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[SEGAvangelist]

Sometimes we see these negative Steam reviews with hundreds of hours spent playing a game. Those reviews are funny, but it got me thinking. Have you ever just kept playing a game you didn't like for 40+ hours because you felt like you had to finish it? The one that really sticks out to me is:

Final Fantasy XII

It's a turd of a game that for some reason ate up over 80 hours of my life. I just kept it playing it because I was determined to kill all the giant tortoises. The game had no soul and told one of the worst Final Fantasy stories in the franchise's history complete with a cast of idiots. Fortunately, Lost Odyssey came out fairly soon after and gave me my Gooch fix.

 

[salva]

Why would you play something more than 1-2 hours if it was bad?

 

[AV]

Final Fantasy 8 definitely felt like 40 hours. Felt like 80 really. God awful game.

 

[SEGAvangelist]

Why would you play something more than 1-2 hours if it was bad?

We've all done it. Just be honest and share.

 

[proandrad]

Skyrim, I will never get the appeal. Looks like shit, plays like shit, the quest really aren't that groundbreaking.

 

[Krappadizzle]

I replayed Death Stranding's first 10 hours like 3 separate times across months before I finally stuck it out. Ended up enjoying my experience, but those first few times I just didn't get the fervor for it.

Also nominate Assassin's Creed Odyssey and AC: Valhalla. I put like 40+ hours into Odyssey and felt like it was such a chore but kept doing it until I saw the ending. I know I spent even more time with Valhalla and it really felt like that game was 2 times bigger than it needed to be and I got to conquering the last area and just gave up, didn't even finish the game but I know it's got to be at least 60+hours into Valhalla.

 

[envyzeal]

Overwatch

 

[Little Mac]

Recently ... Diablo 4.

 

[SEGAvangelist]

I replayed Death Stranding's first 10 hours like 3 separate times across months before I finally stuck it out. Ended up enjoying my experience, but those first few times I just didn't get the fervor for it.

Also nominate Assassin's Creed Odyssey and AC: Valhalla. I put like 40+ hours into Odyssey and felt like it was such a chore but kept doing it until I saw the ending. I know I spent even more time with Valhalla and it really felt like that game was 2 times bigger than it needed to be and I got to conquering the last area and just gave up, didn't even finish the game but I know it's got to be at least 60+hours into Valhalla.

There is something oddly satisfying about getting to the end of a game and just quitting because you've had enough. Maybe it's the freedom of just letting something go.

 

[FoxMcChief]

Star Ocean: The Last Hope

I got to the final boss, and just didn’t care to finish it. I had had enough. The game was so bad.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

Star Ocean 3. A bad game from top to bottom, and yet, I spent a solid 50 or so hours on it out of stubbornness more than anything else.

The Witcher 3 is up there, too. While I didn't think it was a bad game, the underlying gameplay mechanics were mostly junk, and somehow a step back from both of the previous games. I even played through the first DLC, to add insult to injury. Never bothered with the second, even though it was supposed to be an improvement.

 

[March Climber]

Why would you play something more than 1-2 hours if it was bad?

I don't think I've ever put that many hours into a game I wasn't enjoying.

Y'all are nuts. Even when I was young and made of free time I wouldn't play a game for more than a couple hours if it didn't click.

I don’t think I’ve ever played a game more than a few hours that I wasn’t enjoying.

I can't think of any because I seldom play something for that long, specially if it's bad.

Instead of thinking of a single player game, name a multiplayer game that you've sank 40 hours into and regretted it when it was all said and done.

 

[poppabk]

We've all done it. Just be honest and share.

I really don't think I have. I rarely commit 40 hours to games I like.

 

[dcx4610]

Probably Death Standing. I kept saying "surely this will get good" and it never did.

 

[Arsic]

Overwatch

I’ll one up you with League of Legends/DOTA.

Easily 1000-1500 hours in each.

Don’t get me wrong — the gameplay in these games is sublime; but the communities and how it actually plays out is some of the biggest time sinks you’ll have. Anyone you ask who is higher elo in these games and isn’t a pro tell you it just gets infinitely worse. Something about sunken lost fallacy I think.

I truly wasted so much time with these two games and refuse to install either again no matter how much the itch gets to me. There is no winning in these games. It’s an infinite well of addiction coupled with degeneration into the ultimate subhuman.

 

[gaming_again]

Divinity Original Sin 2. I played it for 90 hours waiting to enjoy myself. I never did. I had a lot more free time in those days.

 

[gaming_again]

Sometimes we see these negative Steam reviews with hundreds of hours spent playing a game. Those reviews are funny, but it got me thinking. Have you ever just kept playing a game you didn't like for 40+ hours because you felt like you had to finish it? The one that really sticks out to me is:

Final Fantasy XII

It's a turd of a game that for some reason ate up over 80 hours of my life. I just kept it playing it because I was determined to kill all the giant tortoises. The game had no soul and told one of the worst Final Fantasy stories in the franchise's history complete with a cast of idiots. Fortunately, Lost Odyssey came out fairly soon after and gave me my Gooch fix.

Agree with this. I did the same with XII out of a loyalty towards FF. I was such an idiot.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Undermine. I completed that game. Don't know how many hours. But that 'type' of game always makes me feel like I wasted my time.

 

[March Climber]

Sometimes we see these negative Steam reviews with hundreds of hours spent playing a game. Those reviews are funny, but it got me thinking. Have you ever just kept playing a game you didn't like for 40+ hours because you felt like you had to finish it? The one that really sticks out to me is:

Final Fantasy XIII

It's a turd of a game that for some reason ate up over 40 hours of my life. I just kept it playing it because I was determined to kill all the giant tortoises. The game had no soul and told one of the worst Final Fantasy stories in the franchise's history complete with a cast of idiots(but Sazh is okay I guess). Fortunately, Lost Odyssey gave me my Gooch fix instead.

I fixed OP's post, because his words matched how I felt about FF13 nearly point for point(I also gave Lost Odyssey a shot after FF13).

 

[Hudo]

Sometimes we see these negative Steam reviews with hundreds of hours spent playing a game. Those reviews are funny, but it got me thinking. Have you ever just kept playing a game you didn't like for 40+ hours because you felt like you had to finish it? The one that really sticks out to me is:

Final Fantasy XII

It's a turd of a game that for some reason ate up over 80 hours of my life. I just kept it playing it because I was determined to kill all the giant tortoises. The game had no soul and told one of the worst Final Fantasy stories in the franchise's history complete with a cast of idiots. Fortunately, Lost Odyssey came out fairly soon after and gave me my Gooch fix.

How fucking dare you. FF12 is the third-best FF and one of the top 10 JRPGs.

 

[SkylineRKR]

Giant Tortoises... isn't that FFXIII? I can't remember them in XII.

Anyway, probably Destiny 1. I spent too much hours on this turd. Dropped it after the first DLC.

 

[Del_X]

Two Worlds II

"That's rich"

 

[Loomy]

I fixed OP's post, because his words matched how I felt about FF13 nearly point for point(I also gave Lost Odyssey a shot after FF13).

haha, I was going to say the same thing. Everyone said "FF13 gets better after 20 hours". It did not. Having said that, I've revisited it since, and actually found it to be an okay game with a few frustrating mechanics.

 

[SantaC]

Sea of stars

 

[Loomy]

Giant Tortoises... isn't that FFXIII? I can't remember them in XII.

They showed up in the Giza Plains when it rained.

 

[Fermbiz]

Breath of the Walking Simulator

 

[March Climber]

haha, I was going to say the same thing. Everyone said "FF13 gets better after 20 hours". It did not. Having said that, I've revisited it since, and actually found it to be an okay game with a few frustrating mechanics.

Retroactively(Post FF13-2 and FF13-3) I can understand how you'd view it that way. In an alternate universe where FF13 had zero sequels, it might literally would have been the worst FF game of all time.

 

[envyzeal]

I’ll one up you with League of Legends/DOTA.

Easily 1000-1500 hours in each.

Don’t get me wrong — the gameplay in these games is sublime; but the communities and how it actually plays out is some of the biggest time sinks you’ll have. Anyone you ask who is higher elo in these games and isn’t a pro tell you it just gets infinitely worse. Something about sunken lost fallacy I think.

I truly wasted so much time with these two games and refuse to install either again no matter how much the itch gets to me. There is no winning in these games. It’s an infinite well of addiction coupled with degeneration into the ultimate subhuman.

Absolutely true
This should be a disclaimer

There is no winning in these games. It’s an infinite well of addiction coupled with degeneration into the ultimate subhuman.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Recently. Final fantasy xvi. I just didn't need to play it this year and at all really. I should have played any number of the brilliant games this year.

 

[Guilty_AI]

FFXV

Really tried to like it as it had many things that interested me. I didn't.

 

[TheInfamousKira]

Touch Dic for the DS.

Far too long, too front loaded, drip feed narrative, and too much of a focus on single player.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Ni No Kuni 1

I tried so hard to enjoy it for so long but the shit companion AI during combat was just endlessly horrendous. Took around 40-50 hours before finally throwing in the towel during a boss fight. Havent looked back since. Loved the sequel though.

 

[Alebrije]

RAGE 2

I line open world games and Rage 2 was meh because the empty open world but I always was exploring trying to find something new altought I knew the world was empty

 

[Beer Baelly]

 

[Punished Miku]

I cant finish a Persona or Xenoblade game. I dont think I made it 20 hrs in Persona though, and I actually really like most of the Xenoblade games. Just needs a couple slight changes. I played Xenoblade X and 2 for over 40 hrs for sure.

 

[The Pleasure]

Sometimes we see these negative Steam reviews with hundreds of hours spent playing a game. Those reviews are funny, but it got me thinking. Have you ever just kept playing a game you didn't like for 40+ hours because you felt like you had to finish it? The one that really sticks out to me is:

Final Fantasy XII

It's a turd of a game that for some reason ate up over 80 hours of my life. I just kept it playing it because I was determined to kill all the giant tortoises. The game had no soul and told one of the worst Final Fantasy stories in the franchise's history complete with a cast of idiots. Fortunately, Lost Odyssey came out fairly soon after and gave me my Gooch fix.

You let a game with a shirtless guy and possible assless chaps steal 40 hours of your life?

 

[DeepSpace5D]

Embarrassed to admit this one to y’all, but Maplestory. Wayyyyy more than 40 hours though…I will not even attempt to estimate it or the real world money I spent.

Don’t give me too much shit! I was much younger…and dumb.

 

[KungFucius]

We've all done it. Just be honest and share.

Right. A lot of people suffer from the sunk cost mentality. I bought it, I played X hours, I need to play Y more to beat it.

I have no clue what the worst game that I put 40 hours into, but some of the worst 40 hours to beat a game for me was the last 40 of AC Valhalla. I wanted to be done but the game went on forever.

I feel similar to the OP with FFXII, but that was so long ago. X felt bad too. The stories in the post PS1 FF games tended to fall apart making all of the time you played to get to the end feel like a waste.

Skyward sword is another one. Most of the game was good, but the demand for chaining together many hits to open up the actual damaging blow when the fucking controls never wanted to cooperate was obnoxious. Yeah, I think that is it. Even the remaster which I played couldn't just make a button control scheme and instead had to emulate the shitty controls. Nintendo should have scrapped the controls and put out the game with TP style controls. It would have been serviceable, even if it was lacking in other areas.

 

[thuGG_pl]

Dragon Age Inquisition

 

[brian0057]

Everyone posting low hanging fruits.
I wanna see some thermonuclear takes.

Fuck you.

 

[mrmustard]

Days Gone, AC Valhalla and somehow RDR2.

 

[Dr. Suchong]

Why would you play something more than 1-2 hours if it was bad?

"It gets better after 10,20,30 hours"
Rhetoric that we foolishly believe.

 

[Bartski]

make it 60

 

[Tsaki]

Call of Duty Advanced Warfare. 100s of hours probably. God the multiplayer was cancer with the jetpack randomness, low TTK, fuck huge engine latency (if I remember correctly it was close to 150ms before even you take into account network lag, even higher than Black Ops 2's) and of course the introduction of pure Pay-to-Win lootboxes. Going from BO2's excellent ranked system and ultra-balanced weapons to this was such a letdown. The campaign was generic dogshit as well. And the zombies mode? Fucking LOL.
I even preordered it. Thankfully I was account sharing on PS3 with a close friend so it was $30 on launch day.

 

[Fbh]

The combat was pretty fun but everything else about it was so bad, specially the story and characters, shit was like anime cringe turned up to 11.

 

[ByWatterson]

AC Valhalla.

Great moment-to-moment gameplay stretched to the breaking point over a nonexistent story with shit characters and no motivation. Didn't realize how empty it all was until right around 45 hours.

Trash. Just trash.

 

[winjer]

Red Dead Redemption 2.
Great graphics, average story, terrible controls and gameplay.

 

[Clintizzle]

Yeah, it was AC Valhalla for me. I LOVE the open-world AC games and this one just didn't hit the same as Odyssey or Origins.

 

[Hero_Select]

Thank you for this post OP


I hate Final Fantasy XII so much.

 

[Cashon]

Elden Ring. I spent a total of around 65 hours in it before deciding that I was done with it. I had never played any of the other From Soft Souls games prior, so I was enjoying the game for what it was... For the first 40 hours or so. And then the game just kept going and going and I realized that I wasn't even halfway through.
But the gameplay didn't feel rewarding at all after a while. I didn't feel like I was finding anything worthwhile, the story wasn't interesting (or comprehensible), and, at times, it felt like I was playing a PS3 game or something.

It's not a bad game, but I generally don't spend too much time in games I don't really enjoy, so it's still the worst game I spent more than 40 hours playing.