Just what the title says. What game(s) did you continue to sink large amounts of gaming time into after they had stopped being fun? Why? Social connections in multiplayer? Addictive gameplay(MUST FILL UP PROGRESS BARS!)? Achievements/Trophies? What made you finally stop playing(if ever)?
What Game did you play long after it stopped being fun?
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La Noir, it stopped being fun after the homicide bit of the game. Actually it stopped being fun before that when the game decided to ask you to play a guessing game as to where you were supposed to go next when you hadn't been there because you hadn't had to.
Everything after that was dull, the end bit was dumb, the guy basically goes, "Hmmmm, me using this gun is far too easy, I'll use this flamethrower from now on" just to add artificial difficulty to the end of the game. I basically played to the end because I could, I just wish I'd stopped after homicide.
Everything after that was dull, the end bit was dumb, the guy basically goes, "Hmmmm, me using this gun is far too easy, I'll use this flamethrower from now on" just to add artificial difficulty to the end of the game. I basically played to the end because I could, I just wish I'd stopped after homicide.
Probably Dragon Age: Origins - somewhere around the 50-hour mark I just hit the wall with it, it started to feel like a major grind but I pushed through to the end.
That's rare, actually. Usually if I find myself not having fun with a game (like, say, The Witcher or Torchlight or STALKER) I just uninstall it and move on. I guess with Dragon Age there was just enough going on to make me want to see how it all ended.
That's rare, actually. Usually if I find myself not having fun with a game (like, say, The Witcher or Torchlight or STALKER) I just uninstall it and move on. I guess with Dragon Age there was just enough going on to make me want to see how it all ended.
I played Unreal Tournament 99 well after its popularity evaporated. I still play from time to time. That game is just so damn good.
Same for me. I miss the game sometimes, but it loses its luster quickly. Though, being the GM, kept me in for quite a long while, and I met quite a few cool people.Ryotknife said:
Prisoner of War and Far Cry 2.
POW because it's the only 3D game I know of to feature Colditz Castle, so I suffer the below average game in order to experience the Colditz bits.
FC2 because those respawning checkpoints make any long distance trip (which almost everything is) a chore. I persevere because combat is often compelling, and I'm hanging out for enemies in grenade launcher equipped jeeps, which I hear is quite a sight to behold.
POW because it's the only 3D game I know of to feature Colditz Castle, so I suffer the below average game in order to experience the Colditz bits.
FC2 because those respawning checkpoints make any long distance trip (which almost everything is) a chore. I persevere because combat is often compelling, and I'm hanging out for enemies in grenade launcher equipped jeeps, which I hear is quite a sight to behold.
I re-bought that the other day, no idea why.Squilookle said:
Something about the moving mouths and COMPLETELY STILL eyes and face is really jarring.
OT: Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.
Since I'm waiting to start a job, I've decided to play through AssCreed Brotherhood and Revelations before 3 comes out.
Maybe it's because I've rushed through it, but something about Brotherhood just seemed so...stodgy, like eating an entire loaf of bread, but I completely ground through it, even completed all the thief/mercenary/courtesan assignments to view all the memories of Cristina Vespucci; there's just so many little tweaks that could have improved it, make the platforming more than RT + A and move forward, take away that stupid, stupid killstreak thingy, make notoriety harder to get rid of, it was all just so unchallenging and badly paced and...well it's just a shame, really, glad I wasn't into Assassin's Creed earlier and got it on release, I would have been so much more let down.
I'm enjoying Revelations a lot more, although it's consistently reviewed to be the poorer game. Strange...
World of Warcraft. I never even got near the level cap, I think my highest level character is stilll languishing on like level 48 or so. It just got really boring and grindy (even more grindy than before) but I carried on for a while, I wanted to get to the end game, the social part of dungeons always appealed to me. But I never got there, and eventually let my subscription lapse.
WoW. kinda an obvious one really. i enjoyed it for a while because i was raiding constantly, but then had to step down from my raiding position in the guild and then cata came out. i bought cata but, just couldn't recapture the magic.
Fallout 3. i tried to get the platinum trophy, and that includes getting all bobbleheads. a good idea in theory, but then i realised i missed the one in raven rock. this was after collecting all of the other ones. so had to replay the game and find them all again.
Fallout 3. i tried to get the platinum trophy, and that includes getting all bobbleheads. a good idea in theory, but then i realised i missed the one in raven rock. this was after collecting all of the other ones. so had to replay the game and find them all again.
