When a game becomes a chore rather than entertainment

Have any of you ever played a game where after awhile playing it, it wasn't even fun anymore and you almost felt an obligation to beat it? Whether it was for achievements or just a tough game you wanted to beat, many times I find myself not even having fun with the "game" and just painfully trying to finish it for whatever reason. I know I'm kinda venting here but someone make me feel like I'm not crazy here lol. It's fun at first but after awhile you don't even realize that you're not having any fun what so ever and it actually makes you angry. Maybe it's just OCD but I have a feeling I'm not the only one that feels games are'nt always fun.

If you aren't having anymore fun then why would you continue to play. Especially for something meaningless like achievements. If you feel compelled to beat it then something must be attracting you to want to see the ending. Though it sounds like you need to branch out of your genre and find a game that is nothing like all the ones you normally play; mix it up a bit

Soul Calibur IV is exactly like that.

If a game starts becoming un-fun, I stop playing.

That happened with Prototype. I made it to the end boss and I just can't play it anymore. I will eventually beat it but only when I am in the mood.

Well isn't almots every game like that? That's why you stop playing it.

If you aren't having anymore fun then why would you continue to play. Especially for something meaningless like achievements. If you feel compelled to beat it then something must be attracting you to want to see the ending. Though it sounds like you need to branch out of your genre and find a game that is nothing like all the ones you normally play; mix it up a bit

xsfseal

Yes, a lot. Everyone cries for a 40+ hour game, but really everything starts losing my attention after about 20. Red Dead was the first game in a very long time to keep me thrilled the entire way through. It seems I'm fine up to a point them I'm just like "God let this be over soon I wanna see the ending". I think it's because a lot of games have good, short stories, that you want to see through but there isn't enough material there and the middle of the game suffers and drones on and on.

As for the achiements, yeah I am guilty of that. I am playing a WWE game lol. I actually somewhat enjoy the game mechanics, mixed with there being nothing else I feel the need to play right now besides Dante's Inferno. So I'm playing it for some small enjoyment and achievements when I am burned out on Inferno, and there is nothing else going on in my life that I would rather do. But it does resemble a chore.

On the other end of that, I own about 160 360 games, and my Gamerscore is only 77k. So I'm sporting about a 50% ratio which shows I'm not afraid to shelf a game if it really sucks to me. Over G Fighters... Turning Point Fall of Liberty... Yeah I'd rather do some real chores like scrub the toilet.

I am currently playing Crackdown 2 and the further I play the more I dislike it.There are some achievements that aren't hard and I normally would get but I am at the stage where I have nearly had enough.They have made no improvements over the previous game and it has become a tedious chore to finish.Very disappointed because I was expecting much more.To make it worse it is the same city as the first game...what a joke.

Two general statements here:

1. Achievements have ruined much of the industry in the sense that developers make worse games because of them. (a lot of the time, you CANNOT deny this) And the worst part is not many people realize this.

2. Many developers are market-oriented (I mean, no surprise since the goal of making a game to them is making money...). The major problem with this is that developers want to make their games have very mainstream appeal, so they copy what is popular. This is NOT good, and this did not start in the gaming industry. Let's face it: if things keep going this way, EVERY developer's games (with the exception of Valve, Bethesda, Capcom, and maybe a couple others) will have a perk system or class setups. A lot of games are trying to copy the **** that is MW2.

A real shame.

Final Fantasy XII was a chore to me. 120 hours of my life later, and I didn't really have anything to show for it. It was dull, and I only completed it because I was blissfully ignorant to the fact that the game was in fact not going to improve. I was living in hope that it would, because i'm a big Final Fantasy fan, but it was just the most painful 120 hours of my life.

Borderlands,definitely.AtomicBaconBits

If a game gets boring or becomes lackluster, I just stop playing it. I'm not going to force myself to play something I don't enjoy anymore.

I play games for fun.

I even stopped playing some games after the second level because they were boring.

That happened to me a lot last gen. This gen I am much more cautious as to what games I buy.

YUP!!! borderlands, ninja gaiden 2, and grand theft auro 4 were all like this for me

I didn't enjoy Bayonetta all that much. I felt like I was doing the same things over and over, but I didn't mind it so much in DMC4 for some reason. I beat the game because I like to finish things, and then mailed it back to Gamefly.

I know people will scream at me for saying this, but I just played Chrono Trigger recently, and felt the exact same way. I made it to the final boss without finishing it, but just looked up the ending on Youtube to see if it'd be worth doing, and then was thankful for not wasting a few hours trying to conk him out.

haha I love mass effect 1 to death but after 8 playthroughs to get all achievements i still love the game...... and Red dead Redemption is taking forever for 100% but i still like it otherwise i wouldnt be playing them

Oblivion was like that for me.CongressManStan

Oh yeah I completely forgot about Oblivion wow were those Oblivion gates boring.. I stopped playing it after that and finishing most of the stuff I wanted to. Too bad I had to try and find those stupid flowers because of the Mages guild punishment. Trying to find those flowers became such a chose that I just stopped caring.

Your not alone, and your not crazy. Their was a few games i didn't wanna finish half way though. As a gamer, i felt i needed to finish it to take it all in. After you beat the game you'll appreciate it a lot more. But man Infinite Undiscovery and Dead Space i had the hardest time finishing... not sure why.Kokuro_Kun

If a game starts becoming un-fun, I stop playing.

kid205

This.

I either take a break or I'll just stop playing it. I used to be a completionist so I would try to do everything in each game I played, but it's not even worth it now.

Assassin's Creed 1. Number two was a huge improvement.

Two general statements here:

1. Achievements have ruined much of the industry in the sense that developers make worse games because of them. (a lot of the time, you CANNOT deny this) And the worst part is not many people realize this.

2. Many developers are market-oriented (I mean, no surprise since the goal of making a game to them is making money...). The major problem with this is that developers want to make their games have very mainstream appeal, so they copy what is popular. This is NOT good, and this did not start in the gaming industry. Let's face it: if things keep going this way, EVERY developer's games (with the exception of Valve, Bethesda, Capcom, and maybe a couple others) will have a perk system or class setups. A lot of games are trying to copy the **** that is MW2.

A real shame.

hardcoregamer92

The Saboteur is becoming a chore for me right now, because I was stupid enough to leave ALL of the ambient freeplay events untouched until after i beat all of the missions... ugghhhh. Now i'm trying to complete all of them to get the 1000G and it's the biggest chore I've ever experienced out of a game. I can't even barely bring myself to do it anymore.

The Saboteur is becoming a chore for me right now, because I was stupid enough to leave ALL of the ambient freeplay events untouched until after i beat all of the missions... ugghhhh. Now i'm trying to complete all of them to get the 1000G and it's the biggest chore I've ever experienced out of a game. I can't even barely bring myself to do it anymore.

destinhpark

GTA4 and assassin creed 1

gta iv and red dead

I guess I'm the opposite. I have an OCD of finishing a game too quickly, so I try to draw it out for as long as I can before I beat it. By the time I finished Red Dead I had put 50+ hours into it. After beating a game I usually put it down for a few months, and eventually get around to playing through it again.

GTA IV (still have yet to finish it)

and red dead are the biggest stand outs to me... which is funny because i put over 2 days of gameplay on bully... (which is rockstar as well)

I've been kinda forcing myself to play Battlefield 1943 so I can get that last achievement. I forced myself to get all the achievements in Modern Warfare 2. They're both fun games I just don't like to play them that frequently. Especially Modern Warfare. I could go the rest of my life without ever playing it again.

GTA 4 and Assassin's Creed 2.

GTA4 was just a giant bore to me, but i wanted to persevere and at least finish it. I got halfway before things got to me, and i didn;t touch it for a month. Then i put on all the cheats and breezed through and sold it. It's funny, since it was the opposite with Red Dead Redemption, i enjoyed that from beginning to end.

Assassin's Creed 2 was a marked improvement over the first one, but the more i played the less interested i became. I ended up taking week long breaks from it, even when i was at the end game.

I tend to find open world games more tedious than linear games.

Have any of you ever played a game where after awhile playing it, it wasn't even fun anymore and you almost felt an obligation to beat it? Whether it was for achievements or just a tough game you wanted to beat, many times I find myself not even having fun with the "game" and just painfully trying to finish it for whatever reason. I know I'm kinda venting here but someone make me feel like I'm not crazy here lol. It's fun at first but after awhile you don't even realize that you're not having any fun what so ever and it actually makes you angry. Maybe it's just OCD but I have a feeling I'm not the only one that feels games are'nt always fun.

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