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[Korigama]

Don't worry. I'm a SMT fanatic and I think it's the most boring Persona game in existence.

Persona 1? That said, though I liked P3, P4 was much better.

On topic, I found FFXII (environments were so large that it took forever to get from point A to point B, boring MMO-esque battle system, and I still don't remember much about the story), FFXIII (that speed run video linked and the description summed up my problems with it), and Dead Space (about twice as long as it needed to be, felt like a chore before long) fairly boring. Never bothered with Dead Space 2.

KojiPro in effect...

Pretty sure that they had nothing to do with that (or any other creative/design aspects of LoS beyond acting as "supervisors", IIRC). It was MercurySteam's project.

 

[RadioHeadAche]

Zone of the Enders: Fist of Mars

I finished it because I wanted to be done with it, but it was so boring.

 

[NinjaBoiX]

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow: A generally tedious and boring game, despite its art direction and varied levels. There's something about the combat that drags the pacing down several notches. It doesn't help that the story/presentation is some of the worst drivel in quite a while.

KojiPro in effect...

 

[perfectchaos007]

Kirby Epic Yarn. I litterally had to force myself to play it. Whenever I thought I needed to bite the bullet and beat Epic Yarn I would get depressed and I put it off like I did my homework lol. I think I'm in world 4 now but I haven't touched it in months. I'll probably never beat that boring ass game.

 

[CoffeeJanitor]

Okay some of your list I can see but can you explain the RE 4 boredom?

I have this, too. I can't bring myself to go beyond that first town/level whatever. The tank controls are just too much for me. I can't handle that level of stupidity. I mean, who in the hell moves that slow?

 

[Drkirby]

Animal Crossing

It’s too repetitive. It’s my fault for assuming I’d like it because it’s a Nintendo game.

The game is fun with Friends. It is one of those games that in Middle and High School during the Weekend was actually fun to gather around and swap players ever 30 minutes to an hour.

 

[mavs]

FFXIII is so much more boring than any other game I've played that it doesn't count. Playing it just makes me angry instead of truly bored.

That makes Titan Quest the game that bored me the most.

 

[Kaizer]

GTA4 - Got sucked into the hype and ended up buying it. Terrible mistake. Not only did the first copy of the game I got brick my original PS3, I was bored by the game after playing it only a few times when I got my refurbished PS3 in.

 

[watershed]

The game is fun with Friends. It is one of those games that in Middle and High School during the Weekend was actually fun to gather around and swap players ever 30 minutes to an hour.

Animal Crossing has always been a game I want to love but only end up feeling pretty mixed about. I love the visual style, love the quirky characters and the general charm. But the mechanics kill me. When free facebook games do management, economy, and farming better than your $35 or $50 dollar game, something is wrong.

I'm holding out hope for the 3ds version though, I pray Nintendo realizes the series needs a serious update, not a drastic change just streamlining things and adding compelling original content.

 

[Drkirby]

Kirby Epic Yarn. I litterally had to force myself to play it. Whenever I thought I needed to bite the bullet and beat Epic Yarn I would get depressed and I put it off like I did my homework lol. I think I'm in world 4 now but I haven't touched it in months. I'll probably never beat that boring ass game.

Oh yeah, that game was far to slow. The fun in Kirby games is running at full speed quickly the entire way in the game. So the move speed in epic yarn was a major turn off, plus the constant "Now Saving!" screens (HAL Kirby games never stopped you from playing while saving, the game saved during the end stage mini-games), and noticeable load times. Good aesthetics and Music, dull game play, such a shame.

Animal Crossing has always been a game I want to love but only end up feeling pretty mixed about. I love the visual style, love the quirky characters and the general charm. But the mechanics kill me. When free facebook games do management, economy, and farming better than your $35 or $50 dollar game, something is wrong.

You have to recall, when the game came out, there was no Facebook or Myspace.

 

[Jimrpg]

i seem to be bored by games these days than say 10 years ago or even 20 years ago... games used to be a lot simpler, alot more about the mechanics...

these days the game design for most games is just not very good at all.... there were plenty of games on nintendo that did more with two buttons than the games these days that uses 8...

 

[PumpkinPie]

Infamous, absolute drivel.

 

[AniHawk]

i didn't die from playing it, but xenosaga episode ii literally put me to sleep.

 

[NaughtyCalibur]

Don't worry. I'm a SMT fanatic and I think it's the most boring Persona game in existence.

Glad to hear you say that, because I thought my dislike for P3 was odd after playing through Nocturne and P2: Eternal Punishment. P3 was 100+ hours of my life I genuinely feel I wasted. It had its moments, but really it just dragged and dragged for about 60 hours too long. P2 was just the right length imo. You'd think with a game like P3 and 4 -- where there's a lot of replay value based on your actions and shit -- that they'd shorten it down to a solid 30 hour experience. Unless an RPG is seriously blowing my mind I don't even want to look at it after 40 hours, let alone play through it again after 100+.

 

[Drkirby]

i didn't die from playing it, but xenosaga episode ii literally put me to sleep.

Just Pop in Action Replay and turn it into an Interactive Movie, problem solved.

 

[watershed]

You have to recall, when the game came out, there was no Facebook or Myspace.

But City Folk was only a few years ago and for the most part it did nothing to progress the series. The original AC was brilliant, just a great game. The ds game was redundant but still pretty good for a handheld version. City Folk was a total let down. So that's what I meant mostly.

Still the 3ds or cafe version better bring the goodness back. By now Nintendo must be aware of the growing influence of social/casual games and Animal Crossing should respond to that.

 

[Kong Fisso]

I completed it, but my eyelids felt really heavy most of the time. Bad pacing, terrible gunplay, boring characters. It was almost as bad as playing:

which is even more mindnumbingly boring. I played it through, hated it. A couple of years later one of my friends kept nagging me about how I didn't properly appreciate it and what not, so I started it again. And it was just as bad as I remembered. Covenant is a joke, guns are a joke and the characters straight up suck. Even completed Halo 2, again because of the hype, and that wasn't much better. Never touching this terrible series again.

In regards to Suikoden: 2 > 5 > 1 > 3 > 4

 

[Chuck Norris]

Mass Effect 1 and 2. I've tried, but these games just bore me. The characters are uninteresting, the lore just feels generic. ME2 was better but after awhile of just realising it is a friendship building simulator, I gave up. I keep trying to pick it up again but I can't do it.

Gonna have to say Persona 3 as well. I actually got addicted to it for awhile but I really had to force myself to get into it, and it just didn't go anywhere for far too long

 

[Dark Schala]

I wouldn't even call it good, it was flat out mediocre. The game would have likely been more enjoyable if everything was faster. Make it possible to advance the Dialog quicker, speed up the animations, move faster, battle faster, and you would have a more enjoyable game. The battle system is not only bad but slow. And the soundtrack is really week, which hurts it even more.

The game has potential, but it just wasn't put together right. I don't believe that the battle system was ever actually finished. If the game was remade it could likely be turned into a good game if they took some liberties with changing the gameplay, since the story is solid.

Also, Only the last of the Army Battles in the game was enjoyable. It was the only one where you got to do something and it wasn't just an alternative way to tell the story with it being overly scripted.

And that's a perfectly acceptable perspective.

I think Konami just wanted to take liberties with the battle system. I think it was finished, but it just wasn't very practical. This is quite evident in tougher battles when faced with AoE attacks wounding members who don't receive proper running directions from the player.

I liked the mass army battles (though I prefer II's more). I kinda thought they were interesting in terms of gameplay (it was interesting for me the first time through it to see some of the characters in the units getting the job done as opposed to having faceless soldiers doing the fighting for me), but yes--sometimes I didn't like how they were scripted.

 

[Drkirby]

Halo 1's campaign was enjoyable, I couldn't finish the campaign from 2 or 3 though.

 

[CoffeeJanitor]

Halo 1 and 2 were the first FPS games I played coop. They were great.

And damn, I'm surprised by the amount of ME, Oblivion, and HL2. I mean, these games bore me too but I thought I was in the vast minority.

Good to know I'm only in the minority!

 

[jg4xchamp]

Mafia 2.

Bad design choices left, right, and center. The game is legit built to put someone to sleep. How someone can find any semblance of satisfaction from that glorified sleeping pill is beyond me.

 

[lochnesssnowman]

Eternal Sonata - it's lovely to look at, and I like the premise of the game, but I found it a real chore at times to play through.

 

[Ushojax]

MGS4. I never gave a shit about the laughable story so it was hard to keep playing knowing there was a 10 minute cutscene ready to leap out at you after 5 minute of gameplay.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

Halo.

I just didn't get why I have to shoot these weird, screaming, little aliens. Except for the mp beta of Halo 3, I never touched anything from the Halo-series. Because I just don't care anymore.

 

[watershed]

MGS4. I never gave a shit about the laughable story so it was hard to keep playing knowing there was a 10 minute cutscene ready to leap out at you after 5 minute of gameplay.

More like 40 minute cut scene. In some cases over an hour I think. Terrible, terrible game.

 

[Kong Fisso]

Halo.

I just didn't get why I have to shoot these weird, screaming, little aliens. Except for the mp beta of Halo 3, I never touched anything from the Halo-series. Because I just don't care anymore.

Feels like you're fighting Jar Jar Binks. It's ridiculous.

 

[Drkirby]

Halo.

I just didn't get why I have to shoot these weird, screaming, little aliens. Except for the mp beta of Halo 3, I never touched anything from the Halo-series. Because I just don't care anymore.

What happened to the time when you shot the things you did just because they were shooting you? Should I have to care why I am shooting the people in Quake when I could just shoot them?

 

[RockmanWhore]

Every jRPG that isn't Chrono Trigger. A jRPG main quest shouldn't last more than 25 hours IMO, I tend to get bored after this limit.

 

[sublime085]

Fallout 3 was the game that I could never understand the love for. I put 10ish hours into it and I would be bored within minutes of loading my save file.

I just don't get it.

 

[Aeana]

Every jRPG that isn't Chrono Trigger. A jRPG main quest shouldn't last more than 25 hours IMO, I tend to get bored after this limit.

There are a lot of Japanese RPGs that aren't more than 25 hours, though. Examples: Parasite Eve (7 hours), Suikoden (~25 I guess), Dragon Quests 1-5, Emerald Dragon (12-15 hours)...

 

[desverger]

Disciples 3

What a massive disappointment. I can't believe I paid money out of that game.

 

[overcast]

Christ. This thread just looks like a troll thread. Some of these games are utterly incredible :\

Anyway, I was bored by Fallout 3. I don't hate the game, but I can't get into that game. Oh well..

 

[mxgt]

Recently it's Dragon Age 2.

 

[The Xtortionist]

Resistance 2...Only made it halfway through the second level. One of the most uninteresting, uninspiring shooters I've ever played.

 

[Nlroh]

Just played it for a couple of hours, don't really know if it gets any better.
I don't usually stop playing a game at the beginning but I hate the controls... especially the horse.

 

[meppi]

Fallout 3 for me.
No matter if I play half an hour or 4 hours straight, I'm left feeling I didn't accomplish anything besides "discovering" some boring generic settlement which was as exciting as the previous one.
The start was good though.

 

[spats]

Dark Void and Damnation were both pretty boring from start to finish but I beat them anyway.

Oh and I got so bored of Kingdom Hearts II about halfway through that I never managed to beat it.

 

[Discotheque]

Yakuza 2 - so uninteresting compared to the first game
Dead Space - good atmosphere but that's about it for me
Killzone series - same as above

 

[French]

Bioshock, so overrated. I couldn't even finish it.

Halo games are pretty boring too.

 

[Cdammen]

I've been really bored by Little Big Planet. I felt really disconnected from the game, the physics were really flimsy and I'm not the biggest fan of the SixAxis' analog sticks. I really tried to be engaged because I love the audiovisuals and the playful attitude... but no, never did finish it.

Also got bored by Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga. Fantastic game but I realized that I really don't enjoy RPGs anymore. Gonna give Witcher 2 a try soon... please let me enjoy it

 

[Tron 2.0]

Completely agree with Half-Life 2. I played what I think was about half-way through and realized I was enjoying it so little there was no reason to continue. I couldn't believe *this* was the game everyone was talking about.

Kirby's Epic Yarn and Warioland: The Shake Dimension. Good-Feel creates beautiful art and boring collect-a-thons.

Really loved Red Dead Redemption...in the beginning. But hour after hour of doing the same shit over and over... it just wore me down. I didn't even get to Mexico. Open world games are just not for me.

 

[Raelson]

Red Dead Redemption is by far the most boring game i've ever played.
I simply cannot understand how someone can enjoy that game.

 

[greycolumbus]

Resident Evil. I tried so many times to finish the REmake but I just get bored to tears.

 

[meppi]

Red Dead Redemption is by far the most boring game i've ever played.
I simply cannot understand how someone can enjoy that game.

I think the overall atmosphere in the game plays a huge factor.
If you can't connect with that, I can see not liking it.

For me it was the first Rockstar game I actually loved.

 

[Luth1en]

Eternal Sonata - it's lovely to look at, and I like the premise of the game, but I found it a real chore at times to play through.

My thoughts exactly. I ended up skipping the cut-scenes for the last few hours just to get it over with. To this day, I still don't know why I had to fight the final boss character.

 

[Raide]

99% of sports games. Fifa, Pro-Evo, Madden all boring as hell.

 

[Acquiescence]

If it's one thing I hate, it's a game that's bogged down by routine from start to finish. Clearly I should've done more research into the Persona series before I purchased this, because by the halfway mark I just had to throw up my hands and declare enough is enough. I enjoyed the social stuff like interacting with your roomates, establishing relationships with them and exploring the town...but the dungeon crawling, oh christ the dungeon crawling. I must have put in over 70 hours in Persona 3, but with no end in sight to the amount of floors I had to scale in that miserable tower, I realised I was losing the will to live. Thus I gave up and sold the game on Amazon. What a waste of goddamn time.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

What happened to the time when you shot the things you did just because they were shooting you? Should I have to care why I am shooting the people in Quake when I could just shoot them?

Well, I guess it was the overall style of the game, too. I never got a feel of the weapons, the levels. It seems like I'm not a scifi-shooter fan. As I didn't play Mass Effect either.

 

[Sethos]

EVE Online

Most ( Read: All ) Battlefield games.