Most Boring Game You've Ever Played

[Jovip]

Well this is just me, but i've actually never been bored with a singleplayer game. i've disliked many but i've never been bored to the degree of deciding to turn it off and go bash my head violently into a walrus for an absolute divine intervention of entertainment. (with an exception for deus ex: human revolution on my second play-through)

However, i have never EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER found myself not bored with multiplayer. (co-op doesn't count if it's played locally) But the generic formula of multiplayer just bores the living crap out of me. there isn't any context or reason to be shooting/maiming/fighting with a bunch of random people and i personally see it as a technological gong show in the same vein 3d is becoming. Now, thats not to say multiplayer is actually broken, nor is there anything wrong with enjoying mindless slaughter and upgrade of pointless statistics. i just don't find myself ever being entertained with even the most polished of multiplayer experiences.

 

[Sabiancym]

Bioshock....aka the most over-rated game of all time.

I tried it multiple time over the years and could never get past the two hour mark. It was just sheer boredom.

 

[Scrustle]

Strange... a lot of people here hating on really awesome games. Oh well, each to their own. My vote goes to Mass Effect. Could not stand that game. The characters were the most dull pointless people I have ever come across in a video game, the graphics either looked totally sterile or ugly, the character designs was boring and unimaginative, the story went nowhere (in the time I played it, which was a fair amount), the dialogue was so overdrawn and tedious, characters moved slowly and controls felt sluggish, combat was awful and frustrating (could never see what was going on and if I wasn't constantly dying then NPC partners were getting in the bloody way), and the interface was incomprehensible. Basically everything that is in a game I hated about Mass Effect.

I have to mention Fable 2 as well. Ugly graphics, annoying characters, HORRIBLE controls, tedious navigation, tactless combat, annoying camera, and the WORST ending to any video game I had ever played. God I hate that game with such a passion. My experience with it wasn't necessarily as dull as with Mass Effect, but it managed to be very boring and incredibly frustrating to play at the same time. Oh yeah, and also the way you have to wait for shops to get the stock in for the potions you want to buy as well. And even once I had waited, a lot of the time the shop owner would just never turn up. Like he was deleted from the game. That drove me crazy, I wasted so much time on that crap.

There's probably other games I found ultra boring, but were so boring I can't remember.

 

[Hawk of Battle]

Ico. Never finished it, was bored most of the way through and I absolutely DREADED the combat sections. They were awful and tedious beyond reckoning.

 

[Scrustle]

NIER. 'nuff said.

Not really... I don't think enough people have played the game for it to be widely known. On that note, I have actually been thinking about buying the game. What exactly is wrong with it?

 

[diggy140892]

This will probably be an unpopular choice but I found Crysis 2 such a chore to play. I was bored through most of the game. It was at that point that I pretty much lost all faith in the FPS genre.

 

[Kyrian007]

Borderlands. Fetch or Assassinate missions, and nothing else for the whole game. About 5 different mob models. An interesting weapon finding gathering bit until you find the best gun you'll ever get in the game about halfway thru the first playthru. Bland characters with 0 customability (you'll wind up with everything.) Lame or non-existent story. Pointless and useless driving system and cars that explode when you hit so much as an anthill and leave you with 1 hitpoint no matter how much shield and health you have. Only saving grace was local multiplayer. Unplayable otherwise.

 

[VaudevillianVeteran]

Although I liked the game a lot, Mass Effect can be very boring at times, especially near the beginning. But of course, I kept playing and I really enjoyed it.
Limbo probably counts as the most boring game I've played. I know I probably have a minority opinion here, but I was so bored that I was genuinely over-joyed to have finished it.

 

[WalrusPowers]

Mass Effect.

Can't last 25 minutes.

It looks terrible, the game feel is all dodgy, the combat is slow and unimaginative, the vehicle missions are like driving in real life except with flashy lights that somewhat resemble weaponfire, the story is boring as shit, the universe feels tiny and linear, the characters are boring, the voice acting is mediocre, the range of weapons is small, the skill customization is raablah blah blah blah blah...

 

[Gentleman_Reptile]

Gears of War 2 was an exercise in painful monotony.

Funny thing is, I was playing it co-op with a friend, which is supposed to be one of the series best aspects, but the both of us just wanted to stop after about half an hour.

The previous night we had both just finished Resident Evil 5....a game that is apparently boring, stupid and racist....all the way through to the end whilst having an amazingly fun time.

We went from being restricted while aiming, and being taught to respect and value every last bullet we could get our hands on, to marching around as an invulnerable shaved bear wearing an entire skip bin and throwing away bullets like they were candy.

Resident Evil 5 was way more fun that Gears could ever be for us.

Having said that though, all characters of both games were insufferable dumbasses.

 

[RodeyCap]

TF2. I just...don't....get it. It could be that I'm horrible, it could be that it's just hats and props. Or it could be just because it's totally unengaging for me.

Any FF or turn-based RPG...can't stand it.

I really, really like Dragon Age - but that being said, the combat is intensely boring.

GalCiv 2. I know it was a huge hit and people rant and rave about how awesome and complex and enthralling it is but I just could never get into it.

 

[Fayathon]

The Legend of Alon D'ar for PS2. If you haven't heard of it, that's fine. Nothing lost there...

Holy shit, I just posted that game over in the "worst game ever" thread.

I'll second Alon D'ar for most boring game ever.

 

[raijinx]

I had to join the site because this has to be one of the most educated gamer threads I've been on in a while and its refreshing. I had to do a breakdown of what games I've played on what medium to really break down boring games that I could never finish because of how terrible they were at keeping attention

Atari ST - Any psygnosis title. Not entertaining in any way

NES - Metal gear was bad bad bad back then, Super mario bros 2 is a legit boring game, shitty powerups and crappy level design

Turbografix 16 - Bonk was such a waste of time

Genesis - Altered Beast is brutal..not fun at all, didn't understand why it was considered any good,
Captain America and the Avengers, Shaq Fu, sonic spinball, donald duck world of illusion

Super Nintendo - Aladdin, any of the Donkey Kong games, Super ghouls and ghosts, super metroid

Playstation - Final fantasy 8 was god awful boring, terrible followup to FFVII, The last syphon filter game, spyro the dragon, Tenchu, Gran Turismo 2, kept going back to GT1

Xbox - The first Halo game, on your own is GARBAGE, have to play it co-op with someone to appreciate it, every single fighting game on this system, jade empire, prince of persia:warrior within, amped, tony hawks underground

PC - Every Crytek game is so boring (Farcry 1, 2, insincts; Crysis games), no rewarding gameplay at all, you really don't care about anything that is going on in them, system shock 2, didn't draw me in at all, heretic, descent (1, 2, and 3), Rainbow 6 (swat is so much better) Half life 2 - Boring is the only word to describe this experience, all the sims games, deus ex - dry and no fun to explore, age of empires 3, total rome, empire earth, vampire:the masquerade, Bastion (oh my gawd bastion...anger anger anger)Hellgate London and quite a few more

360 + ps3- GTA4, Tekken 6 (botched system, juggles, mids highs and lows, stupid characters and laggy online fights), Bully, Mirrors Edge, Prince of persia, all the assassins creed games (except brotherhood which is pretty legit) NHL 09, Ruse, Brink, Red Dead Redemption (really make me run around on a horse for 20 minutes collecting thistles), Ninja Gaiden (NG:Black was way better), Halo Reach, Mass Effect 2 (the first was excellent), little big planet, just cause 2 (both being too repetitive), Kingdom Under Fire

 

[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!

lol i played origins first so i didnt have that problem but yeah take your time theres no time limit and the game takes 60+ hours to do right yeah its boring at points but its fun as hell once you get past 2 things the fade and the fucking deep roads.

As long as i don't have to go back to the fade for a third time! The mage tower made me want to kill myself. Why is everything out of focus? Good idea to only play it an hour at a time. I want to finish and kill Loghain!

 

[EmperorSubcutaneous]

How could you successfully make LOTR BORING?

I don't know, Tolkein did a pretty great job of it.

Trololo...

Seriously though, those books are a struggle to get through.

On topic, I can't really answer this question. If I feel a game is boring in the first hour or so, I don't continue playing it (unless it came highly recommended by someone I trust, in which case I give it a chance to impress me and it usually does), and thus I don't feel I can accurately judge if it's a "boring game." If it has boring stretches but overall charms me enough that I want to find out what comes next (like Dragon Age: Origins), then I don't count it as boring.

 

[repeating integers]

How could you successfully make LOTR BORING?

I don't know, Tolkein did a pretty great job of it.

Trololo...

OT: Half-Life 2 episode 1 mayhaps? The other two are fine (yeah, overrated I guess, but fine anyway) but that one was basically just 4 hours of retreading the first quarter of HL2 for no apparent reason (except the 2nd level, which was retreading the last quarter of the game instead). I suppose it had a few suspenseful moments down underground, with the pitch-blackness and Zombies. Other than that, there was just no reason for its existence, other than that it didn't occur to the Vortigaunts to teleport Gordon further away from the citadel.

Yet even that I finished, without feeling like going to sleep midway through. So I feel glad I've not played most of the shit you guys are mentioning (that is, the ones who aren't doing what I just did and being edgy by hating on a popular game).

 

[JPArbiter]

Fallout New Vegas, mostly becazuse of the glitches, but the game could not keep me engaged when it did not stop working on me to make up for it. that is sad considering my love of the fallout franchise.

 

[The_Deleted]

Breaks my heart to say it, but every Rockstar release this gen has bored the shit out of me.
I was psyched for GTAIV, curious about RDR and bought into all the graphics hype for LA Noire like everyone else. But as games for the purpose of gaming, they were utter balls.

 

[Lord_Nemesis]

NIER. 'nuff said.

Not really... I don't think enough people have played the game for it to be widely known. On that note, I have actually been thinking about buying the game. What exactly is wrong with it?

Mmmm, perhaps. Its just really slow. Its all generic. Go here, collect/kill/pat on the head this amount of people/beasts/small mammals. The moves are sluggish and boring, physical and magical. The plot is so thin that it's non existant and the characters are all monotone and suicidal-ly depressing. I tried to power through it but after 10 hours, I gave up.

It was that or die from a lack of soul because it had been slowly destroyed by playing NIER.

 

[sooperman]

I'll vote for Demon's Souls again. I'll admit I died plenty of times, but it's because I neglected to grind enough. The game isn't difficult because of clever game design, its difficult because of bad game design.

Speaking of the difference between challenging and broken, I recently bought GTA4 for $12. Worst money I've spent in a long time. It's unimaginative beyond belief and has some hideously broken movement physics. Being this fractured and stupid is cool when it's played over-the-top, but when Rockstar tries it, it's just bland.