Topic: Games you recently DROPPED

Cultist Simulator

Well regarded, but the gameplay loop just wasn't for me.

I'm not sure if I'll be able to get through Axiom Verge 2, sadly. The game has some great ideas, but I feel like it's extremely obtuse and confusing. I absolutely loved the first game, so this one ended up being pretty disappointing for me.

@StarPoint it was an ok game. Definitely a downgrade from the first.

I think I'm dropping Pikmin for the foreseeable future. I love the first one, but I just have so much other stuff I want to play, and the difficulty ramped up to the point where I kind of get the gist of it.

Hogwarts Legacy. At first it was great, exploring Hogwarts and the World, but soon the magic literally faded away and it just felt more and more like any other RPG than a game where i could imagine myself as part of the Potter Universe.

A few years ago, before the 3ds and wiiu eshop were closed, I bought earthbound for my 3ds. I had played paper mario and mario and lugi games before, so I decided to see what was go great about it.

Big mistake.

While I won't list my problems with the game here because it'll be a rant, I will say that it feels dated and to me was frustrating beyond belief. I decided to drop it after getting stuck at the 3rd boss after realizing I wasn't having fun, and haven't touched it since..

-Paper Mario:The origami king. The reason I dropped it was because I I’m not a fan of the fights and would rather have regular turn based fights.
-Skyward sword. The reason I dropped this game was because I’m not really a fan of the linear gameplay and would rather get an open word style game

I would say that the most recent game I have stopped playing would be Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga on the Game Boy Advance emulator. I put about four hours into it, but decided I wanted to play something else other than GBA titles.

I think I'll have to drop Horace. It's a shame because I like it a lot for the most part - the platforming is challenging but fair and it throws all kinds of gameplay styles and settings at you, which don't necessarily gel together all that well but it's fun to see what ideas it will come up with next.

The problem is the mansion section later on. It's a huge and complex Metroidvania-esque level, which is a bit of a shock to the system after the mostly linear story up to that point. The map is difficult to follow so I don't really know where I'm supposed to go, and there's a tricky platforming gauntlet in almost every room, which makes it a massive slog to explore and backtrack through. I know if I drop it now I'll never be able to come back and finish it because I'll have even less idea what I'm doing, but I bought the game on sale so I've got my money's worth at this point from the parts I did enjoy. The story is pretty good for a platformer (if a bit overbearing with the amount of cutscenes) but I can live with not seeing how it ends.

Dropped Metroid Prime and Portal 2 (played with GF)
Both related to the same thing
First person platforming can be done right, but man it sucks

I wasn't big on dying somewhere in prime because I missed a jump and fell into lava and had to walk ALL the way back from the save point one elevator over

Portal 2 well.....i'm not big on puzzle platforming first person all together

Also Dropped Buddy Simulator because typing on switch sucked

Undernauts

I really like the drpg genre and I made it about ten hours into this one. I progressed beyond the third sin, the double-headed dragon tank. Unfortunately, I pigeonholed myself. Because after you pass that fight your camp becomes inaccessible until you pass an even more difficult enemy encounter.

My ability to rest and restore my party as been cut off. I can no longer grind levels and gear. I should've ran two save files to protect against this. But I have no desire to start over.

I'm done with this.

@Magician I had this in my wishlist, but that's a dealbreaker for me so thanks for the warning!

River City Girls 2

About ten hours in, made it to the crate throwing at Ocean Heights, and...crash.

I don't have time for that nonsense.

Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization. It just failed to hook me. I got a few hours in before I came to the realization (ha ha) that I didn't care to play anymore. I'm glad I didn't pay full price for it.

Sadly I felt like dropping Metroid Prime Remastered. The game is well done and the biggest strengh, the atmosphere is great but I feel like I should play warm, happy and peaceful games from now on.
I think I am turning in a good vibes only player and to be honest I am thankful for that.

Edit: Besides I was actively pushing for it the last years and feeling like this more and more naturally is a great side effect.

Bear and Breakfast, my god those Switch controls are horrendous.

I feel bad about this but I dropped Okami a while back. I reckon I was around 10-12 hours in. I just wasn't getting on well with it at all, despite liking a lot of aspects of the game. I'm not sure what it was that drove me to dropping it. Maybe I'll get back to it in future and give it a fair go again.

Art of Rally

Did the first portion where it's open roaming, looking for collectibles. After that I went to try my first rally attempt...and the game crashed. One more for the trade pile I guess. This is the six or seventh game I've played on Switch with serious stability issues.

A few recently:

Ni No Kuni 1. I wanted to love the game so badly, but I absolutely hated the combat. Like every single thing about it I hated. I was trying to force myself through it but Future Connected came out and I just couldn't be bothered enough to go back to it.

Doom Eternal. Eventually I just had my fill of this game and got tired of the platforming.

Skyward Sword. Can't stand the controls(despise motion controls more so than button). This is a 3rd person adventure game re-released in 2021. For the button controls, WTF would someone make you have to hold down a trigger button dang near the whole time to move the camera. You obviously more the camera more than the sword, so why not hold a button for sword movement.

Unfortunately, Advance Wars Re-boot Camp has slowly exited my current playing list. I think the game is fun, but it just hasn't aged well in some ways in my mind, and overall I just don't think the game appeals to me all that much. However, I don't regret buying the game and I still had fun with the 10 hours or so I played. And I'm happy to be supporting the series, and hopefully, we'll get a new entry in the series eventually. Maybe I'll pick it back up once I get through my current slew of games.