Topic: What video game did you give up on the quickest?

Dark Souls, Nioh and Bloodborne. I have patience for lots of games otherwise, I can easily spend 5+ hours on trying to master a single track in MotoGP or Project Cars, practicing and fine-tuning the vehicle. I played Dark Souls up until the Ornstein and Smough fight, the game was OK up until that point. I rage-quit and never went back. I borrowed a copy of Bloodborne from a friend but didn't enjoy it that much, I admit it was more fun to play than Dark Souls, but it simply wasn't an interesting game to me. Nioh was the worst one I think, as far as combat goes, I liked the setting and lore and all that, but the gameplay was just annoying.

Interestingly enough, I do really enjoy the 2D-version of these SoulsBorne games, stuff like Death's Gambit and Salt & Sanctuary for example.

@FullbringIchigo Yes, that's the one. At first, it was relatively simple and enjoyable (in a switch-off-brain-and-mash-buttons kinda way) but halfway through Shadow's story there's a fight at Club Rouge where you have to defeat Emerl and two other androids and it's just pigging difficult. Not in a tactical way, just in a sheer "there's no possible way you can hold off against three lightning-fast enemies at once with such basic controls and abilities" kinda way. It's unfair. Despite that, I tried real hard, and periodically go back and try again, but nothing I can do leads to victory.

Mad Max was the last game I did this with, a couple of hours in. Not because it was a bad game as such, but because I'm a sucker for 100%-ing areas, and I didn't want to sink a load of time into an average game. Infamous Second Son is another, for the same reason.

But they were both games that I got free with PS Plus. I don't tend to give up on games I've paid for. One that stands out in my memory though is the PS3 Prince of Persia. I loved the PS2 games, but that one was just so... nothing. That's the only word I can use to describe it. Shame, because it kind of killed off the franchise.

The one that comes to mind for me, Final Fantasy VII

After the masterpiece that was FF VI, FF VII was just shallow. The main character was just a whiny emo character with no substance and the villian compared to Kefka was just your cookie cutter villian. Add to the the game that didn't need to be as long as it was, which most of it was just side quest b.s. more annoying characters that you just wanted out of your party rather then have them join (Can't Sith). For me it also signeled the end of the Final Fantasy series. And it still amazes me that so many people rank this game as one of the greatest of all time.

But yeah I never finished it got about halfway through the third disc and that was it for me. Haven't looked back since.

Great topic, since it makes you think about what is important for us as gamers. And it's funny to realize someone quickly quit those games you spent hundreds of hours with.
BTW I gave a look at my 120+ games collection and I realized I finished all of them except Xenoblade Chronicles X. I played it a lot but the horrible pop-in and that annoying song that restarts every single time you fly off the ground killed my interest.

@Tasuki I think one of the reasons is that is was many people's first FF game. It was mine and most likely my first JRPG too.

@Gremio108 Yeah, I can totally relate about Mad Max. I remember playing through the game until the world opened up and then kind of thinking that if I'd play any longer I wouldn't be able to contain myself to finish the game 100%. That's just how these games work. Once you're in too deep, you need to go all the way. Anyway, I kept playing and put in so many hours. :')

@Tasuki like @JohnnyShoulder said FFVII was for many the first FF they played (in the UK it was the first one we ever got) so i think a lot of people look at it through rose tinted glasses, it a good FF game but it's not the best FF game

@FullbringIchigo I thought that was the case for here in the UK, but wasn't 100% sure. Thanks for confirming!

There are a LOT of games that I never played for more than hour. As someone who has been gaming for 40yrs, there have been many games that for one reason or another never kept my interest for more time. Whether that was 'technical' issues (believe it or not games did release that would crash, have bugs etc with NO patches to fix them) or just 'boring'. I used to buy a LOT of the 'budget' Codemaster type games that were £2-£3 and whilst there were some 'great' games amongst these, there were some poor ones too. Also, some games with 'LONG' load times, not easy to find the start of (multiple games on one cassette), problematic loading - etc rarely got played. Anyone who gamed in the 80's will remember watching the 'load' screen draw line by line, keeping their fingers crossed that it would draw and then the annoyance and frustration when the last few lines corrupt...

There were a few games that I had little patience for - like Tempest, Captain Blood (bought because of the Jarre Soundtrack) but these were slow, vague and boring for me at that time so I didn't really bother playing these more than hour.

Later in life, from the N64/PS1 era, I was a lot more discerning and much more aware of what games offered and so tended to buy games that I 'wanted' more than just take a chance. The N64 in particular as games were 'expensive'. It wasn't really until the 360, when they started Games with Gold to 'compete' with PS+ (I didn't bother with PS+ until the PS4 as it wasn't compulsory), that I started getting games that weren't 'wanted' as such and would try them because they were 'free' only so these are now the games that I don't tend to play more than hour - if I play them at all. I know what I am looking for in a game nowadays and as such, tend to buy games that at the very least, I have a 'moderate' interest in - if the price is right. Almost ALL games I buy at full price, I have beaten the story at least. There isn't any game that I have bought that I haven't played for at least an hour.

Not a full game but the Mars DLC for Far Cry 5. I hated it right away. It just did nothing for me whatsoever...

@JohnnyShoulder @FullbringIchigo Even so that's no sense that that games makes so many greatest games list when it's honest just not as good as FF VI. I mean come on the first game In played was baseball on Atari and nowhere would I put that on my greatest game list.

@Tasuki personally my favourite FF game is IX but i think one of the reason it makes so many lists is because it was a ground breaking game and paved the way for more JRPG's in the west and RPG's in general, it's very likely we wouldn't have games like Persona, Dragon Quest or The Witcher 3 without it

@FullbringIchigo I begged to differ on Witcher III. Even if JRPGs didn't get popular here Western RPGs did have a following here. Games like the Wizardry series, and Might and Magic had their audiences at least in North America, not sure about Europe. I feel that Western RPhs would have flourished here especially due to other media like the Lord of the Ring movies and shows like Game of Thrones and such.

@Tasuki Not played any previous FF games before 7, so I can't rank what I have not played. That is subjective whether it is not as good as the previous games, the people that do rate it so highly will most likely have very good reasons for liking it so much.

I don't speak for everyone obviously, but it certainly bought RPG's both Japanese and Western to my attention. I don't recall playing many if any at all before FF7.

This gen, Journey, Life is Strange and a couple of indie platformers that didn't wow me in the first hour. Gave them all a fair chance but lost interest quickly.

Last gen, Assassin's Creed 3. Zzzz. Bored the socks off me.

@Kidfried yep that would've been me! I saw it coming so I bailed

Batman Dark Tomorrow. Couldn't even figure out what to do in the beginning.

@Tasuki "Even so that's no sense that that games makes so many greatest games list when it's honest just not as good as FF VI"

Innnn yooouuurrrr opppinnioooonnnnn 😂

There's a point when you need to take a step back and admit it's a good (maybe even great) game, and you just don't like it. Like the Witcher for me.

@AdamantiumClaws Having seen how underwhelmingly "eh" that game was, I reckon you dodged a bullet by not proceeding any further than you did.

Smart move!