What Game did you play long after it stopped being fun?
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Call of bloody Duty. Why? Because I was young teenage twat who wanted to be like the cool kids,
Same as every person who plays CoD...
Same as every person who plays CoD...
Define "long".
I sank quite a bit of time into KoA: Reckoning. I spent every free moment playing it. It was just fun. But I played both DLCs through early on and around halfway through the story there was just no challenge to the game anymore (and it hadn't been particularly hard in the first place). I plowed through enemies easily, combat became just an inconvenience on the way from one quest waypoint to another, no gear dropped by enemies or scored from quests was better than what I already had. But I pushed on, motivated by the distant prospect of maxing out the detect hidden skill and finding all the lorestones.
Then I hit the level cap. That was it, after maybe 15 hours spent playing half asleep without any challenge or sense of fun, I learned I would never max out DH on my character. And the Fateweaver mechanic collided so fundamentally with my concept of RPG that I couldn't bear to use it. I turned the game off and still haven't come back.
I also kept playing WoW after reaching level 80 for a month or so. I hated the endgame content, but I kept playing because Azeroth was where I would meet my best friend and we would mostly joke and talk about stuff while running from questgiver to questgiver. He's the type of player who would run around and compare gearscores with other high-level characters and he wanted to continue. So we did.
I sank quite a bit of time into KoA: Reckoning. I spent every free moment playing it. It was just fun. But I played both DLCs through early on and around halfway through the story there was just no challenge to the game anymore (and it hadn't been particularly hard in the first place). I plowed through enemies easily, combat became just an inconvenience on the way from one quest waypoint to another, no gear dropped by enemies or scored from quests was better than what I already had. But I pushed on, motivated by the distant prospect of maxing out the detect hidden skill and finding all the lorestones.
Then I hit the level cap. That was it, after maybe 15 hours spent playing half asleep without any challenge or sense of fun, I learned I would never max out DH on my character. And the Fateweaver mechanic collided so fundamentally with my concept of RPG that I couldn't bear to use it. I turned the game off and still haven't come back.
I also kept playing WoW after reaching level 80 for a month or so. I hated the endgame content, but I kept playing because Azeroth was where I would meet my best friend and we would mostly joke and talk about stuff while running from questgiver to questgiver. He's the type of player who would run around and compare gearscores with other high-level characters and he wanted to continue. So we did.
Watch those generalisations, sunshine.CpT_x_Killsteal said:
I tried to play Morrowind again recently, started with a breton mage who's stamina would run out in about 30 seconds and health twice as fast. Don't think he even lived long enough to SEE cliff racers...Rariow said:
World of Warcraft here too. But it gets fun again everytime there's a new expansion or a major patch, so not sure if it counts. I could say Zelda: Ocarina of time. But shit, that is still fun after my 15th playthrough...I'll never grow bored of that game.
Edit: Actually just remembered that I forced myself through Mass Effect 2 just to get a profile I liked in 3. It was rather ardeous as I had already beaten it twice before.
Edit: Actually just remembered that I forced myself through Mass Effect 2 just to get a profile I liked in 3. It was rather ardeous as I had already beaten it twice before.
None. I just don't get "addicted" to games. I get absorbed in some for a long time, but it was always fun. I never play a game if I'm not having fun though, even if all my friends want me to. I guess that's kind of odd since I play a lot of RPGs. They're kind of designed to make you addicted even if it's not fun.
I kind of have the opposite problem. There's RPGs I own and I'd love to get more in to but they just seem so daunting. I just can't get in to a game that I know requires a big time investment if it doesn't grab me as really good on a fundamental level right away. I can't face the idea of having to play the game for like 20 hours before it gets in to its stride, or I start learning how to play it properly. I've got other games that do that far better. No matter how much I want to get in to these games I always find myself just drifting away and forgetting about them and sticking to something else that's more compelling.
I kind of have the opposite problem. There's RPGs I own and I'd love to get more in to but they just seem so daunting. I just can't get in to a game that I know requires a big time investment if it doesn't grab me as really good on a fundamental level right away. I can't face the idea of having to play the game for like 20 hours before it gets in to its stride, or I start learning how to play it properly. I've got other games that do that far better. No matter how much I want to get in to these games I always find myself just drifting away and forgetting about them and sticking to something else that's more compelling.
Pretty much this, I used to play it everyday so it became sort of a habit, but I wasn't enjoying myself a lot of the time. Just sort of stopped playing and haven't touched it in months. Had a game the other day though and I just couldn't understand why I liked it in the first place.CpT_x_Killsteal said:
Superman Returns: The Movie: The Game. The first mission was fun, and it was cool to fly around the city stopping crime for a while, but it is the most repetitive game ever. Play the first hour, and you have basically played the game.
I finished it because I decided to. I wanted to see if they actually did anything new as the game progressed. They don't. The final boss is a tornado.
I finished it because I decided to. I wanted to see if they actually did anything new as the game progressed. They don't. The final boss is a tornado.
I remember powering through the last part of the original Red Faction through gritted teeth. I had begun to really hate the game, but wanted to finish it out of pure stubbornness. As soon as the ending cutscene played, I popped it out of the PS2 and took it back to the game store to trade it in, the only game I have ever traded in. They gave me 98 cents for it.
WoW. I always have fun with the new content obviously but when it all gets cleared in a month or two and you could give a shit about gear you lose interest very quickly.
final fantasy 12. that game was horrible (broken combat system, nonexistent story, zero character development) but my friend bet me that i would never finish it because it was so bad. i showed him wrong...one of the few cases where i was both the winner and the loser
There is at least one exception. Grinding your skills so that you unlock the better content of the game. Other than that I don't tolerate a game when it isn't fun anymore.Blunderboy said: