Games you just...stopped playing

DrunkOnEstus

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Valkyria Chronicles. I love it. I love the characters, the Japanese voice acting (and that it was an option), and the tactical combat. It's just that my brain sucks or isn't geared for that kind of thing, and I just blank out once I get to the desert. It's just too much to take in for me. Couldn't get far at all in XCOM for that reason, but I actually loved VC.

Dead Rising (1 or 2). The time limits drive me crazy. I feel like they're there to cause tension and pressure, but all they do is stress me out as it's not scary and like Crazy Taxi in a zombie infested mall. I'm a completionist and it drives me insane to see people that I can't save and have to ignore.

Bioshock. Love the setting, the dialog/writing so far...but it just never gelled with me. I hate the plumbing (er..hacking), I never have enough ammo to handle big daddies, and the vita-chambers remove the tension of dealing with threats. I tried it like 4 times because of my love of System Shock 2...and I may give it another shot. Shadow of the Colossus was another game I "was supposed to like", and eventually fell head over heels with it once it clicked with me. I'm hoping I can do the same with Bioshock.
 

Frank_Sinatra_

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L.A. Noir.

It just gets very samey by the mid point of your time in Homicide. I just can't keep going no matter how I try. It's the only game I've bought, started, and never finished.
If I want a noir story I'll go watch Chinatown again.
 

Eomega123

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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

Logged over 300 hours, spent days jumping across the landscape, rose to the top of every guild, fought through a hundred ancient temples, collected all the daedric artifacts, gone through all the DLC, got about half way through the main quest...and got bored. One day, holding the controller, on my way to some objective or another, I just said "I am no longer having fun," turned the game off, and never turned it back on.
 

Zen Bard

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I'll await the onslaught of pitchforks and torches...

But "Half-Life".

Never finished it.

After about the third first-person jumping puzzle and the fourth hunt for the illogical combination of buttons, switches and levers that would end the level...I lost interest.


And "Bioshock"

I really wanted to like it. But I couldn't get past the fact that the SAME type enemies inexplicably became stronger. It was almost as if I was facing the "Oblivion Effect". It bugged me enough to just bail.
 

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Batman Arkham City. I enjoyed Asylum for the most part, but City just didn't appeal to me the same way. I felt like it crammed typical "open world" things like collectibles and side quests and it just ruined the experience for me. It's a bit of an OCD thing I guess.

Other than that, Skyrim, multiple times.
I love the universe, but again, I felt like it was just too much of the same junk over and over again. I would play to about 6 or 7 hours, quit for a month or so, and then try again. I even made the mistake of buying an expansion, when I could barely get through the main game. (haven't beat the main campaign once since getting the game when it came out)
I plan on giving Skyrim another try next month when I finally graduate school (I've been making up credits and getting a few extra) and have the free time.
 

Storm Dragon

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-After dying to the final boss of Metroid Prime 3 and learning that the last checkpoint was at the beginning of the level, I decided "screw this" and stopped.

-I'm not sure what distracted me from finishing Arkham Asylum, but it's been four years and I still haven't gotten back to it.

-They say that you can beat Deus Ex with virtually any character build. Apparently, the build where both of your legs are crippled and you don't have any medpacks at the beginning of the Paris section is not one of them.

-I'll finish Amnesia eventually. Every once in a while, I'll start it up, play for about ten minutes, hear or glimpse something fanged and horrible in the next room, and decide that I've had enough for now.
 
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Right now its the Arkham games.
I love the writing, voice acting, gameplay, everything but for some reason I just stopped playing them. I didn't get stuck, it wasn't too hard or too easy. I just kinda stopped.

I'd start them up again but I have to finish Heavy Rain, Walking Dead, the ME trilogy with my two 100% completion characters and Galactic Civilizations 2.
 

Ljs1121

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Happened with quite a few recently.

Dishonored - My obsessive desire to be stealthy at all times made the game seem like more of a chore than anything. Haven't finished yet.

Far Cry 3 - I got hung up on a story mission. Haven't finished yet.

Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword - Lost interest for some reason. Haven't finished yet.
 

NoPants2win

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Wing Commander: Privateer

The Oxford missions were savagely hard. I don't even know what to compare them to. It haunts me still. If I had a floppy drive and a flight stick I would probably be re-installing dosbox right now. You have to defend this guy in a big slow merchant ship and he dies so fast and no matter how many retros you kill theres always more. ARG! I hate your face...
 

Evil Smurf

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Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Just because a puzzle got too hard.
Portal, because test chamber 17 was too hard
Pokemon Black 2, I just got bored
Bastion, It's my second playthrough man. Give me a break.
 

Jfswift

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Dragon's Dogma. I loved this game. I played it every day after work until I slew the dragon. Then I experienced 'Benny' syndrome like with Fallout:NV. The game had a few interesting adventures afterward but it just sort of lost its momentum when I was forced to grind endlessly in the ever fall.
 

Tahaneira

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Feb 1, 2011
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Borderlands. It's not a bad game, just not an amazing one either. It's filler I play when I need a break from other games and, well, I haven't gotten tired of my games long enough to finish it yet.
 

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Fallout: New Vegas. I loved Fallout 3, and although New Vegas improves on the mechanics in some ways, I just could not maintain my interest for some reason. I don't know why, and although I think about trying to return to it one day, I just feel very "meh" about it.

Same thing with Bioshock 2, although at least I know why that did not hold my interest. It was because playing as a Big Daddy kinda killed the feel of the original game. Plus, the game mechanics I hate most are laying traps, and protecting/escorting an NPC. Bioshock 2 had a pretty heavy focus on those mechanics.
 

ninjapenguin1414

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A whole ton of games mainly RPG's and JRPG's despite both being my favorite genre, I just gradually lose interest in them.
 

[Kira Must Die]

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Batman: Arkham Asylum.

Not because it was bad or anything. From what I played it was fun, it was just that the disc I got stops working at this certain part, and every time I try to start the game at that point it crashes.

Also, FFXII. It was one of those reasons where I get to a boss and my party isn't nearly ready for it, but the game doesn't let me go back to a town or something to prepare. That usually tends to happen to me when it comes to Final Fantasy. That, and I just couldn't get used to the combat system in XII. It was too... RTS-ish for me, and I'm not an RTS fan.
 

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DrunkOnEstus said:
Bioshock. Love the setting, the dialog/writing so far...but it just never gelled with me. I hate the plumbing (er..hacking), I never have enough ammo to handle big daddies, and the vita-chambers remove the tension of dealing with threats. I tried it like 4 times because of my love of System Shock 2...and I may give it another shot. Shadow of the Colossus was another game I "was supposed to like", and eventually fell head over heels with it once it clicked with me. I'm hoping I can do the same with Bioshock.
Spamming grenades works well against them. If you tend to use grenades at any other time, don't.

There's also an option to turn vita-chambers off.
 

Darth Jerak

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Star Wars Jedi Academy. I loved outcast but good grief is this one annoying. Sure you get to "customize your own character and lightsaber: but that has no impact on the game other than animation. And the animation and voice acting is awful to the extreme. Kyle and Luke were both emotionless robots and every other character needs a good thrashing (especially the one annoying "best friend who goes evil but not really"). I got to the next to last level which is a series of lightsaber battles and I realized that every battle was pretty much useless. All the guns don't work on sith nor do the force powers. Just swing wildly til you get a lucky kill. Save. Repeat. I realized I wasn't having fun so I moved on and never saw the end.

I am the only one of my friends to manage to finish Rage and I have to say: lamest ending ever! Wasn't a single character that ever amounted to anything. No friends, sidekicks, love interests. Just blandy mcquestgivers. Last level gives you the BFG and it is a total cake walk. I loved the combat and visuals but the rest of the game needed work.
 

aether-x3

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Uh, lets seeeee..

Catherine; Screw Doom's Bride, I cant for the life of me beat that boss so I just kinda stopped playing the game.

Far Cry 3; For some reason I got hung up on the mission that is just before you go to the second Island and I just never went back to it.

Alice Madness Returns - No idea where I am just suddenly stopped playing.

Resonance of Fate - Gave up due to the fact I suck so bad at the game, I really like it buuuut I REALLY suck at it.

Metal Gear Solid 3 - The Fury's flamethrower makes my PS3 lag like a ***** so I've not got round to beating him yet thus made me stop playing the game.

I could go on but I think you get the idea.
 

deathzero021

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Rage, Bioshock, Half-life 2, about 50% of the games on my steam account. (some of them i never even installed lol)

I do it a lot. although i do want to get my moneys worth, if a game is just... boring me, than i don't see the point in forcing myself to play it. it's a waste of time and unfortunately most games bore me.
 

GodzillaGuy92

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DrunkOnEstus said:
Bioshock. Love the setting, the dialog/writing so far...but it just never gelled with me. I hate the plumbing (er..hacking), I never have enough ammo to handle big daddies, and the vita-chambers remove the tension of dealing with threats. I tried it like 4 times because of my love of System Shock 2...and I may give it another shot. Shadow of the Colossus was another game I "was supposed to like", and eventually fell head over heels with it once it clicked with me. I'm hoping I can do the same with Bioshock.
Having only played BioShock for the first time less than two months ago (which I enjoyed immensely), my advice is to disable the Vita-Chambers in the options menu (and perhaps start a new game on a lower difficulty level, if you're running out of ammo).

As for me, I have two examples. I quite enjoyed playing through Part 1 of Watchmen: The End is Nigh; I knew even as I played that I really shouldn't liked it in all its repetition and lazy game design, but for whatever reason I couldn't help myself from just sitting back and basking in the experience of making Rorschach snap some thug's arm on my way to the next bit of the relatively well-presented story. Once I finished, I played maybe five minutes of Part 2 but decided I'd had enough for the time being, so I turned the game off. I guess the analytical part of my brain was more involved in my gameplay experience than I originally thought, though, because ever since then I've never gone back to even try to play through the second part of the game. I suppose this small assertion on the part of my rationality is technically a good sign, but I'm enough of a completionist (and penny-pincher) that I still feel a bit bad.

I feel worse still about the other example, which is Sanctum, since I can't excuse it by saying it's poorly designed or wasn't fun, since both could hardly be further from the truth. Looking back, I think what may have turned me off was the bizarre difficulty curve, which had me stuck on a level about midway through for probably half a dozen attempted playthroughs before I finally relented and switched to Easy, which I played the remainder of the game on. After I beat all the levels, I went back to that same level and tried it a few more times on Medium, reasoning that I'd had enough practice that I might be able to pull it off, but if anything I did even worse than before. It was weirdly disheartening to not even be able to finish a (rather small) game on anything but the lowest difficulty, and I haven't played it since. I think the process of writing this may soon change that situation, though, so thanks in advance, OP!