For me it was Nier Automata. Every single person I’ve spoken to in my friends group adores this game, but something about it just didn’t do it for me. I found the world/maps bland, the combat OK, and the story somewhat average (something that’s raved about).
I’ve also been told that after the ending you need to keep playing, otherwise you won’t ’get the game’ or what it’s all about, but having rolled credits the first time around I couldn’t muster the enthusiasm to play anymore.
What about you guys?
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Baldur’s Gate 3, Paid full price, Got 7 hours in and I just wasn’t enjoying myself.
Nioh
Any Personas or Metaphor Refantazio. I love jrpg and I love turned base combat.
I just hate all the social interactions of those games, so dull.
X2! I still have it on my PS5… I think someday it will click on me.
Same for Elder Ring, but I think I’m not a souls game gamer xD.
Replays added a lot as the story keeps changing as you play again, it’s not just new game+ but yeh the fighting was repetitive and I’d agree with bland in a lot of ways.
The Witcher 3
The Witcher 3
I felt like I was the only person who owned a Gamecube and didn’t like Smash, it just felt like a worse fighting game compared to Soul Calibur 2
Clair obscur : expedition 33 i dont like turn based combats but i was excited at first, yet parry mechanic became too boring for me after a few hours (OST is fire though)
Witcher 3. Combat was meh. Didn’t care for the story. Oil system was a pain in the ass
Alien: isolation
You know what I was in the same boat as you the last time i tried playing automata and never really got past about 2ish hours of it, but recently I decided to give replicant a try and I’m absolutely loving it. I have a feeling it’ll make me enjoy automata if i go back to it after replicant.
All of the FromSoftware games. Dark Souls, Demon Souls, Bloodborne, Elden Ring. None of them appeal to me at all.
Funny enough, Nier Automata as well.
Sekiro, and I like all other from software games
Borderlands. All of em. I like shooters and RPG’s however this series just did not click with me at all
Baldurs gate and helldivers
Witcher 3
For me it’s all of the Zelda Games
Witcher 3
Both Halo and Half Life series never realy tickled my pickle, even tho I love sci-fi fps.
Horizon zero dawn, I was frankly bored by this game.
And the same goes for nier automata, I finished the first run but I had absolutely no desire to continue playing it afterwards.
Witcher 3
Witcher 3. The combat and exploration was so boring
Why you put my top 1 game here 😭
Ok joke aside, it is baldur’s gate 3.. felt happy when i was able to sell it for $35 lol
Outer Wilds. Did 3 separate playthroughs trying to finish it but got bored to tears around 6-8 hours each time
incoming “witcher 3” 100 times
The Bioshock franchise and the Demon/Dark/Blood/Elden Souls games.
I can understand why they are so popular and beloved, but it’s really not for me.
Just to give a bit of context to NieR Automata, when you see the ending for the first time, you’ve basically played the setup for the actual story. You can not rate the story based on that.
The second playthrough consists of mostly the same missions from a different perspective to somewhat give context. The 3rd playthrough is a continuation from the ending you already saw (pretty much like a sequel).
If that premise alone doesn’t interest you, then yeah, maybe its best you stopped playing this early.
Can I say Danganronpa 2
The Witcher 3. I love the Witcher books. But the gameplay of 3 never really clicked for me.
Witcher 3
Nier Automata.
Nier had a unique problem for me. I have chronic fatigue. This is the only game that has made me physically ill. It turns my fatigue up to 11 and all I want to do is sleep. I actually really like the game and want to play it but can’t. Such a shame.
Red Dead Redemption
Disco Elysium
I’m trying a second time to give it another chance. I’ve played for maybe around 10 hours now but I’m just not enjoying myself. It feels like some of the mechanics are a bit opaque or not explained that well, which is really making it difficult to get into
Witcher Series,
I started every single one of those games several times now, with mods, without mods,
but I never played very far, though I really like RPGs…I wish I could love it as much as others
Octopath Traveler. Thought it was a game were your eight characters would build beautiful and complex relationships while also offering a great ttrpg turned based combat game.
But the characters so far have zero personal interaction (why the f@ck do I want to let a little girl join my team? Why should I care for this random traumatized soldier when I’m playing the campaing of a mischievous thief who only cares about himself?)
Also, it was supposed to be a game that could be played again and again to enjoy the other storylines, just to find out that you can actually see all of them in the first place. OK.
And welp, the whole storyline of my first run of “save the magical crystals” was way to weeabo and typical for me. I swear I’m tired of magic crystals.
The combat system wasn’t something that made me eager.
Neither the price.
I’d rather play again Golden Sun 1 and 2 and enjoy a good game.
Death Stranding… I understand what the game is going for but I found it very boring.
Mario Kart. All of them.
Death Stranding