@LordAndrew: You think that Yu-Gi-Oh was bad? How about Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories? That game was the hardest game I've ever played in my life! It's impossible to beat it. They'd give you 50 cards with all having 500 attack and then the bad guys had cards with like 3000! That game was impossible. I doubt it has ever been beaten.
I managed to slug through Uncharted 2 and Enslaved. I finished them both because people were waiting on me to finish them up and I knew I would probably never see those games again, but still.
Yup, and the reason is the same: For the achievements.
Hated Mirror's Edge. What a misfire that game ended up being. I forced myself multiple times to finish that game. I did it and only got about 300 points for the effort. I don't want to crap on that game, because this isn't the right place for it, but man... Took me a lot to finish Halo 3 and God of War II as well. Both game's single player stories were completely underwhelming compared to their predecessors. At least ODST is fun. Almost finished The Incredible Hulk (based on the 2008 movie) on my PS3 before I realized that the game was complete dogshit, taking way too long to beat, and it had no Trophies whatsoever, so I didn't feel bad about not finishing it.
I tend to switch to something else, then come back later to finish a game that's bad when I've ran out of things to play. I think if you are a professional game journalist reviewing a game, you really need to set out with the intention of finishing it before you write a review. I can sympathize though - some games just stop being fun after a while, after about 10 minutes if we're talking about Hydrophobia...
I really wouldn't like to have had to sit down and try to finish that in one sitting. I keep going back to it in dribs and drabs - I paid for those points/that game - and I damn well want to see all of it! Having said that at the moment I'd be more inclined to burn two hours playing KKND on a DOSBOX on the PC than bore myself cack-less with the totally uninspiring Hydrophobia. I'll probably finish it - I'm desperate to see what the outisde of the vessel looks like! Having said that - Satan might be ice-skating to work on the day that I enjoy it... Finishing it is probably part of me sado-masochist side coming into play... Or some sub-conscious guilt about something feeling that i need to punsh myself.. I'll finish it - one day....
I own a ps3 and I don't like most of the exclusives, I could list all of them, however that's pointless. There was one game in particular that really make me want to throw the controller. I rented resistance 2 because the gamerankings score was the same as the last game, so I assumed nothing improved. I thought resistance fall of man was a good game because it's not like totally linear as the second game. I also couldn't find a copy in stores so I thought maybe i'll just rent it instead. Turns out I died a hundred times in a row because if you weren't standing at the right place ted price wants you to stand, your dead. It's actually that linear, standing in the right place and shooting is what keeps you alive. This game is more linear than portals if that's true. I still wanted to find out what happens, I just kept putting myself through this game. Also there are times where you think you are making progress then with this stand in the wrong place thing, there are like a ton of bigger enemies. I ask myself, does isominac even test their games or does ted price test out the games for them instead? Seriously, it takes like five headshots to kill any of these creatures. I have played a ton of fps games and non of them besides this game, or half life... was as cheap and unfair as this game. I want to write ted price an email asking for an appology for wasting my time and rental money.
hm, gta4 was terrible if you ask me. cod3 was buggy as hell in campaign. other finished games whose werent much fun at all: the darkness, super paper mario & halo wars...
A mixture of wanting to get more trophies/achievements and wanting to be the type of person to finish games has made me finish a few games that I was getting pissed off at.
Rock Revolution comes to mind. I did it for the achievements. Usually I wouldn't do that, but I do like rhythm games, so I wanted to give it an honest shake.
Assassin's Creed. Goldeneye: Rogue Agent. Yoshi's Island DS.
They weren't the worst games in the world but they were pretty damn boring at times. Yoshi's Island DS is a pretty big disappointment if you've played and loved the original like me. :/
God of War 3. I hated that game, but for whatever dumbass reason went through it all of the way. Probably to justify the money I spent on it, but in the end, I just felt ripped off.
It happens every now and then, not so much because I actively hate the game, but because I get bored of it before the end. The Quake 2: Ground Zero expansion is the most recent example I can think of. Games that are not story-driven in the slighest are the hardest one to pull yourself through if you don't care much for the gameplay.
Halo 2's campaign, it just felt tedious, long and when the end came I just felt like throwing my controller at the screen because I sincerely felt as if I had lost my time during the whole game for nothing....
By the end of Metal Gear 2 I hated that game, but I just wanted to be done with it. I have never played another Metal Gear game since then because they all seemed to get utterly & unyielding dumber while the fans more adamant that the games were great.
I finish all of my games, so naturally this has happened a couple of times. Fable II, Fuel, Viva Pinata, Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, Far Cry: Predator, Perfect Dark Zero come to mind.
Fallout: new vegas. Bar-none the most broken game i have ever played. Hellgate: London was more stable, as i have never lost a save game or was unable to continue my game. I don't plan on buying any beth/obsidian games in the future for it too (on top of blizzactardvision games). Then again, my gaming hobby which I once dropped countless hours a week, has turned into a few minutes... So, take my bitter beans for what they are. My two 360s are literally collecting papers on the top of them now. Bittersweet irony
Kingdom Hearts had me so angry by the end of it, that was the closest I ever came to breaking a controller. By then it was like "I've been playing this game for 80-some hours, if I don't finish it now, the game has won."
Immediately got rid of it, about an hour after the credits rolled. Aside from that, I learned a few minutes too late that Marvel vs Capcom 2 was simply not my type of game. But if I'm going to pay money for something I can't legitimately get rid of or ever un-purchase, I should beat it, right? A few hours later I think all I'd done was convince myself to hate it more than it deserved. (And not a single achievement for the effort. Pah.)
Are we talking disliked all the way through? Not recently, although I used to do it all the time as a kid because I didn't have anything else to play (Christmas gifts).
Yes but if I quit playing a game it means I really reallllly disliked it. This generation the only games to get that treatment were Assassin's Creed II, Darksiders, and Ghostbusters: The Video Game. I just could not abide playing them one second longer.
Metal Gear 4 - first time I had personally played a metal gear game.....terrible.....just terrible. God of War - Pretty sure its just not my genre and the Kratos is just an AWFUL character Fallout 3 - Fuck that subway system and the complete jankiness Final Fantasy XIII - All hallway, a weak story, and enough Melodrama to choke a donkey
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