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What is the worst game that has stolen 40+ hours of your life?
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Dr. Suchong
Member
Hollow Knight.
Desperately dull.
I really tried to like it but... No.
Desperately dull.
I really tried to like it but... No.
Did you play in third-person or first? Did you mess around with the options at all?
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
FF7R. What a waste of time.
xellos2099alpha
Member
OneBigPuss
Member
Death Stranding and God of War Ragnarok.
SlimeGooGoo
Party Gooper
Persona 5
I tend to avoid bad games, so that's the only one that springs to mind that has disappointed me recently.
I tend to avoid bad games, so that's the only one that springs to mind that has disappointed me recently.
I agree. I really enjoy a good metroidvania, but this one felt boring in every way other than combat. And way too long for this type of game.
AngelMuffin
Member
Starting to feel this way about Redfall.
Did you think it was bad, or are you just saying it's the worst game you spent 40 hours in.
Also... How did you spend 40 hours in this game?
Frwrd
Member
I’m genuinely curios what was it that made you not enjoy IV.GTA IV and GTA V. Truly dreadful games. Probably won't stop me from buying GTA VI for some stupid reason
V can fuck right off, that game is ass (IMO)
Mister Wolf
Member
Fbh
Member
Guess I'm glad I haven't played it. The Last Hope made me give up on modern Tri Ace.
But I can't imagine the story, characters and writing being worse in V
ShirAhava
Plays with kids toys, in the adult gaming world
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.
SAME! Came in here to post FF12 and laughed when I saw the OP
Me and my friend rushed to best buy to get it and came home and played and played and played with sad looks on our faces its like we didn't want to admit how bad it was lol
I ended up selling my copy my friend hate finished his lmao
Bumblebeetuna
Member
Battleborn and Evolve.
The games were amazing, I just regret it because greed ruined them and now the servers are dead.
The games were amazing, I just regret it because greed ruined them and now the servers are dead.
Thick Thighs Save Lives
Gold Member
Bought it day 1.
Mozzarella
Member
One of the most overrated pieces of junk i have ever played, i went into this game with a lot of hype because of the cringe and huge praise this series and "game" in particular have.
Turns out the game sucked, its gameplay, its quests, its story, its world, i didnt enjoy it at all, its a game with a lot of cutscenes but a lot of them are junk, a game with a lot of combat but it has some of the worst combat in a game, a game with a lot of substories with most of them being meaningless pranks, a world that looks fun and cool af, only to be noninteractive and repetitive with generic minigames, story that has a good premise that hooked me in only to fall apart after chapter 6 and all the way towards the end, characters who are stylish af only to be reduced to cringe posing to fit twitter memes that weebs post, i dont know i guess i was hyped for it and it didnt meet my expectations, but you cant fault me when this game gets showered with undeserved praise!! it really doesnt deserve all the praise it gets, and the ones who praise it so much are not journalists or youtubers, its mostly gamers.
I eventually finished it all, and i also played other games in the series under the hope that it will get better, but it didnt, the studio RGG is basically Ubisoft:Japan, the games stayed the same, only one time they changed it to turn based.
Yeah i dont like this game, there are worse games than it, but this one i completely finished and even went back to it several times to try and appreciate it, to no avail. I guess im a hater lol.
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GreetingsMortal
Member
Launch FFXV for sure
Ogbert
Member
Well, I took the approach of good ‘bad’ rather than just bad ‘bad’ game.
If you spend 40 hours on something, it has to be doing something right.
And I spent that time mainly jumping off buildings and shooting people in the nuts.
midnightAI
Member
Aion probably, back in 2009-2010
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
I have never spent 40 hours on a game I thought was bad, I don't think.
Deerock71
Member
"MY TITTIES ARE BIGGER THAN YOURS! I'VE GOT MORE CHINS THAN A CHINESE PHONE BOOK!"
But ON TOPIC: Take your pic of Animal Crossing games. They're adorable, but dull as fuck.
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Flutta
Banned
Topher
Gold Member
Topher
Gold Member
Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
Utter tripe, needed a patch for ages, old women bugged out and had male voices, you fell through the floor, it looked shite, but.. I couldn't stop playing
EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
I think games could trim some fat almost every open world games need more big moments and less side quests.
calistan
Member
These days I'm too sensible to spend that long on a game that's no fun, but this one ate up countless hours of my childhood.
I mean it is objectively shit. Buggy, broken, ugly, barely playable. You'd have to wait five minutes just for it to load. If you entered a screen at the wrong place, you'd fall to your death and then respawn in that same spot over and over until all your lives were gone.
And yet it was one of the biggest games of its day. Everybody played it but I never heard of anyone who actually finished it, or even got more than a fraction of the way through it without cheating. Kids today, complaining AC Valhalla was a waste of time - you have no idea.
I mean it is objectively shit. Buggy, broken, ugly, barely playable. You'd have to wait five minutes just for it to load. If you entered a screen at the wrong place, you'd fall to your death and then respawn in that same spot over and over until all your lives were gone.
And yet it was one of the biggest games of its day. Everybody played it but I never heard of anyone who actually finished it, or even got more than a fraction of the way through it without cheating. Kids today, complaining AC Valhalla was a waste of time - you have no idea.
proandrad
Member
I wish guerrilla games put as much effort in making Aloy likable as they did in the graphics.
I still don't know why I did it.
Larxia
Member
Probably Death Stranding. I thought that a lot of things were tedious but I still liked the atmosphere and I wanted to see where the story would go, in the hope that it would actually go somewhere.
Turns out it didn't, 70 hours for nothing, no conclusion, no answer, super confusing story without anything ever making sense, it felt like getting scammed. Also wasted so much time building roads for nothing, I should have completely ignored side content.
Turns out it didn't, 70 hours for nothing, no conclusion, no answer, super confusing story without anything ever making sense, it felt like getting scammed. Also wasted so much time building roads for nothing, I should have completely ignored side content.
BlackTron
Member
Me too, but it wasn't a bad game for most of the hours I spent playing it. It was a slippery slope you couldn't stop, like amortization on your brand new dream car, till it ended up just worthless.
There are numerous games that surprised me that I just wasn't motivated to finish them usually about 2/3 through, but I still remember redeeming qualities of the games and wouldn't call them trash per se. Skyward Sword comes to mind. I don't think I'll ever finish that game because the low points keep me from ever wanting to attempt it again. But there are cool things I remember about it too. In fact I thought the motion controls were great and my issues were elsewhere. If there's just nothing good about a game I won't make it anywhere near 40 hours.