Topic: Games you recently DROPPED

I mean... Switch runs much fancier games much better than Cult of the Lamb runs. Even if Switch 2 was 1000 times faster, bad ports will still be bad ports. It's like how they sometimes port 20 year old games that somehow run badly on new hardware.

That said, I'm still playing Cult of the Lamb. I agree the performance is a bit annoying.

Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past. (3DS) I haven't played this one for a few weeks now and while I did enjoy what I played, I've just got no urge to go back to it at the moment. Played over 40 hours and by all accounts I'm only around halfway through. Really good game, but I just feel like it was going on a bit too long without actually progressing much.

Okinawa Rush

Pretty cool as far as small projects go. I just wasn't vibing with the game's parry mechanic. If Street Fighter III Third Strike were an action/platformer, that's this game in a nutshell. Alas, it's not for me.

Tunic

I dropped it not because it's a little punishing, it's just that I have issues with a game where your character gets hung up on graphics while moving. I had that happe too many times in a clutch situation where there's no reason why I can't get out of a corner when I could before.

On top of that, some enemies just appeared when I wasn't even close to activating them (dang mecha fairies). If I walk the same path at the same distance from an enemy and they don't detect me, it should be consistant. Not a "oh, hey I think I heard a rukus waaaay over here, so I think I'll join the party" monster. There were times the little dude that was affixed to a pillar in a small pond woukd just appear when I wasn't near him, zapping me in the back while I'm dodging three that popped up in front of me.

The Legend of Zaelda Oracle of Ages. Yeah I know I am going to get flak for this one but after putting about two hours into it I just couldn't do it anymore. For me it was the dungeons are just so puzzle heavy, unlike any other Zelda I played and alot of the puzzles I needed to use a walk through after awhile. While I enjoy Zelda games this one just isn't for me. Maybe I might pick it up later, but for now I am dropping it.

Telenet Shooting Collection

A collection of four games. Granada, Avenger, Gaiares, and Psychic Storm. Granada has not aged well; could've benefited from an updated twin-stick control scheme. Avenger and Gaiares are bland shmups from their era. And the best game in the collection, Psychic Storm, again...has not aged well.

The whole package feels like a 5/10 experience.

There are simply too many better games than what's on offer here.

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.