Games you actually found boring

[deth2munkies]

Final Fantasy 8. Oh good lord Final Fantasy 8...

Ok, 11-14 I can understand, but 8? 8 was fun. Even if you were grinding mug targets or Island Closest to Heaven/Hell for levels and stuff, you could still have fun. I particularly enjoyed using limit breaks with fun sides like Angel Wing and Slot, or locking down all my enemies with tons of status magic and beating them to death.

I got bored enough of The Witcher that I uninstalled it after a few hours.

I also never finished Quest 64. It was a lot of fun when I started, but it seemed like it dragged on a bit too long.

Then of course there's MMOs, that I can't really say were bad games, because I dumped hundreds of hours into them before getting really bored with them, but I did eventually Stuff like SWG, WoW, DDO, LotRO, etc

Reading the actual thread, I have to agree with Grand Theft Auto. After being banned from the game as a child/teen, I finally bought them over the summer on a steam sale and dear god were they boring. Even shooting rampages were boring, and the gameplay was mediocre at best...meh, whatever.

 

[SomeLameStuff]

Sins of a Solar Empire. I literally fell asleep while waiting for my fleet to attack the enemy fleet.

Whatever you say, Glactic Civilizations 2 so much better than Sins.

 

[sarahvait]

Assassin's Creed. I mean, I think the story and concept is kinda interesting, but the missions just start repeating and all the grayish cities start to look the same. It's not a game I couldn't finish, but I feel kinda MEH doing it.

And Eternal Sonata. Don't get me wrong, I love me some anime/JRPG/japanese games, and I do want to finish. There's certainly some things I like about it, but god there were several story scenes where I just wanted to shout at the screen "SUM IT UP ALREADY!!!" I really don't need to see a ten minute death scene drag on. Okay, I get it, you feel guilty about your betrayals and whatnot and want to soliquey (sp?) about it, but this should only take 3 minutes tops since you're, oh I don't know, DYING!

I think the first one was kinda boring because it was the same mission over and over again. But AC2 is kinda different in that there is some variety

Well, that's good then. Frankly I'm just still waiting for my Assassin's Creed game set in Victorian England. DO IITTTTTT, UBISOFT....

 

[Bobbety]

I just started Infamous a couple of nights ago because I got it for free from the PlayStation Welcome back thing. I played it for a couple of hours and haven't felt inclined to play any more since then.

 

[pulse2]

Final Fantasy 8. Oh good lord Final Fantasy 8...

Ok, 11-14 I can understand, but 8? 8 was fun. Even if you were grinding mug targets or Island Closest to Heaven/Hell for levels and stuff, you could still have fun. I particularly enjoyed using limit breaks with fun sides like Angel Wing and Slot, or locking down all my enemies with tons of status magic and beating them to death.

I got bored enough of The Witcher that I uninstalled it after a few hours.

I also never finished Quest 64. It was a lot of fun when I started, but it seemed like it dragged on a bit too long.

Then of course there's MMOs, that I can't really say were bad games, because I dumped hundreds of hours into them before getting really bored with them, but I did eventually Stuff like SWG, WoW, DDO, LotRO, etc

Reading the actual thread, I have to agree with Grand Theft Auto. After being banned from the game as a child/teen, I finally bought them over the summer on a steam sale and dear god were they boring. Even shooting rampages were boring, and the gameplay was mediocre at best...meh, whatever.

Guilty pleasure, I loved 8, in fact, despite its lack of direction in plot and astounding gameplay flaws, most of which were pretty pointless, I loved it to bits and it is my favorite FF game Which says a lot about me considering I've played most FF games except anything out of the 1-14 and excluding 12 & 14

 

[Nightmare-Child]

Epic Mickey by far. That game put me to sleep.

 

[SmegInThePants]

SPORE - a game of evolution, nice concept, but the execution was a game that was far too boring. (the much older game by the discovery channel called 'evolution' was a lot more fun, at least it was challenging, too bad its so ancient now as to be unplayable).

Civ5 - lets take the civ game and strip away wonder movies, strip away the nice replay system, make multiplayer almost unplayable, do away w/the excellent pitboss pbem dedicated turn server, do away with religion, do away w/the zoomed out spherical planetary view that actually makes ya feel like you are conquering a world, make an AI that is so completely brain dead that winning on deity isn't even terribly difficult, but the graphics are nicer so its all worth everything we lost somehow.

I'll second the latest iterations of the final fantasy series (except for the tactics games, liked those)

WoW - fun at first, but so tediously repetitive that ya reach a point where ya can't even stomach the notion of going anywhere near it.

For those who didn't like oblivion due to the leveling system or the game being too easy, try out the mod - oscuro's oblivion overhaul, might breathe new life into the game for ya. If ya didn't like it for other reasons, then it probably won't help any, however. hehe

Dragon Age Origins - both of 'em. Fun at first, enough to be worth having bought them. But I reach a point where I get bored and just can't go on, couldn't finish either of them. Yet they are still installed because I keep thinking that maybe one day i'll find myself in the mood to sit down and finish them.

 

[SageRuffin]

Playing Dragon Age: Origins as a 2-handed warrior. There was more than a few times where I was actually falling asleep as I was playing the game with no prior fatigue whatsoever.

 

[Fidelias]

For me, it was Prototype. Seriously, I found that I could be taking down tons of soldiers and monsters and machines, and I'd be yawning, literally yawning.

I blame it mostly on the really crappy soundtrack they had with the game. Even a lullaby is more exciting than the tunes they expected you to listen to.

 

[CleverCover]

Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom

I tried. Even with the dismal recommendations from both father and brother, I tried it for two hours. I even went online. Even with the one other person I found, still wasn't more fun than watching paint dry.

 

[MadCapMunchkin]

Risen. Dear God, Risen...

 

[chrono16]

Red Dead Redemption
Fable 2
Just Cause 2

Oh MAN Just Cause 2! I got it and was awesome for like 30 minutes then I got bored.... lol

 

[ks1234]

Fallout: New Vegas (fallout 3 rocked my fucking face off tho), Borderlands, Far Cry 1&2, HalfLife 2... those are just the ones off the top of my head, yeah, fuck those games.

 

[SimpleJack]

Portal. There I said it, we were all thinking it.

No. Just you...I'm sorry.

Seriously though, I thought that Army of Two was kinda boring... It was really just another cover based shooter that wasnt even funny or charming or anything...

 

[zspartancats]

Borderlands.

You can only shoot the same things for a while before being tired of it. Which was like an hour into the game.

 

[No Liberty]

Crysis 2. The graphics are not enough to wow me.

 

[Vault101]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. you may now chase me with pitchforks

oh and the witchter...but I tried..I really did try

 

[CheeksMcGraw]

Borderlands was okay but it became repetitive halfway through. I forced myself to finish the game to find the ending terribly unrewarding.

 

[meowchef]

Halo CE
Halo 2
Halo 3
Halo Reach
Call of Duty Black Ops
Fallout 3
Bioshock
Red Dead Redemption
PROTOTYPE
Starcraft 2

 

[tso0001]

Red Dead Redemption
Fable 2
Just Cause 2

Oh MAN Just Cause 2! I got it and was awesome for like 30 minutes then I got bored.... lol

haha, I agree. And I found Fallout 3 pretty boring...and very depressing (although kudos to Bethesda for doing a good job at making the world so bleak and depressing)