Games that you hated playing, but you finished anyway...

We've all had experiences where we hate the game, but just had to see it through to the end. I can think of 3 off the top of my head: Duke Nukem Forever, L.A. Noire, and Kane and Lynch 2...I wouldn't have finished Kane and Lynch, but it was so short, and the game did me a favor and gave me a shit ending for my efforts...

I didn't hate Contact, but I played through it thinking that I would get to "something better". The ending was alright, but the game as a whole only grabbed me long enough to do the bare minimum.

Prototype comes to mind.

Duke Nukem Forever. That was really painful.

Definitely FF XIII. Catherine became tedious at the end and the story was kinda ood.

Halo CE was not a game that I liked.

I played most of Turning Point: Fall of Liberty.

Duke Nukem Forever was bad, but as I said in my review it was interesting enough to be worth it.

Borderlands on the PC was pretty dumb

CoD4. I really just don't like Call of Duty. I still played MW2 anyway, and I like that quite a bit better.

The list of games that I DID like but didn't finish is quite a bit longer.

Pikmin 2.

Red Dead Redemption, honestly. It was way too drawn out, but at least the ending was good.

Modern Warfare 2, it was so terrible but it had that part where everything had been emp'ed or something, that part was good.  
 
That was MW2 right? 

Brink story/single-player mode, or bot mode I guess you could call it as well.

I kinda hated playing Alpha Protocol. But, at the same time I enjoyed it a lot.

The only one that comes to my mind is Final Fantasy VII, I finished it only because a friend insist. I really don't like the gameplay.

@Marcsman said:

Definitely FF XIII. Catherine became tedious at the end and the story was kinda ood.

Yeah, FF13 for me...I liked some of the ideas of that game, the battle system was great, but the item and wepon thing bugged the shit out of me...as well as the characters...and the linearity...and did I mention the characters

i can't remember playing a game i hated.

my gaming hours are way too precious to me and to play something i hated would be madness. i may as well go sit out side in the cold and throw smaller stones at slightly larger stones.

i did buy Lair for £5 from the very bottom of a barrel once. but 5 mins told me that it was shit and never touched it again.

but why do you guys play games you hate... you must have loads of free time

Shank. That game was a piece of trash.

@jetsetwillie said:

i can't remember playing a game i hated.

my gaming hours are way too precious to me and to play something i hated would be madness. i may as well go sit out side in the cold and throw smaller stones at slightly larger stones.

i did buy Lair for £5 from the very bottom of a barrel once. but 5 mins told me that it was shit and never touched it again.

but why do you guys play games you hate... you must have loads of free time

I have excuses for all 3 of the games I posted. I wanted to finish Duke Nukem Forever just so that I can say I finished it, and I waited a good chunk of my life for it to be released. I was very much intrigued by L.A. Noire's setting and premise, but it got repetitive and old quickly. I already stated that Kane and Lynch was a short game.

The only one I can think of is the push for level 50(?) in X-Men Origins: Wolverine and, even then it wasn't that the game was bad, it was just the tedium of the final few levels to get that S-Rank - but it didn't require much brain power so I could listen to some new music I hadn't gotten to yet and actally pay full attention to that... Come to think of it, driving 1000 miles in Mafia II was similar, but it required even less attention so: tunes on, tune out, drive...
 
I generally apply Wolpaws' Law in regard to games and stop playing when the bad outweighs the good...

L.A. Noire. I didn't really hate it but became frustrated and bored by it.

Kane and Lynch 2. The handheld camera style was interesting for the first hour or so but it became disorienting after a while. The cover system and gun play were not the best as well. The gunplay never felt as viisceral or bloody as the visual style or setting implied. The game wasn't completely terrible though. Playing as Kane and Lynch running naked down the streets of Shanghai was fun, the first thing I did was spin the camera around and smile at the pixelated groins. The beginning of the final level was visually interesting as well as you watch a plane land on the tarmac.  
 
The game had some good ideas but ultimately the gameplay was uninteresting and there was no replay value for me.

the lost game was terrible

i finished it in one sitting just to get it out of the way

@shivermetimbers said:

@jetsetwillie said:

i can't remember playing a game i hated.

my gaming hours are way too precious to me and to play something i hated would be madness. i may as well go sit out side in the cold and throw smaller stones at slightly larger stones.

i did buy Lair for £5 from the very bottom of a barrel once. but 5 mins told me that it was shit and never touched it again.

but why do you guys play games you hate... you must have loads of free time

I have excuses for all 3 of the games I posted. I wanted to finish Duke Nukem Forever just so that I can say I finished it, and I waited a good chunk of my life for it to be released. I was very much intrigued by L.A. Noire's setting and premise, but it got repetitive and old quickly. I already stated that Kane and Lynch was a short game.

fair enough. just i only get between 1 and 2 hours an evening for gaming and i have a backlog of games i know im going to love that will last me well over a year.

have to admit to growing tired of LA Noir though about halfway through and stopped playing, i wouldn't say i hated it though.

I hated playing the original Mass Effect but I finished it because I loved the story and the world. I also hated Super Meat boy because I suck at it.

Call of Juarez: The Cartel, Brink, MW3

alan wake

Most recently, it was Rage. I paid full retail price for it which, over time, incurred the guilt of not finishing it outweighing the pain of actually playing it.

Modern Warfare, Modern Warfare 2, Halo: CE, Halo 2, Halo 3, Prototype, Half-Life 2, Goldeneye: Rogue Agent.

I didn't realise just how shitty some FPS campaigns could be. That was before I played Bad Company 2.

It's gonna be Assassin's Creed: Revelations once that's gone.

Uncharted 3 as well, since it was not patched at the time, and the combat situations are really unbalanced and poorly done compared to 2. I wanted to see the story so bad though, but man that game was disappointingly slapped together.

A TON of really well received games actually.

Bioshock, both one and two!

Fallout 3 + one expansion (forgot which one)

Halo Reach

Grand Theft Auto 4

Theres a few others but it was more of a slog rather than "ugh I really am not enjoying myself but I need to beat this to justify my purchase"

I tend to stop playing as soon as I'm not enjoying myself. I didn't finish GTA4 for instance. But for some godforsaken reason, I kept on finding that tiny little cool thing in FF13... That game deserved less of my time.

@RockmanBionics said:

Heavenly Sword. Worth it to see the story, I guess.

Same here. I'm glad I borrowed it from a friend instead of actually buying it.

Also, Final Fantasy 12. I gave up on it halfway through at first, but months later I picked it up again because, for some strange reason, I decided that I at least wanted to finish the story and if I completed it I would actually have a right to say it was bad.

Only problem is that the game didn't actually have much of a story (that I remember anyway), and even as much as I loved Balthier and Bash, the rest of the characters were crap.

Oh, and the battle system. I managed to put together a very good Gambit system only to watch the game play itself.

Bioshock, FPS aren't my thing. I get so much hype for the story and it was meh, the atmosphere was great thou for a while.

Darksiders, I hate the camera, the animations, the weapons, the story... the only good thing were the puzzles.

I can't say that I hated playing it per se, but I was deeply disappointed in the second Resistance game. I pushed through it to the end since it required practically no thought. It wasn't much fun.

Enslaved.

Too Human , and Brutal Legend still haunt me ;)

Dark Sector and Deathspank.

They were both so boring, but Deathspank at least rewarded me with an S-Rank and the occasional bit of humor. That game is too much game and not enough Ron Gilbert. When it is funny it is great, but about 95% of its jokes fall flat.

Kane and Lynch 2 was one of those for me. I basically beat it in one sitting because EB Games had a deal on where you could return it for full retail value within the first week it came out if you didn't like it. I bet they got a ton of copies of that game back. Had that game been even 10 minutes longer I probably would not have finished it. I remember at one point the game got pretty gory and my girlfriend came in and said "this is gross, why are you even plaything this?"...and I couldn't think of an answer. What a shit game.

Also Singularity got very boring at points, but I played it through because I heard it had some decent ending(s). Really probably not worth it in the long run.

This year would be Red Faction Armaggedon. It was the first time in a long time i kept saying to myself, "will you just end please."

Hydrophobia, I got all the achievements for it too.

Rouge Warrior

Actually, a lot of games. But I have a sense of honor that I must uphold!

I tend to have trouble finishing games I like, much less games i hate.

Catherine

Chrono Trigger

Oblivion

X-Men Destiny

Final Fantasy 5/6/12

Saint's Row The First

Persona 3/4

American McGee's Alice

Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude

I stop playing games if they bore me, I'm pretty smart

Oblivion, scaling enemies is something i do not enjoy, makes i feel like i have accomplished nothing by leveling up

Fairytale Fights. It starts fun. But unfortunately the game is much more than one level long. It makes the achievements pretty rare.

I recently played through all of Deus Ex Invisible War. That game... is certainly something. It's also like 7 hours long, so at least the torture didn't last very long. Oh. And Alpha Protocol, but I've said my piece about that game enough times already.

Brutal Legend. The story and the world are great, but the gameplay is just so God-awful...and it feels like you're being cheated when the first level sets it up to be a God of War like slasher.

I was just reminded of this game on another forum, saw this topic and had to come post here.
 
Pathologic.
 
That game is miserable to play, it constantly beats you down and makes you question why you are bothering to play it.  I can honestly say I hated playing it.
 
At the same time, the game is a special experience I've yet to experience in another game, I have loads of positive memories when I look back, and if they made a pathologic 2 I'd probably run out and get it.