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The most boring game you played this generation?

I'm going to get flamed for this, but when Wind Waker HD comes out, I might have to add it to my list.

Beautiful, and delightfully charming, but consistently boring game. Could not finish it the first time, maybe I will in HD, with Off TV play.
 
Zeer0id said:
I'm going to get flamed for this, but when Wind Waker HD comes out, I might have to add it to my list.

Beautiful, and relentlessly charming, but consistently boring game. Could not finish it the first time, maybe I will in HD, with Off TV play.
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FLAMESSSS, the Triforce hunt was pretty boring. The rest was charming.
 
Dead Space 3 is tedious to the point of exhaustion. Endless fetch quests between waves of enemies and monster closets, zero tension, zero scares.
 
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The shittiest of shits. Can't even miss a jump in this game.
 
From the top of my head:
Rayman Origins
Dead Island
Assassins Creed
Deus Ex Human Revolution
Mass Effect 2
Mass Effect 3
Legendary

Probably a few more too, most of them I knew I wouldn't even like in the first place yet for some reason bought/rented them.
 
Of games that I managed to finish, probably Dragon Age 2. Usually in an RPG, something will grab hold even if another gameplay element falls short. But Dragon Age 2 had the most mind numbingly boring and tedious combat encounters you could imagine coupled with a story that was similarly tedious and boring. Yet I kept playing with the hope that it surely had to get better but it didn't.

I think Dragon Age 2 was one of those rare games that I actually fell asleep playing.
 
OH! I retract my statement earlier of Assassin's Creed.

Red Dead Redemption. So awfully paced and poorly written... God damnit. Mechanically, it's TOTALLY fine. The shooting felt okay, the horse riding was okay, the action had some good moments. It was fine. But the plot carrying me through it all? The constant b.s. missions that string Marsden (and in-turn, me) along.. I couldn't stand it. I finished it, but gahhhhhh....
 
I played Borderlands by myself; I gave it three honest sessions and could not go on.

I chuckle whenever I see someone spell it 'Borederlands'.
 
PhantomOfTheKnight said:
Earthbound.
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You know, I'm currently playing this and really don't see the appeal outside of some funny dialogue. It's okay, just not the 'Holy shit this is the greatest game ever conceived' experience I thought I was going to play. It's also the second JRPG I've ever played in my life, so there's that.

Anyways, on topic, LA Noire has to be the most boring game of the generation that I've played. It delivered on the facial technology stuff, but not much else.
 
Fable 2 or 3, cant believe I played either thru till their awful endings. Just no challenge and I really didnt care about what happened to anybody in them
 
Skyrim
Borderlands 2
AssCreed

Currently playing Darksiders 2 and I fear that could very well end up next to them very soon. :/
 
Gears of War. Seriously.

I only finished it because the girl I was dating at the time was strangely into it. I've always thought that game was hot, mundane garbage.
 
Double D said:
This is the only Fable game I've ever played. I thought it was alright. I don't remember the ending.
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It's the best game in the series, and the gameplay was decent enough.

Fable is notable for having a lot of "worst ever"s.

For example, Fable 1 has the worst antagonist of any RPG ever made.
 
Akuun said:
FF13.

I tried to like it. Over a dozen hours in and still no results.
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Yea, it takes at least 20 hours to get good. And even then your still running in a straight line. Combat was the best in the entire series imo
 
Bastion - don't understand the hype this game is getting.

Rachet and Clank: A crack in time - tbh, i really didn't give it a shot.

There was this one game by John Woo and had this famous Chinese actor in it, that game.

Resistance 1 - so stale and boring. Not to mention the terrible mechanics.

Beyond Good & Evil HD - finished it and I couldn't delete it from my HDD any faster.

Spider-man: Web of Shadows? - I think that's what it was called, I'm a HUGE spider-man fan and if I'm forgetting the name than that should be enough indication to how boring it is.

Bayonetta - yes, i went there. I love all of Platinums games. This, not so much. I guess it was the campy-ness that turned me away.

Any Silent Hill game this Gen.

Metro 2033 - way too slow paced. Got the PC version, didn't work on my rig for some odd reason. Borrowed a 360 disc and wasn't impressed.

Section 8 - play that POS and you'll know.

Resident Evil 6 - read any post about this game on GAF and that'll be reason enough.
 
I'd say Kingdoms of Amalur. Honorable mentions go to Skyrim, Oblivion, Mass Effect, Dragon Age... It's hard to say which was more tedious. Pretty much anything made by Bethesda, and any Bioware game made after Knights of the Old Republic.
 
L.A Noire, I stopped right where it told me to put in the second disc to continue. So fucking boring.

Assassin's Creed was also pretty boring, but I forced myself to finish it because I heard that the second game is much better. It really was and I loved it at the beginning, but it also got boring after a time.
 
I played Darksiders for about an hour last night and had to stop. The combat was boring as hell and the character designs just looked goofy, the whole game seemed like a B-movie version of God of War.

The first Assassin's Creed was one of the most repetitive games ever.
 
Resident Evil 6. Booted it to check it out with one of the olders kids, we struggled through the first tutorial parts, after which she basically said something to this effect 'I aint staying here watching this shit ...' Needless to say, that was the end of that :-)
 
I pick and choose my games so I don't come across many clunkers, but Castlevania : Lords of Shadow took me from uberhype to losing the urge to play in minutes. I hung on for a few hours, but man was that game boring.
 
Red Dead.

Beautiful game. I loved riding horses and chilling out in the old west, but I couldn't get into it after two hours.
 
Ico HD. Didn't even bother with shadow of the Colussus I just traded it in after a couple hours of playing it. Sorry GAF I gave it a shot and it's not my cup of tea. Took away my hype for the vapourware the Last Guardian too :(
 
Well for me personally

Shadows of the Damned

I just found it to be a really uninteresting RE4 derivative. I had just played RE4 for the first time a few months prior so everything I loved about that game was still fresh in my mind. As a result SotD just felt like a cheap imitation to me that ignored everything that made RE4 so compelling.

What put me off the most was the narrative. It's the game that really disillusioned me with Grasshopper and Suda 51. It woke me up to the fact that they had found their niche with No More Heroes and were content with delivering the same kind of story that hits the exact same notes that that game did. Over and over again ad nauseam. (Same sense of style, same low brow "DOESNT TAKE ITSELF SO SERIOUSLY" dick joke humor, same protagonist.(eccentric professional killer) just meh...)

Couldn't even finish it. Rented it because I had a hunch I wouldn't play it more than once but I didn't even do that much.
 
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