Games you gave up on

Two of the most notable cases with me:

• I stopped my second playthrough of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild because around the time I got to the Vah Naboris dungeon I got distracted by Transformers fancomics and figured that getting into the franchise proper was more important than actually finishing the game. It was

• Pokemon Black 2: When I got to Marlon's gym I sweeped through his gym trainers just fine, but the problem was my only viable counter to Water-types on my team was Magnezone. I had a surprisingly hard time trying to win against his team, and eventually I got frustrated and gave up. I plan to actually play through it when I'm done with White though!

I could never beat Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue. I got stuck on a puzzle that, no matter how often I played it, just seemed completely unwinnable. It's a shame because I did like playing it.

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Summon 2 had that stupid fight on the boat I could never get passed

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Pokemon Sun - I got tired of the unskippable cutscenes with Lillie and quit after beating Mina's trial.

Help me. I can't get it out of my head.

I kind of gave up on Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door around chapter 7. It was around that point I got fed up with the mandatory Backtracking.

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I gave up on Metroid: Other M because I couldn't figure out how to beat Queen Metroid. Speaking of Metroid, I also kind of lost interest in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption almost at the end.

I also never got very far into the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon remake (never played the original).

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F-Zero GX, great game but Chapter 7 in it's story mode is complete BS in the highest degree. This vid ^note  Language warning. pretty much describes how BS it is.

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I (oddly enough) didn’t mind the controls but after watching so many Internet personalities swear about how awful Star Fox Zero’s waggle is, I decided to fold and follow suit.

Yahtzee pointed out how repetitive the Ace Attorney franchise is. Despite liking the narratives, it became so stale. I sold my copy of the Great Ace Attorney when I was part way through the first game’s third case.

For some reason, I never finished Wrath Unleashed. ^_^;; I would like to one day.

I smell magic in the air. Or maybe barbecue.

(x4) Oddly enough, the Queen Metroid fight was one of my favourite boss fights in that game. It's a call-back to Metroid 2 where you have to power bomb the hell out of its innards... that said, even if you realized that you suddenly had access to the Power Bombs and that was what you were supposed to do, you probably would've gotten stuck on the "fight" that comes after it. Bleh.

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I could never fully wrap my head around Star Fox Zero's controls, and in combination with my need to 100% it as I went at the time, I burned out on it super quick due to playing the same levels over and over again trying to get decent scores. I ended up playing far more of the pack-in Star Fox Guard tower defense game than I ever did Zero, but never beat either.

TBH, I wasn't even planning on buying SFZ. I just got embarrassed when someone on the subway noticed I had a Star Fox pin on my jacket a few weeks before the game's release and asked if I was getting the game. I didn't want to come across as a fake fan, so I said yes and preordered it when I got home so I wouldn't be a liar.

Edited by RacattackForce on May 4th 2022 at 8:34:18 AM

I actually almost never 'give up' on games,I get bored and find another one to play

Unless its Summoner 2 because that first level on the boat is horrible

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I tried Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Could barely stay interested long enough to provide the furnature for the first three houses.

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I recently tried a short shoot 'em up game on Steam called Tadpole Tales. Whenever you die, you have to start over from the beginning. I was dying a lot, and I thought I must have been pretty bad at the game.

But then I found this negative review by Shinji6 that points out that the game actually has multiple design flaws that make it pretty unfair, especially to shoot 'em up noobs like me.

When I saw that, I had no regrets about uninstalling the game. I'm glad it wasn't just me.

He may be a giant, nightmarish brute, but like all villains in this series,he sure can sing.

I stopped playing Pokémon Brilliant Diamond - Not because of the game's quality, but because I was "distracted" by Legends: Arceus instead

I just remembered a game I gave up on, Astral Chain. I didn't give up because it was bad, but like the post above, I had a lot of other games I was working on around the same time and I wanted to clear those first.

Help me. I can't get it out of my head.

animal crossing new horizons because i got bored of it now oblivion is my best friend (again)

She/they. Hirrus Clutumnus is my comfort character

Kingdom Hearts. I could never beat it because I had no idea what I was doing, and I would eventually end up losing interest in the entire franchise because of how convoluted the plot became. Also gave up on Mega Man 9 after being unable to even get to Splash Woman. Now I just prefer to watch Mega Man games rather than play them, because I know I suck

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As a kid, I gave up on Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Because of the barrel, of course, what else it could be? After encountering it just one time, I thought it is literally impossible to beat, and exchanged the cartridge for another game.

I also gave up on Prince of Persia. I couldn't beat level 16. I thought it's because at the final part of the game I used cheats and level passwords from a "1001 games for Sega" book (I also thought passwords contain information that you cheated, and passwords from the book may be "dirty"). But I was too lazy to replay the game in a honest way. When I grew up, I decided: maybe it was not because of cheats but because of a pirate cartridge. But then I looked a walkthrough on Youtube... It had a fricking invisible platform.

This wasn't on purpose, but I never finished Transformers: War for Cybertron. I was frustrated on the third Autobot mission, and since the TV the PS3 I played it on is often being used, I ended up forgetting to try again. Considering how long it's been since then (I was probably 11-12 at that time), I will probably start from the beginning if I play it again

Edited by KingofNightmares on May 5th 2022 at 3:54:03 AM

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• Far Cry 5 because I read how it ends and just couldn't keep playing knowing how much of an Ass Pull I was facing.
• Mortal Shell, because it was not just a Soulsborne clone, but a Soulsborne clone slapped together from runny shit by someone who doesn't understand what makes a Souls-like game good.
• Greedfall due to Idiot Balls bouncing every which way.
• The Ascent, due to absolutely atrocious quest design and story that looked like it was created by some kind of random generator.

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For whatever reason I can never manage to finish Chrono Trigger without dropping it partway through; the farthest I've ever gotten was just after Crono's death in the Ocean Palace. I've tried going through it several times, but never managed to make it all the way through.

Edited by bowserbros on May 11th 2022 at 4:49:41 AM

Be kind.

I rarely consciously give up on games; more often I put it down because I'm not enjoying it anymore and turn to other games, and it may be years before I return. But there are a few. I stopped with one mobile game because it wasn't interesting me, another because it took so long to load my bus commute was halfway done by the time I could play, another because it was an obvious scam...

There are two games that have earned places of disgrace in my memory for being all-round bad. One was on the Game Boy, Go! Go! Tank, and let me sum up its biggest failing: the entire game was an Escort Mission. It was also so undertested that one power-up was actually a liability. And the art was inconsistent. The other was a Dune game on the Playstation 2, it looked pretty as long as you did everything as intended, but it had no room for creativity and became silly and frustrating as soon as you deviated in any way. It felt like a license cash-in rather than anyone's vision of a playable game.

But there is one game that I wanted to finish but couldn't: Baldur's Gate. I was intrigued by the story, I wanted to see the map, I looked forward to more skills and yet... Everywhere I turned, I ran into enemies I could neither fight nor avoid, I had no idea of where to go, I kept going back and forth between the maps I could reach safely, and this required constant changing of discs. This was before I could look up guides online, so I was lost in this Quicksand Box (as was my sister who also played) and running out of interest in the accessible areas, and the last straw was when one of the discs shattered.

One reason I liked Pillars of Eternity so much despite the very linear storyline was the feeling of playing a more polished and accessible Baldur's Gate. It helped exorcise the disappointment.

Edited by Reymma on May 11th 2022 at 3:24:56 PM

Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.

I've tried to finish Kirby Star Allies two times. I failed both times. Maybe it's because I was afraid of my experience ending or something?

Terraria... I don't have any friends so there wasn't much point in playing it...

Edited by Archsage on May 12th 2022 at 10:10:03 AM

Some call it stalking, I say walking just extremely close behind

I'm in a similar boat. There are a lot of multiplayer games I'd like to pick up, but... yeah, not a lot of IRL friends to play them with. And the few I do have, our schedules either don't match up for in-person gaming or they have no interest in buying their own copy for online play.

Edited by RacattackForce on May 12th 2022 at 10:26:59 AM