Boring video games

[Basketball Jones]

Life is Strange. I played it recently because I got it for free and I had heard it was interesting. ...And then I got past the first episode... Curiosity was the only thing that kept me going until the 3rd... then I had to stop playing it because I could already tell where everything was going plotwise and I couldn’t take another minute of the fucking cast talking or Max’s oh-so-poignant thoughts about trees or some shit. By the last episode I was only finishing for completions sake and it kept dragging the fucking story and shambling along trying to make me care about Chloe having to die. I kept thinking it was over and actually yelled “WHY WHY WHY WHY” in fury when I got ass-pulled back to where the episode started after 2 hours.

I’ve never been so fucking bored by such a bland and lifeless cast and plot that no one bothered to finish writing. I got so tired of “chaos theory” being used wrong and about how no choices made matter once you hit the end.

PS- didn’t hesitate to kill Chloe. Nothing of value was lost.

 

[GloriousScarf]

Shadow of War.

Enjoy doing the same thing over and over and over and over until the end of time.

 

[Red Hood]

This topic is about really boring games or arguably good games that we find boring?

In this case, i'm gonna say Final Fantasy XII. Never a game has disappointed me so much (and yes, I even prefer FFXIII to this).

FFXII was the first game I ever preordered for a "special edition". It was also the last. It was like all the boring shit I hate about MMO's, without other people.

I got bored of the Temple puzzles in FFX, too.

Most walking simulators are boring; even if one likes the story, the gameplay lacks substance and most of them try to be spooky and incorporate jump scares but they're still tedious and bland at their core. The Park, Dear Esther, Gone Home, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture etc. are really just audio diaries where you feel a sense of progression and "interaction" by picking up "collectibles" or walking forward while someone complains at you about feelings for X amount of time.

Subjectively, one game I wish wasn't boring but turned out to be just that was Murdered: Soul Suspect. It could've been an entertaining detective game but everything about it is just blase; the characters and setting aren't interesting, the gameplay is slow, the "combat" sections suck and the game patronizes you when you're trying to solve clues by making the answers the most obvious and simple ones available. Thanks, game, I had no idea that by being at the crime scene for a murder investigation, it meant someone died.

I feel like Walking Simulators are like, "Hey, System Shock 2 is great! Why don't we strip out the excitement and tension and just let people find the audiologs?"

 

[Ruin]

LA Noire is a snoozefest.

 

[Edgeworth]

I feel like Walking Simulators are like, "Hey, System Shock 2 is great! Why don't we strip out the excitement and tension and just let people find the audiologs?"

"We know some of you like actual gameplay but that's challenging and we want our games to be accessible to anyone so how 'bout you just walk and listen instead?"

That reminds me of another game that was free for PS4 that could've been interesting but was just boring: Here They Lie. Walking simulator with some fake-out scare tactics and slow-moving plot that thinks it's being enigmatic by not telling you anything straight.

 

[Bluey]

Animal Crossing - I only played New Leaf. Found it fun when I was younger, then I kind of fell out of it and got bored.

Allot of SE JPGS. I like other JRPGs like Tales of and Golden Sun better.

 

[Jarilo182]

 

[Zaryiu]

:^)

He said a GAME

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Master of Orion 3.

Wow is it boring. You get to do stuff like set policy and propose or vote on bills in the galactic senate! The backstory and gameplay are also ridiculously convoluted.

Now Master of Orion 2? That's a fun space 4X game.

(wow this is an old thread)

 

[Midlife Sperglord]

Leisure Suit Larry - Box Offic Bust

Which was a serious disappointment given that I remember how funny the original games were back in the late ‘80s/early ‘90s.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Splinter Cell. The gameplay is ok and I've played most of them, some are better than others, but the story, oh the story. There's something about it that either gives me retrograde amnesia or it hypnotizes me until the briefings/cut-scenes are over, then it snaps it's fingers and tells me to play. I'm aware of the problem and starting with Chaos Theory I really, really tried to follow along. Then the game snaps it's fingers again and I'm like "wait, why am I on an oil platform?"

I'm note sure but I don't think the story is complicated or anything like that and I've played them up to and including the fifth one(Conviction). Even if someone waterboarded me I would be unable to tell them anything, I have absolutely no clue why there was a bank infiltration mission or why I rappelled down a hotel. One game was called Double Agent so I suppose that was the plot, but it was about infiltrating a gang of skinhead and that wouldn't make Sam Fisher a double agent.


The original trailer for Splinter Cell laid things out in a much more interesting way, suggesting that Sam Fisher was A splinter cell, not part of THE splinter cell. He was a lone operative with no oversight, accountability or affiliation with any agency, military or branch of the government. He wasn't the only one either, there were others like him. Sort of like that thing in Mass Effect but it implied that he was alone, that could've been interesting and made it more like Alpha Protocol or something.
The voice actor was also different, someone younger than Michael Ironside but also pretty generic.