Persona 3. Several months into it and I'm still waiting for anything really interesting to happen. The creepy kid and awesome battle music is about all that's kept me going.
This makes me wonder what you expected from a town that shares its name with one of the most soul-destroyingly long-winded and poorly produced sagas in literary history. I'd have probably been happy if it didn't have rampant werewolf paedos leaping about. :<The White Hunter said:Kingdom Hearts 2 and all it's Twilight Town bullshit
Agreed. Christ, if this was the first Zelda game you played you might think that it's a farming simmulator rather than an open world adventure game.MeatMachine said:I haven't played Skyward Sword, but if the beginning is ANYTHING like Twilight Princess was, I'm perfectly fine remaining that way.CaitSeith said:Zelda: Skyward Sword. With so much dialog and very little action at the start, this Zelda game is probably the one with the slowest beginning in the series.
Fuckin' whee, I'm Link, and imma save Hyrule with swordplay and dungeon crawling!
Oh man. How could I forget MGS 4? Thank goodness the scenes were all skippable. Still, it sucked sitting and watching Snake smoke forever at the beginning of each chapter. So much waiting in that game.FileTrekker said:Surprised nobody has brought up the Metal Gear series, specifically, Metal Gear Solid 4.
Now I can't quite remember if the opening specifically was super-long, but I don't think it ever felt like it properly got started, certainly not for a long while. That game just felt like 70% cut scene to me.
Still enjoyed it a lot though.
Been playing Tomb Raider and I feel sort of the same, it almost feels like one long cut scene with QTE and I get to move Lara occasionally.
I use that mod every time I play. The first character you talk to when you get a dialog option (which boils down to "what do I do?") you get some additional options. You can skip the ship and go straight to Taris, or you have a choice between light side and dark side Taris skips. Selecting either one puts you on your personal ship with all the items and experience (though not selected levels apart from the forced one on the Spire) that coincide with your choice as if you did a 100% completion for Taris on your selected alignment.gmaverick019 said:there is a popular skip taris mod that's been around for years when you are getting off the endar spire, I think it teleports you right to davik or something...can't remember. after my like 8th playthrough I used that mod a bunch, the fucking rackghoul part of taris was such a slog getting through.Silentpony said:KOTOR! The Endar Spire and fucking Taris! All just one huge tutorial and if you've beaten the game before, oh man...running around talking to Mission, finding the wookie fucker, getting the droid, not killing the clown, seducing the Sith officer, beating the StarGazer dude, playing blackjack, curing the dudes of the albino weresquid disease all in the service of finding Bastila only to have her tell you off for being slow and stupid...
AND THEN EVERYONE DIES ANYWAY!
Its an absolute chore and on additional playthroughs really makes you want to start slapping people.
In the gut. With the business end of a lightsaber.
Thank you. I was gonna mention that. God, that intro lasts fucking forever.Cold Shiny said:KOTOR.
FREAKING.
2.
Peragus is not only boring, it also lasts long enough for regimes to rise and fall.
The rest of the game's really good though.
Ugh agreed as well, Twilight Princess was the first game I thought of when I clicked on this thread. I think the thing that makes it so unbearable is that if you compare it to Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, even Windwaker...at the very beginning you have an indication that stuff is going to go down. In Ocarina you get a look at Gannondorf chasing Zelda via dream, in Majora's Mask Link gets robbed by skull kid and then things get weird, and in Windwaker it's not long before sister gets kidnapped. But in Twilight Princess? NOTHING.Level 7 Dragon said:Agreed. Christ, if this was the first Zelda game you played you might think that it's a farming simmulator rather than an open world adventure game.MeatMachine said:I haven't played Skyward Sword, but if the beginning is ANYTHING like Twilight Princess was, I'm perfectly fine remaining that way.CaitSeith said:Zelda: Skyward Sword. With so much dialog and very little action at the start, this Zelda game is probably the one with the slowest beginning in the series.
Fuckin' whee, I'm Link, and imma save Hyrule with swordplay and dungeon crawling!
Will ya look at here, it's Link the Shepard. Mind scaring all the sheep in to the barn, preparing lunch, getting the cat out of the tree, planting the crops, entertaining the kids, catching the bugs, help the nice old lady to reopen her shop, feed the horse.
Christ, by the one hour mark I was itching to see goblins to arrive and set the village ablaze. It's just, every NPC has their feet nailed to the floor and does nothing but give out fetch quests. After spending the first two hours doing farm work via Wiimote, I just wanted every villager to be eaten by spiders.
Wasn't there pretty much a consensus that FFXII takes 20-30 hours to "get good?" I don't think it's just you.Maximum Bert said:Well obviously personal opinion but the slowest start to a game that I actually continued on through and completed was FFXII I actually looked at the in game clock when I thought finally its moving along and it was at 66 hours. The first 10 hours in particular were beyond excruciating if it wasnt FF I would not have pushed on. Finally beat Yiazamat and Omega Weapon (names may be slightly wrong its been a while) at 129 hours.
thanks for the more in depth explanation, I couldn't remember but that is definitely coming back to me now, it might make me sound lazy but finding the promised land or whatever for the slum citizens was annoying as shit, so getting all that bonus xp and stuff for free was very nice with the skip mod.LordLundar said:I use that mod every time I play. The first character you talk to when you get a dialog option (which boils down to "what do I do?") you get some additional options. You can skip the ship and go straight to Taris, or you have a choice between light side and dark side Taris skips. Selecting either one puts you on your personal ship with all the items and experience (though not selected levels apart from the forced one on the Spire) that coincide with your choice as if you did a 100% completion for Taris on your selected alignment.gmaverick019 said:there is a popular skip taris mod that's been around for years when you are getting off the endar spire, I think it teleports you right to davik or something...can't remember. after my like 8th playthrough I used that mod a bunch, the fucking rackghoul part of taris was such a slog getting through.Silentpony said:KOTOR! The Endar Spire and fucking Taris! All just one huge tutorial and if you've beaten the game before, oh man...running around talking to Mission, finding the wookie fucker, getting the droid, not killing the clown, seducing the Sith officer, beating the StarGazer dude, playing blackjack, curing the dudes of the albino weresquid disease all in the service of finding Bastila only to have her tell you off for being slow and stupid...
AND THEN EVERYONE DIES ANYWAY!
Its an absolute chore and on additional playthroughs really makes you want to start slapping people.
In the gut. With the business end of a lightsaber.
IT is always useful because that section is so dull.
I dont know to be honest I know lots were saying that about FFXIII and yeah that did take me about 20 hours before it picked up and 40 hours until I thought it became good but dont remember hearing much about XII. It seemed to split opinion more I know just from my small pool of friends who even bothered to pick it up that 3 stopped playing two within 10 hours and one after 30 saying it was terrible while another played for 60 and said he loved it...but never completed it.Something Amyss said:Wasn't there pretty much a consensus that FFXII takes 20-30 hours to "get good?" I don't think it's just you.Maximum Bert said:Well obviously personal opinion but the slowest start to a game that I actually continued on through and completed was FFXII I actually looked at the in game clock when I thought finally its moving along and it was at 66 hours. The first 10 hours in particular were beyond excruciating if it wasnt FF I would not have pushed on. Finally beat Yiazamat and Omega Weapon (names may be slightly wrong its been a while) at 129 hours.