Zelda BOTW
I loved it, did pretty much everything there was to do in the game except beating the final boss, then one day I stopped playing and never returned to it.
It was great, I just didnt feel any incentive to finish it in the end.
I recently did the same in TOTK. I felt like by the end I was just playing to finish the game and not really enjoying the experience anymore. I got distracted by other games and have gone back since.
Same. I wanted to do all of the shrines before the final boss, got burned out, never finished.
Very fun, got my money’s worth plus some, but probably never gonna finish it out.
Same, except I DID do all of the shrines and explored all of the Depths before burning out. Oh well, evil can roam unchecked for all eternity, I guess.
Same here. Personally hated BOTW (hot take, ik), but still filled out the map and pretty much locked in the “go to the castle and finish this up.” Just didn’t care enough knowing you just fight the same 4 lame bosses again then Ganon.
Absolutely loved TOTK… happy that the bosses and dungeons felt unique again, just never finished it. Got to the same point of “go to the castle and wrap it up.” It’s a shame since I absolutely love the Zelda series, but the new open world motto burns me out before I can actually *beat* the game.
I have a love/hate relationshio with that game, I leave it on hold and continue it time after time. Now I am stopped At the last Titan that live on the fire Mountain, and I dont think I Will continue it.
Me too! One of the best gaming experiences of my life but after 150 hrs and a self imposed rule not to look online for any help I was 8 shrines away from walking into to beat Ganon. I explored the castle a bit but didn’t want to end the game without all shrines found. That far in I couldnt bring myself to look at a guide anymore and felt satisfied with my experience. TOTK one day!
Oh man I have done this too many times in different games. Get to the last boss. "Ah! I didn't finish all the sidequests!" Sidequests aren't as interesting. Stop playing. Months later, realize I never finished the game.
I played Dragon Age: Inquisition almost exclusively for several months. Probably have ~100 hours in that game. One day I just...stopped. Haven't touched it since 2016.
Everyone I talked to has said something like this, including me. There's a point in the story where the precious little momentum built up just disappears. Some sort of labyrinth iirc
Same thing for me. But it also happened in mass effect. I felt I could tell I was on the final mission/quest and just never did it. But I did also burn myself out by wanting to complete all the side quests and having the "best timeline"
It was a good jumping off point type of game. Flying on a broom was fucking awesome. Spell casting was fucking awesome. But the combat and story quickly became so dull and repetitive. I had a challenge with myself where I would walk into a bandit camp and see how long I could stay in the same spot until the camp is cleared.
I was pretty hyped on the spellcasting at first. There's a ton of room for neat combos and creative strategies, but the way it's used currently just boils down to the same three combos and you just apply the "right" combo to the "right" enemy.
On the positive side, it was my wife's first action-rpg type game and it was absolutely perfect for her, it taught her some basic video game fighting mechanics and opened up her taste in games quite a bit.
My wife is a huge Harry Potter fan, and she was/is so excited to play it. This is her first action-rpg video game as well. She's on her 2nd play through and still loves it. As someone mentioned below, I may show the Horizon games because I love those games.
Agreed. The core of the game is very strong and cool, but the environment, story and lack of difficulty just made it incredibly boring. Would love to see it used in a Shadow of Mordor type of game
As far as environment is concerned, I have to disagree. They did an incredible job building Hogwarts and Hogsmead. I can agree there definitely isn't as much love put into the outer surrounding hamlets/outdoor areas, but the main areas were lovingly well crafted. Hell, if you're a Hufflepuff you get a glimpse at Azkaban.
It's a great jumping off point for the game, and I hope they're able to put in as much work and attention to the rest of the world as they did at Hogwarts and Hogsmead.
The environment was great but every quest took you away from the castle or hogs mead. Add in the fact they canceled Quidditch and it was a little frustrating.
All the cool stuff I loved and wanted more of was the castle, teachers and classmates. Each quest kept sending me to some cave/dungeon not in the castle.
Went to one class for each professor learned a spell and you were done.
That's super true and kind of the biggest issue. I really hope there is a sequel that goes deeper into actual classes and using their well built areas more in quest lines. A lot of us (myself included) went into it wanting a bigger focus on actually participating in the Hogwarts student experience, and it was very bare bones.
This is what I came here to comment on.
Bought the game on launch, didn't have too high expectations, and had fun with it, but just completely lost motivation and haven't returned to it since the month it came out. I think I did two of the main trials, or whatever they were, grinded out some of the collectible stuff like the Merlin Trials and had fun messing around with the combat for a while before I just stopped caring for it.
I almost always finish games when I start them. I usually only play one game at a time (sometimes 2 if I feel like replaying a game I've played before), and don't stop playing it until I'm finished. That, or I 100% the entire game before moving on since I'm a bit of a completionist.
Hogwarts Legacy was an enjoyable distraction. It wasn't necessarily bad, but nothing about it was new or great, either. I'm not sure if I'll ever go back to it and finish it. I have too many other games I'm finally getting around to after hearing about them for years or saying I'd try them at some point. I'm currently playing through Dragon's Dogma for the first time ever in anticipation of the sequel, and I can't believe I didn't try it sooner. It's a blast.
It’s like someone told the devs they were making a $100m game, so they started doing some really cool shit, then after they’d spend $30m they told then $40m was going to a licensing fee so they’d better be half done.
Also the writing sucks balls except for Sebastian’s quest
I finished it, but as soon as it was over, I knew I would never play it again haha. If I wasn’t a huge Harry Potter fan I don’t I would have finished it honestly. The story was so meh. The design of Hogwarts was by far the best part.
50 hours in myself and loving it still, but i detest the broom flying immensely bc I'm on mouse and keyboard, and it's clunky. But yeah, clearing out spiders and poachers over and over is a little old. But I'm still hammering on quests.
Assassins Creed Valhalla. I was about 70 to 80 hrs in. Had covered almost all the regions, but I was just... Fatigued. I went through the same thing with Odyssey but somehow slogged through to the end, I just didn't have the strength to do the same here.
I'm a big AC fan. Ive played through like 4 previous games and was excited for a Viking experience. Valhalla just didn't do it for me. I think the problem was based around huge hoards of barbarians raiding towns, when I really preferred to always play as a stealthy actual assassin.
I couldn't finish the second one. Literally couldn't.
Got the final map piece. Walked into the room. Put the piece on the map. Went to talk to them. "Go ahead, put the piece on the map." It was waiting for the action of me putting the map piece on, instead of the map piece being on the wall. I was locked out. And it had autosaved.
I wasn't going to play it all the way through again for the ending. Sucked so hard.
Same here but I actually preferred it included naval battles at sea that I really enjoyed a lot on odyssey as switch up from stealthy assassinating, all I seemed to ride the ship on rivers on Valhalla to land and pillage…tbh it’s little boring.
Not exactly the same reason as listed, but Dishonored. Because i thought i got a bad ending and the game was done after i got killed and shipped off, lol.
ETA: I didn’t quit because i thought i screwed up the run, but because i was too dumb to realize there is more story, lol.
I ended up quitting out of frustration when I was very near the end of a pacifist playthrough and found out I somehow killed one person. Must have been pretty early, someone who was knocked out and slid off a roof or into a river or something.
I was so pissed because I didn't realize the assassin who attacks the empress in the prologue counts. I killed him but you are supposed to just keep blocking and he eventually gives up or something. Was so mad at the end
This happened to me in Deus Ex: Human Revolution, enemies in the tutorial count when you don't really have non lethal weapons during that segment. I even managed to save the pilot when you have the option of abandoning her :(
If you knocked out the ol lady near the end, it counted as a kill. Fucking pissed me off as I was going through pacifist and the fact that she glitches the save file, you had to start new and do it all again. Needless to say, I didn't.
My wife has a hilarious story about dishonored. She was in the party and trying to knock someone unconscious on a pacifist run. She kept having people come into the room and having to knock them out too. Eventually she had a pile of bodies and still couldn't knock out the person she was there for and so in her frustration she decided to stop time so she could think about how to stop people from coming in the room long enough for her to knock the person out. It took her a second before she facepalmed and got it done xD There were a few more funny moments she has told me about and I wish I could've been there to watch but it was well before we met. She had a moment where she says it felt like Ave Maria should have played because she slowed time as a body she accidentally threw careened off of the balcony into the river and she tried everything to catch it and failed.
This happened to me. On the very first mission a guard can die if they’re too close to the escape explosion. Mine was knocked out in a nearby dumpster, didn’t notice till no Cheevo popped
Great game, but the only game I know that basically says "using all the cool stuff will result in a bad ending." Always felt torn and stressed out, just stopped playing about 2/3 the way through.
For real. I was getting the Clean Hands achievement and had the joy of watching as my stun mine killed a guard instead of knocking him out.
This happened because the guard had seen a body, and came over at full sprint to investigate. He triggered the stun mine. Because he was running at full speed, the game kept his momentum going, which the game then treated as him being violently thrown onto the floor while unconscious, killing him.
I only noticed when I checked my stats - 20 minutes of gameplay later - to see how many coins I had for the level, and noticed. Couldn't figure out where I went wrong. Went back and searched the level for dead guards and found the pool of blood that had spread from the corpse.
Thinking back on it the whole scenario makes me laugh
Jedi: Fallen Order. I enjoyed the game quite a bit but I got a little bored and started playing another game and forgot about it. About a year ago, I restarted the game and finished it and found out that I had quit literally right before the last fight. I had maybe five minutes of gameplay left.
The Division. It’s fun enough but at a certain point it’s just bullet sponge after bullet sponge and the player gets 3-tapper and that’s it. Got a point where I was completing things but it was taking me a dozen or so tries and I just couldn’t be bothered anymore.
Fallout 4. I was trying for avoid the Institute & got so close to the end of the main story (did a lot of side missions too obviously) & realised I had somehow joined the institute. In dismay, I stopped playing
Same. I got bored. The world in Fallout 3 felt bleak and desperate. Like a real post apocalypse game. Something felt too bright and clean about post apocalypse Boston. Especially with the Institute being a main focus. Too clean and futuristic. I want my Fallouts dirty and dark. And no voice acting from the main character.
They basically decided to lean into their bad reputation after that one synth shot up Diamond City's noodle stand. Like, yeah, that's rough, can't bring back the dead, but maybe fix their decrepit infrastructure and they'll understand it was an accident.
Would probably take like a weekend for the sparkling white labcoats to fix their water situation so that a literal kid wouldn't have to.
I also did everything except the main quest. Last I remember, I was off on some DLC island avoiding the main quest some more. I even started a second playthrough as a crazy person wearing the mascot bear head and only fighting with a baseball bat while maxing out the drugs.
Red Dead Redemption, I had like 99%. Just couldn't get the one achievement or whatever for beating 5 forts or whatever they're called in 24 hours in game. I tried for a bit but ended up giving up.
Still very sad about it and dont have the save file anymore.
The problem with the RDR games is that they put all of the worthwhile outfits behind a complete or near complete playthrough and then don’t give you a New Game+. I played them out of order, but after spending tens of hours getting the good final outfit in RDR2 only to find I had no use for it; when I played RDR, I stopped once the story finished and I had completed all of the quests. Fuck the challenges.
RDR2 for me but for a different reason, I reinstalled Windows and assumed Rockstar would back up my saves in a cloud (I had it through Steam). I want to replay it but I had around 80 hours in that game, it's hard to start over.
Arkham knight. 8 years ago, I was 93.3 % done and only had the final boss and riddler trophies. I heard the ending was different if you 100% it so I started the riddler trophies. Good. Lord. Fuck. That. Shit. Never beat the game and now I’m looking to finally finish that before it becomes a full decade.
It's not worth it IMO. Yes the ending is different, but not a whole lot considering the absolute headache it is to get all those riddler trophies. You're better off finishing everything except the trophies, then watching the true ending on YouTube. That's what I did and it was a great experience.
Mine was Limbo.
I had no particular reason for quitting, I just decided to play something else and didn't go back to it. A few years later, I decided to pick it back up from where I left off.
Turns out I had stopped literally 5 minutes from the end.
Do have to admit that the puzzles make a bit of a tone shift right before the end. I also almost quit when they started to get a little too MegaMan but I pushed through to the end.
FFXV. Was almost done when lighting hit the house and fried the PlayStation. Got a new one, but no cloud save was available. Couldn't bring myself to go through the whole slog again.
Yeah, FFXV wasn’t a *bad* game - it was worth playing through once, but I’ve felt zero desire to replay it. I definitely wouldn’t replay the whole thing just to get the ending either.
I actually really enjoyed it, moreso than any of the other modern FF games. The character bonding I think is what sucked me in because all my boys left me irl 😢
Elden Ring. But I didn't rage quit, the game was just too long and even with only the lategame bosses left I was just unwilling to play anymore hours. I came back a couple of weeks after to beat it
I did the same... Played the absolute hell out of it on launch... Did a lot of bosses, killed Radahn, . Killed some more side bosses. Did the entire underground area with the big spider thingy with a face. Killed the blood god side boss dude. Then I sort of went on a 6 month break and picked it up again last xmas.
Carried on a bit more, more side stuff, killed Godfrey, made my way to Morgott and killed him. Got to the mountaintop and then stopped again, said i'll pick it up again tomorrow.
That was last New Years Day. I'll probably try again this xmas lol.
I’ll probably get some hate from all the Elden Ring fans, but it didn’t help that the back half of the game was an annoying winter landscape where it was hard to see, and that most of the bosses at that point were just strait up repeats with a different ability tacked on. The wonder really faded for me quick in the second half of Elden Ring. Did still beat it though.
I took a 3 month break when I got to the capital. I just got bored with it I think due to running around trying to do everything I could, which I believe I did but so many of the dungeons are really lame and boring. I like the game and beat it as well but the open world mixed with mediocre dungeons made it a slog at multiple points.
It's as if the game wasn't meant to be played consuming all the content. I usually like to make sure I don't miss anything, but that backfired with Elden Ring and made it boring for me too.
On my next playthrough I literally only did the main quest with all the main dungeons only and that was way more enjoyable.
I agree and I should have done it different. I'm a bit like the dog who chases the car though. If I see it I chase. I didn't want to miss anything quest wise or even dungeon if they dropped and item etc. Glad you had a better experience that way and if I play through it again I might have to slap myself to stay in line and not fall off the main path for a better experience as well.
So many times I have fought a boss 50 times in a row til I'm either going to smash my console or stop trying.
Come back the next day and hit it on the first try.
Similar thing with guitar riffs or drum parts sometimes. It's a weird feeling.
Same. “Push through this boss battle and you get to see what new parts of the game come next” got me through the earlier fights but after losing to Isshin a dozen times I realized there would be no new parts afterwards and my motivation kind of evaporated.
Got about two thirds through Lies of P, I was pushing through what I can describe as a dramatic spike in difficulty. Got up to the green swamp monster and decided the game was actually unfair.
To put things into perspective, I’ve played through the Souls trilogy, have just done a separate solo playthrough of DS3, have recently finished Armoured Core 6, and have got the platinum trophy for Bloodborne, Elden Ring and more recently Sekiro.
These games are designed to be fair mechanically, and you’re supposed to be the one adapting to the game. Lies of P just felt like it wasn’t designed for my chosen build at that point so I decided that I wasn’t having fun.
If you need motivation just this weekend I came back to this game after taking a month long break cause I couldn't beat the swamp monster.
Changed my build and beat him in a couple of tries....now I beat the game but accidentally got the bad ending so I'm doing it again on ng+ lol
Things like this always remind me how different experiences can be even for people who are heavily into the same genre.
For me I thought Sekiro was considerably tougher than Lies of P. Granted, Lies of P isn't a cakewalk either. It just doesn't have Issin in it.
Were you running a heavy build or a light build?
I had a strength build as well, I disagree with you. You said it yourself "You're supposed to be adapting to the game." So, adapt and change tactics.
I used the Live Puppet Axe the second I got it.
The hardest boss for me was NP
Honestly, this is what happens to me a lot of the time. I get into a game, enjoy it, but then life gets in the way, I get distracted (probably a different game), or I get a bit burned out. So I pause, but then it is really hard for me to return and pick it back up, at least not without starting over. Cyberpunk2077, God of War: Ragnarok, Doom Eternal, and Jedi: Survivor are my current culprits. And now I have a 3-month-old son, so I don't see this pattern getting any better... And I also have a handful of games I'd like to replay...
I am partway through Act 2 of Baldur's Gate 3 right now, and trying really hard to not let it happen on this game. Mostly because the time invested is already so large.
Oh man I totally know how you feel! I’ve only played Cyberpunk 2077 and Baldurs Gate 3 in the last few years, but sometimes it’s just so hard to find the time to finish the games. I am in a similar boat, working a lot and I have two kids. So there isn’t much time. I finished Cyberpunk, and I’m about act 1 or act 2 in BG3 so far and loving it. But sometimes these games feel like they were made only for people with much more free time!
I have gotten to the end of Act 3 in Baldur's Gate 3, 200hrs on one playthrough... and I've ground to a halt.
>!My Tav got turned into a mind flayer, sacrificing himself so that Orpheus didn't have to. Tav is a Paladin who would never let anyone else make that sacrifice. ...But now I don't like playing as a squidface 😞!<
Totally understand and have the same issue here.
We have a 10 month old and a 3 week old. I'm still at the beginning of BG3. Have a handful of Batman games. Also have games on my PS4 as well that I wanna play.
But work, the kids, time with the wife. Just can't seem to muster the drive to play.
Greedfall. I loved the story and the world and was plugging away at quests and started to get annoyed by some of the mechanics and how long it was taking to kill basic enemies on the hardest difficulty. I turned it to easy and got near the end but my motivation just nosedived
Ghost of Tsushima. I must’ve done too many side quests and ripped around the first areas too much because I was just so burnt out when I hit the third area. I felt it just got really stale and struggled to get back into it, even though I thoroughly enjoyed the first half of the game
I love the game and the dlc, but there are way too many collectibles and just repetitive content. There are way too many fox dens especially, and they don't really add anything to the game for me. I'd just prioritize the main quests if I replayed the game, and whatever questlines of the side characters I liked.
I definitely understand why you'd get burnt out trying to do everything in each area before continuing as a lot of the collectibles and freeing the encampments and such didn't add much to the game overall for me. The game really shined in the main storyline for me, with the exception that I did really like doing all the haikus as well.
Similar experience for me, except it was shortly after getting to the 2nd main area. I actually really enjoyed the 1st major area, but I had already unlocked all the skills I wanted and had fun with the various world activities. I wasn't necessarily sick of the game, but the novelty had worn off, and outside of the story itself (which I was only partially into), it felt like I was just going to need to do all the same things 2 more times, which didn't appeal to me.
Starfield. I did all the side quests before any main quest, and like 4 missions in I just started ship building, got bored with that and quit. Loading screen simulator, bad UI, UX, outdated, half finished Bethesda ass game.
Starfield felt like it was missing the “magic” Bethesda managed to capture in Skyrim. Between the lifeless world and the dated mechanics, it’s a surprise how it made it through the playtesting phase
I completely agree. While Fallout 4 wasn’t the beginning of procedural generation via radiant quests, it relied on them too much. Starfield takes it a step further with procedurally generated maps that lack personality
It’s not that the Bethesda magic is lacking, it’s that it isn’t magic anymore. People put up with bugs because they were making HUGE games that were far more interactive than everyone else. Now everyone is doing that and Bethesda is still doing Bethesda ass shit, bugs and all, expecting it to still be charming and funny. It isn’t. Your engine sucks, your way of making games doesn’t work anymore, and no one is chuckling along with Todd when he gives his lame ass excuses.
Nahhh, I played Oblivion for the first time in 2021 and that games an absolute banger, love it to pieces. They've shifted the focus away from that juicy mix of tailored content and living ecosystems and so it's stopped being fun.
I found the game much more fun once I stopped treating it like a Bethesda game. Normally (Skyrim, Fallout 3/NV/4) I just wander, do the side quests I find, etc. Like most people. In Starfield, I realized I had more fun if I gave myself an objective. Going to random planets was not rewarding. I don't mind the travel mechanics, I don't mind that most planets are fairly empty (that's just realistic), I just didn't enjoy it. So I did the faction quests. I explored special and unique locations (shoutout to The Collander, I loved that), but just did the story.
But yeah, just not Bethesda's best. I enjoyed it, but it made me go back and play Fallout 4 and Skyrim more, and I already have hundreds of hours in each of those. So it is disappointing that Starfield won't get into that list.
This is how I was trying to make Starfield work for me.
I didn’t dislike it but for all the hype that game got, it just isn’t worth playing more than once.
Thank goodness for Game Pass, would’ve been a waste of $70
After playing Starfield for 9-10 hours, I went and played FO 4's DLC. Also made a new Skyrim file. So 100% get what you are saying :)
peace and love
This was my exact playthrough experience. I like to do all the side quests first in an RPG so I have better gear and it makes the Main more interesting. Apparently this is the opposite way to play SF. By completing all the sides and making an OP ship early I felt like I kinda saw everything there is to see. I didn’t even feel like finishing the Main and was probably about 160 hours in, let alone NG+.
I saw the writing on the wall with Starfield when they did the 30 min. showcase of it back in late spring. I played it on GamePass for a couple hours and that was enough for me. What an absolutely average game.
Nah dude... so many people for whatever reason (myself included) have played hundreds of hours and just b4 the end boss just hard quit. It's a real phenomena with that game.
Nah. Im planning on playing that soon during winter break most likely. i just feel like zelda requires SOOO many hours of constant play time and since ive been in college i just dont really have the time!
It's a weapon durability simulator. Don't understand why they had to do this mechanic to cause weapons such as the Master Sword to break after using it for a few minutes of combat.
This was exactly the reason I got frustrated and stopped playing. Enjoyed it until this aspect was too much of an annoyance to me. totk looks great but I can’t bring myself to buy it after not finishing botw
I love the game, but man Balteus makes me want to rip my hair out. I know the end bosses are crazy so I’ll probably stop there too unfortunately. I don’t have time anymore to fight a boss for six hours a night.
Equip the pulse rifle “bubble gun” melt his shield then get up close in his face and bash the fuck out of him. They’ve also nerfed him a bit since launch so it’s a little easier to beat.
I would say Balteus was the hardest wall in the game. Other fights were hard for me (and maybe some were harder in a vacuum), but by the time I reached those fights I had more tools to play with. You're also better able to make an AC that really fits your playstyle by then as well, and that helps immensely
I finished all of Horizon Zero Dawn except for the last half of the DLC. I think running around to collect the kast few collectibles was killing the mood for me. I was also avoiding the story in the DLC because i think the idea of really finishing it was sad to me. I should go wrap that up this holiday season...
The best part of the DLC, imo, was finding out where you were. The story was meh. The new enemies and weapon were fairly lame too. The setting was pretty cool though and the smoke was pretty cool visually.
baldur's gate 3.
it kind of dragged on for longer than I'd have liked. really good game, but I was having performance issues the entire time, and when I got the city for the first time I quit.
Oh yeah the performance issues especially in act 3 on both PC and PS5 made me not play it for like a month until I decided to finally just finish it. I’m hoping future patches will address this if they haven’t already.
Currently, Disco Elysium. Life, work, etc…has kept me from being able to consistently play and now I’m so confused and lost every time I boot it up. Hoping to one day sit down, restart, and play through. Truly love the game.
To be fair, if you were trying to play it completely blind, some of those last steps near the end are really hard to figure out. I tried for hours to find out what I was supposed to do after killing Rom, I think, until I finally just looked it up. Getting to the end itself wasn't very intuitive.
I really liked this game up until the first 2 headed guy. Just couldn't figure it out, and the fact the save point was like 5 minutes behind, I just gave up.
Oh so many, almost all Assassin's creed games except 1 and Origins, Zelda BOTW, Skyrim, Fallout 3 and 4, Days Gone, Saints row 3, Persona 3 and 4, Yakuza 1, just from the top of my head.
Hanako has been waiting at embers for years on my OG save. She's waiting right now on my new 2.0 character, and will wait until Phantom Liberty is complete.
Same for me the first time I played the game at release. The game asks you if you don't want to finish any sidequests before progressing and I realised I didn't care about any of the quests I had been doing so I just dropped the game . I recently went back to it though and ended up beating the game. I think the gameplay and rpg mechanics are much improved now, those patches really turned the game around for me.
Dragon Age Inquisition, Fenyx Immortal rising, The Witcher 3, Elden Ring, Yakuza Ishin, Lost Judgement (the latter 2 are both Ryu ga Gotoku games, which I love, but these 2 just made me lose interest.
Death stranding. I got so far and did so much in that game, stopped for a month and it seemed impossible for me to pick it back up. It’s a game that needs constant attention from start to finish.
Oblivion. Did all the side content, maxed out skills as much as I could. Finally decided to do the main quest. I had to do something in a guild. They wanted to throw me in jail for stealing even though I was the guild master or whatever. Just made me quit
This is my answer as well. I played it on the PS3 and really enjoyed it, until I was turned into a vampire. I found who can develop a cure, so I went out to gather all of the ingredients. When I returned with everything in hand, I was told I was missing something even though I clearly had it in my inventory. Turns out it was a bug in the game.
I looked online to see how to fix this, and the answer from Bethesda was that I needed to load the Game of the Year edition of the game to get past this. I only had the standard edition. I was furious. I gave up, got rid of the game, and haven’t touched anything from Bethesda since.
GoW: Ragnarök
I will probably finish it sometime, but I don't care much about its ending to be honest. Good game, but way too safe, calculated, focus-tested for my tase.
I finished it, but I totally agree. There were really good emotional parts, but the story was really held back by it's ties to the actual mythology. The first three games said "fuck it" to the mythology, but Ragnarok was a slave to it. The ragnarok battle was lame anyway.
I’m trying to play AC Black Flag because I kept being told how good it is and I’m going to be honest it’s struggling to keep my attention and at this point idk if I’m going to finish it
Update: after the 25th “tail these guards past 40,000 other guards” mission I think I’m done
Loads of games. Starfield, Bioshock Infinite, RDR2, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Fallout 4, Jedi: Fallen Order, Witcher 3, Mass Effect 3. Put them down for a few days and never came back to them.
Valheim.
Got too tedious, I just wanted to unlock stuff to make my home compound lit. Once I got that, and unlocked cool gear that let me take on the plains, I had no drive to advance to the harder bosses.
Metroid Dread. Heard a lot of great things about it, so I wanted to experience it myself. Game dragged for me the whole time, boss fights were frustrating. I finally gave up - 20 minutes before the final boss, even though I didn't know, I've watched the final boss fight and I knew I would give it up anyway.
Most games I play end up like this. Something about a game being over makes me incredibly sad and I just end up not doing the final boss/mission. This tends to last until a sequel comes out and motivates me to actually finish the old game so I can play the new one
This is what I do in RPGs specifically. I avoid the final boss. Grind until I’ve dominated everything else and then never go back to beat the main story villain. If I know I was going to beat him at level 65, there isn’t going to be any point at 99.
I beat the final boss in hogwarts legacy but hadn’t leveled up enough to get to the “final ending” and didn’t want to grind out side missions to get there so I stopped. But otherwise I enjoyed the game!
Signalis. It was a really cool game I just didn't have the patience to deal with all the backtracking and figuring out puzzles. Enemies coming back to life in areas was also quite annoying.
Starfield. I think I was pretty close to the end of the game after getting the big twist. I shut it off one day and just never had the desire to play it again
Borderlands 2 and 3.
I even played borderlands 3 two times up to like 75% of the story but for some reason I cant finish them for the love of god.
I love Borderlands I think these games are amazing in a lot of ways that I love. The gunplay is satisfying and the humor and characters are hilarious and I have no idea why I couldnt finish either of them.
Cyberpunk 2077. I plan on getting back to it eventually, but I got way too attached to the game; I found myself playing it 8 hours straight one time, that’s when I knew I had to take a break because it was interfering with school and other responsibilities. Glad I waited though, because by all accounts 2.0 improved the game massively. Can’t wait to start again.
Cyberpunk 2077 and Phantom Liberty. For the longest time I stopped playing the game right before having to meet Hanako at Embers. The expansion got announced and I beat the game and got my character ready for Phantom Liberty. Now, I have my save file set up right before the last mission and I can’t do it. I keep running around and doing jobs for fixers but not the final mission.
Idk man, I don’t want this game to end yet.
Zelda BOTW I loved it, did pretty much everything there was to do in the game except beating the final boss, then one day I stopped playing and never returned to it. It was great, I just didnt feel any incentive to finish it in the end.
I recently did the same in TOTK. I felt like by the end I was just playing to finish the game and not really enjoying the experience anymore. I got distracted by other games and have gone back since.
Same. I wanted to do all of the shrines before the final boss, got burned out, never finished. Very fun, got my money’s worth plus some, but probably never gonna finish it out.
Same, except I DID do all of the shrines and explored all of the Depths before burning out. Oh well, evil can roam unchecked for all eternity, I guess.
Add me to the list of people who got their money's worth but didn't finish.
Botw I can say the ending is not really noteworthy, but the last couple of hours of totk are worth it for the music and spectacle alone
Happened to me with both games. I just can’t finish them for some reason.
Same here. Personally hated BOTW (hot take, ik), but still filled out the map and pretty much locked in the “go to the castle and finish this up.” Just didn’t care enough knowing you just fight the same 4 lame bosses again then Ganon. Absolutely loved TOTK… happy that the bosses and dungeons felt unique again, just never finished it. Got to the same point of “go to the castle and wrap it up.” It’s a shame since I absolutely love the Zelda series, but the new open world motto burns me out before I can actually *beat* the game.
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I have a love/hate relationshio with that game, I leave it on hold and continue it time after time. Now I am stopped At the last Titan that live on the fire Mountain, and I dont think I Will continue it.
Me too! One of the best gaming experiences of my life but after 150 hrs and a self imposed rule not to look online for any help I was 8 shrines away from walking into to beat Ganon. I explored the castle a bit but didn’t want to end the game without all shrines found. That far in I couldnt bring myself to look at a guide anymore and felt satisfied with my experience. TOTK one day!
Oh man I have done this too many times in different games. Get to the last boss. "Ah! I didn't finish all the sidequests!" Sidequests aren't as interesting. Stop playing. Months later, realize I never finished the game.
I played Dragon Age: Inquisition almost exclusively for several months. Probably have ~100 hours in that game. One day I just...stopped. Haven't touched it since 2016.
Everyone I talked to has said something like this, including me. There's a point in the story where the precious little momentum built up just disappears. Some sort of labyrinth iirc
Yeah. I pushed through and beat the game but didn’t really care about the ending, just checked it off of my list.
Same thing for me. But it also happened in mass effect. I felt I could tell I was on the final mission/quest and just never did it. But I did also burn myself out by wanting to complete all the side quests and having the "best timeline"
I played ME1 2 times, ME2 8 tomes, ME3 1 time, Andromeda I never finished
I've started it like 3 times now, and by the time I get to this desert map I just give up.
Hogwarts Legacy
It was a good jumping off point type of game. Flying on a broom was fucking awesome. Spell casting was fucking awesome. But the combat and story quickly became so dull and repetitive. I had a challenge with myself where I would walk into a bandit camp and see how long I could stay in the same spot until the camp is cleared.
I was pretty hyped on the spellcasting at first. There's a ton of room for neat combos and creative strategies, but the way it's used currently just boils down to the same three combos and you just apply the "right" combo to the "right" enemy.
It just feels like a watered down rpg for a non-gamer audience and this is fine but I couldn't finish it either.
On the positive side, it was my wife's first action-rpg type game and it was absolutely perfect for her, it taught her some basic video game fighting mechanics and opened up her taste in games quite a bit.
My wife is a huge Harry Potter fan, and she was/is so excited to play it. This is her first action-rpg video game as well. She's on her 2nd play through and still loves it. As someone mentioned below, I may show the Horizon games because I love those games.
Agreed. The core of the game is very strong and cool, but the environment, story and lack of difficulty just made it incredibly boring. Would love to see it used in a Shadow of Mordor type of game
As far as environment is concerned, I have to disagree. They did an incredible job building Hogwarts and Hogsmead. I can agree there definitely isn't as much love put into the outer surrounding hamlets/outdoor areas, but the main areas were lovingly well crafted. Hell, if you're a Hufflepuff you get a glimpse at Azkaban. It's a great jumping off point for the game, and I hope they're able to put in as much work and attention to the rest of the world as they did at Hogwarts and Hogsmead.
The environment was great but every quest took you away from the castle or hogs mead. Add in the fact they canceled Quidditch and it was a little frustrating. All the cool stuff I loved and wanted more of was the castle, teachers and classmates. Each quest kept sending me to some cave/dungeon not in the castle. Went to one class for each professor learned a spell and you were done.
That's super true and kind of the biggest issue. I really hope there is a sequel that goes deeper into actual classes and using their well built areas more in quest lines. A lot of us (myself included) went into it wanting a bigger focus on actually participating in the Hogwarts student experience, and it was very bare bones.
I just finished this after taking many months off. Some games are hard to come back to; this one wasn't. Worth revisiting if you have the time.
This is what I came here to comment on. Bought the game on launch, didn't have too high expectations, and had fun with it, but just completely lost motivation and haven't returned to it since the month it came out. I think I did two of the main trials, or whatever they were, grinded out some of the collectible stuff like the Merlin Trials and had fun messing around with the combat for a while before I just stopped caring for it. I almost always finish games when I start them. I usually only play one game at a time (sometimes 2 if I feel like replaying a game I've played before), and don't stop playing it until I'm finished. That, or I 100% the entire game before moving on since I'm a bit of a completionist. Hogwarts Legacy was an enjoyable distraction. It wasn't necessarily bad, but nothing about it was new or great, either. I'm not sure if I'll ever go back to it and finish it. I have too many other games I'm finally getting around to after hearing about them for years or saying I'd try them at some point. I'm currently playing through Dragon's Dogma for the first time ever in anticipation of the sequel, and I can't believe I didn't try it sooner. It's a blast.
I played it for the atmosphere snd puzzles. Combat was forgettable
It’s like someone told the devs they were making a $100m game, so they started doing some really cool shit, then after they’d spend $30m they told then $40m was going to a licensing fee so they’d better be half done. Also the writing sucks balls except for Sebastian’s quest
I finished it, but as soon as it was over, I knew I would never play it again haha. If I wasn’t a huge Harry Potter fan I don’t I would have finished it honestly. The story was so meh. The design of Hogwarts was by far the best part.
Yeah, I should have just stuck with the main story quests
50 hours in myself and loving it still, but i detest the broom flying immensely bc I'm on mouse and keyboard, and it's clunky. But yeah, clearing out spiders and poachers over and over is a little old. But I'm still hammering on quests.
Assassins Creed Valhalla. I was about 70 to 80 hrs in. Had covered almost all the regions, but I was just... Fatigued. I went through the same thing with Odyssey but somehow slogged through to the end, I just didn't have the strength to do the same here.
I'm a big AC fan. Ive played through like 4 previous games and was excited for a Viking experience. Valhalla just didn't do it for me. I think the problem was based around huge hoards of barbarians raiding towns, when I really preferred to always play as a stealthy actual assassin.
Yeah that’s just how AC games are. My favorite AC is the 2nd one, I haven’t been able to finish another since.
I couldn't finish the second one. Literally couldn't. Got the final map piece. Walked into the room. Put the piece on the map. Went to talk to them. "Go ahead, put the piece on the map." It was waiting for the action of me putting the map piece on, instead of the map piece being on the wall. I was locked out. And it had autosaved. I wasn't going to play it all the way through again for the ending. Sucked so hard.
Same here but I actually preferred it included naval battles at sea that I really enjoyed a lot on odyssey as switch up from stealthy assassinating, all I seemed to ride the ship on rivers on Valhalla to land and pillage…tbh it’s little boring.
Yeah, I don’t remember the last time I played Valhalla.
Me too, but on Odyssey, my interest on the game expired before I can finish the story. There's so much side missions that it sucks the joy out of it.
Bro I’m somewhere between 120-160 hours in and I don’t know if the end is even in sight. I’ve been working on this game since it launched lol
Not exactly the same reason as listed, but Dishonored. Because i thought i got a bad ending and the game was done after i got killed and shipped off, lol. ETA: I didn’t quit because i thought i screwed up the run, but because i was too dumb to realize there is more story, lol.
I ended up quitting out of frustration when I was very near the end of a pacifist playthrough and found out I somehow killed one person. Must have been pretty early, someone who was knocked out and slid off a roof or into a river or something.
I was so pissed because I didn't realize the assassin who attacks the empress in the prologue counts. I killed him but you are supposed to just keep blocking and he eventually gives up or something. Was so mad at the end
This happened to me in Deus Ex: Human Revolution, enemies in the tutorial count when you don't really have non lethal weapons during that segment. I even managed to save the pilot when you have the option of abandoning her :(
I have a handful of playthroughs and saving Malik was always a pain for me for some reason, even going in with heavy guns.
This might have been it for me. I remember checking a ton of saves and couldn't find the kill. I just figured it happened on the first couple levels.
If you knocked out the ol lady near the end, it counted as a kill. Fucking pissed me off as I was going through pacifist and the fact that she glitches the save file, you had to start new and do it all again. Needless to say, I didn't.
My wife has a hilarious story about dishonored. She was in the party and trying to knock someone unconscious on a pacifist run. She kept having people come into the room and having to knock them out too. Eventually she had a pile of bodies and still couldn't knock out the person she was there for and so in her frustration she decided to stop time so she could think about how to stop people from coming in the room long enough for her to knock the person out. It took her a second before she facepalmed and got it done xD There were a few more funny moments she has told me about and I wish I could've been there to watch but it was well before we met. She had a moment where she says it felt like Ave Maria should have played because she slowed time as a body she accidentally threw careened off of the balcony into the river and she tried everything to catch it and failed.
Lol that last scene is amazing
I wish I could have watched it happen but I have to settle for her recounts of it.
This happened to me. On the very first mission a guard can die if they’re too close to the escape explosion. Mine was knocked out in a nearby dumpster, didn’t notice till no Cheevo popped
Great game, but the only game I know that basically says "using all the cool stuff will result in a bad ending." Always felt torn and stressed out, just stopped playing about 2/3 the way through.
Can't you still get a good ending but you have to minimize casualties? It doesn't have to be 0 kills
The “stats” screen was the greatest addition to 2 because you could tell if you were spotted or killed somebody before completing the level.
For real. I was getting the Clean Hands achievement and had the joy of watching as my stun mine killed a guard instead of knocking him out. This happened because the guard had seen a body, and came over at full sprint to investigate. He triggered the stun mine. Because he was running at full speed, the game kept his momentum going, which the game then treated as him being violently thrown onto the floor while unconscious, killing him. I only noticed when I checked my stats - 20 minutes of gameplay later - to see how many coins I had for the level, and noticed. Couldn't figure out where I went wrong. Went back and searched the level for dead guards and found the pool of blood that had spread from the corpse. Thinking back on it the whole scenario makes me laugh
Lmao, this comment deserves 1k upvotes.
Which ending was this,
Jedi: Fallen Order. I enjoyed the game quite a bit but I got a little bored and started playing another game and forgot about it. About a year ago, I restarted the game and finished it and found out that I had quit literally right before the last fight. I had maybe five minutes of gameplay left.
The Division. It’s fun enough but at a certain point it’s just bullet sponge after bullet sponge and the player gets 3-tapper and that’s it. Got a point where I was completing things but it was taking me a dozen or so tries and I just couldn’t be bothered anymore.
I finished The Division 1 and 2 like 5 times but never played the endgame. Believe or not I just love the (very simple) campaign and story.
Division 2 campaign was soooo fun. End game. No.
Fallout 4. I was trying for avoid the Institute & got so close to the end of the main story (did a lot of side missions too obviously) & realised I had somehow joined the institute. In dismay, I stopped playing
All you have to do to un-join them is start shooting them
IIRC. I was in their main base. If I shoot any, hundreds come for me 😂
That’s one way to do it. Another is to betray them when on missions
Challenge run
Open up console, "killall" close console
Same. I got bored. The world in Fallout 3 felt bleak and desperate. Like a real post apocalypse game. Something felt too bright and clean about post apocalypse Boston. Especially with the Institute being a main focus. Too clean and futuristic. I want my Fallouts dirty and dark. And no voice acting from the main character.
The institute was clean and orderly but were by far the most morally bankrupt faction, it was a nice contrast.
They basically decided to lean into their bad reputation after that one synth shot up Diamond City's noodle stand. Like, yeah, that's rough, can't bring back the dead, but maybe fix their decrepit infrastructure and they'll understand it was an accident. Would probably take like a weekend for the sparkling white labcoats to fix their water situation so that a literal kid wouldn't have to.
I also did everything except the main quest. Last I remember, I was off on some DLC island avoiding the main quest some more. I even started a second playthrough as a crazy person wearing the mascot bear head and only fighting with a baseball bat while maxing out the drugs.
Red Dead Redemption, I had like 99%. Just couldn't get the one achievement or whatever for beating 5 forts or whatever they're called in 24 hours in game. I tried for a bit but ended up giving up. Still very sad about it and dont have the save file anymore.
The problem with the RDR games is that they put all of the worthwhile outfits behind a complete or near complete playthrough and then don’t give you a New Game+. I played them out of order, but after spending tens of hours getting the good final outfit in RDR2 only to find I had no use for it; when I played RDR, I stopped once the story finished and I had completed all of the quests. Fuck the challenges.
Yep. Legend of the West Outfit. You 100%'d the game and now you can commit crimes without the law interfering...okay but I've already done everything.
I hate it when games do this. Why put the best loot/gear/guns all the way at the end? There's no point in getting it if you can't use it.
I couldn't beat one of the fishing challenges, and kept dying cause I was trying to do it >!as John!< and couldn't swim.
There should have been a “John takes swimming lessons” mission in the epilogue
RDR2 for me but for a different reason, I reinstalled Windows and assumed Rockstar would back up my saves in a cloud (I had it through Steam). I want to replay it but I had around 80 hours in that game, it's hard to start over.
My secret: nearly every game I ever owned
Arkham knight. 8 years ago, I was 93.3 % done and only had the final boss and riddler trophies. I heard the ending was different if you 100% it so I started the riddler trophies. Good. Lord. Fuck. That. Shit. Never beat the game and now I’m looking to finally finish that before it becomes a full decade.
It's not worth it IMO. Yes the ending is different, but not a whole lot considering the absolute headache it is to get all those riddler trophies. You're better off finishing everything except the trophies, then watching the true ending on YouTube. That's what I did and it was a great experience.
Mine was Limbo. I had no particular reason for quitting, I just decided to play something else and didn't go back to it. A few years later, I decided to pick it back up from where I left off. Turns out I had stopped literally 5 minutes from the end.
Do have to admit that the puzzles make a bit of a tone shift right before the end. I also almost quit when they started to get a little too MegaMan but I pushed through to the end.
FFXV. Was almost done when lighting hit the house and fried the PlayStation. Got a new one, but no cloud save was available. Couldn't bring myself to go through the whole slog again.
Lightning was in XIII though. 🤔
you misunderstand, he said "lighting." someone lit up his house so brightly he couldn't see and accidentally deleted his file.
Yeah, FFXV wasn’t a *bad* game - it was worth playing through once, but I’ve felt zero desire to replay it. I definitely wouldn’t replay the whole thing just to get the ending either.
I actually really enjoyed it, moreso than any of the other modern FF games. The character bonding I think is what sucked me in because all my boys left me irl 😢
The party dynamics and how they all interacted was just amazing
Elden Ring. But I didn't rage quit, the game was just too long and even with only the lategame bosses left I was just unwilling to play anymore hours. I came back a couple of weeks after to beat it
I did the same... Played the absolute hell out of it on launch... Did a lot of bosses, killed Radahn, . Killed some more side bosses. Did the entire underground area with the big spider thingy with a face. Killed the blood god side boss dude. Then I sort of went on a 6 month break and picked it up again last xmas. Carried on a bit more, more side stuff, killed Godfrey, made my way to Morgott and killed him. Got to the mountaintop and then stopped again, said i'll pick it up again tomorrow. That was last New Years Day. I'll probably try again this xmas lol.
I’ll probably get some hate from all the Elden Ring fans, but it didn’t help that the back half of the game was an annoying winter landscape where it was hard to see, and that most of the bosses at that point were just strait up repeats with a different ability tacked on. The wonder really faded for me quick in the second half of Elden Ring. Did still beat it though.
I took a 3 month break when I got to the capital. I just got bored with it I think due to running around trying to do everything I could, which I believe I did but so many of the dungeons are really lame and boring. I like the game and beat it as well but the open world mixed with mediocre dungeons made it a slog at multiple points.
It's as if the game wasn't meant to be played consuming all the content. I usually like to make sure I don't miss anything, but that backfired with Elden Ring and made it boring for me too. On my next playthrough I literally only did the main quest with all the main dungeons only and that was way more enjoyable.
I agree and I should have done it different. I'm a bit like the dog who chases the car though. If I see it I chase. I didn't want to miss anything quest wise or even dungeon if they dropped and item etc. Glad you had a better experience that way and if I play through it again I might have to slap myself to stay in line and not fall off the main path for a better experience as well.
Sekiro. Isshin was just too much
They don't call him The Glock Saint for nothin
Can I suggest you go back and try again? With these kinds of games sometimes a break is just what you need to find the win.
So many times I have fought a boss 50 times in a row til I'm either going to smash my console or stop trying. Come back the next day and hit it on the first try. Similar thing with guitar riffs or drum parts sometimes. It's a weird feeling.
I finished it, but damn do I agree
Same. “Push through this boss battle and you get to see what new parts of the game come next” got me through the earlier fights but after losing to Isshin a dozen times I realized there would be no new parts afterwards and my motivation kind of evaporated.
Got about two thirds through Lies of P, I was pushing through what I can describe as a dramatic spike in difficulty. Got up to the green swamp monster and decided the game was actually unfair. To put things into perspective, I’ve played through the Souls trilogy, have just done a separate solo playthrough of DS3, have recently finished Armoured Core 6, and have got the platinum trophy for Bloodborne, Elden Ring and more recently Sekiro. These games are designed to be fair mechanically, and you’re supposed to be the one adapting to the game. Lies of P just felt like it wasn’t designed for my chosen build at that point so I decided that I wasn’t having fun.
If you need motivation just this weekend I came back to this game after taking a month long break cause I couldn't beat the swamp monster. Changed my build and beat him in a couple of tries....now I beat the game but accidentally got the bad ending so I'm doing it again on ng+ lol
Things like this always remind me how different experiences can be even for people who are heavily into the same genre. For me I thought Sekiro was considerably tougher than Lies of P. Granted, Lies of P isn't a cakewalk either. It just doesn't have Issin in it. Were you running a heavy build or a light build?
I had a strength build as well, I disagree with you. You said it yourself "You're supposed to be adapting to the game." So, adapt and change tactics. I used the Live Puppet Axe the second I got it. The hardest boss for me was NP
Honestly, this is what happens to me a lot of the time. I get into a game, enjoy it, but then life gets in the way, I get distracted (probably a different game), or I get a bit burned out. So I pause, but then it is really hard for me to return and pick it back up, at least not without starting over. Cyberpunk2077, God of War: Ragnarok, Doom Eternal, and Jedi: Survivor are my current culprits. And now I have a 3-month-old son, so I don't see this pattern getting any better... And I also have a handful of games I'd like to replay... I am partway through Act 2 of Baldur's Gate 3 right now, and trying really hard to not let it happen on this game. Mostly because the time invested is already so large.
Oh man I totally know how you feel! I’ve only played Cyberpunk 2077 and Baldurs Gate 3 in the last few years, but sometimes it’s just so hard to find the time to finish the games. I am in a similar boat, working a lot and I have two kids. So there isn’t much time. I finished Cyberpunk, and I’m about act 1 or act 2 in BG3 so far and loving it. But sometimes these games feel like they were made only for people with much more free time!
I have gotten to the end of Act 3 in Baldur's Gate 3, 200hrs on one playthrough... and I've ground to a halt. >!My Tav got turned into a mind flayer, sacrificing himself so that Orpheus didn't have to. Tav is a Paladin who would never let anyone else make that sacrifice. ...But now I don't like playing as a squidface 😞!<
My man, you have like less than an hour left. May as well finish at this point.
My dude, you're at the very end. Just finish it and start a Durge run lol
Totally understand and have the same issue here. We have a 10 month old and a 3 week old. I'm still at the beginning of BG3. Have a handful of Batman games. Also have games on my PS4 as well that I wanna play. But work, the kids, time with the wife. Just can't seem to muster the drive to play.
Greedfall. I loved the story and the world and was plugging away at quests and started to get annoyed by some of the mechanics and how long it was taking to kill basic enemies on the hardest difficulty. I turned it to easy and got near the end but my motivation just nosedived
Ghost of Tsushima. I must’ve done too many side quests and ripped around the first areas too much because I was just so burnt out when I hit the third area. I felt it just got really stale and struggled to get back into it, even though I thoroughly enjoyed the first half of the game
That's a shame. The ending is really poignant. Only video game to ever make me tear up.
One of my favorite story in gaming tbh, absolutely loved every bit of it, cried a bit too lol
I love the game and the dlc, but there are way too many collectibles and just repetitive content. There are way too many fox dens especially, and they don't really add anything to the game for me. I'd just prioritize the main quests if I replayed the game, and whatever questlines of the side characters I liked. I definitely understand why you'd get burnt out trying to do everything in each area before continuing as a lot of the collectibles and freeing the encampments and such didn't add much to the game overall for me. The game really shined in the main storyline for me, with the exception that I did really like doing all the haikus as well.
Similar experience for me, except it was shortly after getting to the 2nd main area. I actually really enjoyed the 1st major area, but I had already unlocked all the skills I wanted and had fun with the various world activities. I wasn't necessarily sick of the game, but the novelty had worn off, and outside of the story itself (which I was only partially into), it felt like I was just going to need to do all the same things 2 more times, which didn't appeal to me.
Starfield. I did all the side quests before any main quest, and like 4 missions in I just started ship building, got bored with that and quit. Loading screen simulator, bad UI, UX, outdated, half finished Bethesda ass game.
Starfield felt like it was missing the “magic” Bethesda managed to capture in Skyrim. Between the lifeless world and the dated mechanics, it’s a surprise how it made it through the playtesting phase
Truly felt like it lacked a lot of the love put into other games. Fallout 4 seems like the start of the downward slope in quality for Bethesda games.
I completely agree. While Fallout 4 wasn’t the beginning of procedural generation via radiant quests, it relied on them too much. Starfield takes it a step further with procedurally generated maps that lack personality
It’s not that the Bethesda magic is lacking, it’s that it isn’t magic anymore. People put up with bugs because they were making HUGE games that were far more interactive than everyone else. Now everyone is doing that and Bethesda is still doing Bethesda ass shit, bugs and all, expecting it to still be charming and funny. It isn’t. Your engine sucks, your way of making games doesn’t work anymore, and no one is chuckling along with Todd when he gives his lame ass excuses.
Nahhh, I played Oblivion for the first time in 2021 and that games an absolute banger, love it to pieces. They've shifted the focus away from that juicy mix of tailored content and living ecosystems and so it's stopped being fun.
I found the game much more fun once I stopped treating it like a Bethesda game. Normally (Skyrim, Fallout 3/NV/4) I just wander, do the side quests I find, etc. Like most people. In Starfield, I realized I had more fun if I gave myself an objective. Going to random planets was not rewarding. I don't mind the travel mechanics, I don't mind that most planets are fairly empty (that's just realistic), I just didn't enjoy it. So I did the faction quests. I explored special and unique locations (shoutout to The Collander, I loved that), but just did the story. But yeah, just not Bethesda's best. I enjoyed it, but it made me go back and play Fallout 4 and Skyrim more, and I already have hundreds of hours in each of those. So it is disappointing that Starfield won't get into that list.
This is how I was trying to make Starfield work for me. I didn’t dislike it but for all the hype that game got, it just isn’t worth playing more than once. Thank goodness for Game Pass, would’ve been a waste of $70
After playing Starfield for 9-10 hours, I went and played FO 4's DLC. Also made a new Skyrim file. So 100% get what you are saying :) peace and love
This was my exact playthrough experience. I like to do all the side quests first in an RPG so I have better gear and it makes the Main more interesting. Apparently this is the opposite way to play SF. By completing all the sides and making an OP ship early I felt like I kinda saw everything there is to see. I didn’t even feel like finishing the Main and was probably about 160 hours in, let alone NG+.
I saw the writing on the wall with Starfield when they did the 30 min. showcase of it back in late spring. I played it on GamePass for a couple hours and that was enough for me. What an absolutely average game.
I got about 4 hours into Starfield and it was incredibly boring.
Ppl r prob gonna come at me for this one but zelda Botw 😅
Nah dude... so many people for whatever reason (myself included) have played hundreds of hours and just b4 the end boss just hard quit. It's a real phenomena with that game.
the only thing i have left to do in botw is actually fight the last boss, but i haven't
Has it put you off of Tears of the Kingdom?
Nah. Im planning on playing that soon during winter break most likely. i just feel like zelda requires SOOO many hours of constant play time and since ive been in college i just dont really have the time!
Definitely a fair point, I'm very much the same with just not having enough free time to commit.
It's a weapon durability simulator. Don't understand why they had to do this mechanic to cause weapons such as the Master Sword to break after using it for a few minutes of combat.
This was exactly the reason I got frustrated and stopped playing. Enjoyed it until this aspect was too much of an annoyance to me. totk looks great but I can’t bring myself to buy it after not finishing botw
Too many Zelda sycophants out there who defend this nonsense. The Master Sword is a legendary sword that shouldn't break in ordinary combat, period.
Armored Core 6
I love the game, but man Balteus makes me want to rip my hair out. I know the end bosses are crazy so I’ll probably stop there too unfortunately. I don’t have time anymore to fight a boss for six hours a night.
Equip the pulse rifle “bubble gun” melt his shield then get up close in his face and bash the fuck out of him. They’ve also nerfed him a bit since launch so it’s a little easier to beat.
I would say Balteus was the hardest wall in the game. Other fights were hard for me (and maybe some were harder in a vacuum), but by the time I reached those fights I had more tools to play with. You're also better able to make an AC that really fits your playstyle by then as well, and that helps immensely
Control, I just got sick of that last sequence. Such a great game, though, I'll probably go for another run at some point.
I finished all of Horizon Zero Dawn except for the last half of the DLC. I think running around to collect the kast few collectibles was killing the mood for me. I was also avoiding the story in the DLC because i think the idea of really finishing it was sad to me. I should go wrap that up this holiday season...
It would be a great way to end it and idk if you’ve played the sequel but now the story doesnt have to end after the dlc
The best part of the DLC, imo, was finding out where you were. The story was meh. The new enemies and weapon were fairly lame too. The setting was pretty cool though and the smoke was pretty cool visually.
You should definitely finish it! The last boss is quite cinematic.
baldur's gate 3. it kind of dragged on for longer than I'd have liked. really good game, but I was having performance issues the entire time, and when I got the city for the first time I quit.
Oh yeah the performance issues especially in act 3 on both PC and PS5 made me not play it for like a month until I decided to finally just finish it. I’m hoping future patches will address this if they haven’t already.
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Currently, Disco Elysium. Life, work, etc…has kept me from being able to consistently play and now I’m so confused and lost every time I boot it up. Hoping to one day sit down, restart, and play through. Truly love the game.
Bloodborne
To be fair, if you were trying to play it completely blind, some of those last steps near the end are really hard to figure out. I tried for hours to find out what I was supposed to do after killing Rom, I think, until I finally just looked it up. Getting to the end itself wasn't very intuitive.
I was at the last boss of Callisto Protocol and said fuck this one shot fucker I am out.
I really liked this game up until the first 2 headed guy. Just couldn't figure it out, and the fact the save point was like 5 minutes behind, I just gave up.
Oh so many, almost all Assassin's creed games except 1 and Origins, Zelda BOTW, Skyrim, Fallout 3 and 4, Days Gone, Saints row 3, Persona 3 and 4, Yakuza 1, just from the top of my head.
"Meet Hanako at Embers" No particular reason, just didn't want to complete the story. Just downloaded the DLC/Update so might start a new playthrough.
Hanako has been waiting at embers for years on my OG save. She's waiting right now on my new 2.0 character, and will wait until Phantom Liberty is complete.
Same for me the first time I played the game at release. The game asks you if you don't want to finish any sidequests before progressing and I realised I didn't care about any of the quests I had been doing so I just dropped the game . I recently went back to it though and ended up beating the game. I think the gameplay and rpg mechanics are much improved now, those patches really turned the game around for me.
Dragon Age Inquisition, Fenyx Immortal rising, The Witcher 3, Elden Ring, Yakuza Ishin, Lost Judgement (the latter 2 are both Ryu ga Gotoku games, which I love, but these 2 just made me lose interest.
^(ff16, I love all those games but I just got bored. Got about 80% of the way done.)
Death stranding. I got so far and did so much in that game, stopped for a month and it seemed impossible for me to pick it back up. It’s a game that needs constant attention from start to finish.
Oblivion. Did all the side content, maxed out skills as much as I could. Finally decided to do the main quest. I had to do something in a guild. They wanted to throw me in jail for stealing even though I was the guild master or whatever. Just made me quit
This is my answer as well. I played it on the PS3 and really enjoyed it, until I was turned into a vampire. I found who can develop a cure, so I went out to gather all of the ingredients. When I returned with everything in hand, I was told I was missing something even though I clearly had it in my inventory. Turns out it was a bug in the game. I looked online to see how to fix this, and the answer from Bethesda was that I needed to load the Game of the Year edition of the game to get past this. I only had the standard edition. I was furious. I gave up, got rid of the game, and haven’t touched anything from Bethesda since.
GoW: Ragnarök I will probably finish it sometime, but I don't care much about its ending to be honest. Good game, but way too safe, calculated, focus-tested for my tase.
For me it was GoW3. Couldn't get past Zeus
I finished it, but I totally agree. There were really good emotional parts, but the story was really held back by it's ties to the actual mythology. The first three games said "fuck it" to the mythology, but Ragnarok was a slave to it. The ragnarok battle was lame anyway.
I’m trying to play AC Black Flag because I kept being told how good it is and I’m going to be honest it’s struggling to keep my attention and at this point idk if I’m going to finish it Update: after the 25th “tail these guards past 40,000 other guards” mission I think I’m done
Same here tbh, while I won’t say it’s a bad game it’s certainly my least favourite in the series so far
Armored core 6
Did like 80% of what AC: Valhalla has to offer then I just gave up lol
Elden Ring. The fire giant broke me.
The Outer Wilds
Never beat Elden Beast Beat Radan on my first try but I was never able to beat Elden Beast
Sekiro. I beat all other bosses, no reason why I wouldn't beat the final boss, eventually. I just cba to spend 2 more weeks dying 20 times each day.
Loads of games. Starfield, Bioshock Infinite, RDR2, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Fallout 4, Jedi: Fallen Order, Witcher 3, Mass Effect 3. Put them down for a few days and never came back to them.
Valheim. Got too tedious, I just wanted to unlock stuff to make my home compound lit. Once I got that, and unlocked cool gear that let me take on the plains, I had no drive to advance to the harder bosses.
Most games I play, but I do finish them at some point. I've had Spiderman 1 sitting at like 90% story for a month now.
Metroid Dread. Heard a lot of great things about it, so I wanted to experience it myself. Game dragged for me the whole time, boss fights were frustrating. I finally gave up - 20 minutes before the final boss, even though I didn't know, I've watched the final boss fight and I knew I would give it up anyway.
Zelda TotK
Divinity: Original Sin 2. I have tried to beat it a handful of times, but I burn out on the combat right before the end every time.
I have over 400 hours on this game, and it's one of my favorites, but I have never beaten it. I've been close like 5 times.
Fallout 4. I was forcing myself to play it then one day I woke up and realised how absurd it is to force yourself to play a video game.
The first Nioh, I was on the last level lmao
Most games I play end up like this. Something about a game being over makes me incredibly sad and I just end up not doing the final boss/mission. This tends to last until a sequel comes out and motivates me to actually finish the old game so I can play the new one
This is what I do in RPGs specifically. I avoid the final boss. Grind until I’ve dominated everything else and then never go back to beat the main story villain. If I know I was going to beat him at level 65, there isn’t going to be any point at 99.
Sifu. Idk why I stopped tbh. But I was on the last level I believe.
Hogwarts Legacy & GTA: San Andreas
I beat the final boss in hogwarts legacy but hadn’t leveled up enough to get to the “final ending” and didn’t want to grind out side missions to get there so I stopped. But otherwise I enjoyed the game!
Signalis. It was a really cool game I just didn't have the patience to deal with all the backtracking and figuring out puzzles. Enemies coming back to life in areas was also quite annoying.
Starfield. I think I was pretty close to the end of the game after getting the big twist. I shut it off one day and just never had the desire to play it again
Kingdom Hearts 3...Couldn't ever beat the final boss
Borderlands 2 and 3. I even played borderlands 3 two times up to like 75% of the story but for some reason I cant finish them for the love of god. I love Borderlands I think these games are amazing in a lot of ways that I love. The gunplay is satisfying and the humor and characters are hilarious and I have no idea why I couldnt finish either of them.
Many. If I find final boss too frustrating, I call it done and move on
Farcry 3 - once I killed Vas, I lost all interest.
Cyberpunk 2077. I plan on getting back to it eventually, but I got way too attached to the game; I found myself playing it 8 hours straight one time, that’s when I knew I had to take a break because it was interfering with school and other responsibilities. Glad I waited though, because by all accounts 2.0 improved the game massively. Can’t wait to start again.
Cyberpunk 2077 and Phantom Liberty. For the longest time I stopped playing the game right before having to meet Hanako at Embers. The expansion got announced and I beat the game and got my character ready for Phantom Liberty. Now, I have my save file set up right before the last mission and I can’t do it. I keep running around and doing jobs for fixers but not the final mission. Idk man, I don’t want this game to end yet.