Most Boring Game You've Ever Played

[EdwardOrchard]

Most long-time MMORPG players can probably tell you about their time spent in a little old game called DAOC (Dark Age of Camelot), by far one of the best MMORPGs to hit the scene... Anybody who's played it can tell you about their nostalgic moments of adrenaline pumping three-way massive PvP battles.
What most people DON'T mention however, was the PvE. The grind up to the max level was bloody horrible. It involved getting into a group, sitting in one spot, and killing the same group of monsters over and over and over. For hours... Most of the time, the group just never broke up... You would sign on, msg the group leader, and put yourself on the list... As soon as one person left, there was a fresh replacement already on the way. Groups would just endlessly recycle.
It was so, so horribly boring. I would read books while in those groups. No lie, I read Game of Thrones while playing DAOC.

 

[evilneko]

Diablo II, any FF after IX, the Metal Gear Solid franchise, the Halo series, Doom 3

Oh snap, I forgot about D2. Then again, Pool of Radiance was even more boring.

 

[IamBadAtMakingNames]

DEFINITELY FF13 hands down.

 

[Fanfic_warper]

Portal

after a while I realized I had fallen asleep from the lack of anything really happening.

Lack of plot=fail

 

[TorchofThanatos]

Dragon Age Origins.
Story was interesting but game play was so boring i just stopped playing.

try to slog through it i personally refuse to play more then an hour at a time cause if you spend longer then that the constant walking from place to place will drive you mad. that being said DArigins is probably the most boring game ive played.(funnily enough i thought DA2 was allot less so because you werent walking so much, go figure

I also made the mistake of playing DA2 first. Trying to go back and play DAO is really hard! I have played all the origins but i still need to finish the game at least once. I am running around in the Deep Roads right now and I want to kill myself!

 

[TorchofThanatos]

Half-Life 2.

Linear levels, boring monologues, flat uninteresting characters, a barebones and poorly written story, repetitive combat, and a legion of fanboys who sing its praises as the greatest game ever made.

It's like the exact opposite of my favourite game, Thief 2.

I agree! I tried playing it but I couldn't get past the Helicopter. What I hated the most was the back tracking for health and ammo. Levels were boring enough with out having to try and find "hidden" goodies.

 

[Denariax]

Every single shooter created in the last few years besides Bulletstorm, Dark Sector, Mirror's Edge, and the Lost Planet franchise. Fallout New Vegas was horrid as well, and I'm expecting Skyrim to be the fourth in a long line of Bethesda's spiraling down in quality games.

 

[Panopticon01]

Easy answer: Oblivion. Good lord a bad opening can really kill a decent game. I just didnt want to play anymore after the first oblivion orb level.

 

[6SteW6]

The sims. Don't get me wrong I used to love those games, played them religiously for years but one day I was sitting watching my sim in his mansion, having worked everyday of his life, his three happy children flocking around him after a hard day of Rocking his lovely wife there to greet him, showering his family with simoleans and I thought 'Whoa this fuckers way more successful than I will ever be.'

Then I pretty much realised I had been stuck in a routine for months as a sim. Had watched it eat and take a dump more times than I care to mention and couldn't exactly pinpoint where I had been having any fun. I quickly realised it was more compulsive than entertaining and I had actually been so bored out of my mind I had been playing the game entirely on 'Mega fast forward' just to rake in more money and build more and ultimately add to my misery. I uninstalled the game then, while feeling slightly dirty and never looked back since.

 

[8bitlove2a03]

Farcry 2. It's good for the first few hours, and suddenly you realise that you're now in the nex section of the map and it's the exact same thing you did in the last section. It becomes tedious so quickly. Also, Dead Rising. Because there is nothing fun about that game.

 

[Misterian]

Most RTS's are this for me, am I the only one who finds it dull and dranging to wait for your units to be built, not helped by the various upgrades you're only allowed to keep for a duration of missions, or the fact than an opponents superior forces make it so you have to built stronger units, only to be cut short when the enemy stages an attack on you before you can produce a strong enough opponent to counterattack?

sorry if it sounded like a rant, but with that Hyrule Total War thing as a possible exception, RTS's are clearly not for me.

 

[Thumper17]

WoW, played the demo for 15 minutes. didnt get the appeal.

 

[SovietX]

Dead Island - Fun at first but as soon as you get to the town it becomes unbelievebly boring.
Far Cry (Very first one) - Stopped after about half an hour of play. So boring.
Borderlands - I finished this one but didn't have much fun doing it.
Call Of Duty Black Ops - Dear god... so boring! I still havn't finished it and I dont plan on doing so.

 

[FireScythe1992]

Final Fantasy 13. Seriously, I should never have to waste 2 cunting hours for the game to even be remotely playable.

 

[jackpackage200]

Oblivion and Call of Duty Black Ops. Both were so boring i actually considered going outside

 

[Mastodonic]

Final Fantasy 13
Dead Island
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Dragon Age 2
Dungeon Siege III
Left 4 Dead 2
Bulletstorm

All games i didnt bother putting more than 3-4 hours in. FF13 i think i put about 10-12 in and still just nothing. DA 2 i put 26 into with a couple chars but didnt bother finishing compared to DA:O which i put 100+ into. All games that have very repetitive encounters and combat but no good story to bind them together. Deus Ex was the most disappointing. I honestly just didnt give a shit about what was happening in that world even after about 8 hrs of gameplay.

 

[Callate]

"Swordquest: Earthworld"

(link is not mine, but might give you some idea

[link]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pf0s1PvnVQ[/link]

...Dear God. Running from room to room, playing the occasional mini-game from a short list that are mostly poor variants of Frogger, trying to figure out what combinations of items might make something happen with little rhyme or reason or feedback as to what you might be doing right or wrong.

I had pretty low standards for entertainment value from video games as a child (I even played, and enjoyed, the infamous E.T.), but that one got kicked out of regular rotation fairly quickly.

 

[Vladeon]

The only game that I remember just dropping because it was literally a waste of my time was GTAIV. By the time I had gotten to the third island and was still getting annoying calls from my cousin and random other people I hated, I put it down. If I wanted to socialize with family and friends, I wouldn't be playing a single player game. The game had no redeeming qualities to it except it's somewhat interesting plot. Here's a general tip to game makers; if your one interesting aspect of the game keeps getting interrupted by hour-long "dates" with npcs, something's wrong.

 

[duchaked]

Final Fantasy 13.

It's like being forced to watch a shitty Japanese soap opera for 40 hours (that's when I decided that I was done with the game), broken up by periods of linear corridors and terribly uninteractive combat.

I can't help think Squeenix spent more time trying to make it the best looking game at the time, rather than the best game.

I have to agree with this one 100%...

one of my friends cannot seem to see my point of view on this, but he also thinks Square Enix is made up of immortal gods lol

 

[Canadamus Prime]

SimEarth. The idea of creating a planet may sound cool, but the problem is that planets are generally self sufficient; so once you've got life on your planet there really isn't much for you to do. So once the novelty of smacking meteors into your planet wears off, the game is boring as hell as you just sit and watch your planet sustain itself.