Most boring game you've ever played.

[DeltaEdge]

Probably going to get yelled at but whatever: Bayonetta. The combat was just so boring. I breezed through most of the game just mashing random buttons and occasionally dodging, only dying because of instant death QTEs. All the "cool" stuff just takes place in cutscenes, which I just skipped because I just couldn't stand any of the characters and didn't care about whatever stupid story there was. The whole time I was just sighing and hoping the game would end. Then I realized I could just turn off and play something else. So I did.

Your avatar... I think I've seen it before somewhere. Is it from the mmo Latale?
OT: Pretty much all micromanaging games bore the crap out of me. I remember trying one of the more popular ones, and getting too bored to the point of being unable to continue after about a few minutes.
Also, Mass Effect 2. My dad's friend loves the series so he got the 2nd one for me when I said I hadn't played it and wasn't really interested. Sure enough, I couldn't bring myself to like it at all since I don't like shooters, and I am not fond of sci-fi for the most part. Especially sci-fi in space. Needless to say I found myself getting bored to the point where it was painful to look at the screen and dying to reach a save point so I wouldn't have to look at this game anymore.

 

[LadyTiamat]

Grim fangdango; nothing wrong with the story from what I saw of it but......I just can't get into that weird adventure game logic puzzles , I just cant get into it.

Also Martian gothic..... seriously between the insanely difficult puzzles (very little hints) , zombies that never truely die and Resident evil like tank controls...just no. Great story though (saw it from a lets play)

 

[Nomanslander]

EVE Online

I tried a free trial a few years ago and literally fell asleep during the tutorial.

Hmmm, yes! I have tried this game too. Started this thread thinking Farcry 2 was the most boring, went onto Dragon Age:O. But thank you for reminding me of this... what ever the hell it was.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Animal Crossing. This is what I did for two hours everyday when I was playing that game-

Get up.
Check every single tree for fruit.
Check the ground aswell for fossil.
Gather both up and sell it to the racoon to pay my debt.
Check out anything special that happen on that day (rarely).
Talked to NPC.
Go back to sleep to save.

 

[StupidNincompoop]

In no particular order, these games bored me to death so that i didn't even get halfway through them before uninstalling them (with the exception of fallout 3 which i completed, and fallout new vegas, but i only got halfway through fallout new vegas because i had nothing else to do):

- Far cry 2 (So you're in a jungle, let's drop you in somewhere random with no idea what to do, a case of malaria, generic uninteresting enemies and characters, and weapons which are terrible to use! won't that make a fun game?)

- Borderlands 1 (This one doesn't really count as much, mostly because the cell shaded graphics put me off to start with, but it was also kind of boring very early on. Only played it for 2 hours according to steam before uninstalling it, also managed to glitch the first boss you come across in that time)


-Fallout 3, fallout new vegas, oblivion and skyrim.
I've played all of those and they're all pretty much the same but in different settings. They all share mostly the same problems too, such as terrible map systems, uninteresting characters and weapons, and locations which are quite confusing to get to.

All of them have a giant freely explorable map, but the map just feels empty and dead. You usually face the same enemies over and over again, in the same environments- especially in oblivion and skyrim, kind of also in fallout new vegas a little.

Both fallout games were also terrible to look at, horrible colour scheme and textures and poor map design. And as i don't really like sci-fi stuff, i don't like using lazer weapons. But i didn't really have much of a choice in the fallout games as the normal firearms were so weak it felt pointless using them, at least in fallout new vegas.

 

[Bad Jim]

Does anyone know any real contenders here?

Desert Bus is incredibly boring. Its' repetitiveness is legendary. An eight hour drive down a road which has no obstacles and just enough of a bend in the road to stop you weighing down the up arrow key and doing something else. You can play Desert Bus here:
http://desertbus-game.org/index.php

Apart from that game, the most boring game I've played is probably Settlers 2, because of the sheer pace of the game, or lack thereof. Maybe I'm just terrible at setting my economy up, which is not a simple thing, but it really does take ages to reach the point where you can attack, and ages more to actually win. Even if you engage "fast mode", you spend the great majority of your time waiting for your men to shift goods around.

 

[tellytoy]

Final Fantasy XIII. Two words, people: The Hallway. If you've played FFXIII (and you shouldn't!), you know one fact; you cannot escape The Hallway.

Quoting Spoony now are we?

Also, seconded. Avoid that game like the plague IMO.

 

[Adeptus Aspartem]

FFXIII, Darksiders, Sins of a Solar Empire, Dawn of War II erm.. those at the top of my head.

And i'm an avid Transport Tycoon player, where patience is a virtue. FFXIII just felt like i was only a visitor and i actually wanted to play itself, Darksiders is so friggin dull and bland i couldn't stand it.
Sins is just way to slow paced and compared to other RTS you've way to little influence on the actual fights - if you set your fleet up wrong before hand, you're fucked.
And DoWII was just a slimmed down DoWI so i just cba to deal with it longer than a few hours.

Back to Tropico 4... my people need me.

 

[putowtin]

Dragon Age.


Nothing good about this game. I honestly cant find ONE good thing about it. Its all a challenge.


Anyways I have ranted about this one game QUITE a lot, no more of this is needed. Its basically dull as hell. Even shitty flash games can beat it by a fair difference.

And it's one of my favourite games of all time, I love everything about it!
Just goes to prove that we're all different.

OT Just Cause II, Now that game bored me to tears!

 

[hobohazard]

Dead island

"Ooh, and escort mission, sure there cant be any more right?"
[After 10th escort mission]
"Oh alright fine, well at least the world is kind of fun to explore. And its not like the game will keep me from doing that right?"
[After entering final area]
"Oh well this is boring as hell, im gonna go back to the- wait, what do you mean I cant get back to the main area?"
[20 minutes of vicious Google searching latter]
"Why did I buy this again?"

WoW because I hate the number mashing gameplay more then anything and quit before I left the starting area.(Whitch is why I have high hopes for the elder scrolls MMO, the only reason i stopped playing skyrim was my save file got corrupted and i was to far into the game to want to start again) Hated ToR for the same reasons but it kept me longer because I had loved mass effect and had hope that mabey something would change, quit around level 40. (I canceled my subscription less than a month before it went F2P)

 

[Arina Love]

GTA IV is number one but very close second is Guild Wars 2.

 

[Nexxis]

"Sea Monsters" for the Wii. Besides the fact that the game doesn't play well, it just drags on slowly and barely feels like any progress is made after you complete an objective. I had low expectations when I got the game, but even from an educational standpoint, the game just falls flat. I think I played it for 30 minutes for stopping.

 

[skywolfblue]

Elder Scrolls: Oblivion.

Sameish countryside, sameish towns, every cave is the same, every oblivion gate is the same.

Combat is pretty much the most boring thing ever, no strategy just whack and get whacked, no cool spells or abilities. (at least Skyrim had shouts)

Quests of such high quality as "kill the rats in my basement", "kill the dude in the arena" (repeat 20x), and "get a piece of paper from the mages guild in every city"... /sarcasm

Monotone voice actors. "Hi there, the worlds about to end, but instead of actually having any vocal inflection, I shall lull you to sleep in my dull monotone voice" Seriously guy? Seriously?

It's amazing how much Skyrim was improved over Oblivion. There are still quite a few flaws, but it is worlds better.

 

[jebara]

GTAIV.
Everything about it was boring, the repetitive missions, the boring activities they used to replace everything that was fun to do in the previous games and worst of all, there is nothing that's anything fun to do, so much has been stripped out from previous games that it only has the lame stuff that has been done to death by every open world game and its dog.
It's worse than that, GTAIV has less stuff to do than most open world games, and when I say that I don't mean stuff that is boring like watching TV and bowling.
It doesn't help that every character in GTAIV is annoying as fuck, with Niko himself taking second place in that category.

 

[kortin]

Dungeon Siege 3.

Take the most generic sword-and-sorcery fantasy game you can remember. Now remove anything and everything that could possibly distinguish it from every other fantasy thing ever. You are now imagining Dungeon Siege 3.

Yes. This so much. Dungeon Siege 2 and 3 were probably the most boring games ever. Which is sad because Dungeon Siege and its expansion were both amazing.

 

[The Great JT]

Final Fantasy XIII. Two words, people: The Hallway. If you've played FFXIII (and you shouldn't!), you know one fact; you cannot escape The Hallway.

Quoting Spoony now are we?

Hey, when he's right, he's right.

 

[Coach Morrison]

Elder Scrolls: Oblivion.

Sameish countryside, sameish towns, every cave is the same, every oblivion gate is the same.

Combat is pretty much the most boring thing ever, no strategy just whack and get whacked, no cool spells or abilities. (at least Skyrim had shouts)

Quests of such high quality as "kill the rats in my basement", "kill the dude in the arena" (repeat 20x), and "get a piece of paper from the mages guild in every city"... /sarcasm

Monotone voice actors. "Hi there, the worlds about to end, but instead of actually having any vocal inflection, I shall lull you to sleep in my dull monotone voice" Seriously guy? Seriously?

It's amazing how much Skyrim was improved over Oblivion. There are still quite a few flaws, but it is worlds better.

I have to say Oblivion to, I couldn't stand it until I got a shit ton of mods in there

 

[Tuxedoman]

Most boring game I've ever played? let me get the list...

The Political Machine 2012 is probably the single worst game i've played, but I'm not sure if it really was the most boring. Considering I played it for an hour in multiplayer with a friend, made ridiculous avatars due to the character creation being so broken, and spent most of the game complaining to everyone on Vent as to how it was so awful that I sort of had a good time playing it. I'd never touch it again, nor recommend it to anyone ever, but still.

I think the most BORING gaming experience I had would have been Sherwood Dungeon. Again, its in the category of games that are so amazingly bad that they somehow become entertaining again, but that swiftly wore off. I tried to figure out how it had a player base, I really did, but I don't understand how anyone can play that game for more than 20 minutes before throwing a brick through their screen. Take the worst parts of every MMO, remove any form of storyline, add a jump button that can't actually jump over anything and sprinkle a little bit of 3D graphics from 1997 and there you have it.

 

[Another]

I have three.

Eternal Sonata. Holy hell, the characters never shut up! It's sad too cause the combat was actually quite decent.

The Witcher. I hear that it gets better later on, but I couldn't do it. That said, the Witcher 2 is excellent.

Shogun 2 total war. Before I get shit for this one, hear me out. Mechanically I think shogun 2 is excellent, and in that capacity it's damn better than empire. But I just wasn't as interested in the Japanese setting as I thought I would be. This is probably the game I was most disappointed that I was bored with, because I had dropped dozens and dozens of hours in Rome, Medieval 2, and Empire.