Games you gave up on

I gave up on Animal Crossing: New Horizons a few months after I got it because, I dunno, just kinda lost interest. Bear in mind I got the game shortly after it came out, and the content dripfeed for that game was notoriously abysmal, plus there was no longer an in game clock to fuck around with (imo my favorite part of New Leaf), so that might explain it.

I also dropped Metal Gear Solid around the part where you have to fight the Hind-D, which was hard for me because I was playing with a controller with no analog sticks. My fingers wanted to put me out of my misery.

i gave up on splatoon 3 return of the mammalians because of one-way ride through target town, but very recently, i managed to beat it and i celebrated by squidbagging

It's safe to say I quit CrossCode.

I stopped at the early Duel Boss, but I was hoping to get back into it. Unfortunately, the interest drifted elsewhere, and now I just don't feel like returning. Some of the control scheme was a bit awkward, so that may be a factor...

Also have to agree with Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which failed to keep my interest for as long as previous games in the series did. Not sure if it was the focus on crafting (a game mechanic I rarely find too interesting), the breakable tools (which would have been more bearable if the golden tools were at least an unbreakable goal to work towards, but alas...) or being soured on the week-long "tutorial phase" that I eventually just skipped through, but I stopped playing before getting K.K. Slider to my island. There were some great new features and some new items I absolutely loved (meme shirt my beloved) but overall they just couldn't keep my interest

Undertale. REALLY tried but I got stuck at an infuriating point.

I didn't "give up" on New Horizons in the same sense that some others here did (It's one of my most played Switch games) but I do think that it becomes more tedious than anything after its novelty wears off, unless you're really dedicated to some of its features. It's a shame, because I do genuinely love the game, but I also don't have that much desire to revisit it much these days.

Honestly I’m kind of the same way. I genuinely love the game to pieces (it was my main quarantine game during the pandemic), but after I completed everything in the main game and designed something like fifty homes in the DLC…I dunno, I just feel like I ran out of things to do with the game, and whenever I log back in all I really do is check in with all my villagers, pull up weeds, and dig up fossils, and that’s about it.

I know it might be heretical to say that another game is doing the Animal Crossing type of game better than Animal Crossing itself, but I think Nintendo could take a few pages out of Disney Dreamlight Valley's book; I think that game does a good job of keeping the player engaged and invested in the gameplay and characters (and I think it would still succeed in doing that even if the characters weren’t beloved Disney characters) by always adding new missions and quests you can do with them, so it still feels relatively fresh and not like the game experience is stagnating after you’ve done everything else.

Anyhoo, as far as games I more consciously gave up, I unfortunately could not bring myself to continue to play Mario Kart Tour any longer because the game made me too angry over the Rubberband AI and the CPU players playing extremely cheaply or just straight-up cheating. The game has the dubious honor of being one of the very few games that has made me angry enough to legitimately throw my controller (or, in this case, my phone) across the room, which is precisely why I stopped playing.

I beat all of Celeste's main story, Chapter 8, and a few of the B-Sides (maybe a C-Side as well, don't remember), but I gave up a few screens into Chapter 9.

Edited by jandn2014 on Dec 21st 2023 at 12:05:51 PM

Kaizo Mario World. Self-explanatory.

I've never finished Borderlands 2. I always end up wandering to something else. Its a great game, I just can't keep focused on it for a full playthrough. And forget about the DLC!

I gave up on Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty! because there's a section where you have to wait for a bomb to turn green before you press it to defuse it. Because it was next to impossible to press the button in time, I just gave up on it entirely and moved on to Soulstorm.

Runbow

I mentioned it on the Shameful Gaming Secrets thread, but Genshin Impact. I enjoyed it, but then I passed the point where all the enemies got stronger which made it more difficult to play (and healing items began getting scarcer for me). I would like to get back into it someday tho.

As I said in the Hangout Thread, I’m afraid I had to stop playing World of Warcraft. :( Though it was more out of necessity than choice. No thanks to my computer running out of memory like there’s no tomorrow, it’s just not fun if it’s going to be an upsetting game of chance like that. x_x

Well, at least another one of my favorite games is still working perfectly: NieR: Automata.

I stopped playing Pokémon Sun almost 7 years ago, when I was already finished with the story, but in the process of getting all the Ultra Beasts. I think I only got Nihilego and Buzzwole. I just lost interest in Pokémon over the years, even skipping the new Generations when my family already has a Nintendo Switch.

Mega Man X5. After how much X4 surprised me on being actually somewhat as good as everyone else that's played the game said... I went to X5 on the precedent that certain Tropers have personally played the game before and actually enjoyed it (despite the fact that they may have not very likely played X2, X3, and X4 despite evidence pointing towards the contrary)... my experience with the game was terrible and never bothered to play anything regarding the Zero Space stages. Combined with having to start over the whole damn game again on Xtreme difficulty because I was misled into thinking Normal mode was similar to the difficulty in Mega Man 10 and Mega Man 11 that's named the same. Turns out Capcom pulled a Mega Man 2 on me. How come everyone managed to single out 2's problematic difficulty lies but not X5's?

I'm not going to touch the latter half of the X series anymore. X6, the dreaded X7, and X8 will just be a waste of my time.

I swear if they make a X9 game and it turns out to be not an X4-like experience and is instead something like X5-X8...

Edited by leafsaber47 on Jan 25th 2024 at 11:44:19 AM

Portal Stories: Mel

It just kept crashing

Edited by AxolotlFan on Jan 25th 2024 at 12:39:53 PM

Bully. It just would not stop crashing and freezing on my PC.

I gave up on Ori and the Will of the Wisps for the same reason.

Shin Megami Tensei V

Got tired of it. The limitations felt forced and the direction wasn't strong enough to keep me invested.

Gave up on Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl despite finishing the originals; playing through the story became an absolute slogfest because it's just Sinnoh again. I've gotten though other games set in regions I've already played though by making it a Nuzlocke, but somehow not even that Self-Imposed Challenge felt compelling enough to do in these games.

and , I also quoted those game, the former for its difficulty and the latter for being a grind fest.

The Wonderful 101. Between the constant losing of my character I'm controlling in the hordes of people the game lets you accumulate, the game never figuring out which weapon I'm trying to draw, the Bioshock Infinite-style Fake Difficulty of swarming me with ridiculously strong enemies, the atrocious forced gamepad sections, I eventually just got fed up with the game and sold it at some record shop.

I like Wonderful 101 a lot and I still understand. That game can be pretty rough in those areas.

As for myself, while I beat The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild with all Divine Beasts and shrines (most of the shrines I found without a guide, the exceptions I think were the last few in Hebra, mostly because there were more Hebra shrines than I thought), I tried the Champion's Ballad and gave up when I reached the shrine in the Eldin area that requires using gyro controls to move a structure in such a way that you fire something through it from a cannon. It needed to be so precise, I ended up just setting the game down after making several attempts at it and to this date I haven't came back to it at all. (I haven't tried any of the content of the first DLC, I got them both together.) I normally don't like cheesing puzzles, but I frankly hold something like that an exception, although I didn't find any cheese method at the time.

As for its sequel, I stopped after clearing the Lightning Temple, Korok Forest/Master Sword quest, Water Temple, Construct Factory/Spirit Temple, and Fire Temple (in that order); Pikmin 4 came out before I reached the Wind Temple or Hyrule Castle and I rushed over to play that, and even after beating the latter game 100% twice I haven't felt like going back to Tears yet. Turns out that even years after last playing Breath of the Wild weren't enough to make the experience feel completely fresh, for the most part I'm in the "This would have been amazing if I didn't see it six years ago" camp with this game. Most of the surface just felt like Breath of the Wild+, most of the sky was pretty disappointing after the initial Great Sky Island, and while I liked the Depths and the new shrines they weren't enough to keep my interest over other games.

Minecraft a while back because in my playthroughs I would basically hit a wall after getting a lot of iron, diamonds were pretty much mandatory to progress but across every playthrough I've only found two of them. It doesn't help that I get lost easily and felt pressured by the Phantom time limit to get back to bed lest I deal with them. (And this was back when caves all were the same biome so they looked a lot more same-y.) And the Nether proved to be even harder to navigate, and maps and until later compasses are useless because why not. Basically nothing else I found while exploring was helpful, or I just got more of the same things I already had. The game somehow felt either too easy and unrewarding or too hard.

I was thinking about getting back to all three of these eventually but it's not a high priority of mine.

Edited by greatpikminfan on Jan 29th 2024 at 9:05:54 AM

I also share my sentiments on both titles. In Tears of the Kingdom, I found it difficult to advance the plots while the combat lacked reason. Having access to every Zelda Amiibo makes it tedious to scan all of them in one sitting. I find their benefits lack a sense of encouragement.

Nonlinearity is a good thing, it gives hackers little reason to modify the game. For a company as stingy as Nintendo, I think this is beneficial. That said, I find Tears of the Kingdom's methods and lack of finesse a chore. I wouldn't mind a 3D Zelda going back to its roots.

Edited by ChicoTheParakeet on Jan 30th 2024 at 8:39:18 AM