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[NaughtyCalibur]

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

That wouldn't have helped because the other games in the series are vastly different. I'd suggest you check out Persona 2 if you haven't already and aren't afraid to step back a few generations. The social link stuff isn't there, but the dungeons are far more varied and the game isn't a billion hours long.

 

[Striker]

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.

Was your weapon of choice the Assault Rifle, by any chance?

oh yeah halo also 'bores' me...i've only played halo3 and odst a bit. i mean i can play it and i think its an okayish game but i think its massively overhyped/rated...

To me, the slowest games of the series. Poor choice to start from.

 

[Foliorum Viridum]

Killzone 2 and 3.

All the ingredients are there for an exciting shooter, but for some reason nothing in it ever excites me. It's just a bland experience.

 

[Garjon]

A vote for Red Dead Redemption. While it's certainly not a bad game by any means, it gets so boring if you play it for more than a couple of hours at a time, especially in the middle section. The game is just so drawn out and padded with fluff like those ridiculous horse rides that I couldn't bear the thought of replaying it. The total lack of mission variety didn't help either.

EDIT: Also Killzone 3. The game isn't very long at all, yet it felt like it went on forever. Horribly paced, especially compared to 2.

 

[Durante]

Dragon Quest 8

It was fun for the first 10 hours, ok for another 10 but then the slow, repetitive battles just ground me down.

 

[Myriadis]

Awful characters,the levels are worse,uncharming characters and really boring.It has some good moments,but they are so incredibly rare.

 

[Tron 2.0]

Also, Donkey Kong 64.

But is that game well regarded in general?

 

[Nemo]

Tried going through the intro at least 3 times, one time literally fell asleep.

Gave it to my nephew tho and he loved the everliving crap out of it, so maybe I should get it back

 

[dramatis]

I have the strange habit of falling asleep during any game, although I'm not sure it qualifies as a sign of boredom. I fell asleep playing Bayonetta (and FF13 (and Valkyria Chronicles (and Folklore (and a bunch others)))), for crying out loud. But I've never actually been bored by games other than the gimmicky flash ones you play online.

 

[CoffeeJanitor]

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.

I had a great time with LBP but that was only because of local 4 player coop and user generated levels. The actual platforming mechanics sucked. I can sort of see where they were coming from with characters having more "realistic" momentum, but that really held the game back imo.

 

[Ashsturm]

Skies of Arcadia. It showed promise with a good opening but as soon as it started getting into the JRPG rhythm with the Pyramid temple I lost all interest. The frequency of the random encounters and the amount of enemies within them just made it tedious to slowly work my way through the dungeon

 

[The Bookerman]

Stopped about 2 hours in. Couldn't take it anymore.

 

[isamu]

WOW @ all the mentions of Mass Effect! Didn't GAF praise the LIVING FUCK out of this game!?!? I haven't played it yet, but if all these complaints about it being boring are credible, then I might not even bother!

I just wanted to play it because I don't want to play the ME2 before completing the 1st game.

 

[BMX Bandit]

It is probably cause summer is here and there are better things to do, but I've become completely bored with gaming recently. I dunno how far I am into Crysis 2 but I just can't make myself continue. I mean I tried. I got through one level the other day but I'm just not that interested in finishing it.

 

[raphier]

Starcraft 2. The plot was so horrendous I stopped playing eventually.

 

[MNC]

With enough time inbetween I can replay Half Life 2 at just about any time.

 

[mokeyjoe]

Dead Space.

Resident Evil 4 meets Doom 3, I loved both those games (yeah even Doom3) but despite trying 3 times across two platforms I kept finding myself bored and giving up by Chapter 4. Such a shame.

Bioshock.

Now I should say that FPSs tend to bore me as a genre (Halo notably), but there are a few I've enjoyed. I thought Bioshock would definitely be something more. Although I could see what was cool about Bioshock the frustrating combat and the samey environments meant that I could no longer force myself to play after about two thirds through. Again, it was disappointing because so many people loved it but I can't force myself to enjoy something (despite trying!). I have no idea why I enjoyed something like Doom 3 so much more than this, it doesn't make sense, but there it is.

 

[Keikoku]

Yakuza series
Killzone series
FFXIII

 

[Murkas]

FF13: The usual things that everyone else never liked about it. Just hold up, then fight, then a cutscene.

Halo Reach: One of the most boring shooters I ever played. It was the SAME shit, don't give me none of that "oh well they added abilities" BS. I stopped playing the campaign after a few levels because this game was so dry. I finished Halo 3's campaign but this one was something else. Like they just ctrl+c and ctrl+v Halo 3 "but added abilities"

Bulletstorm: Another boring shooter with ironsights and health regen. The killskills stuff couldn't hide that fact. Take that out and you're left with COD with monsters.

Persona 3 : The Answer: I loved Persona 3 but this was something else. Setting the game automatically on Hard so the enemies dodge your spells alot more often. That doesn't make the game hard, it makes it frustrating. The fact that the Persona book was taken out didn't help so you could only fuse what ever Persona you had on you.

Gears of War 3 Beta: Same shit, new weapons like so many sequels this gen.

 

[BMX Bandit]

Dead Space.

Resident Evil 4 meets Doom 3, I loved both those games (yeah even Doom3) but despite trying 3 times across two platforms I kept finding myself bored and giving up by Chapter 4. Such a shame.
.

Yeh I can hear you on this one. I was constantly thinking Doom 3 without the flashlight and in 3rd person while playing it. If it wasn't for the yellow brick road I dunno if I would have finished it. The scare tactic of having a room full of bodies on the floor and one of them being alive worked once. It just made me ground stomp through entire hallways after that. The lack of new ideas/repeated ideas really soured that game for me.

 

[SneakyStephan]

In order of boringness:
Rift beta (basically the same game as warhammer but even more horrendously tedious)
Mass effect


<large gap >

Halo 3 (same shit, bored of it by halo 2)
Crysis 2
Gears 2 (same shit but less good)
Warhammer online
Shift
Homefront (boring cos it's just bad and clunky)

 

[TheOddOne]

Killzone 2 - Great graphics, the rest not so much. I can barely remember the story.
Infamous - its just so bland, the missions are fucking terrible.
Fable III - BORING.

 

[storafötter]

Atelier Iris 2, the only game that has bored me to death. I tried to hold out, but not much was engaging. I will try to force myself to finish it one day since I don't like buying stuff I won't play.

One thing that bothers me is that I am bored replaying old games. I used to enjoy replaying them, but nowadays playing Mario Bros/Zelda, even to an extent Dragon Quest games over again isn't that fun the second time for me. I force myself to do so still . I just hope Ocarina of Time for the 3ds is fun to play again.

The only old games I don't get bored with are those I never got far with or mastered, like Super Adventure Island. I discovered how to jump high for the first time last time I played it and manage to get into it in the end.

However the older I get I don't get as much fun from games as I used to. So you can in some sense say that many modern games bore me once a while until the quality improves throughout the game.

 

[DeFiBkIlLeR]

TBH....

Anything after about 2006.


...hence why i dont own any of the current consoles..It's probably an age thing, just dont have the attention span anymore to sit there for hours.

Nowdays i prefer short bursts of retro gaming on my PC via emulators.

 

[CoffeeJanitor]

WOW @ all the mentions of Mass Effect! Didn't GAF praise the LIVING FUCK out of this game!?!? I haven't played it yet, but if all these complaints about it being boring are credible, then I might not even bother!

I just wanted to play it because I don't want to play the ME2 before completing the 1st game.

Just from the beginning of the game, it's very generic. Also consider that a few of us probably didn't play it at release (I just grabbed it last month), and thus the hype probably didn't get to us. That and the visuals obviously aren't as impressive now.

Gears 2 I wouldn't call boring, but it certainly was more of the same.

 

[DeathIsTheEnd]

Half Life 2 and FFXIII.

Half Life 2 took me about 8 months to finish because I found sections so dull. It's rather odd because I actually really enjoyed EP2.

FFXIII has taken me about 6 months so far and I refuse to play any more.

 

[Prophet Steve]

TBH....

Anything after about 2006.


...hence why i dont own any of the current consoles..It's probably an age thing, just dont have the attention span anymore to sit there for hours.

Nowdays i prefer short bursts of retro gaming on my PC via emulators.

Eh, wow.

No games you like? Seems that you lost your interest in games and just playing for nostalgia reasons. There are enough games fitted for short play.

And this thread is making my heart burst.

But mine:

NieR: Although I still love it, the games was sometimes very, very boring.
Phantasy Star Universe not online: Yeah, awful game especially if you play it that way. Played it because I had it for free.
Mafia II: The game just couldn't interest me on the 360, although I haven't played for long I quickly was put of because it didn't deliver anything new to me. And the low framerate and graphical problems on the 360 were annoying.

Can't think of anything else for now.

But damn, some of the titles here make me so sad.

 

[mikeGFG]

Diablo 2.

point click blue skeleton click click click. point click red skeleton click click. loot useless throwing spears. uninstall before I lose my mind.

 

[luxarific]

Resonance of Fate. Go to the left, go to the right, TRIANGLE! Repeat x 100000000000.

 

[CoffeeJanitor]

Half Life 2 took me about 8 months to finish because I found sections so dull. It's rather odd because I actually really enjoyed EP2.

EP2 is so much better than the rest of the series it's unbelievable. That's not to say EP2 was God's gift to man or anything like that

Spoiler

the big fight with the striders was kind of frustrating

but it was certainly an improvement.

One thing Valve never completely got on any of these was the pacing. Now, EP2 did it better than the others but I still recall that all of these games used their ideas a little bit too much, to the point that you became self aware of the gameplay ideas they were pushing on you after about the third or fourth time.

 

[sublimit]

Bayonetta.The repetitiveness killed it for me.

 

[Zenith]

Far Cry 2, Prince of Persia 2008 and Assassin's Creed 1. All made by Ubisoft around the same time. All featured rather flashy hooks but turned out to be rather content-free.

 

[KevinCow]

Bioshock

Oddly, it wasn't the lack of action that made it boring. It was the presence of it. I'd have loved to explore Rapture at my own leisure, but no, there had to be eight splicers around every corner. This wouldn't in and of itself be bad, but combat is just so dull.

Beyond the dull combat, though, this means that you have to spend a lot of time scrounging absolutely everything to keep up your stock of health, ammo, and money. Every desk, drawer, corpse, closet, box, whatever. And 90% of the time, they'll be empty, or have like one potato chip to loot.

So to help with your ammo, money, and health predicament, you start hacking turrets and cameras to help you conserve ammo, start hacking safes in the hope that they'll have a good cache of stuff to offer (they usually don't). And now you're spending half the game playing Pipe Dream.


And then you fight a Big Daddy, and hooray, all that time spent scrounging and conserving is rendered pointless because you end the fight with like two bullets left.

 

[Dever]

I quit playing when I got to the temple where you had to drag around the leaf guy.

 

[CecilRousso]

WOW @ all the mentions of Mass Effect! Didn't GAF praise the LIVING FUCK out of this game!?!? I haven't played it yet, but if all these complaints about it being boring are credible, then I might not even bother!

I just wanted to play it because I don't want to play the ME2 before completing the 1st game.

The problem with Mass Effect is that if you look behind the graphics, the settings and the character, they just aren´t that fun to play. Repetitive missions, repetetive gunfights, and the locations are really just a bunch of corridors with different textures.

 

[Suairyu]

Unfortunately, Zone Of Enders. The first one, as I haven't played the second. The mechanics never grabbed me, the story was very over-played standard Gundam plotline and the characters cardboard cutouts. Aesthetically, I also found it wanting somewhat.

But yeah, mostly because of those mechanics and gameplay. It just felt dull. I never felt like I was some badass mech pilot, just some kid in a souped up shopping trolley.

 

[biocat]

So this is the thread where everyone trashes many of the games I love?

 

[Suairyu]

So this is the thread where everyone trashes many of the games I love?

Only if the games you love bore other people.

 

[Dizzy]

First one that came to mind...

Walking around in these empty repetitive metal corridors again....and again....and again, doing nothing but shooting these goofy bullet-spoonge aliens. The further you got in the game the worse it got. By the time you get to the Flood and the Library it's almost unbearable. Maybe there are one or two games more boring than this, but I'm giving Halo a nod just because of the copy & paste level design.




Honorable mentions.

Any racing simulator

Fable 3 - first two were good

Zelda: Twilight Princess - Loved the others but I could not wait for this game to finish

Jak & Daxter - Didn't like any of them, but the first game almost sent me to sleep

GTA IV - 30 hour game roughly, maybe 1 or 2 decent missions tops in all that time. The rest were just running boring personal errands for lame characters. RDR had much better gameplay but again suffered from terrible missions, story and characters.

 

[semiconscious]

l.a. noire

once you realize that your objective is

Spoiler

to simply conclude, rather than actually solve, cases

, you're basically left to simply go through the motions, repeatedly, till the storyline comes to an end. &, if the storyline itself is doing nothing for you, this can be a seriously boring way to spend some time...

 

[Dabanton]

At the moment ME2 is boring me i'm finding it hard to actually get on and complete it.

 

[LOZLINK]

Reading this through this thread, geez some of you are hard to please.

 

[7threst]

Eternal Sonata bored me to death. What a waste of precious gaming time.

 

[Infinity]

Killzone 2 - Great graphics, the rest not so much. I can barely remember the story.

OMG yes, I couldn't wait to finish this game. Everything was there for a well-rounded experience, but for me it just didn't add up.

 

[Enosh]

uuugh
wanted to strangle myself at the second vehicle section

 

[NaughtyCalibur]

Jak & Daxter - Didn't like any of them, but the first game almost sent me to sleep.

Hmm... do you even particularly care for platformers? I just ask because I find it hard to believe that somebody who likes, say, Banjo-Kazooie/Tooie would be put to sleep by the first Jak & Daxter. Now the sequels on the other hand...

A lot of you guys have reminded me of a few others as well.

Red Dead Redemption bored me to tears, but I don't care for westerns at all so that's a given. And BioShock, I hate to say it but I just don't have fun playing it. I enjoy watching other people play it, but as soon as I pick up the controller it's like the joy is sucked out of the experience for me. There are very few games that I feel similarly about except for most fighting games (because I suck at them), so it's definitely odd.

I think KevinCow's reasons for disliking the game reflect my own. I felt as though the game needed less action and more exploration. But I'll admit Infinite has me hyped, so hopefully I'll be able to get into that one.

 

[anddo0]

Far Cry 2- ZzzzZ. Just took forever to get from point A to B. The very definition of repetitive.

L.A. Noire- ZzzZ- Do not play this game after a 8-10 hour work day. Instant sleeping pill. It's one of those games that you want to like, but just can't.. Robotic and boring.

P3P- I love this game to death.. But, it dragged so much near the end.

 

[Aru]

Lunar Silver Star Harmony (PSP) - Easy and too slow. Boring.

Rivieria: The Promised Land (PSP) - Again too easy and too slow. Should have had a fast forward option.

 

[SpongeBob NoPants]

God, how long have you got?

Like the OP, I could never see the appeal of the Half Life series (though I did enjoy Portal). That’s probably a reflection on me rather than the games though: I’d been playing FPS games since Corporation on the Amiga (1990?) and I think that Half Life was probably the first game to make me realise how sick I was of the genre. I find the Halo games to be an equally turgid experience, probably for much the same reasons - and the fact that some idiot thought that dual-wielding would be cool.

I’ve also never really enjoyed any of the GTA series, but I still keep buying them, naively presuming that newest one will be the one where I get to see just why they’re rated so highly. Curse Rockstar and their bloody mind-control tricks.

On the Nintendo platforms, nobody will ever convince me that there is an ounce of enjoyment in the Smash Bros games. I used to think that maybe I was getting a little too old for frenzied gameplay & that my reactions weren’t quite what they used to be, but I still love the likes of Geometry Wars and Treasure’s games, so I guess that’s not the case.

As for the Metal Gear games, with their poor controls, ludicrous “plots” and inane, interminable dialogue, I couldn’t give less of a shit about them without risking terminal constipation

 

[Typographenia]

Played it for three hours, couldn't take it anymore. The collecting was ridiculous, the guards constantly on your case, the story I didn't give a crap about, and so many frustrating small things about traversing buildings. Turned me off big time. Only game I've actually sold in the last ten years or so.

Just talked my brother into replaying this with me, but it was unbearable. He ended up playing the entire thing while I mst3k'd it. Even then it was mind-numbingly horrible.

It's the only wii game I own that I have yet to beat. Worst of all, I picked it up when it released. I tried playing it again a few days ago, and I couldn't do it. I beat the first level I had left it at, checked to see I was actually less than half done with the game, and dropped it again.

Don't get me wrong, I love the writing and the characters, but this game is horrendously boring. It's so much running around, and then the puzzle answers are all found within a tour pamphlet. Not very compelling stuff.

Had so much praise around it I thought I should give it a look before I was unable to find it anywhere. I sort of wish I hadn't. It was too slow and lacked any real compelling feature to keep me playing. Maybe I'll return to it again one day, but it's sitting on the shelf until then.