Games you actually found boring

[deserteagleeye]

Just cause 2. I just didn't get it. I played for an hour trying my hardest to try to enjoy myself but, everything felt so clunky and dirty to me. This coming from a guy that regularly enjoys GTA4. And Xenosaga. I don't care how good the story is. With combat this bad it should have been a book.

 

[ZombieGenesis]

Problem with threads like these, I see people reeling off the names of truly top-quality games and my faith in gamer culture drops like an absolute rock... personal taste is fine, but if you can claim some of the games on the 'unquestionable' list to be boring, then gaming probably isn't for you. Titles left out so nobody bitches, basically.

Also, OT, The Witcher 2. I really gave it a try, but the experience is so half baked and sloppy. Looks gorgeous, the world seems interesting, but the game doesn't do anything with it. Basically, I refer to Yahtzee's review. I want my £20 back.

 

[Wolfwind]

Borderlands. About one third through the game, I found a set of guns that worked for me, and guns I picked up after that weren't as good. Kinda ruins an experience that's selling itself on weapon overload. Plus I found the world and the enemies to be bland and repetitive. If it didn't have co-op, I probably wouldn't have played it for as long as I did.

I've been going through my backlog of games that I've picked up over this generation but haven't had time to play, and I'm finally at Oblivion. I don't know if I'd put it in this list, but it's on the line. I'm not completely bored with it, but I don't get home eager to pick it up and play it either.

 

[Delicious Anathema]

Uncharted.
Gears of War.

 

[NeoShinGundam]

My Dad couldn't even make it out of the Vault in Fallout 3 because he thought it was so boring. Me, I found the experience refreshing because it WASN'T just shooting things for the crime of existing.

 

[pulse2]

Problem with threads like these, I see people reeling off the names of truly top-quality games and my faith in gamer culture drops like an absolute rock... personal taste is fine, but if you can claim some of the games on the 'unquestionable' list to be boring, then gaming probably isn't for you. Titles left out so nobody bitches, basically.

Also, OT, The Witcher 2. I really gave it a try, but the experience is so half baked and sloppy. Looks gorgeous, the world seems interesting, but the game doesn't do anything with it. Basically, I refer to Yahtzee's review. I want my £20 back.

I don't think its necessarily the fact that they want to bash popular games, and I don't think it has much to do with the quality of the game either, sometimes no matter what the quality of the game is to everyone else, you just can't appreciate it in the same way as everyone else.

To put a game into the good quality / bad quality brackets is to almost damn those games that are seen as bad quality by the majority but to the minority are hidden and unique gems that stand out amongst most games. If you find FPS games boring, you are going to say that Modern Warfare put you to sleep for example, but i want to know why, and if your reply is that you thought it was just a shooting gallery and can't understand what all the hype was about, then fairplay.

I'm not going to lie, I found Black Ops boring, as great as everyone said it was, other than zombie mode, the rest of it to me was pretty meh, yet I played Homeworld and have found untold fun in it. Opinions ey

 

[Hipsy_Gypsy]

I have to admit, I found the two Dead Rising games and Devil May Cry quite boring. The latter I tend to get stuck on somehow but I'm just not motivated to try for too long so I just give up fairly quickly. As in, "Oh, I've to work something out. Eh." then I'll probably stop playing it after a mere hndful of attempts whereas with other games, I'd keep trying til I get it.

EDIT: Oh aye, and Final Fantasy X. I would say Final Fantasy games in general but I hated X so much that I didn't want to bother. Still don't. Though that being said, I find most turn based strategy games notoriously boring.


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[Grey_Focks]

Basically any non-mmo/co-op game with grinding. unless I'm doing it with friends (lol), it's just monotonous and it feels like work. Why the hell should I be working during my free-time, when plenty of good games just let me have fun? Then again, when I was a kid, I used to love those sorts of games, so I guess I just grew out of them.

 

[GigaHz]

Final Fantasy 13
Oblivion
The Witcher
Halo
Zelda Series
Diablo 2
Minecraft (at least resource gathering/digging)
Assassin's Creed
Boarderlands
Catherine
Gears of War
Resistance

 

[Treeinthewoods]

Half-Life
Half-Life 2 (both episodes)
Counter-Strike
Team Fortress 2
Portal
Portal 2
Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead 2

Total snoozefest set of games, I really just can't get into anything Valve does.

 

[Vibhor]

Call of duty 1
Actually FPS in general.
I cannot play a FPS if the background music isn't concentrated awesome.
The only reason I liked Doom, Painkiller and Crysis 2

 

[ScrubberDucky]

I have to vote The Witcher. I love western RPGs, I really do, and I really tried to like the Witcher, but it panders to the old-fashioned crowd far too much for its own good. It was so drearily boring that I felt like pulling my eyes out, and I honestly, cross my heart, almost fell asleep while playing it once.

It might've been saved if the combat didn't wrap its lips around someone's posterior, but even then the micromanagement and constant running back and forth would drain most of the fun away.

 

[Mudze]

Borderlands. Holy crap, Borderlands. I can't stand that game. I can't stand the environment, I can't stand the system, I can't stand the graphics, I can't stand what little plot they crammed into that piece of ****, and I really, really can't stand Claptraps!


It's not that I find this game boring, it's more than that. I find it horribly offensive to my eyes and everything I know about literature and gaming.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Prince of Persia '08 and Farcy 2, to some degree.

 

[Extravagance]

MoH Tier 1 and Borderlands. Atleast I completed MoH, if only with the hope that my character would just give up and die already.

 

[Blood Countess]

for me it has been bioshock 2, half life in general and the call of duty games, no hate for them just they bored me is all

 

[funguy2121]

Not bad because even bad can keep you awake if it's frustrating and certainly not good, just slap bang bloody boring and worthy of going right back to the shop.

Has any game seriously tested your patience to the max, either taking too long to get to the juicy parts or you simply found the gameplay mechanics far too dry, monotonous and easy to be considered worthy of your brain usage.

That might not mean the game is bad, it simply wasn't your cup of tea.

Pretty much any olderish RPG I've tried to play or even watched someone else play. The idea of taking tactical skill out of the equation and replacing it with a virtual dice roll has never appealed to me. In fact, at first I was reluctant about Mass Effect and Fallout and Deus Ex because everyone described them as RPGs, but instead of talking to NPCs in Le Towne and pressing X for magic and Y for attack that may hit or may fail and Triangle for summon God to do all fighting for you, go fix dinner, these games are a blend of different genres. It looks like RPGs are evolving into something more interesting than text battles.

But I still find Final Fantasy to be absolutely banal.

 

[Blood Countess]

Half-Life
Half-Life 2 (both episodes)
Counter-Strike
Team Fortress 2
Portal
Portal 2
Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead 2

Total snoozefest set of games, I really just can't get into anything Valve does.

Just saw this after I posted, I can't agree with you more. I haven't played Portal so can't judge those two games but the rest bored me and I find the company highly overrated

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

every single half life....i have never been able to like them. at all.

portal was..a push but i made it through, although i could've cared less for still alive and all the other quotes that are overused a million times online

bioshock, i restarted it 3 times because i was getting so bored with it each time, and every single time i got bored again and stopped around the same parts.

fallout 3 the game..i just did not like the "atmosphere" at all (which is odd considering i loved NV) and the main plot? you've gotta be kidding me, the literal ONE saving grace was liam neeson and he obviously is only there for half of the main plot.

there are probably a few more, but just not really caring to think right now.

 

[Cyrin]

Oblivion.

I loved Morrowind but oblivion was too.. paint by numbers....