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Well-made games you got bored of fast

Dark Souls III for me

I thought I would love it after playing and platinuming Bloodborne but it's just different enough in terms of gameplay and combat that it didn't click with me at all. Played for about 6 hours and dropped it.
 
Zukkoyaki said:
Dark Souls III for me

I thought I would love it after playing and platinuming Bloodborne but it's just different enough in terms of gameplay and combat that it didn't click with me at all. Played for about 6 hours and dropped it.
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The worst thing about playing BB is that you'll realize other games aren't BB :'(
 
overwatch , i played it a lot the first few weeks it came out and havent touched it since.

Part of that is me forgettting about it because its not on steam , so i made a shortcut in steam , still didnt play again.

not a bad game by any means , idk , i just lost interest

i also didnt beat uncharted 4 still , i barely power on my consoles.
 
I think red dead redemption would do the trick for me. The game was alright but after a couple hours of playing it felt repetitive.
 
Maybe Dead Space? Great art design, and a solid-feeling game, but the game couldn't stand up to RE4, 5, or Evil Within at all, and I ended up dropping it relatively early on.
 
Thewonandonly said:
Yup regret buying it to be honest. Wish Microsoft had a refund system because I'm only 1 hour in and already got no desire for it.
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Serious question...

Have you ever played a Deus Ex game before? Or at the very least Human Revolution? I feel like you should know if the game is for you or not...
 
I wouldn't call any game that I got bored of fast a well-made game. But because I know what you're getting at, The Division had amazing production values and great controls, but the main gameplay loop wore thin after about 10-15 hours. Which is a lot of time, but the game was intended to played much longer than that.
 
Dark Souls 1 and Bloodborne didn't click with me originally. They were pretty neat and in-depth, but I couldn't imagine myself pouring hours into them each day. It wasn't until Dark Souls 3 where the game made sure to keep me invested and now I'm able to play the previous games without dropping them.

As for now, it's really the Uncharted games that have me feeling bored. The gameplay just feels like a blockade put between cutscenes.
 
digita1alchemy said:
I wouldn't call any game that I got bored of fast a well-made game. But because I know what you're getting at, The Division had amazing production values and great controls, but the main gameplay loop wore thin after about 10-15 hours. Which is a lot of time, but the game was intended to played much longer than that.
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I think that's a good measurement for this thread: games that you can see the production values in and can see why others really like it, but something about it isn't clicking with you personally.
 
Don't like saying it because i had high hopes about the game but that happened with Pillars of Eternity for me. I was starting to feel bored from a point on after getting the stronghold. Every time i convinced my self on continuing the game menu music mad e me depressed.
I finally finished it and the story did pick up exactly at the last screen before the final fight but still i felt bored and exhausted.
 
Loxley said:
Mass Effect 1 & 2

I stopped playing the first game rather quickly because, mechanically, it felt very clunky. I wasn't having any fun at all actually playing the game. When I heard that the second game's gameplay was more refined I gave it a shot, but despite that I ultimately just got bored with the setting. Generally speaking I love a good sci-fi story, but there was something about Mass Effect's universe that just never grabbed me. They're well made games, but just not my cup of tea for whatever reason.
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Basically my experience with these games. Never bought 3 for that reason.

Also, Half-Life 2 after the first hour, basically the moment you're driving around with the boat. I actually finished it but there were many parts that I didn't enjoy at all. At least the Episodes were much better and much more enjoyable for me.

Contrary to many answers I absolutely loved the time with MGS V, I would even say it's the second-best MGS game (first is 3)
 
Doom (2016). Very well made, but I got the gist of it after the first three levels. I think a more interesting story would've helped. Might come back to it at some point because it's fun.
 
The witcher 3 -- i can see why it got so many praise i mean beautiful graphics, etc,
but for me it wasn't fun, boring combat and the characters/ story/npc really bored me with their dialogs, quit after 3 ish hours

MGSV -- the gameplay was superb, but the story hardly felt like it was progressing at all, so too much missions doing kinda the same thing.

Uncharted 4 again amazing visuals, some really well designed set pieces, I beat the game but I boy did it sometimes feel just...boring and empty. Like the section in Madagascar ..what a pretty area with NOTHING to do and climbing things gets old really fast

man these AAA games this gen :[
 
Dragon Age: Inquisition & MGSV.

I mean, people seems to love it, games has a lot of budget and the world looks well crafted (and in the case of MGS5, the gameplay is ace); but i just couldn't pass the first hours after getting bored with the same kind of mission/quests :(
 
Naughty Dog's output from Uncharted onwards. Completed the first three Uncharteds and TLOU and while they're all well made, I found them all fairly boring by and large.

TLOU has a great musical score though, cannot deny that.
 
The Witcher 3, unfortunately. In addition to disliking the combat, I guess I found the world size to be a bit overwhelming, and while the storytelling seemed good the flavour was a bit "generic fantasy" for me.

I made it a good ten or fifteen hours in, but I haven't been back in a long while.
 
Too many to list but off the top of my head

Gears of War 2
Shadow of Mordor
Halo CE
Deus Ex Mankind Divided
Fallout 4

just endless games for me - but its probably a factor of me getting older and just bailing real quick if I am not hooked immediately. I don't feel bad however as you are free to spend your money however you like and I enjoy buying games even when I don't get hooked by them. They can always be fired up again in the future and maybe they'll hit with me.

Mind it occurs to me that Halo CE is 15 years ago so I was bailing even when I was less old lol
 
Witcher 3. Got about an hour in and turned it off. Haven't tried it again since.

GTA 5. I ended up buying it twice (PS3/Xbone) and still have never beaten the game.
 
antitrop said:
I played The Witcher 3 for 25 hours without ever having any fun at all. I gave it that much time, because it's obvious how good it is and I was waiting for it to click, but it just wasn't for me. Still deserved all those GOTY awards.
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Exactly the same for me, I gave it the old college try, just didn't click
 
Probably DOOM 2016 for me. I mean, it's got great gameplay and visuals are nice, and the music is sublime, but I had seen all it had to offer after a few hours and you can only shoot a room full of the same enemies so many times. MP didn't do it for me so I really had no desire to replay it.
 
Hrm. I have very broad tastes and a low threshold for enjoyment so I very rarely get bored. Of course I don't count genres I don't enjoy here. Any sports, manager or fighting game bore me to death but that's because I don't like the genres.
The exception would be pretty much every Mario and Zelda game. I adore Yoshi's Island and Wind Waker but pretty much everything else in those two series fail to hook me. And since I enjoy other platformers and think Okami is amazing, it's not a case of genre mismatch either.
I have not given up tho and aim to keep trying until they click. Especially with ALttP and the Wii/U Mario games.
 
I guess Pokemon X&Y the first time I played it

Pokemon Amie, Wonder Trade, the power training thing, plenty of neat features... and all in 3D! Essentially like the old but even more expanded.
Yet after I beat the first gym I lost all interest and just dropped it. Didn't try again until a few weeks ago, finally finished it last week.
 
The Last of Us came with my PS4 and I got a few hours in before I stopped playing.
It's strange, because I hardly ever quit a game outright once I've started it...
 
Uncharted 4. I played through Uncharted 2 at least 5, maybe 10 times and spent at least 100 hours on the multiplayer. Not so with Uncharted 4. I guess it was too samey, and the multiplayer not up to scratch with the likes of Overwatch.

Guess I could mention Witcher 3, too. I just feel like I'm wasting time when I play it. And I clocked in more than 50 hours in MGS5.
 
Lulu23 said:
Star Wars Battlefront

I was looking for a Star Wars Battlefield to much I guess. In the end it's a gorgeous and fun game, but it gets boring pretty fast because there really isn't much depth or variety for me.
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I was looking for a Battlefield game, and I was disappointed too. I'm not sure who it's for to be honest.
 
So many. I'm very fickle and quickly move from new shiny thing to newer shiny thing. Can't remember the last game I actually played to the end. I'm trying to hunker down and finish some non-RPGs that I paid full price for like Arkham Knight, Doom and UC4.
 
Xliskin said:
Furi, I loved the art style and the combat but those bosses somehow felt repetitive
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Because the combat system is actually incredibly basic. It's more about memorizing patterns and throwing out your rock to the opponent's scissors than it is about combos and improvisation.

The boss patterns are the same every time you fight them, so yeah, it's repetitive as fuck. Their movement, their attacks, it's all scripted. It feels more like a rhythm game, where you're practicing the same repetitive patterns over and over again until you achieve memorization, rather than a true Stylish Action Game, where you're improvising on the fly against a less predictable AI.
 
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