Games that you've abandoned playing
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Dark Souls
I didn't find it fun enough to justify how difficult it was. Some games the difficulty is part of the fun ie. the first two Oddworld games, but Dark Souls seemed difficult for the sake of being difficult. It also didn't really have much going for it, it was just...boring.
Also Red Dead Redemption
Don't get me wrong some of it was really fun but there also seemed to be a whole lotta nothing between the fun. I also had the ending spoiled for me so maybe that ruined it a bit.
I didn't find it fun enough to justify how difficult it was. Some games the difficulty is part of the fun ie. the first two Oddworld games, but Dark Souls seemed difficult for the sake of being difficult. It also didn't really have much going for it, it was just...boring.
Also Red Dead Redemption
Don't get me wrong some of it was really fun but there also seemed to be a whole lotta nothing between the fun. I also had the ending spoiled for me so maybe that ruined it a bit.
Dark souls 2 because i didn't find it as fun as a first one. The game was not interesting enough and level design generic bosses boring and game was not hard in the way it was fun but it was hard in the way it was tedious. I went back to original dark souls and its much better game in terms of atmosphere and thus i enjoy it much more.
Wow, I didn't expect so many replies to this thread so quickly. I'm sad to see so many mentions of Dragon Age Origins but otherwise this definately had the intended effect of making me feel better. Thanks guys 
I...don't remember exactly. It was just like... The realization that we're probably not the good guys.Halla Burrica said:
It would take too long to list them all, but the first ones that come to mind are:
-Metroid: Other M: Managed to stomach the terrible writing long enough to get to the Queen Metroid, but then I got fed up with how agonizing that boss fight was.
-The Witcher: I just got tired of it.
-Red Dead Redemption: zZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZz!
-Sonic the Hedgehog (2006): Got to the stupid train level and then got fed up. I applaud anyone who actually got far enough to see the creepy implied bestiality thing.
-Metroid Prime 3: Got to the big dinosaur thing with the orbs. Got fed up with it.
-Metroid: Other M: Managed to stomach the terrible writing long enough to get to the Queen Metroid, but then I got fed up with how agonizing that boss fight was.
-The Witcher: I just got tired of it.
-Red Dead Redemption: zZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZz!
-Sonic the Hedgehog (2006): Got to the stupid train level and then got fed up. I applaud anyone who actually got far enough to see the creepy implied bestiality thing.
-Metroid Prime 3: Got to the big dinosaur thing with the orbs. Got fed up with it.
That... really sucks. As someone who loves that game (it's my favourite), I can understand how incredibly awful it would be to lose all that progress. If you can't bare to start all over again, I'd recommend just moving to a mod and starting that. The Floris Mod Pack is quite good if you want to play on the same map but with extended mechanics and troop trees. You can customize the mod to your own preferences and I'd say it's actually more balanced than Native since you can't just train up 50 Swadian Knights and then never lose a battle again (even against armies that are 4-5 times bigger than yours). There are several other mods that completely change the map, troops, and some mechanics to the point where they are basically brand new games. However, if you can't bare to start Native again, you may not want to start any of these either since they all take LONGER to complete. You could also just cheat your character and companions up to roughly the same level as they were, but that might tempt you into doing other stuff too and you may just end up ruining the challenge for yourself. Anyway, those are just my suggestions but I'd completely understand if you never picked it up again seeing as that kind of loss is pretty damn crushing.sweetylnumb said:Well after playing Mount and Blade: Warband for 100 hours and getting nowhere near the end i persisted, then i lost my save. Now i can't face starting again.
OT: Guild Wars 2. I tried two separate characters over the course of about 20 hours of gameplay and just couldn't get into it. I'm not sure what it was, but I found it to be incredibly boring. Then again, I've never found an MMORPG that I could enjoy. They're probably just not my cup of tea.
Gears of War 3, just got stuck at one point, told myself I'd go back to it and never did.
Morrowind, I've spent that much time playing/modding it that I just abandoned playing it for a while thinking I needed a short break, been a few years since then.
WoW, Guild Wars, pretty much any mmorpg. I abandon most of those games after just a few hours/days. I just lost my confidence playing games like that and interacting with people online so I end up abandoning them pretty quickly.
Morrowind, I've spent that much time playing/modding it that I just abandoned playing it for a while thinking I needed a short break, been a few years since then.
WoW, Guild Wars, pretty much any mmorpg. I abandon most of those games after just a few hours/days. I just lost my confidence playing games like that and interacting with people online so I end up abandoning them pretty quickly.
Army Men: Sarge's Heroes - Got scared of the spiders as a kid and never finished the campaign.
Alpha Protocol: Failed the hacking tutorial like 18 times (IIRC because it didn't tell you what keys to press for the PC version), figured out a way around it and the game wouldn't let me because I needed to finish the hacking tutorial, told it to fuck itself.
King's Bounty: Crossworlds - I ran into a situation where I couldn't recruit enough quality troops to beat the only battles left on the map (all very difficult) and got bored ramming my face into the battles trying to win with my few high quality troops or shitloads of cannon fodder.
The Witcher - The controls sucked and combat was insanely boring. Having to pot up before every combat was tedious, and the plot was nothing special. Lasted about 10 hours.
Impossible/Ironman XCOM and Insane Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn playthroughs - In a normal playthrough, safe play makes things easy, aggressive play means risks but ends things faster. At those difficulties, aggressive play is impossible and safe play has more risks than aggressive play did at lower levels, the RNG is real. I just couldn't stand it anymore.
2nd-4th playthroughs of KotOR I&II, Bravely Default, VTM: Bloodlines, Borderlands I&II, Final Fantasy games - All these games have a considerable ramp up time before you unlock the fun abilities and actually get to play the good part of the game, I find myself running out of patience at some point on repeat playthroughs (ESPECIALLY KOTOR, dear christ Taris and Peragus are nightmares the 3rd-4th time).
Diablo II, Titan Quest, Torchlight I&II - These games are all insanely boring once you unlock your overpowered abilities and just spam them all day while kiting shit. Not even the "OOH SHINY" factor kept me going.
Half Life 2 - Ravenholm gave me nightmares even in college. I just hate spiders and facehugging things and the fast crabs are both.
Metroid Prime I&II - got to the final boss for both on track for 100%. Fusion Metroids creeped me out enough to quit playing and I just never got around to beating Emperor Ing.
Alpha Protocol: Failed the hacking tutorial like 18 times (IIRC because it didn't tell you what keys to press for the PC version), figured out a way around it and the game wouldn't let me because I needed to finish the hacking tutorial, told it to fuck itself.
King's Bounty: Crossworlds - I ran into a situation where I couldn't recruit enough quality troops to beat the only battles left on the map (all very difficult) and got bored ramming my face into the battles trying to win with my few high quality troops or shitloads of cannon fodder.
The Witcher - The controls sucked and combat was insanely boring. Having to pot up before every combat was tedious, and the plot was nothing special. Lasted about 10 hours.
Impossible/Ironman XCOM and Insane Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn playthroughs - In a normal playthrough, safe play makes things easy, aggressive play means risks but ends things faster. At those difficulties, aggressive play is impossible and safe play has more risks than aggressive play did at lower levels, the RNG is real. I just couldn't stand it anymore.
2nd-4th playthroughs of KotOR I&II, Bravely Default, VTM: Bloodlines, Borderlands I&II, Final Fantasy games - All these games have a considerable ramp up time before you unlock the fun abilities and actually get to play the good part of the game, I find myself running out of patience at some point on repeat playthroughs (ESPECIALLY KOTOR, dear christ Taris and Peragus are nightmares the 3rd-4th time).
Diablo II, Titan Quest, Torchlight I&II - These games are all insanely boring once you unlock your overpowered abilities and just spam them all day while kiting shit. Not even the "OOH SHINY" factor kept me going.
Half Life 2 - Ravenholm gave me nightmares even in college. I just hate spiders and facehugging things and the fast crabs are both.
Metroid Prime I&II - got to the final boss for both on track for 100%. Fusion Metroids creeped me out enough to quit playing and I just never got around to beating Emperor Ing.
Bioshock Infinite: It is physically impossible to play this game. For a game called "Infinite" it sure has a whole lot of nothing in terms of replay value.
La Noir: Interesting premise, not fun to play.
DmC: Devil May Cry: Rented it, got to Vergil's bigger dick, bailed as soon as I figured out how to cheese SSS ranks and played DMC4 for another 200 hours.
Dark Souls 2: Unless it's the DLC, the vanilla game's levels and bosses are just not enjoyable. [Rant] WHY IS THE DLC BETTER?! YOU HAD TIME THIS TIME! [/Rant]
La Noir: Interesting premise, not fun to play.
DmC: Devil May Cry: Rented it, got to Vergil's bigger dick, bailed as soon as I figured out how to cheese SSS ranks and played DMC4 for another 200 hours.
Dark Souls 2: Unless it's the DLC, the vanilla game's levels and bosses are just not enjoyable. [Rant] WHY IS THE DLC BETTER?! YOU HAD TIME THIS TIME! [/Rant]
Yeah I did that and yes it was weird... Everyone was watching as well standing around. It's not the only instance though, earlier on you have to basically pair up sonic with someone to progress the story.canadamus_prime said:
That shit was weird.
OT: Skyrim just didn't have anything in it the really grabbed me. The combat is really weightless, the story is boring as hell, movement is tedious, the world and lore is uninteresting and draugers are incredibly boring. The only fun I had was being hit by the giants so
I could fly into the air but after a while it just made me go play just cause 2.
I think I did yes. I just watched gameplay video of the final boss fight and it allowed him to be called upon, but I guess I didn't go through that speech option.GamerMage said:
Dragon age origins - what the hell is this D&D combat. This is nothing like mass effect
witcher 1 - this combat is probably worse then origins
Demon souls - too depressing. Dark souls I could do and love, but not this. I feel bad for abandoning this one.
Bioshock Infinite - why am I shooting hordes of police in the face. The narrative to me says it should be more stealthy
Hitman absolution - this is not blood money...why am I walking from A to B . The cover mechanic makes no sense.
Tomb Raider 2014- How is Lara slaughtering all these people single handedly
TOR free weekend - omg, is this what an MMO is?
LA Noire - The rules of this game do not make a lick of sense. I'm rarely making decisions and analysing evidence , just trying to game the conversations
A few assassins creed games -
witcher 1 - this combat is probably worse then origins
Demon souls - too depressing. Dark souls I could do and love, but not this. I feel bad for abandoning this one.
Bioshock Infinite - why am I shooting hordes of police in the face. The narrative to me says it should be more stealthy
Hitman absolution - this is not blood money...why am I walking from A to B . The cover mechanic makes no sense.
Tomb Raider 2014- How is Lara slaughtering all these people single handedly
TOR free weekend - omg, is this what an MMO is?
LA Noire - The rules of this game do not make a lick of sense. I'm rarely making decisions and analysing evidence , just trying to game the conversations
A few assassins creed games -
I stop playing a lot of games before I finish them, but I don't consider them "abandoning" because I more often than not intend to go back to them, even if I trade the game in. Catherine and L.A. Noire fall into that category. I traded them in when I needed some credit to buy another game, intending to buy them back when they're inexpensive and finish them. I still haven't bought those two games back, though. Catherine was getting really freakishly difficult and L.A. Noire pissed me right off at the end of the homicide bureau with that fucking stupid twist, but I still want to finish those games.
Only game that comes to mind for which I just said "Fuck it I'm done" partway through the game would be Final Fantasy XIII. I got to the bit where you rescue Sazh and The Thing on the warship and could not for the life of me get through the fights, and eventually told myself "I'm better than this. I'll go play something I actually enjoy" and never touched the thing again.
Only game that comes to mind for which I just said "Fuck it I'm done" partway through the game would be Final Fantasy XIII. I got to the bit where you rescue Sazh and The Thing on the warship and could not for the life of me get through the fights, and eventually told myself "I'm better than this. I'll go play something I actually enjoy" and never touched the thing again.
"Abandoned" is such a strong word in my case... because you could basically describe most of my gaming backlog as being "abandoned" in some way, shape or form...
But seriously, I can think of a few off the top of my head:
Shadow the Hedgehog: After finding out a way to only have to play the game (in full) five times in order to get the true ending (including knowing which routes to take that would make me the least frustrated overall), I still only beaten it once and just gave up after that...
Afro Samurai: Went through the first stage(?) and just stopped... (Still loved the music, though...)
Tales of Legendia: Outside of the combat (and, to a certain extent, the story), I don't know why I stopped playing this game...
Eternal Sonata: Same as with Legendia, I don't know why I stopped playing this game...
Game of Thrones: Same as with Legendia only I hated the combat... and that's what made me abonded this game... (Still liked the artbook I got with the game, though...)
Honorable mention to 2006's Sonic The Hedgehog because I have already beaten it twice already... and the last time net me a good $200 due to a bet I thought I couldn't win, anyway...
But seriously, I can think of a few off the top of my head:
Shadow the Hedgehog: After finding out a way to only have to play the game (in full) five times in order to get the true ending (including knowing which routes to take that would make me the least frustrated overall), I still only beaten it once and just gave up after that...
Afro Samurai: Went through the first stage(?) and just stopped... (Still loved the music, though...)
Tales of Legendia: Outside of the combat (and, to a certain extent, the story), I don't know why I stopped playing this game...
Eternal Sonata: Same as with Legendia, I don't know why I stopped playing this game...
Game of Thrones: Same as with Legendia only I hated the combat... and that's what made me abonded this game... (Still liked the artbook I got with the game, though...)
Honorable mention to 2006's Sonic The Hedgehog because I have already beaten it twice already... and the last time net me a good $200 due to a bet I thought I couldn't win, anyway...
Red Dead Redemption: I played for about 10 hours, then realized that the plot hadn't advanced 1 iota and the game didn't really have any sort of upgrade system beyond "you get better equipment!". Same principle applied with GTA IV.
Divinity: Original Sin: Haven't given up on it quite yet, but a lot of people said it was basically the return of Baldur's Gate, so I think I was kinda caught off guard by how silly and tongue-in-cheek the game was, sort of killed some of my expectations. Might go back to it.
Skulls of the Shogun: Neat game, but I just got bored with it after a while. It didn't help that the difficulty curve felt very out of whack: normal mode was too hard and easy mode was too easy.
Just Cause 2: May be the only time I've thought a game was simply too huge and overwhelming. The plot didn't really compel me either.
South Park: The Stick of Truth: I actually really liked the game and I love South Park, but I got about 3/4 of the way through the game and then my saved game got erased, and I couldn't bring myself to play through the whole thing again.
Divinity: Original Sin: Haven't given up on it quite yet, but a lot of people said it was basically the return of Baldur's Gate, so I think I was kinda caught off guard by how silly and tongue-in-cheek the game was, sort of killed some of my expectations. Might go back to it.
Skulls of the Shogun: Neat game, but I just got bored with it after a while. It didn't help that the difficulty curve felt very out of whack: normal mode was too hard and easy mode was too easy.
Just Cause 2: May be the only time I've thought a game was simply too huge and overwhelming. The plot didn't really compel me either.
South Park: The Stick of Truth: I actually really liked the game and I love South Park, but I got about 3/4 of the way through the game and then my saved game got erased, and I couldn't bring myself to play through the whole thing again.
Years ago: Luminous Arc, Tao's Adventure and Hoshigami for the DS....they seemed a bit slow. Tao in particular seemed like a weak spiritual sequel to Azure Dreams. as of recently, maybe Etrian Odyssey IV and Shin Megami Tensei: Soul Hackers, it got annoying at the Astro Museum part, but after bruteforcing questions, i got through. the game doesn't seem internetless-friendly without resorting to looking at guides...yes, im aware that the game is a remake of a game in the Sega Saturn era. probably got a little worse at the airport since i forgotten the order of machines i sabotaged after completing a vision quest.
After checking out Dungeon Q, the questions were translated as expected, but the questions themselves are from a Japanese point of view, like who would know who's the first non-Caucasian baseball player in a Japanese baseball league. feels like bit of a cop-out to sit at a computer just to look up FAQs just to get past a part in a game for a minute then having to look back. less about the Ice Boss, the better....that was just RNG screw as hell.
After checking out Dungeon Q, the questions were translated as expected, but the questions themselves are from a Japanese point of view, like who would know who's the first non-Caucasian baseball player in a Japanese baseball league. feels like bit of a cop-out to sit at a computer just to look up FAQs just to get past a part in a game for a minute then having to look back. less about the Ice Boss, the better....that was just RNG screw as hell.