GTA IV. I REALLY wanted to play it and enjoy it, but seriously... Awful port, broken game, HORRIBLE controls.
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I dorked around with it a little, but I absolutely hate it when failure in a mission means you have to drive all the way over there again. Replaying a mission is already repetition enough, but having to drive my ass over there again is just a terrible decision.
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For some reason, under Windows 7 I can't even play this game properly, always crashes when I start a campaign and I can't fix it no matter what. I recently dual booted with Win 8.1, will give it a spin and see if it runs better. Worth trying - Maybe a dual boot with XP just for that game?
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I have countless of games that I started, loved and never finished due to the fact that the game doesn't have cloud save. I have 2 homes and 2 computers. If I start a game that I can't continue to play due to the lack of cloud support I lose interest.
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Every single game has cloud saving.
With:
http://www.gamesave-manager.com
(Also, many with Razer Cortex)
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Dead Island. I must've tried to finish that game on the xbox/pc 20-30 times both single player and co-op. Furthest I've got to is the jungle. I blame boring repetitive gameplay, I really didn't like the human aspect, the shooter mechanics where awful.
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The beach part of the game was awesome; the rest....not so much. The town/city was especially annoying.
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In Dead Island, I actually liked the Town the Best. In Riptide it's definitely the Beach/Starting Area that's Best.
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I've been trying to beat FF VI since I was 6 years old. I had to start over like 6 or 7 times, because there was always a problem. My lil brothers deleted my data like 4 times (by accident of course, or maybe by "accident"), and the others were partially my fault. I'm 19, and I couldn't reach Kefka's tower so far.
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RPG's are too time-demanding and rigorous. They are usually the hardest of all genres, with a high/steep learning curve. However, you can play "easy" RPG-action hybrids such as Diablo 3, Shadowrun: Returns, and Path of Exile; these games are not "traditional" RPGs and I personally found them easier to play.
Diablo 3 (Game is not on Steam)
Shadowrun: Returns
Path of Exile (free!)
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FF13.
Walk in straight line. Press "A" repeatedly when you encounter an enemy to win.
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L.A. Noire. I'll finish it someday. But the port is SO BAD OH MY GOD! Someday.
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I actually Finished L.A. Noire, don't bother, the Storyline just gets more and more Retarded until you want to Kidnap the Devs and Force them all to play it over and over until they choose Suicide over playing the game.
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Wow! I really see it as a good game. But, in addition to the terrible port, it gets really repetitive. I'm 15 hours in and I just wish it ends already! It was fun probably in the first 9~11 hours, but damn... You just keep doing the same thing over and over again!
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As you can see, L.A. Noire is one of those love it or hate it games. Part of the problem was that people saw Rockstar and thought it was a sandbox game, but its not at all, which caused a lot of the hate. Plus, there are some odds quirks in the interviews, where some of your choices don't seem to match up to how the character actually responds. But that's a result of a last minute design change.
The options were originally Coax, Force and Lie, but they changed them to Truth, Doubt, and Lie, and didn't re-record any lines. So sometimes, when you're wanting to act merely skeptical, Cole will start yelling at them, which is a jarring disconnect.
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+1
its very different to other games and that gets a B for effort in my book.
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I didn't know about this design change. That was big, man! And what you said about Cole is absolutely true. Sometimes when you press lie, Cole will say something random, leaving you not so sure about if you actually have the evidence to prove the lie. But sometimes he will just say the evidence right away, and then you just have to select it and hear him reaffirm what he just said. The inconsistency with what you choose and how he acts really shows up.
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Yeah, they recorded all of the lines pretty early, while they were still making a number of design choices, and then never went back to make sure everything actually worked together. Team Bondi spent a fortune on the facial software, which is why they ended up folding.
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Wow, I never knew that. The interrogations were what I wanted to love most about the game, but their absolute arbitrary bullshitiness was what I ended up hating the most about it. This explanation obviously doesn't help make it better, but it at least makes sense now why it sucked so bad.
One thing I did really appreciate was the ability to skip action scenes. This game didn't do action very well at all, and being able to just skip the nonsense after a couple failed attempts was really the only way I could finish it.
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There was an article about it, shortly after the game came out, but most people never knew that, which is why I usually try and bring it up whenever there's a discussion about L.A. Noire. Its kind of bizarre that they thought changing it to Truth, Doubt or Lie without changing the voicework was a good idea.
The action scenes did kind of suck, but I never skip any gameplay in a game. I'm stubborn like that. I imagine they only included the action scenes because people would poop themselves if a game came out where you don't get to punch or shoot someone. A game where you just talk and solve crimes? Why would someone want to play that?
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I really loved Saint's Row IV - but I was switching my old 500GB HDD to new 3TB. I was ~60% through the game. The game is supposed to use steam clould - so I just re-downloaded it to my new HDD. But it started from scratch... So I plugged in my old hdd, copied save files from it and what (I missclicked Ctrl+C into Ctrl +X, so lost original data....)? Cloud started to work proparly - so it overrided my save data with ones it got from cloud from after I started new game... All old saves lost....
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Bah what a shame! Saints Row 4 surprised me so much, wasn't expecting a genuine good game from what I'd heard. Sounded a bit TOO silly. I feel your pain though, flight to run speed...ouch! Once the pains subsided I recommend giving it another go, its so worth it!
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I do suggest going back to it at some point. If you know what you're doing you can get fairly overpowered quite quickly
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Thank god I master bait so frequently, or I'd never have made it through the interrogation.
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You know the "plug the controller into the other socket" trick, right?
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I played the PC version and I have a feeling that fight was watered down since I beat him without any problem.
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Yes. Like I said I thought it was pretty easy and they probably simplified the PC version since it doesn't have multiple controller ports.
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Yeah. In my opinion, a corrupted save is even worse than a broken game (I still remember VtM:B fondly, even though there were a ton of bugs... until my save got glitched and didn't give me the item I needed for the story that I had until I had to reload because I got stuck in the ground). I'll suffer through a lot, but usually not twice -_-.
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This reminds me of "Castlevania: Symphony of the Night" on PS1. I was so close to beat the game, I gave my memory card to a friend just for a week end so he can play his stupid game, he erases all my saves :(
Of course he didn't do it on purpose, but I was so upset I couldn't imagine myself playing from the beginning again...
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All of the Elderscrolls from Morrowind Forward. I've never beaten any of them, they're either too damn long, or the storyline had something Retarded in it, like Killing a Certain Dragon in Skyrim.
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I still play the GBA version once in while, great gameplay.
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I'd say almost any game that doesn't have a quicksave. The last one was assassin's creed 2. I spent at least half an hour climbing a tower, carefully taking down all the guards around it without being seen. When I got to the top, my assassination target bumped into me as he came down a ladder, knocking me off the tower, causing me to fall to my death. I had to restart from the last save point in another part of the city. Besides being a habitual quicksaver, I like the freedom of arbitrary session length. I don't want to sit down and think that I have to play "until the next save point" in order to make any progress.
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Agreed, a thousand times over. I still haven't picked up Alien Isolation since the last time I played for 45 minutes, got killed, had to start all the way back at the save point, then played another 45 minutes and got killed again. 1.5 hours and zero progress - i just don't have time for that shit.
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution, not because I didn't like it, at the time it came out I got it for Xbox 360 but I got some other games too that I wanted to finish first and when I finished said games there was a new one coming out and again and again and it's still there.
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Morrowind was a loss. You might have been able to re-create him with a console command or mod, but...work.
But I can't say much...I bought both expansions and never played either. =(
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Brutal Legend. It was actually a pretty fun game with a great soundtrack, but the RTS sections were just an unbelievable, confusing mess. I managed to blunder my way through them for most of the game, but the final section had like 2 or 3 of them in a row and I just couldn't do it.
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I wasted like an hour and a half there, and then... the most insane RTS section ever. The game asks me to somehow lead my troops against a REGENERATING army in a fairly small battlefield while using the car to take down some huge beasts at booth flancs.
F*ck that! And f#ck the developer that though that was a good idea.
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I didn't have much of a problem with the RTS parts of the game, although I do concede that they were probably a poor choice. Or they still could have included them, but fewer of them, and maybe as a set of optional side-quests. Especially since the demo made it appear that it was going to be a straight-forward 3rd person brawler.
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I didn't finish it because it was really laggy on my pc lol. A shame. That game exales awesomeness! I can't say about the rts parts because with all the lag I couldn't really understand it. But the rest was gold! Especially for Jack Black fans (like me!).
Edit: exales not examples lol.
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Yeah, I spent far more time than I probably needed to just driving around and listening to the kick-ass music. But that's really the worst part of it all - I can't even find out how the damn story ends because of the stupid copyright BS on youtube - I haven't found a single playthrough that shows the final cutscenes.
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I tried to finish Space Pirates and Zombies, but I just couldn't finish the portion inside the core worlds. It was just too repetitive and boring.
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Only "How To Survive" got that achievement. I just got bored so damn much at the last mission, I had to delete it.
Rest is still installed and waiting to be finished one day, but I gave up completely on that garbage boring game called "How To Survive".
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How to Survive was an absolute piece of garbage. I played that game for 13 hours, got to the quest almost at the very end where I had to go around and pick up a bunch of packages, only most of the packages weren't where they were indicated on the map - they weren't anywhere, really. Couldn't finish the quest, so I couldn't finish the game, and ultimately couldn't be bothered to waste one more second of my life on it.
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Oh my gosh. I died so many times just falling off my saddled pony. Never moved an inch on the map but I still died.
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Also Dead Space 2. I was never a fan of survival horror to be honest, but Dead Space 1 was pretty enjoyable. However, Dead Space 2 follows a pattern of get through some place, get to other bad place, kill bunch of scary guys, repeat. The "kill bunch of scary guys" is what kills it for me. It really has a lot more of them than the original, and the feeling around them is so bad and heavy! I can play pobably 40 minutes ~ 1 hour before having to quit, and that doesn't mean this time is enjoyable. But I'm sure someday I'll man up and finish it! It's still a very good game.
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I adore Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines, but that game has soooo many bugs... sooo many, and i plow trough all of them, but the one that ruins your savegame halfway and forces you to replay everything got me.
Maybe ill try again one day.
Also kind of gave up on Shadow of Mordor, idk, i find it really really easy, and without any challenge i got bored.
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If you replay VtM:Bloodlines install the unofficial patch as it fixes most of the bugs in the game, as well as restoring some cut content Wichita the community discovered in the data files and finished.
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good advice, ufortunally mine had the unofficial patch already. xD
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I wanna be the boshy. That game made me rage pretty hard and I played it exclusively for a while.
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never heard of that one, but i think it have something to do with i wanna be the guy.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8SWMAQYQf0
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yep it's a fan made version of the game, meant to be infinitely more challenging. http://i-wanna-be-the-guy.wikia.com/wiki/I_Wanna_Be_The_Boshy
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Torchlight, sadly. For some reason I found myself under the power curve and was having trouble progressing. Never did get back to it.
Honorable mention: LYNE
Somewhat honorable mention: Legend of Grimrock: I started to want to play too perfectly, save scumming if something didn't go well. Took a break and never went back-- now I don't remember what my planned character progression was.
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