Also definitely not “recent”, but two games I did drop and sold on were:
1) Final Fantasy XIII - Played for 37 hrs before I realised I really wasn’t having fun and disliked all the characters and didn’t care what happened to them all.
2) Hyperdimension Neptunia - Played for almost 30 hrs before I realised the gameplay and story were both terrible.
In both cases I feel I was deluding myself for a long time that there was something worthwhile from the investment.
Right at this moment I reckon I've dropped Banjo-Kazooie.
That final boss fight - I just give up. It's where the game ceases to be fun, and it's also where the game shows its age the most - the terrible camera angles, the poor flying mechanics, the delayed response to controls, it's aged incredibly badly.
It's such a shame as up until this point, you somewhat forgive the aged mechanics popping up here and there. But that final fight showcases it all in one. A great game let down by its ending.
I owned it and played it for hours back when it was new, but I never actually finished the game. I endeavoured to do that tonight, but it's just not going to happen.
I've given up on yooka laylee and recently tried to get back into DQ11s but just dropped that too. I have so many games to choose from that are on that backlog but nothing sounds appealing lol.
I remember how ever many years ago now I made it to the final bosses on Pokemon Red (I keep wanting to call them the Final Four, but that's college basketball). I was only barely able to beat the first one with like 1 or 2 pokemon left, never got close to beating the second one, realized I wasn't having any fun and didn't really like the game, and I haven't touched a mainline Pokemon game since. So I dropped not only that game but the entire series.
@FX102A Good shout on Horace. I really liked the storytelling and how it felt like a subversive Seventies children’s television show from the UK. But I really didn’t like the 8-bit home computer-style collectathon gameplay. I played a few hours and then dropped it hard. I am never going back to that game.
Right at this moment I reckon I've dropped Banjo-Kazooie.
That final boss fight - I just give up. It's where the game ceases to be fun, and it's also where the game shows its age the most - the terrible camera angles, the poor flying mechanics, the delayed response to controls, it's aged incredibly badly.
It's such a shame as up until this point, you somewhat forgive the aged mechanics popping up here and there. But that final fight showcases it all in one. A great game let down by its ending.
I owned it and played it for hours back when it was new, but I never actually finished the game. I endeavoured to do that tonight, but it's just not going to happen.
F*** it.
Finally did it. Glad to close that chapter after all these years. All notes, jiggies and honeycomb pieces also collected.
I also dropped Banjo & Kazooie as well but back when it first came out on the N64 in the late 90's. It's ashame to because it had beautiful graphics when we got it back then but our controller acted weird where you press up it went down, left was also right. Couldn't fully enjoy the game & eventually gave up on it because of the controller issue. Did it make it onto the Nintendo switch via virtual console? I'll have to look it up on the switch at some point lol~ 🤦♀️🤣
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@Barbiegurl777 I dropped the game as a kid as well, though that was for a different reason - I never made it further than Mad Monster Mansion. Some of the jiggies were too hard for me to get back then, as well! I did enjoy the game otherwise, and I actually 100%'d the game a few years ago.
Yes, Banjo-Kazooie's on the Switch, but you need NSO + expansion pack, which has that and other N64 games. Unfortunately, it's too expensive for what it is...I'm currently holding off on getting it. Maybe when they add GameCube and GBA games to it or something.
Uhhh ok cool. Yeah I bought the thing with Nintendo for online but to test the waters I just paid the $20 Nintendo online thing. Not super impressed with it yet. If anyone can convince me to get the expansion pack good luck lol~ Going to try & research the expansion pack before giving Nintendo $50 to big of chunk of change to waste before looking into~ 🤣 Correct me if I'm wrong. I was playing the game with my dad at the time didn't you have to collect gold puzzle pieces? Last time I played it was literally when it came out back then. I also remember walking around with the bird on the bears backpack but it's been a long time~ 😂😂😂🤣
@Barbiegurl777 Yeah. I found myself playing Mario Kart online, backing up my save data, and playing the SNES games with my online sub. I even went ahead and got the Mario Kart and Animal Crossing DLCs on their own instead of the online expansion, so I'd have them for good.
Yeah, in Banjo-Kazooie, those gold puzzle pieces (or jiggies, as they're called in the game) are what's needed to unlock more worlds. Getting musical notes is necessary too, they let you go further into Grunty's lair.
@Tendo64 The final boss in B-K is indeed, unnecessarily brutal. The game doesn't control well anyway, so Gruntilda's fireball spam is a nightmare to deal with.
I dropped three Gamecube games (Rocket Power, Megaman Network Transmission, Finding Nemo) for being almost unplayable at some level. I was stuck at mission that I could never able to clear due to very terrible control.
That was another reason why I got the Nintendo online sub more so for animal crossing new horizons & online play in the game. How is the new Mario kart for the switch? I'm still debating whether or not to get that game later. I have a few more import Nintendo switch games to get from Japan between this coming month & June then probably back to getting American Nintendo switch games later lol~ 🤣
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@Barbiegurl777 I love it. It's actually an enhanced version of Mario Kart 8, with stuff like double items, an ultra mini turbo, and a much better battle mode. Also, it seems that it has a larger online player base compared to the Wii U original, which makes sense since it's on the Switch. I like the new DLC courses, as well. So yeah, I would recommend getting it and the DLC (which is called the Booster Course Pass). Would be cool for us to play each other if you get it too.
Edit: May as well say what game I dropped. Ok, it's not recent, but for me, there's no better example than Paper Mario: Sticker Star. That sticker gimmick just got progressively worse as the game went on...I HATED how you can only attack if you have any jump/hammer stickers on you. Doesn't help that every sticker can only be used once, either...I gave up sometime after the second boss.
@Barbiegurl777 as MarioLover said before, definetley get 8 Deluxe. Basically everyone with a Switch has it, copius amounts of content, and soon 40 more tracks with DLC!
I always drop JRPGs. I rarely ever finish them. They're too long. Too stretched out. Too much grinding. Too many random battles. Or the characters and story are completely average and forgettable. I just dropped FF13 for the second time and I'm not sure I can ever finish it. I dropped it on PS3 when it first came out right at Chapter 11 and wound up doing the same on PC. It's not a hard game, but it just drags on far too long.
I dropped DQ11 when it first came out, Persona 4 Golden twice, Person 3 twice, Tales of Arise, Tales of Abyss, Suikoden Tierkries, and just countless other ones over many consoles. I've finished very few JRPGs in my life and I consider it a huge feat when I do.
@ivory_soul Well that makes two of us. I'd get some decent progress in when I first play a JRPG, and just suddenly, I'd start taking a massive hiatus from them. The typical length of those games are basically the reason why...many RPGs are like 1,000 hours long, and I have so many of them in my backlog! I tried to really get into them, but it seems like it's mostly not working out. I think I'm close to beating Xenoblade Chronicles 2 though, and yeah, that would be a huge feat for me as well.
Uhhh ok~ Yeah right now I have the 3ds & Wii U mk games. I'll put it on my hit list to get later lol. Just ordered 2 Nintendo switch games from Japan this month~ 🤣
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