Weird reasons you stopped playing a game

King of Posters
#40

There was a jump rope minigame in the first city of Final Fantasy 9, where you’d win a tetra master card if you hit 100 jumps. But, the timing on the jumps was really really weirdly off, because you had to take into account the janky windup and leap part of the animation. This made it so you had to hit the button exactly when the rope was at eye level with your character.

It took me enough failed tries to figure this out that I just was like, “fuck this,” but regarding the entire game, not just that minigame.

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#41

the first time i played it was off the back of Breath of the Wild and i was so annoyed at how discrete and gamey the conditions for camouflage were!

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#42

Oh yeah, Triple Triad in general made me quit FFVIII. I got way too bogged down on keeping up in winning new cards, I hated all the later mechanics, and I wasn’t really into the whole mini game to begin with. I eventually stopped playing because I had turned it into an awful chore.

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#43

I stopped playing Baten Kaitos because I accidentally formatted the hard drive I had my save on while trying to reinstall Windows using just a partition of that hard drive

Then it turned out the issue was my gfx card anyway

#44

My first couple attempts at playing Majora’s Mask fizzled out because interacting with the Bomber kids triggered some particular social anxieties I had as a kid. Like, I was able to get past the first three day cycle and actually complete a dungeon or two, but I avoided getting the Bombers’ Notebook. Eentually the ever-looming thought of interacting with the kids to get the notebook just became too much, so I just stopped playing the game.

Years later I tried playing it again and that thankfully wasn’t an issue. Still haven’t beaten it tho’ (fizzled out around Ikana for reasons I don’t remember).

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#45

I haven’t been able to finish Oracle of Ages because of a mandatory minigame.

I hate mandatory minigames.

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#46

Oh yeah. Twice (or maybe three times? at least twice), I’ve played through Majora’s Mask and loved almost every minute of it up until I get to the Zora/water dungeon. All the pipes and everything. I don’t even really try. I look at it and just kinda go “I’ll come back to this when I feel up to it” and switched off the console and I have literally never felt up to it.

It just looks so complicated.

#47

I simply cannot handle any game that features character creation.

#48

Curious about this: is it choice paralyzation, or just boredom?

#49

Default Commander Shepard 4 Lyfe due to this very lack of patience

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#50

is it choice paralyzation

In a sense? I just find it difficult to really enjoy anything unless I can convincingly tell myself that I’m Doing It Right- and with as many choices and options as the average character creator presents, it’s almost impossible to even form any coherent idea of what Doing It Right is.

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#51

This is an attitude that’s unhealthy enough that I’d nearly call it a pathology. I recognize it very concretely because I struggle with it myself. Dude: it’s a shit ass way to enjoy a videogame. Fight against it when you can. Free Your Mind

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#52

i know this is a bigger thing than just the one game, but in D:OS2 it doesn’t matter a tonnnn and respecs are free from a very early point in the game

but yeah i would say this is still an aspect of a broader problem that will still cause you to not enjoy this game very much

#53

yeah like this has stopped me from playing games before, even in a character creator sometimes. i prefer purely aesthetic choices, then i just make a badass old woman or something, but otherwise it can hit me hard.

so i just look up a guide and pick the build that seems the funniest, usually.

#54

Literally never the wrong choice, the most fun to make in every suite I’ve used recently

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#55

ever since i was in this not so great fc in ff xiv that would make fun of the way people designed their characters, i fell into the habit of imitating anything that fit into the weeb kawaii aesthetics that tons of other players do and i can’t seem to break out of it now. it’s one thing to like being a cute death machine but it’s another to spend 10 real life dollars because you were lurking the chat and saw someone making fun of heterochromia.

there’s definitely this idea that i have to ’ do it right ’ and it’s strange because i hadn’t given it much thought until now.

it’s a combination of really liking presenting a certain way but also not wanting to stand out or be perceived as awkward by some dumb weeb edgelords. anyway, what helps me is being able to save multiple looks so i can change it if i get tired of the current one but i know that’s not an option with most games.

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#56

i stopped trying to replay final fantasy viii because on three separate occasions i’d just. . .fall asleep. it was that boring. i’ve never actually beaten the game because i hate triple triad and i DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW TO PLAY so that alone is enough to keep me away.

the only reason i ever tried to pick it up again is that i wanted to play that bit where you get to be laguna. i like seifer more than squall. i hate rinoa and i really wish the game was just about laguna because it would’ve been more fun to me i guess.

#57

When I was about 7 I got to the final boss of Crash Team Racing and he gives a monologue about how he’ll turn the world into a concrete parking lot if he beats you and I decided I didn’t want that much responsibility in my life so I never played it again.

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#58

lol that reminds me of how I quit Shadow of the Colossus (is that the name?). After killing two or three colossi I decided that the only way to win this game was to not play it and so I stopped. I was into Buddhism and vegetarianism at the time, I guess that had something to do with it.

Haven’t picked it up since. I want to see the other colossi as they’re supposedly really cool but you know how it goes

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#59

@BLUE_BLACK_PURPLE
disclaimer:
i feel somewhat like apologetic resident SotC fanboy here, so take this post with some grain of salt.





… still here? Good.

you should have been there for my Crappy Blurry Digicam-Snapshot Speedrun Playthrough I did on SB 1.0 a decade+ ago, I took a blurry picture of each colossus, and had a blast (pun not intended) finishing this game in sub-five-hours.

Actually, i still should have the snapshots on my computer somewhere, and can upload them if you want to - i can promise you will not really have an idea what you are seeing, and technically, you still will have seen them…

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