I recall there were a few titles growing up that I left unfinished despite loving them because my brother finished them before I did.
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Your most irrational, ridiculous reason for bouncing off a game?
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Yeah. I owe PlatinumGames's releases a fairer try. I've never liked any of their games, yet I never felt I fully tried any of them, which always felt weird seeing that my favorite video game genre is character action games/hack n'slash or whatever you wanna call them.
The thing with MGR is, as I noted, I've grown so accustomed to dodging, and I rarely use the counter/block mechanics in any game I play. I could go entire games without using it once, so I felt so clumsy the first time I tried it, and I could barely get by.
Some indie game I purchased on Steam a long time ago used the blowing-in-the-cartridge joke twice in a row (once in the dev's logo and once to start the game), so I immediately Alt+F4'd and never launched the game again.
Same here. I can't stand his art and I'll never play a game that uses it.
I hate the Batman Arkham series because you couldn't jump in Arkham Asylum (don't know about the others because I never played any of them).
Dropped the game at one point and came back many months later. By that time I've already forgotten the controls. Every time I tried to jump over something by pressing X and Batman didn't jump it made me hate the game even more.
Dropped the game at one point and came back many months later. By that time I've already forgotten the controls. Every time I tried to jump over something by pressing X and Batman didn't jump it made me hate the game even more.
I had to drop Papers Please as I just didn't have the attention to detail to deal with the game. I missed so many little things in that game that basically made it impossible for me to play. Oh, and I did not like how it handled on the Vita (small screen space).
I tossed Observer this weekend once I figured out it was another "Hide while monster looks around the room for you" game, and not just a cyberpunk detective game.
Dropped Alan Wake American Nightmare just after the first... chapter(?) because while I was exploring a bunch of rooms, apparently I explored the "right" thing in the "right" room so it instantly kicked me to a new area and new chapter, so I couldn't fully explore the area. Talk shit all you want, but I like to fully explore every nook and crank of a place before progressing.
Dead Island when I found out there was weapon durability and very little ammo – downloaded the trainer and disabled it and then realized the game still sucked after leaving the resort. Partly my fault for lack of research, I was expecting a shooter-type game
While I agree that their criticism of aim assist was misguided, in most cases moving and shooting are two separate actions in Destiny because it's literally impossible to do anything at high speeds while aiming down sights.
Destiny also has the most aggressive and intrusive aim assist I've ever seen in a video game. There aren't many things that feel worse in a game than having your crosshair flung across the room because it happened to land on a jumping enemy.
Enter the Gungeon- After 3 hours "I'm making zero progress, rooms keep changing for no reason, not having fun. I've gained and learned nothing. What is this shit?", proceed to google and learn about rogue-likes, delete
Dead Cells- After 3 minutes, "oh it's a rogue-like?" delete
Flinthook- After 30 seconds, "oh it's a rogue-like", delete.
Moonlighter- Before I start the game "oh it's a rogue-like", delete
Dead Cells- After 3 minutes, "oh it's a rogue-like?" delete
Flinthook- After 30 seconds, "oh it's a rogue-like", delete.
Moonlighter- Before I start the game "oh it's a rogue-like", delete
I guess RDR2. I got into a gunfight and killed a bunch of people, then when I went to loot all their bodies I realized how fiddly and tedious it was and I literally turned off the game right then and sold it the next day.
Personally I don't think giving up a game for bad controls is either "irrational" or "ridiculous" but I'm sure a lot of people will.
Personally I don't think giving up a game for bad controls is either "irrational" or "ridiculous" but I'm sure a lot of people will.
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This may or may not be irrational/unreasonable but I don't like how long the runs in Dead Cells are. So far my loop in this game has been playing for 10 minutes, dying and then going "Do I want to go through all that again? Not really."
Got turn of the Trines games because of the art style, don't really know why
Have tried Uncharted 1, stop playing when I got the first shot part
"This isn't a Adventure/Action game, this is a freaking Shooter game where I shot at peoples"
Never played the rest of 1 or the other games because of that for Drake DOESN'T FEEL like that kind of trigger happy guy that kill with guns
Have tried Uncharted 1, stop playing when I got the first shot part
"This isn't a Adventure/Action game, this is a freaking Shooter game where I shot at peoples"
Never played the rest of 1 or the other games because of that for Drake DOESN'T FEEL like that kind of trigger happy guy that kill with guns
...every single HUD element can be turned off/modified
Do gamers never check option settings or something?
haha it's weird, but actually I understand. I like seeing statistical metrics of my game playing habits
Whenever I moved the camera in the original Bayonetta, it seemed like it would only last for a few seconds before the game moved it back to what it considered to be the "better" angle. I stopped playing the game over this.
It was fixed in Bayonetta 2. It still happened, but less frequently and more intelligently.
It was fixed in Bayonetta 2. It still happened, but less frequently and more intelligently.
I thought Horizon: Zero Dawn was the most mediocre game I played. Open world, check. Enemy forts to liberate, check. Hunting animals to gather resources, check. Crafting system for everything, check. Subpar combat that makes you look like a badass while only pushing the counter button, check.
This is me with like 90% of indie games.
I start playing. "oh, this is cool."
Three days later I've completely forgotten they exist. Not out of malice or anything, I just...don't come back to them.
I just tried the game on switch and it's not fixed, and a free camera is not the solution.
What? Were you walking around with 5 HP or something? As far as I know, nothing in the game can kill you in one hit unless you're playing on the highest difficulty.
That's neither irrational nor ridiculous. It just means the games didn't provide any hooks to keep you playing.
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I regularly bounce off of games with ugly / bad UI and fonts. Silly maybe, but it haunts me.
Yeah, I played that the other week as well and one of my first impressions was that the camera was just not good.
That reminds me, I quit Darksiders II after a while because the camera was just too damn slow. It frustrates me to this day. I want to go back to it but I can't. It's glacial.
Yeah, I played that the other week as well and one of my first impressions was that the camera was just not good.
That reminds me, I quit Darksiders II after a while because the camera was just too damn slow. It frustrates me to this day. I want to go back to it but I can't. It's glacial.
The usual cycle is:
1) Fifa demo released
2) Try demo and really like it
3) Buy game
4) Actual game is frustrating as f*ck
5) Drop actual game after 1 month
1) Fifa demo released
2) Try demo and really like it
3) Buy game
4) Actual game is frustrating as f*ck
5) Drop actual game after 1 month
I was really invested in Borderlands 2 back in the day, played through the first DLC too when it dropped on the Season Pass which I bought on trust alone given how enjoyable the DLCs were for the first game. Then they announced there will be DLC outside of the Season Pass, many of them in fact, including a level cap increase. I never touched the game or any other Borderlands game again. Respecting your customer's time and money is key for me, if they fail to do that I quit the game, simple as that.
You could argue something similar happened to me with the first Destiny, but that was actually a more complex situation. I was addicted to the game, spent close to 200 hours on it in the first 2 weeks or so. You may remember that the final levels were a fucking chore, you had to grind your ass off all week to make minimal progress towards better weapons and such and then have a once a week (per character) chance to get a good item from the raid, hoping it wasn't a duplicate or a fucking shader again. So me and my crew were exploiting the progression system wherever possible, like the infamous loot cave or that mission on the moon where you were swarmed by enemies at the start, so we'd kill ourselves and try again every time for faster looting. When Bungie made a point of patching out these "exploits" without improving the progression system, I decided to call it quits and never touched the game again. We were grinding because the game's progression system is broken, artificially slowed down to hide the fact there was in fact no endgame. Since they patched out the medicine and not the sickness, I decided it wasn't worth it anymore. But then again in that case I was feeling worn out by the game for a bit already, I just needed that last push by Bungie to make me stop caring. Good decision in hindsight.
You could argue something similar happened to me with the first Destiny, but that was actually a more complex situation. I was addicted to the game, spent close to 200 hours on it in the first 2 weeks or so. You may remember that the final levels were a fucking chore, you had to grind your ass off all week to make minimal progress towards better weapons and such and then have a once a week (per character) chance to get a good item from the raid, hoping it wasn't a duplicate or a fucking shader again. So me and my crew were exploiting the progression system wherever possible, like the infamous loot cave or that mission on the moon where you were swarmed by enemies at the start, so we'd kill ourselves and try again every time for faster looting. When Bungie made a point of patching out these "exploits" without improving the progression system, I decided to call it quits and never touched the game again. We were grinding because the game's progression system is broken, artificially slowed down to hide the fact there was in fact no endgame. Since they patched out the medicine and not the sickness, I decided it wasn't worth it anymore. But then again in that case I was feeling worn out by the game for a bit already, I just needed that last push by Bungie to make me stop caring. Good decision in hindsight.
Ditched Nier Automata after a few hours because the PC version is stuttering just the right amount to upset me, even with the mod to fix it.
I bounced off Child of Light thanks to the unpleasant art direction. The text boxes had the directional lines overlapping overlapping the outlines which I intensely disliked.
Silly reason I know, but there we go.
Silly reason I know, but there we go.
I ditch a lot sandbox games if the driving physics are bad. Dropped Sleeping Dogs because the driving was worse than PS2 GTA.
is bouncing off a game because it has too long of a tutorial consider irrational? Persona 4 Golden is that game for me....i can see that game appeals to me, the art, music, style and battle system seems fun but the beginning is so drawn out with the tutorial, school and introduction of systems that makes me zoned out to the point of nope.
Only a temporary example but I loaded up Splatoon 2 for a quick game yesterday after not playing for a few months but turned it off again after 2 minutes of fastforwarding Pearl and Marinas announcements. I just got irrationally impatient and annoyed with it for delaying me from starting the game. Someone will probably tell me there's a way to skip it now, lol.
This one may be "winning" the thread so far.
And this one... Surely narrows down your options a lot.
