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[Princess Skittles]

Final Fantasy VII.

I was suffering a great deal of disgust and denial that brought me to the end.

 

[Skilletor]

Never.

If I'm struggling to enjoy a game I find that dropping down to easy mode usually sorts that out. If not then I just stop, I've got better things to do with my time than actually go out of my way to piss myself off.

Some of you guys are really wasting your time...

This.

Though I played FF13 for faaaaaaaar too long, I quit when it became apparent it wasn't going to get better.

 

[faridmon]

Crisis Core might be the worst game I finished. That game is just an empty, a beutiful empy game.

Also, speaking of that I need to finish Portable Ops and Phantom Hourglass.

 

[Do The Mario]

Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks. Boring as hell but these are Zeldas, so I had to complete them.

I have not played Spirt Tracks for this very reason.

I love the art style but I found PH to be both a massive grind and too easy.

Edit: I am also playing GTA 4 right now, there are aspects of the game that I find a grind (e.g. dating and taking friends out). However, as you are not forced to engage with them it is somewhat forgivable.

 

[hank_tree]

Alan Wake is the most recent.

Also HellKnight on the PS1. I'll never forget that one.

 

[Luigiv]

Sonic Adventure 2 Battle... almost; My save file got corrupted just before the final level.

 

[JaCy]

Heavy Rain - It was fun at first but it got tedious very fast.

 

[iconoclast]

whyyyyyyyyyyyy?

Sometimes you just need to see how much endurance you have. Playing Oblivion to completion is the ultimate test.

 

[Hesemonni]

Medal of Honor 2010. What a tedious pile of FPS mediocrity.

 

[shantyman]

Right now i am playing Valkyria Chronicles and absolutely abhor the story, although the game play is lots of fun.

 

[Mr. B Natural]

Alan Wake...like watching a car crash in super slow mo that just gets worse and worse as time slowly goes by. The entire time I was saying to myself "No no, things will get better...just keep on watching this horrible spectacle."

 

[Lain]

Magna Carta
Enchanted Arms

 

[LiK]

FFVIII- played mainly to collect all the cool summons and see where these shitty characters and story will go. Still shit.

 

[Ferro]

I dont know why I do this but most of the time if I buy/rent a game I try and finish it even if I hate it. Like it happend with Fable 2, Halo 2&3, Bioshock 2, these I hated cause they disapointed me as sequels to games I quite enjoyed. Infamous, Uncharted 1&2, Gears of War, Oblivion, Modern Warfare are games I finished just because everyone (both friends and the people on internets) were telling me that those games were fantastic that I would probably get an orgasm while playing them, unfortunetly it didnt happen that way. Quite contrary I thought they were just bland story wise, and the gameplay just didnt quite click with me.

Edit for spelling errors, english isnt my first language

 

[Akuun]

Halo: CE single player. Screw those copy-paste levels.

 

[Spirit of Jazz]

SotC watching a horse go through a dull, utterly barren wasteland in slow mo was tedious. You can multiply this by 10 when it came to navigating said horse through trees.

 

[ronito]

Final Fantasy XIII most recently.

 

[storafötter]

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

This...
I tried so hard to try to like it but it didnt work that much. Very bitter after getting it for full price.

 

[teruterubozu]

:lol Doing strategy guides for the last 13 years, I've lost count!

 

[McBradders]

Comic Jumper

 

[Foffy]

So many recent Sonic games...:lol

But to not play this topic on easy mode, I think a good example would be Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin. Maybe I had the game ruined (pun?) due to all of the leaks coming out but it's probably the most uninteresting Castlevania of recent memory. It's lazier than most "IGAvanias" and the "depth" it has is by having Subweapons have absurd points to build up to max them out. It also was the most blatant of sprite ripping until Harmony of Despair.

Even the music sucks too, for the most part.

 

[jergrah]

Perfect Dark:Zero and Heavenly Sword are the two that jump to mind from this generation.

Im sure there were plenty on older generations that I have just blocked out of my memory.

 

[Pappasman]

Sonic the hedgehog 2006. Biggest waste of money and time ever.

 

[DangerStepp]

No More Heroes. Utter trash.

This argument is too good not to use:

No More Heroes: Awful button-mashy combat, levels that were structurally boring, visually terrible looking, and on top of that tended to drop frames like a motherfucker, to the point where it actually distracted from gameplay. Then that's coupled with the single worst open world city in the history of video games, minigames that actually make you crave shitty combat against random thugs, and the fact that you are required to do this shit for hours in between every mission. Then the boss fights themselves, the supposed star of the game, are basically a 50-50 tossup between having some interesting or entertaining cutscenes or not, and a separate 50-50 tossup between the boss actually being fun or challenging to fight or not, with far too many of them basically boiling down to "dodge when they telegraph a charged up attack, then waggle the analog stick left and right to go into bullet time and win". Then on top of that, the one part you thought you could count on after Killer 7, the story itself, just kind of fell into an uncomfortable middle ground where there was nothing really weird and interesting like in K7, but it also just wasn't very funny when it was doing the video-game-parody thing. I think the reason I finished was mostly that I felt a bit of an obligation to see it through, since I liked Killer 7 a lot and kept hoping for something of that calibre, and also because it was more or less the reason I bought a Wii, way back when the first trailer was released and it was just called "Heroes" or something. Plus the game managed to give me a big retroactive 'fuck you' just a couple weeks ago, when I played NMH2 and realized that I'd passed up a pretty damn decent game for months because I assumed it would be as bad as the first.

I've since learned my lesson on when to quit a game I'm not enjoying. First off, if I even question whether or not I like it then it's immediately suspect. I'll give it two more sessions lasting no longer than a couple hours before I quit it after the third time. I try to give things chances, but my time is too valuable to me.

I recently gave up on Borderlands after giving it a fair shake. It just didn't rhyme with me.

 

[pseudomyxoma]

Metro 2033

I wouldn't necessarily say hate but a general dislike was felt toward it by the end of the game

 

[iconoclast]

So many recent Sonic games...:lol

But to not play this topic on easy mode, I think a good example would be Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin. Maybe I had the game ruined (pun?) due to all of the leaks coming out but it's probably the most uninteresting Castlevania of recent memory. It's lazier than most "IGAvanias" and the "depth" it has is by having Subweapons have absurd points to build up to max them out. It also was the most blatant of sprite ripping until Harmony of Despair.

Even the music sucks too, for the most part.

This too. I hated PoR when it first came out, so I wound up dropping it halfway through. I picked it up again this year and played it to the end, and while there were SOME parts that I liked (namely a few of the bosses), the game was just pretty bad. Very disappointing since I loved DoS and OoE.

 

[DemiMatt]

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

\
hahah I remember buying a PS2 for those games!

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.

That would be me for this thread, honestly, you guys have ALOT of fortitude, I generally drop out once Ive realized how shitty a game is, there have been 2 cases where I wanted to do it and thus forced myself to only to fail.

FF8, after the 1st disc I realized how much I hated this game, I forced myself to beat it but only made it to the 3rd game.

FFX-2, yeah I made it only 2 hours into it before I realized how bad it was, and decided I wanted to know who the guy was! I only made it 4.5 hours into it.

 

[Hylian7]

I'm in pretty much the same boat as you OP, except that I never beat the game. I bought it ages ago on Steam for $5. Maybe someday I'll go back and finish it, but geez it's incredibly frustrating. I honestly don't understand why everyone loves this game so much.

 

[PunjabiPlaya]

Half Life 2: Ep. 1. I didn't HATE it, but I didn't really enjoy the game very much and think it's easily the worst in the series.

I'm surprised that not many people have said Twilight Princess. Has gaf finally accepted that its a good game?

 

[Hylian7]

Half Life 2: Ep. 1. I didn't HATE it, but I didn't really enjoy the game very much and think it's easily the worst in the series.

Are you just talking about the HL2 series or the whole HL series? If you mean the whole series, then I say Blue Shift is the weakest in the series. If just HL2 series, then I agree, but that's like being a $20 bill against a $50 bill: It's all still money and still good.

I'm surprised that not many people have said Twilight Princess. Has gaf finally accepted that its a good game?

Hopefully so, I never understood the constant bashing of this game. I know it's not the best in the Zelda series, but it's pretty damn good, and close to the top.

 

[Tranced Shadow]

Pokemon Channel.

I wanted that damn Jirachi :lol

 

[LakeEarth]

Golden Sun. I hated how boring the plot was and yet I kept playing till I beat it. I wasn't going to get the sequel, but GAF was raving and I caved. For some reason The Lost Age is 100x more fun.

 

[Chris R]

Fable II. Hated almost every second of it but I beat it (not saying much, game is only a few hours long).

 

[Foxix Von]

I wouldn't say I hated it, but Matt Hazard. I didn't really enjoy it all that much, but it's the closest thing I've got.

 

[Anasui Kishibe]

I hate all Pokemon games but I'm bloody addicted to them, so i keep playing and hating myself

 

[UFRA]

Bioshock.

Started out really enjoying it and impressed with it. Then, my interest slowly faded away until I started to hate the game and did everything I could to speed through the rest of it as fast as I could so I could finish it and sell it.

 

[Oneself]

Resistance 2, I wanted to see where the story was going before Resistance 3.

Currently playing the PSP game and enjoying it.

 

[AleeN634]

Geist. I loved the concept so much but the game poorly executed on all of it.

 

[Why For?]

Hated CoD 4,5,6 on Veteran but wanted all the achievements.

But as far as hating the actual game*:

- Heavy Rain
- Beowulf
- Lost
- World at War
- CSI

I'm sure there's others, but they're the ones that come to mind.



* basically an achievement/trophy whore, which is why I forced myself through these games.