Board 8 > What's, in retrospect, the silliest reason you've given up playing a game?

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I usually don't give up playing games unless life gets in the way or it gets boring, but this question randomly occurred to me.

My silliest reason is probably KOTOR for PC... because my PC was too new to run it correctly with its resolution and Windows 10. Worth noting that my second monitor is from when that game was still new so I could probably try that way...

Other reasons I've abandoned games:
-Getting a game over after the game deliberately didn't let me save for 40+ minutes and having to redo all that (I tried again, same thing happened, I gave up)
-Poor graphical quality interfering with gameplay
-Using a slur like it's funny
-An extraordinarily obnoxious main character (twice, both JRPG sequels)

Trying to think of other reasons and nothing's coming to mind. What reasons do you guys have?
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KOTOR has patches for stuff like that btw

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DoomTheGyarados posted...

KOTOR has patches for stuff like that btw

Oh yeah! I may have to look into those again. IDK why I wasn't able to get that to work either, which may have been why I gave up. I forget.

Thanks for the reminder :)
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Returned P4 Golden because of Chie's new VA.

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Eternal sonata, I was tired and fell asleep during the first hour and decided that meant it was too boring to play again

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Returned P4 Golden because of Chie's new VA.

It took a little adjusting but I ended up liking Erin Fitzgerald a lot more. She felt like she WAS Chie and my only preconceived notions were with being used to Tracey Rooney.

_stingers_ posted...

Eternal sonata, I was tired and fell asleep during the first hour and decided that meant it was too boring to play again

Yikes. I did nearly fall asleep with Paper Mario TTYD because the game's battle system felt too contrived for whatever reason, and I sold it (whoops) toward my PS4. I played it again at a convention and it was a bit more enjoyable. Still not sure if it's my thing, but... yeah that was a mistake >_>
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Nothing silly, but I ended up watching a playthrough of RE1 Remake without commentary because the controls felt like I was using a person made out of quick drying cement or something. The inventory being super limited was also annoying since it meant backtracking, but I mostly just hated the controls.

I gave up Radiant Historia because as a very smart high school student I concluded after about 3 hours that there was just no possible way the time travel mechanic could be used to tell a coherent story and that it wasn't worth continuing.
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fun topic

most recently, I gave up on Voice of Cards because the fully voiced narrator reads his lines too slowly, and I found it annoying that if you speed through the text the audio doesn't cut off (he continues to read his last line to its conclusion). the game itself is also pretty boring in general, but I found this so annoying for some reason.

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colliding posted...

fun topic

most recently, I gave up on Voice of Cards because the fully voiced narrator reads his lines too slowly, and I found it annoying that if you speed through the text the audio doesn't cut off (he continues to read his last line to its conclusion). the game itself is also pretty boring in general, but I found this so annoying for some reason.

Yoko Taro missed a fucking sure thing with this game not getting Grant George as the narrator, he had an in for it and everything!

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Went from pretty into Disgaea RPG to dropping it pretty quick after the one-two punch of having a stereotypical trans villain for an event and also realizing the inventory system was not going to let me do what I wanted with my team (also I was burned out on video games in general at that time anyway!)

Been a few times where I have lost a chunk of progress from a death or something, and just thought "man do I really want to do that last part again?" and the answer was no.

Couple corrupted or accidentally deleted save files

But mostly I just drop games because either they aren't fun anymore or I have something else I want to play instead!

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Pinobee for the GBA
For some reason every time you jump the character head gets bigger like by 400% for a split second and it annoyed the hell out of me

Actually looking at a longplay this is still annoying me so maybe it isn't silly

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I gave up on OneShot because you can't progress without reading a text file on your hard drive, and my version of the game doesn't generate it.

I gave up on Outer Wilds because I felt like I was playing a variant on Myst.

I gave up on VLR because the first conversation with the full cast was atrocious in terms of writing and voice acting, despite playing 999 to completion.

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I dropped Bravely Default 2 because the boss fights were just too long and tedious.

...that's not too silly.

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I dropped Bloodborne because I started playing it the day before Breath of the Wild came out. I feel like I don't usually drop games for silly reasons, though.

azuarc posted...

I gave up on VLR because the first conversation with the full cast was atrocious in terms of writing and voice acting, despite playing 999 to completion.

Playing VLR with the English voices is extremely silly, yes!
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I only quit games for serious reasons

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Stopped playing Sonic 2 in Metropolis Zone because I hate how zoomed in the camera is on the Genesis games and it slowly wore me down until that zone broke me

Gave up on KotOR because when I first played it I legitimately could not wrap my head around the d20 system it uses

Technically a replay but I sat down to revisit Super Meat Boy on console when it was a PS+ game and when I realized they had ditched Danny Baranowski's original soundtrack I immediately turned it off

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Gave up on Resonance of Fate after the first battle because the system either glitched or I flat out did not understand it / did something wrong because I was getting my ass whooped.

I probably should try it again to see if I get the same result.

I stopped playing Dragon Age Inquisition after like 60 hours because something about my dudes face was off putting to me, but I couldnt figure out what.

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FFTA I dropped because the enemy AI was atrocious. At one point, the enemy could have attacked and killed a couple of my characters but decided to go attack the one character at full HP instead. Way worse than FFT's AI, which is still one of the best AIs I've seen for turn-based strategy (kind of sad for how old it is that nothing strikes me as better)

Also dropped La Pucelle Tactics because the cursor seemed to go in different directions than I expected and I had trouble adapting. I wasn't into the game that much, so I may have dropped it anyway, though. Got it for $2 on PS3, so no big loss.

Also dropped Doki Doki Literature Club after the (first?) jump scare.

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Is dropping La Mulana because no air control considered silly
Lefty don't kill me

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Dropped Superhot because the game made me promise a character I wouldn't keep playing.

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Bloodbourne

The dogs were spooky

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Oh I remember another answer now. Stopped playing Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney because my totally real and legitimate Nintendo DS that existed in actual physical space couldn't register the mic blow needed for the forensics feature.

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Divinity: Original Sin

The conversation system between created characters didn't work the way I wanted.

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Raka_Putra posted...

Oh I remember another answer now. Stopped playing Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney because my totally real and legitimate Nintendo DS that existed in actual physical space couldn't register the mic blow needed for the forensics feature.

you can tap the screen quickly to do that iirc

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Horizon: Zero Dawn

Quit because I wanted to savor it, rather than rush through it. Ended up never going back to it.

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Not completely giving up, but Noita, I stopped playing because for its difficulty and being advertised as a Roguelite/Roguelike nothing carries over beyond your own knowledge. No unlocks for fun alchemy mixes or wand experiments, no "hey this zone is more easily accessible from the start because you went through this trial," and such.

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My first time playing it, I gave up on Battlefield: Bad Company 2 literally just because I sucked after playing a handful of matches and didn't go back to it for years.

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I gave up on Mario Party because it removed the skin from my palm

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MGS 3

I guess I had a really legitimate reason in that I moved while midway through the game. But I hooked my PS2 up and everything when I got to my new place and just never went back to it.

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I can't think of many examples of really "giving up" on a game beyond Mass Effect 1 where I just kept fucking up with a Mako section without saving in forever, redoing the same long section (still not remembering to save) only to fuck up there again and again

I think the last straw was when driving it into a doorway and the vehicle got stuck and I couldn't exit ffffff

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oh wait I've got better ones:
Undertale:I didn't want to do Genocide, which I don't think was silly, but I watched a playthrough instead, which the game made sure I knew WAS silly.
DDLC:Made it through the suicide scene decently okay, but couldn't handle a scene early in the next loop where Sayori and Yuri get into an argument and the UI starts freaking out

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HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

Technically a replay but I sat down to revisit Super Meat Boy on console when it was a PS+ game and when I realized they had ditched Danny Baranowski's original soundtrack I immediately turned it off

It's not a bad soundtrack but this is fair anyway. They really should have kept DB's original soundtrack optional at least.

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I instantly stopped playing Never Alone because The fox dies an then turns into a human spirit instead. I bought the game to play as a cute Arctic Fox, not as some stupid human boy spirit thing.

In my opinion I wouldn't call it a silly reason, but I can see how others would think so.

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As I recall that's near to the end of Never Alone so you could've just finished it.

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Most of the games I've abandoned recently I feel like were for pretty appropriate reasons (mostly just not having fun). Like I started Ys: Oath in Felghana and had to grind for the first boss. Then there's a second boss right after that I had to grind even more for so instead I just said "this sucks" and stopped playing lmao

I plan to get back to them eventually but these probably also count:

Demon's Souls Remake - Stopped playing because it's too much like Dark Souls... I don't know what I expected.

Outer Wilds - I finished the intro up to the launch, put on autopilot, and autopilot immediately flew me into the sun. Haven't played it since.

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Seaman - I couldn't even hatch an egg!


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HaRRicH posted...

It's not a bad soundtrack but this is fair anyway. They really should have kept DB's original soundtrack optional at least.

They would've had to get DB's permission for that and my understanding is that's a complete non-starter at this point.

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Raka_Putra posted...

Oh I remember another answer now. Stopped playing Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney because my totally real and legitimate Nintendo DS that existed in actual physical space couldn't register the mic blow needed for the forensics feature.

My mic BARELY worked. I made it work, but then I got so light-headed I got up to get some water and ended up falling down and breaking a cooler.

Probably shoulda just quit, but the game's so goooooooooood.

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Overwatch because the capture point mode is so tedious. I still have friends that play and every so often I give the game another chance but then capture point happens and it reminds me why I quit
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FFXIII: stopped playing in chapter 12 because I realized I had missed scanning an enemy in chapter 5 and could no longer get a perfect bestiary

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Tom Bombadil posted...

DDLC: <spoiler text>

Yes, thank you for reminding me of this. I might've played more than a few minutes after the suicide scene if the graphics didn't get super weird after this. Kind of disappointing because I wanted to like this game, but things were just too freaky to continue at this point.

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Leonhart4 posted...

I gave up on Mario Party because it removed the skin from my palm

I'm not the only one this happened to, apparently.

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Censorship LOL

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JonThePenguin posted...

They would've had to get DB's permission for that and my understanding is that's a complete non-starter at this point.

I am unaware of DB drama. Did something happen here?

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HaRRicH posted...

I am unaware of DB drama. Did something happen here?

We don't know the details so it's not really drama. All we know for sure is that DB decided to end their working relationship with Team Meat for unspecified reasons. Danny owns the rights to his music, and when Team Meat approached him to use the music in the ports he didn't think the deal was worth it (i.e. team meat did not want to pay his asking price)

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I abandoned Jedi: Fallen Order because my kid had a doctor's appointment

I remember a music game that had great graphics, but the choice of music was so bad that I had to give it up

milliondexcer posted...

I remember a music game that had great graphics, but the choice of music was so bad that I had to give it up

how the hell is the silly

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