Games You've Given Up On

I am just wondering what games you have recently given up on and thrown aside/traded/uninstalled. It might be interesting to see if there are any common titles or reasons.

Me,

Stalker Call Of Pripyat: It consistently crashed while in Jupiter.

Stalker Clear Sky: I tried to give this one another go before getting CoP recently, but the performance was still shoddy on my rig.

Braid: I put 17 hours in and then I hit a puzzle/level near the end which I could not for the life of me pull off, even after watching hoards of vids on how to do it.

World Of Goo: Great game, just never got around to finishing it.

Bioshock 2: Just didn't grasp me as the first did. Also it showed it console roots far more than its predecessor.

GTA4: Horrific performance and like others my first handful of hours was spent babysitting.

Mass Effect: Didn't care for the combat and everything involving the mako.

Far Cry - When the Soldiermutants started to show up, they kinda ruined the flair for me.

Metro 2033 - Great game, great atmosphere, constant crashes.

Alien Breed: Impact - Thought it would be similar to Alien Swarm, what a disappointment. It's way to slow and it's already getting boring after 10-15 minutes.

Stalker: Clear Sky - Bought it on release day, but it constantly crashed and I haven't picked it up again.

I gave up on H.A.W.X. because I cant for the life of me beat a level. It's all good though because I got the game cheap and it's not that good of a game:P

Just Cause 2, terrible driving and shooting.

Manhunt 2, too difficult and boring, id rather watch THIS then play the game.

Ship Simulator Extremes, buggy broken and boring.

EVE, boring.

Alien vs Predator, boring and too dark, so dark it makes my eyes hurt.

Metro 2033, bad performance(low fps).

Imperium Romanum, just didn't like it and its outdated.

M.U.D TV, buggy and not so fun.

Silent Hunter 5, i don't know why i even got the game in the first place.

Demon's Souls. Extraordinarily frustrating and not worth playing.

MW2

Prince of Persia on the PS3 (the 2008 one). It really just wasn't as good as the PS2 games.

GTA4 I just did not want to drive around that city anymore. Worse Level layout in a GTA game.

On the PC it's Borderlands. I have several DS games that I've given up on though. Henry Hatsworth is one of them ( too darn hard and I'm just too old for my reflexes to work anymore ), Animal Crossing ( not too sure if this counts ), and some strat game...I can't even remember what da heck it was.

Two Worlds - I actually liked it at first, but after so long of wondering around aimlessly bored I had to toss it aside.

Too Human - Do I need to explain this one? Terrible controls.

Alone in the Dark (2008 ) - Its decent, but the little mini games just ruin it.

Final fantasy 12 I tried and tried to get into the game and I just could not get into that game. I did not like the battle system and not being able to run from enemies ticked me off so I traded the game in for something else.project-exile

[QUOTE="project-exile"]Final fantasy 12 I tried and tried to get into the game and I just could not get into that game. I did not like the battle system and not being able to run from enemies ticked me off so I traded the game in for something else.Nooberman2k

Fable 2- stupidly easy and cant really even die. Failed to live up to the hype Peter gave it. Also why im not going to be getting Fable 3.

Two Worlds- quit playing after 10 minutes it was so damn ugly.

Demon's Souls- I enjoy a challenge, but the difficulty of this game was just downright cheap.

Spore- the DRM ruined it for me, plus it was shallow and also overhyped.

Star Ocean 4- I dont know what it is about the Star Ocean series but i just cannot get into it. I try with every new release and always feel let down. I think it's mostly the hugely complex battle system and that the AI party members are really stupid.

Graphic adventure games, old and recent. I just can get into their illogical "logic" behind the puzzles that are in them. SciFiCat

Yeah, they can be slippery bunch. They seem to rely more on trial-and-error than actual logic and reasoning. Doesn't help either that they're hint systems are just as cryptic as the puzzles themselves are.

But on the plus side, at least you can't say they aren't challenging, right?

Bleach: Dark Souls - combat system gets too complex. Not enjoying it enough to justify learning it all considering it's on a portable machine.

Zack & Wiki - maybe I just got it too late, but I don't see why this got so many people into a frenzy.

Valkyria Chronicles - I got up to a level (possibly the same one another poster mentioned, as it involved a huge tank), managed to destroy the giant tank, then about 40-odd minutes into the level a seemingly invincible enemy went whizzing round at 100mph and just slowly destroyed everyone on my team. Tried again a few times, but it took so long to reach that point in the first place I just lost all interest and sold the game.

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue - too hard to get into and just way too realistic. Got it on the cheap to see if I'd be interested in buying GT5, now I know I can put that money towards 3DS games instead. :P

Modern warfare games just dont do it for me any more..Also Halo these two are just getting old people should let it go..Let these companies make new ips..There both turned into madden type games..Every year same thing..Boring boring boring..Id rather play games like metro 2033, bioshock 2, mass effect 2, so on..Alpha protocol, alan wake..New ips wish peopel would let these games just die..Meaning cod an halo..

Crisis Core is borderline for me. I really just don't care about Genesis or Zack Fair that much, and I find the presentation and everything else really dumb. I mean after playing FF7 way back when, and playing this, I dunno, I couldn't find any of the nostalgia in this game.

Final Fantasy 10, 10-2, 11, and 12. The only reason I finished 13 is because you just hold forward and the A button and it beats itself for you.

Every Single Bioware game- I buy every single game from them and have never liked one game by them.

Resistance- Terrible controls and just boring to be honest

Assassin's Creed 2- Was enjoying it up to the point where you have to find the remaining codex pages.

Brothers in Arms- It got boring around chapter 6 so I just stopped playing. Don't think I've played it since.

World of Goo- I got stuck on the 5th level, I think, and could not figure it out

Fable 2- Stopped around the part where you have find the last hero (the hero of skill) and it started to get repetitive

Battlefield: Bad Company 2-The unlocks in multi-player were way too spaced out, it got boring because the lack of rewards because most of them can be unlocked in the first 4 hours of gameplay.

Every Single Bioware game- I buy every single game from them and have never liked one game by them.

Might I suggest you stop buying them? I mean, come on now. Talk about slamming your hand on the stove for a week straight :P

Ohaidere

LOL yeah, I don't know why I buy them. I guess it's because everyone else says they're awesome so I have to buy it, and then they tell me they've improved it and it still sucks. I'm very strange...

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood - don't have time to even draw breath, NPCs never stop appearing. Shooting mechanics aren't all that great.

Demigod - no background story, no single-player campaign to speak of, no tutorial. Practice and die, or go online and look like an idiot. Totally unplayable. GameSpot was generous to rate this game a 6.5:P

Metal Gear Solid 4: never played an MGS before but bought it after seeing GS give it a 10. this was in 2008 after watching the long intro i was scratching my head and stopped after 5 mins of gameplay haven't touched it since.

Brutal Legend: Im a big metal fan so i was looking forward to it, but i hated the rts gameplay which imo doesn't translate well to consoles.

Resistance 2: My first ps3 game and i was hoping it was going to be a Halo killer, i only finished it recently after having it for 2 years but the story made little sense without playing the first.

Red Dead Redemption: I was on and off it since june and recently finished it (which i was getting to the point of it feeling like a chore)

Little Big Planet: I wanted to like it and bought so many costumes off the psn before even playing it (which was a mistake) might go back to it but i don't see what the appeal of it is.

Bayonetta: Again another game bought into due reviews none of it appealed to me from the jpop to getting ranked on how "stylish" i was, Vanquish looks awesome but im worried its going to be similar to this.

Fallout 3: Got it for christmas on release was looking forward to it but i found the vat system rather annoying and i got lost heaps (why couldn't they keep everthing the same except make the shooting more fps like)

edited to add Bayonetta and Fallout 3

[QUOTE="SciFiCat"]Graphic adventure games, old and recent. I just can get into their illogical "logic" behind the puzzles that are in them. c_rake

Yeah, they can be slippery bunch. They seem to rely more on trial-and-error than actual logic and reasoning. Doesn't help either that they're hint systems are just as cryptic as the puzzles themselves are.

But on the plus side, at least you can't say they aren't challenging, right?

Burnout: Paradise - Just the same thing over and over again, even though I really enjoyed it. I had other games to play.

Forza 2: Same as above, too much to do, too little time.

Eternal Sonata - Enjoyed the graphics and cute (albeit bizarre) characters. I started it three times, and never made it more than eight hours in.

DA:Origins - I appreciate Bioware storylines, but this was a bit too much.

Oblivion - Same as above. Enjoyable, but required too much dedication on my part.

FFX-2 and FFXII - Awful storylines imo. Poor combat systems as well. Didn't stick with me.

Lego Star WarsII: the original trilogy for DS. There's a glitch or something in my game, I just can't pass the last level of episode VI!

Final fantasy 12 I tried and tried to get into the game and I just could not get into that game. I did not like the battle system and not being able to run from enemies ticked me off so I traded the game in for something else.project-exile

Just about every 360 game I had except for Halo 3 and ODST. I wasted a lot of money on that console. Add-ons and DLC were really not worth it either.

Graphic adventure games, old and recent. I just can get into their illogical "logic" behind the puzzles that are in them. SciFiCat

Viva Pinata is a game which I keep getting bored off, but going back to. But only for a few hours.

It'd be easier to list the games I haven't given up on! :lol:

GTA IV - Just didn't hook me early on, so after a couple hours I pulled the plug.

Mass Effect - Too much dialogue and traveling. Wanted to like it--couldn't.

Braid - Anyone who says they beat this with no hints is a d*mn liar.

Ninja Gaiden 2 - I stopped after trying to beat the Arch Fiend about ten times. I just wasn't having fun any longer.