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Dead Space
Left 4 Dead
Far Cry 2
GTA IV's original story... I liked EFLC better than Niko's boring ass and his idiot cousin.
 

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Unpopular one but Portal gameplay bored the pants off me which is a shame. I can recognise it's a great game, with a great original setting with hilarious characters (GLADOS kept me playing) but puzzle games really bore me. Next comes Fables 2 and 3. Ohhhhhh my gawwwwd was I bored. It failed to capture my attention. I hate the game-play, and being constantly killed by the West Country Crew
 

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ReinWeisserRitter said:
Rawne1980 said:
Dear Esther ... actually no.

I'm going to generalise.

80% of "indie" games that manage to see the light of day ... especially "artsy" games.

They bore the absolute arse off me.
Games in general whose first priority isn't to be entertaining to play in general can go die in a fire, but this one's one of the most obnoxious; it's often committed by people who grew up when video games were about being fun, and should know better. It's baffling how many of them try to be art projects and novels you have to press A to turn the page through.
Some of those turn out to be my favorite games ever. Like The Walking Dead and Virtue's Last Reward this year.

OT: Skyrim. That game was just so sterile and repetitive, it bored me to fucking tears.
 

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Witcher, at least the first one, when the game told me combat was basically a rhythm game I could never play again. To this day I still think the setting was interesting and promising but I can't bear myself to play that.
 

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World of Warcraft.

WOW, like in WOW I can't believe how lame this game is...

or WOW, like in WOW I can't understand why people like this game, when all you do is grind without pay.


I remember I was in this one group of six trying to fulfill some drop quest for everyone in the group. The mob had some 20% drop rate and we would go around this lake or something finding these mobs and killing them until everyone could get their drops. thing was because of the low drop rate we had to kill literally hundreds of these things before everyone could get their 10 bear hankies or whatever the hell they were. So we kept going round and round this lake looking for these mobs, and basically by the time we went around the lake, the old mobs we killed before would respawn to give us fresh tries at random failure. It took what seemed forever, and I seriously felt that I was in one of those time loops where you repeat the same thing over and over until you get it right.

The next day I cancelled my subscription.
 

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I dont know if its the MOST boring game I've played, but New Vegas certainly comes close.
-ohh look a coyote den
-ohh look another coyote den
-ohh look ANOTHER coyote den
-ohh look a boring city without any real distinguishable features
-ohh look ANOTHER boring city without any real distinguishable features

The Mojave wasteland was a constant stream of dull, uninteresting, and uninspired locations, that put me to sleep quickly.

Which is sad because Fallout 3 had such fun locations, like the Dunwich building, and the vault that got you high on drugs, and the gary clone vault, and its cities were visibly different from each other.
 

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Just too list some of the games I've found particularly boring:

Dragon Age: Origins
Far Cry 2
Assassin's Creed (1)
Sins of a Solar Empire
Every Final Fantasy after 6
Minecraft

Thats all I can think of right now.
 

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EVE Online

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

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The Sims series. Every once in awhile I think "Oh I should totally start a new family" after creating a new family I just give up.
 

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Well I remember playing Superman 64 over a friends house when I was young. Good lord that game...

But as for games that are more recent and I own. I would have to say Total War Shogun 2. I only managed to get past one battle before I uninstalled it.

Other games that come to mind would be the first Witcher game, and this is probably isn't a popular opinion but I got Incredibly bored of Torchlight a couple hours in.

I'm still interested but hesitant about Torchlight 2. The first one bored me because none of the loot seemed interesting or unique, and all the enemies, and dungeon levels all seemed to be pretty similar and boring to me. Tell me does Torchlight 2 change up or vary much at all from the first? Or is it just a bigger coop Torchlight?(The coop might be a big enough change for me though. Now that I think about it)
 

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Dead.
Fucking.
ISLAND.

I got to the point where I just couldn't play anymore due to overwhelming boredom.
 

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Kaamos said:
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.
 

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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)
 

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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. :p
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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The Great JT said:
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.
 

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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.
 

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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!