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[TheMan]

poor OP. Do yourself a favor: reinstall those games and give them a fair shot. Ollie in particular takes some time to get used to the controls, but once you do, it's a lot of fun.

To answer your question, i'd have to say binding of isaac. I gave it 30 mins but it just didn't seem fun to me. Gone and never coming back.

 

[Chris1]

GAF loves guacamelee, you've made a huge mistake

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I agree, I didn't like guacamelee either

I'm gonna go with Crimson Dragon. I downloaded it thinking it wouldn't be that bad. It was worse than I ever imagined it to be.

 

[thewhitehawk]

Dark Souls

Probably took about 30 minutes. I don't have time for that crap.

I'm not surprised.

 

[weekev]

Splatoon. Tutorial was really boring and i couldn't stand all that colour.

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im lvl 20 b+ rank. OP needs to learn some patience

 

[Screaming Meat]

Only one game.

Sniper: Ghost Warrior. At the start, I couldn't walk over a tiny raised rock without having to jump. I took it as a sign of subpar quality and ejected the disc immediately.

 

[PseudoViper]

Pretty much any horror games. Doesn't matter what it is. If it's remotely scary I'm not buying.

 

[Sora_N]

Binding of isaac

 

[Lork]

I'd actually be kind of interested to know what properties of a game could possibly prompt someone to completely dismiss it in less than a minute. Unfortunately the OP doesn't seem to be capable of articulating himself.

Oh well.

 

[Maggots]

Journey

 

[Deadpool_X]

This thread isn't worth my time, and it took me less than a minute to realize that. All I had to see was you calling Guacamelee a waste of your time.

 

[pantsonhead]

Star Ocean: The Last Hope. I know some people like it, but I took one look at that first girls skirt, and combined with the main characters name being "Edge Maverick", I just turned the game off and took it right back to the Gamestop I bought it from.

 

[DJ_Lae]

I have so little time now and so many cheap (or free) games get dumped on me that it doesn't take much to completely push them aside. Off the top of my head:

Lone Survivor - I like pixel art but this game is hideous. The 'A Jasper Byrne' game plastered on the title page felt a bit weird, and initial gameplay impressions were poor so I just exited and deleted it. There may be a good game buried somewhere deep but I don't have the time or desire to find it.

Crimson Dragon - what the fuck is this piece of shit?

IDARB - I feel like Microsoft punked me by making this a freebie.

Dust: An Elysian Tail - I do want to go back to this at some point and get into the combat but I've tried twice (PC and PS4) and the characters are so immediately offputting that I just can't do it.

Apotheon - I was initially excited because I was just coming off Guacamelee and it seemed to have a similar structure. Maybe it does, but the actual movement and attacking feels so goddamn awkward that I couldn't do more than a few minutes. A shame, because it looks unique.

Will probably think of more immediately after submitting this.

 

[phaze]

I played like 30 minutes of Last Remnant (my first jrpg since 10 minutes of FFX 15 years ago) and then I quit never to return to it.

 

[Sheriff_Battlesnake]

At first I thought this was a cry for attention and then I kept reading and you seem like a really swell person. Heck, maybe people CAN have different opinions than me.

I played like 30 minutes of Last Remnant (my first jrpg since 10 minutes of FFX 15 years ago) and then I quit never to return to it.

This is my common example. That game ran like total shit to the point of having no idea what I was looking at.

 

[JMDSO]

FFX-2.

It wasn't what I expected.

 

[LogN]

I want to believe this is a troll thread. Not so much for Noping out of games but the spelling of them.

 

[Daingurse]

Star Ocean: The Last Hope. I know some people like it, but I took one look at that first girls skirt, and combined with the main characters name being "Edge Maverick", I just turned the game off and took it right back to the Gamestop I bought it from.

I gave the game like 12 hours and I don't even remember know why . . .

 

[Renae]

Sacred 2

 

[ChaosZeroX]

Type 0 HD. I hated it.

 

[Mahmutti]

Guild Wars 2. I love MMOs and that seemed like the kind of game I'd like, but the mouse smoothing/acceleration just makes it unplayable.

 

[The Wheel of Fortune]

TBH I had the same experience, but pushed myself a little bit to unlock new/better weapons and the game was not that bad.

Ziggurat already does what Tower of Guns tried to, but with way better technical performance and gameplay variety.

 

[Anoregon]

I can't handle how well this gif loops.

 

[CyclopsRock]

I enjoyed Guacamelee but I didn't play it for more than an hour so... I dunno, maybe that means I didn't enjoy it that much. OlliOlli I played for about ten minutes and I just couldn't see how I was going to enjoy it so I also stopped playing that.

Within about a half hour of playing Bloodbourne I knew it wasn't for me, but I kept it up for maybe 10 hours to try and like it. I failed.

 

[Iva Demilcol]

If the characters or the art of a game don't appeal to me, then a trailer is just enough to know I'm not going to enjoy playing that said game.

So technically, I "play" them less than a minute to say: Nope, it's not for me.

 

[dragonzdogma]

I'd actually be kind of interested to know what properties of a game could possibly prompt someone to completely dismiss it in less than a minute. Unfortunately the OP doesn't seem to be capable of articulating himself.

Oh well.

Hi Lork,

I think the game was called skate or die for NES
(I never liked this game)

Immediately my brain went Nope, been there done that , and nope , nope , nope.

I am sure these games might be very different,
but hey, I was willing to at least give it a minute before going nah, let's try something else.

 

[enkaisu]

Styx: Master of Shadows

dat ugly goblin protag. yuck.

 

[TheInternetNomad]

P.T but in a good way.. Went back right after

 

[daniels]

maybe make a compilation video or something ^^

 

[Shinypogs]

I don't think I've ever quit on a game in less than an hour of play for boredom or dislike reasons but there's been more than a few where camera angles and perspective leave me woozy very quickly so I have to put them aside.

 

[KdylanR92]

Journey and Fez I think, both suffer from the same problem of being boring

 

[JMTHEFOX]

Where is this from?

PuchiM@s - The Idolm@ster

 

[banefirelord]

Saints Row 2.
"Hey, maybe this PC port won't be as bad as everyone...oh, fuck this shit."

 

[Lork]

Hi Lork,

I think the game was called skate or die for NES
(I never liked this game)

Immediately my brain went Nope, been there done that , and nope , nope , nope.

I am sure these games might be very different,
but hey, I was willing to at least give it a minute before going nah, let's try something else.

Well that's something, at least. There are games that I absolutely despise, and if I were to play something sight unseen that turned out to be very similar to one of them, I would probably quit pretty quickly too, although I personally would give the game at least 20 minutes or so to prove me wrong.

Thanks for taking the time to explain yourself.

 

[Triggerhappytel]

Guacamelee is only the best Metroidvania game in about a decade. Good work OP.

 

[Twookie]

mrw i thought this was going to be a good thread

OT: don't think i've ever given up on a game within the first minute of playing it, but dustforce made me quit fast since i couldnt for my life figure out how to climb that large wall in the tutorial stage....

 

[Aaron D.]

I know many will slate me for this but....Witcher 3.

Now you've done it.

Surprised you didn't admit to kicking babies while you're at it.

 

[Petrae]

If a game doesn't hook me within an hour, I stop playing it. Taking the OP literally, I can't judge most games within 60 seconds... but within an hour, I generally know if I should continue investing my time or not.

Guacamelee failed the hour test for me, for what it's worth.

 

[FoxSpirit]

GAF loves guacamelee, you've made a huge mistake

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I agree, I didn't like guacamelee either

I'm gonna go with Crimson Dragon. I downloaded it thinking it wouldn't be that bad. It was worse than I ever imagined it to be.

Try local coop. Guac is a fantastic couch coop game. Also turns the game into easy mode for fun times

 

[SuperDowns]

Guacamelee is amazing.

OlliOlli I had the same reaction. It seems like a glorified iOS game to me.

 

[clevbrowns94]

Resident Evil 6.

 

[DomsPlaying]

This thread made me go "nope" in WAY less than a minute :-(

 

[Commanche Raisin Toast]

DriveClub

I suck at racing games, especially if they have even small hints of simulation in them. DC turned out to be not quite as arcadey as I hoped, so before the intro race was even over I knew it was a bust.

I probably slammed into every corner. If it's more complicated than Wipeout, then I can't deal. Even with auto transmission.

Gorgeous game though!

 

[Thyralax]

Alien: Isolation, I really tried liking the game but I just didn't like how it felt ya know? Also Guacamelee is an amazing game go and actually play it all the way through.

 

[Sesha]

I lasted 30 minutes into Duke Nukem Forever, then uninstalled it. Everything about it felt off. I usually know what I want to play before I buy it, and I mostly have an open mind, but DNF was an impulse buy. I felt I had to give it a shot. I did and I never looked back.

Read what other people are posting

Dragon's Crown
Bayonetta 2
Dragons Dogma!!!!!!!!!

-_-;

If you like those three, OP, then chances are you'll like Guacamelee.

 

[Rodney McKay]

I can't think of a game I've EVER abandoned in a minute or less, I try to give them at least a fair try of the mechanics to see what they have to offer.

But games I've given up on more quickly than others include:

• Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon. Maybe it was the class I chose, but it was slow, clunky, and there were not many enemies on screen like you'd expect from the other EDF games.
• Red Faction Armageddon. I gave it a few hours and it still sucked. Very little destructibility compared to the previous game, bad enemies, bland shooting. I eventually went back to it and even finished it, but it didn't get any better.
• Final Fantasy Tactics for the DS. I honestly don't think I gave this game enough time since I never really figured out the structure of the game. I felt like I needed to level up my team, but I was at a boss fight that before I got to any random encounter style missions and just got killed immediately. I love Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, so I think I just needed to play this one a bit more to get my head around it.
• Castlevania Lords of Shadow. Another game I gave a few hours to, but I never found myself enjoying the combat.
• Uncharted 1 and 3. I had played Uncharted 2 and the Vita one already so I think I'm just over the Uncharted style of game. U1's combat was really bad and enemies sucked up bullets like crazy even on easy. Uncharted 3 I was just tired of the gunplay in general and all of the platforming tricks that it throws at you (Oh no, the pipe/ledge/branch I jumped to gave way and I nearly died for the dozenth time!).
• Dragon's Dogma. Combat was cool and I liked some of the scale stuff with enemy sizes, but the open world parts of the game left a lot to be desired for me and I HATED the letterboxing of the screen. I might give that PC version a try if it comes to the US and you're able to play it at a proper 16:9 screen ratio.

 

[Spieler Eins]

Sonic CD HD. No idea what they did to the spritework in this version, but for some reason, the HD spritework really hurts my eyes and makes me dizzy. At least in the demo. Thank god there was a demo.

 

[backflip10019]

I played about an hour of IDARB before I determined that it's just not for me and quit. Same thing with Terraria on the 360.

 

[Whiteblade999]

X3: Terran Conflict. Started it up, tried to move my ship around, after hitting everything on my keyboard nothing was working. Didn't want to read the manual so I put it down and never picked it back up.

 

[Lork]

Sonic CD HD. No idea what they did to the spritework in this version, but for some reason, the HD spritework really hurts my eyes and makes me dizzy. At least in the demo. Thank god there was a demo.

They probably just slapped some shitty upscale filter like HQ3X on it. I'm 90% sure you can turn that stuff off though.

 

[Northeastmonk]

Star Ocean: The Last Hope. I know some people like it, but I took one look at that first girls skirt, and combined with the main characters name being "Edge Maverick", I just turned the game off and took it right back to the Gamestop I bought it from.

Not as bad as my experience. I bought it from a Blockbuster that was closing down. It's a real shame because I bought FEAR2 and that was a great game. I got a decent way in and the characters were not doing it for me. I also dread hearing ''kay'' and the game felt a tad off.

Infinite Undiscovery was another game I couldn't get into. I had the strategy guide, poster, etc. etc. I couldn't get into it because the characters were awful.

The Last Remnant was good, but it was driving my patience after a while. It did well, but it wasn't doing anything more hours into it.

I absolutely despised Call of Jaurez. I don't see why anyone played through either of those games. I threw my PC copy I got from Walmart away in the trash. I enjoyed 1 western game last gen and that was it.


FEAR Perseus Mandate was such a watered down FEAR game. The objects looked horrible and the levels were so uninteresting. I immediately regretted buying it and sold it.

There's quite a bit I hit the exit button on. I'd have to think about it.

I hated Final Fantasy 4 Warriors of Light. The UI made me sick. It's a disgrace to the art used in Tactics. That game made me sick of handheld RPGs for a while.

I didn't get into a lot of Suda51's games last gen. They just rub me the wrong way. I bought Anarchy Reigns and it was pointless. I love Platinum's games. I loved Vanquish and Bayonetta, but the AR wasn't doing it for me. I shut Killer is Dead off real quick. It was dragging on and on more than it was entertaining me.

There's games I love and others that I wish were recycled.