Board 8 > What's the worst game you've sunk 50+ hours into?

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Pokmon Go
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Probably Destiny.

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Hyrule Warriors
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I don't know if I put 50 hours into Brawl without any mods. I'm thinking FF Brave Exvius. It's not a bad gacha but it's the only one I've put that much time into before swearing off the genre.

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Esuriat posted...

Yeah, there's a ton of nostalgia wrapped up in Neopets for me. I still appreciate the time I had with it and think some aspects of it are still interesting. It's just a total slog to actually play.

It wasn't really a slog. The metagame with is very similar to modern energy/gacha-based games. Super ahead of its time in every way really. Min-maxing it probably sucked but if you just wanted to enjoy the environment it was great. It also just had a bunch of free flash games, so you couldn't go wrong with those.

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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

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foolm0r0n posted...

It wasn't really a slog. The metagame with is very similar to modern energy/gacha-based games. Super ahead of its time in every way really. Min-maxing it probably sucked but if you just wanted to enjoy the environment it was great. It also just had a bunch of free flash games, so you couldn't go wrong with those.

You're probably right in the min-maxing aspect because when I returned to it in 2016 I really wanted more impact for acquiring Neo Points and that required jumping into a daily routine that took like 30 minutes to go through. I did consolidate it to a core of "high yield" games that took reduced it to 15-20 minutes but even then I grew bored.

Then I realized that if I was going that far and minimizing the time I was playing I was just wanting to see the number in the bank increase and not really enjoy much else about the game. I'll warrant plenty of that could have been a personal deal, but that's why I meant that it was a slog for me personally.

The Flash games were mostly mediocre to bad, too. Maybe another casualty of only wrapping back around to it in 2016.

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Esuriat posted...

The Flash games were mostly mediocre to bad, too. Maybe another casualty of only wrapping back around to it in 2016.

Yeah I'm assuming they were 10 years old at that point

I'm still be up for some meerca chase though

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Fiop posted...

Ill go with Wheel of Fortune on the NES.

Fair. I played WoF and Jeopardy extensively across numerous versions.

Revisiting this, from my Steam collection, the answer is either one of the Fallouts if you want to be cynically jaded toward Fallout, or maybe Divinity: Original Sin 1. (2 is good. 1 has all kinds of things wrong with it, but I was determined to slog ahead and try to beat it...I restarted several times and never did.)

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I think its Fallout 76 or Cyberpunk

I thought of Kingdom Come: Deliverance too but I think that was only like 30hours spent
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I don't know.....Oregon Trail? An hour here and there throughout the elementary school years..sure I probably put 50 hours into that piece of shit game.

Tibia is my childhood. I miss those days... :(

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Probably Cities: Skyline

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Has to be FFXIII.

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After greater consideration, I think I have to change my answer to Fire Emblem Heroes.

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Ouch, starting with a cheap shot, Sui3 is an all time fav!

Star Ocean 4, for sure. Also caused me to realize that the Tri Ace I had for some reason always looked fondly upon since SO2....had a library made up of almost entirely shit.

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629 hours on star ocean 4

I'll take my prize thank you

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azuarc posted...

Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom is the first name that comes to mind. Can't promise I've put 50 hours into it, but definitely more than I ought to have.

ive put 43 hours into the kingdom under fire mmo and it just ended up feeling so eh in the end, even though i love the concept

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FF xv

Wow. I don't even know where to begin. Let's see, off the top of my head...

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Chrono Cross (multiple playthroughs)
Suikoden IV (also multiple)

League of legends or FFXIII

Would give the edge to FF as I couldn't even bring myself to finish the game.

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I didn't have strong feelings for Dark Cloud 2 either. The dungeons were so bland and combat was boring af. I liked the Georama system though but apart from that there is very few things I liked about that game. Story and characters are downright embarrassing as well.

Also while this may not be entirely topic related, I dread touching any Disgaea game even though I had quite a blast with the first game. I spent about 150 hours in that game and heard from people that the gameplay is basically the same in the entire series. Maybe it is because the story and characters wasn't exactly my cup of tea but the gameplay was very good.

Doesn't exactly help that I heard Disgaea 1 has the best story and characters in its series if you can even call that a story.

Athens 2004
Tour de France 2013
Robot Wars Metal Mayhem

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Pokemon GO immediately came to mind and is probably the right answer.

But it might be some shovelware I played the hell out of as a kid.

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why are 2 different people calling FFTA the worst game they've ever spent 50 hours on

y'all are crazy

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Valheim.

I know it's super popular, but I just don't care for it at all.

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Was running through my Steam library to see if there was anything I forgot, otherwise probably would've gone with Fire Emblem Heroes. But I came across a game I never would've expected to eclipse the 50 hour mark, let alone the 107 hours I apparently have logged into it?!

Game Dev Tycoon

That's gotta be some scenario where I just left it on at some point because no fucking way have I actively played that game for over 4 full days.

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IDK if I put 50h into FF5, but if I did it's absolutely that

Beyond that I'd really be struggling to think of something. If I'm not enjoying it that far in I'd probably drop it (recent example Witcher 3, which I gave up on after like 15 hours).
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Fiesta Online
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The answer should probably be FF Type-0, but I'm pretty sure I abused the game's systems enough to the point that I managed to get through it and get the platinum in less than 50 hours.

I put in nearly 350 hours with Madden this year before realizing that I could just simply stop playing when I wasn't enjoying it instead of continuing to get more angry at it. It felt great to uninstall and never play again.

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Everyone saying type 0 has me concerned for whenever I get around to playing it

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ninkendo posted...

Everyone saying type 0 has me concerned for whenever I get around to playing it

Type-0 is great

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WWE Supercard.

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I forget if I quite put 50 hours into either Dungeon Travelers 2 or Nights of Azure 2 but they were both pretty bad.

Maybe Fire Emblem Fates if neither of those make the cut.

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Raka_Putra posted...

FFTA probably.

This for me, too. In fairness, I was like 12 and hadn't played original FFT.

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FFXII

Tried it twice, got about 25 hours in both times. Can not stand how boring the story is.


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UltimaterializerX posted...

Hearthstone

This is also a good answer, but I think it wasnt nearly as bad in the first year or so before every game was RNG

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Ark, by far. I hate survival games, and this more so... But it's the only game my friends played for a solid 1-2 years so have around 100 hours in it... Definitely not worth it, but only way to play with friends.

Hearthstone, but kind of like masterplum said I only regret what I played when Whispers of the Old Gods came out and the expansion or two I played after until I quit.

FFXII I played side by side with a friend. While playing it I didn't mind it, but as soon as we finished we were both kind of like "why did we play that"

Starcraft 64... It was our go-to game when I was a kid... I didn't know about the PC version until a few years later... I tried to go back once just for nostalgia and it was absolutely horrendous.

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ViolentAbacus posted...

Ark, by far. I hate survival games, and this more so... But it's the only game my friends played for a solid 1-2 years so have around 100 hours in it... Definitely not worth it, but only way to play with friends.

<_< Ive put 1000+ hours into Ark

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Brawl for sure

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Zigzagoon posted...

Tibia is my childhood. I miss those days... :(

Omg I also sunk so many hours on that.

Wouldn't say it's a bad game though.

Axl_Rose_85 posted...

Also while this may not be entirely topic related, I dread touching any Disgaea game even though I had quite a blast with the first game. I spent about 150 hours in that game and heard from people that the gameplay is basically the same in the entire series. Maybe it is because the story and characters wasn't exactly my cup of tea but the gameplay was very good.

Eh I played it recently for the first time and enjoyed, it's not something that aged super well, but the characters were fun.

I did not play that long though. I had no interest in gameplay besides beating the main story, and I had a blast beating it, so it's cool.

It's tough to think of anything I've played for that long and don't have positive memories of. World of Warcraft maybe? I don't know if my total playtime reached 50 hours, but I have played a good amount over a few different time periods.

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Meerca Chase was the best! I remember somehow figuring out how to get loads of neopoints and just spending them all on the Christmas and Halloween paintbrushes.
I'm always surprised they never tried to migrate over to being more of a virtual pet app.

All this Neopets talk also reminded me of Cartoon Orbit.
I probably put 50+ hours into that, got super caught up in the gToons card game, bots to generate points, and running Yahoo groups about it. Good ol' Yahoo groups.

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I've played mediocre RPGs but usually enjoy my time well enough regardless, the answer for wasted time has to go to F2P garbage.

mnkboy907 posted...

Pokemon Shuffle

This is probably the one for me, I got sucked into this and Fire Emblem Heroes but at least FE has some core gameplay in there that's fun. With both of them I was just not enjoying myself at all by the end but logging on daily because it felt like a waste not to, it's a hard cycle to break.


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animal crossing new horizons

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Trails of cold steel 2