Games You Just Plain Gave Up On? [Archive]

Gorvi

10-05-2008, 02:39 PM

Good topic, I know I've done this with more than a few games. Lets see, going through my collection and also trying to remember what I've gotten rid of.....

Halo 1 & 2 (Boredom)
Legend of Legaia (Boredom)
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (Unbearable load times, XBOX version)
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (Awful load times, sparse city, tried to do more than the PSP could handle)
Suikoden (Boredom)
Hoshigami: Ruining Blue Earth (Horriblely slow battles)
Indigo Prophecy (Total lack of caring)
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Asinine boss near the end)
Ratchet: Deadlocked (Hated the change in focus)
Silent Hill 3 (Bored)
Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (Bored, battle system too chaotic)
Radiata Stories (Boring battles)
Valkyrie Profile (Bored)
Vandal Hearts II (Broken battle system)

Troggles

10-05-2008, 02:40 PM

I second Star Ocean 3 and Metroid Prime 2. Even as a huge Metroid fanboy, I was unable to trudge through the shit that was MP2.

pomeroy

10-05-2008, 02:59 PM

GTA4. I actually really dug the game, but when the controls of the game were the reason I couldn't complete missions, I knew it was time to mosey along.

Norse

10-05-2008, 02:59 PM

Halo 2 (boring)
A long list of JRPGs (annoyed with the silly characters and story)
Resident Evil (I hated the game mechanics)
GTA III + VC + SA (Didn't find the world that interesting)
Ikaruga (Too damn hard)
Metal Gear Solid (I didn't 'get' it)
Splinter Cell (Cool, but somehow sneaking was too damn hard for me back then)
Thief (same as above)

I'm forgetting a lot of titles here....maybe it's for the best.d

Iron Past

10-05-2008, 02:59 PM

GTAIV and Bullet Witch. GTAIV was incredibly boring, but Bullet Witch was a downright absolutely horrid game. I mean, wow.

maharahaj

10-05-2008, 03:01 PM

Assassins Creed and Ninja Gaiden2 for the 360. I got bored quickly with AC and got to the final boss of NG2, kept getting slaughtered and just said "Fuck it". I packed it right up and traded it in.

Vandabo

10-05-2008, 03:09 PM

I'm around a third of the way through Tales of Vesperia right now... played around 6 hours yesterday. I'm enjoying it, but it does have a lot of issues and can get boring at parts. The story seems to be picking up finally, getting more epic with each cutscene. And I like the main character, which is rare for me with RPG's.

However, Infinite Undiscovery lasted about half an hour with me. My god, I have never been more turned off by the beginning of a game before.

Other games I've stopped:

Halo 2 (ran out of steam about 2/3 the way through)
GRID (Just hated the way if felt and controlled)
FF7 (realized I wasn't enjoying myself shortly after starting the 2nd disc)
Spore (they apparently didn't want you to actually play the space part, just defend planets)

those are the highlights.

Blue

10-05-2008, 03:10 PM

Assassin's Creed and Crackdown are the biggest ones for me. I've tried multiple times to get into Crackdown and I just can't. Here soon it may end up being Tales of Vesperia. I enjoy it to an extent but something just isn't clicking. Who knows.

rinichanraar

10-05-2008, 03:13 PM

Definitely Crackdown for me. I got it as a present, but I just couldn't get into it. Luckily, my boyfriend ended up playing it.

Shadowstorm

10-05-2008, 03:13 PM

This is the first time I've heard GTAIV being described as boring.

As for me: HL2 and STALKER. The beginning parts of those two games are sooo slow. And I've reformatted multiple times within the past year and I keep forgetting to back up my saves, so I am forced to start from the beginning (talking about HL2 specifically here) :(.

Wedge

10-05-2008, 03:13 PM

Recent ones only:
DMC4 (bored),
NG2 (bored),
R6:V2 (poor game),
Stalker: Clear sky (waiting for a few more patches)

Ghost Rider

10-05-2008, 03:15 PM

I am shamed to admit mine as FF VII...

I couldn't handle Sephiroth at the very end, I failed. It haunts me to this day.

KingGorilla

10-05-2008, 03:15 PM

Heavenly Sword, after the second fucking gun turret scene in 5 minutes, I almost had enough, after the quick time only boss fight, I almost cracked it in half.

Devil May Cry III..IV?(the new one) after I beat the game for the first time, and suddenly I am tasked with...doing the same thing but with a different white haired nancy boy. Fuck That, if you make a game that is 20 hours, don't just make me play 5 hours of it 4 times.

Bionic Commando, will always end half-way through the Albatross. I Do not have quarters, so no more money for your blind platforming in the pitch dark. Fuck off Capcom and your 25 year old tropes.

As for me: HL2 and STALKER. The beginning parts of those two games are sooo slow. And I've reformatted multiple times within the past year and I keep forgetting to back up my saves, so I am forced to start from the beginning (talking about HL2 specifically here) :(.

I will end your life.

Rogue_hunter

10-05-2008, 03:26 PM

Wow, lots of people missed out on Assassin's Creed it seems. Sure, the massive hype didn't help, but it was still a good game. One of the few games I've played with a pretty smart AI, though you could still fool it. It seems that the story wasn't strong enough for people to get past the repetition. If you don't think you're gonna finish it, try to find the youtube video of the end, as that was really cool. As TrackZero suggests, play until you get bored, put it down for a week and pick it back up again.

For me, GTA4 is the most recent. All the hype, and it was the same thing. And for some reason, I didn't have as much fun doing police chases. Losing the police bribes and having the search area seemed to drain the fun out of that aspect. And the missions seemed to get repetitive as well. At least in Assassin's Creed I was stabbing guys through the neck all the time, and could climb anywhere, but this was just "Shoot some guys and move on." It's weird, because AC and GTA4 are very similar, but one really hooked me.

Final Fantasy (insert number here). They're focused too much on the grind to become that high level character, and I just don't have the time, or sometimes the patience to put in so much work for a minimal stat bump. What little I was able to play in Mass Effect felt completely opposite. Though, ME also plays more like an action game, but you can pause the action and issue orders, so more like a tactical shooter than actual RPG.

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory and Splinter Cell: Double Agent. I liked the first two immensely, Pandora Tomorrow took up the entire last month of school my freshman year. A year later, and Chaos Theory amped up the action, but also filled the (I think) final mission with too few checkpoints, and too many stupid spots to get stuck. Double Agent went completely off the rails with the terrorist base "hub." Not being able to run ANYWHERE in there, and only able to crouch in like 3 places means I'm not being Sam Fisher. And the multitude of minigames, it seemed to me, broke up the action, and were also really dull. Plant the fuse in mines, but wait, the arm can't keep itself straight, even though it's lined up perfectly!

Doom 3. Since when was a straight up shooter supposed to be a survival horror? Seriously not that fun compared to the insanity of the first 2, and the pure action of the Quake games. I got to send the transmission to the fleet, and then stopped caring.

biosc1

10-05-2008, 03:45 PM

I still have these games sitting around, but I just can't attempt them anymore. Don't laugh, here's the list:

Zelda: Link to the Past (GBA) - Just on the last little bit, but just can't handle this dungeon in the mountains with the moving/disappearing blocks :(

Burnout: Revenge (360) - don't know why, but I suddenly suck at this game.

Dark Cloud 2 (PS2) - so much time, so little progress :( (but I love DC1 and what I've played of 2)

Far Cry: Insincts (360) - I finished it on easy, but only with the help of cheat codes :(

Halo 2 (PC and 360) - just get bored.

Superman Returns (360) - yah, who didn't give up on this.

I'm sure I have a slew of PC games that I've given up on over the course of my life, but I honestly can't even think of them at the moment, so I kept this list "this gen".

Raen

10-05-2008, 03:47 PM

Final Fantasy 7. I realised I didn't have the longevity to do it, and I think when I decided to get round to trying to complete it I'd lost the second or third disk. There haven't been many others that I've just given up on, more games that I just kind of never got round to finishing.

Zabyx

10-05-2008, 03:50 PM

Devil May Cry 4 - Absolutely hated it.
Indigo Prophecy - Once the story started going to shit, it was just one stealth mission too much for me (i think it was during one of the terribly done flashbacks where you were a little kid on a military base...)

Soulless Toast

10-05-2008, 03:55 PM

GTA4. I can't drive :(

Food Nipple

10-05-2008, 03:56 PM

Games I gave up on, came back months later, restarted, finished and enjoyed:
Metroid Prime 2
Mass Effect

Games I lost interest in:
GTA4
Mercs 2
Brothers in Arms

Games I should have given up on, but finished anyway:
Ninja Gaiden 2

Morangie

10-05-2008, 03:59 PM

Just from what I can see on the shelves here there are plenty of games I haven't completed but the only two I can say I won't ever bother returning to are Devil May Cry 4 and Perfect Dark Zero.

God that game was awful.

diablopath

10-05-2008, 04:10 PM

GTA4 and DMC4.
One got boring, I just kind of forgot about the other.

rein

10-05-2008, 04:12 PM

Mass Effect (Never got into it)
Gears of War ( :eek: No real reason, just never finished the single player)
Enchanted Arms (I finished it but wish I hadn't)

I have plenty more but these are the ones I know I will never go back and play.

I'm playing Tales of Vesperia and so far find the story and characters entertaining. I'm just a little past the first boss that gives an acheivement. Does it get worse or something?

Lint of Death

10-05-2008, 04:12 PM

Pretty much any single player game. It's not that I don't play well, but that I am absolutely terrible about finishing the games I start.

jpublic

10-05-2008, 04:13 PM

God, the list is so long I don't even know where to begin.

inmostlight

10-05-2008, 04:31 PM

Zelda: Twilight Princess - the longest, most boring game of nothing I've ever played. I think I put twenty hours in and still felt like it never picked up or was going to get more interesting.

Dead Rising - Got frustrated after failing that "get the bombs out of the tunnels" missions one too many times.

Half-Life 2 - Got distracted by something, could never find the urge to go back. Plus I don't like physics puzzles or first-person jumping.

Stoke

10-05-2008, 04:35 PM

I'm playing Tales of Vesperia and so far find the story and characters entertaining. I'm just a little past the first boss that gives an acheivement. Does it get worse or something?

I'm playing it now and I don't think it gets worse, it just doesn't get very different. You'll get a few new mechanics to toy with and some new characters but it's pretty much the same. That said I can't wait until I can pick up the controller again to play some more.

Also I'm going to have to add Half Life 2, I just couldn't get past the seemingly 6 hour long into where I don't do anything but walk around.

scythe

10-05-2008, 04:39 PM

It really bugs me when I don't finish a game. I ended up slogging through GTA4 but it took me months.

Assassin's Creed is the only recent one I haven't finished. Like everyone else said, it just gets boring after the 3rd or 4th mission.

fitbabits

10-05-2008, 04:55 PM

I haven't played the retail version of Alone in the Dark yet (it's sitting on my desk, unopened)...

Heretic Machine

10-05-2008, 04:58 PM

Suikoden IV is one that remains prominent in my mind. I loved Suikoden III, and thought nothing of picking up IV after it came out. Mistake.

This has to be one of the most boring, unpolished games that I've ever played. Most of the game is extremely generic, which would be okay, if not for the ocean travel. You have to sail to get anywhere, and sailing involves moving your ship at slow speeds through a markerless ocean, with invisible walls abound, and no way to tell when you've hit one or when you're actually moving.

On top of that, there are random battles; lots of random battles, on the ocean which is already a chore to travel. After spending forty minutes trying to get to my next destination once, I simply dropped it and never looked back.

Garbage.

Wolvie

10-05-2008, 05:01 PM

Battletoads, because it was too hard.

Ninja Gaiden,(Xbox) same reason.

Metroid Prime 3, because it bored me to death.

Metroid Prime 2, because it was both equal parts boring and hard.

Vagrant Story because I couldn't get the overly complicated fighting system to work for me.

JayK47

10-05-2008, 05:03 PM

For me, Assassin's Creed is a game I just gave up on. I heard so many good things about it, and I thought it was just so...boring. It was fairly pretty, and fun at first to be able to climb on all sorts of things, but I ended up losing interest very quickly.

That is basically how I feel about Ass Creed. At least my friends borrowed it and played through it. I don't know if I ever will.

I also gave up on God of War and Final Fantasy X-2. Those are just a few. I could go on all day. I buy a lot of $5 to $15 PC games and at that price, if I get slightly bored, I just give up on it and play something fun.

the Jack

10-05-2008, 05:03 PM

Quitters never win.

I'm a loser because I never cleared Jagged Alliance 2. That's really the only single-player "game-with-an-end" that I personally bought for myself that I haven't completed.

As for multiplayer, I still can't beat the end-boss of WoW. :D

VerseD

10-05-2008, 05:22 PM

Tel Prydain

10-05-2008, 05:24 PM

Jeeze... I'm kinda disapointed in you guys. And I'm not even kidding. Force Unleashed? Mass Effect. Christ, they only take a few hours if you blaze through them.

The last game I didn't compleate was Halflife 2 in Orange Box. But that's only because I had finished it on PC, and Halflife 2 isn't really that good of a game (when compared to Bioshock or The Darkness).
Before that it was Phantasy Star on 360. Geez, that was a terrible game.

mesh

10-05-2008, 05:24 PM

Both lego star wars,
A few of the Final Fantasy (I forget which)
Tribes Vengeance, got stuck at the trials.
Morrowind / Oblivion, can't finish the main story.
Gothic 3, too slow performance, even on rigs 10x the recommended specs.

SilentScreams

10-05-2008, 05:34 PM

No recent ones come to mind, but there are a few "classics" that I tried to get into and couldn't.

Deus Ex
Fallout 1 & 2 (Fallout 3 looks awesome though)
Baldurs Gate 1 & 2 (yet I enjoyed the Icewind Dale games, which were pretty much clones..go figure)
Final Fantasy XI

I'm sure there's more, but those are the ones that come to mind.

Heretic Machine

10-05-2008, 06:10 PM

Metroid Prime, FFX-2, and Prey are the three I've given up on after buying. I just couldn't get into Prime, maybe because I never played through Super Metroid (let the shunning commence). FFX-2 was awful. I don't know why I bought that. I did like Prey, but I bought it pretty recently on Steam and it's been eclipsed by games that have come out since. I'll probably go back to it eventually.

I still haven't finished GTA4, but I will eventually, so I swear.

I loved Super Metroid, but the Prime games do absolutely nothing for me. I own two of them, and didn't make it more than a few hours into either. Not because they were hard, but simply because they were boring and uninteresting. On top of that, I felt none of the atmosphere from the previous games, which is what made me fall in love with them to begin with. I really hope they take that franchise back to it's roots.

KingGorilla

10-05-2008, 06:15 PM

Prime for me is just the tried and true Nintendo or Lucas Arts style of slapping their characters on rather mediocre games. Once in awhile you get a gem like Dark Forces or Super Smash Bros. More often you get sugary crap.

JRR006

10-05-2008, 06:16 PM

Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy X. I haven't quite given up on VI, but haven't played it in a fair bit.

Splinter Cell - game-stopping bug in an early level. I went back to it six months later and started over, finally beat the level that had been broken, and then never touched it again.

Fallout 1 - Got the water chip and that was victory enough for me. I had had enough of the controls and graphics. (Shallow, I know.)

Red Faction - So long ago! Nearly forgot about this one. Generic. Making tunnels with the rocket launcher was fun, though.

I don't know if I've given up on Assassin's Creed, Bioshock, or FFXII. I don't see myself getting to them anytime soon, though.

Karak

10-05-2008, 06:20 PM

I'm playing Tales of Vesperia and so far find the story and characters entertaining. I'm just a little past the first boss that gives an acheivement. Does it get worse or something?

I have never heard it gets worse.
But its the only game I have ever fallen asleep during. One of the cutscenes was playing and I was sitting there listening...next thing I know...its an hour later. I do not know if its the horribly bland backgrounds and lifeless world or the 2d dialog, or what. But to me it's about 6 years late.

Crowe

10-05-2008, 08:03 PM

the Jack

10-05-2008, 08:11 PM

Troggles

10-05-2008, 08:21 PM

Metroid Prime, FFX-2, and Prey are the three I've given up on after buying. I just couldn't get into Prime, maybe because I never played through Super Metroid (let the shunning commence). FFX-2 was awful. I don't know why I bought that. I did like Prey, but I bought it pretty recently on Steam and it's been eclipsed by games that have come out since. I'll probably go back to it eventually.

I still haven't finished GTA4, but I will eventually, so I swear.

I never finished FFX-2 either. That game was shit. The only reason I bought it was due to the fact that I had just got a PS2 right before it released and played through FFX so fast that I wanted more. I should have just gone back and done all the side stuff in FFX instead of wasting money and time on that dribble.

Crowe

10-05-2008, 08:22 PM

Crowe, are you trying to tell me you cleared JA2? Sir, I salute you.

I have a 9-hour flight and various extra commuting time between here and my future, guess I'll install it on the lappy and give it a go.

Shit, if Crowe can do it...

Hahaha, I can do many things, lvl 70 in WoW might be asking a bit though.

A 9 nine hour flight? Looks like your life is about to take that expected turn. Good luck with your next endeavor, it's finally time :).

*PS, Me and King told you Diablo 3 was coming*

King3567

10-05-2008, 08:30 PM

GTA 4, Assasin's Creed, Metroid Prime 1 and 2, Zelda Twilight Princess are all ones I stopped out of boredom.

I can't really think of any others but I remember I was really close to giving up on Viewtiful Joe because it was so difficult. Man am I glad I didn't.

HALO 32

10-05-2008, 08:32 PM

Too Human (just wanted to beat the damn game but the overwhelming enemies and the clack, clack, clack from the right analog stick drove me nuts!)

Now that I think of it all RPG's really. The only one I really loved (and finished) was KOTOR. Because of this I will go back to Mass Effect and maybe (maybe being the key word) go back to Jade Empire.

Superman's Dead

10-05-2008, 09:18 PM

I couldn't do the Clive Barker videogame. I couldn't do it. Three types of enemies in the whole game? For reals? For reals.

And I only had one or two side-missions to do before getting to the last mission of Assassin's Creed, but by then I was just bored with the whole mechanic. And incredibly impatient to get my Mass Effect on.

Wilkz07

10-05-2008, 09:24 PM

ninja gaiden 2 for sure.

Most of the xbla games i've downloaded.

TheKeck

10-05-2008, 10:21 PM

Hmmmm, it seems that Company of Heroes went that route. The expansion to WarCraft II, (and III for that matter, AND Brood War. Huh, I never thought about that until just now.)

Mashidar

10-05-2008, 10:26 PM

Assassin's Creed
Eternal Sonata
BF: Bad Company
Merc 2
Rock Band (only really played single player due to lack of other players)
Dragon Quest 8
FFXII

Really I could go on, my main problem as a gamer is I always buy new games and never play older titles. Or if I run across a good deal I'll pick it up and never end up playing it past a starting point.

I worry this holiday season.

bean

10-05-2008, 11:09 PM

Games I've given up on because they suck would be far too long a list. . . I don't play games to completion more often than not too (because I play almost everything). So I'll just list a few.

Ninja Gaiden - I loved the mechanics of this game, but I got bored learning my way around the city and not finding the next place to go.

Ninja Gaiden II - I loved this game for a while, but eventually I got to a boss that was so hard I went and looked at someone's gamefaq. They said the boss was just cheap and I had to use up all my items and hop to get in close and spam him with a certain attack, but that I'd need a certain amount of luck and may have to restart if I had used up all my items on previous bosses. . . yeah, I don't care that much.

Mario Sunshine - Cool game, and I had fun playing it for a while, but eventually I just stopped caring about collecting stars. Mario has never been a game about it's narrative, but I was able to forgive this as a child and I'm not able to forgive it as an adult. I did beat Galaxy, but I did so with friends.

Final Fantasy XII - Okay. . . I'm very, very far in it. I keep meaning to pick it up again for $20 somewhere and finish it. This was a GREAT game for a while, but eventually I got tired of the narrative suspending exposition while I went after one mystical doo-dad after the other instead of facing the obvious enemies directly.

About an hour ago I put away Tales of Vesperia for the last time. I have rarely been so bored by a game:(

Sacrilege! I can't believe you disliked my favorite next-gen RPG. . . What didn't you like about it?

Karak

10-05-2008, 11:15 PM

Sacrilege! I can't believe you disliked my favorite next-gen RPG. . . What didn't you like about it?
Pretty low budget looking was the first thing I noticed. Boring backgrounds and graphics as a whole but the most shocking was the horrible lack of any kind of animation or background movement in the cities. It reminded me of the original Tales for the PS2 but almost worse. Characters that talked in 2d windows, and after 5 hours still barely any story to speak of.
I would add the bugginess of the enemies on both the world screen and the actual levels but in a way its good. I frequently used boxes or other items in level to freeze and trap monsters which was cool. Gamefaqs gave me that idea.

I ended up falling asleep during one of the cutscenes. Yes I was tired but ANYTHING else would have kept me awake. I mean come on.
But fun is up to each person who likes something so I see nothing wrong with others liking it.

Ghostbear

10-06-2008, 01:06 AM

GTA IV, Final Fantasy X2, and Halo 3. Those are the ones in recent memory at least. I just found myself bored the whole time I was playing them.

Scaryfaced

10-06-2008, 01:21 AM

Bioshock. I enjoyed it, but as I neared the end, I just couldn't muster the interest to finish it. I blame myself for reading too many spoiler threads and discovering the crappy ending ahead of time.
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LongStepMantis

10-06-2008, 01:30 AM

Every DMC game. Seriously, all of them. I always love the idea, but the gameplay just isn't for me.

One that will always stick with me though? FF8. I spent forever drawing magic, then realized to my horror that there was a limit to your magic space. At the point I was at in the game I could only get rid of them by using them...one at a time...from 100...each.

I never looked back. This from a man who loves him some RPGs. The only other one I started and didn't finish was Beyond the Beyond. I don't think I need to explain why.

Savok

10-06-2008, 09:47 AM

Superman Returns (360) - yah, who didn't give up on this.
Me :p

Far Cry - When I discovered I'd been lied to about the game's content

Alone in the Dark - Unrelentingly bad

Super Mario Sunshine - Worst Mario I've played

Final Fantasy 8 - My disgust for the game reached breaking point with Time Compression, and it was only Triple Triad which had kept me going that far

Conan - The worst end boss ever.... top worst bosses anyway

GTA4 - Got sick of fighting the controls and bugs

Final Fantasy 12 - When the game had become the Princess Ashe (and sometimes Vaan) show and she was just too fucking awful to take

National Kato

10-06-2008, 09:47 AM

Alone In the Dark - sorry, I play games for entertainment
Eternal Sonata
Blue Dragon
Condemned 2 - not a big fan of the move towards more fantastic enemies. I preferred beating up hobos and junkies in the first.
Turning Point
Army of Two
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men - just poor
Star Trek Legacy
Lost Planet

Typical Michael

10-06-2008, 09:49 AM

I liked Assassins Creed, I beat it. GTAIV though, didnt give two shakes about the story or the characters or anything. "Oh, the war, looking for somebody, lets go sell some drugs and kill a guy". Nice looking game, but it was pretty boring. Good thing I had only borrowed it from a friend.

Murtaug

10-06-2008, 11:06 AM

A recent game... Force Unleashed.

I rented the game, thank dog, and I literally contemplated just punching the disc into tiny little shards at one point and paying the sixty bucks to have it replaced. I really wanted to finish the game, as I was enjoying the story, but man, fuck the way that game played.

Telefrog

10-06-2008, 11:36 AM

STALKER - I know, everyone loved it. It's the darling of the PC gritty shooter sandbox genre. I hated it. Too dark, too buggy. Yes, I know there are mods and unofficial patches. I don't care. I'm at that point in my life where I barely have enough time to play and finish games in their vanilla state. A game has to really suck me in for me to bother with fiddling about in folders and ini files.

Neverwinter Nights 2 - I'm one of the weirdos that actually liked the original campaign from the first NWN. I also liked the expansion campaigns. This should've been a slam-dunk, but for whatever reason, I just couldn't slog through it. Heck, I didn't even have any crashes or bugs to blame this on! I just found the campaign to be incredibly dull.

Dead Rising - Otis should die in a fire.

Cyndair

10-06-2008, 01:04 PM

Gosh, there are so many over the years that I honestly couldn't think of them all.... a few that stand out in my memory:

Halo 1 & 2 (looks like I'm not alone here... really boring level design in the middle)

Paper Mario 2, Super Paper Mario (I really enjoyed both of these games, got near the end and just lost interest. Not really sure why)

Soul Calibur 4 (I only got to the 10th level of the tower. Either I sucked too bad or it was just too damn hard. In any case, I was way too annoyed and enraged to continue playing it)

Ninja Gaiden (I didn't mind the difficulty too much.... what I did mind was the fact that the save points were a freaking half hour apart or more. Having to play the same 20 minutes of the game before dying at the same spot in the 5th level like 10 times was enough for me to put this one to bed permanently)

roboninja

10-06-2008, 01:08 PM

A better question these days is, which games do I not give up on? Finishing a game is relatively rare for me.

King3567

10-06-2008, 03:44 PM

Food Nipple

10-06-2008, 03:55 PM

I'm going to second Soul Calibur 4. I borrowed it from a friend and was bored of it after a few hours. The game is really short and the Tower mode, which is the meat and potatoes of the game, just put me off due to how much grinding was required.

The single player mode in any fighting game is just a way to kill time while you're waiting for your friend to come over or sign online.

Aggort

10-06-2008, 04:01 PM

Ninja Gaiden II and Devil May Cry 4 may have both made me hate "combo" slasher action games forever. I got so frustrated with the camera and repetitive combos that I about cried and threw the disc like a frisbee. Games like GTA IV and Mass Effect have a great story that backs it's sometimes "same shit" actions that keep me glued to a game. I am amazed at how many people actually gave up on GTA IV.

Variable Gear

10-06-2008, 05:00 PM

Mass Effect: FPS elements were boring and the RPG elements were bland.
Oblivion: The game had three voice actors.
Final Fantasy X: The story was not interesting and the characters were annoying.
FFTA2: It was literally FFTA all over again, and I wanted no part of that.

There are thousands more that I can't remember... :(

bean

10-06-2008, 05:04 PM

Pretty low budget looking was the first thing I noticed. Boring backgrounds and graphics as a whole but the most shocking was the horrible lack of any kind of animation or background movement in the cities.
First, I think it has a beautiful cartoon style much like Eternal Sonata's though not quite as story book, and I'm not sure what you mean by non-moving backgrounds. . . did you want the cities to be full of windmills or something? Houses, castles, and huge ancient trees don't move that much though the huge ancient tree did have petals that float through the air, and the cities do have people that move about through them.

It reminded me of the original Tales for the PS2 but almost worse. Characters that talked in 2d windows, and after 5 hours still barely any story to speak of.
As opposed to 3D windows? I'm not sure what you are talking about here either. . . the majority of the game is voice-acted. . . the only bits without voice-acting are minor NPCs in cities.

I would add the bugginess of the enemies on both the world screen and the actual levels but in a way its good. I frequently used boxes or other items in level to freeze and trap monsters which was cool. Gamefaqs gave me that idea.
You thought it was a bug that mobs that approached you were not very smart in their pathfinding? I thought this was intentional in order to allow us to avoid fights if we chose. I guess you could see this as a bug, but being able to avoid fights made the game awful for you?

I ended up falling asleep during one of the cutscenes. Yes I was tired but ANYTHING else would have kept me awake.
You only played 5 hours, and I agree that the plot is slow to develop. They are mostly finding ways to introduce characters to you during the very beginning of the game. The narrative does get a lot better as you go, and the characterization was solid enough that I found myself interested even early on, though I didn't fall in love with the game until about half-way through.

At 5 hours, you also haven't seen limit breaks, altered artes combo chains, finisher moves, or burst artes. . . so you haven't scratched the surface on the combo system yet.

Xerxes

10-06-2008, 05:09 PM

Normally I put off a game with plans to come back. Spider-Man/X-Men: Arcade's Revenge is the only game I out right quit. I couldn't kill Juggernaut for anything. I'm ready to quit Phoenix Wright though. This is just so uninteresting and boring.

Karak

10-06-2008, 05:17 PM

First, I think it has a beautiful cartoon style much like Eternal Sonata's though not quite as story book, and I'm not sure what you mean by non-moving backgrounds. . . did you want the cities to be full of windmills or something? Houses, castles, and huge ancient trees don't move that much though the huge ancient tree did have petals that float through the air, and the cities do have people that move about through them.

As opposed to 3D windows? I'm not sure what you are talking about here either. . . the majority of the game is voice-acted. . . the only bits without voice-acting are minor NPCs in cities.

You thought it was a bug that mobs that approached you were not very smart in their pathfinding? I thought this was intentional in order to allow us to avoid fights if we chose. I guess you could see this as a bug, but being able to avoid fights made the game awful for you?

You only played 5 hours, and I agree that the plot is slow to develop. They are mostly finding ways to introduce characters to you during the very beginning of the game. The narrative does get a lot better as you go, and the characterization was solid enough that I found myself interested even early on, though I didn't fall in love with the game until about half-way through.

At 5 hours, you also haven't seen limit breaks, altered artes combo chains, finisher moves, or burst artes. . . so you haven't scratched the surface on the combo system yet.

Ah...I see how this argument will go.
Ok it was great:)

cppcrusader

10-06-2008, 05:35 PM

Stalker - I desperately wanted to like it, but the long walks back and forth coupled with the enemy respawns just made that impossible.

Super Mario Sunshine - Just plain awful.

Dragon Quest 8 - Got to a point that seemed like the climax would be soon, only to be told I was only about half way through. Just couldn't take having to grind away at some levels to make any more progress.

Dead Rising - For the most part enjoyable and should I ever get a new tv I will absolutely pick it up...used. Capcom will not get any money from me for giving the community the finger after they fucked up the SD rendering, and continue to do so.

Half-Life - No real reason. I just haven't been able to finish that one no matter how many times I gave it a go.

Lekon

10-06-2008, 05:51 PM

Lesse. Games I gave up on:

Odin Sphere. Pretty, but I kept hitting a wall at some boss that I just could not beat, even with a cheat code device. That kidna drove the nail home.

The Dynasty Warriors Franchise in general: Dudes. Something else.. please?

Megaman Battle Network: This game has more random battles than America has Starbucks. I'm really glad it was a borrowed copy.

BlackPete

10-06-2008, 07:21 PM

Hmmm this is actually easier for me to answer by listing games I did finish. :eek:

Games I've finished are: Metroid Prime 3, Mass Effect, Eternal Sonata, hmmm... I think that's about it. :( Oh yeah, and Final Fantasy Tactics A2.

This is from the ENTIRE next-gen library including Bioshock, Gears of War, Halo 3, etc...

bean

10-06-2008, 08:30 PM

Ah...I see how this argument will go.
Ok it was great:)
Well, poop. I didn't want a fight. I wanted a discussion. Sorry you didn't like it. I've been recommending this to everyone and you're the first person I've read or talked to who didn't like it, though I know some who got hung up on the Ehmead Hill boss for a long time.

KingGorilla

10-06-2008, 09:59 PM

Half-Life - No real reason. I just haven't been able to finish that one no matter how many times I gave it a go.

The first Half-Life, much like Far Cry, falls apart as the latter moments are very different from how the game is presented in the beginning. You end up with very conventional "shoot the boss in the weak spot a bunch" battles, and you exacerbate the game's major weakness by those retarded jumping puzzles.

Karak

10-06-2008, 11:05 PM

Well, poop. I didn't want a fight. I wanted a discussion. Sorry you didn't like it. I've been recommending this to everyone and you're the first person I've read or talked to who didn't like it, though I know some who got hung up on the Ehmead Hill boss for a long time.

:)You pretty much made everything I say sound like either a design decision or so out of range for what was normal to expect that its hard to argue with such lowered expectations of a game.
Suffice to say many people like it.
I am not one of those pople.

cppcrusader

10-06-2008, 11:24 PM

The first Half-Life, much like Far Cry, falls apart as the latter moments are very different from how the game is presented in the beginning. You end up with very conventional "shoot the boss in the weak spot a bunch" battles, and you exacerbate the game's major weakness by those retarded jumping puzzles.

You know, now that you mention it, I think it was those jumping puzzles that were the biggest factor in my dropping it for something shiny that flitted by.

Smoof

10-07-2008, 12:58 AM

KOTOR II
Mass Effect

Gave up on both, I think because I didn't feel like sitting through all the dialog. Mass Effect seems interesting and I feel like I WANT to play it, but I just don't feel compelled to. Maybe I'll go back, but it's really rather boring, I'm finding.

Advance Wars: Days of Ruin

Got frustrated with. I was getting towards the later missions and it just got so fucking difficult that I didn't give a shit anymore.

Sonic Rush

Tried the last boss multiple times and could never beat him. Gave up, because I wasn't compelled to beat him and then play Blaze the Cat. Who the fuck is Blaze anyway?

Two Worlds

Had fun with this one, just never got around to the main story. Ended-up being an extremely powerful character where I could take out entire cities on my own. But I spent the entire game doing side quests and just never made it through to the main one

SWAT 4 - The Stetchkov Syndicate

Fun game, got to the last mission, but never finished because I'd try and try and try and keep failing.

I'm sure there's more, I just can't think of anything off hand right now.

Oh:

Neverwinter Nights 2

Yawn.

Far Cry

Fucking trigens.

Jericho

God damn did this suck ass.

rinichanraar

10-07-2008, 01:53 AM

I just thought of another one: Final Fantasy X. I don't know why, but I just didn't enjoy it. That was when I stopped playing RPGs altogether.

UWCrash

10-07-2008, 02:01 AM

I have far too long a list to mention everything that I've started and haven't finished. I'm not going to mention any handheld games here because with one major exception (TWEWY) I just don't play them unless I'm traveling.
Notable ones that I gave multiple shots to and will never complete:

Star Ocean 2 - Obviously this was back on PSX, so revisiting it now would be silly. The combat and story just weren't keeping me

Metroid Prime 2 - In the years since it came out I've gone back to this 3 or 4 times. When MP3 came out I tried again, starting from the beginning. I believe I almost turned on the last generator (or whatever those things were), but finding my way around was becoming too tedious and that's generally a big draw-in for me in open-ended platformers. Mentioning a Metroid game also allows me to post this.

Edit: I guess I'll need to find that morph ball lolcat picture again. :(

May revisit, but very unlikely:

Twilight Princess - This is real maybe for me. I got as far as the temple in the sky and was just ridiculously bored. Maybe there was a general lack of wolf/twilight parts, but it's been a solid year since I touched it and I haven't found a reason to hook up my Wii since moving in May.

Call of Duty 4 - Got burned out on shooters while playing this. Never finished the single player (completed the last American mission) and wasn't even close to Lv 55 in multiplayer. There have been a few times I've thought to myself I should at least finish the campaign, but obviously it hasn't happened.

pomeroy

10-07-2008, 02:06 AM

Lost Odyssey.

I hate having to grind/level and when I got to the point where I had to on this game (final disc, last area), I stopped.

Wolvie

10-07-2008, 02:17 AM

Call of Duty 4 - Got burned out on shooters while playing this.

God I am at this point myself! I've played non-stop FPS games ever since DOOM came out, with a few side distraction adventure and hockey games to break up the pace.
But after playing non-stop Halo for seven years... it's time for a much needed break. I won't touch an FPS till I get a huge urge to play one again. Could be quite awhile.

pomeroy

10-07-2008, 02:21 AM

God I am at this point myself! I've played non-stop FPS games ever since DOOM came out, with a few side distraction adventure and hockey games to break up the pace.
But after playing non-stop Halo for seven years... it's time for a much needed break. I won't touch an FPS till I get a huge urge to play one again. Could be quite awhile.

You're not going to play Left4Dead with us?

For shame, Wolvie.

Wolvie

10-07-2008, 02:30 AM

You're not going to play Left4Dead with us?

For shame, Wolvie.

:eek:

The hell is wrong with me? I forgot all about that! Of course I'll be playing Left 4 Dead with you. Let me rephrase that: I won't play an FPS till Left 4 Dead comes out.

pomeroy

10-07-2008, 02:39 AM

:eek:

The hell is wrong with me? I forgot all about that! Of course I'll be playing Left 4 Dead with you. Let me rephrase that: I won't play an FPS till Left 4 Dead comes out.

Sweet. I'll make sure I have you on the ol' friends list, then. If nothing else, I could use a Halo buddy.

this is, of course, depending on the fact that my 360 isn't dead right now. i'm going to test it out tomorrow...it might just hate NCAA '09 (a common problem on the 360, apparently)

The Iron Weasel

10-07-2008, 02:58 AM

Tales of Symphonia - To be honest I don't recall why this game and I didn't get along, but we didn't.

Star Wars: Rouge Squadron II: Rouge Leader: I go back to this one sporadically but overall find it way, way too tough.

Jak 3: I think something else came along, I plan on getting back to it.

menage

10-07-2008, 08:10 AM

Lost Odyssey.

I hate having to grind/level and when I got to the point where I had to on this game (final disc, last area), I stopped.

Huh?

LO doesn't really require grinding.

For me

Eternal Sonata (most boring gameplay in a JRPG ever)

Assassin's Creed (I'll have your hand for that x 1000 times too many, like the everything else in the game)

Ninja Gaiden 2 (just not so much fun with all the cheap hits)

Gears (fuck Raam, ramping up the difficulty at the last boss is just lame tactics)

And that's only from this gen.

LongStepMantis

10-07-2008, 10:05 AM

May revisit, but very unlikely:

Twilight Princess - This is real maybe for me. I got as far as the temple in the sky and was just ridiculously bored. Maybe there was a general lack of wolf/twilight parts, but it's been a solid year since I touched it and I haven't found a reason to hook up my Wii since moving in May.

I have TP for Gamecube, bought it at launch...the case is still unopened. Perhaps one day...

National Kato

10-07-2008, 11:21 AM

Gears (fuck Raam, ramping up the difficulty at the last boss is just lame tactics)

I forgot to add GoW. Man, that was unfair: I had no problem with the entire game. Challenged during many fights, yes, but able to learn from my mistakes and trudge through. The final boss? What a headache.

Kelegacy

10-07-2008, 02:46 PM

I gave up on Mass Effect, like KotOR before it. I don't know why, but BioWare games just don't do it for me.

Same here. I gave up on Mass Effect after about 11 hours or so, and in those hours I actually PLAYED about 2 or 3 it seems like.

Bioware used to be my favorite CRPG group, but once KotOR was released I started losing interest.

SilentScreams

10-07-2008, 04:25 PM

KotOR is probably my favorite RPG ever. KotOR 2 didn't hold me though. I got to a part where I had to beat 2 people at once in a bar with a character I hadn't really developed and gave up.

pseudopseudo

10-07-2008, 04:35 PM

Half Life 2.

I played through about the first hour... maybe two hours? Turned it off - and I haven't played it since.

Every time I think, "Hey, I could fire it back up and slog through some more"... I end up playing something else.

pseudopseudo

10-07-2008, 04:38 PM

Gears (fuck Raam, ramping up the difficulty at the last boss is just lame tactics)

What? RAAM was just as easy as the rest of the game. If not easier. I remember beating him, and going, "What? THAT was the end boss?"

SilentScreams

10-07-2008, 04:39 PM

What? RAAM was just as easy as the rest of the game. If not easier. I remember beating him, and going, "What? THAT was the end boss?"

Yeah I remember him being fairly easy too, although I did it co-op and one of us distracted him, while the other got on the mounted gun behind him and ripped him apart.

menage

10-07-2008, 05:21 PM

What? RAAM was just as easy as the rest of the game. If not easier. I remember beating him, and going, "What? THAT was the end boss?"

Never could, the bats always killed me.

I was never good at Gears though, too cluncky.
I also have a tendency to quit at the final boss so that didn´t help±p

Hellbug

10-07-2008, 05:31 PM

I never did finish a grand campaign in Medieval Total War 2, or Rome Total War. I may have to do that sometime.

DiBiddilyBop

10-07-2008, 05:47 PM

Anything based on D&D rules. I've tried many, many of them, almost always with the thought that I *should* love them. It just seems like it should be exactly my kind of game, but it never is. The list includes KoTOR, KoTOR 2, NWN, Icewind Dale, ToEE, and Torment. The only game that I got into at all was Torment, but eventually lost interest. I am going to give it one more try with Dragon Age: Origins, but if I don't like that, then I just don't think it will ever work.

dotbomb

10-07-2008, 06:06 PM

My list of games I've given up on is much much longer than the games I've completed. I should just list those I've finished and enjoyed.

JRR006

10-07-2008, 06:13 PM

Karak

10-07-2008, 06:40 PM

Wow, thread sort of took on a life here.
I am glad.

Gorvi

10-07-2008, 06:41 PM

I thought of another one. The first Trauma Center on the DS. I was never able to complete the surgery for one of the types of ... now I forget what the disease was called, but anyway, couldn't do it. Gave up!
Man, I forgot that one too. I just got to a certain point and said screw it. I like masochistically hard games, but that game took it too far.

Zanzibar

10-07-2008, 06:59 PM

Metal Arms: Glitch in the System. Really fun game, had a blast, but right near the end there were multiple stacked frustrating cheap boss battles. I just didn't have it in me to get beaten by that asshole one. more. time.

I... *gulp* I also put down Half-Life 2. I never played the original PC version, got the X360 version and just got bored with the single-player stuff.

Oh, also - Oblivion, but that can't be a surprise because of the length. However, my reasoning wasn't because it was too long - I just couldn't watch one more closeup cutscene of hands-down the ugliest cast of NPC characters ever put in a videogame. Note to developers: Making dynamic character creation doesn't mean it makes them pretty.

Perfect Dark Zero, because it sucked.

Kagger

10-07-2008, 07:01 PM

I rarely start a game that I buy new and don't finish. There are a handful of games like Link's Awakening, and Half-Life: Opposing Force I've put some time into and not really done much with it.

Xerxes

10-07-2008, 07:23 PM

A game being boring is the only reason to quit, with Gamefaqs.

Suave Peanut

10-08-2008, 07:18 AM

This thread has inspired me to go through my catalog and identify which games I've completed, which are in progress, which I gave up on, and which I haven't even played.

What? I have that kind of time.

SilentScreams

10-08-2008, 09:27 AM

Like a lot of people here, the games I don't complete far outnumber the ones I do. I have a very short attention span.
The problem with most games is that what you're doing at the start of the game is usually very similar to what you do all the way through. So for me to finish a game, that mechanic has to be a lot of fun. I also always need to have something to aim for in terms of character advancement or new equipment. If I know I'm going to be playing with the exact same capabilities for the whole game, then my motivation to finish it is greatly diminished.

For example, Disgaea. Through the whole game, you're doing the same thing over and over. Yet I love that game because the fighting is fun, and you're constantly aiming for new abilities, new equipment, impressive geo combos and even getting your gear higher levels. You also get to unlock new character classes all the time, and even recruit monsters. That's the kind of game that holds my attention.

On the other side of the spectrum there are games like CoD 4 for example.
At the start of the game, you shoot people and they die. At the end of the game, you shoot people and they die. That's not the kind of game I'll ever finish.
I did however love the CoD 4 multiplayer, because there was always something new to aim for, even if it was just pushing for a 3.5 K/D ratio.

OrigamiPanther

10-08-2008, 10:07 AM

DMC 4 - After the maneuverability of Nero, Dante was plain broken

Advance Wars: Dual Strike - I can only play these for so long before it starts getting a bit boring

Going a little bit older, a friend and I were trying to play through the old Silent Hill games together. We got through Silent Hill 2, but just stopped on Silent Hill 3

Johan

10-08-2008, 11:13 AM

A shorter list for me would be games I DIDN'T give up on. I rarely...and I mean rarely...finish a game. I must be ADHD or something, because I get bored immensely quickly and just move on.

LongStepMantis

10-08-2008, 11:47 AM

A shorter list for me would be games I DIDN'T give up on. I rarely...and I mean rarely...finish a game. I must be ADHD or something, because I get bored immensely quickly and just move on.

I have that problem, as well as the problem someone mentioned earlier about getting to the very end and just stopping.

There's just something about knowing you're at the end. I think "Well, this is it...there's nothing else after this." So I don't even bother completing it because I know there's no more adventure to be had after.

About the only games I really beat anymore are oddly enough, RPGs. I just see it as I spent this much time getting here, I'll be damned if I'm letting myself stop. :p

Gorvi

10-08-2008, 11:51 AM

A shorter list for me would be games I DIDN'T give up on. I rarely...and I mean rarely...finish a game. I must be ADHD or something, because I get bored immensely quickly and just move on.
I used to do that a lot, but now that I buy less games and only get what I really want, I don't do that nearly as often. The only game that I've started this year and didn't finish was Patapon. Well, I guess MGS3 as well, but that was replaying it before MGS4 hit and I just didn't finish it in time.

It really bugs me to not finish a game these days.

ParTime

10-08-2008, 09:57 PM

Every Wii game I've ever played, *except* unlike you lot, I started Metroid Prime 3 a few days ago and it's shaping up to be the first one I do. Man do I like MP3 :)

My most worst one is Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes. This was my first and only foray into the MGS series. And I could not figure out how to play it. Literally, I could not get through the first room without getting killed. So embarrassing...

Troggles

10-08-2008, 09:58 PM

Oh, I finished MP3. I played through it in one sitting when I first got it. Man, I had a sore arm.

rinichanraar

10-08-2008, 10:16 PM

Yeah I remember him being fairly easy too, although I did it co-op and one of us distracted him, while the other got on the mounted gun behind him and ripped him apart.

I'd rather fight RAAM ten more times than be surrounded by exploding wretches. :p

Also, "mounted gun"? Wait, was there a troika or something there?! In my two times finishing the game, I never noticed it. Both times, I had full sniper ammo and kept shooting him in the face.

diablopath

10-08-2008, 10:45 PM

...sigh, some more.

Ace Combat 6.
Mass Effect.
Bioshock
Orange Box
Crisis Core (Will probably start fresh on my upcoming 16 hour bus ride)
MGS4 (Got annoyed, and never thought to go back.)
Ninja Gaiden (Got fucking pissed at Alma, been on boycott since.)

The first four I really enjoyed, but something at the point in time that I was playing distracted me (school, work, personal issues, etc etc etc...) and I just never got around to picking them back up. There are plenty of time where I'd like too, but I don't feel familiar with the story enough to start in the middle, but I don't want to restart all over again, because one thing that massively annoys me is starting the same game eight fucking times.

I'm definitely a lot more thorough now then when I was a kid, though. I think at one point in time, I had 40 PS2 games, and had only beaten four of them full way through.