Games you actually found boring
- Thread starter pulse2
- Start date
Recommended Videos
Matix: Path of Neo. What an awful game, shackled to the original plot, it had to cram 50 million fight scenes in where they didn't fit and stretched every slightly dangerous incident out waaaay to far. Also, it had shit combat, shit animations, shit graphics... Eghhh it was just insufferable.
Final Fantasy XIII. I can't say I'm a fan of RPGs and especially JRPGs. The characters and story didn't do a whole lot for me, though that's mostly down to the translation/dubbing, and neither did the combat. I think I got to chapter 10 and lost interest.
Also, AvP got old pretty fast, but I did complete that one.
Also, AvP got old pretty fast, but I did complete that one.
Oblivion, Mass Effect and Red Dead are all games I've tried my hardest to get into, and just can't.
I've never seen a review of that game score it higher than a 2/10, and from what I've seen it's less boring than it is hilariously bad. You could at least have finished it though. Apparently you were about halfway there.Mount said:
Final Fantasy X
But then again, I think that's true for everyone. To enjoy the game I think you really do have to be mega-weaboo and consider the occasional smattering of CGI cutscenes the ultimate reward for hours of tedium (even though those cutscenes are all on youtube now).
I played over 20 hours of FFX before I gave up, turns out I was half way through and I was right to quit and probably would have done better to quit sooner. Or not started at all.
For one, it's not an RPG, it's an Adventure game with shitty Turn-Based Tactics combat. The characters are just awful. Boring, the only interesting thing about them is how annoying they can be. The combat is immensely unsatisfying yet tedious and repetitive.
Yet it remains one of the most highly lauded games on the PS2 era with even a correspondingly high user-score.
But I suppose the game that really bored me most unusually was Metal Gear Solid 2.
The plot was terrible, a mess of contrived conspiracies, and not the cool Maltese Falcon type conspiracies, more like tin-foil-hat stupid conspiracies like the entire human-genome-sequencing exercise was a massive hoax... that democracy in America is a facade... and you can somehow control the entire country via a single supercomputer that has never been tested before. Then the complete reliance on forced melodrama (herp derp, random incest) and lazy mcguffins (virus lol).
But more than that the gameplay was a let down. The stealth was bonehead boring, most of the time the only way to progress was to just shoot them with a tranquilliser dart and run past.
The boss fights were pathetic, not a single one lived up to the excitement and intensity of any of the Boss fights in the previous game nor even the subsequent game.
The game screwed up elements you took for granted, like an active Codec team who always had something insightful or interesting to say. MGS2 the few you could speak to had nothing but bullshit for you.
But then again, I think that's true for everyone. To enjoy the game I think you really do have to be mega-weaboo and consider the occasional smattering of CGI cutscenes the ultimate reward for hours of tedium (even though those cutscenes are all on youtube now).
I played over 20 hours of FFX before I gave up, turns out I was half way through and I was right to quit and probably would have done better to quit sooner. Or not started at all.
For one, it's not an RPG, it's an Adventure game with shitty Turn-Based Tactics combat. The characters are just awful. Boring, the only interesting thing about them is how annoying they can be. The combat is immensely unsatisfying yet tedious and repetitive.
Yet it remains one of the most highly lauded games on the PS2 era with even a correspondingly high user-score.
But I suppose the game that really bored me most unusually was Metal Gear Solid 2.
The plot was terrible, a mess of contrived conspiracies, and not the cool Maltese Falcon type conspiracies, more like tin-foil-hat stupid conspiracies like the entire human-genome-sequencing exercise was a massive hoax... that democracy in America is a facade... and you can somehow control the entire country via a single supercomputer that has never been tested before. Then the complete reliance on forced melodrama (herp derp, random incest) and lazy mcguffins (virus lol).
But more than that the gameplay was a let down. The stealth was bonehead boring, most of the time the only way to progress was to just shoot them with a tranquilliser dart and run past.
The boss fights were pathetic, not a single one lived up to the excitement and intensity of any of the Boss fights in the previous game nor even the subsequent game.
The game screwed up elements you took for granted, like an active Codec team who always had something insightful or interesting to say. MGS2 the few you could speak to had nothing but bullshit for you.
What did it for you?Dr. Pepper Unlimited said:
By the way, were you playing on PC or console?
I'm of the opinion that Bioshock - more than other FPS game - simply does not work on consoles, with the limited gamepad interface. Even the FOV is too limited on consoles, makes the game seem so claustrophobic and frustrating.
im sorry i cannot comprehend this, you put Just Cause 2 as a boring game? a game where you can put tons of C4 onto a plane, fly said plane as high as possible, nose dive it into an army base while riding on the nose of it, jump off and parachute away while firing dual SMG's and land on a speeding truck to make your getaway is put down as a boring game? although i enjoyed the other 2 i can see why they would be boringinternetzealot1 said:
socom 4 completed the campaign in under 4 hours, received the platinum after 2 days and haven't played it since, the hardcore mode on the game was even hard just frustrating as the enemies had 100% extra health and just ran at you. ive still got the game but its just sitting on my shelf, think I'll trade it in for some cash of uncharted 3
I have a few...
Left 4 Dead 1 & 2 - Just hold down the shoot button to win *sigh*
Borederlands - See what I did there? As in I was bored playing it? Get it? *ahem* Anyway, I found Doom 3's corridors more interesting than Borederlands' environment.
Team Fortress 2 - Once you get past the humour (which isn't that humourous), it's just a terrible and dull FPS that thinks it is funny.
Fallout 1 - YEAH I SAID IT!
GTAIV - Or should I say Taxi Simulator. Every time I was having fun Roman would call me for a game of bowling. I'm too much of a nice guy to say no!
Halo Reach - I love Halo but this game was a joke.
Bioshock - I have nothing to say but SNORE!
Left 4 Dead 1 & 2 - Just hold down the shoot button to win *sigh*
Borederlands - See what I did there? As in I was bored playing it? Get it? *ahem* Anyway, I found Doom 3's corridors more interesting than Borederlands' environment.
Team Fortress 2 - Once you get past the humour (which isn't that humourous), it's just a terrible and dull FPS that thinks it is funny.
Fallout 1 - YEAH I SAID IT!
GTAIV - Or should I say Taxi Simulator. Every time I was having fun Roman would call me for a game of bowling. I'm too much of a nice guy to say no!
Halo Reach - I love Halo but this game was a joke.
Bioshock - I have nothing to say but SNORE!
Animal Crossing. The main goal is just to pay back the load you own to that racoon by picking up anything you found to sell.
Alone in the dark. Found the story line confusing and ambiguous, and not only that, the fact that you could skip to whatever part you wanted, seemed completely pointless, because I lost story elements trying to get past parts of it that were impossible to work out.
about the CGI, have you read the cracked.com article about one of the writers gaming experiences? the cutscenes were so few and far apart you had to really work for them, because of limited console memory. and it is an RPG, just not a western one. its a jRPG, which is different from a wRPG. and the FFX characters are mostly ok (i will admit i wanted to punch Tidus and put a ball-gag in Rikkus mouth) but most of them were fine.Treblaine said:
FFXIII was boring because Hope was the closest thing to a non stereotype dickhead douchebag self centered ***** and they turned his emo dial up way too high. plus the constant character switching made the narrative slow, jumpy and unconnected. plus it took fucking ages.
Final Fantasy 13, easily.
I almost gave up on Red Faction Armageddon before it suddenly remembered it does destruction better than anything else, I also stopped playing Borderlands for the best part of three months due to the sheer monotony of the first few hours, after the first area though the developers brought back the appropriate amount of side quests to build XP for the main quest.
I almost gave up on Red Faction Armageddon before it suddenly remembered it does destruction better than anything else, I also stopped playing Borderlands for the best part of three months due to the sheer monotony of the first few hours, after the first area though the developers brought back the appropriate amount of side quests to build XP for the main quest.