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Chunga the Great

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Mass Effect

You want to know what happens over the course of the long and tedious missions in copy/pasted generic quest hubs? FUCKING NOTHING
 

Ross Tuddin

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A Game of Thrones Genesis. I just couldn't take the micro management. I prefer my RTS like C&C where if i get backstabbed i know about. I never even finished the 2nd level in the campaign it was so tedious
 

JEBWrench

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Borderlands 2, of course. I'm assuming we're just talking about recent games.

If not, I could probably name a very large percentage of Atari 2600 and NES games I've played. I once rented Anticipation for the NES. What a waste of a weekend that turned out to be.
 

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DaMan1500 said:
Apparently I am the only person on Earth who liked Dragon Age 1. I feel weirdly smug.
You're not alone, brother. 3 playthroughs done so far, still not bored of it

Most boring game I've played? Hmm... Might not be the most boring ever, but I stopped playing AC: Revelations about 3 hours in. Actually, that's the only time I remember quitting a game mid-game like that. AC3 was an improvement, if you ask me, but it felt really tedious all the time. I did play through AC3, so either it was simply better or I was determined to play it all the way since I've already sinked 50 euros on it.
 

The Sanctifier

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ScribbleNauts

At first I was like 'oh cool, I can type in anything I want and it appears'

Then I found out that half the stuff you type doesn't do shit, and most of the rest are just gimmicks.
 

Monkey_Warfare

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Mass effect 2, the probe B.S. is required for the best ending and is just stupid. The combat was mediocre and the story, while above par, was ruined by the fact I felt like the game was obliging me to do this BS minigame.
 

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Somonah said:
I guess it's the fashion to name games that are widely accepted as great games, and ***** about em. So i'll go with Deus Ex. I can't get past the first level. the graphics bore me, the gameplay bores me and the voice acting bores me.


Am i a gaming hipster now?
Yep. Quite nicely done. Maybe you could have picked something newer. Or Half-Life.
In the same vein I, too, am going to ignore "most" and "ever" and instead give an answer to "What game have you played recently that you found kinda too boring?" and pick Torchlight2. Click mouse, hold mouse until character emerges from clusterfuck of effects, pick up Things of Slight Difference, repeat.
 

Therumancer

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Games, especially RPGs, that don't give immediate gratification (where you slowly grow into doing the cool stuff over dozens, or hundreds, of hours) are going to be popular choices for "most boring" from most gamers who frequent these forums. Casuals being casuals, even if most don't see themselves that way, and casuals all wanting immediate, constant gratification or "it's boring, and sucks".

To be entirely fair there are so many boring games out there that it's very easy to pick some and it's hard to pick "most boring" as a result. I'd pretty much have to nominate any "Arthouse" game, most of which themselves state they aren't trying to be entertaining. These games can involve things like watching some guy sit in a cemetary, following some philosopher around as he espouses his theories on life, walking down a cooridor, watching surreal images, or taking a walking tour of an island while a narrator implies mysteries and answers which really aren't there. Oftentimes leading to discussions as to whether a lot of these works are "Games" at all given the lack of interaction or attempt to entertain, but they bear the label now, so I figure they count.

I pretty much figured I'd mention them as prattling out names (Cooridor, Dear Esther, etc...) would probably become a pretty big list.

Then of course there are legions of really bad visual novels out there along with the good ones, really repetitive hentai games, and things like that. Not to mention "edutainment" games with titles like "Math Blaster" or whatever. :)

In general if the guys designing the game tell you it wasn't intended to be "fun" it's not. The people who rate these things highly usually admit to being bored to tears, but do so because of the innovation or eventual long-winded point. Progressing games as art being more important than whether they entertain you or not. Sort of like some butt-ugly masterpiece painting which demonstrates some kind of color contrast or stylistic visual trick more than trying to be pretty/cool/entertaining. You know like... multi colored lines on a canvas... or some dude who threw buckets of paint at a canvas while on LSD and then probably managed to sell it to someone with money who was high enough on shrooms to think it talked to them or something, and then talked it up to try and justify it being worth hundreds of thousands of dollars later (which is frankly the only explanation for some of these paintings that could possibly make sense to me). :)
 

bug_of_war

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Digi7 said:
- Oblivion. Completely boring and, on a sidenote, bloody ugly. I am quite enjoying Skyrim though...

- All of the Fable series. Just... Fuck...

- Mass Effect 1&2. Bored the shit out of me, however I quite liked some of the choice sections.

- Lost Planet 2. No idea why I bought that shit, but I WAS drunk. Worst shooter I have played in a long time.

- LOTR Conquest. Do I even have to say anything about this bloody game? In my defence it was really cheap...

- Dragon Age Origins. Ugly, stupid, despised the story, bored me to tears.


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Seeing as how all but 1 (or 2, never played LOTR Conquest) of the games mentioned are RPGs maybe you should just steer clear of any RPG games. (Fable 3 sucks major ass though so yeah, agree with you there)
 
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Dragon Age, not only was the combat off and hard to use but the story was off and random too to make things better i hated pretty much everyone in it by the end of the 5 hours i played
 

bug_of_war

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Jynthor said:
Oblivion had way more interesting quests than Skyrim, you actually had quests which involved more than going to a dungeon and killing crap.

Sure, Skyrim is an improvement over Oblivion in some ways, but in quests? No way.



As for same-ish county, Snowy mountains in the north, dense forests in the centre, marshes in the south, plains in the west and several other things, Plenty of variety.
I dunno, I seem to remember having to close a lot of god damn Oblivion gates in "Oblivion", but apart from that the quests were somewhat varied. As to the Draugr I never really got bored of them, especially when a bearded woman Draugr with big boobs comes running at me with no weapon, always gave me a laugh. The Draugr are just Skyrim's Oblivion gates and lets be fair, at least they didn't take as long as the gates
 

zpm4737

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Dark Souls absolutely bored me to tears. It's so repetitive and it tells you nothing about itself. I played it for at least 5 hours and did't get past the first area. It's not even like it was too difficult, it just requires so much grinding, and constant attention.
The difficulty wasn't even all that well done. It's only difficult because if you aren't totally focused on the game, basic enemies can wreck your shit. It wasn't hard, it just required constant vigilance, and that made it incredibly boring and impossible to engage with.
 

Arcobalen

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Red Faction: Armageddon. Bought it in the latest humble bundle, played and hour or two of and and realised I wasn't having much fun. It felt... samey.
 

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Dinner Date [http://store.steampowered.com/app/94000/]
I was curious how playing a subconscious translates into game mechanics. The anwser is not well. It's a game that's just quicktime event-mechanics without the quicktime - Press 's' to eat soup, press 'c' to look at the clock. But nothing you do affects the pathetic, rambling inner monologue. Such a boring, pretentious game!
 

Bombchucker

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Turok was by far the most excruciating game ive ever played. Their was no challenge and it was just altogether a boring fps
 

Myndnix

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Essentially every RTS game I've tried.
And...any of those isometric RPGs, like Diablo, Torchlight, etc. It's beyond my comprehension how anyone can enjoy those.
Oh. And Limbo.
 

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zpm4737 said:
Dark Souls absolutely bored me to tears. It's so repetitive and it tells you nothing about itself. I played it for at least 5 hours and did't get past the first area. It's not even like it was too difficult, it just requires so much grinding, and constant attention.
The difficulty wasn't even all that well done. It's only difficult because if you aren't totally focused on the game, basic enemies can wreck your shit. It wasn't hard, it just required constant vigilance, and that made it incredibly boring and impossible to engage with.
Of course it's repetitive and takes grinding if you can't get anywhere. Here I was thinking an easy game that you can just breeze through brains off is boring and unengaging but apparently some see it the other way around.
btw. You didn't go the skeleton route (graveyard, catacombs), did you? Because that would explain everything.

I quit Borderlands after about 3 hours so I guess that's my choice. It felt like Fallout with everything I like about it replaced with MOAR LOOT.
 

aguspal

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putowtin said:
aguspal said:
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!

Well, on that account I like how you take it in a good way, I like people like you.


And yeah, Just Cause 2 was IMO a boring game too (Well, that and the controls... god the controls. Maybe I suck or something, but I remember I was pretty frustrated with the CONTROLS in that game. At least in PC).
 

riccyd

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RAGE
It's an easy target, still very boring but i should probably choose a controversial one like others have.
Final Fantasy 8
Story junctions mini games every things very boring i still got halfway through the damn thing so that must make me a boring person.
 

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Gears of War 3. So much grey....and so many boring, linier, railroaded shoot outs. And the boss fights, my god those were terrible. Never have I yawned so much during a boss fight...well actually that's not true. I did do an awful lot of yawning during the third Death Sister boss fight in Shadows of The Damned.

Oh yeah and Borderlands 1. I liked the game, shooting was fun but after like 8 hours...it starts to get really tedious and boring. The combat remains fun but the constant desert environment really bogged it down, that and the lack of enemy variation. Heh until the end that is. My friend and I were simply blundering through the game at that point and then all of a sudden we see snow and blue people killing things. Was quite the sight for sore eyes.
Also we weren't paying attention at all at that point so we have no clue what was going on heh.