this will sound simplistic but ... if it's no longer fun then leave it and move on to something else. if it's feeling like hard work then it would depend on the rewards whether it's worth it or not, and as you said that is pretty subjective.
i remember when i was at school most of my english teachers would say "try to finish a book even if you don't think you're enjoying it so much because you're bound to gain/learn something from it", then came Mrs Watson and said "...that's a load of rubbish. if it's not fun, don't read it. there are plenty of books you will enjoy there's no point wasting your time."
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If it's too much like hard work and it doesn't feel worth it.
Seriously there are some games which just do all they can to piss you off with stupid things like difficulty spikes or poorly placed checkpoints. Or just get repetitive.
Listen to Iced Earth and play Doom
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Ravenprose said:All games are broken until proven otherwise.
Heh.
Agnates said:Er, if it's not fun don't play it. Broken or not, it's clearly not for you.
gamingeek said:
If it's too much like hard work and it doesn't feel worth it...
bugsonglass said:this will sound simplistic but ... if it's no longer fun then leave it...
Yeah, but that is the old me from 3-4 years ago, where I'd "stop having fun" on usually every game after a couple of hours. Now I plow through the boredom, and 8 out of 10 times it pays off.
The thing that gets me is that, with a game that is seemingly broken, like Eat Lead, there is nothing you can do. It's not a matter of grinding, or developing skills, or practice, it's just a dead game. But then there are other games, where it may have gotten 7's and no-one really has gone on record saying, "this game is a piece of shit", so you do wonder if it is just you, and maybe you should struggle on.
I forget which game I recently beat, I went and looked up the gamefaq -- there was none, and there were no comments in the forum. No reviews. I wondered if I was the only person on the planet that actually beat the thing.
I suppose the number one cause all-time would be getting stuck. Maybe a lack of direction, missed a key item, or whatever it is that I don't want to bother wandering around or looking it up on GameFAQs, and never do.
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Foolz said:
Check the recently resurfaced gaf thread for more laughs at this buggy mess.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=379298
and here's a good baseball one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr9sy37GIRc
God damn I want both games now.
Mekere said:Tricky question... I'm usually quite persistent with games (you can convince yourself with the number of hours spent on EO2 and I'm still not even bored yet!), usually I quit a game definitely because the story is boring or not in my taste. Exception would be plateformers, I just plainly sucks with this genre that it's shameful. Usually I just don't play them but if I get tricked into one, I stop playing it when I feel like breaking something (usually the controller I have in my hands)
what did you play back in the day when half the games were platformers? (and the other half space shooters)
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