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[subversus]

This happened to me with Mirrors Edge. I really hated it. I died like 1000 times during the campaign. I wanted to write a letter to DICE to describe in details how awful it is. Sometimes I wanted to bash level designer's head against the wall (usually after dying 30 times on the same place and then learning that you had to do something opposite of what you were doing). I hated everything except some combat pieces.

Nevertheless I beat it. Why? It had become a matter of principle. I had to beat it. Also the atmosphere was incredible. The game had beatiful sountrack. I wanted to stay in the city and found out how the story ends (even if there was nothing special about it). But I certainly wasn't enjoying it.

Has anybody completed a game hating it from the beginning to the end?

 

[mango drank]

Home Alone on the SNES.

shudder

 

[dorkimoe]

any game i play on veteran or legendary makes me hate the game does that count?

 

[MikeE21286]

I've actually never done that before.

 

[Dragmire]

I'm not trolling or anything (just because this is an obvious Neogaf answer), but FF7 was the only game I've done that with. And I didn't hate everything about it, but I bought a PSX for it so there was much disdain for the game. The music and characters were great, but I found it to be a really sloppy, cumbersome and slow RPG that I kept playing because of how everyone gushed about the story and the ending. The story was okay, but the ending was like *snip* The End!

 

[Brazil]

Assassin's Creed II.

All the way to the Platinum.

Never again.

 

[crimzonflame]

FF13 is the most recent one.

 

[USD]

The closest thing I can think of is Zone of the Enders. I didn't hate it, but the game had worn out its welcome before I finished. The sad thing is that I'm talking about a 4-hour game.

 

[Lebron]

FFX, FFX-2, FFXII, Halo 3, Heavenly Sword, Crisis Core, A ton of Batman and Superman games.

 

[Danne-Danger]

Call of Juarez, I hated it so much but got through it to the end, and then the end was fucking horrible.

Didn't finish the second one.

I just want another good Western FPS so bad.

 

[sixteen-bit]

bioshockl

 

[badcrumble]

Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days. So so unfun, and I kept thinking that the good part was just around the corner, but... nope, it kept being the same old bosses with bigger health bars.

 

[Boney]

Henry Hatsworth.

 

[Aeana]

Phoenix Wright 2 and Phantasy Star 3 for the same reason: didn't want to miss anything when I played the game that came after.

 

[Salsa]

Henry Hatsworth.

Holy fuckin shit.

.. although somehow it doesnt surprise me.

 

[XxSlasherMcGirkxX]

Devil May Cry 2. At the time I thought could Capcom make more of a shit sequal, but now...

 

[Sydle]

Final Fantasy VIII
Jak II

I've given up on so many games I've hated (e.g., 25 hours into Dragon Quest 8 and I just couldn't take it any more), but I wanted to finish Jak II because I absolutely adore the original, and I finished FFVIII because I've played through each game in the series. I'm currently fighting my way through FFXIII despite my disgust with it.

 

[spats]

Fallout 3.

 

[Boney]

Holy fuckin shit.

.. although somehow it doesnt surprise me.

I wanted to love it, and I did at times, but my god, what were they thinking at some points.

 

[Cow Mengde]

Bioshock. I was still hoping the game would get better later. It never did.

 

[Adamm]

FFX, FFX-2, FFXII

You didnt learn your lesson? :lol

 

[darkpaladinmfc]

Assassin's Creed

 

[Vorg]

Too Human.

Spoiler

D:

 

[Darklord]

Halo 2 single player. What a pile of shit.

 

[TheSeks]

Borderlands, no contest. Boring quests and boring shooting from beginning to end.

Not that I "hated" it, but it "bored me to tears to where I asked 'WHEN WILL THIS BORING GAME END, GEARBOX!?'" while forcing myself to finish it, yeah.

 

[Sixfortyfive]

The only game in recent history I remember doing this with was Resident Evil 0.

This doesn't really happen to me anymore because I don't buy that many games anymore and am pretty good at picking out those that I know I'll enjoy.

 

[shwimpy]

FF13. Fun battle system, shitty everything else. Skipped all of the cutscenes about halfway through except for the ending but was contemplating shutting it off because of My Hands.

 

[Kusagari]

Assassin's Creed

This. FF13 too.

 

[Solune]

Baten Kaitos - Hated the voice acting and battle system grew tiresome.
DQVII
Xenosaga II - Just terrible in comparison to I

 

[LightofRohan]

Is this thread going to turn into: Post a popular game a lot of people liked and say how you don't like it?

But mine is... King Kong. Ffffffffuuuuuuuuuu! Sooo much jungle, no more jungle pleaseee!!!

 

[Starfish_Oxide]

Red Dead Redemption.

I despised this game, the stupid accents, the crappy guns, the fucking horses and most off all that fucking ending.

I gave it too many chances and let let me down time after time.

Never again.

 

[OrangeGrayBlue]

Not even kidding...

 

[Crumpet Trumpet]

I somehow paid off my house in Animal Crossing:City Folk if that counts as "beating" it. Ugh.

 

[V_Ben]

Charlies Angels for the PS2.

 

[jim-jam bongs]

Can't think of any specific examples, but I used to do it when I was a kid because I couldn't afford many games. These days I have a Steam backlog to work through so I don't waste much time with games I'm not enjoying.

 

[Forkball]

The Bouncer. In fact, I beat it more than once, just to see if I could beat the game in under 30 minutes. I could.

 

[Burekma]

Far Cry 2. I did it so I could legitimately bash the game. What a piece of turd shit game. The most frustration any game has ever given me in my entire life. I still have bite marks on my controller when I bit it out of sheer frustration. NEVER AGAIN.

 

[Marvie_3]

Bioshock
Dead Space
Super Mario Sunshine
Halo 2 & 3 single player
Marvel Ultimate Alliance

 

[Harpuia]

Kingdom Hearts 1. The worlds were boring, the combat was boring, the music was boring. EVERYTHING WAS BORING. And the camera..oh god..the camera..

 

[mjc]

Home Alone on the SNES.

shudder

Edit: Wow I totally misread Home Alone as Dennis the Menace. :lol

My point stands regardless about Dennis the Menace on SNES.

I never could make it past the attic level but I did eventually. For the longest time I was stuck on the first level where Mr. Wilson chased you at the end. I didn't know where to go. I think I still have the game actually.

 

[cnizzle06]

FarCry 2

 

[subversus]

I still have bite marks on my controller when I bit it out of sheer frustration. NEVER AGAIN.

wow

 

[Manp]

Heavenly Sword probably... Resistance 2 too.

 

[Lkr]

MW2
Bad Company 1 single player(multiplayer was a blast though)
Mario is Missing

 

[Cataferal]

Xenosaga Episode 2 PAL version.

As in genuinely hated, but saw the silver lining in completing it.

I guess I could've resorted to a wiki, but I'm a completist when it comes to anything narrative-driven. Why would I read the first and last thirds of a book? It had to be done despite the toll it took on my sanity.

There were a few highlights though; one late-game boss battle in particular had a neat twist.

 

[Pimpbaa]

MGS2 and FFX. Only 2 I can think of. Both made me hate japanese games for a long time.

 

[SatelliteOfLove]

Brace yourselves.

FFV

Grandia II

Star Ocean 3

EDIT: Korigami reminded me, Xenosaga Ep. 1

 

[PumpkinPie]

Driv3r and Enter The Matrix.

 

[Korigama]

Xenosaga Episode II. Too bad that Episode III played best, yet was ultimately every bit as much a waste of time as the first two. I didn't hate Dead Space, but I did have to force myself to finish it thanks to how it just seemed to drag on halfway through. Still in the middle of forcing myself to finish FFXII and FFXIII (the former I dislike for having excessively large and open environments with a terrible combat system and an idiotic growth system accompanying an almost non-existent story, the latter I dislike for being excessively linear and constrictive with absolutely nothing to do but fight and watch cutscenes that tell a lame story).

 

[Finaika]

Atelier Iris Eternal Mana.