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Games you've given up on

Sölf;156036487 said:
.hack//QUARANTINE

I probably have to farm for a few hours in order to progress the story. And not because it's difficult but because I need specific items in order to hack doors. No thank you.
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I remember at the start of the outbreak I made a list of what cores I needed for the entire game and grinder them out so I wouldn't have to do it later.
 
Dishonored. Got close to the end and then just decided to stop playing. I had fun with it at times but I wasn't compelled to finish it
 
El Shaddai: It has 3 or 4 forced boss losses ... in a row. Doesn't help that the gameplay is bland.

Don't Starve: I love the concept and mechanics but I just don't feel like playing it.
 
I am simply not patient or dextrous enough for Souls games. :( Sucks, because I love their gameplay and setting but I can't enjoy them first-hand...
 
South Park: Stick of Truth

My game was ruined by the Canada bug and they never patched a fix for it.

I couldn't be bothered starting the game again so I never finished it.

Disappointing really.
 
The Walking Dead. I've tried 3 times to complete it, but always lose interest midway. I know it's supposed to be a great game, but I just can't get into it.
 
I'd say I finish about 80% of the games I buy (retail games that is, Steam sales and PS+ don't count). The most recent game I gave up on was Shadow of Mordor. I liked it, but it started to get repetitive after a while. I was ready for the game to end when they throw an entire second overworld at you with more of the same shit. I did a couple of missions there but just got bored and gave up. The story certainly wasn't compelling enough to keep me going.
 
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII: I can't bring myself to finish this game. I've restarted playing it, after forgetting how to play the damn game, three times. The time I've spent in those four playthroughs collectively surely amount to the time I would have taken to complete the game. I liked FFXIII and XIII-2 and really want to see the trilogy's end but the schemata's, combat system, and, don't chastise me for this, lack of linearity among other things are getting in my way.
 
Last night at like 2am I was trying to finish red faction guerilla. It was my fifth or so try climbing the hill in the tank and glitched while jumping out of the tank. I couldn't move and couldn't die. The only thing I could do was load up the last save which was at the very beginning of the level.

I quit and watched the last two minutes on YouTube.
 
The Order. I'm so glad I redboxed this. I came in with an open mind hoping to enjoy it, but it really is a mediocre, uninspired third person shooter wrapped in incredible visuals. I stopped playing at the bit where I need to bring down a bridge with the thermite gun and have zero desire to return, ever.
 
Duke Nukem Forever- Might go back and give it a shot again one day.

Rust - Devs killed the popularity of the game with the engine switch
 
Stencil said:
Valkyria Chronicles: That mission with the huge tank broke me. I had shelved the game for years due to a mission a few prior to the tank. Finally picked it back up after being inspired by the PC release, and got stuck again. That fucking tank.
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Totally forgot to mention this one, thanks for reminding me about it. Bought it a couple of months ago, got to the same point you're at, then shelved it. I intend to go back to it once I have a bit more time to play it because that chapter can be done in an effective way without any permadeaths, but it requires a good amount of grinding first.
 
Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag is one game I gave up on. Not because the game is bad, it plays like any other AC game (I've played 1&2 to completion) and the game looks/runs fantastic on PS4. I just wasn't too big a fan of the sailing aspect, and in general I guess I just got....bored.

Unfortunately I'm feeling this with Far Cry 4 also. Again, the game is awesome and it looks and runs great. I think it's more to do with how little time I have for gaming nowadays. I work a night shift and we've been getting out at 1:00am every night. By the time I get home and get settled in and turn on my PS4 I end up either watching youtube videos or Netflix and I start dozing off. Nevermind not having enough energy to start playing. Far Cry 4 is also so vast that I guess I start having second thoughts about hopping in for some quick missions.

I really love the open nature "do anything you want, when you want" style gameplay and the shooting feels good but I guess it's a case of the game feeling slightly overwhelming at times. I do plan on getting back to it.
 
Final Fantasy XIII.

Not because I thought it was bad. I actually liked FFXIII. It's just when I got to the final dungeon, I had also recently purchased Deadly Premonition. I then proceeded to put FFXIII on hold and then beat Deadly Premonition 3 times in a row (once on each difficulty).

Then by the time I had returned to FFXIII, I had forgotten how to play the game, felt like I would need to start over to relearn the mechanics, and you all know how long it takes for that game to get going...
 
To the others: you are not alone in your Jet Force Gemini despair. I looked forward to that game for years, and when it finally arrived, I loved it. Then, at what seemed to be near the endgame, all three characters were brickwalled. I spent days getting fucked by a boss with one, while wandering aimlessly with the others. I bet that cartridge still has an incomplete file somewhere.

More recently, BIT.TRIP Runner did me in. I've talked about it before, but never in my gaming history have I experienced such wonderfully balanced euphoria that was suddenly ended by a complete fucking dickslap. There was no difficultly curve; the game went from zero to impossible on a single level. What hurt the most about this was that I was in the midst of a love affair with the BIT.TRIP series. I had just perfected Beat, Core and Void and was on a high. Because of Runner's sudden spike, I never got around to Fate or Flux.
 
Final Fantasy X.

Somehow managed to trudge all the way through
beating Yunalesca
...just couldn't be bothered to see how it ended. It's the Other M of the Final Fantasy universe.
 
I gave up on finishing the Dark World in Super Meat Boy, I finished as many levels as I could but was like 5 or 6 levels from unlocking the final one.

I spent days trying to finish those last ones I needed to unlock the final level and just couldn't do it :/
 
Dustforce: having to S-rank everything to merely unlock new stages was too much.
Volgarr the Viking: do I even have to say it? It's too freaking hard
Darksiders 2: was bored to hell, and being underleved/under-equipped didn't help.
Kingdom Hearts 3D: the drop system is so goddamn annoying, specially for bosses
 
Recently, for me, it was Dishonored. I have tried on two separate occasions to play that game, and while I enjoy it while I'm playing, after I turn it off for the day, I have 0 interest in ever going back.
 
Chrono Trigger. I can't get into it and I've tried three or four times. The characters and the world all feel second rate, which I know many people disagree with. Perfect for posting on the internet then.
 
-Jak II: got up to the mission where I have to plant the bombs on the skateboard, couldn't do it so I said forget it.

-Ratchet and Clank 3: Just got bored as the missions became repetitive.

-Devil May Cry: the control just felt clunky and I have been spoilt by Bayonetta combat. I might try and finish this.

-Zelda 1: Stop playing for awhile and I forgot what I was doing and I can't be arse restarting.

-Zelda 2: Waiting for a remake to happen.

-Sonic 06: Gave up during Silver's mission and haven't looked back.

-Monster Hunter Ultimate 3: The game bores me and isn't what I thought it would be.

- Assassin Creed 4: Gave up after the tutorial, the combat was shit and parkouring was boring.

-Batman Arkham Origin: The game keeps crashing on my Wii U.
 
lots, but the one that stands out to me personally is

I wanna be the guy.

Got to the final boss and after many, many, many retries, I missed the last shot by 1 pixel and died.

I know I didn't beat it, but I feel like I practically did.
 
Never finished ac3 or a link to the past, I'm getting close to giving up on lords of the fallen but part of me wants to keep going. I almost gave up on alien, the game is literally to scary for me to play alone. Traded it, then bought it again during the xbl ultimate games sale, I'm back into it now but Christ it gets tense to the point of near unplayabity for me haha.
 
MichaelFassbender said:
Not sure what "privelege" [sic] is, but Kevin Smith deserves every ounce of scorn for Chasing Amy alone.
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Wat? Chasing Amy is great!

Anyway, I can never seem to get past a certain point playing telltales Walking Dead. Despite having a fairly interesting story and characters, the game itself just plays like shit. Ill always progress through the first 3 or 4 episodes and get burnt out then try again in a few months hoping to make it through season 1 to season 2, the gameplay is just so unengaging.
 
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Screenshot of the exact reason why.
 
Tillbe said:
Wat? Chasing Amy is great!

Anyway, I can never seem to get past a certain point playing telltales Walking Dead. Despite having a fairly interesting story and characters, the game itself just plays like shit. Ill always progress through the first 3 or 4 episodes and get burnt out then try again in a few months hoping to make it through season 1 to season 2, the gameplay is just so unengaging.
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YES! Chasing Amy is a great movie!

I am with you on the Walking Dead. I have been trying to get through the first season on my vita for the past year and can't play it for longer than 30 minutes at a time and then I forget all about it. I also have been meaning to finish Deus Ex, Dishonored and several other games I got on my PS3 for dirt cheap but I have a hard time going back after playing games on my PS4. If my PS3 had remote play with my Vita it would be a lot easier.
 
Fire Emblem Awakening, on chapter 21. Couldn't stand the awful characters and even worse story anymore. If at least the gameplay was on par with the previous entries in the series...

Also, Sonic Generations. Played through it up to the final boss and then gave up. That has to be the worst final boss in the history of video games. The game is pretty damn good, though.
 
Demon's Souls. I REALLY need to get good at it. But what didn't help was a weird bug I think that made me fall from really high killed me just next to the boss. And I also redid the same dungeon like a dozen times before that lawl
 
Dark Souls, sadly. Made it 40 hours and enjoyed the time that I played it, but it was too much of a struggle for me to keep it going!
 
FFXIII. First FF I couldn't finish. I gave it 30 hours, but it just got to a point where I had to stop and move on to another game.
 
Jeffolation said:
Divinity: Original Sin

I really wasn't expecting to hate this game so much :(
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Bummer, same for me too. It's just not clicking. The questing is too vague, the mechanics are obtuse, the challenge is out of wack, and I have no idea what I'm supposed to do or where I'm supposed to go. I venture out in the world and something stomps me so I try going somewhere else and something else stomps me.

I loved Wasteland 2, and thought the Shadowruns were better than average. I kickstarted Pillars of Eternity, and hope I'll like it, but part of me is dreading that I'll spend four hours on it and end up hating it.
 
Hitman Absolution

Deus Ex Human revolution(?) - The game hates stealth build with the boss fights and I wasn't going to buy ithe game again with the improvements.

Vagrant Story - Last boss fight keep knocking off just 1 hp per hit.

Assassin's Creed Liberation -... Ugh, the clothes system is so annoying.

I felt the urge in Dark Souls, Andor Londo(?) that shitty section with the thin ledges and those annoying arrows that push me so far back even when I block, that is not a git gud section at all.
 
as far as recent big, critically acclaimed games go...

Bioshock (twice)
GTA4
Red Dead Redemption
MGS4
Persona 4 Golden
Witcher 2
Dishonored
 
I have given up on Dark Souls and Demon's Souls, despite the fact I really enjoyed them.

I am NOT gonna make that mistake again with Bloodborne.

Boombloxer said:
Resident evil 6. Did multiple chapters with my wife, and just said F it.
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Good call, consider yourself lucky.
 
Age of Empires - all of them. I find having so many resources to harvest makes maps a slog. I will stick with C&C.

Jet Force Gemini - Just can't be bothered to finish. Design does not click with me.
 
Evil Within. I hated those goddamn black bars so much. Keep that shit outta games.

Bayonetta was the stupidest,most regarded crap I had ever played. God I hated that game.
 
Dr.Acula said:
Bummer, same for me too. It's just not clicking. The questing is too vague, the mechanics are obtuse, the challenge is out of wack, and I have no idea what I'm supposed to do or where I'm supposed to go. I venture out in the world and something stomps me so I try going somewhere else and something else stomps me.
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For sure, that and you choosing what the two main characters say to each other, occasionally resulting in a rock paper scissors-off? Holy hell.
 
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