Games that made you "tapped out"

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Have you ever played a game that made you just "tapped out", due to various reasons that made the game become a drag instead of fun?

For instance,

I tried to played through Elder Scroll Oblivion for the past few weeks and it got to the point where the game just made me surrender. The mechanics are dated, the combat is awkward, the missions are boring, and the entire game just felt like a walkthrough of a painting. The game is gorgeous, but goddamn I can't do it. I tried to forced myself to play it since I really want to get deep into the world of Elder Scrolls, but the game is too damn boring compared to the later counterparts (Skyrim/ESO).

What says you GAF?
 
I made it about halfway through Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor

I rented it thinking "how bad could it be"

Would have finished it if it wasn't for this bullshit mission I kept dying on while the Kinect worked about 50% of the time.
 
World of Warcraft about 4 years ago. The fun was just not there anymore, especially with 95% of my old guild leaving and the once thriving server becoming a ghost town. I've popped in from time to time since and it's painfully obvious that I am done for good.
 
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the only time I've actually been angry about spending money on a video game that turned out to be complete garbage
 
Anything Bethesda has made since Morrowind.

Anything Bioware has made since KOTOR (well I liked Mass Effect 2 alright, I guess).

I always start these games with such high hopes and then by 5-6 hours in my reaction becomes sort of like a balloon deflating.
 
I had to tap out on Dark Souls 2. I can't remember enjoying many parts, it became an endless slog of irritating level and enemy design.

Final Fantasy XIII. Just the worst experience and no where near worth the effort they wanted me to put in.

Remember Me gave me too many douche chills from the story telling, I couldn't handle it after the first few hours and the gameplay tutorial was annoying as fuck. I love that type of game, but the implementation was too pretentious.

Videogames man. They're the worst.
 
I hate to say this but the witcher 3 is starting to feel like a chore. Sooo much talking and loading. Tbh I think I prefer the worlds to be direct in nature funneling you into awsome like bloodbourne you still feel a sence of purpose. I still like the game but I can't play it all day without taking a break for a bit.
 
snickothemule said:
I had to tap out on Dark Souls 2. I can't remember enjoying many parts, it became an endless slog of irritating level and enemy design.

Final Fantasy XIII. Just the worst experience and no where near worth the effort they wanted me to put in.

Remember Me gave me too many douche chills from the story telling, I couldn't handle it after the first few hours and the gameplay tutorial was annoying as fuck. I love that type of game, but the implementation was too pretentious.

Videogames man. They're the worst.
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Remember me was one of those games that have a hate/love thing going on. I enjoyed the combat and the memory mini games, but hated everything else. It was a ok game at best.
 
Skyrim actually.

Loved MW and Oblivion and Skyrim was a huge step up from Oblivion. But man, the bad random quests and the growing realization that there really isn't a lot of great characters like those two games had or modern day WRPGs demand made it feel like a really awesome, beautiful game but without any heart.

DA:I is one from recently. God damn, their MMO SW:TOR actually gave your character more personality, more meaningful subquest choices, and more fun combat. That's pretty bad.
 
I never made it past the first level of Duke Nukem: Zero Hour. It's partly due to my own incompetence and partly due to the multiplayer being more fun. Same for Goldeneye 007 but I made it much further by comparison.
 
Super Robot Wars in general tested my patience with its ridiculous HP bloat, but Operation Extend was the straw that broke the camel's back. So many missions, so little fun. These days, I stick to the early entries and YouTube the animations for the new stuff.

Both versions of Sonic Lost World, both at Silent Forest. Though, to be fair, I immediately turned off the 3DS version after learning that it had a gyro Wisp so that could count as a ragequit.
 
Uninstalled Dota 2 700 hours in after a string of matches where voice chat made it clear that at least one of my teammates was < 16 years old. Felt like that was a bad way to spend my time.
 
I've (probably) tapped out on Freedom Wars today.

I've tried hard to like it since some aspects are great in either theory or practice, but the game almost consciously retaliated from start to end. I managed to get through without breaking (myself or the Vita by defenestration), but the last boss did it. Boring mission followed by ok-but-longwinded-boss followed by one-hit KO fest last boss. Fail one, fail all three.

It's the shining crown of that amateur hour of a game.
 
Witcher 3

The first couple of areas were fantastic, but the story took at drastic change of pace when you hit Novigrad. The game promised me wild bounty hunting and gave me a copy of Dragon Age. Just not for me I guess.
 
GTA4 for me. The world was drab and the story sucked. Hated the characters as well. All I would do is load it up and play for like 10 mins before shutting off. Felt like a downgrade from SA. GTA5 on the other hand I can play much more of.
 
Skyrim had a choice near the beginning of the game that seemed to set in stone which faction you would be a part of for the rest of the game. It wasn't clear to me which choice was what, and once I managed to escape the first town attack, I discovered I'd chosen the wrong faction. It wasn't the only reason I stopped playing Skyrim (the PC inventory controls were complete ass, for example) but I'd be lying if I didn't say the decision gnawed at me the entire five hours I played of it before I dropped it for other games.

Xenoblade exhausted me with sidequests. Bravely Default exhausted me with random encounters. I've never been able to figure out why I can't get very far into Arkham City, even though I finished and enjoyed Arkham Asylum. Dishonored let me loose after managing to free myself from the prison at the beginning of the game, and suddenly I lost interest in playing it for no reason.

I could go on and on. I still hold out a faint hope that I will come back and finish all these games. I probably won't.
 
Animal Crossing. It started to feel like a chore after a while, and since it was a GameCube game, I couldn't just leave it in my GameCube forever and play it for a few minutes a day if I wanted to play anything else without having to swap discs all the time.

I couldn't even stand Wild World when I bought it. It felt like I had already played it to death. I played it for a while and paid off my house and stuff but it felt like a drag. And it had the same problem, where it was constantly in my game card slot.

I skipped City Folk because I knew it would feel like a chore. But then something magical happened. New Leaf released digitally on 3DS, so I could just play it whenever I wanted without having to swap it out every day. And I did. Every day. For a year. And it was good. It helps that AC GAF is a great community.
 
SecretMoblin said:
uh, around some big castle area if I recall?

it was near the beginning, after the beauty and the beast area at least

it was just so constricting and awful that I couldn't will myself through it any more :/
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Woah weird...i consider KH2:Final Mix Critical difficult (on the PS3 KH2.5) one of the best games ever...you should give it a shot
 
I was close to being tapped out literally in Phantom Breaker Battle Grounds but I finally understood some of the moves for the special and more powerful moves so let's see. Seems like it was made for arcade mode and possibly the final difficulty.

I tap out of a lot of games I try though. It's like, yeah okay I get it...will come back to this...a lot of games to play recently though.

Kilvas said:
Witcher 3

The first couple of area were fantastic, but the story took at drastic change of pace when you hit Novigrad. The game promised me wild bounty hunting and gave me a copy of Dragon Age. Just not for me I guess.
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Are you shitting me? Taking this to the TW3 thread. Was worried about this.
 
Dragon Quest 7. I tried on three separate occasions to beat the game. The first two times I gave up around the 100 hour mark. I just could not endure any more random turn-based encounters. The third time I played it, I ended up having a scratched disc that prevented me from going any further than that chapter with the attack of the robots. At that point I figured it was a divine power trying to tell me to never play the game again.
 
Uncharted 2 and God of War 3. I don't know what happened with Uncharted as I played and beat the first game, but just didn't feel the second and never went back for the third. As for GoW3, I hated Kratos's personality and in a time I hated quick time events. Until years later I watched a youtube movie of all GoW and can understand why Kratos is the way he is.
 
I tapped out during Ratchet and Clank 3, I just got bored as I found the game very repetitive and put me off the entire series.

I also tapped out during Jak 2 when the stakeboard mission annoyed me, though to be honest I wasn't enjoying the game.
 
The day I got soul caliber 4 was the day my friends were all having a BBQ over 2-3 days.

We played SC4 non stop during it days. All day, all night.

Aside from once in Uni I never touched the game again, the franchise is dead to me, just thinking about it makes me feel physically ill.
 
I gave up on Fire Emblem Awakening around chapter 20 (I know, I was somewhat close to finishing it) because I couldn't stand the dumb characters and poor story anymore.

A shame because I enjoyed Path of Radiance a lot.
 
FF13. I endured all the crap until the ''open world area where the game becomes fun'' (which is like 10 chapters in..) and even then.. it was bad. I was burned out by then.

Doesn't help that some monsters there literally 1 shot you... lol
 
Roto13 said:
I skipped City Folk because I knew it would feel like a chore.
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A chore? That's being far too friendly to Shitty Folk. It's without a doubt the laziest rehash Nintendo has ever put out. It's exactly the same game that you played on DS with a half baked 'city' of like five buildings up north. Irredeemable.

I don't think there's as much of a 'chore' in a Nintendo game as laying down tiles over half your fuckin' grass so that the simple act of having other people in your town doesn't irreparably kill the rest of it.
 
UnwrittenZero said:
I hate to say this but the witcher 3 is starting to feel like a chore. Sooo much talking and loading. Tbh I think I prefer the worlds to be direct in nature funneling you into awsome like bloodbourne you still feel a sence of purpose. I still like the game but I can't play it all day without taking a break for a bit.
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Kilvas said:
Witcher 3

The first couple of area were fantastic, but the story took at drastic change of pace when you hit Novigrad. The game promised me wild bounty hunting and gave me a copy of Dragon Age. Just not for me I guess.
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I'm going to get so much shit for this but honestly after I completed the main quest in Fallout 3...I was so disappointed that any attempt at sidequest and exploring just became pointless.
 
Dragon Quest 8- I got halfway thru and just couldn't stand how slow the battles were, to the point where i just started running from battles and popping holy waters.
 
Crimsonclaw111 said:
I played God of War 1 so much across all difficulties that I now no longer care about the franchise.
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^^

This, I randomly purchased a PSP and chains of olympus back in the day.

Completed that game, needed more, completed both GoW 1 & 2 right before GoW 3 came out, finished that.

Now I simply don't give a fuck.

I'm entirely done with the franchise.

It would need to be changed into something with more options and varied like Demons Souls for me to become interested again.
 
Just recently with secret of evermore. Was in omnitopia and died due to not paying attention but I hadn't saved in a while so I lost my progress. I was already starting to get tired of the game anyways. The hit detection had been annoying me for a while.
 
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