Icewind Dale 2: Whoo boy, delving back a bit here. I modded this game out like hell, and still found it unplayable.
Neverwinter Nights 2: I know it has some stellar parts. I know the dialogue's good. I know the expansion is a lot better than the original campaign, and I don't bloody care. Even on a good PC nowadays, the gameplay is painfully bad.
The Witcher: I love these devs for GOG, but I want to dropkick Geralt off a bridge. Into a vat of boiling poo. It's really hard to enjoy an RPG when you loathe the protagonist.
-Half-Life: not because it was bad, I enjoyed it but I always got stuck on those goddamn Xen levels and was a pansy back when it first came out. Didn't touch it for awhile and am actually thinking now that I'm older I should go back and beat it 100%.
-Ultima Underworld II: It just didn't seem very fun compared to #1 and I got tired of it quickly.
-Command & Conquer 4: Because it was terribad. Biggest disappointment of 2010 for me, especially since I used it to break in my first new computer in 7 years.
-Blood II The Chosen: I loved the original Blood to death, but #2 removed almost everything I liked the setting, the horror references, etc. Well, it had ONE good horror reference and that was the fact the silver sphere from Phantasm was a weapon in the game, and actually getting to use it to suck peoples brains out through their eyes was morbidly satisfying.
-Silent Hill Homecoming: It was boring and I gave up because I could maybe play for 30 minutes before getting bored.
-Elder Scrolls I Arena: I snagged the free download of this because Daggerfall is one of my favourite PC games and the first RPG that sucked me in and I also thought Morrowind and Oblivion were fun, but Arena simply doesn't hold up as well compared to the other games.
(Streches fingers)
Dead Space(1,2); Shadow of Chernobyl; Metro 2033; Rise of the Argonauts; F.E.A.R. 1; Red Faction Guerilla; Mirror's Edge; Grand Turismo 5; Star Wars: Empire at War Gold; and one or two more.
Most of these were because of sheer boringness, or I couldn't take horrible graphics (keep in mind that the original Half-Life is still my favourite game), poor storytelling, awful combat etc.
After playing ME2, I don't think anyone can enjoy ME1 anymore. That being said, at least they made that interactive comic thing so we don't have to touch ME1 ever again.
Killzone 2, it was just bad. It looked very pretty, it had a lot of nice things going for it but I just hated the game. The way the character moved, the guns handled weird and the enemy voice acting grated on my nerves hard.
"Dead Rising 2". I loved the first game, but by the time the sequel came out I wanted to play a game where I could explore before being mercilessly pushed on to cram in as much as I could before the Time Runs Out.
Also "Far Cry 2". Just incredibly repetitive. A game I hate, just because it was made by Ubisoft Montreal, and they made Assassin's Creed -so should know better.
Quite a few of my friends enjoyed it, but I haven't played so I can't say for much.
COD: Black Ops. Even for COD I found the campaign terrible, better than WaW but I couldn't sit through it nor the multiplayer. 2 Hours
Gears of War. I just could not understand the hype over it when I played it, I felt that it was trying too hard to do something I couldn't understand... that and gore should never be a major selling point. 2 Hours
Gears of War 2 on XBox - Just not gripping me.
Assasins Creed - XBox - Got bored.
Turok - Brought it cheap - played it once.. never again.
Two Worlds - Gave this 2 chances.. Felt robbed twice.
One the other hand, I saw Enchanted Arms mentioned earlier.. funnily enough, I beat that today. Probably won't play it again but it was a worthwhile journey... Life is Grind.
After playing Oblivion to death and being thoroughly entertained by it, I gave 2 two worlds a chance. It started out bad with dreadful voice acting and character models.. then it got worse. The first time I played it, I was drunk so I gave it another chance. Mistake.
Turok tried to play the game for me and when it finally gave me control, it was so hard to control the aim that it was unplayable. The camera shifting in and out of 1st person mode threw me.. why do I need to see the climb ladder animation? Honestly.. it's just ladders! And the Quick time events??!! Simply Bad.
Assasins Creed held my interest for longer but in the end, I tired of it.
I just cant seem to get into Gears at all for some reason. Lots of others love it, maybe it's me.
yet I can sink 90+ hours into a grindfest like Enchanted Arms, 100+ hours into Oblivion, Can't remember the time I put into Blue Dragon but it was substantial. Go figure.
Summoner and Dragon Age: Origins for very similar reasons: The combat was somewhat basic/boring, there was very little to do in the way of true side-quests, and the overall theme of these two games was altogether too dark for my tastes.
Radiata Stories: TOO! MANY!! CHARACTERS!!! This is coming from a die-hard fan of Suikoden, but this game not only had too many characters to collect (Over 150) and each character ONLY had ONE ability that they could use, but the tediousness of collecting everyone, mixed with some of the most unbelievably short recruitment times for some characters, was just too much. I shit you not, there was one character that you had to spend a full in-game week talking to between the hours of 10-12am every day, and another person whose recruitment window opened when you would return from one mission, require recruiting about five people beforehand, and whose window would close THE SECOND YOU WENT HOME AND RESTED.
- Plenty of crappy FPS storylines that just shut me down from finishing.
- Bionic Command, was just monkey shit.
- Inferno(or infernal) crappy story and gameplay. (Sadly I lost my reciept)
- Assasins Creed, cause when I started playing it, I had just finised Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
And SPESIFICALLY Command & Conquer 4... That was one of my biggest RTS disappointments.
May I suggest time compression as a reason *rolls eyes*
Personally I can't finish about 2/3 of the games I start. I game hop. Or you could just say I have gaming ADD.
Most recently, I started and didn't finish Super Mario Galaxy, Kinect Sports, NHL 10, Kung Fu Panda, X-Men: The Official Movie Game, Ninety-Nine Nights, Ace Combat 2, and Dragon Age: Origins (although that last one is my second playthrough the game)
EDIT:
Come to think of it, I seem to have the opposite problem. I like too many games just enough to try them but then something new and shiny comes along and ...
Golly gee jeepers I wonder why. [http://spoonyexperiment.com/category/final-fantasy-viii/page/2/]
-Speaking of, any Final Fantasy game is one that I've never finished. The only one I ever bothered to beat was FF3 on the DS. (No, god dammit, not FF6, FF3. I don't care what you grew up with!) The only one I've played extensively is Dissidia, honestly, and even then I just said "fuck it" and downloaded a completed save file.
-Basically any Ratchet and Clank game, with the exception of Deadlocked. I love 'em all, but for fuck's sake... Racing and hacking. Those two mini games in any and all of the games are so atrocious that I just plain can not finish any of the games (DEPARTMENT OF REDUNDANCY DEPARTMENT OF REDUNDANCY). Again, except for Ratchet: Deadlocked. Which was about 6 hours long anyway. I'll try and pick 'em up again later, but... Urgh.
-Tales of Legendia. I beat the first half of it, and then the credits started! Then the credits ended and there was STILL MORE GAME TO GO. Really, the fuck? I enjoyed the game, though, but not because I thought it was good, I thought it was a perfect example of "so bad it's good."
The villain fires a FUCKING LASER CANNON AT A FUCKING MOUNTAIN. AND MISSES.
-Startropics 2. There was a sewer level. That is all.
-Prinny 2. It's one of those games that makes you lose faith in your gaming peni--sorry, gaming skills.
-Kingdom Hearts 2. I never played past the first five minutes or so of the first one, and KH2 convinced me not to bother. Ever. Not only was it an unremarkable, completely forgettable experience that left absolutely no impact on me, I was TWENTY-EIGHT HOURS into the game and I had absolutely NO FUCKING IDEA WHAT WAS GOING ON. And for fuck's sake, I played all the way through Dawn of the New World, all 35 torturous hours of horrible dialogue and worse writing, and that game still stands to this day as my personal WORST GAEM EVAH, and even then I still beat it... KH2, you'll get no such courtesy from me.
oh i'm very sad i haven't finished quite a lot of games. mostly because of tedious gameplay or me getting stuck in them for various reasons. and some are just bad games probably.
jericho (stuck)
bionic commando (bored)
dragon age: origins (stuck - really WANT to finish it though)
eat lead (stuck)
gta IV (bored)
mercenaries 2 (bored)
overlord 2 (idek)
the force unleashed (aargh)
viking (stuck)
wet (aargh)
God of War III, for the two primary reasons.
1) There wasn't even a need for a #2 (I played the second one before the first one. Then I realized just how stupid the premise was for a second and third game.)
2) It was so gratuitously violent I actually LOST the urge to continue playing, and I LIKE violent games, lots.
There are a few other reasons, but not as relevant as these two ^
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