Lost about 90 minutes of progress when my power went out and I hadn't saved at all yet after starting Darksiders.
Didn't start the game ever again.
Didn't start the game ever again.
-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
What's the pettiest reason you've ever quit a game?
- Thread starter Cruxist
- Start date
DA:O was basically meant to be played on an up close PC monitor.
I'd personally love for them to remaster Dragon Age rather than Mass Effect, but oh well.
-10 morrigan disliked that
(a bf totally dropped it because he couldnt get morrigan to stop being pissed with him)
Me too. Literally. I hated the way 64 era games looked, played and then these stupid game systems they introduced just made the actual act of playing them a chore. I pretty much didn't play video games from 1996 until 2005, with the odd exception of playing Goldeneye, or Tony Hawk, at a friend's place, or just going back and playing SNES games. I can't believe there are developers who are still using those kinds of archaic systems.
Yeah this is game very hard on the eyes
I could never play Binding of Isaac for the same reason
I've dropped a not insignificant amount of games because it took too long to get control of my character. Like sit through 20 seconds of uskippable logos on boot, sit through a couple loading screens to get into the "real" game, get put into an unskippable intro cutscene, etc. 10 minutes into my gaming session I still haven't had control of my character and I'll bounce 90% of the time. Sometimes I just wanna game
Almost every elder monster in MHW. I eventually came back to it, but after fighting nerg, I literally stopped playing until iceborne.
Then I stopped recently when I got to raging bracadios. My friend urges me to play but hells naw. I'm done!
I'll come back eventually lol....
Then I stopped recently when I got to raging bracadios. My friend urges me to play but hells naw. I'm done!
I'll come back eventually lol....
I legit thought I was the only person that noticed this! Nice to know Im not alone.
Honestly thought my OCD was on overdrive. Noticed it immediately and once you see it, yeah you can't unsee it.
Ashame as everything else is smooth as butter.
I don't like the designs of the demons in SMT games, even though I keep buying the games. I tried Devil Survivor (both DS and 3DS) and SMTIV and quit after playing dozens of hours. I keep coming back, but nope out of them. I even bought Strange Journey And SMTIV Apocalypse, but never touched them. I just can't stand those designs.
I've never quit a game because of some designs before.
I've never quit a game because of some designs before.
No Controller and forgot the controls of the game
So it was Ori and the will of the Wisps , I was making progress with controller just fine ,and than covid hit and I had to relocate to my native place. Started it again recently and... was unplayable with Keyboard and Mouse and i just forgot completely how to play the game and what I was supposed to do. I had to drop it, maybe in future I will restart it all together.
So it was Ori and the will of the Wisps , I was making progress with controller just fine ,and than covid hit and I had to relocate to my native place. Started it again recently and... was unplayable with Keyboard and Mouse and i just forgot completely how to play the game and what I was supposed to do. I had to drop it, maybe in future I will restart it all together.
Oh Boy!
Don't ever play Donkey Kong 64. It's full of that and at some point it requires you to play the original Donkey Kong arcade game to get a key to advance. Many people I know quit the game because of that.
Divinity: Original Sin. In this game, you can learn a limited amount of skills by buying a book and when you reach that limit (and at the beginning of the game you can have like 2 or 3 skills at the same time), you have to definitely erase a skill to learn a new one. You don't like the new skill that you bought? Buy again the skill you just erased.
For me , that system became a cardinal sin for a RPG and that's why I never played the sequel.
For me , that system became a cardinal sin for a RPG and that's why I never played the sequel.
But the sequel doesn't have that, you basically have a D'n'D inspired book of spells you know, with a number of them "memorized" = "ready to cast". And the number you can memorize is based on one of your stats.
Maybe you knew that, and if you did... phew, that's petty indeed
Pillars of Eternity 2 due to the long and frequent loading times on console. Hoping that next gen fixes that
Persona 5: Royal. I may have missed some clues for a requirement I needed to reach to get the additional content. In hindsight, this was really fucking obvious, but at the time, I was past the point of no return. I just figured I'd get an early game over, redo the game again as new game+, do a see everything playthrough.
Then I hit the airlock puzzle in a certain Palace. I hate this puzzle and it always fucks with me. Just got so lost a guide couldn't even help me. Something just snapped. Shut the game off, deleted my save, I'll try again in a few years.
Then I hit the airlock puzzle in a certain Palace. I hate this puzzle and it always fucks with me. Just got so lost a guide couldn't even help me. Something just snapped. Shut the game off, deleted my save, I'll try again in a few years.
I've dropped games for bad voice work, but I don't think that's particularly petty.
I dropped Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time partly because of the stupid babies, and partly because each character had their own action button. It was just so annoying.
I dropped Xenoblade Chronicles 2 for a variety of small, independently petty issues that gathered together and formed a massive gestalt of irritation. The speech pattern of the token kawaii critters. The voices in battle. The robot maid. The nine hundred types of consumables. The anime boob monster asking my preteen avatar to touch her chest. The camera. The jumping. I'm traumatized!
I dropped Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time partly because of the stupid babies, and partly because each character had their own action button. It was just so annoying.
I dropped Xenoblade Chronicles 2 for a variety of small, independently petty issues that gathered together and formed a massive gestalt of irritation. The speech pattern of the token kawaii critters. The voices in battle. The robot maid. The nine hundred types of consumables. The anime boob monster asking my preteen avatar to touch her chest. The camera. The jumping. I'm traumatized!
God the insistence on putting crafting into everything these days suuuuucks.
It's just another level of unnecessary resource management.
EDIT: Well not everything, I don't even think it's particularly common. I wouldn't say is rare or anything though and that's the problem IMO.
Final Fantasy XIV: You slide around when you do combat animations. Took me out of the experience completely and ruined everything about combat. I actually really missed the animations of the first version of the game, or even FFXI for that matter (even though that had sliding as well).
I feel it strongly depends on the game and how much it makes sense.
For example, Don't Starve is about survival, and you have to make things from what you find. It makes sense that you need to craft, and it offers you more choice ("Do I make X or Y or save up for Z?") in a way that I feel improves the game.
What are examples of unnecessary crafting systems?
Terraria. When the protag is hurt they sound like a baby burping or getting punched. Soo fucking annoying. Cannot play it.
I don't know if this qualifies as petty, or just something that's a big deal for me but might not be for other people, but I really need to understand in a game where I am and why I'm there, in terms of the physical space.
Case in point, the first couple levels of Halo 4. In the first level, you're floating through space in your wrecked spaceship and encounter what looks like a giant metal wall with a doorway in it. The doorway opens and your ship gets sucked in, and in the next level you're in what looks like an outdoor environment on a planet surface under the sky. What? Did I go through a wormhole and wound up crashed on this planet? Was this planet on the other side of the giant metal wall in space? I kept playing the game but at that point I'm just totally disconnected from the story this game is trying to tell me.
Final Fantasy XIII was also really bad with this. You repeatedly just find yourself in a new setting (forest, junkyard, futuristic city, etc.) with no notion of how you got there from the last place you were in, or how it connects to the next setting you'll wind up in.
Case in point, the first couple levels of Halo 4. In the first level, you're floating through space in your wrecked spaceship and encounter what looks like a giant metal wall with a doorway in it. The doorway opens and your ship gets sucked in, and in the next level you're in what looks like an outdoor environment on a planet surface under the sky. What? Did I go through a wormhole and wound up crashed on this planet? Was this planet on the other side of the giant metal wall in space? I kept playing the game but at that point I'm just totally disconnected from the story this game is trying to tell me.
Final Fantasy XIII was also really bad with this. You repeatedly just find yourself in a new setting (forest, junkyard, futuristic city, etc.) with no notion of how you got there from the last place you were in, or how it connects to the next setting you'll wind up in.
About the sequel? No, I don't know anything about it, I just chose to ignore it (litterally, on Steam) so maybe I should give it a chance one day. I don't know. But, hey, this thread is about petty reasons to stop playing a game and I think that might be the pettiest of all of the reasons why I dropped a game.
I never played DOS1, but DOS2 is one of my favourite games of all timso I wanted to share the information that the issue you had with DOS1 is gone.
Hope that if you give it a try, it doesn't do anything else that ruins your enjoyment of what I consider a wonderful game
Your kid gets sick, and your exposition-machine Mimir tells you to go to Freya. The game already established she was a healer, so that made perfect sense. Atreus protested, but I didn't care. He was coughing up blood, and Kratos mentioned he's always been a sickly kid. So I backtrack a little bit and go to her home to heal my boy. Turns out the door's closed, and the head-guy starts sassing me for even trying the very thing he suggested. Annoying, but whatever. If it has different plans for the sick boy storyline, then fair enough. I go all the way back to where I was on the regular crit path, and pretty much immediately afterwards, the game's tells me to go back to Freya's house, but this time for realsies.
I "took a break" for the evening, and just never picked it back up again.
I "took a break" for the evening, and just never picked it back up again.
The game was already on notice for Atreus' ability to do on-the-fly translations of riddles that somehow still perfectly make sense in English, and also rhyme.
On my third attempt to play The World Ends With You, I was turned it off this time as I forgot how immature Neku was in the beginning. I hadn't tried to play in many years, and he was just annoying.
Still gonna try to get into it again.
Still gonna try to get into it again.
Yep that's a perfect example. I also quit it for the same reason.
Oh one of two reasons I dropped Hollow Knight was because of the voice acting sounds for the animals - they honstly were straight up fingernails on chalkboard for my ears.
Pretty sure that qualifies as petty but sound is half the experience and if I'd rather turn it off I'll have to pass
Pretty sure that qualifies as petty but sound is half the experience and if I'd rather turn it off I'll have to pass
I just stopped playing this because it's the first game to ever make me feel woozy. Literally never had a problem with it in my 30+ years of gaming. The FOV is so close and every time I changed the slider in the options (playing on PC) it would just pop back to 75. That, plus the weird drifty kind of camera made me feel terrible while playing it. Plenty of games on Game Pass that won't make me feel like I stood up too fast while playing them, so I un-installed Call of the Sea.
I don't know if this is petty since it fundamentally changed the gameplay loop in a way I didn't care for, but I dropped MHW: Iceborne because of the wounding mechanic which I just didn't find fun. Softening parts feels like frustrating busywork inserted into the middle of a system that was already functioning nearly perfectly.
Imagine a series going from edgelord gnosticism to this weaboo bullshit. Yikes. I was considering getting into it but that sounds insufferable.
Yeah :/ I was enjoying the linear platforming and stuff, and then suddenly there's a map and everything. I just really can't get into Metroidvanias :(
Red Dead Redemption 2 because how slow all of the animations were.
FF7 Remake because of a quest where I had to find children and bring them back to their pre-school or whatever it was, just felt so unecessary and I just wanted to fight monsters.
Death stranding because I didn't want to fight, just deliver packages lol.
FF7 Remake because of a quest where I had to find children and bring them back to their pre-school or whatever it was, just felt so unecessary and I just wanted to fight monsters.
Death stranding because I didn't want to fight, just deliver packages lol.
Numerous times in Madden after throwing an interception that was plainly obviously my fault. I'd blame the game and say "eh fuck this then."
Thats why I love doing my franchise mode in the cloud because I can pick up where I left off in the game.
edit: I misread the OP. I spent $60 at launch on Crysis 2 because my friend and I loved the beta for the game for some reason. My friend ended up not getting it at launch even though we both agreed to so we could play together. Played the MP for probably 30 minutes and got destroyed over and over again and then returned the game by the end of the week, mostly because I was salty my friend didn't get it too. Pretty sure I brought it back to gamestop and put the money towards a preorder for something else haha.
Thats why I love doing my franchise mode in the cloud because I can pick up where I left off in the game.
edit: I misread the OP. I spent $60 at launch on Crysis 2 because my friend and I loved the beta for the game for some reason. My friend ended up not getting it at launch even though we both agreed to so we could play together. Played the MP for probably 30 minutes and got destroyed over and over again and then returned the game by the end of the week, mostly because I was salty my friend didn't get it too. Pretty sure I brought it back to gamestop and put the money towards a preorder for something else haha.
The problem w/ Days Gone is you have to upgrade (everything, including) the bike to feel worth a damn and it takes HOURS to get to that point. Once you do, it's fantastic but I don't blame anyone for giving up early.
Shame on the devs for putting the "fun" of the game behind 10-12 hours of "ahaa struggle because you're underpowered and slow!" to get there.
I guess KH3 because my save file corrupted at the final world where the "story" was
and I said "fuck this game for wasting my time" ejected the disk and sold it for store credit immediately.
and I said "fuck this game for wasting my time" ejected the disk and sold it for store credit immediately.
I quit Far Cry Primal after it was clear how much crafting and scavenging I'd have to do. I should have expected it, but I wasn't in the mood. I guess I wanted something more like that King Kong game on Xbox 360. I just wanted to aggressively throw spears at enemies, I didn't want to make and upgrade them.
Any game that wants to make puttering around in menus a significant part of its experience is gonna lose me real quick.
Any game that wants to make puttering around in menus a significant part of its experience is gonna lose me real quick.
Very recently, I played Crypt of the NecroDancer for about ten minutes, absolutely detested the fact that I could only move my character with the beat of the music and not whenever I wanted to, so I turned it off and deleted it.
Didn't really give it a fair shake at all, but whatever, I got it free via a store mishap.
Didn't really give it a fair shake at all, but whatever, I got it free via a store mishap.
Decided to boot-up Worms Rumble. I quit the game when I realized the Scottish voice was no longer an option. You can't play a Worms game without Scottish worms! :O