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Games you put a lot of hours into only to realize it was a bad game
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probably skyrim. i leveled up my character so that he was good at crafting, which took a fair amount of time, i ended up crafting what was the best armour and weapons for a stealth build, and so every cave, every tomb, every dungeon i stumbled across felt completely pointless. why even bother exploring a cave when you KNOW the rewards aren't going to be of any value to you? that game desperately needed some stat variation within it's armour and weapons and it would have mitigated that issue. instead about 70% of the game was pointless to me leaving you with a piss poor story. skyrim was such a huge disappointment.
Far Cry 3
I beat it, more then 30h put into it, and I kinda hate it.
The story is bad, and never gets better. It has some nicely produced cutscenes, but story is on "90's Van Damme movie" level.
Vaas isn't a good character. I have no idea why people still insists that he is.
Second island is much worse then first.
Save system actively works against it being a good sandbox game, when you can get killed so quickly, and get moved back so long.
That you can get killed so quickly works against it being a good sandbox game.
I hate the healing system.
The crafting system maybe is good, but the inventory system works against it.
I haven't got back to any Ubisoft AAA game since this.
I beat it, more then 30h put into it, and I kinda hate it.
The story is bad, and never gets better. It has some nicely produced cutscenes, but story is on "90's Van Damme movie" level.
Vaas isn't a good character. I have no idea why people still insists that he is.
Second island is much worse then first.
Save system actively works against it being a good sandbox game, when you can get killed so quickly, and get moved back so long.
That you can get killed so quickly works against it being a good sandbox game.
I hate the healing system.
The crafting system maybe is good, but the inventory system works against it.
I haven't got back to any Ubisoft AAA game since this.
Yes! I was gonna say this!
After i think 20 hours I just realized this game was full of long boring dungeons, intricate mechanics and most of all awful, uninspired music tracks.
For that same reason I couldn't play this game: awful soundtrack. I keep reading it has a great gameplay but that music keeps me from playing it.
Totally agree, Gran Pulse was an enormous planet totally devoid of (human) life. Also the fact that the game wasn't structured for this many branched place made it very difficult to explore without a working map ("go there!" but... where is there???).
Edit:I still liked XIII and I don't view it as a bad game but the one I really loved was XIII-2.
I remember playing Dark Souls and then going back to Skyrim and realising it was garbage.
More recently Ni no Kuni 2, sadly.
More recently Ni no Kuni 2, sadly.
Lol, era.
I got 17 hours in, but the story was meh and like you say, every area is a huge sprawl of copy and pasted environments, and I was getting "No damage" from too many enemies and figuring out how to damage them was a slog and I got the impression it just wasn't worth another 20/30 hours
It was disappointing as I had always thought the game looked cool, but it's just, not
It's put me off trying any of the developers other JRPGs as well to be honest
Life.
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I can't say I really have ever done this. If a game seems shite within an hour I usually drop it, I'm too old and add to give it more of a chance lol.
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I can't say I really have ever done this. If a game seems shite within an hour I usually drop it, I'm too old and add to give it more of a chance lol.
I still don't know why I've played MGSV for 110 hours, great potential but it quickly went to shit after the end of chapter 1.
Played Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III for 57 hours because I love the WH40K universe, but it's just miserable garbage, thank god I got it for free.
I also not sure why I finished NieR: Automata, I lost my interest after route B burned me out and last routes didn't do jackshit for me, and yet 30 hours wasted.
But the worst example is Survarium - I hate myself for spending almost something around 1000 hours in this piece of shit, all those promises fro ex-S.T.A.L.K.E.R. devs and yet so many years later it's still in early access.
Played Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III for 57 hours because I love the WH40K universe, but it's just miserable garbage, thank god I got it for free.
I also not sure why I finished NieR: Automata, I lost my interest after route B burned me out and last routes didn't do jackshit for me, and yet 30 hours wasted.
But the worst example is Survarium - I hate myself for spending almost something around 1000 hours in this piece of shit, all those promises fro ex-S.T.A.L.K.E.R. devs and yet so many years later it's still in early access.
Uncharted 4.
I wouldn't call it bad but... I am totally indifferent towards it. Which can be worse than it being simply 'bad'. I just finished it because out of sense of completing something that I began and not because I wanted to. It's just a really flat experience for me throughout.
I wouldn't call it bad but... I am totally indifferent towards it. Which can be worse than it being simply 'bad'. I just finished it because out of sense of completing something that I began and not because I wanted to. It's just a really flat experience for me throughout.
Mass effect Andromeda. I even defended the game after finishing it, though I knew deep down it was not good. It's not the awful mess people make it out to be and it would probably be a much better experience if there was an option to remove all side missions (or the worst ones, which is 99% of them).
But god I wish I could have these 80 hours back so badly.
But god I wish I could have these 80 hours back so badly.
Xenoblade Chronicles 2, for me.
Every battle seemed to take an eternity, the side quests ranged from boring to tedious, and by the time the game had introduced what felt like 800 different subsystems (blade affinity, blade customization, hold items) I realised during Chapter 3 that I wouldn't enjoy it more later than I did then, so I dropped it. I get people like the game, but it just did nothing for me.
Every battle seemed to take an eternity, the side quests ranged from boring to tedious, and by the time the game had introduced what felt like 800 different subsystems (blade affinity, blade customization, hold items) I realised during Chapter 3 that I wouldn't enjoy it more later than I did then, so I dropped it. I get people like the game, but it just did nothing for me.
Me too. I've kept pushing kept pushing but it didn't click.
Dragon Age Inquisition. Not sure why I finished it because I never stopped complaining about it.
Xenoblade Chronicle X. I put ~ 50 hrs into it before I quite. I really hated the pace of the game, forgettable charactors, overly complicated combats, annoying town music etc. The only reason I stuck with it that long because I'm a mech fan and the exploration in that game was amazing but that's about it.
I can't stand Bethesda games. Fallout 4 was a clusterfuck of bugs. I installed it for a day when it came out, and sold it for the same price I paid. Way too many bugs for it to be playable. Pretty much my experience with any game they make.
Dark Souls 2, sigh.
Worse yet even after getting into the far superior original game while defending the sequel my realization was buying it again on PS4.
Worse yet even after getting into the far superior original game while defending the sequel my realization was buying it again on PS4.
That sounds more like Skyrim or Fallout 4 than Oblivion to me. For whatever else it lacks, Oblivion had a lot of great quests.
There are far worse hot takes in this thread, So I wouldn't worry about being punched.
Now for my hot take.
Octopath Traveler. I wasn't invested in any of the stories or characters and the whole game felt very gimmicky, Combat (especially bosses) dragged on and I felt like I was using the same two attacks over and over again.
About 30 hours in I realized I was just playing it because I dropped 82 bucks on it. Dropped it a few days later and sold it. It's not a bad game, But certainly not for me.
Dark Souls 2, I always play NG+ in these games and dump hundreds of hours.
With Souls 2, when the credits rolled.... I was out.
With Souls 2, when the credits rolled.... I was out.
I think I must've completed something like two-thirds of Golden Sun before I realized I actually really disliked the game, I persevered and finished it and discovered I actually hated it. The poor pacing, the tons of dry dull dialogue, samey uninteresting dungeons, and slow combat system just got to me all at once. Then the game ends without resolving anything and expects you to shill out more money for the sequel.
Skyrim. I tried really hard to enjoy it considering all the hype around the game, thinking "I probably haven't reached the point where it'll click with me yet".
It never happened, because outside of the freedom of exploration Skyrim is just... pretty ass to be honest. The combat in particular is just embarassingly bad.
It never happened, because outside of the freedom of exploration Skyrim is just... pretty ass to be honest. The combat in particular is just embarassingly bad.
I put something like 17 hours into Fable 3 before accepting it was, not necessarily bad but a shallow imitation of previous games and quitting.
Two Worlds exuded Euro-jank charm so that might be why. :P I put a lot of hours into it myself on PC though I never finished it for whatever reason despite liking it at the time.
Realized almost immediately but I finished Dragon Age 2 because I must've been a masochist at the time not sure
Destiny 2 recently. Thought the loot was like Diablo, but nah, not at all. Feels like getting more powerful is kinda worthless as the enemies just adjust to light with you so you never feel any stronger. Also feels like everyone has the same stuff.
Maybe I just don't understand after playing for 50 hours or what.
Guess I just wanted a diablo loot type FPS.
Maybe I just don't understand after playing for 50 hours or what.
Guess I just wanted a diablo loot type FPS.
I didn't find it charming. Risen and Gothic are Euro-jank charm, but not the first Two Worlds game. I really liked the second game though.
Yeah the looting aspect isn't really great in Destiny. It's kinda "there" but nowhere as motivating as in games like Diablo, Path of Exile or Titan Quest. Destiny's strength is the core gameplay. The shooting is fantastic.
Almost every MMO.
It is hard to get out of an MMO since leveling and getting loots will always be fun.
It would take months and years to break the cycle of addiction.
It is hard to get out of an MMO since leveling and getting loots will always be fun.
It would take months and years to break the cycle of addiction.
Darksiders 2. I loved the first Darksiders and wanted to love part 2 but I realized kinda early it wasnt great. Boring dungeons, empty world and pointless loot system aside, the biggest kick in the teeth is that the story is absolutely pointless. I pushed myself to finish it only to be rewarded with the fact that nothing i done changed the outcome of the first game. No resolution at all. I finished the game and felt like willy wonker was sending me on my way while yelling "you get nothing!!!"
FF10. I was desperate to love it because it was fucking. Final. Fantasy. 10.
But when I got to Calm Plains I'd had enough. Slow, uninteresting, stiff, with way too much content and terrible voice acting in unskippable cutscenes.
I went back to it and beat it years later, but I'm not ready to call it a good game.
I spent probably 10-12 hours in GTA3 before finally admitting that it was janky as hell and I was bored out of my mind.
But when I got to Calm Plains I'd had enough. Slow, uninteresting, stiff, with way too much content and terrible voice acting in unskippable cutscenes.
I went back to it and beat it years later, but I'm not ready to call it a good game.
I spent probably 10-12 hours in GTA3 before finally admitting that it was janky as hell and I was bored out of my mind.
Persona 5. I knew it was bad after that first homophobic scene but I persisted because I thought it was going to be a one-off. Also I thought that the game was going to get more critical of the sexualisation.
Ni No Kuni 2. I gave it about 15 hours but the mandatory brick wall recruiting shit killed me. I was already underwhelmed by the shit story and lack of V.A. so that was the last straw.
Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Gave it about 10 hours, awful map system, horrible plot and V.A., blatant fan service. No.
Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Gave it about 10 hours, awful map system, horrible plot and V.A., blatant fan service. No.
Yeah, it feels kind of silly to play through a game twice consecutively, then decide you don't like it, but its exactly what happened to me. I really can't stand it now. Its such an ugly game, and although it does some cool stuff and has the best NG+ in the series, there are so many annoying decisions that irritated me the more I played it.
Kingdom Come Deliverance
Destiny
Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen
FFXV
Spent at least 30+hours on each of these before noping the fuck out and never bothered finishing them due to various reasons, the main one being boredom.
Destiny
Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen
FFXV
Spent at least 30+hours on each of these before noping the fuck out and never bothered finishing them due to various reasons, the main one being boredom.
Xenoblade Chronicles X
Its the only game I wanted to destroy rather than sell. About 30 hours in I realized I hated about 80% of the foundation of the game.
Its the only game I wanted to destroy rather than sell. About 30 hours in I realized I hated about 80% of the foundation of the game.
Fair enough but the quirky dialogue gave it charm, don't you think? :) I was glad that the second game had more technical polish that's for sure. But I didn't get into it like I did the first. I think its world was less interesting despite looking a lot nicer. Even the intriguing magic system lost its appeal rather quickly when it became just about stacking existing cards for greater effect than introducing new ones, which is a shame because it had a lot of potential.
Yeap. Put in 10 or so hours on PS3 and moped out of it. Then put in 10-15 hours on PC hoping Japanese voices (English VA is awful) and mods could help but no, still terrible.