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[Batiman]

I wouldn’t say the game sucked but I’d put dead cells and Nier automata in this category. Just didn’t have fun playing them but for some reason bu put time into them.

 

[Ten_Fold]

Sf5 in recent memory, can’t believe I got to like 15kBP online to realize I hate the game. I tried to like it, but man I hate how dumbed down the game feels.

Horizon zero dawn didn’t suck, it was just boring, it felt meh, like I played it for like 4-5hrs and never touched it again.

 

[Warnen]

Anthem. Loved every min of it till I beat to campaign. Most of these types of game start at the end of the story this one just came to a grinding halt.

 

[Blond]

SFV

My PS5 said I put 80 hours in and I’m trying to figure out why I did that lol

 

[Thabass]

Maneater

Funny, I played this for an hour and realized it right away.

 

[Blond]

Red Dead Redemption 2, I mean I was a little bored but when the game had a mission that was a flat out QTE to Queens of the Stone Age everything hit me like a ton of bricks of how shit the movement was, the characters, the story, the mechanics, just everything.

 

[drganon]

Funny, I played this for an hour and realized it right away.

I got it as a gift so I gave it much more of a chance than I should of.

 

[Ikutachi]

I beat Quest 64.

 

[Potato Chip PRO]

The current Pokémon games.... They get worse and worse after each release.

 

[rodrigolfp]

Halo CE, Halo 2 and Destiny 2. Took me a little time to realize the aim assist (bullet magnetism) playing with m+kb. To hell with any aim assist

 

[Dr. Suchong]

"Too" Human.

 

[Astral Dog]

Tales of the Abyss, i literally throwed the cartridge in the in the

 

[Sejan]

Every mainline final fantasy since 9 (I haven’t played the mmos). They have completely lost sight of what made the series great.

The entire elder scrolls series is the definition of wide but shallow. There are a ton of systems, but there just isn’t any depth to the majority of them. Unfortunately, each game is even more shallow than the last. At this rate, elder scrolls will be an idle, clicker game within a game or two.

 

[GHG]

Most recently?

I regret paying full price and putting 40 hours into Cyberpunk in its current state.

I'm pretty sure it will be a completely different game in a year or twos time and will be much more worthy of that kind of time investment.

 

[Laconian Sword]

BotW: Soulless, empty, boring, and unnecessarily dark. I've been a Zelda fan since the first one on NES and this was the least Zelda-like Zelda I've ever played. World traversal was cool, but I dropped the game once I realized how repetitive it was. Every new area is usually some tower or another annoying shrine with a stable. No dungeons, wtf. Weapon breakage and recipe busywork. Incredibly overhyped game for people with Nintendo beer goggles.

Skyrim: Amazing at the beginning for its time, especially the first dragon encounters, but super repetitive to the point that seeing mentions of draugrs in GoW a decade later actually made me queasy.

 

[BlitzLord2369]

Smash Ultimate. Offline is great until you boot up online

 

[rofif]

Far Cry 3 - that was not the boss? There is another island?

Dead island - The first environement was cool... city was different... sewers? forest? it goes downhill

Alien Isolation - Wow, great graphics, atmosphere, I dig it. After 4-5 hours... wait? turn on another generator? another generator? Another generator? Another minigame?

Horizon Zero Dawn - 30 hours of having to aim at small glowing parts or robots. 30 hours of crafting arrows... the story made less sense as it went forward.

Red Dead Redemption 2 (Actually liked it but) - This is a weird one. I liked playing it but realized it was shit AFTER I finished it... I would not want to replay this game. The pacing is that slow.

Days Gone - (still better than above games and actually a pretty fine game) Love the graphics and setting. Wait,,, so Buzzer really us useless? it took 30 hours to get to horde killing and decent bike fuel capacity?!

 

[JMarcell]

Cyberpunk 2077

 

[AmuroChan]

Final Fantasy XIII - I've loved every FF game up to that point. 50 hours into FFXIII and I just couldn't do it anymore.

Halo 5 - I kept waiting for the campaign to get better. It never did.

 

[GHG]

BotW: Soulless, empty, boring, and unnecessarily dark. I've been a Zelda fan since the first one on NES and this was the least Zelda-like Zelda I've ever played. World traversal was cool, but I dropped the game once I realized how repetitive it was. Every new area is usually some tower or another annoying shrine with a stable. No dungeons, wtf. Weapon breakage and recipe busywork. Incredibly overhyped game for people with Nintendo beer goggles.

God you reminded me... I put a silly amount of time into this game thinking it must get good at some point considering all the praise it received. Nope, just the same old shit over and over. If ubisoft released that game it wouldn't have even got 7/10.

 

[InfiniteCombo]

Remember Me. Not that it took me long -- I just kept trying to give it a chance. And I still don't think the game outright sucks -- it just wasn't for me. And it's a shame because I think the premise is fantastic, and the setting and protagonist both have a lot of potential. But I got tired of the gameplay loop and the bad encounter design, and to this day, it is the only game on Steam I have ever uninstalled and deleted/deregistered from my library. (This was in the days before Steam refunds; I would have certainly asked for a refund if that option was available at the time.)

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

Star Ocean 3 is a game I hate-played for probably 40 hours of its 50 hour runtime. 2004 was a different time, man.

 

[hououinkyouma00]

None.

I've never put anything more then maybe 2 hours into a game that I really didn't like. I know whether a game "sucks" IMO pretty quickly. Even the games that I did put a couple hours into I only did so just in case the game got better which in some cases has worked out like with the Wolfenstein reboot. That first level is generic trash, but quickly turned into something great and same with Spec Ops The Line.

 

[apowhungo]

Death Stranding

im only about 2 hours in and already worrying im gonna have that realization :/

Days Gone. Spent around 20 hours with it. Tried to convince myself that I’m having fun because I liked the idea and the world, but it is simply too flawed.

i know what you mean but honestly unlocking the hordes are almost worth getting through everything. its an unnecessarily long game though, great voice acting though.

 

[Ikutachi]

Every mainline Zelda game after The Wind Waker.

 

[Virt McPolygon]

Devil May Cry V: nice combat system, graphics, character animation, etc, until you realize you need to play a good part of the game with a shit character (V), and the second half of the game is terribad because it's inside a fucking tree with almost no visual and gameplay variation.

Yes the latter half was a fucking slog since it was so visually boring. Felt like I was playing a PS2-era title with the level design.

 

[Maine84]

RDR 2

 

[darth.shrimp]

Path of Exile.
While it doesn't "suck", it took me a couple hundred hours to realize this wasn't a game made for me. People playing only seasonal ladder will not care, but I like playing the same, lovingly crafted characters for months, if not years; but new patches at the start of every season ruining the builds I was starting to enjoy killed the game for me.

 

[Arsic]

Witcher 3. Spent 25 hours on one session before getting bored, tried again a few times with 5 to 10 hour attempts before getting bored.

Game is a snooze fest.

 

[prinz_valium]

RDR2 and Monster Hunter World. Both have super slow clunky gameplay that makes it impossible for me to enjoy them.

I need it fluid and smooth.

 

[hououinkyouma00]

Dance Dance Revoultion is dog shit, FFXIII is great.

Woah, DDR is fun.

 

[BlitzLord2369]

Assassin’s creed

 

[HeadsUp7Up]

BotW: Soulless, empty, boring, and unnecessarily dark. I've been a Zelda fan since the first one on NES and this was the least Zelda-like Zelda I've ever played. World traversal was cool, but I dropped the game once I realized how repetitive it was. Every new area is usually some tower or another annoying shrine with a stable. No dungeons, wtf. Weapon breakage and recipe busywork. Incredibly overhyped game for people with Nintendo beer goggles.

God you reminded me... I put a silly amount of time into this game thinking it must get good at some point considering all the praise it received. Nope, just the same old shit over and over. If ubisoft released that game it wouldn't have even got 7/10.

I used to feel bad for not finishing this game since I paid full price for it but I finally realized I just wasn’t really into it. Looks like I wasn’t alone at all.

 

[Flutta]

Every AssCreed game except for Black Flag.

 

[Beer Baelly]

Asscreed Origins. Put in 100 hours lol

 

[theclaw135]

Skyrim wears out its welcome hundreds of hours before you're remotely done with the sidequests.
Mega Man X8 gets credit for stepping up the visuals and voice acting. Until it dawns on you how gimmicky the levels still are.

 

[TheFawz]

Gears 5

I regret the time I spent into it, especially Escape/Horde/Versus, what a waste of my time for a terrible game. Even the campaign I should have rushed it or watched it on YouTube. I'm just glad I got it through GamePass instead of buying it and will be a lot more aprehensive with the series moving forward

 

[Celcius]

Tales of Graces f. When I finally beat the final boss I immediately took the game out of my console and went to sell it at a local games store.

 

[EverythingsOverrated]

Assassin's Creed 3: The Thread

Probably put 20 hours into that game before I realized it just wasn't that good. Super disappointing to look back on how they bungled that one.

 

[Azelover]

I usually can tell if a game sucks in the very beginning.

But just for the sake of complaining, I'll say Final Fantaxy XII. It sucked from the beginning, but it took finishing it for me to believe it..I was a huge fan of the series..up to that point.

Haven't really been back since.

 

[TriSuit666]

Star Wars: Squadrons. But it was about 5 minutes, so easy to refund.

 

[crozier]

Star Wars: Squadrons. But it was about 5 minutes, so easy to refund.

I can’t get past the controls and I haven’t researched a new control scheme. In my mind, once I find controls I can live with I will start to enjoy myself.

 

[theclaw135]

I usually can tell if a game sucks in the very beginning.

But just for the sake of complaining, I'll say Final Fantaxy XII. It sucked from the beginning, but it took finishing it for me to believe it..I was a huge fan of the series..up to that point.

Haven't really been back since.

Final Fantasy IV had one of the craziest difficulty curves I can name. Once you run into the likes of monsters that deal a bunch of status effects at once... yikes.

 

[Come On Tars]

Outer Worlds.

 

[Radrigal]

Spec Ops: The Line. Even at the end of the game I was like "Is this it?"

 

[Kenpachii]

Witcher 3 main game, it just wasn't good. endless dialogue / terrible combat.

Last DLC made up for it tho.

 

[driqe]

God of war, Gears 5, Ghost of Tsushima, Watch dogs, Days Gone, Quantum break, Gravity rush, FF7R, NIOH 1(I liked 2), uncharted 4 Valhalla
Hollow Knight

 

[AJUMP23]

NMS I played it for 2 weeks. Should have stopped at 1.

Hudson’s adventure island. The game sucks and as a kid I tried to convince myself I liked it. I didn’t. I hated it. It taught me a valuable lesson of valuing my dollar and be careful with what I purchase. Buy quality games.

 

[Greasy Caveman]

The original Red Ded Redemption. No Soul

 

[Ailynn]

For me, Assassin's Creed: Valhalla. I know it doesn't suck, and it's a beautiful game...but I just could not keep going through it after 100 hours in.

(Probably my own fault for always feeling like I have to explore and collect everything.)