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What is the worst game that has stolen 40+ hours of your life?
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genesisblock
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Assassin's Creed: Odyssey. 150 hours I would never get back and I tried to rush it but thay borked leveling system is driving me up the wall. I'm a committed AC enthusiast but this game drained the fuck out of me. Now I fear for Valhalla when I buy it for the upcoming Steam Sale.
Roman Empire
Member
Horizon Forbidden West. What a shit sequel, it's drags and drags and the story pay off is not that great neither. Silens just dies (RIP Lance Reddick, eternal Commander Zavala), and now a global threat is coming to Earth... again?
Idk what kind of bullshit you want me to believe a post-apocalyptic tribal civilization can pull off against an all-devouring advanced technology that, at this point, is basically alien to the humans on Earth. Seriously, I like the premise of the series, I really do but I can't suspend my disbelief to that point. Aloy and all the other humans on earth should be as good as dead the moment Nemesis touches our atmosphere.
Idk what kind of bullshit you want me to believe a post-apocalyptic tribal civilization can pull off against an all-devouring advanced technology that, at this point, is basically alien to the humans on Earth. Seriously, I like the premise of the series, I really do but I can't suspend my disbelief to that point. Aloy and all the other humans on earth should be as good as dead the moment Nemesis touches our atmosphere.
COD.
I don't understand the picture, is it spoiling?
crackajack
Member
TES3 Morrowind
Never finished it. Terrible quest log, bland world without actual personality. Nerevarine drivel was one the most boring stories ever told in text boxes and tons of meaningless dialogs with braindead npcs. Its and GTA's success damned us with all the open world garbage we got and get today.
Boiling Point
I enjoyed driving like a madman around in the jungle with the bus. Afaik the first open world first person shooter. Somewhat interesting premise for that, but terrible executioin, barely functioning. When I stopped, CIA or whatever was in a war with some other faction and I could not go further in the main quest due to that.
Demons Souls
I loved half of my playtime, but I also hated the other half. A game (series) that could easily be enjoyable for everyone, but You died is the basic core and fans celebrate it for that backwardness.
Yakuza Zero
It has some few moments were it is funny, but it is a terrible mishmash of nonsense, repetitive and has insanely stretched thin content. Weird characters all around, stupid af story with lots of cringeworthy pseudotwists. I thought I get into it with one of the better ones and not start in release order, but I think I'll skip that series too.
Never finished it. Terrible quest log, bland world without actual personality. Nerevarine drivel was one the most boring stories ever told in text boxes and tons of meaningless dialogs with braindead npcs. Its and GTA's success damned us with all the open world garbage we got and get today.
Boiling Point
I enjoyed driving like a madman around in the jungle with the bus. Afaik the first open world first person shooter. Somewhat interesting premise for that, but terrible executioin, barely functioning. When I stopped, CIA or whatever was in a war with some other faction and I could not go further in the main quest due to that.
Demons Souls
I loved half of my playtime, but I also hated the other half. A game (series) that could easily be enjoyable for everyone, but You died is the basic core and fans celebrate it for that backwardness.
Yakuza Zero
It has some few moments were it is funny, but it is a terrible mishmash of nonsense, repetitive and has insanely stretched thin content. Weird characters all around, stupid af story with lots of cringeworthy pseudotwists. I thought I get into it with one of the better ones and not start in release order, but I think I'll skip that series too.
SlimeGooGoo
Party Gooper
If OP means worst game as in "a really bad game", I gotta say if it's not good after five hours, I stop playing. But if I'm very technical with your phrasing, OP, of worst-40+-hour-game it's probably F1 2012. It wasn't a bad game but from all games that I've played more than 40 hours it is the "worst".
touchfuzzy
Member
Probably Skyward Sword. It's not really bad, but I just kept waiting and waiting for it to turn into that 9-10/10 game all the reviews proclaimed and it never happened. Finished it once and never played again, my least favorite 3D Zelda by a good margin. I've heard the Switch re-release fixes a few of the issues I had with it but I just can't commit to playing it again -- I'm also very in love with the BOTW / TOTK formula now and not really interested in going back.
Rickyiez
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BR games where you can loot for 15minutes just to die from nothing. Worse game genre ever created. I still play Apex Legend though because of friends and the gunfights are really awesome.
But speaking about time stolen, yea definitely the looting and trying to survive aspect
But speaking about time stolen, yea definitely the looting and trying to survive aspect
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64bitmodels
Reverse groomer.
Roblox. It's like Stockholm Syndrome. Game selection has fallen off a cliff in quality since the mid 2010s but I still stick around for pure nostalgia and trying to find at least ONE unique and interesting game that isn't some content farm overly colorful soulless greedy mush.
64bitmodels
Reverse groomer.
simple, fortnite is fun. I used to be a hater, but now I can even appreciate the battle royale mode.
manfestival
Member
Skyrim
MidGenRefresh
*Refreshes biennially
GTA V
Uninteresting story, unlikable characters, on rails mission design. Driving model sucked which is a big problem for game with „auto” in its name. Oh, and modern day California is a lame setting. I vastly preferred IV.
Uninteresting story, unlikable characters, on rails mission design. Driving model sucked which is a big problem for game with „auto” in its name. Oh, and modern day California is a lame setting. I vastly preferred IV.
GymWolf
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Valhalla is WAY worse.
kevin_trinh
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phant0m
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Chores: the game
U n i o n 0015
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t_wilson01
Member
Super Mario RPG. I finished it, but didn't enjoy it at all. Sold it after I was done. That it's selling for $150 right now seems crazy to me.
Fredrik
Member
I don’t play 5 minutes of a game I don’t like. Strange thread.
Biggest time waster is probably AC Valhalla since a save bug sent me back 20+ hours. I enjoyed the game enough to rate it 7/10 but not enough to replay that much time.
I uninstalled it and looked up the ending and Youtube.
Biggest time waster is probably AC Valhalla since a save bug sent me back 20+ hours. I enjoyed the game enough to rate it 7/10 but not enough to replay that much time.
I uninstalled it and looked up the ending and Youtube.
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
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Putonahappyface
Member
Cyberpunk 2077 on release. I put to many hours into that game when it was in a terrible state and ultimately gave up and moved on. Even though with all the fixes I don't have the motivation to start over again.
I had completely forgotten about this until I had browsed through more of the entries, but I have a definitive answer. Hometown Story for the 3DS.
It was made by the creator of the original Harvest Moon, who had since been pushed aside by. Natsume teamed up with him after they lost the rights to the game, and had that big Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons split.
Hometown Story was supposed to be their new flagship series. Instead of running a farm, you were going to run a shop, but you'd still have interactions with all the citizens. It all sounded great. And it was the most boring game I've ever played in my life. The whole game was filled with boring characters doing boring things, and running the shop was even more boring than any of that. A couple times it seemed like it was getting good, but inevitably it would just get boring again. My love for Harvest Moon kept me hanging on, hoping that I just wasn't "getting it". But I got it. And boy did it suck.
It was made by the creator of the original Harvest Moon, who had since been pushed aside by. Natsume teamed up with him after they lost the rights to the game, and had that big Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons split.
Hometown Story was supposed to be their new flagship series. Instead of running a farm, you were going to run a shop, but you'd still have interactions with all the citizens. It all sounded great. And it was the most boring game I've ever played in my life. The whole game was filled with boring characters doing boring things, and running the shop was even more boring than any of that. A couple times it seemed like it was getting good, but inevitably it would just get boring again. My love for Harvest Moon kept me hanging on, hoping that I just wasn't "getting it". But I got it. And boy did it suck.
MasterDerico
Member
I don't need that much time to realize if i will continue or drop.
So, none.
So, none.
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Games of Today
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Fat Bastard peers through the leaves at Aloy, "Hey diaper lady! Here's my diaper!"
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BossLackey
Gold Member
King Dazzar
Member
Star Wars: The Old Republic. Kept thinking it would get better and it never did.
Dr. Suchong
Member
2 was the best by far.
Hollowpoint5557
A Fucking Idiot
I'm maybe 10 hours into the Last of Us 2 and it feels like I'm 40 hours in and I am struggling to continue. I love the 1st game so much but something about this just feels off. It's slow paced, feels like a collect-a-thon, and the story is really not *clicking* 
for me. I hope things pick up because this is in my top 5 biggest let downs ever so far.
for me. I hope things pick up because this is in my top 5 biggest let downs ever so far.
Mossybrew
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Yeah I think Valhalla would be my pick. It was fun at first. Then it gradually became just something to do, it was ok. Then it just ... kept going. I had invested so many hours I figured I might as well finish it. But in hindsight the whole second half of that game was just a boring, repetitive slog. It had no business being that long. Not a game I look back on fondly.
mcjmetroid
Member
Fire Emblem: Engage.
Awful awful horrible horrible story. I wanted to like this game a whole lot more than I did but it's the polar opposite to Three Houses. Where one did one thing right, the other did it wrong.
They nailed the gameplay and visuals but everything else....
Awful awful horrible horrible story. I wanted to like this game a whole lot more than I did but it's the polar opposite to Three Houses. Where one did one thing right, the other did it wrong.
They nailed the gameplay and visuals but everything else....
A.Romero
Member
Oh yeah, I've tried a lot of games and I don't like most of them but I seldom spend 10 hours on them, let alone 40.
Kagoshima_Luke
Gold Member
Battlefield 2042. It was the worst BF in years. I kept playing. Hovercrafts went straight up the side of skyscrapers. I kept playing.
GreatnessRD
Member
Apex Legends
My friends and family are trash! TRASH I SAY! Making me play this garbage as bonding time!
My friends and family are trash! TRASH I SAY! Making me play this garbage as bonding time!
Generic
Member
If you look at Gamefaqs all reviews are 9/10 and 10/10. Back then this game was HUGE over gaming communities, everyone considered it an "underrated gem" and demanded Capcom to make a sequel. Yet we are in 2023 and nobody cares about Okami anymore.
TerribleAtThisGame
Member
This'll be Alan Wake 2 in a year. Style over substance is an approach that tends to quickly wear off.
adamosmaki
Member
Ark survival evolved. Can't believe i put solo on that junky piece of s***t nearly 100hours. The only reason I kept playing because there are some really good mods
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
I have stayed in there searching for fun in some really bad games but if we're talking about the 40+ club that's actually a rare set because it requires a special sort of deception. If a game is truly terrible I'll be out in 5 hours, if it seems like it could be as an action game, maybe 10hrs. With an RPG things usually move slower and plot might make up for it so maybe 20 before I drop it. However there is one clear winner there...
Starfield - 150 hours of frustration and wasted hope
The most deceptive bait-n-obfuscate game of all time. Very particular wording there because a bait-n-switch would make you quit faster. Starfield truly presents itself in such a way that you feel like it is about to open up just around the corner no matter how far you get. You think surely the story is just about to get better, the characters and relationships, the skill trees will become fun after this next barrier, the combat will open up once it allows these abilities and there will be new enemies, the ship battles and shipbuilding will become good, I'll find new things on planets, etc, etc. Just like, surely... SURELY NO ONE WOULD SPEND SO LONG DEVELOPING A LITERALLY ENDLESS PILE OF ABSOLUTE MEDIOCRITY THAT ISN'T EVEN FARMING THEM MICROTRANSACTIONS... and yet that is what they did.
And yet it isn't just mediocre. The GOOD PARTS are mediocre, the things you focus on. Yet all blended up with all the parts you focus on are five hundred trillion little obstacles of design. Everything is incomprehensibly designed to make you stumble over it in trying to do any action you might want to do. A part of your mind thinks, okay, surely this is also some sort of misunderstanding. No one would ever make something to truly shitty and failing at all the most basic things you do literally tens of thousands of times in a playthrough. It must just be unfamiliarity. Once I get more practice I'll see the sense in it, become accommodated to it, whatever. But that never happens. It really is true that everything gets in the way of itself. Nearly every single facet of the game is like a "nailed it" or "you had one job" meme.
This is the only game I have played for 150 hours where my opinion of the game went nowhere but down for the entire 150 hours. It has absolutely destroyed all respect I once had for Bethesda (dev studio not overall as a publisher) and seeing the departures from the company that I have seen do nothing but reinforce that. I hope that somehow in some completely unexpected miracle, the new oversight from Microsoft results in a big turnaround.
Starfield - 150 hours of frustration and wasted hope
The most deceptive bait-n-obfuscate game of all time. Very particular wording there because a bait-n-switch would make you quit faster. Starfield truly presents itself in such a way that you feel like it is about to open up just around the corner no matter how far you get. You think surely the story is just about to get better, the characters and relationships, the skill trees will become fun after this next barrier, the combat will open up once it allows these abilities and there will be new enemies, the ship battles and shipbuilding will become good, I'll find new things on planets, etc, etc. Just like, surely... SURELY NO ONE WOULD SPEND SO LONG DEVELOPING A LITERALLY ENDLESS PILE OF ABSOLUTE MEDIOCRITY THAT ISN'T EVEN FARMING THEM MICROTRANSACTIONS... and yet that is what they did.
And yet it isn't just mediocre. The GOOD PARTS are mediocre, the things you focus on. Yet all blended up with all the parts you focus on are five hundred trillion little obstacles of design. Everything is incomprehensibly designed to make you stumble over it in trying to do any action you might want to do. A part of your mind thinks, okay, surely this is also some sort of misunderstanding. No one would ever make something to truly shitty and failing at all the most basic things you do literally tens of thousands of times in a playthrough. It must just be unfamiliarity. Once I get more practice I'll see the sense in it, become accommodated to it, whatever. But that never happens. It really is true that everything gets in the way of itself. Nearly every single facet of the game is like a "nailed it" or "you had one job" meme.
This is the only game I have played for 150 hours where my opinion of the game went nowhere but down for the entire 150 hours. It has absolutely destroyed all respect I once had for Bethesda (dev studio not overall as a publisher) and seeing the departures from the company that I have seen do nothing but reinforce that. I hope that somehow in some completely unexpected miracle, the new oversight from Microsoft results in a big turnaround.
yet_another_alt
Member
Maple Story. I honestly have no idea how young me let it derail our lives by scheduling it around grinding.