What was your Polybius? - What game made you decide it was time to stop?

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

Sorry, not interested in levels that are fucking ass hard.

Honestly, I think even calling Far Cry "fucking ass hard" implies a level of fairness that it doesn't have. It's a totally bullshit broken game that people only remember because it was a technical showcase.

 

[Calandrino]

"Blah blah I hate everything, and it's because everything sucks now, not my chronic depression" - Kiwifarms poster

thank you yes very insightful

 

[Lokenstien]

Assassin Creed Unity really made me question the direction that the AC series, and gaming as a whole, was headed. Despite playing the entire game all that really stuck with me was the existence of 4 separate currency systems and the failure to integrate progression with the main story. I remember that throughout the Ezio trilogy abilities were unlocked through missions in a fashion that felt seamless. Maybe it's just me but gaining parkour skills through a mission where you race your friend or have to chase a target feels a lot better than just grinding points in a completely unrelated way so you can buy the skills in the shop. Unity was also the first game I remember that had one of those unfinished releases that required a bunch of subsequent patches that are far too common nowadays. Overall that game in particular felt like it was ahead of the curve for the downward trends that infest the industry now.

 

[Brenda Holiday]

Getting a job, which is like a video game but in real life if you are autistic enough

 

[peachlover669]

I think Dark Souls might have ruined how I play Hack n Slash games, I try to play Bayonetta or Devil May Cry and I just can't. I'm terrible at them, and it's not even fun to improve because I find the level design in general unpleasant. Especially in Bayonetta, constant instant death traps, weird bosses, and terrible gimmicky moments just make me never want to revisit the games.

im pretty sure bayonetta is just a shitty game, i played god of war and bayonetta back to back awhile ago and it was so apparent how basic and bland bayonetta is, if not for le hot griller bayonetta would have died after the first game.
the only good hack and slash/beat'em up is turtles in time (the xbox live arcade remake is a shiny gemerald)

 

[ShamefurDispray]

If I don't like something I'm playing or doing I stop. They already got my money if I can't refund they aren't getting my time as well.

 

[Cats]

Recently wrapped up Doom 64. I enjoyed it, but got frustrated several times from the lack of a jump button.

Brutal Doom 64 if you just look past all the extra gore and silliness is a fantastic improvement on the original Doom 64 with fully realized weapon animations (thank fuck), jumping, and everything one could want or ever ask for in terms of the GZD style improvements. I highly recommend playing it, it rules hard. I would do two playthroughs: one with OST, and one where you put on some Pantera and just rip and tear.

The last "modern" game I played was probably San Andreas back on the PS2, or maybe one of the Resident Evils

 

[M3xus]

I dipped out of AAA and "AAAA" entirely when I realized the $70 games were nowhere near as fun as the $20 ones. Granted, my sample size of $70 games is very small (3), but everything I've read tells me I made the right call. They were just so bland and gray and boring that I beat them and can't even remember anything from them. Old games and the occasional indie release is going to be my jam for the foreseeable future.

 

[TexasRanger]

Honestly, I think even calling Far Cry "fucking ass hard" implies a level of fairness that it doesn't have. It's a totally bullshit broken game that people only remember because it was a technical showcase.

I had to check why...yeah, ok, open world, 20 years ago, cool. I agree with your "broken"assessment. I will finish it but not buy the next instalments.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

I got pretty into Battlefield V and Hunt: Showdown right up until cheating absolutely exploded. They have since ruined the multiplayer FPS genre for me.

 

[Judge Dredd]

I highly doubt the people swearing they're so totally done with games because there's a gaynigger in the new ass creed or whatever are being serious and/or truthful. however, the idea of somebody allowing themselves to be chased out of gaming, the broadest and most diverse entertainment medium available today, in which something can be found for just about everybody, simply because they're mad about Current Year politics being shoehorned into mainstream games - which have been unrelentingly shit since at least 2006 - is deeply hilarious. if anybody has actually managed to do this, and isn't just LARPing for updoot stickers, I say to you: good riddance, retard.

This reply, but not sarcastic.

"Blah blah I hate everything, and it's because everything sucks now, not my chronic depression" - Kiwifarms poster

thank you yes very insightful

AAA has been slop since Dead Space 3 at least. People refuse to abandon AAA games though. They only care about "the zietgiest" and playing popular brand names. A recent example, Space Marine 2. It's not the same devs that made the first game, and the story is confirmed to be written by a racist, man hating woketoid (but I repeat myself). Yet they announce a £80 pre order edition that allows you to play 3 days early, and people are pre-ordering it.

I've accepted the fact that they probably won't ever reach the heights of Raven Shield and similar games around that time

I feel your pain when it comes to racing games.

In both cases there's either simple games for babies or autistic sperg fests focusing on minutia even if the game itself is broken and unplayable. Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 and F-Zero GX will never be matched it seems.

With shooters, everything has to be either a boomer shooter, or milsim autism. Nothing like Republic Commando or Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 can be allowed to exist. I've not played GRAW on 360, but people swore by that game's co-op.

 

[and and and and]

" you would play it, and then you wouldn't want to play video games anymore"
That's not how the legend goes but okay

 

[ZipDisk]

Oh man, Republic Commando laid the sequel hook hard.
Middle of the clone wars, Yoda fucked em over, they're overclocked enough to not be the "good soldiers follow orders" type.
It's begging for a schism.
Not the books though, those were such trihard tacticool bullshit it made me embarrassed. I read the first two and stopped.

I know we're not supposed to steer our threads here, but I was really hoping people would drop specific titles where they looked at the game and went "Yeah, never again."

As to the urban legend, well, it's a fucking urban legend.
I know the "getting sick" part is from a shitty ARG though.

 

[ABE LINN COHN]

After playing countless hours of Warframe, it finally clicked that I wasn't really having fun and that I was wasting my time on something that I didn't really enjoy anymore. Since then I've pledged to never play free to play games or anything resembling an MMO.

 

[Lone MacReady II]

Those who gave up gaming haven't played Godhand and roundhouse kicked squeaky-voiced power ranger midgets into a wall.

 

[Two Dollars]

With shooters, everything has to be either a boomer shooter, or milsim autism.

Don’t forget freemium team-based hero shooter #1546. Even Valve’s doing it!

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

I don't think I'm completely done with but the game that really put a dent into my enjoyment of modern video games was Battlefield V back in 2018. While it was partially the game itself, it was more on how the devs responded to the controversy and acted in public.