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[JonCha]

The final desk of L.A. Noire is boring the hell out of me. I don't think I've ever had this kind of reluctance to finish a game (which is a shame, because everything before the final desk is really good).

Halo 3's campaign was also boring to me. Reach's was MUCH better.

 

[Sir Garbageman]

Assassin's Creed Series:

So you want me to scale 70 similar tall buildings just to reveal the map? No thanks.

Oblivion / Fallout 3:

Uninspired dungeon design and 90% of combat involves backpedaling against melee enemies.

 

[Dizzy]

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...

Yeah it was my love for platformers that made me try it in the first place but the game just didn't so it for me. So boring. I first played it in 2004 though so it might have been a bit dated at the time, though having said that Ratchet was still a lot of fun.

 

[Moobabe]

Somewhere Stallion Free is crying at all the mentions of Half Life 2...

Final Fantasy XIII is definitely one of them - I got to Gran Pulse and just stopped.

The other main culprit was Prince of Persia 2008. SO easy, SO repetitive and SO SO boring. Can't believe I wasted my time on either of them.

 

[Yoshichan]

Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon

 

[Andrefpvs]

Final Fantasy XII: Screw this game's:

Non-existent story (Politics? Just what I'm looking for in my Final Fantasy!);

Bland characters ("Hey Vaan, wanna tag along and help save the nation?" "Sure!" "Okay, let's never speak again then");

Boring-ass MMO-like gameplay (Walk for 30 seconds, slash slash, walk for 30 seconds, slash slash, take forever to reach the next town -- have nothing interesting happen there -- walk for 30 seconds, slash slash).

Boring. Most disappointing Final Fantasy for me.


I can see how some people think it's a good game but it's just not for me Actually I can't.

 

[Moobabe]

Final Fantasy XII: Screw this game's:

Non-existent story (Politics? Just what I'm looking for in my Final Fantasy!);

Bland characters ("Hey Vaan, wanna tag along and help save the nation?" "Sure!" "Okay, let's never speak again then");

Boring-ass MMO-like gameplay (Walk for 30 seconds, slash slash, walk for 30 seconds, slash slash, take forever to reach the next town -- have nothing interesting happen there -- walk for 30 seconds, slash slash).

I appreciated the changes - but I never finished it. I hated the inclusion of Vaan - I thought the story would have been a lot stronger if someone else was the main character. I also liked the change of tone for the story - sometimes being some nobody and going on to kill a world threatening monster gets a bit dull.

Saying that - I didn't enjoy the combat at all.

 

[Zakkath]

There are a few gamesd that I didn't bother finishing or just forced myself to finish for the sake of it :

-Half-Life
-Killzone 2 ( most boring FPS I've played )
-Ocarinia of Time (just didnt get into it)
-Blue Dragon ( maybe not bored, but annoyed the crap out of me, so much I couldn't even force myself to finish the demo )

I appreciated the changes - but I never finished it. I hated the inclusion of Vaan - I thought the story would have been a lot stronger if someone else was the main character. I also liked the change of tone for the story - sometimes being some nobody and going on to kill a world threatening monster gets a bit dull.

Saying that - I didn't enjoy the combat at all.

The funny thing about that is Basch was supposed to be the main character, but Square changed it to Vaan to please their target audience (teens). What a waste ! Other than that, I really enjoyed FF12. One of my favorite in the series, in fact.

 

[Cow Mengde]

Any free roaming/Rockstar games bore me to tears.

 

[spectyre]

Probably going to get banned for this.

I was a little late to the Zelda party and everyone always said what a great series it was. I picked up a Gamecube and Wind Waker. I kept playing it telling myself "It's got to get better"... It never did. So I picked up Twighlight Princess and I had the same reaction. The games seem more like a tedious chore than an enjoyable experience.

 

[Typographenia]

The games seem more like a tedious chore than an enjoyable experience.

BAN THIS MAN!

Spoiler

;P

I can't believe I forgot to add FFXII! I agree whole-heartedly, Andrefpvs.
The first final fantasy game I owned, and I hated it. Somehow managed to push myself to beat it this last december. Actually, all final fantasy games do that to me. I really liked FFX's setting though. Maybe for nostalgic reasons, but final fantasy games just don't do anything for me.

 

[Uno Venova]

Half Life 2

Halo ODST

Black Ops (campaign)

Could not finish any of these campaigns, the first 2 drag on for long periods of time and the last one is a standard military roller coaster ride campaign that I'm numb to now.

edit: And GTA4, wow how could I forget my biggest disappointment of the generation, the controls, the bad checkpoints and missions that felt the same killed this game for me.

 

[ShogunX]

Most recently it's been Torchlight on XBLA. Maybe I should of started on hard because normal quickly becomes a tedious repetitive bore fest.

 

[The Technomancer]

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

Ooh you might want to give that one another shot. I was the exact same way, it took me three tries to force myself through the intro chapters, each one a few months apart. When I did though, it became one of my favorite games ever.

 

[Barack Lesnar]

I wish more people would at least type up a sentence or two saying why the game bored them to death rather than just typing a list or name-dropping a couple titles. I like reading these kinda threads b/c you can get quick impressions from regular people but not if they just list the name

 

[Steroyd]

Eternal Sonata is the only game I remember boring me to the point where I just stopped playing.

Other games that I thought were good but had to force myself through the yawns at some point.

Persona 4 - Surprisingly P3 didn't make me want to skip through the intro after about 2 hours in.
Nier
Folklore
Dragon Age - The fade, THE FADE!!
White Knight Chronicles - Every goddamn cliche'd cutscene (i.e all of them).

 

[Xilium]

Any open-world/sandbox game (i.e Oblivion, Red Dead Redemption, ect.): I've only ever finished one (FO:NV) and that was with cheats enabled to essentially bypass most combat.

Pokemon Series: I've just lost interest in them now.

Mario Series: Similar to Pokemon.

Dragon Quest IX: For all the complaints about JRPGs being stagnate, it's rather interesting that the most stagnate of them all is so popular (in the west). I'm not a huge fan of the series in general but having blank slate party members completely killed the game for me.

Dragon Age II: Just got completely bored with it half way through. Game became a chore to finish. I'm still not sure I'm even going to bother with ME3.

 

[thebeeks]

Add me to the Half-Life 2 boredom train.

Every two years or so I try to load up my old save and hope something will click and I'll love the game to death, but I'm at the part where you're in Ravenholm with the priest guy and I'm just not feeling it. Those vehicle parts certainly don't help.

 

[SykoTech]

I really enjoyed Pokemon Blue back in the day, but Pokemon pretty much bores me to tears. My brother's still a big fan (he just picked up White yesterday), so I tried his copies of Gold and Sapphire before. Didn't make it to the third gym in either one.

There's also the first Jak and Daxter. Most people hold it as the best in the series and one of the PS2's best games, but I had to force my way through it. There was some nice platforming to be had here and there, but it was mostly a mind-numbing collect-a-thon.

 

[VeryGooster]

Prince of Persia (2008) -- I spent a majority of my time with it (all two or three hours...) exploring a boring, drab cave. It just wasn't worth it to me from there.

Brutal Legend -- All those stage battles just put a damper on what seemed to be a pretty interesting story and universe.

Yakuza 3 -- The goal of this game is apparently to hit the X button as fast as you can to mash through some incredibly stupid dialogue in what seems to be an uninteresting plot and ESPECIALLY ". . ." every other conversation in between some awesome fighting.

Dragon Age: Origins -- I hate absolutely everything about DA:O, though and I consider it the worst BioWare game.

inFamous -- This is coming from someone who loves the shit out of Crackdown, a game many people found repetitive. Bland environments, bland mission design and structure, blander protagonist. I actually have more fun finding battery shards and the dead drops than anything story-related.

Disney Epic Mickey -- The 2.5D areas to get to new worlds were a nice touch at first, but then I had to do it again, and again, and again. Some nice world design but the gameplay itself is so dull.

Regarding Pokémon, I never finished Platinum or SoulSilver because I did get bored by them, but considering I saw Black through to the end (of the story, anyway) and really enjoyed it I may just give those other two another go.

 

[Granger Danger]

The dungeons were still a lot of fun but the endless train rides which make up > 60% of the total 20-hour(ish) playtime got excruciatingly tedious real quick.

 

[Brewster's Wallet]

Fallout 3

All the decisions parts sounded great. But I just couldn't get over the constant traipsing across the map

 

[legacyzero]

FFXIII.

This.

Aside from it being this generations most disappointing game to me. Even my disappointment of Splinter Cell Conviction couldn't come close to how disgusted I was. I literally wanted to cry lol.

 

[Deleted member 81567]

Far Cry 2. Such a boring game.

 

[JazzmanZ]

Metroid Other M is the first to do so.

 

[Tricky I Shadow]

Mass Effect 1 + 2, Demon's Souls, Beyond Good and Evil, LittleBigPlanet and Dead Space.

 

[Majima Everywhere System]

I saw the thread title and though "LA Noire". I came in and I saw it several times, and it made me feel a bit better about where I am with video games.

For a while, all I heard was gush for this game. Since I got it, I can't feel bothered to play it and I go play Final Fantasy IV complete instead.

More good than it is fun, I suppose.

 

[legacyzero]

Far Cry 2. Such a boring game.

B-b-b-b-but DAT MAP EDITOR!?

 

[plc268]

inFamous -- This is coming from someone who loves the shit out of Crackdown, a game many people found repetitive. Bland environments, bland mission design and structure, blander protagonist. I actually have more fun finding battery shards and the dead drops than anything story-related.

Yep. It baffles me how so many people find that inFamous is one of the best PS3 exclusives. You're right, it invoked a lot of memories of Crackdown... which was a great game that I eventually got sick of playing to death. The problem is, when I was playing inFamous, it felt like a game I already played. I know they're not the same, but the atmosphere between the two games is nearly identical.


I also can completely understand all the people saying Half-Life 2. It bored me to tears for years, and eventually sucked it up and played through it. It's one of my top FPS games, but I'd be lying if I didn't say that it still bored me. If you compare HL games, HL1 is better to me and more varied than HL2.

I saw the thread title and though "LA Noire". I came in and I saw it several times, and it made me feel a bit better about where I am with video games.

I refuse to get on the Rockstar hype train anymore. GTA4 was decent, but nowhere near as good as it's reviews suggest. Same with RDR. Great game, but damn it was boring at times... and again, not nearly as great (to me) as most reviews suggest. And while I haven't played LA Noire yet, it appears the same Rockstar hype-backlash is going on.

 

[decoyplatypus]

Awww, I missed a whole Suikoden discussion?

Radiant Historia has yet to win me over. I keep thinking the story or the time mechanic is about to become fun, but so far... I also find the battles to be tedious. Almost like the early stages of FFX where there wasn't much more than putting the square peg in the square hole. Over and over again.

Knights of the Old Republic drained my soul through about ten hours of obnoxious load times and clumsy battles before I gave up.

Halo's single-player campaigns never did anything for me. Not even in co-op.

EDIT:

Oh, and of course the transportation in both Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks made them painful at times.

 

[Despera]

Persona 3.

Sorry guys, I might try it again someday.

Totally understandable. Try P4, it's much more enjoyable and has better pacing.

P3 doesn't kick into high gear until much later.

The game that truly bored me to death this gen has to be the first Assassin's Creed. The first couple of hours were fun, but the repetitive nature of the game reared it's ugly head soon after and I couldn't go any further...

 

[Andrefpvs]

The game that truly bored me to death this gen has to be the first Assassin's Creed. The first couple of hours were fun, but the repetitive nature of the game reared it's ugly head soon after and I couldn't go any further...

I kinda battled this by ignoring all the side-quests and just going full speed ahead with the story. At one point I was just playing to see what happened next at Abstergo. Then I jumped straight to AC2 and man, it felt good.

 

[TheFuryMGS3]

GhostBusters The Video Game.

Dragon Age 2 Will never buy a game from that franchise again

 

[jett]

I only finished it because I paid 60 bux for it.

 

[Scalpel Knight]

Knights of the Old Republic
Final Fantasy VIII

 

[NewFresh]

Lego: _____

I always want to like them but they just end up putting me to sleep.

 

[bobs...onGaf]

For some odd reason I truly cannot place, HL2 bores the fuck out of me. As much as I think it's an awesome game (I truly do), it literally puts me to fucking sleep every time I try to play it.

I agree, I really couldnt stand this game when I played it. The AI/ combat was aweful and the game felt like a lame excuse for a pretty impressive tech demo. I mean the gravity gun was cool, but it seemed like the physics engine was the main point of the game. I cant help but think a Portal style game but based around physics would have done the engine more service.

After forcing myself through the game, I never played all the way through the expansions, but the second expansion was a TON better (from the little I played from the demo). I also love Portal.

I have to say that at the moment Halo Reach is potentially boring the hell out of me, it can be fun sometimes. However when it puts me into AR starts with people that abuse the bad mechanics on bad maps I lose interest about halfway through the match.

 

[JGS]

Lego: _____

I always want to like them but they just end up putting me to sleep.

Loved Lego Staw Wars trilogy, the rest of them can't get past the forst chapter.

Kids still love them though so I watch them for the comic bits.

Could not get through Epic Mickey. Even the side scroller parts, despite their charm, are dull.

 

[Acquiescence]

Final Fantasy XII: Screw this game's:

Non-existent story (Politics? Just what I'm looking for in my Final Fantasy!);

Bland characters ("Hey Vaan, wanna tag along and help save the nation?" "Sure!" "Okay, let's never speak again then");

Boring-ass MMO-like gameplay (Walk for 30 seconds, slash slash, walk for 30 seconds, slash slash, take forever to reach the next town -- have nothing interesting happen there -- walk for 30 seconds, slash slash).

Boring. Most disappointing Final Fantasy for me.


I can see how some people think it's a good game but it's just not for me Actually I can't.

I'd like to join your hate crusade for FFXII. Fuck that piece of shit. Only noteworthy thing about it was Balthier.

 

[Hixx]

The Witcher: naff combat, loads of running, dull visually. Don't care if it's only the first chapter, it bored the tits off me. Luckily for me the sequel is twice the game of the original.

Sly Cooper: got this in the recent HD collection. Haven't played the sequels yet but the praise the original gets is baffling. It is just average in so many ways; it feels like 'My First Platformer'... yet people say the sequels are much worse so I don't know whether I'll even bother with them.

 

[LakeEarth]

Lost Odyssey.

The battle system is mind-numbingly boring, it's very little variation of very plain turn-based jRPG stuff. Battles take forever to load. I simply cannot play this for extended period of time, by the time I come back to it I have forgotten the story.

I love jRPGs (most of them), but this is one game that I will never finish I think.

I'm with this guy. And I made it to the second disk before calling it quits.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

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

Well, I didn't like the alien weapons, so I most human weapons did it for me.

 

[bobs...onGaf]

Well, I didn't like the alien weapons, so I most human weapons did it for me.

Which human weapon though? Theres a world of difference between using the AR and using the BR, I know so many people who hated Halo before I played with them and told them to use the BR.

I can understand getting bored during the single player, but the Halo multiplayer is pretty damn good once you get past the crappy AR starts that are shoved down your throat lol. With Halo its not immediatly clear what you have to do in a sense, and so I can see why the series is lost on so many people.

Throw me on the list for the Lego series of games, I just cant get into them.

 

[Marleyman]

Great thread; I was thinking about starting a thread just like this on Thursday. Anyway, most recently LA Noire is boring me to tears. I have literally fallen asleep with the controller in my hand.

All time I can remember how boring Half Life 2 was and also Uncharted 2. Can't forget any recent Zelda title boring me to death.

 

[Mr. B Natural]

Twilight Princess cured my insomnia. So that wins. Probably the most boring AAA title of all time. Can't believe they topped Wind Waker. How? How! Wind Waker was just sailing with NOTHING to do and yet they achieved less interesting and fun than that. Bravo. The story scenes were masterfully dull. The overworld. The identical combat, learning "new moves" was even boring the way they did it. The boring nonthreatening I swear I-already-did-this-before-dungeons. Perfectly tuned boredom. Oh, the wolf. Good lord the wolf. And, to top it all off, the dual hookshot in a game that already, before then, devolved into 90% hookshot "puzzles." Honestly, I can keep going and going. I gotta stop myself.

HL2 I couldn't only play for 15 minutes at a time. Luckily they started to get their HL1 groove back with the second episode. But Episode 1 was equally boring.

Halo: ODST - piling boring stale gameplay on top of new even more boring wandering around!

Dead Space 2: I JUST got done playing this exact same game two years ago. This game brought NOTHING to the table and what they did add was mostly crap. And the story, and Isaac talking. Boring. How can a horror action game bore me this much. How do you run out of ideas after the first game?

 

[op_ivy]

this gen?

GTAIV and RDR. i have given up on open world gaming. soooo incredibly dull after 20-30 min of the novelty wares off. maybe if another dev tackled it with fun (not clunky) gameplay?

 

[Negator]

Final Fantasy 12 had this effect on me. Sometime after the judge fight in that snowy town always gets boring for me. I have two 40 hour saves that I just can't be bothered to finish.

Dragon Quest IX after about 18 hours just got way too grindy and I grew bored at an extremely fast pace. That and the fetch quest for the Fyggs wasn't very motivating.

I don't know if this counts, but the beginning of Star Ocean 2 is so fucking boring and so fucking long it's ridiculous. Every time I start that game over again I cringe at the thought of getting through those first two towns.

I also think I have Zelda fatigue. It's hard to get excited for Skyward Sword when Twilight Princess just bored the fuck out of me.

Oh, and honorable mention goes to Hyperdimension Neptunia, that game managed to put the player and two spectators watching to sleep.

 

[BlazingDarkness]

This terrible piece of shit.

 

[hardcastlemccormick]

Halo: I liked the first one but even then it just became a grind to finish. Oh, look, another corridor that looked just like the last one with the same enemies. Halo 3 especially.

Most adventure games: Loved the story in Grim Fandango, I just couldn't get past the gameplay. Just not fun. I watched my dad play it instead.

Mass Effect: I liked parts of the second one, but even then they just kind of teeter off for me. When I looked at the time ticker for 2 and realized I had played far less than I had thought, I put the game down. KOTOR was kind of like this, but not as strong of a reaction.

Final Fantasy IV: Love the rest of the series (even XII), love Chrono Trigger, etc. Just not IV. I tried the original on WiiWare, the GBA edition, the DS version. Nothing. Total snoozefest for me. Especially the DS version, which had those awful cutscenes.

Actually, I'll amend that the PS1 editions of Final Fantasy are starting to age with their slow paced battles and load times. I just can't get into that anymore.

Dragon Quest VIII: Again, love the rest of the series. Love IX, even! I actually like how relaxing this one is for me sometimes, but it seems so slow and there's too many load times or downtime.

Zeno Clash: I still haven't forgiven Rock Paper Shotgun for getting me to play this one.

 

[NinjaBoiX]

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.

I remember one part in act 3 I think, (I skipped the cutscenes after giving them a chance in the first act) I'd walked to the bottom of a path to be greeted with a cutscene. I then walked not ten steps up said path, only to be greeted with another one. Why bother throwing us these little crumbs Kojima and just shoot movies for god sake. You've clearly got more interest in that than making games.