Topic: Games you recently DROPPED

Transformers Dark of the Moon PS3.
Rubbish control, too difficult to play even at the beginning of story with Easy difficulty as I got Game Over all the time.
I will donate this game to my local game shop owner.

Alchemic Cutie

Lots of busywork while you capture, breed, and raise jellies?

Played for about half an hour and decided that it's not for me.

I haven't played my copy yet, but I assume Slime Rancher does this better.

Wouldn't really say I dropped it recently (as it's been about a month since I last played it) but I've definitely fallen off of Kirby and the Amazing Mirror. It's honestly kind of heartbreaking given how excited I was for it to come to NSO but I don't know man: it really just felt like I was going through the exact same routes over and over and over again expecting a different result and there's only so much of that kind of thing you can take before you get sick of it.

I'm currently playing through another Kirby game at the moment in Epic Yarn so maybe I'll go back to Amazing Mirror afterwards but yeah, definitely a shame to put it mildly.

Thirsty Suitors. The gameplay was fun but the story and the characters were train wrecks. Narrative is important to me and I can’t play a game when I dislike all the characters in the game. It was pretty much ESH: the game.

Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea Part 1. I have never played such a frustrating game in my life. Infinite is already a HUGE step back from Bioshock 2, and Burial at Sea is a step back from Infinite. At this point I fear for Bioshock 4.

@Fizza I've given Amazing Mirror a couple of goes after getting it from the 3DS Ambassador Programme but never managed to make much progress in it. I felt a bit dense for getting stuck in a Kirby game so I'm glad it's not just me who finds it baffling 😅

Unmetal

An action/adventure spoof on the Metal Gear series. After half an hour I was not amused. The voicework, while appreciated, falls flat. The writing is too nonsensical. It wants to be like Naked Gun but lacks irony. And the adventuring is very by-the-numbers.

At least the 2D cutscenes are well animated. They are the most impressive part of this experience.

I'm not sure I ever answered this thread properly because I don't tend to drop games. I like good games so I buy good games and then tend to beat those good games.

Like the only games I can think of that I actually gave up on are the Deer God, a weird game I got for cheap that I didn't get at all, Megaman 9 because I couldn't beat the final boss, and Bastion because it was shockingly meh for such an acclaimed game. (consistent narration doesn't magically make a story good either, I know novelty was important in earlier indie games but...I don't get it)

YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World
I like some of the characters. But this began feeling like a pixelhunter. Danganronpa just does this better.

Xenon Valkyrie+
I like COWCAT's other games (Riddled Corpses EX & Demon's Tier) but this didn't vibe with me.

Mable and the wood I got this at a significant discount a while ago because the idea behind it seemed neat and I'm a sucker for throwback pixel-art styles. It's terrible. Clunky, frustrating controls, bland levels, random crashes, inexplicable performance issues, and no personality. I regret the two or three hours I spent trying to find the fun.

Phantom Trigger I love the art, the music, and the ambiguous nature of what's actually happening in the story. I don't like the repetitive combat, the lack of enemy variety, and the seemingly random nature of the level design. It's not bad, exactly, but I'm much more careful about what I devote my time to these days. If it isn't thrilling me, it's not getting finished.

I'm a bee's **** away from dropping the new Super Mario RPG.

I was cruising, five stars in (seven to find), but I've been stuck on the Queen Valentina/Dodo boss fight for days and whatever I try doesn't seem to work.

If Dodo doesn't kill me in the one-on-one (sometimes he even does so quickly), then I end up running out of supplies during the marathon Valentina fight - e.g. mushrooms, pick-me-ups, honey syrups, etc.

By no means do I usually drop games when the going gets tough, but this is starting to seem like a pointless waste of time each time I attempt it. What makes it even more infuriating is having to sit through that god-awful cut-scene/dialogue in Nimbus Land every damn time, with no way to skip.

It's not as though my party is weak either - I've got armour and pins on, plus strong stats and moves.

Right now it just seems like time I could be tipping into another game, with RPG's enjoyment just coming to a grinding halt.

Octopath Traveler 2. I was super far into it but life got in the way. I also dreaded going on as I was NOT amused by the final boss in the first game, and I wasn't going to spend time going through something similar.

Maybe I will pick it up this holiday, though I know Super Mario RPG is coming for my birthday, so I might just go for that instead. I also got back into miniature painting so I am guessing a lot of time will be spent there regardless.

Hammerwatch II
I feel a little bamboozled, but I only have myself to blame. I assumed this was a sequel to CrackShell's 2018 game Heroes of Hammerwatch. Turns out it's a sequel to their 2013 game Hammerwatch. There are no roguelite elements in Hammerwatch, only in Heroes.

It's a Forza and/or Forza Horizon situation.

I miss the progression found in Heroes.

Have you tried temporarily lowering the difficulty level to easy? It doesn't make a huge difference to bosses, but it does make them a little easier if you haven't tried it.

I dropped Xenoblade 1 for the Wii, bought the definitive edition of the game for the Switch years later, dropped it again. Nothing to do with the quality of the game. I just had a very hard time in the fight against Xord and was too ashamed to pick it back up.

@NeonPizza
the double dragon games haven't aged well at all (from what i've played anyway).

i've only played the arcade trilogy, the first 2 NES games, the genesis & atari lynx ports of the first, and advance so maybe that's why.

@thebottomtext Really the only Double Dragon game that's playable nowadays is Double Dragon Neon. While yes the others are playable it's as you said they haven't aged well.

Mad max on Steam. Really thought I’d enjoy a Mad Max game with Arkham like combat. But, too much busy work in the game and I found the open world to be real annoying on this one.

Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate

The QoL changes found in World and Rise have spoiled me.

I can't go back, even though it isn't all that long ago.

Just started and dropped Omega Quintet

I thought it was right up my alley, but it turned out to be very underbaked, it felt like playing a western AAA, immediately switched to something better