That point when you just gave up.

[The White Hunter]

Bleach: The whole vampire filler arc. I don't know why but I had no motivation to go on after that.

That's why I skip fillers. They ruin everything and are never good.

I'm actually happy to say I've never given up on a franchise. Or if I have, I don't remember it off the top of my head.

Oh god the filler @_@

One Piece I can take the filler, because it's usually just a crazy adventure on some crazy island, and to be honest thats what the main story is for the most part. I do skip any crossover shit it does though.

Naruto I can safely say after watching the filler arcs in the first series I@m glad I stopped watching the anime and started reading the manga instead, just to get around all the non-canon garbage that goes down in those filler arcs.

OT: Ratchet & Clank. After 3, it just wasn't the same anymore. It felt like the series was taking itself to seriously and it lost the silliness and tongue in cheek japery that made it so delightful for me.

Battlefield for me was killed by Battlefield 3, my opinions on this are well documented but here are some bullet points:

+ Unbalanced classes
+ Months to patch horrible abuses
+ Dat fucking USAS-Frag.
+ Terrible unlock order for Recon
+ Scope sway up the ass, making sniping a ball ache until you stick with 1 gun long enough to get a friggin bipod
+ Camping
+ Flying to unreachable places and proceeding to abuse
+ Jets are broken
+ Helicopters controlled like arse
+ There's more but fuck it.

 

[floppylobster]

That point when you just gave up? That would be around 25.

 

[The White Hunter]

Spoiler: 24

When they "killed" Tony Almeida and he didn't even get a silent clock ticking. I watched the beginning 5 minutes of the following ep to confirm he was dead, and after that I never watched 24 again. Yes, I know they brought him back to life a couple of seasons later, but that was even more idiotic than killing him. He also showed up as a bad guy, which was very meh.

Spoiler: Samurai X

Gave up after the arc about the Christian guru and Sano falling in love with that girl who dies tragically. I thought it was poorly handled and ridiculously brief after the Shishio or whatever his name is arc

Spoiler: PokemonX

Brock had been replaced with some dunce Tracy with no personality except for his annoying eagerness, and I was fed up with Ash befriending every single Pokemon he met rather than try and capture him. It was CATCH 'EM ALL, dammit, not BEFRIEND 'EM ALL. Also the Poke games on the GameBoy were more than fulfilling my Poke needs

Spoiler: Mercenaries 2

The game is just too damn glitchy to play. I gave up 40% in, because of a chopper mission

I suppose I too gave up on the Pokemon anime, I made it a bit further than that myself, but when they removed Brock AGAIN! I just was having none of it.

Still enjoy the games to this day though, event hough I hope X and Y do some interesting things to shake it up. A new type or two, a bunch of new type combos, a difficulty curve that doesn't spike and demand that I stop and grind.

 

[Trull]

SNIP

I never said - and this is why I stopped arguing

 

[Queen Michael]

The Simpsons: when I saw the Lady Gaga episode. I was a pretty tolerant viewer up until then, but that episode just made me snap.

I didn't like this episode either. What didn't you ike about it?

 

[Queen Michael]

Haruhi Suzumiya: Ever wondered how to completely ruin a riveting series with just one episode? Make it nine. If "Endless Eight" tells you anything, feel free to stop reading, because I gotta ramble.
Season 2 started just meh. One episode was them having summer vacation, nothing plot-relevant happening. I hate slice of life anime, but still love Season 1. This one was boooring. So I thought "Nevermind, next episode. Wait. I just watched this. Did I play the last episode by accident? No. Did they make a mistake with the DVDs? No, that guy has different clothes now, but... says the same.". Halfway in, the characters realize they've been caught in a time loop and mostly lost their memories, so that's why the episode is "repeated" with minor variations. Those changes aren't interesting by themselves and have no meaning other than to establish that the time loop can play out different every time, which means it can be broken if you know the cause and stop it. Scenes play in different angles. But not in different point of views, which might have made it interesting... The characters must act like they didn't know about the loop, until the end, where a chance to break out comes up. And they let it slip.
Next episode. The whole thing all over. Nobody does anything at the end. Next episode. The same. Next one, exact copy. Got your hopes up for the next? Nope. Next one? Nope. Had enough? Watch it again, see how Kyon still does NOTHING at the end, after SEVEN TIMES. To think I ever liked the guy...
It's EIGHT repetitions, so 9 of 14 episodes in the season are already more boring and frustrating than Twilight, and the rest doesn't make up for it. I've been torn apart by fans for... questioning this.
Gotta give it something. This is one of the few moments I felt connected with Nagato, since you're pretty much in her place. She remembers every repetition (of ten thousands), but can only watch as everyone is being a gutless moron. She's dying of inconceivable boredom. If they were going for that, good job.

I just read the stories, so to me, Endless Eight was just a fifty-page story. Ar you telling me that they made the exact same episode again and again? You're saying "Next one, exact copy." Was it an exat copy?

 

[Malkav]

I just read the stories, so to me, Endless Eight was just a fifty-page story. Ar you telling me that they made the exact same episode again and again? You're saying "Next one, exact copy." Was it an exat copy?

"Exact copy" isn't quite right, wasn't being clear.
The first episode is them having their summer vacation and Haruhi being unsatisfied. The second repeats this halfway, but they realize what's up about at half point, and decide to play along. So the episode repeats until the end, until their last chance to stop the loop, but nobody does anything and Kyon can't be assed to try. So the loop goes on. The next six episodes have the exact same pattern with no meaningful changes, only very few things that don't get repeated every time. Like talking to random kids, or not going swimming, or different clothes. It just means that stuff can change. The camera angles are different sometimes, but for no purpose other than to show they're not being lazy animators. The scenes still play almost entirely the same, word for word.
I heard the manga did it different, nobody complained about that.

 

[ScruffyMcBalls]

I'm legitimately curious as to how you arrived at the conclusion that Steam "limits user choice."

It limits user choice because Steam has pretty much locked down the PC game market. If I wanna play a game on my PC, nine times out of ten I have to go through Steam. I don't want to, I like to have boxed games and I like to know I'll always be able to play those games without relying on an online service.
If you want to be a PC gamer these days, you need Steam, there's no other way. Other than piracy that is.

 

[ScruffyMcBalls]

Pokemon- When I realised each game was essentailly identical (X and Y may change this).

As a giant fan of Pokemon: Nah, it's going to be the same. They may improve story from what I've seen in Gen 5 (Black/White and the sequels) but don't expect deep change that lies beyond mechanics that are only interesting if you play it online.

Hmm, it'll be a shame but I'll hold out hope a little longer. At the very least it'll LOOK different, so that's a bit of progress. And progress is good.

 

[BanicRhys]

The Simpsons: when I saw the Lady Gaga episode. I was a pretty tolerant viewer up until then, but that episode just made me snap.

I didn't like this episode either. What didn't you ike about it?

Mostly because they just used it as a chance to worship her (that fucking train).

The worst part for me was when Lisa abandoned her critical opinion of Lady Gaga after a trite speech about being yourself or something.

It's probably just that I'm old enough to actually analyse the show now as I recall there was a similar episode with The Who that I have no problem with (other than having seen it dozens of times so it's boring as fuck now).

 

[Vicarious Reality]

in WoW, Blizzards original reasons/excuses for deleting hunter pets running alongside the hunter all the time.

Whaaaaat? I gotta log in and see what you are talking about


Ỳup, i quit gymnasium three or four times because i was annoyed by everyone

 

[Professor Lupin Madblood]

I'm legitimately curious as to how you arrived at the conclusion that Steam "limits user choice."

It limits user choice because Steam has pretty much locked down the PC game market. If I wanna play a game on my PC, nine times out of ten I have to go through Steam. I don't want to, I like to have boxed games and I like to know I'll always be able to play those games without relying on an online service.
If you want to be a PC gamer these days, you need Steam, there's no other way. Other than piracy that is.

Yeah, but why would you want to go through things that aren't Steam? I don't know if you've noticed, but Steam and Valve are pretty perfect as far as customer service and business practices go.

 

[kyuzo3567]

I agree with giving up on bleach. They killed Aizen, and then it didn't end. I went "well, fuck this noise" and stopped watching. Granted I'd stopped watching a while before that, but I came back to watch what I thought was the conclusion, since I still had a vested interest in the characters. Now I really just don't give a crap anymore. Bleach really does represent to me everything that can be wrong with an anime that's still technically proficient.

I almost gave up too, but you're actually only one season away from the end of the anime. It was a little weird to get into at first but I kept watching so I could say I've finished the damn thing and it ended pretty well. Apparently the manga is going to continue though

 

[Queen Michael]

The Simpsons: when I saw the Lady Gaga episode. I was a pretty tolerant viewer up until then, but that episode just made me snap.

I didn't like this episode either. What didn't you ike about it?

Mostly because they just used it as a chance to worship her (that fucking train).

The worst part for me was when Lisa abandoned her critical opinion of Lady Gaga after a trite speech about being yourself or something.

I agree 100%. It was just too much "Everybody loves Lady Gaga." And a conclusion where the happy ending is about Lisa finally realizing how awesome Lady Gaga is...

 

[Inconspicuous Trenchcoat]

I had planned to spend the whole year in Japan, I ended up spending only three months, there were a lot of good good things and a lot of bad things.

Before I left, it was a real struggle cause I wanted to continue my Japanese studies but I hated the way their society behaved.

But what broke the camel's back is when I ordered some food (and food is quite expensive in Japan) and they gave me the poorest excuse of a meal that I had ever seen and then had the gall to charge me when I asked for some sauce to put on it.

I left and I felt happy.

I'd like to know more about your experience in Japan if you would care to share. What didn't you like about it? What was good?

OT: Assassin's Creed: I loved the first one and the follow up (beat both, 45 hours spent in 2; beating games isn't a common thing for me). But I couldn't get much passed a few hours in Brotherhood. Well, I'm back to square 1 again, and it's the same game still. I don't really want to do this all again. I've also never understood the love for Etzio. I don't dislike him or anything, but he never stood out to me. Neither did Altair. I also have no idea what the storyline in the game was, I have no idea what's happening except oh wow now the Pope is evil okay!? I loved the game for the world, parkour and the mechanics. I wanted another 1 to 2 jump or change or whatever. I rented 3 and didn't care to play it past the first 3 hours or so. I actually ran into 4 significant bugs in that short time (and I usually don't find bugs). Once, my character and my enemy drowned during our duel in a perfectly safe, afloat boat--there was no rushing in of water, we just floating upward in empty air and died; second, my horse got stuck in the ground and I couldn't dismount; third, the blur filter on the background during a cutscene didn't go away after the scene concluded, so I had to assault a fortress with severe cataracts (which was sort of interesting I guess, lol); and finally, an awful lot of the time people's mouths didn't animate when they were speaking in cutscenes. Sometimes I wasn't sure who was speaking. So, 3 certainly didn't do anything to rekindle my interest.

Dead Space: I don't know what it is about survival horror, but I can't stand the genre. It's not because they're scary (a few years of my life where I watched mounds of horror movies have numbed me to most attempts at horror). It's because I feel like I've been asked to find a needle in a haystack, or I have to walk 2 hours to a store to buy milk, but realize I've forgotten my wallet halfway there. I just don't want to continue. Survival horror feels like such a chore. I just want to find out what happens, game, I don't actually want to slog through your boring game play. My most recent failed attempts at enjoying the genre were Dead Space 2, Amnesia and Lone Survivor. All three felt like huge pains. UGH, I'm totally alone in a depressing, horrible place and I have so much to do before I find out anything about what's going on, it's just not worth it. So, it's the combination of being subjected to boring gameplay while also being stuck in an oppressive, depressing environment. Feels too much like the workplace to be fun, heyo! Note: No interest in DS3 at all.

 

[The Wykydtron]

Uh I gave up on Bleach because the way the writer handled the Aizen arc was so, so bad. He was this unstoppable killing force that breezed through the entire cast minus Ichigo trying to team up on him, lets his right hand man try to betray him (he gets stabbed in the heart with a poison sword, not even bothered) then lol jk Ichigo pulls infinite training time out of his arse and oneshots the guy.

No. Goodbye.

I gave up on finishing The Answer in Persona 3 FES because it is pants on head retarded. There's a balance between the difficulty stuck on hard, SHIT party AI, lack of Social Links and forced party members that makes it this frustrating, grindtastic mess of a game. Seriously, they KNOW how good the Social Link system works both as a character device and anti-grind tool so why remove that entirely and replace it with pure grind?

Oh and I quietly bowed out of Naruto the moment issue 500 came out. It got boring and I decided it was going to drag on forever with all of the interesting bits already dead and gone.

I would say Mass Effect but i'm not one of those people who let themeselves forget how awesome the ENTIRE series was until the last 5 minutes. Literally the last 1% was just that goddamn awful. I'm interested in the Omega DLC anyway so if I ever go back to ME3 I will try to pick that up.

 

[ScruffyMcBalls]

I'm legitimately curious as to how you arrived at the conclusion that Steam "limits user choice."

It limits user choice because Steam has pretty much locked down the PC game market. If I wanna play a game on my PC, nine times out of ten I have to go through Steam. I don't want to, I like to have boxed games and I like to know I'll always be able to play those games without relying on an online service.
If you want to be a PC gamer these days, you need Steam, there's no other way. Other than piracy that is.

Yeah, but why would you want to go through things that aren't Steam? I don't know if you've noticed, but Steam and Valve are pretty perfect as far as customer service and business practices go.

Because if they carry on the way they are (being a monopoly) they will very quickly have a stranglehold on PC gaming. At that point Steam gets to control gaming on the PC platform. Monopolies aren't healthy in any way, competition on the other hand can be.
Plus, Steam is a titanic pile of shite so far as I'm concerned. I hate the interface, It hogs resources and I hate having to go through a gateway software. I want choice, not Steam's way or no way. Feel free to use Steam, I just want to NOT use Steam. And sadly that really, really isn't what they have in mind.

 

[HobbyJim]

Trying to convince my girlfriend that Sandy Hook actually happened and that people died.

 

[Chunga the Great]

After the first Mass Effect game. I heard it was amazing and full of awesome and had so much interesting stuff to do. Spoiler alert: it was fucking awful. Mass Effect 2 would have to dispense money before I even give a shit about playing it.

This is without mentioning the ridiculous amount of bitching that came after the Mass Effect 3 ending controversy.