Worst time spent in a game.

[Possessed Freak]

Well we looked at what people's fondest memories are, how about their most frustrating, painful, horrible memories?

I am not talking about simple hardware incompatibilities here, I am talking about playing a game for an amount of time and just having a HORRIBLE time... you spent money on the game and you are going to give it a go but man does it suck!

Or perhaps the game itself is fun but you hit a very frustrating point in it, some fail clan you belonged to that ruined a whole month worth of playing time... some update to an otherwise perfect game that just destroyed the core of it to you. Come on, share!




For me it was Spore. I tried man, I really did. I had all the classic sim games, I loved playing them. I just wanted to believe that spore would be epic. Yeah epically boring. As soon as I got to space it just dragged so much. After carving out a local core set of planets I just got bored. So I would try again, and begin to trade with other races... and it got boring. So I tried again, and became a warmonger... and it got boring. What is sad about the game is that until the final part of the game (space) it was more of an adventure game. You just had to do X enough times to progress to Y.

 

[airdata]

Spending $50-60 on MW2 and having the game degenerate to the point where I literally could not play it online. I'd start a game, and it would throw me into some modified, hacked server. And then I had no way of getting to another server...

That on top of the rampant hacks in game just make it a pointless game to buy for me.

 

[Beev]

Dragon Age 2 got that way for me. I enjoyed it at first, but by the end I just constantly felt like, "This sucks. This just isn't any fun and just... sucks."

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Final Fantasy 13. Wanted to like it. Spent the first 8 chapters bored out of my mind, and wanting to strangle most of the characters. Heard it got better after Gran Pulse, got past it, played a bit more, than realized I was completely miserable while playing, and just quit.

It was definitely the worst time i've ever had playing a game. Usually if I know a game sucks, I won't play at all, but i wanted to play this game so much, I spent hours being absolutely miserable and got back absolutely nothing from it.

 

[waggy]

Final Fantasy 13. Wanted to like it. Spent the first 8 chapters bored out of my mind, and wanting to strangle most of the characters. Heard it got better after Gran Pulse, got past it, played a bit more, than realized I was completely miserable while playing, and just quit.

It was definitely the worst time i've ever had playing a game. Usually if I know a game sucks, I won't play at all, but i wanted to play this game so much, I spent hours being absolutely miserable and got back absolutely nothing from it.

same.

after teh shit that was FF13 and how the company responded i won't buy another.

 

[Golgatha]

Final Fantasy 13. Wanted to like it. Spent the first 8 chapters bored out of my mind, and wanting to strangle most of the characters. Heard it got better after Gran Pulse, got past it, played a bit more, than realized I was completely miserable while playing, and just quit.

It was definitely the worst time i've ever had playing a game. Usually if I know a game sucks, I won't play at all, but i wanted to play this game so much, I spent hours being absolutely miserable and got back absolutely nothing from it.

50 hours of my life I'll never get back. Did finish the game though.

 

[Golgatha]

same.

after teh shit that was FF13 and how the company responded i won't buy another.

Agreed. IMO it was clusterf%$#ofabysmal horrible.

 

[busydude]

4+ hours that I spend playing BioShock.

 

[QuantumPion]

Kharazhan for the ninety billionth time.

 

[Rakewell]

Daikatana.

/thread.

 

[PowerYoga]

master of orion 3.

Think anybody that has played 1 or 2 will share my feelings. Wanted to love it but it was an absolutely miserable experience that can't be trumped by even FF13.

 

[AstroManLuca]

I'd probably have to say Resident Evil 1 because of the bad controls. It was totally unintuitive and made the game unplayable for me.

Either that or Dead Rising, also because of the controls as well as the time limit. I don't know why people like that game when it's just one timed escort mission after another. I thought people hated timed escort missions. Oh and I couldn't understand why you're required to die and start over in order to advance the game.

 

[Wyndru]

Taboo: The Sixth Sense on the NES.

I begged my parents to buy it for me because the box made it seem cool, played it for an hour or 2 and quickly realized they wasted their money. It wasn't even a game, it was a RNG that gave you lottery numbers.

 

[thespyder]

Dragon Age 2 got that way for me. I enjoyed it at first, but by the end I just constantly felt like, "This sucks. This just isn't any fun and just... sucks."

I didn't think DA2 "Sucked", but I get to a point where I really didn't care very much if I continued to play. After I did about the 10th mission in the same warehouse and the 14th cave mission in the same cave system, all with the constant respawning.

I think the worst time I had playing a game was playing on a PW - Neverwinter Nights 2. It wasn't that the world wasn't well crafted. it wasn't that there weren't a lot of players. It was the continued blugeoning insistance that no matter what you did, nothing actually got accomplished. Nothing changed. They had sanitized it to such a degree that even if you got pissed off at another character, you couldn't take them down for more than a minute (and there was no consequences). Monsters you killed, never stayed dead. The hand full of quests that were there were FedEx quests at best. And basically 99% of what was expected of you was to sit around the fire and FACEBOOK with other players. BOORING!

 

[SlitheryDee]

Dragon Age: Origins and Mass Effect both drug me down hard after a few hours. Once I realized that I was looking forward to an entire game of staring at NPC faces while I waded through pointless dialog I called it quits. Surely I've played less enjoyable games, but I can't think of any.

 

[motsm]

Easily Oblivion. I played it waaay too long trying to find something redeeming, and then many hours spent trying to fix it with mods. In the end, nothing much really helped.

 

[mindcycle]

Dungeon Lords. Man was that game horrible.. I think I had just finished playing Gothic 2 or something like that and heard this game was similar. I played for hours thinking it "had" to get better, but it never did.

I also played Mass Effect for maybe 5-6 hours thinking it would suck me in at some point, but it never really did either. I just don't think i'm into the bioware formula but I can see why others really liked it.

 

[titan131]

Max Pain, when he had those dreams where you had to follow red trail of blood and find the way out, but if you fell off the trail you had to start over. Well, I kept falling off and it took me ages to find the way out, really frustrating. Apart from those bits the game was good.

 

[Possessed Freak]

master of orion 3.

Think anybody that has played 1 or 2 will share my feelings. Wanted to love it but it was an absolutely miserable experience that can't be trumped by even FF13.

I hear ya, I loved my Moo2, and I still play it. I dunno how they could mess up 3 so badly but they managed to do it!

 

[Via]

The original campaign of NWN. I know this game has a huge following, but I wasn't into online back then (I only had dial-up anyway).

I was so excited about NWN after reading the PC gamer review that I spent literally my last dollar to buy it new.

Initailly, for like a 1/2 hour, I sort of enjoyed it. I liked having a hechman (Tommy something, the thief, iirc), but I started getting impatient soon after that.

I kept plugging along, slogging through it, thinking "this has to get good at some point, doesn't it?"

I think I almost made it to the end somehow. I remember a part with some dragons, but by that time I didn't care anymore. It wasn't worth the effort.

Of all the turkeys they've published, that PC Gamer review is still the one that pisses me off the most. I never would have bought that game at full price if I hadn't read it.

 

[Maximilian]

Aw man where do i begin... i always remember the bad times or being disappointed because they are usually preceded by awesome times that i had hoped to continue.

Diablo 2 patch 1.10 - hated it, couldn't play anymore missed the cow level hated 90% of the changes they made

C&C generals - hated it, loved red alert 2, tried with generals but nah it just sucked, C&C is dead to me now

Supcom 2 - tried with this one but it was just lame compared to supcom 1, i wasent even a TA fan or anything but i found 2 just too dumbed down

Starcraft 2 - Ugh maybe it was my high expectations but theres just nothing i loved about starcraft 1 in here, it would be good if the custom maps got better and they scrapped battle.net 2.0, in fact my beef is mainly with bnet 2.0 the game itself is good but bnet 2.0 is a POS. It was the stupid crappy maps that were often the most fun in starcraft 1, simpsons madness, DONT F**KING MOVE, cat n mouse. Theyre not there anymore You can only play the most popular ones everyone else is playing, total garbage.

Civ V - I wanted a civ IV that was more accessible, had a better UI and didn't represent everything with symbols its sad but it took me ages to figure out what a hammer represented in civ IV, but no civ V was simply dumbed down, not what i was after. I would like alpha centauri 2 better actually

Bad times bad times Also onetime i rented rise of the robots on mega drive, that game was fking horrible.

 

[slag]

Dragon warrior 1 & 2 on NES or any ultima game. You know what you have to do, but every 2-3 steps you encounter a hidden enemy and have to go through the whole fight sequence. Many minutes later, once that is done, you go back to the outside world, take 2-3 steps, and boom, fighting another monster hidden in a forest. What should be a quick walk from a castle to a field takes literally hours.

 

[Aikouka]

Max Pain, when he had those dreams where you had to follow red trail of blood and find the way out, but if you fell off the trail you had to start over. Well, I kept falling off and it took me ages to find the way out, really frustrating. Apart from those bits the game was good.

Is that the part where the screen is all wavy and you have to walk along a rather small path where any deviation leads to you falling? I can never remember if that was Max Payne 1 or 2, but it was certainly a bit of a pain.

It was the stupid crappy maps that were often the most fun in starcraft 1, simpsons madness, DONT F**KING MOVE, cat n mouse. Theyre not there anymore You can only play the most popular ones everyone else is playing, total garbage.

Is that a fault of StarCraft II or people just not remaking the maps?

 

[woodman1999]

Not sure if this counts, but playing the last level in Crysis on the aircraft carrier. Took me forever to get through the level only to get to the boss and not have the flipping Nuke gun lock on no matter what I did. Found out I had to download a friggin patch and replay the whole thing all over again. I mean seriously, wtf? Shouldn't the final battle be tested through and through.... so angry.

 

[Maximilian]

Is that a fault of StarCraft II or people just not remaking the maps?

Its the fault of bnet 2.0 and the way you view custom maps. I dont know if its changed since i last played but what you see is the 10-20 most popular maps and everyone joins the top ones, anything below that gets ignored. Why bother remaking if you cant get anyone to play it. Bnet 1.0's system was of better design.