So how long do you play a game , before you decide you don't like it?

[moseythepirate]

Well, it depends. I managed to get through about 5 minutes of the Penny Arcade games before I had to stop to prevent further wretching. I managed to get through Mass Effect 3 and didn't realize its badtitude until an hour into a sleepless night, and poor Metroid Other M. I finished it, and was an hour into a second play-through before my soul broke, and the scattered remnants of my consciousness left this veil of tiers, leaving a shadow, nay, an echo, onto the various transferring photons and electrons known as the internet, as a warning to others who don't heed my tale of caution.

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[Fox12]

This happens pretty rarely, as I'm pretty good with choosing my purchases. If I'm going to buy something, I intend to finish it. I don't buy new games full price unless I KNOW it's good. The last time I quit a game was Half Life 2. I understand it's supposed to be the greatest shooter ever, or whatever, but it's so bland! Everything is grey and brown, the main character just roams around aimlessly for hours, and the story is so barebones that it's almost non-existant. I honestly don't understand why it takes Valve so long to crank those out, an average developer could probably do the job in two years, and have a much more impressive product.

 

[StriderShinryu]

I usually make a judgement almost instantly. If I really like the concept or a specific aspect of a game, I may give it a little longer, but with the first few minutes of playing something I'll usually have a pretty good indiciation of whether I think something is worth my time or not. That's not to necessarily say I will judge a game as bad or good without more extensive experience, it's just that there are so many good games out there that if I'm not enjoying something pretty much right off the bat, I'd just rather play something else.

As for what the last game I straight up quit was.. I'm really not too sure. I usually do a lot of research before I purchase a game so I'm not surprised all that often. The more recent example I can definitely point to would probably be The Witcher 2. On paper, it seemed almost made just for me, but I instantly found the gameplay really clumsy and clunky, and the story and characters did nothing for me either. I maybe put a couple hours into it because it was a game I really actually wanted to like, but I just didn't.

 

[Something Amyss]

Until I'm not having fun. This doesn't include forced tutorials, as those are usually a chore.

 

[Clowndoe]

Last time I played a game I didn't like was when I played through Bioshock: Infinite with a friend (I didn't buy the game, it was his copy). After a few fights the gunplay made me know I didn't like it, but we finished the game that night. Of course, to know I didn't like the other things I didn't like (later mechanics and the overall story) I had to play more. I can't remember the last time a game made me not finish, mostly because I'm very careful about my own purchases, having bought mostly older titles recently. Before then, the closest I got to it was at the third crummy RTS level of Giants: Citizen Kabuto. I liked that game, but there are only so many lame levels I can take. A little bit of a wait before coming back saw me to the end.

 

[DementedSheep]

Quite a while generally, due to ?I PAID FOR THIS SO I?M GOING TO DAMN WELL ENJOY IT!? mentality. Often I?ll even finish the game. I know this is stupid especially since most the time I paid less than $20 for it and have a backlog.

Last one I gave up on was Overlord I think.

 

[HellbirdIV]

Well I finished both Homefront and Spec Ops: The Line despite realizing early on they weren't very good.

I failed to get past the tutorial in the original Deus Ex, but I attribute that to headaches caused by the graphics. I didn't dislike it, I just... Uh, I need to retry it sometime when I'm slightly more steady on my proverbial feet.

 

[Greg White]

I usually give them a few hours. If a game hasn't sold itself to me as being good by then, all hope is long gone for it.

 

[Fijiman]

It varies from game to game. One game I might be able to play for quite a while before I decide I don't like it, others may only take a few minutes.

 

[Zanderinfal]

Most games I give 2 hours. On rare occasions I will allow 2 and a half to 3 hours if I sense that it's starting to get better. If it doesn't have my interest by then life's too short. The least amount of time it took me to hate Lost Planet 2 was about 45 minutes. By that point I hated the game more than I have hated anything in my life. That is an isolated case though, I don't ever usually ditch a game that quickly.

 

[roushutsu]

I try to finish a game before I make my final decision, but sometimes it takes me roughly 2/3 into it before I decide. Depends on how good or bad the game is, really.

As for the bonus question, I've recently bought Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance, and I am not all that impressed with it. Of the 7 worlds, 2 I actually had fun in. The rest were surprisingly dull. I'm up to the last world and only now does the story feel like it's actually started, if you could call it a story at all. It's more like a series of "plot twists" that come out of nowhere and are ultimately unsatisfying. I get that it's supposed to help set everything up for KH3, but that seriously can't Square's best foot forward for that long awaited beast.

 

[devilkingx]

I play until I can't stand playing anymore

the last game was fallout 3 and the game before that was borderlands 2

(TL;DR at the bottom of each game)

I played for several hours, got out of the long boring tutorial vault, walked slowly until I got to megaten, there was basically nothing to do, and almost no one to talk to so i left

following that, I tried to walk to the next main story marker, found a supermarket held by raiders and an abandonned subway station, both were too hard because I had no ammo to kill anything without having to melee the last few

I decided to just walk to the marker

I ALMOST made it to the marker... then I ran into some maruaders, tried to kill them and ran out of ammo so I had to melee them and then one of them busts out a flamethrower and 1-shots me.

then I realize my last save was at the subway station, this is where I turned off the game and never looked back,

TL;DR1: FO3 is full of BS, horrible game, that gives you no supplies to fight the hordes of better equipped enemies, and no warning as to what you'll go against, also the tutorial sucks and you walk too slow

traded it in last week along with borderlands 2 to get dragon's dogma dark arisen

borderlands 2 was a similar but different story, I liked #1, but #2 was terrible, I made it to the part where you need to open the door to get into sanctuary with roland


it was slow and boring, there wasn't enough new content(atleast, not in the early game), all the guns I found sucked, the gun accuracy sucked,


the classes were too lost a chnk of their uniqueness when any class was able to use any weapon proficiently, and it didn't make sense that anyone would use both a sword AND snipers(also phase walk from lilith would've been better on zero),

also if you quit the game and come back you start at the town NO MATTER HOW FAR AWAY YOU LEFT THE GAME, SAVED OR YOUR QUEST LOCATION IS, and vehicles were trash, hard to control like red dead's horses

TL;DR 2: "I liked #1, but #2 was terrible, it was slow and boring"

 

[Nokturos]

21 minutes. Every single time.

 

[A BigCup of Tea]

usually half an hour to an hour but like you with rpgs i give a little longer as it takes a while to get into it

most recently would be metro last light...i played about 15 minutes and almost fell asleep, that game is terrible the story is just horrid

 

[Phrozenflame500]

Depends. If it's one of those games where everybody says good things about I generally chalk it up to I haven't played enough. If it's just a random game I find it generally comes down to if I get overly mad, declare the game shit and ragequit at it. If I don't ragequit I generally just play for a while, put it down, and never work up the will to pick it up again.

 

[deserteagleeye]

I usually play the game for about 5 hours because I want to make sure I'm not missing anything that may change the game to make it better. If I'd already beaten half of it at that point I'd just try to finish it off anyways.

The last game I stopped playing was Xcom because I was sick of it. Everything looked great and has a cool spectacle to it but I was sick of its bullshit gameplay. With one of the worst escort missions I've ever played and cover that becomes totally intangible in horribly jarring ways just puts me out of it. And the customization is really limited too much for me that I wished they just made original characters with their own little quirks. Plus you won't even see their faces once you get the alien armor which looks really stupid to me.

In the end I rage quit at the alien base level because the boss alien just used his mind control bullshit beam that goes through cover and killed half of my team with it while the other half was zombies. And turning on autosave just made the biggest useless clusterfuck of save files I've ever seen.

 

[aguspal]

It depends on the game and just how horrible the game is in question.


For example, I could stand 2 hours or so of God Of War. This is mainly because the game is NOT bad, it just... isnt for me. Its not my style. It bored me. But It dosnt seems like a bad game in itself...

Now, lets take what I coseder the worst "game" I have ever played, Dragon Age. Now I could only last like 1 hour of that game´s BS, it almost seemed as if it wanted me to commit suicide by killing me to death with its dullness and boredoom. And it lasted 1 hour only because I had nothing better to do at that time.


To this day, I still wonder what people see in that "game". I honestly just cant see it, I guess it must be a game for truely special people who can appreciate what it is trying to do...or something. I rather play Big Rigs/ET/Superman and I am serious, at least those games have So bad its good written all over them, unlike Dragon Age.



Anyway, usually if I spend at least 3 hours in a game it usually means I will stay with it until its done.

 

[Razentsu]

I generally allow thirty minutes to an hour of time for a game to try to hook me. If I'm not interested in or enjoying the game during this trial period, then I become doubtful of whether the game is worth playing. I would rather be spending time on a game I already do enjoy instead of continuing to experiment.

 

[Reaper195]

Depends on the game. I started playing the Battlefield 3 campaign (I wasn't interested in multiplayer at the time) and after fifteen or so minutes, I quite.

Assassins Creed 3? I fucking raged so hard through the game. The combat was shit, the stealth was shit, the voice acting was pretty good, but that didn't matter since the writing was shit, the story stopped making sense halfway through, Charles Lee seemed to become synonymous with John Galt for the last half of the game, and that final chase scene with Lee was....
I finished that game in seventeen hours. Over the course of that game, the only thing I truly enjoyed were the naval missions, which I hope is more refined in 4. Assuming 4 doesn't ass fuck itself with a shitty story. We finally got something going on with Desmond after three games of doing bugger all...and then he dies. Spoiler, he dies! You know what else died with that game? MY FUCKING PATIENCE! Fuck Ass Creed 3. Why, for the love of christ, did I even finish it? I don't know! I hated almost the entire goddamn game.


So...sometimes about fifteen minutes, sometimes seventeen hours.