Support NeoGAF

[The Horror the horror]

Last thread

April Quitters

Top 3 Games Quit in April

April's Biggest Quitter

phant0m - The man, the myth, the legend. If the face looks familiar to you, it's probably because it can be found in any Webster's or New Oxford's dictionary next to the word Surrender. While not one to turn his back on family or friends, the human race has yet to create a finish line from which he's incapable of pivoting and walking away. $200-$300 worth of AAA games abandoned in April alone. The underworld society of quitters salutes you.

 

[The Horror the horror]

My May quit: Think I'm done with MK 8 Deluxe for a while unless I can get a local multiplayer game going. Don't have the urge to play online like I did back on the Wii U. I haven't even bothered to get the trophies in single-player mode.

 

[Drillary Clinton]

Prey: Nothing wrong with the game, just another victim of "I'm still fucking playing Persona" Syndrome.

 

[Clockwork5]

I quit Nioh after about 6 hours and Watch_Dogs 2 after about a dozen hours.

Nioh just fell flat for me and Watch_Dogs just felt like more of the same plus technical issues.

 

[ffvorax]

Shin Megami Tensei IV.

I already quitted it some time ago, but I gave it a second chance this month...

Got several hours in, but at a point I didn't understand what to do and I realized I was bored and playing it just to justify the expense... so I quitted it again. See you later again in the future I guess... lol

 

[whatever6352]

Nier Automata, Tales of Berseria and Cosmic Star Heroine all fell flat for me.

I at least enjoyed Tales for about 10 hours and about 5 hours of CSH before they fell flat.

Nier Automata on the other hand is my most disappointing game of the year thus far expected big things from it, but the story wasn't that great and the combat was to repetitive imo.

 

[Skulldead]

My May quit: Dragon Quest heroes 2 i don't know why but my interest totally disappear when i reach the area that i went like 10 times before for side quest, but just change the sky color palette and monster color and 1-2 big monster. I was like i really have the feeling that i wasted my time. Probably didn't help that Prey got release !

 

[Clearos]

I quit Zelda: BotW.


Killed the first beast and did around 25 shrines but it just felt it was dragging on and the novelty wore off.

 

[PedroRVD]

Persona 5

When I got to the Persona Fusion thing ... and they told me I had to have meetings with the team to do strategy and a million other things ... the game reached a point where it got too complicated and stopped being relaxing to me. Uninstalled it

 

[The Elite]

I officially quit on Mass Effect: Andromeda. Traded it in.

Haven't had much of a chance to play Persona 5 but I have not quit.

 

[Aaron D.]

Dead Cells

Too twitch. Too grind.

Looks to have AMAZING promise though. But as a broken old man, I'm just not the target demographic, it seems.

 

[Savantcore]

The latest Deus Ex. Picked it up because it was super cheap but barely made it past the first level. Just seems so clumsy to play and a lot of it doesn't make sense. I went into some dude's house, he was a cultist or something, and there was just no reaction to the fact that I had broken in and started stealing his stuff. Then I went into someone else's flat and I had a very awkward fight with some guy in there. There was a woman in the room as well watching TV. She screamed and ran around but when the fight was over she just sat back down watching the TV. I turned it off in front of her and, you guessed it, no reaction. Just a weird experience.

 

[Tyrael]

Final Fantasy XIII.

After a couple of hours in the game I was like:

 

[aett]

I hate to admit it, but I quit Horizon: Zero Dawn. I was looking forward to it since the first reveal, and I admit that it's beautiful and controls well. However, the open world bores me (especially after BotW), and the made-up tribal speech/names/etc. is all just so tedious and makes me roll my eyes (both out of boredom and annoyance). I got sick of collecting plants constantly, dealing with full inventories, trying to find the right ingredient so I could make each type of bag slightly larger...

Maybe I'll return to it one day.

 

[texhnolyze]

I quit Bayonetta PC in May.

I think I was somewhere in the middle of the game (8 hours) and suddenly lost interest to continue. I feel like it's just too repetitive for me. Maybe I really should stop playing games that are not RPG.

 

[uceenk]

Everybody's​ gone to rapture

got this from psplus, i'm very familiar with the genre since i'm big fan of Heavy Rain, Life is Strange and Beyond 2 Souls

i even finished Telltale's Game of Thrones which is some people considered it as an awful game

that being said, when i played gone to rapture, on the early game i impressed with the view and the setting

however after several hours, i was bored to death, i can't stand slowly walking on this game, even when i tried to run, it still felt slow, so i just gave up

 

[T-Rex.]

Prey (PC). I don't even really have any major problems with the game, but I just can't be bothered playing it.

 

[ViolentP]

Super Bomberman R - I played for about an hour, feel I got everything I needed.
Rise of the Tomb Raider - Really wanted to play this after beating the first, but the constant crashing on the PS4 Pro has me trashing the idea.

 

[Deleted member 752119]

Persona 5. Wish I'd quit sooner to be honest. Dumped 51 hours in it and really only enjoyed it the first 20-30. Just too damn repetitive, I can't stand turn based combat anymore and the characters and story just didn't grab me. Dumb purchase since I had to force myself through P4G a couple years back. Last time I let hype influence my purchase decisions. Sticking with the few genres I still enjoy and that's it going forward.

 

[antibolo]

I've got a big one.

I've decided to quit modern home console gaming altogether this month.

I can no longer feel any interest in playing games at home anymore. Just feels like I'm wasting my life away, using time that could be spent doing something more productive. Especially when I look at my gigantic backlog.

From now on it's only portables (Switch, 3DS and Vita), and maintaining my CRT retro gaming setup (which is almost another hobby all by itself).

I'm also gonna keep my PSVR for a bit but I intend on selling it eventually.

 

[JeffZero]

Please add me to the upcoming list, The Horror the horror-san! I quit Assassin's Creed 4 this month!

I've got a big one.

I've decided to quit modern home console gaming altogether this month.

Whoa. I'm not a tenth the gamer many of my GAF peers are, but this? This I could never do. What prompted you, if I might ask?

 

[StarPhlox]

Prey

Put about 10 hours into it (got close to the halfway mark of the main story) and it was just such a joyless slog. The exploration and recycling and fabricating stuff was fun but I just dreaded any time that combat came up because it controls badly and is even more miserable than Bioshock's combat. Didn't help that I played on PS4 Pro which is apparently the worst version and full of glitches and bad frame pacing.

 

[antibolo]

Whoa. I'm not a tenth the gamer many of my GAF peers are, but this? This I could never do. What prompted you, if I might ask?

Sorry, I just updated my post with more details.

 

[Dolobill]

Persona 5. I have 60 hours in and can't bear the thought of having to do another 50. The slow pace of the game and the repetitive, dragged out story and writing aren't for me.

 

[Interfectum]

I've got a big one.

I've decided to quit modern home console gaming altogether this month.

I'm almost there. With an 8 month old at home I have so little time to get in front of a TV and play long-ass PS4 games. I keep trying and keep buying games that I never play. It's almost time for me to throw in the towel for awhile and focus on Switch and Vita I think. (and the baby too, of course lol)

 

[peaceland]

Prey. Didn't like the combat.

 

[JeffZero]

Sorry, I just updated my post with more details.

Ooh, I see. Fascinating. I can totally relate, though. Part of the reason I sometimes say I'm not as much of a gamer as most folks here is in fact because I only commit a few months s year to the hobby. It's a big part of why I disappear from GAF for months at a time.

I couldn't do it year-round. The games I enjoy are mostly fairly long, and I love hiking and traveling and TV-watching and martial arts and writing and way too many other things, haha.

I hope you enjoy the portable and CRT stuff aplenty!

 

[WadiumArcadium]

The latest Deus Ex. Picked it up because it was super cheap but barely made it past the first level. Just seems so clumsy to play and a lot of it doesn't make sense. I went into some dude's house, he was a cultist or something, and there was just no reaction to the fact that I had broken in and started stealing his stuff. Then I went into someone else's flat and I had a very awkward fight with some guy in there. There was a woman in the room as well watching TV. She screamed and ran around but when the fight was over she just sat back down watching the TV. I turned it off in front of her and, you guessed it, no reaction. Just a weird experience.

Haha, both of these rooms were right outside Jensen's apartment right? They're both involved in side quests if I remember correctly.

 

[FoeHammer]

My shame of the month is Persona 5 sadly. I really want to like this game but the slow pace has killed it for me due to limited gaming time plus other stuff I want to play.

Shame!

 

[pbayne]

Yokai watch-fuck the rng bullshit.

 

[gaiages]

Just one this month: Tomb Raider Definitive Edition. I didn't find the plot all that interesting, and I was bored by everything else gameplay wise, so I dropped it after about 3/4 hours. We'll see how Uncharted 2 and 3 fare for me and my weird gaming tastes in the future, but I have a feeling it'll go a little better for them

 

[Lionheart1827]

Bravely Default - Thought I was gonna love this game since it was said to be pretty much classic FF, but ended up really bored really fast. Turned off the voices after an hour since its horrible, and the gigantic difficulty spike at the first dungeon was annoying. I dont have time for grinding like I used to have back in the day. Maybe I'll go back to it some day.

Fire Emblem Awakening - Liked it initially but just got bored of it, not really sure why, there isn't really anything annoying or bad about the game, just got really boring to me.

 

[lord_of_flood]

I think the only game I straight up quit in May was Thumper (Switch). I like the game, but the game's grading system (and my personal desire to get the best grade), as well as the game being infinitely more satisfying when you play perfectly than it is when you miss notes, was stressing me out a lot. It doesn't help that it was actually causing some physical discomfort in handheld mode too (having to switch directions constantly via the directional buttons was causing my left thumbnail to dig into my thumb, and it caused a blister). I like playing in handheld mode a lot otherwise, so that was unfortunate.

However, I'm not overly feeling Disgaea 5 Complete either (though I haven't quit yet). My main issue is largely that the voiced English dialogue is god-awful (the English dialogue is not well written so there's not much the VA's could do to make it sound good. Seraphina's dialogue in particular is really hammy though). I think there's an option to switch to JP audio though, so I'll try that out later today and see how that goes.

 

[phant0m]

April's Biggest Quitter

phant0m - The man, the myth, the legend. If the face looks familiar to you, it's probably because it can be found in any Webster's or New Oxford's dictionary next to the word Surrender. While not one to turn his back on family or friends, the human race has yet to create a finish line from which he's incapable of pivoting and walking away. $200-$300 worth of AAA games abandoned in April alone. The underworld society of quitters salutes you.

Woo I won something! A savage analysis as well.

 

[YankeeDonB]

Persona 5. I have 60 hours in and can't bear the thought of having to do another 50. The slow pace of the game and the repetitive, dragged out story and writing aren't for me.

This is where I'm at with P5 too. Want to love it but it just isn't doing it for me.

I'm on the verge of quitting Stardew Valley and DQ Heroes 2 as well. Both are great fun, but after 15 hour she or so the gameplay loops start feeling over familiar and I don't feel the motivation to carve out time.

I was thinking of just playing Witcher 3 through again over the summer instead of working on anything newer (Tales of Cold Steel 2 and Berseria are other games I'm considering admitting I'm not going back to, and though I'd like to dive into Nioh, Gravity Rush 2, and Yakuza 0 as well, will I ever finish them?)

Nier Automata (fantastic) and TLG (bleh) may be the only games I've finished this year actually....

 

[The Horror the horror]

Persona 5

When I got to the Persona Fusion thing ... and they told me I had to have meetings with the team to do strategy and a million other things ... the game reached a point where it got too complicated and stopped being relaxing to me. Uninstalled it

Persona 5. Wish I'd quit sooner to be honest. Dumped 51 hours in it and really only enjoyed it the first 20-30. Just too damn repetitive, I can't stand turn based combat anymore and the characters and story just didn't grab me. Dumb purchase since I had to force myself through P4G a couple years back. Last time I let hype influence my purchase decisions. Sticking with the few genres I still enjoy and that's it going forward.

Persona 5. I have 60 hours in and can't bear the thought of having to do another 50. The slow pace of the game and the repetitive, dragged out story and writing aren't for me.

My shame of the month is Persona 5 sadly. I really want to like this game but the slow pace has killed it for me due to limited gaming time plus other stuff I want to play.

Shame!

This is where I'm at with P5 too. Want to love it but it just isn't doing it for me.

I'm on the verge of quitting Stardew Valley and DQ Heroes 2 as well. Both are great fun, but after 15 hour she or so the gameplay loops start feeling over familiar and I don't feel the motivation to carve out time.

I was thinking of just playing Witcher 3 through again over the summer instead of working on anything newer (Tales of Cold Steel 2 and Berseria are other games I'm considering admitting I'm not going back to, and though I'd like to dive into Nioh, Gravity Rush 2, and Yakuza 0 as well, will I ever finish them?)

Nier Automata (fantastic) and TLG (bleh) may be the only games I've finished this year actually....

:\

 

[Rodney McKay]

Yooka Laylee

Banjo Kazooie is one of my favorite games of all time and I did help Kickstart this game since I'd love another one.
But YL just hasn't hooked me. The core gameplay is solid and the graphics are serviceable, but the levels after the first one have been disappointing (I've gotten to 3-4), the overworld is confusing and makes finding the next level hard (and not fun hard, just frustrating), and the writing has been pretty mediocre for the most part.

I'll get back to it eventually (maybe after a patch or two comes out), but all the game left me feeling was that I wanted to replay Banjo Kazooie again instead of playing more Yooka Laylee.

The announcement of Darksiders 3 reminded me of how much I loved those games, so I started doing a playthrough of 1 and 2.

 

[Asd202]

The man, the myth, the legend. If the face looks familiar to you, it's probably because it can be found in any Webster's or New Oxford's dictionary next to the word Surrender. While not one to turn his back on family or friends, the human race has yet to create a finish line from which he's incapable of pivoting and walking away. $200-$300 worth of AAA games abandoned in April alone. The underworld society of quitters salutes you.

Haha this is amazing.

 

[Alcotholic]

I quit persona 5... technically last month, but I deleted the install data this month. So I really quit it. I lost interest after 60 hours and felt I got my fill.

 

[whitemex88]

Watchdogs 2. I am so burnt out on open world games of that type.

 

[Justinh]

Yakuza 0 is the only game I can think of that I quit in May. It just didn't grab me enough from the few hours of play to make me want to continue.

 

[BrightLightLava]

I know it's old, but I quit Danganronpa 1.

I bought it after I remembered how great the Vita was (thanks to Persona 4 Golden), and it didn't really click for me. I played through the first trial, and started the second one, but I just don't care about the characters or the world enough to keep going. So instead I watched all the murders/executions on Youtube.

Does the second one have better writing/voice acting? I bought them at the same time, but am playing The Nonary Games in the meantime (I really dug 999, haven't started VLR yet).

 

[richiek]

Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap

I'm stuck on how to advance and the game doesn't really give you any clue on how to advance.I realize the developers wanted to emulate to original Sega Master System game, but they went too far in that regard.

 

[jwillenn]

not going to quit (not buying anything else until it's finished), but Persona 5 keeps ****ing with me...

 

[theofficefan99]

I'll get attacked for this, but Trails in the Sky FC (and SC). After 13 hours, I was still completely bored. Very mediocre soundtrack, generic character art, dull environments, and absolutely NOTHING remotely interesting occurred. I also didn't like the excessive backtracking, and how enemies are littered everywhere (and a lot of the times are hard to see or very hard to avoid) and the game caps your levels after barely any fights, making it feel even more tedious. The Sky games just aren't for me. I know I'll at least like Cold Steel, though.

 

[tiebreaker]

I don't think I quit any game in May. Suck it quitters.

 

[HyperCroutons]

I quit Horizon: Zero Dawn in May, I did put a good 10-15 hours into it but the story and the gameplay just didn't grab me. I do love the graphics, protagonist, and the mechanical monsters but the gameplay borrows a little to much from other open-world games and doesn't do much new with it. Also the side quests seem to borrow a lot from the Witcher 3 but not in a good way, for example it has a lot of follow the tracks style quest but I don't think the pay offs were as good as the Witcher 3 side quests.

 

[The Horror the horror]

I know it's old, but I quit Danganronpa 1.

I bought it after I remembered how great the Vita was (thanks to Persona 4 Golden), and it didn't really click for me. I played through the first trial, and started the second one, but I just don't care about the characters or the world enough to keep going. So instead I watched all the murders/executions on Youtube.

Does the second one have better writing/voice acting? I bought them at the same time, but am playing The Nonary Games in the meantime (I really dug 999, haven't started VLR yet).

I felt the same after playing it. After finishing Steins;Gate and loving it, I scoured the forum for recommendations to similar games and DR was always mentioned along with the Nonary games, two of which I had played already. DR isn't a bad game - the presentation is wonderful - but I didn't care for the characters at all, which is something I couldn't say about most of its genre peers.

 

[antibolo]

Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap

I'm stuck on how to advance and the game doesn't really give you any clue on how to advance.I realize the developers wanted to emulate to original Sega Master System game, but they went too far in that regard.

Which animal form are you at?

The game is hella vague but it's really short, you might as well just finish it.

I know it's old, but I quit Danganronpa 1.

I bought it after I remembered how great the Vita was (thanks to Persona 4 Golden), and it didn't really click for me. I played through the first trial, and started the second one, but I just don't care about the characters or the world enough to keep going. So instead I watched all the murders/executions on Youtube.

Does the second one have better writing/voice acting? I bought them at the same time, but am playing The Nonary Games in the meantime (I really dug 999, haven't started VLR yet).

If you managed to somehow not enjoy the first one, there's really nothing for you in the sequel.

 

[Atomski]

Think I'm done with Strafe.. I so wanted it to be good.