SmokedMeat
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D4. This is an even bigger snoozefest than Shenmue.
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Most Boring Game You've Played/Completed Recently
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Tal Shiar Agent
Banned
Watch Dogs. Boring all around.
Dying Light's story is boring so far, but the amazing gameplay makes it worth it.
Dying Light's story is boring so far, but the amazing gameplay makes it worth it.
I just downloaded Yakuza 4. It's the first Yakuza game I've ever played. It's okay so far and I like the combat, but I'm at the part where
I'm not sure I will finish this game.
you have to take the girl who wants 100 million yen shopping for clothes so you can take her out on a date.
I've only put two hours into it, but right now I'd have to say Apotheon. Maybe the
fights will be interesting or other areas are fun, but right now I feel like I've seen almost all the game has to offer and I'm not super excited to see more.
It looks nice, but it also feels like it lacks a lot of depth in terms of combat.
greek god
It looks nice, but it also feels like it lacks a lot of depth in terms of combat.
Summer Haze
Banned
This is mostly likely a huge reason why you're not enjoying it. My first playthrough was on Hard, then I switched down to normal when I went back through it because I only wanted to see the story again, but man, normal was so damn easy. You get so many supplies. It takes away any challenge and feels...boring, to be honest.
Try Hard mode, or maybe even Survivor.
Sanctuary
Member
Typo?
The Lamonster
Member
Destiny has provided me some of the most boring and some of the most exciting gameplay experienced I've had in recent times.
I've beaten this game 4 times now, twice on Grounded (once on PS3, once on PS4). I say this not too boast, but you just said that you "Just started playing". Pretty sure I would know more about it than you.
It is trial and error. When you die, it's your fault (just like in a Souls game). You figure out the enemy patterns, what you need to take them down, and then you do it. It's proper execution of a plan. You can bum-rush through all you want, but you'r not going to find success that way on such a hard difficulty.
Edit: But to each his own. That was my takeaway with the game. If you didn't like it, that's fine.
dr.rocktopus
Banned
Uncharted 3. I loved Uncharted 1, Uncharted 2 started focusing a bit more on the cinematic look of doing things, but UC3 is too far. If you don't do things exactly as it wants you fail. It tries so hard to look and come off as cinematic that it forgets it's a game, and as a movie it doesn't compare to the bombast available. I didn't finish it and moved on to TLOU. Coming off of UC3 it plays soooo much better. There's options! Comments that UC4 will take lessons from TLOU sound promising.
Storm Kyleis
Member
Fantasy Life is another recent one. The quests get repetitive after a while, but the worst part is the storyline -- an endless flow of badly written unskippable dialogues that disrupt the pace of the game.
It would be a very good game otherwise.
It would be a very good game otherwise.
MegaSackman
Member
I'd say The Evil Within but I only played for about three hours, doesn't seem fair to judge it.
Watch Dogs, didn't finish it but played a lot and it sucks, really boring game. Oh and Transistor bore me a lot too. :S
Regarding Last of Us, is not for everyone I supose, games no to evolve their scripts to a level in which it shouldn't be mandatory to be right into the action in the first 5'. I consider the whole game almost perfection, is not about having fun, games are more complex these days than just having fun.
Watch Dogs, didn't finish it but played a lot and it sucks, really boring game. Oh and Transistor bore me a lot too. :S
Regarding Last of Us, is not for everyone I supose, games no to evolve their scripts to a level in which it shouldn't be mandatory to be right into the action in the first 5'. I consider the whole game almost perfection, is not about having fun, games are more complex these days than just having fun.
Sword Familiar
178% of NeoGAF posters don't understand statistics
Persona 3 is semi-boring, which is putting me off finishing it. I will do it, just going to take a long while. Otherwise, most games I play are enjoyable. P3P isn't bad though, it just progresses a bit too slowly for my tastes.
Beelzebufo
Banned
No haha. Souls doesn't blatantly not tell me what button to mash to avoid death, TLOU does. I've been playing on grounded through the first two chapters and have already died due to trial and error.
I'm not sure you know what trial and error is. "When you die, it's your fault" is not trial and error haha. Trial and error is "when you die, you were supposed to".
Sanctuary
Member
Uh, you say the Souls games aren't trial and error and then proceed to explain why they are. They don't blatantly tell you what to do or what not to do.
FriedConsole
Banned
Oh another thread where people can just dump in popular games and leave no explanation. Look at me I hate your favorite game.
John Bender
Banned
I was going to say, Tomb Raider reboot, or Hitman: Absolution, both of which I forced myself to complete recently, but your answer is the correct one.
It literally took a few minutes of playing Infamous: First Light to be bored. I forced myself to play a couple of hours, then I realised that while the plot may advance, the gameplay really wasn't going to. I tried picking it up twice after that, quit after a few minutes, then uninstalled it.
Having not completed it, I wouldn't review the thing, but it was certainly my most boring gaming experience of the last few months.
Beelzebufo
Banned
You misread my post
TLOU makes you press a certain button over and over to avoid death, but doesn't tell you when you have to. This never happens in Souls. Souls never tells you what to do, but never forces you to do anything either.
It's your fault if you die in Super Mario Bros, but it's not trial and error lol
Dr. Buni
Member
In 2015? Little Inferno, but thankfully the game was quite short. Besides this one, it was Fire Emblem Awakening. Dumbed down gameplay, lame characters and story. Boring.
I stopped playing Borderlands 2 because it seems like the developers tried the hardest to make solo play literally hell. I don't have anyone to play with me, so I dropped the game.
Love Deterrence
Member
Shadow of Mordor and DA:I. Just not for me, but I'm sure they are a dream come true for Lord of the Rings and Dragon Age fans, respectively.
ComputerBlue
Member
Came here to say this, except I made it midway through the 3rd chapter. I've booted the game up about 4 times since then and just can't play more than a few minutes without turning it off.
Assassin's Creed Unity unquestionably.
Bad enough the game is a technical mess, but there's really no excuse for how utterly tedious the world and mission design are. As a gaming experience, it is so many steps behind the previous AC game it isn't even funny.
Fuck... even Watchdogs was more fun in fact!
Bad enough the game is a technical mess, but there's really no excuse for how utterly tedious the world and mission design are. As a gaming experience, it is so many steps behind the previous AC game it isn't even funny.
Fuck... even Watchdogs was more fun in fact!
The real meat of that game is in the social links and the overall story of the game. It can take a little while to get deep into some of the characters and plot, but they are well worth it.
I will agree that the game has long stretches which are boring, and that's mainly because Tartarus.
Stone Ocean
Member
Remember Me. I was just dozing off by the time it ended.
Maaaaaardy
Member
Ooh, The Evil Within too. Really looked forward to that and it played awfully.
Started Yakuza 4 thanks to PS+ and it just feels so brain dead. I might finish because it's apparently not too long if you ignore the side stuff so will probably play it a little here and there.
The biggest surprise for me is how similar it is to the first game, which I finished a decade ago. It feels like the series made no progress at all from then.
The biggest surprise for me is how similar it is to the first game, which I finished a decade ago. It feels like the series made no progress at all from then.
WadiumArcadium
Member
Second playthough of Dragon Age Inquisition. I enjoyed it but just wanted to race through Nightmare difficulty to get the Plat.
Collateral22
Member
Sunset Overdrive. After about an hour of grindin' around the city doing fetch quests I just wanted it to be over. Really let down by it.
Psyrgery ES
Member
Watch Dogs.
My god I forced myself to finish it, I thought it would never end
My god I forced myself to finish it, I thought it would never end
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
Original Thief, well Thief Gold in this case.
Bought the 3 first thiefs some days ago.
Started with the original.
Tedious, boring experience.
Going through cloned mines and sewers passageways ad nauseaum, to the point of getting lost because of the repeated textures and never ending crossroads in every freaking passage does not make it a difficult nor fun game.
It makes it boring, with stages that would take 15 minutes when you dont get lost going in circles, but that are padded to take up to 2 hours because of this.
Maybe some of you are saying, maybe you are better off playing Thief 2014. The good thing about the original is getting lost. What a sacrilage calling Thief Gold a boring game.You are a noob and thats why games are piss easy now...
NO
You can see a great game behind all this shit.
And thats what Thief 2 is, the true game behind all the bullshit in 1.
And what a fantastic game to play. Huge open scenarios with a MAGNIFICENT design, very little amount of neverending sewer corridors, and when those are done, they are done tastefully. And so much variety, for gods sake, you know when youve been in the same place just by looking at the room. Plenty of secrets to discover while exploring when going out of track of the main scenario missions (oh yes, I love being "lost" but is this kind of lost what Im talking about), with actual rewards when you do this. Multiple paths to get where you want.
Holy shit, what a well designed game Thief 2 is.
So in summary:
This is not good, in fact is horrible:
But this horrible mess is not good either (nothing more than corridors and crossroads in a 3d space, so its even worse):
This, on the contrary, is a marvel of game design, complex and fun at the same time (and its only the second level).
Bought the 3 first thiefs some days ago.
Started with the original.
Tedious, boring experience.
Going through cloned mines and sewers passageways ad nauseaum, to the point of getting lost because of the repeated textures and never ending crossroads in every freaking passage does not make it a difficult nor fun game.
It makes it boring, with stages that would take 15 minutes when you dont get lost going in circles, but that are padded to take up to 2 hours because of this.
Maybe some of you are saying, maybe you are better off playing Thief 2014. The good thing about the original is getting lost. What a sacrilage calling Thief Gold a boring game.You are a noob and thats why games are piss easy now...
NO
You can see a great game behind all this shit.
And thats what Thief 2 is, the true game behind all the bullshit in 1.
And what a fantastic game to play. Huge open scenarios with a MAGNIFICENT design, very little amount of neverending sewer corridors, and when those are done, they are done tastefully. And so much variety, for gods sake, you know when youve been in the same place just by looking at the room. Plenty of secrets to discover while exploring when going out of track of the main scenario missions (oh yes, I love being "lost" but is this kind of lost what Im talking about), with actual rewards when you do this. Multiple paths to get where you want.
Holy shit, what a well designed game Thief 2 is.
So in summary:
This is not good, in fact is horrible:
But this horrible mess is not good either (nothing more than corridors and crossroads in a 3d space, so its even worse):
This, on the contrary, is a marvel of game design, complex and fun at the same time (and its only the second level).
Hah, the game play in the Last of Us is tense and heavy. It's amazing. Nice try trying to demote a widespread critically acclaimed game though.
My pick: Call of Duty: Ghosts campaign. Dear god what boring fucking single player.
agree
GankzyMcfly
Member
i third
The Albatross
Member
Telltale: Game of Thrones episode 1. I still enjoyed it because I like GoT, but I there are only 1 or 2 scenes where you can move your character, I think. The rest is just chose-your-own-adventure dialogue options.
GeordieMark
Member
Infamous: First Light
Got it free from PS+ and I'm now so glad I never paid full price for Second Son. It looks nice, sure, but the city is dead and the gameplay is really dull. It's the worst game I've played this gen so far.
Got it free from PS+ and I'm now so glad I never paid full price for Second Son. It looks nice, sure, but the city is dead and the gameplay is really dull. It's the worst game I've played this gen so far.