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Aeope said:
I tried my hardest to play the Dragon Age series (and I might give it a shot again this weekend), but I just cannot stand the combat system and writing.

I'm all for medieval RPG, but my goodness.. the combat system was so boring and stagnant.
I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect series but have avoided Dragon's Age in fear if I didn't like it, it might spoil Mass Effect for me

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Call Of Duty: Black Ops, I found the story to be nonsense and the multiplayer was nothing special and even though I played the game all the way through (how else can you properly rate a game?) i found that I had wasted those precious hours. Although JFK is my third favourite American president so he was fun to play with in Zombies.
 

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putowtin said:
Aeope said:
I tried my hardest to play the Dragon Age series (and I might give it a shot again this weekend), but I just cannot stand the combat system and writing.

I'm all for medieval RPG, but my goodness.. the combat system was so boring and stagnant.
I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect series but have avoided Dragon's Age in fear if I didn't like it, it might spoil Mass Effect for me

Oh and welcome to the Escapist!
Thank you kind sir! I've lurked the site for a while, but just decided to make an account today. :p

It might just be me, a lot of people seem to enjoy the first Dragon Age... And then there's Dragon Age 2.
 

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I'll go first and to some this maybe controversial but, well that's half the fun!
Just Cause 2 I played this game till I'd completed a good 35% (and for those that have played they'll agree how long that takes) when I realised, I was going round in circles, raiding the same base/village/city over and over. In the end for the sake of my sanity I had to give up!

Your turn!
You played the story for Just Cause 2? I think you were doing it wrong.

OT: Misreading the thread title completely like everyone else and adding the word "popular" in between "Most" and "boring", I'm gonna go with Mass Effect 2.

Look at how edgy I am. I put in a popular game. People are going to double check what I posted because it's so edgy and unheard of, despite the fact that probably 3 other people said the exact same thing.

Because I'm a rebel. And edgy.

Anyways, It wasn't particularly boring (I even picked it up a few days ago), it's just that there's so much running around and rather samey fighting in between, that the parts that are amazing and stand out (the dialogue options and relationship building with other team mates), suffer a little bit too much.
 

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Aeope said:
putowtin said:
Aeope said:
I tried my hardest to play the Dragon Age series (and I might give it a shot again this weekend), but I just cannot stand the combat system and writing.

I'm all for medieval RPG, but my goodness.. the combat system was so boring and stagnant.
I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect series but have avoided Dragon's Age in fear if I didn't like it, it might spoil Mass Effect for me

Oh and welcome to the Escapist!
Thank you kind sir! I've lurked the site for a while, but just decided to make an account today. :p

It might just be me, a lot of people seem to enjoy the first Dragon Age... And then there's Dragon Age 2.
Don't say Dragon's Age II, it cause some people around here to explode!

JoesshittyOs said:
putowtin said:
I'll go first and to some this maybe controversial but, well that's half the fun!
Just Cause 2
You played the story for Just Cause 2? I think you were doing it wrong.
Yeph played it, still bored!
JoesshittyOs said:
OT: Misreading the thread title completely like everyone else and adding the word "popular" in between "Most" and "boring", I'm gonna go with Mass Effect 2.

Look at how edgy I am. I put in a popular game. People are going to double check what I posted because it's so edgy and unheard of, despite the fact that probably 3 other people said the exact same thing.

Because I'm a rebel. And edgy.

Anyways, It wasn't particularly boring (I even picked it up a few days ago), it's just that there's so much running around and rather samey fighting in between, that the parts that are amazing and stand out (the dialogue options and relationship building with other team mates), suffer a little bit too much.
You see we're all different I class ME2 as one of my favourite games! And you can say what ever you want, it all good!
 

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I'm going to piss off some people by saying this but... BioShock.

Don't get me wrong, there is some aspects of the game that I love. I love the whole setting, the Art Deco style is beautiful, the story is good, if a bit shaky near the end. I pretty much like everything about the game except for one thing.

The gameplay. It's dull. I haven't played a shooter with such boring, unsatisfying combat as BioShock before in my life. There are no satisfying weapons to use (Save for the shotgun, but even then it's not very good) and almost no variety in enemy design. Plasmids really weren't fun to use either. I could almost get over that, as there isn't a huge amount of combat in the game at first, but after the big reveal, the game decides to up the ante by sending endless waves of splicers after you and it gets really, really boring.
so you basically just said that bioshock had dull gameplay. i was like yeah okay, then looked at your fallout avatar. lol wut.
OT fallout 3 has the most dull gameplay i have ever experienced. i gave up half way through because i couldn't bear to enter vats one more time.
 

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so recently, like last weekend, i decided to start playing world of warcraft's free trial to see what all the fuss is about. i was a been apprehensive about getting addicted since it does have that reputation. but how could i? it is one of the most boring, repetitive, poorly paced games ever made. i played 2 hours and got to level 5, so don't say i didn't give it a fair shot. right after a mission where i had to kill 10 of the exact same enemy, using one of two of the exact same attacks (which are accomplished by pushing one button over and over), and then killing a bigger version of that same enemy, my mind broke, and i gave up.

so anyone curious about WoW and havent tried it yet, i can tell you it is TERRIBLE. the world is fairly decent, but everything is just plain dull and generic.
just curious how you managed to sink 2 hours into getting to level 5. you can seriously do that in like 20 minutes.
also i wouldn't say you have given wow a fair shot until you have actually played endgame. That's what sets it apart from other MMOs. so basically you didn't give it a fair shot. But i would say that if it took you 2 hours to get to level 5 then you never will give it a fair shot because it will be far too much effort for you to do those levels near the end that actually take about 6 hours each. and that's after you know what your doing.
 

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One of "The Sims" games. Can't remember which it was, my brother borrowed it from a friend and I decided to give it a go to see what the fuss was about. Played for a couple of hours or something, and was intensely bored by it. Yep, really not my sort of game.

Never got far in Fallout 3 - the starter missions I had were too annoying for me. First character I specialised in a way that turned out wouldn't work all that well, and was a failure. Second one I died with less, but just couldn't get into it.

Haven't completed Dragon Age: Orgins yet, because I got stuck in a fight I seemingly cannot win :/. Turned the difficulty down, and don't think I can escape the fight -.- Game really does seem to screw you if it doesn't like the chars in your party.
 

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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.
This. Oh, so many times this. I'm usually all for JRPG drama, and love almost every other FF (bar FFX-2). BUT XIII.... dear god I hate that game.
X X X X X X X X X X (heal) X X X X X X X X X.

Ok, so apparently it got slightly more involved later on. Like as in, 30 hours later on. Fuck that. I'm not going to sit there and wait 30 hours for a game to get good, when I could just trundle over to Resonance of Fight and play some of the most awesome and innovative turned based gameplay I've seen in a RPG for years. Plus it had one of the most difficult and rewarding end bosses.

XIII... bad story, bad characters, annoying voice overs, J-pop music, thick-as-bricks hand holding tutorial that lasts 15 hours, so linear it's practically a straight line, far to many cutscenes, and an awful, awful battle system. The only thing the game has going for it is it's graphics, and even those aren't enough to ever bring me back to that game. I'd rather beat my face into it repeatedly, not even caring if it became a bloody pulp, as long as I knew the disc was destroyed for good.
 

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KingofallCosmos said:
Uncharted. I Thought i t had to be good, so I've finished it. Bored out of my mind all the way.

Probably not the most boring game out there, but the combination of high expectations and positive reviews made it more tedious to me.
I 2nd you, good sir and/or madame.

A good friend of mine told me he doesn't like PS3, but he would have bought one for Uncharted. He's a good friend whose recommended me good games and movies before, but Uncharted is one of the misteps.

Is it sad that when the game jumped the shark is when I started liking it, BTW?
No, I can imagine that. My main gripe is the so called humor in the game. If they'd go completely over the top it might improve the game. I have played the first and only touched the second, so I wouldn't know about that.

Thanks for the backup anyways.
 

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Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne

DON'T get me wrong! I love the game... but that repetitive music, and the dungeons that go on forever with the same environment... I'd use it to get to sleep :p
 

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Red Faction Guerrilla. I was expecting awesomeness from Volition after Saints Row 2, but Guerrilla was just so boring. I didn't even find the destruction fun.
 
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Probably Oblviion, I spent two hours and I nearly fell asleep with the controller in my hands. There might be worse cases that I'm not recalling right now, but off the top of my head, it's definitely Oblivion.
 

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The original Deus Ex.
(let the flaming commence) Look, i know its apparently a masterpiece or something, but this was my experience:
Get a wrist mounted crossbow, ninja mode engage. (good so far)
Sneak around, fire tranq dart with crossbow at unsuspecting guard. (awesome)
Guard doesnt even notice. just keeps patrolling. hm. Sneak much closer and fire again. Doesnt notice. Save game and run right up behind him, shoot him point blank with crowwbow. Nada. Kill guy loudly and in a fit of frustration run&gun to the top of the pyramid thing. Next level - kill some dudes and run around aimlessly in a directionless city area with nothing to do and no indication of what to do or where to go. 2 hours of that crap and I quit. that was 4 years ago.
 

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For me, it was Battlefield Bad Company 1.

I started playing it and got through a few missions.. or acts... Well, I hit a loading twice, so I'm assuming I had done two 'acts'.
It was so boring. I couldn't get myself playing because it was all the same thing with little reward, action or purpose.
The characters were shallow as hell. Am I suppost to care about these idiots?

And its another America VS Russia game... which I'm sick of at the moment.