins so getting the sequel was a no-brainer.

Biggest piece of shit game ever.
 
Watch_dogs = about 10 mins into the game i just knew this game was not something i should waste my time on

MGS: the bit where you had to get into the elevator, i was like NOPE
 
X: Rebirth. Spent about 4 hours on it.

I hadn't *really* played an X game before, and I had high hopes. It's garbage; poor visuals, performance, systems, animations, characters. It's the only game I have 100% regretted buying, and it has made me far more apprehensive towards game purchases.
 
I bought Senran Kagura: Estival Versus in March and only ever messed around in the dressing room last month. If that's not abandoning a game I don't know what is.
 
Assassin's creed unity. I had spent about 45 minutes climbing this building then all of the sudden I got stuck on a wall...just stuck. Tried 10 minutes to get unstuck, couldn't. Traded it in the next day.
 
theonerayman said:
Assassin's creed unity. I had spent about 45 minutes climbing this building then all of the sudden I got stuck on a wall...just stuck. Tried 10 minutes to get unstuck, couldn't. Traded it in the next day.
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Did it ever occur to you to..........reload the game?
 
Forza Horizon 2. I loved the first game and played it religiously. Horizon 2 was one of the reasons I even purchased an Xbox One. A couple of hours later I uninstalled it from pure boredom and barely touched my Xbox again until I sold it.

South Park: Stick of Truth as well. That game was terrible.
 
Exist Archive (which I may go back to) and Resident Evil 0 HD (which I've tried to go back to).

Yoshi's Wooly World and Twilight Princess HD were abandoned shortly in due to the fact that I just don't feel like switching to my Wii U most of the time.
 
Infamous second son and ac black flag. Both died at the same time which was when I saw the amount of repetitive missions and collectibles. Think it was 3 hours in ac and 5 hours in infamous. PS3 open world games have made me bitter to average quality open world games.
 
Johnny Cage In The Shower said:
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Damn autocorrect... :p
 
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