The "Games you played for 5 minutes never to play again and reasons why" thread
I just picked up and 45 minutes later put down, final fantasy 4 (2) for the ds, and I'm probably never going to pick it up again. you see the entire first 45 minutes of the game is intro, they added shitty voice acting and just... whatever, I can look past most of the shit. But I died after this long unskippable BS that I've done hundreds of times before (I like the game, I felt compelled to actually buy it this time) and of course forgot to save. so now I'm pissed.
Anyway this thread is for anyone who played a game for a day or less and then stopped that shit because of something stupid in the planning or production of the game, or just basic frustration I guess. Really everyone has those games, so here's a place to vent.
And it's in general discussion because it's general. Call me general too.
Anyway this thread is for anyone who played a game for a day or less and then stopped that shit because of something stupid in the planning or production of the game, or just basic frustration I guess. Really everyone has those games, so here's a place to vent.
And it's in general discussion because it's general. Call me general too.
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It had been a several day process of saving at those owl statues, and ended with me getting annoyed at something and turning it off without playing any song or saving at a statue... I was so flustered I hadn't saved that ONE time even though I had saved over and over again at other points in the process, and in the end I was like "Eh, I had been meaning to start a game with a different name save anyway."
I tend to get really impatient with video games. Windwaker was fun, but gah... that whole triforce gathering bit of the game was torture.
Now Final Fantasy VII? I tried that once. Never got far. The whole cyberpunk thing is crap. I hate it. FF died for me when that game came out.
Zelda? I have had Twilight Princess since last Christmas and never played it. Truth? I probably never will.
Honestly I just don't have the time anymore to invest into long games. I have tons of games that I've never beat or maybe I hardly even started them. I'm lucky to get more than about 5-6 hours in a week to play games on my own and I usually don't get that. And it's never in one sitting. God forbid I can sit and play for more than half an hour. At that rate it'd take me probably an entire year to play all the way through Zelda when accounting for the way I play games. I just can't maintain intereset in a game when it takes me a YEAR to get through it.
Now I've been playing Dungeon Siege 2 for the last MONTH and have done really well! I actually got through the first act! Now at 3 acts per difficulty...3 difficulties...an extra act from the expansion in each of those difficulties...and I'm never going to make it to the higher difficulties. That is basically 12 acts. If it takes me a month to get through an act on a GOOD month? It will take between 1 year to 1 and a half years to get one single character all the way through this game. And that's if this is the ONLY game I ever play during that time.
Thinking about it... the only game I can remember beating was Elite Beat Agents. I played Crisis Core for the psp for a day and then quit that. Hellgate London I quit after a day (that game was atrocious though), Age of Conan, this is what I can remember right now at least.
EDIT:And oh yeah, I've heard nothing but bad about Age of Conan. I'll stick to WoW.
This, for example, I can relate to. A young man, recently recruited into the professional world, proceeds to do his best to complete the assignments, erm, assigned to him. When you start out the game and your work's not so good, you take all the credit for the failure, but after you've played awhile and you get good your lazy, incompetent, egomaniacal boss takes all the credit! I CAN RELATE TO THIS!
But I'd have to say mine would be Condemned 2. That was just a huge hulking pile of shit.
I may go back to the game again at some point, though, but it's fairly low on my list of games that I own but haven't had a chance to play a whole lot (a list made incredibly long by the fact that games like Dark Cloud 2, Dragon Quest 8 and Rogue Galaxy are so damn good while being so damn long. Why do you have to be so awesome, Level-5?)
And then, of course, there's stuff like Metal Gear Solid 3 and Shadow of the Colossus, which I should have stopped playing after five minutes but instead stuck through to the end in the desperate hope that I'd somehow get my money's worth out of them.
I suppose. If that's the case, then I'd have to say Street Fighter 2. I got it off of the Live arcade, and couldn't really play it too often, since it's so goddamn hard and I'm terrible at Street Fighter. I mean, seriously, Ryu, stop fucking using Hadoken over and over again! The worst part about it is that when I play with my friends, I'm always better than them by miles. So, it really had very little lasting appeal.
I can't really think of anything else, usually because I'm really picky about my games, and when I get them, I only stop playing them when I've beaten them in and out, no matter what they are. I mean, I beat Dirge of Cerberus. I even played the extra missions. srsly.
That's right, Mario Kart Wii, because none of you feckers thought it'd be a good idea to buy it, all swooning over Brawl. All I wanna do is be able to redshell you bitches
And I know a lot of people like to hate on FFVII... but I thoroughly enjoyed that game. Good stuff, I think.
But anyway, as to the thread topic... one of those games for me is Magna Carta: Tears of Blood. It looked pretty, and got okay reviews. So I bought it. I played it. I put it down after 5 hours of gameplay. Why?
You can't backtrack to previous areas!! You have to stay in the little area that fits that section of the story! If that didn't suck enough, there are also little quests that you have to do, kill these things, get this item, but.. by the time you've gotten the items or killed the beasties, you can't get back to where you need to turn it in!
Bullshit. Even though I HATE trading in games... it was one of the few that I felt was an embarrassment to my collection, and I got rid of it.
Disgaea 2 might also end up being a game I never play again... but only because they seem to have changed almost nothing from the first game, and I've already spent 100 hours under that system building an army. I don't feel I need to do it from scratch again.
So very boring.
I liked 9. =(