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[Lunch Box1912]

Stupid Jelly fish; finish Oblivion.

[Il Divo]

Baldur's Gate 1. I've made multiple attempts, always getting to Chapters 6 or 7 before inevitably growing bored. I appreciate it for its impact on gaming, but find that alot of its most lauded elements are completely bland. 

[Olive Oomph]

What a shame. Is there a reason why you didn't end up liking it?

 

The atmosphere couldn't really hold my interest and it bored me, story and gameplay.

[In Exile]

Baldur's Gate 1. I've made multiple attempts, always getting to Chapters 6 or 7 before inevitably growing bored. I appreciate it for its impact on gaming, but find that alot of its most lauded are elements are completely bland. 

 

That one too, but I admire you getting that far into it. I forced myself to finish BG 2. 

[ruggly]

Remember Me

 

I don't like the combat and how much they hold your hand on an already extremely linear map. They design this amazing looking futuristic Paris, and you can't explore it.

[Drone223]

Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, was interesting at first but the gameplay became rather tedious for me and I gave up fortunately I rented both of them.

[Gravisanimi]

GTA 4

[Giltspur]

Any Assassin's Creed game.

Any Rockstar game.

 

I'm not sure what it is.  There's no good reason for me not to finish an Assassin's Creed game. I actually read history for fun.  Particularly silly history for boys like things involving samurai and pirates.  (I don't really think this is silly.  But my initial reasons for being drawn to it might be silly.  In other words, I'm silly.  Not the history.)  Here's another thing, one of my favorite periods of history when I was in school was the Revolutionary War.  Further, my grandfather is Mohawk.  Further, I'm a sullen dude that mumbles a lot.  Think of what Assassin's Creed III is!  It's like it was made for me.

 

And yet.  I have never finished an Assassin's Creed game.  Why?  I don't know.  Maybe it's the stupid feathers you collect in AC2.  Those. Damn. Feathers.  Maybe it's the way the mystique always dies once you realize stealth either doesn't matter or is annoying when it does. Maybe it's because the story is never all that compelling.  I'm sure whatever is going on with Templars and Assassins isn't even remotely compelling.  (Cue the maybe's-it's-ancient-aliens guy.)  Who knows.  It's just that I play Assassin's Creed for awhile, run around the cities and think they're cool and then get tired of doing whatever the heck it is the game thinks I should be doing.  Now that you're immersed in our setting, go do this mundane thing! 

 

As for Rockstar, I'm not sure why I didn't finish Red Dead Revolution.  Maybe one day I will.  (Plot twist: I never will.)  I know why I didn't finish any of the GTA's: it's because I could care less about the protagonist.  As for Red Dead?  I don't know, that was borderline interesting.  But this is the thing with open-world games.  It's very easy to just run around for awhile but not feel compelled to actually finish the game.  That doesn't mean I never do!  I played the heck out of games like Morrowind and Skyrim.  I was able to make my own story in those games, click with the character I made and see that through.  For whatever reason the Ubisoft and Rockstar versions have never quite clicked with me the way the Bethesda ones have.  I like the idea behind Assassin's Creed games, and I'll probably continue to buy them, play them a few hours and then quit playing them.  Not sure about Rockstar, I'm disinclined to buy any more of their games.

 

I wonder if I require character customization and creation to maintain interest in open-world games.  I stuck with Elder Scrolls because I was trying to use their sandbox to actualize my story.  I don't know.  There might be some counterexample lurking that I've yet to play, the open-world, exploration game with a set protagonist that I actually get into and stay interested in.  But I can't think of any such examples.

[In Exile]

ACIV was a game I couldn't finish. They took away a lot of parkour by moving to the US, and I just never recovered. 

[smoke and mirrors]

Gee some of the games people have listed i love Whats wrong with you people * run out crying *

 

I could never get into Assassin's Creed , i don`t think i got past the tutorial and Darksiders was just as bad for me .

[devSin]

BioShock. I got busy with other things and ended up never completing it (to be fair, I did get up to the "twist" and was already feeling like why isn't this game over yet?). Infinite pissed me off enough that I really have no desire to ever go back and finish the game.

In general, I won't play a game unless I can devote the time to completing it. I play fewer games these days, but I do finish them all, eventually.
 

Darksiders 2.  Its not that I didn't like it , it was because my mind was focused on other games at the time, I just traded in the game for store credit. I might try playing it again in the future.

You must. It sort of falls apart a bit after the first act, but it was still an amazing game with great atmosphere, excellent voice acting, and one of the best video game soundtracks in recent memory. The combat is smooth, and the puzzles are well designed.

Just a ton of fun in a strange and wondrous setting.

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

BioShock infinite, cuz it looks stupid.

 

Dark Souls 1 (too hard), but I learned DS2, so someday I may play the first again.

DEHR (hard)

[slimgrin]

GTA4 and both Assassin's Creed games I tried. Rockstar and Ubisoft have mastered boring, pointless mission design.

[the_last_krogan]

the last of us 

 

absolute BORE-athon of a game 

didn't even get halfway through it 

[Melra]

The Witcher 2. I loved the first one, the second one I couldn't really stand.

[Aimi]

Borderlands 2 - Combat just seemed really tedious; you'd be surrounded by a lot of enemies, and it would always take forever to kill just one of them. Inventory management was a pain in the butt, and the game's 'zany' humor just never clicked for me at all.
 
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The Witcher - The combat system wasn't so great, the voice acting was pretty bad, and Geralt just seemed like a rather cliched hero.

 
Both of these, for the same reasons. I couldn't find a reason to care about The Witcher. Borderlands was slightly better, but after several hours I realized I was playing it less because the game was fun and more because it's what my friends were doing, and I'd have a lot more fun doing something else with them.
 

GTA 4

 
Also this. I enjoyed San Andreas for the zany, ridiculous humor and the fun setting, but Liberty City in IV seemed diminished compared to San Andreas. It took itself too seriously. Its story revolved around a main character I couldn't relate to. Bored bored bored bored bored.
 

Any Assassin's Creed game.

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I'm not sure what it is.  There's no good reason for me not to finish an Assassin's Creed game. I actually read history for fun.  Particularly silly history for boys like things involving samurai and pirates.  (I don't really think this is silly.  But my initial reasons for being drawn to it might be silly.  In other words, I'm silly.  Not the history.)  Here's another thing, one of my favorite periods of history when I was in school was the Revolutionary War.  Further, my grandfather is Mohawk.  Further, I'm a sullen dude that mumbles a lot.  Think of what Assassin's Creed III is!  It's like it was made for me.

Somebody tried to sell the AC series to me because "you teach history! these are history games!" I tried both the first one and the second one and mostly came away from the experience annoyed.

The history is bizarre: they'll sometimes get specific, niggling bits of setting right, and they might have fun references like Caterina Sforza's "public performance" at Forli. But they get overall, basic information horribly wrong and insert a nonsensical alien/Templar/whatever the heck conspiracy story because that's apparently just what the past was missing.

It's like playing a game made by one of those Internet cranks. You know, the kind that make huge posts on message boards full of references that make it obvious that the person has an impressive command of knowledge on obscure data that makes the historian in me a little awed...and then concludes from that evidence that the Armenian Genocide was a Japanese plot or some such nonsense. First you think "what??", then you think "lol no", and then you think "why???"

So the "it's history!" is only semi-true, and it's not really a draw the way they do it. So all that's left are the pretty visuals and the gameplay, which seems interesting until you do the same fights eight zillion times. Ran out of steam on both games and didn't look back.

[Dominus]

Somebody tried to sell the AC series to me because "you teach history! these are history games!"

The optional info in the menu is educational, but most of that storyline itself doesn't really strike me as history-teaching.

Alan Wake. Loved everything but the gameplay never evolved. Will finish it someday.

I liked the mindbending stuff, but the foes were irritatingly tough for me. And yeah, the gameplay doesn't exactly progress much.

Dark Souls 1 (too hard), but I learned DS2, so someday I may play the first again.

In some ways, DS1 is a bit easier than DS2 when it comes to estus flasks and health in general. You'll never have to deal with the vitality cap, and at some points you can hold up to 20 Estus Flasks if the bonfire's kindled enough. Yeah, really. After learning the Dark Souls Mechanics from #2, #1 shouldn't be a tough transition.

[Orian Tabris]

This is where I laugh at people who have bought themselves games, but never liked them - for I have loved every video game I've ever bought (excluding BG1, but I bought the whole BG series, and loved BG2 - I stopped BG1 because it was too hard LOL).

 

[Il Divo]

ACIV was a game I couldn't finish. They took away a lot of parkour by moving to the US, and I just never recovered. 

 

I'd agree with this. ACIV began to move away from "You're an assassin" to "You're a pirate" and I found it kinda lackluster. AC1's parkour elements were what sold me on the franchise in the first place. Luckily, Unity seems to be stepping back in that direction. 

[Liamv2]

The only one I can think of is chrono trigger because I just kept getting bloody lost. I usually finish games just in case they get better later.