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Post by bladefist on Sept 27, 2018 21:27:23 GMT
And many of the GTA games. There would always be some car chase or timed mission and my driving sucks so after a few tries, I quit.
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Post by Pounce de León on Sept 27, 2018 22:24:45 GMT
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Post by PapaCharlie9 on Sept 27, 2018 22:29:00 GMT
Points for courage for posting this. Let's hope the CDPR circlejerk doesn't find you. Have you seen me go at it in the Witcher thread? I liked the game just fine, though I admit to liking TW2 combat more, but why would I expose myself to yet more circlejerk? I get plenty of that from every other game forum I read. Doesn’t matter what game it is, some CDPR fanboy is there going on and on about Yennefer and Triss. Or how Ciri isn’t gay, that’s an SJW lie, blah blah. And I wouldn’t go bragging about being the anti-circlejerk in their own thread. That just seems rude.
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Post by Serza on Sept 27, 2018 23:05:43 GMT
Have you seen me go at it in the Witcher thread? I liked the game just fine, though I admit to liking TW2 combat more, but why would I expose myself to yet more circlejerk? I get plenty of that from every other game forum I read. Doesn’t matter what game it is, some CDPR fanboy is there going on and on about Yennefer and Triss. Or how Ciri isn’t gay, that’s an SJW lie, blah blah. And I wouldn’t go bragging about being the anti-circlejerk in their own thread. That just seems rude.
Let's just say that I find bashing my head into a wall fun...
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Post by copper on Sept 27, 2018 23:40:21 GMT
Morrowind: I ran into too many bugs to actually complete the game, though I do like the setting.
Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas: I was late to the Fallout franchise, and while I enjoyed Fallout and Fallout 2, I always end up quitting my modern Fallout playthroughs. I can't pinpoint why exactly. I just... lose interest.
Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2: I've tried a few times with these. I think I just prefer the isometric 2D style of Baldur's Gate. Plus their base campaigns are both boring.
TOR: I liked KOTOR 1 and 2 so I thought I'd give this a shot. I made it through two of the class stories before giving up on the mmo grindy combat.
I'll post more if I think of them.
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Post by sgtreed24 on Sept 27, 2018 23:55:36 GMT
Yeah, this would be a long list if I actually remembered all the games I didn't finish but let's see what I CAN remember! haha
The Witcher 3 Currently on attempt number 2 (first was on console, this is on PC) and I made it further the first time. Idk, I don't mind the combat and the characters are fine... I think it's just too big for me. And the customization is shitty imo.
Divinity Original Sin 2 I actually really liked this game but I stopped playing it for some reason and when I came back to it, the gandalf meme happened and I didn't wanna start all over again. lol
Skyrim It's hard to say that I gave up on this one, because I didn't really. I have over 120 hours on PC and waaaay more than that on console, but that said... I never finished the main quest. I just didn't care about it and had more fun side questing and exploring.
The Division The only thing I knew about the Division before going in was one of the E3 trailers I had seen where the game looked amazing and I'm always a fan a post apocalyptic type stories but once I realized it was another Destiny Looter Shooter I was done.
TOR Being a huge fan of Bioware (at the time) and KOTOR being my favorite game of all time... I couldn't wait to play the "Spiritual successor" to the KOTOR series... too bad it was just a typical mmo grindfest. That killed it for me. Never finished any class story. Closest I came was the bounty hunter. With her I came to around level 45 or so.
Wasteland 2 The lack of being able to actually make your characters look like the portraits killed it for me. Such a lame/vain reason, I know... but I can't help it. lmao
GTA 5 I was loving it while playing as the old timey crime boss and the young gangster trying to make it big. I was digging the story, the gameplay was solid, didn't mind the open world... and theeeeen the stupid redneck bastard happened. I'm they type of person that doesn't like movies when they are being stupid to try for laughs and that's exactly what this character felt like. He was doing all these moronic over the top ridiculous antics and it really turned me off of the game. Haven't played it since. lol
And that's just from my steam library. I'm sure there's tons from console too, back before I became a PC player.
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Post by Andraste_Reborn on Sept 28, 2018 1:20:09 GMT
Since getting a PC in 1994, there have only been a handful of games I have added to the Did Not Complete list. Once I get invested I am a game-finisher by nature, even if I don't much like the game. There are half a dozen I've started but haven't finished yet, but I'm not counting those. I'll get to them sooner or later. Also not counting anything I played for an hour or less before I decided they weren't for me, because I don't think I remember them all. (I do recall Gothic, Morrowind and The Witcher, though.) Or anything on the Commodore 64, because I was a child and we barely finished any games in those days. In alphabetical order ...
Braid: I need to just stop buying platformers, no matter how cool and interesting they look. I have the reflexes of a dead goldfish and jut could not pass the final level, so I eventually looked the ending up on YouTube. (TBH, it was not worth all the jumping and dying and rewinding anyway.)
Cool Spot: All of my memories of this terrible game are of trying to make it run properly. Never really got it to go, but I learned a lot trying. So I guess it gets the credit for developing computer skills that have served me well, even if the game itself was not worth it.
Critical Path: A terrible, buggy FMV game from the nineties. God, this was bad. My brother and I got stuck a few screens in and it was probably for the best.
Divinity: Original Sin: Bought this because everyone was talking about what a complex and interesting RPG it was ... only to find out that they meant to combat system, not the characters or the story. Tried twice, got bored about halfway through both times and eventually gave up. Luckily, they improved the writing for the sequel and I like that a lot more!
Myst: I love point-and-click adventure games. I do not love endless screens of beautiful, empty environments full of incomprehensible puzzles and zero characters. Never bothered with the sequels or any of the many clones.
Oblvion: I only spent an hour with Morrowind before I got bored and gave up. It took me around twenty-five with Oblivion, which I guess is an improvement? I have not bothered with Skyrim yet. I think I just don't like this type of open world RPG.
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Post by melbella on Sept 28, 2018 1:20:43 GMT
Pretty much any FP RPG since I just can't do the combat. So, both Arena and Daggerfall. Haven't tried Morrowind or Oblivion yet. I also got bored/overwhelmed with Skyrim though I do plan to get back to it one of these days and maybe even start the main storyline.
Dishonored. I lasted less than an hour.
Just recently gave up on Risen. Force me to fight every 2 seconds but don't even let me loot any armor? Everything costs waaaay too much for the piddly quest rewards you get, and items that I needed for a quest didn't regenerate after I used all I had before I knew I needed them for a specific reason. Screw that game.
Fallout. I got tired of doing 0 damage to rats while point blank shooting them in the head. Haven't tried any of the others in the series, though I have bought a couple of them on sale.
I never finished PS:T though I don't remember why. I have the enhanced edition now to try again.
Never finished the first StarCraft. I got stuck in the middle of the terran campaign and never went back to it. I have it installed in my current PC though, so I might give it another try too.
For adventure games, there was one I couldn't finish due to a graphics glitch (some animation that wouldn't play properly and let me advance) and another that required so much disk swapping I gave up on it until I could get the DVD version (which I never did).
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Post by Element Zero on Sept 28, 2018 2:19:03 GMT
I rarely have a game I purchase fall flat on its face. Only two jump to mind at the moment.
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance : I long knew better than to buy this nonsense, but I was really in the mood for some MG and for cyborg ninja fun. It was so terrible that I quit at the end of the tutorial.
Tomb Raider (2013): Despite wonderful gameplay, I had zero interest in revisiting this game after completing it. The story was terrible. The NPCs were terrible. Much of the writing was terrible. I really wanted to like this one, but it was killed by shitty writing. It’s so bad that I never considered bothering with the sequels.
Kind of, sort of fell flat—
No Man’s Sky Next: I was actually enjoying this pretty well. Experiencing constant bugs that cost me hours of gameplay, combined with game breaking bugs that ended each playthrough, ended my efforts to play this game. The fun was stripped from the experience. I may eventually try again, but I have plenty of other good games that take priority.
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Post by N7Pathfinder on Sept 28, 2018 2:19:48 GMT
I will say Witcher 3 and the Dragon Age games. Witcher 3 because it's so damn big and Dragon Age because I'm not a huge fan of the tactical real-time strategy based combat.
EDIT: Oh, and Last of Us. The controlling scheme was getting to me and didn't like the added tension.
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Post by Obsidian Gryphon on Sept 28, 2018 2:48:20 GMT
Gothic II Glitchy AF. I got silver patches all over the screen so I never finished it. Never bought another Gothic title.
Fable III I played #1 and enjoyed it. III was horrible, gameplay was really bad and NPC interaction was juvenile. I regretted buying it.
Fallout III I felt depressed playing it because the game-world is anything but happy; dreary colours, etc. Only played a few hours before I abandoned it. Never touched another FO title again.
The Witcher Series Tried #1 twice. Tried #3 once. Didn't get very far into them. I wasn't keen on the gameplay and on the protag.
Syberia 2 I played Syberia 1 and thought it's a good game but nothing comparable to TLJ. I stopped playing #2 1/3 in because the stuff that had to be done was too much irrelevant busywork to me. Didn't bother with #3 after watching gameplay.
Divinity Original Sins I Wasn't taken with the protag chars; I was just basically bouncing off against myself. Some of the gameplay elements was trying. DOS II / DE is a vast improvement which I enjoyed.
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Post by shaqfu on Sept 28, 2018 3:17:04 GMT
GTAV: After hearing non stop praise about this one I tried it out and gave up a few hours in. Just felt like more of the same at this point and I felt nothing for any of the 3 protagonists.
Divinity Original Sin: Oddly enough I think it's mostly the camera that stopped me from playing this one. I liked the turn based combat and it seemed interesting enough but the angle of the camera just bugs me for some reason. I do still want to try 2 out eventually since I heard it's much improved.
Fallout IV: picked up the complete on the cheap and it just didnt do anything for me. Quests didnt seem very interesting, dialogue system was really weak and settlements....
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Post by ergates on Sept 28, 2018 7:13:31 GMT
Ah yes, buying a game when others have recommended it only to feel that awkward shame when you don't like it. Then trying to come up with some decent excuse when they ask you how it's going other than 'meh I don't wanna play it ' Jade Empire. Maybe 18 months ago? A friend recommended it, I love BioWare, and of course I read the posts waxing lyrical about it. I did something I rarely do, I quit quite a way thru the game. I was in the city, I'd met John Cleese and done a bunch of stuff, then I just stopped. I was bored. I can see how great it would've been in it's day, but now that DA and ME exist I can just go play them. Plus I disliked the combat and I've never been into the samurai thing. Prison Architect. I loved Sim City 4 and was hoping for something along those lines, but there were 2 problems. Firstly it was more complex than my tired brain wanted to handle, but it also has really small icons that I couldn't enlarge. I get enough eye strain as it is, but the fact that it was enough to stop me playing just shows how little I cared for it. *shrug* The Witcher. Boring. Collecting women like trading cards low key pissed me off too. Plus I didn't enjoy the combat. Assassin's Creed 2. Impulse buy in the sale, but not my thing. The whole 'kick kick grab punch' thing is totally alien to me. Perhaps this is why I like stealth games and shooters, it's a simpler way of fighting and I can focus on the story instead. Actually I have to admit that the constant 'sexual conquests' in The Witcher series also leave me cold. It's like the developers are busy doing all the things developers do, coding, level designing, scripting, model-making etc... and suddenly, when confronted with the female polygons they created they all temporarily revert en-mass into a bunch of 15-year-old teens, with raging hormones. Having said that, the same could also be said for quite a few game developers and artists, including the odd one here at Bioware - Miranda's constant gratuitous ass shots spring immediately to mind.
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Post by ergates on Sept 28, 2018 7:21:20 GMT
Oh and Knights of the Old Republic. I just had no clue what was going on so I was a little lost, but I'm watching the movies now so maybe I can revisit it.
KOTOR isn't the easier to pick up, but I went back to it.
It's good, though the inventory, codex and journal have aged about as well as bread would.
If you try to go back to it, I have a build that got me through both KOTOR and KOTOR2, and surprise surprise is actually my own.
Well worth it on every level. I thoroughly recommend this game to anyone who loves RPGs. It's a timeless classic. Sure the combat feels dated, unwieldy and clunky compared to more modern titles, and it's based on the old D&D/2 ruleset, there's a couple of areas in the final mission on Starforge that I'd argue are outright unfair (not unbeatable, just unfair) but all that is bearable given the grandiose sweep of the storyline. The graphics can also look dated, but if you play on PC there's a whole bunch of high resolution texture packs available at Nexus Mods that really bring the game too life, and if you combine that with the 'Prodigal Knight' Reshade preset the game can actually look pretty darned good.
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Post by ergates on Sept 28, 2018 7:40:31 GMT
Where do I start? In no real order... Planescape: TormentMost overrated RPG ever. I couldn't get past the first area because I had no interest in TNO who he was or what he'd done the game totally and utterly failed to grab me in the first few minutes. Also you like the setting or you don't. Elder Scrolls Oblivion and Skyrim. What put me off these games was a number of the things the overly complex leveling skill system in Oblivion Skyrim I could get my head around but First person is annoying, okay for a shooter but not an RPG. I got board easily. Divinity Original Sin and Original Sin 2I guess turned based RPG's aren't my thing as much as I wanted to like them I got board. World of WarcraftDull, lifeless and clunky controls that and I've been horribly spoiled by both SW:TOR and ESO The Witcher SeriesThe sucky combat systems pure and simple otherwise I'd have liked them more and might have even finished them! Mass Effect: Andromeda and Dragon Age: Inquisition Both suffer because their area maps are just a little too big than what they really needed to be. I'm something of a completionist as I like to do as many side quests in an area before I move on... got board... Planescape Torment is definitely NOT the most overrated RPG. That honor belongs to Fallout New Vegas. I'll never understand all Obsidian fanboyism if I live to be a hundred. Sure it was a good game, as was KotoR II, but what the fanboys hail as edgy, dark, gritty storylines are really just very unsubtle and in-your-face attempts to railroad players into binary, utterly contrived choices where either outcome generally sucks. It's all very emo but it's hardly original. But I digress. Planescape Torment had quite a lot of subtlety within the story. If you don't like the setting though, I doubt anything I say can convince you to give it a chance. Oblivion wasn't my cup of tea, but I absolutely love Skyrim. The first person mode is entirely optional, the entire game can be played in the third person if you so choose. WoW controls clunky? Wot wot wot?? Are you playing the same game as I used to play? I found the controls glassy smooth, and probably the most responsive I've ever encountered in any MMO. Pitty they killed their own game with the Cataclysm expansion. The Witcher's combat is perhaps a bit sucky, or at least the original Witcher's is kind of clunky. Witcher 2 improved things somewhat, but 3 nailed it. I can see why people don't like it, but I have no problem with it. I managed to complete both MA:A and DA:I once, though I felt very tired, bored and burned out during the middle part of both games. I just pushed through. All attempt to replay both titles have failed; I get around a quarter of the way through and just utterly lose interest. Bioware's open world games just aren't working for me.
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Post by ergates on Sept 28, 2018 7:54:39 GMT
Morrowind: I ran into too many bugs to actually complete the game, though I do like the setting. Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas: I was late to the Fallout franchise, and while I enjoyed Fallout and Fallout 2, I always end up quitting my modern Fallout playthroughs. I can't pinpoint why exactly. I just... lose interest. Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2: I've tried a few times with these. I think I just prefer the isometric 2D style of Baldur's Gate. Plus their base campaigns are both boring. TOR: I liked KOTOR 1 and 2 so I thought I'd give this a shot. I made it through two of the class stories before giving up on the mmo grindy combat. I'll post more if I think of them. Were those Morrowind bugs the flying kind? Did they have wings, a horrid, 'nails down blackboard' screech, swarm around your head, and chase you to the far ends of the earth? I can sympathise. I adore Fallout 3. You have to give it time. It's not an easy game to just pick up from a cold start, it has to bed in, and you need a few days to get to grips with it's various quirks. It still has one of the most original and engaging intros in gaming history in my opinion. New Vegas is...okaaaaaay. It's a decent game, even a good game in places. I've completed it a couple of times, and would do so again. But I'll never like it as much as Fallout 3. Like other Obsidian games it just tries too hard to be edgy and emo, with 'dark' choices shunted onto the player for the sake of being 'gritty', rather than any real logical sense. Fallout 3 shows rather than tells. It just presents the world and allows the player to discover it's secrets and depths as they choose. New Vegas shoves the secrets in your face and yells " LOOK AT MEEEEEEE!". Unfortunately Obsidian fanboys are legion, and they are very very, very vocal. Every single Fallout topic on any platform, be it forum, social media, feed or whatever is usually just a loud, shrieking chorus of " NEW VEGAS NEW VEGAS NEW VEGAS OTHER FALLOUT GAMES SUCK, NEW VEGAS NEW VEGAS NEW VEGAS". The one on these forums is no different. And now the New Vegas disciples are after my ass, with murder in their hearts. Have never played Neverwinter Nights, so cannot comment. I had a similar experience in TOR.
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Post by ergates on Sept 28, 2018 8:22:17 GMT
Pretty much any FP RPG since I just can't do the combat. So, both Arena and Daggerfall. Haven't tried Morrowind or Oblivion yet. I also got bored/overwhelmed with Skyrim though I do plan to get back to it one of these days and maybe even start the main storyline.
Dishonored. I lasted less than an hour.
Just recently gave up on Risen. Force me to fight every 2 seconds but don't even let me loot any armor? Everything costs waaaay too much for the piddly quest rewards you get, and items that I needed for a quest didn't regenerate after I used all I had before I knew I needed them for a specific reason. Screw that game.
Fallout. I got tired of doing 0 damage to rats while point blank shooting them in the head. Haven't tried any of the others in the series, though I have bought a couple of them on sale.
I never finished PS:T though I don't remember why. I have the enhanced edition now to try again.
Never finished the first StarCraft. I got stuck in the middle of the terran campaign and never went back to it. I have it installed in my current PC though, so I might give it another try too.
For adventure games, there was one I couldn't finish due to a graphics glitch (some animation that wouldn't play properly and let me advance) and another that required so much disk swapping I gave up on it until I could get the DVD version (which I never did).
Arena and Daggerfall are now very, very dated games, and you'd probably have to have a real retro thing going on to enjoy them on a modern system. I'm not even sure how well Daggerfall can run on modern PCs I can run it in Dosbox, but it's a rather unsatisfying and clunky experience. Weirdly Arena still seems to run OK even on my Windows 7 64 bit machine. The combat definitely is rather unrefined, to say the least. Skyrim remains one of my favourite games. it's easy to become overwhelmed, because the size of the world is overwhelming, and you're swamped with quests. It's best to keep it small scale. Stay in the starting village of Riverwood, make it your base, and 'commute' to Whiterun as needed. If you try to do all the quests forced into your log right off the bat you'll end up going nowhere. Just work on exploring the area around Riverwood and surrounding forests and the river. Do the quest to recover the dragon claw in Embershard mine, do a bit of hunting around that general area - let the world draw you in and admire it's beauty. Once you feel ready head to Whiterun at a nice slow leisurely pace and pick up the main quest from there, but don't rush through it. Never played Fallout 1 or 2, so have little knowledge of them. Fallout 3 is a classic - but it's also very, very easy to screw up your character's build and end up unable to kill anything more dangerous than a mole rat. On my first playthrough I ended up restarting from scratch, wiser from the mistakes I made the first time. Fallout 4 is far more forgiving in every sense. PS:T is well worth another look. It remains a unique game. Starcraft 1: Siege Tanks in siege mode are your friends. Use them for base defense, put them behind bunkers filled with Marines, with a couple of towers behind and you'll be impregnable for all but the final mission (which is kind of unfair in places). For attack park siege tanks outside the enemy base, put them into siege mode, and use Goliaths to provide anti-air and anti-infantry cover. Use a Research Vessel as a spotter to provide line of sight for your tanks, and reveal any stealthed units. Then use a second mixed group consisting of Goliaths and tanks to create a 'creeping barrage'. As your first group of tanks is shelling the base and providing cover, the second group moves forward and then deploys. While group 2 provides cover and shells the base, move group one forward until it's ahead of group 2 and re-deploy. if you use this 'tic tac' method you'll never lose a Terran mission. This does not work in multiplayer though, so don't try it. For the earlier maps where you don't get siege tanks, two groups which are combination of Marines, Firebats six Wraiths and six Goliaths is enough to deal with any scenario - and before that just massing Marines and Firebats will get your through. The final Terran mission though is nasty. Your base is attacked by siege tanks, using siege mode, and defending against them is not easy; as they'll rip your defenses to shreds. I like to use drop ships to put Siege Tanks into the raised escarpment above my base to give them superior line of sight. I also have a couple of Battlecruisers handy to fend off the attacks. Worse still, you'll be attacked by stealthed Ghosts who plant nuclear strikes against you. The only defense is to have Research Vessels in the locations where the Ghosts like to stand when they plant their nuke markers.
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I want to be gay in game. Romance is just option, Just let me be gay & stop force romance.
Games: Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age Inquistion, KOTOR, Neverwinter Nights, Jade Empire, Mass Effect Andromeda
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Post by jediguardian on Sept 28, 2018 9:07:22 GMT
I have plenty of game that I don't play until end credit roll (RPG/Strategy). No specific reason, just stop playing and move on to another game/activity
Some game that I really give up is
Medieval Totalwar, Civilization V. Strategy is really not my style.
Pool of radiance, Neverwinter Night, Simcity4 is too hard for me.
Divine Divinity, critical bug block me from progress story. So I have to give up.
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Post by Pounce de León on Sept 28, 2018 9:34:28 GMT
I will say Witcher 3 and the Dragon Age games. Witcher 3 because it's so damn big and Dragon Age because I'm not a huge fan of the tactical real-time strategy based combat. EDIT: Oh, and Last of Us. The controlling scheme was getting to me and didn't like the added tension. TW3 is long and that sometimes gets, me too. I usually make a sprint for the end then, in TW3 I chilled a bit in the excellent Blood and Wine before finishing the main quest and I skipped quite a part of Skellige.
Talking TW: I bailed from TW1 (annoyed by items clogging the inventory and an escort quest where enemy spawned in the back killing the objective) and TW2 (fuck QTEs!, and fuck 3D fights in confined spaces - a shame - the setting always interested me).
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Games: Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age Inquisition, KOTOR, Baldur's Gate, Jade Empire, Mass Effect Andromeda, SWTOR, Anthem, Mass Effect Legendary Edition
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Post by saandrig on Sept 28, 2018 9:40:58 GMT
Jade Empire... samurai thing.
Fighting words right there 😂
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Post by N7Pathfinder on Sept 28, 2018 11:11:43 GMT
Oblivion: I only played for two hours and then dropped it. I found it boring and the characters faces were horrible.
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Post by vonuber on Sept 28, 2018 11:19:10 GMT
The Witcher 3 is by far my biggest game playing failure.
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Post by ArcadiaGrey on Sept 28, 2018 12:59:51 GMT
Jade Empire... samurai thing.
Fighting words right there 😂 Oh you wanna fight me? Well just let me get my pokey stick then I'll blow some wind goddess thingies at you! Yeah I sucked at it.
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Post by themikefest on Sept 28, 2018 13:11:40 GMT
Grand Theft Auto 5. I stopped playing after a couple of hours.
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Post by copper on Sept 28, 2018 13:24:19 GMT
Morrowind: I ran into too many bugs to actually complete the game, though I do like the setting. Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas: I was late to the Fallout franchise, and while I enjoyed Fallout and Fallout 2, I always end up quitting my modern Fallout playthroughs. I can't pinpoint why exactly. I just... lose interest. Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2: I've tried a few times with these. I think I just prefer the isometric 2D style of Baldur's Gate. Plus their base campaigns are both boring. TOR: I liked KOTOR 1 and 2 so I thought I'd give this a shot. I made it through two of the class stories before giving up on the mmo grindy combat. I'll post more if I think of them. Were those Morrowind bugs the flying kind? Did they have wings, a horrid, 'nails down blackboard' screech, swarm around your head, and chase you to the far ends of the earth? I can sympathise. I adore Fallout 3. You have to give it time. It's not an easy game to just pick up from a cold start, it has to bed in, and you need a few days to get to grips with it's various quirks. It still has one of the most original and engaging intros in gaming history in my opinion. New Vegas is...okaaaaaay. It's a decent game, even a good game in places. I've completed it a couple of times, and would do so again. But I'll never like it as much as Fallout 3. Like other Obsidian games it just tries too hard to be edgy and emo, with 'dark' choices shunted onto the player for the sake of being 'gritty', rather than any real logical sense. Fallout 3 shows rather than tells. It just presents the world and allows the player to discover it's secrets and depths as they choose. New Vegas shoves the secrets in your face and yells " LOOK AT MEEEEEEE!". Unfortunately Obsidian fanboys are legion, and they are very very, very vocal. Every single Fallout topic on any platform, be it forum, social media, feed or whatever is usually just a loud, shrieking chorus of " NEW VEGAS NEW VEGAS NEW VEGAS OTHER FALLOUT GAMES SUCK, NEW VEGAS NEW VEGAS NEW VEGAS". The one on these forums is no different. And now the New Vegas disciples are after my ass, with murder in their hearts. I was actually referring to bugs of the glitchy kind, though I guess for a game with giant flea taxis I should have clarified I actually got pretty far in Fallout 3. Farther than New Vegas at least. I completed the main quest, but got tired of it before I could finish all the dlc. I don't dislike New Vegas either, so I can't pinpoint why I always get tired of these games. I do know your pain with Obsidian fanboys however. Generally for me I think their games are either a hit or miss for me, particularly Avellone's characters (loved Kreia, couldn't stand Grieving Mother).
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