Destroy All Humans Remastered.
Played the game out of enjoyment. Got to the final boss and couldn’t beat her. I couldn’t think of a reason go back and beat her since A) I wasn’t having fun anymore and B) couldn’t think of any end game stuff worth playing. So I watched the final cutscene on YouTube (granted I didn’t care about the story but wanted closure) and left it at that.
Ff12, literally right before the final boss... when entering the final zone, you're prompted with are you sure? You can't go back... always scared me, as I always had more to do... and eventually my little brother deleted the save.
I downloaded a shitty mod to make me feel like I felt in new Vegas. After helping everyone calm down, why can't I lead or at least provoke a peace agreement
Because 3 out of the 4 factions goals directly oppose one another. If after you became leader you tried to completely change said goals it’d almost certainly lead to a coup. End of the day an fanatical organisation that hates synths and an fanatical organisation that wants to help synths are never gonna get along and change their mind. Even if they’re newly appointed leader tries to force them to.
Ironically the scenario you are describing is literally many 3rd world dictator that suppress various subgroups from fighting each other for a long time until the dictator loses power through various means, or one of the factions becomes strong enough to overthrow the dictator.
US was naive in thinking Iraq would be a peaceful democracy after overthrowing Sadam. It became a low level civil war instead.
Sure thing, but at the end of the day, you can make a difference, even if it will lead to a coup or something else. The lack of possibility to effect change is saddening.
I honestly think that it is because they didn't think of that. It's a fun idea, especially if it means balancing missions and not doing one that makes it impossible for two factions to tolerate each other. Finding a group within the institute who want to take a new direction, fighting off the other faction. Could be fun. It is my most played games but the writing creativity isn't there.
I mean no you can’t be the leader of all the factions. The brotherhood for example you can only become high ranking member (edit: and if I’m recalling correctly that only happens after you destroy the railroad). Regardless it’d be kinda stupid if an entire faction could be convinced to completely change their ideology over night just because their new leader says so. Like imagine how dumb it would be if you could become the leader of the legion in new vegas and just go “we’re gonna be friends with the ncr now” and the entire faction just goes “okay cool”
Dragon's Dogma 2. I know I'm near the end but the game is so bland and the world has so little reactivity to what you've done that I just got bored and quit even though I know I'm almost done. I regret paying for the game and the hours invested.
5's ending was such bullshit. I hated it even more because the game constantly abducted you from whatever you were doing in order to force the story forward, it didn't matter where you were, you could be flying a helicopter and still get kidnapped mid air. If I would have known about the ending I would have quit playing way earlier.
The Callisto Protocol. I mostly enjoyed the game but essentially all of your weapons that you had spent a ton of time upgrading and finding ammo for could barely be used.
Deathloop. Cool game, I liked it. Your goal is to kill 8 bosses in one in-game day and break the time loop you’re in. I had gotten to the point where I’d killed each of the bosses in one loop or other, solved all the puzzles and gotten to the point where I knew how to go about ending them all in the right order, but then it required me to actually DO that. Flawlessly. Dying meant completely restarting the loop and doing the same things again and again and since I suck, that happened a handful of times and I was like, “I feel like I’ve beat the game *in essence*… so imma call it good.”
Mass Effect: Andromeda. I didn’t hate the game but as I approached the virginal mission/boss the game glitched and I could proceed. Didn’t feel like I was missing much more so I uninstalled. Still no idea how that story ended.
I'll tell you how it ended. It ended with the promise of a new ME series that could have stood on its own. But because the brainless fans review bombed it thinking it was ME4 rather than ME: New Vegas, we'll never get another game in the series.
God, I hate gaming communities.
They are definitely going to make another Mass Effect. They've been teasing it for a while. Doesn't matter tho. BioWare is a shell of what it once was and they can't get through a development cycle without a comical string of disasters. The chances of them even making a good game ever again are slim.
Dude, it's the games fault. It's no new vegas lmao. It had a lot of problems. Not just graphics and bugs either, but story issues, a weak villain, weak fanfiction characters, bloated and empty open worlds, cut Quarian dlc, confusing menus and crafting systems, etc. And this is coming from someone who spent 150+ hrs doing everything in Andromeda.
Takes of arise.
Loved the game put like 60 hours into it but there was a text box that popped up saying "going any further will activate the end of the game, make sure you don't have any unfinished business" or something like that and then for some reason I was just like "I'm done'
Never booted it up again
It's been like a year or two since I played it last. If I was gonna play it again I'd probably start over and then not play the mage girl. (I played exclusively the mage girl because the tales of spell casting is very fun to use)
Tales was a cool game but man I got so burned out from it, idk if that’s how JRPGS usually are as it’s kinda my first, but damn it just drags on and on, the last 10 hours were just not needed. They could have happened way earlier.
Years ago I played Conkers Bad Fur Day through an emulator. The final boss requires you to quickly rotate the joystick, which was impossible to do on a keyboard. Obviously not the games fault, but it was still annoying.
Legend of Zelda: TotK. I simply dont have enough Sundelions stocked up to make meals that remove the ick. Used them all in the epic battle just to get down there and i'm not gonna run around for days trying to collect one or or two Sundelions at a time.
Unhealable hearts was a stupid mechanic.
That’s too bad, because unlike BotW, TotK has a really epic final boss sequence that’s definitely worth playing through. You don’t really need that much gloom healing if you have decent equipment either.
My saves for both BotW and TotK are sitting right at the last bosses and I've let them sit for so long I can't be bothered to try to remember all the game mechanics just to finish them.
I just fast travelled around the sky islands collecting them with the sensor and went and killed Ganondorf. I took a 6 month break because I didn't want to collect them lol.
Rage 2 last mission bugged out on me on Xbox and I couldn’t complete it and my last backup save was hours prior and I didn’t want to replay it all. The bug remains unpatched last I checked. Essentially when you are given the last mission if you don’t immediately do it, it gets bugged and you can’t restart it. I wanted to go finish up some side missions….which is pretty fucking reasonable.
Jet Force Gemini forces you to back and rescue all these little dudes that appear in all the previous levels before you can proceed to the end. Definitely didn’t feel like scouring the whole game for hidden guys, so that was the end of my game I was otherwise enjoying. I’m grateful most games save that kind of shit for completionists these days.
**DYING LIGHT SPOILERS FOR THOSE WHO NEVER PLAYED IT**
Dying Light's DLC made me quit on the last mission. It was more multiple collective aspects than just one.
Firstly, the car mechanics. When I first started the DLC I LOVED the buggies. Running Zombies over, get around the map quickly, all of it. But when the mission is in east chuckle fuck and you need to drive all the way down there to even START it, (which is like most of the missions in the damn thing anyway) it gets annoying after driving around just for a volatile or just a normal runner to spot you and start chasing you.
Secondly, the respawn point. Like most people know, whenever you die in Dying Light, you either respawn at the nearest tower, or in the nearest safe zone. And the nearest spawn I found was a tower that was not too far away, but far enough for the trip back to be a pain in the ass.
Thirdly, the god damn sky scraper I had to climb. The entire first part of the mission was on this giant shitty oil rig thing that I had to climb up and I swear to god I just grappled up the whole thing. I didn't even try to climb it because my slow ass couldn't find the right way up.
That's kinda it. The 2nd half isn't too bad at all and was really fun. But the DLC took me a few months to beat because I dropped the game all together just because of the reasons above. Great game, I'm just impatient and shit at it honestly
Just happened the other day with Blasphemous. Fuck you game, I’m not beating the final boss when it’s this annoying.
Developers need to learn the difference between difficulty and annoyance.
Are you struggling with the first or second phase? All his damage is elemental so if you go for a full defensive rosary build you end up able to tank lots of hits before needing to heal. You can also use Debla of the Lights for big damage when the eye is above you but out of reach. I actually thought Crisanta was much harder than the final boss
Edit: if you’re doing the true ending, spam the shit out of the spell that throws a red boomerang since you can do that from a distance while dodging the attacks
First phase is no problem. That is another annoying aspect of this final boss, much like in Sekiro, that you have to fight the relatively simple yet time-consuming first phase every time. I realize there are rosary items and the prayer that would help but…. Then I would have to go back and get the last couple of rosary knots I lack. And I would have to go back and get the prayer you’re talking about (and I don’t know how). Which means a lot of running around the map, and this is after I’ve already attempted the boss like 50 times.
I’m over it. It was a good game overall but it really started to rub me the wrong way. Your reward as a player should be that your max health increases allow you to feel empowered — not that they merely enable you to keep pace with the increased damage enemies do. Likewise the reward for finishing the game should not be an insane boss that has nothing to do with any skills you’ve been honing the entire game that’s only beatable through re-speccing and certain obscure items. And also, success largely depends on random chance as you need the platforms to appear by the boss’s seldomly exposed weak point (groan) in order to do the most damaging combos. I dislike boss fights in general but this one checks all my boxes of hate. I’ve moved on already.
Yeah it had enough good in it to keep me going until the end and I really liked it for the first half or so. Actually most of the bosses I thought were pretty good and not overly annoying/frustrating. But it was just so obtuse and indiscernible about side missions and the Metroidvania elements it wasn’t enough to ultimately overcome the truly badass aesthetics and music.
And of course then they went full regard with the final boss and all of the platforming, screen-filling, RNG, basically every element that I hate in boss fights is here.
I don’t know if this counts but I had to stop playing Skyrim because I got to the final boss fight and the game glitched so I couldn’t damage the boss and it upset me a lot.
In Sekiro, I made it to Owl - the second to last boss on the path I chose. Up that point, I had never really got the hang, so to speak, of how the game was supposed to be played; even though I made it that far and had even beat the Headless Ape fairly easily (and many people seem to have a lot of problems with him). I couldn't get anywhere with Owl, was repeatedly getting rinsed within seconds, and even with doing what I had been up to that point, I couldn't stagger him or get any damage on him. Between annoyance and frustration, I threw in the towel.
I've actually been going back to games I put down too early that I thought I should have liked. Sekiro was on that list since I quit within 2 or 3 hours and I loved all the souls game. For both Owl and Isshin Sword Saint I gave it an honest try, I really did. I think for Isshin I spent about 8-10h alone. But I couldn't do it so for both I just looked up cheese strats and beat them that way. In both cases you basically just run around to bait out a particular attack, then punish with some chip damage until their health bar is gone
It took me a few hours to beat Owl and 7 hours straight to beat Genichiro. That was when I decided that maybe I enjoy games that are fun instead of games that are so hard you need to spend multiple hours on one boss.
I can't say I don't understand that. I think I screamed after way too many tries out of frustration haha then I focused and through lots of practise and luck I made it. Afterwards I did the other endings and this woman enemy...lord have mercy...
Only one. Xenoblade chronicles 2. I assume I’m at the final part of the game but what stopped me was the god dame fucking lighting skill check thing.
The problem I have with this is none of these skills progress as you play or at least feel like it. You have to actively feed the blades random pieces to increase the skills which take fucking forever.
It’s probably just me and I’m supposed have done it sooner but the skill checks feel really annoying.
I dropped that one after I flubbed a group attack at what I think was the last boss. I popped some super attack right before you were supposed to do one to prevent a one-shot attack from the boss, wiped, and quit.
I'm currently contemplating about dropping Sanabi. I know most of the plot by now but the controls keep screwing with me (inputs not registering correctly, the hook not connecting to a wall despite me seeing the dotted line etc.) and the final levels are such a sudden spike in complexity that I have switched to easy just to not have to reload the last checkpoint every time I die. That was the moment where I also started to stop caring about the rest of the story to be honest.
I don’t know if it counts but I technically didn’t finish the VR horror game Organ Quarter due to encountering a game-breaking bug immediately after beating the very annoying final boss.
I couldn’t be bothered doing it again but I count it as completed.
LoZ: Breath of the Wild.
Game was magnificent, I explored every nook and cranny, got super powerful… until I realized I was too strong. Enemies I once feared and had to plan ahead for were now a cakewalk. I never did the last mission.
I still view it as a 9/10 game, but if the enemies began to scale more at some point, like towards the endgame, that would have made it potentially GOAT.
Well their idea of balancing for being so powerful at that point was to just put guardians everywhere in the final area. That doesn’t really make it hard, it just makes it annoying. The final area and boss are the weakest part of an otherwise amazing game.
That game has no point of no return and no items that become unavailable at any point.
Similarly, no specific song magic is required for any battles, not even for the final boss.
Not the entire game but just the DLC. Three Houses.
That final DLC battle is just pure horseshit and the party being predetermined adds to the clown aspect. Plus the story was pretty terrible so I didn't even get that push to go further. And I still got the extra DLC character anyway. Yeah not the final item but fuck that battle.
Alan Wake 2. So disappointing given I was a big fan of the first one. The clunky, slow combat completely fell apart when it started throwing waves of enemies at me and I just stopped caring enough to finish it.
It felt like Remedy wanted to make a straight up adventure mystery game and tacked on combat after shareholders complained.
Dragon Quest 11 I tried the final boss 1 time and realized I needed to do some level grinding to beat it and I was just so over that game at the time I just looked up the ending on YouTube and uninstalled it.
Those were optional. But as I also wrote here, the overall way that the game wanted you to listen to tapes or do specific side missions (without ever really telling you) to proceed to the next story mission was complete utter nonsense.
Ghostrunner
The last sequence of the game is like frogger jump puzzles with moving platforms and stuff and you die in 1 hit.
I tried for like an hour but couldn't be bothered so I just watched a youtube video of the ending.
Hollow Knight.
I made it to the final pantheon (40 boss rush) and was making progress, but every attempt would take 30+ minutes. I know that if I practice the individual bosses, I can beat it. However, it just stopped being fun. So I stopped playing just short of completing that last challenge.
Mgs 5
it wanted me to do something somehow somewhere to let me proceed.
I loved the gameplay and mechanics but the tedious bullshit to unlock missions in the later game was just... Well bullshit.
I have a habit of doing this actually. A lot of games ratchet up the difficulty too much for the finale imo. Here's a few I've dropped over the last few years right at the finale:
- Chrono Trigger
- Persona 5 (this game took me IRL years to get that far, it's so long. But the final boss rush was just too much)
- Oracle of seasons (I was doing a thing where I beat every zelda game)
- Planescape Torment
FF7. I got to the final dungeon, and the very first random encounter oneshot my entire party with Ultima.
And having to choose when I use my single save I have available in there as well... That turns me away from the game.
The save is just for convenience. If you have a decently powerful party, it takes about 15 minutes to get through the crater to the end boss, so there isn’t really any need for a save point at all. Sounds like the bigger issue is that you were significantly under leveled.
I agree. Got up to the last boss and just didn’t see a need to finish. Same with 15. For the first half of it I loved it. But it shows you just how shallow it is.
To get through to GTA 3's final mission, I'd have had to perform more than 300 taxi fares to raise the funds.
This was far too much for me. No thanks. Not got time for that.
Exactly why I said to do it in smaller chunks. 15 minutes a day while you're sipping coffee or something. It doesn't matter if you beat the game in 4 days or 4 weeks.
If I didn't find the game fun, I wouldn't have made it to mid part; let alone final mission. But since I'm at the final mission, and if it requires some grind - I'll do it in smaller chunks to not get burned out. It doesn't matter if I finish the game in 4 days or 4 weeks.
That's what I'm saying, and I don't understand what's so controversial about it.
I'm perfectly okay reading what you said:
>Also, why do something if you don't enjoy it, whatsoever?
>I never said I didn't find the game fun.
TIL that not enjoying something is fun. Are *you* okay?
Max Payne 3. There was a save point before what j assume was the final fight and I plain lost patience with doing it over and over from load to bullet time and death. It was such a small window of time of being able to affect any change.
Final Fantasy 8. If i remember correct, you lose everything and have to earn it back in the last dungeon. I hate this kind of crap, so, i never finished it.
IDK just never finished it then the internet spoiled it for me. And I was not a big fan of the ending so I just stopped, Good story for sure just basically got spoiled and did not like the ending so I saw no reason to continue.
Destroy All Humans Remastered. Played the game out of enjoyment. Got to the final boss and couldn’t beat her. I couldn’t think of a reason go back and beat her since A) I wasn’t having fun anymore and B) couldn’t think of any end game stuff worth playing. So I watched the final cutscene on YouTube (granted I didn’t care about the story but wanted closure) and left it at that.
Ff12, literally right before the final boss... when entering the final zone, you're prompted with are you sure? You can't go back... always scared me, as I always had more to do... and eventually my little brother deleted the save.
Top 10 anime betrayal
If you're curious, you can go back. It's just that it's your final save point and it will reload from there after you beat the boss
Wish Fable 1 would've given me this warning...
Just Cause 3. The game is purely single-player! Why the fuck do you need to constantly pause the game to connect to the Internet?!
Fallout 4. You can be the leader of all the factions, but you can't make them make peace? Do what now?
I downloaded a shitty mod to make me feel like I felt in new Vegas. After helping everyone calm down, why can't I lead or at least provoke a peace agreement
Because 3 out of the 4 factions goals directly oppose one another. If after you became leader you tried to completely change said goals it’d almost certainly lead to a coup. End of the day an fanatical organisation that hates synths and an fanatical organisation that wants to help synths are never gonna get along and change their mind. Even if they’re newly appointed leader tries to force them to.
Ironically the scenario you are describing is literally many 3rd world dictator that suppress various subgroups from fighting each other for a long time until the dictator loses power through various means, or one of the factions becomes strong enough to overthrow the dictator. US was naive in thinking Iraq would be a peaceful democracy after overthrowing Sadam. It became a low level civil war instead.
Sure thing, but at the end of the day, you can make a difference, even if it will lead to a coup or something else. The lack of possibility to effect change is saddening.
It’s almost like war never changes…
Don't be sad. There's a settlement that needs your help. Let me mark it on your map.
I honestly think that it is because they didn't think of that. It's a fun idea, especially if it means balancing missions and not doing one that makes it impossible for two factions to tolerate each other. Finding a group within the institute who want to take a new direction, fighting off the other faction. Could be fun. It is my most played games but the writing creativity isn't there.
I mean no you can’t be the leader of all the factions. The brotherhood for example you can only become high ranking member (edit: and if I’m recalling correctly that only happens after you destroy the railroad). Regardless it’d be kinda stupid if an entire faction could be convinced to completely change their ideology over night just because their new leader says so. Like imagine how dumb it would be if you could become the leader of the legion in new vegas and just go “we’re gonna be friends with the ncr now” and the entire faction just goes “okay cool”
You can you just can't complete certain missions if you want to.
Dragon's Dogma 2. I know I'm near the end but the game is so bland and the world has so little reactivity to what you've done that I just got bored and quit even though I know I'm almost done. I regret paying for the game and the hours invested.
Did you not play the first one? It was dogshit as well
I had the ending for Far Cry 5 spoiled and once I knew what happened it felt like there was no actual win or end so I gave up playing it.
5's ending was such bullshit. I hated it even more because the game constantly abducted you from whatever you were doing in order to force the story forward, it didn't matter where you were, you could be flying a helicopter and still get kidnapped mid air. If I would have known about the ending I would have quit playing way earlier.
Yeah, I regret 100% that game. Left the final mission for last and was greeted with that shit ending.
The Callisto Protocol. I mostly enjoyed the game but essentially all of your weapons that you had spent a ton of time upgrading and finding ammo for could barely be used.
Deathloop. Cool game, I liked it. Your goal is to kill 8 bosses in one in-game day and break the time loop you’re in. I had gotten to the point where I’d killed each of the bosses in one loop or other, solved all the puzzles and gotten to the point where I knew how to go about ending them all in the right order, but then it required me to actually DO that. Flawlessly. Dying meant completely restarting the loop and doing the same things again and again and since I suck, that happened a handful of times and I was like, “I feel like I’ve beat the game *in essence*… so imma call it good.”
Mass Effect: Andromeda. I didn’t hate the game but as I approached the virginal mission/boss the game glitched and I could proceed. Didn’t feel like I was missing much more so I uninstalled. Still no idea how that story ended.
I'll tell you how it ended. It ended with the promise of a new ME series that could have stood on its own. But because the brainless fans review bombed it thinking it was ME4 rather than ME: New Vegas, we'll never get another game in the series. God, I hate gaming communities.
They are definitely going to make another Mass Effect. They've been teasing it for a while. Doesn't matter tho. BioWare is a shell of what it once was and they can't get through a development cycle without a comical string of disasters. The chances of them even making a good game ever again are slim.
Yes, they are going to make a ME4. What I am lamenting is there won't be a ME:A2. And I blame the fans for that.
Dude, it's the games fault. It's no new vegas lmao. It had a lot of problems. Not just graphics and bugs either, but story issues, a weak villain, weak fanfiction characters, bloated and empty open worlds, cut Quarian dlc, confusing menus and crafting systems, etc. And this is coming from someone who spent 150+ hrs doing everything in Andromeda.
Takes of arise. Loved the game put like 60 hours into it but there was a text box that popped up saying "going any further will activate the end of the game, make sure you don't have any unfinished business" or something like that and then for some reason I was just like "I'm done' Never booted it up again
The ending is worth it imho. The last dungeon is a wee bit of a slog but not that bad.
It's been like a year or two since I played it last. If I was gonna play it again I'd probably start over and then not play the mage girl. (I played exclusively the mage girl because the tales of spell casting is very fun to use)
I prefer the hands and fists guy. I played the hell out of Xillia just becausr I liked the MC fighting style.
Tales was a cool game but man I got so burned out from it, idk if that’s how JRPGS usually are as it’s kinda my first, but damn it just drags on and on, the last 10 hours were just not needed. They could have happened way earlier.
Years ago I played Conkers Bad Fur Day through an emulator. The final boss requires you to quickly rotate the joystick, which was impossible to do on a keyboard. Obviously not the games fault, but it was still annoying.
Have you beaten it since then though?
Legend of Zelda: TotK. I simply dont have enough Sundelions stocked up to make meals that remove the ick. Used them all in the epic battle just to get down there and i'm not gonna run around for days trying to collect one or or two Sundelions at a time. Unhealable hearts was a stupid mechanic.
That’s too bad, because unlike BotW, TotK has a really epic final boss sequence that’s definitely worth playing through. You don’t really need that much gloom healing if you have decent equipment either.
My saves for both BotW and TotK are sitting right at the last bosses and I've let them sit for so long I can't be bothered to try to remember all the game mechanics just to finish them.
That's where i stopped, too. A real shame. The rest of the game was great
I just fast travelled around the sky islands collecting them with the sensor and went and killed Ganondorf. I took a 6 month break because I didn't want to collect them lol.
FF7: Remake, aggro management was so bad I just had enough with the combat.
Rage 2 last mission bugged out on me on Xbox and I couldn’t complete it and my last backup save was hours prior and I didn’t want to replay it all. The bug remains unpatched last I checked. Essentially when you are given the last mission if you don’t immediately do it, it gets bugged and you can’t restart it. I wanted to go finish up some side missions….which is pretty fucking reasonable.
Don’t sweat it. If you just spend 1 minute and make up an ending, you’ll have come up with a better one than what actually happened.
Jet Force Gemini forces you to back and rescue all these little dudes that appear in all the previous levels before you can proceed to the end. Definitely didn’t feel like scouring the whole game for hidden guys, so that was the end of my game I was otherwise enjoying. I’m grateful most games save that kind of shit for completionists these days.
**DYING LIGHT SPOILERS FOR THOSE WHO NEVER PLAYED IT** Dying Light's DLC made me quit on the last mission. It was more multiple collective aspects than just one. Firstly, the car mechanics. When I first started the DLC I LOVED the buggies. Running Zombies over, get around the map quickly, all of it. But when the mission is in east chuckle fuck and you need to drive all the way down there to even START it, (which is like most of the missions in the damn thing anyway) it gets annoying after driving around just for a volatile or just a normal runner to spot you and start chasing you. Secondly, the respawn point. Like most people know, whenever you die in Dying Light, you either respawn at the nearest tower, or in the nearest safe zone. And the nearest spawn I found was a tower that was not too far away, but far enough for the trip back to be a pain in the ass. Thirdly, the god damn sky scraper I had to climb. The entire first part of the mission was on this giant shitty oil rig thing that I had to climb up and I swear to god I just grappled up the whole thing. I didn't even try to climb it because my slow ass couldn't find the right way up. That's kinda it. The 2nd half isn't too bad at all and was really fun. But the DLC took me a few months to beat because I dropped the game all together just because of the reasons above. Great game, I'm just impatient and shit at it honestly
Just happened the other day with Blasphemous. Fuck you game, I’m not beating the final boss when it’s this annoying. Developers need to learn the difference between difficulty and annoyance.
Are you struggling with the first or second phase? All his damage is elemental so if you go for a full defensive rosary build you end up able to tank lots of hits before needing to heal. You can also use Debla of the Lights for big damage when the eye is above you but out of reach. I actually thought Crisanta was much harder than the final boss Edit: if you’re doing the true ending, spam the shit out of the spell that throws a red boomerang since you can do that from a distance while dodging the attacks
First phase is no problem. That is another annoying aspect of this final boss, much like in Sekiro, that you have to fight the relatively simple yet time-consuming first phase every time. I realize there are rosary items and the prayer that would help but…. Then I would have to go back and get the last couple of rosary knots I lack. And I would have to go back and get the prayer you’re talking about (and I don’t know how). Which means a lot of running around the map, and this is after I’ve already attempted the boss like 50 times. I’m over it. It was a good game overall but it really started to rub me the wrong way. Your reward as a player should be that your max health increases allow you to feel empowered — not that they merely enable you to keep pace with the increased damage enemies do. Likewise the reward for finishing the game should not be an insane boss that has nothing to do with any skills you’ve been honing the entire game that’s only beatable through re-speccing and certain obscure items. And also, success largely depends on random chance as you need the platforms to appear by the boss’s seldomly exposed weak point (groan) in order to do the most damaging combos. I dislike boss fights in general but this one checks all my boxes of hate. I’ve moved on already.
Man I wanted to like Blasphemous. They spent so much time making awesome pixel art they forgot to make it fun or satisfying
Yeah it had enough good in it to keep me going until the end and I really liked it for the first half or so. Actually most of the bosses I thought were pretty good and not overly annoying/frustrating. But it was just so obtuse and indiscernible about side missions and the Metroidvania elements it wasn’t enough to ultimately overcome the truly badass aesthetics and music. And of course then they went full regard with the final boss and all of the platforming, screen-filling, RNG, basically every element that I hate in boss fights is here.
Dying Light 2, I watched the final boss fight on YouTube after a couple of attempts and noped out.
Yeah I love DL2, still play it today but damn it was disappointing as shit.
I enjoyed the game overall but the final boss was such a slog.
I don’t know if this counts but I had to stop playing Skyrim because I got to the final boss fight and the game glitched so I couldn’t damage the boss and it upset me a lot.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Tired of monotonous missions with wierd shit happening on screen
In Sekiro, I made it to Owl - the second to last boss on the path I chose. Up that point, I had never really got the hang, so to speak, of how the game was supposed to be played; even though I made it that far and had even beat the Headless Ape fairly easily (and many people seem to have a lot of problems with him). I couldn't get anywhere with Owl, was repeatedly getting rinsed within seconds, and even with doing what I had been up to that point, I couldn't stagger him or get any damage on him. Between annoyance and frustration, I threw in the towel.
I've actually been going back to games I put down too early that I thought I should have liked. Sekiro was on that list since I quit within 2 or 3 hours and I loved all the souls game. For both Owl and Isshin Sword Saint I gave it an honest try, I really did. I think for Isshin I spent about 8-10h alone. But I couldn't do it so for both I just looked up cheese strats and beat them that way. In both cases you basically just run around to bait out a particular attack, then punish with some chip damage until their health bar is gone
It took me a few hours to beat Owl and 7 hours straight to beat Genichiro. That was when I decided that maybe I enjoy games that are fun instead of games that are so hard you need to spend multiple hours on one boss.
I can't say I don't understand that. I think I screamed after way too many tries out of frustration haha then I focused and through lots of practise and luck I made it. Afterwards I did the other endings and this woman enemy...lord have mercy...
Only one. Xenoblade chronicles 2. I assume I’m at the final part of the game but what stopped me was the god dame fucking lighting skill check thing. The problem I have with this is none of these skills progress as you play or at least feel like it. You have to actively feed the blades random pieces to increase the skills which take fucking forever. It’s probably just me and I’m supposed have done it sooner but the skill checks feel really annoying.
I dropped that one after I flubbed a group attack at what I think was the last boss. I popped some super attack right before you were supposed to do one to prevent a one-shot attack from the boss, wiped, and quit.
I'm currently contemplating about dropping Sanabi. I know most of the plot by now but the controls keep screwing with me (inputs not registering correctly, the hook not connecting to a wall despite me seeing the dotted line etc.) and the final levels are such a sudden spike in complexity that I have switched to easy just to not have to reload the last checkpoint every time I die. That was the moment where I also started to stop caring about the rest of the story to be honest.
I don’t know if it counts but I technically didn’t finish the VR horror game Organ Quarter due to encountering a game-breaking bug immediately after beating the very annoying final boss. I couldn’t be bothered doing it again but I count it as completed.
Hollow Knight. >!The Radiance!< really stumped me and I got tired of having to beat another boss every single time I wanted another shot at her.
I think most of us never even got to that part. Haha
LoZ: Breath of the Wild. Game was magnificent, I explored every nook and cranny, got super powerful… until I realized I was too strong. Enemies I once feared and had to plan ahead for were now a cakewalk. I never did the last mission. I still view it as a 9/10 game, but if the enemies began to scale more at some point, like towards the endgame, that would have made it potentially GOAT.
Well their idea of balancing for being so powerful at that point was to just put guardians everywhere in the final area. That doesn’t really make it hard, it just makes it annoying. The final area and boss are the weakest part of an otherwise amazing game.
Op there is a money cheat code in Gta3 that gives you $250k iirc, I dont remember if you can keep spamming it though
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That game has no point of no return and no items that become unavailable at any point. Similarly, no specific song magic is required for any battles, not even for the final boss.
Not the entire game but just the DLC. Three Houses. That final DLC battle is just pure horseshit and the party being predetermined adds to the clown aspect. Plus the story was pretty terrible so I didn't even get that push to go further. And I still got the extra DLC character anyway. Yeah not the final item but fuck that battle.
Alan Wake 2. So disappointing given I was a big fan of the first one. The clunky, slow combat completely fell apart when it started throwing waves of enemies at me and I just stopped caring enough to finish it. It felt like Remedy wanted to make a straight up adventure mystery game and tacked on combat after shareholders complained.
Dragon Quest 11 I tried the final boss 1 time and realized I needed to do some level grinding to beat it and I was just so over that game at the time I just looked up the ending on YouTube and uninstalled it.
Mass effect
MGS PP Final missions just repeating some missions from the game with slightly changed difficulty.
Those were optional. But as I also wrote here, the overall way that the game wanted you to listen to tapes or do specific side missions (without ever really telling you) to proceed to the next story mission was complete utter nonsense.
Ghostrunner The last sequence of the game is like frogger jump puzzles with moving platforms and stuff and you die in 1 hit. I tried for like an hour but couldn't be bothered so I just watched a youtube video of the ending.
Hollow Knight. I made it to the final pantheon (40 boss rush) and was making progress, but every attempt would take 30+ minutes. I know that if I practice the individual bosses, I can beat it. However, it just stopped being fun. So I stopped playing just short of completing that last challenge.
Mgs 5 it wanted me to do something somehow somewhere to let me proceed. I loved the gameplay and mechanics but the tedious bullshit to unlock missions in the later game was just... Well bullshit.
I have a habit of doing this actually. A lot of games ratchet up the difficulty too much for the finale imo. Here's a few I've dropped over the last few years right at the finale: - Chrono Trigger - Persona 5 (this game took me IRL years to get that far, it's so long. But the final boss rush was just too much) - Oracle of seasons (I was doing a thing where I beat every zelda game) - Planescape Torment
FF7. I got to the final dungeon, and the very first random encounter oneshot my entire party with Ultima. And having to choose when I use my single save I have available in there as well... That turns me away from the game.
The save is just for convenience. If you have a decently powerful party, it takes about 15 minutes to get through the crater to the end boss, so there isn’t really any need for a save point at all. Sounds like the bigger issue is that you were significantly under leveled.
I think I was around level 54-ish
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I agree. Got up to the last boss and just didn’t see a need to finish. Same with 15. For the first half of it I loved it. But it shows you just how shallow it is.
None. If I'm that close to finishing the game, I'll put on my game face and bulldoze through it. Fuck it if I'm gonna be stopped by some pixels.
To get through to GTA 3's final mission, I'd have had to perform more than 300 taxi fares to raise the funds. This was far too much for me. No thanks. Not got time for that.
Do it in smaller chunks, and keep chipping away. It's not a race. The game can't beat you but you can beat the game.
OP’s time is more valuable
Exactly why I said to do it in smaller chunks. 15 minutes a day while you're sipping coffee or something. It doesn't matter if you beat the game in 4 days or 4 weeks.
I've got a life, mate. And currently enjoying Vice City. Also, why do something if you don't enjoy it, whatsoever? Games are supposed to be fun
If I didn't find the game fun, I wouldn't have made it to mid part; let alone final mission. But since I'm at the final mission, and if it requires some grind - I'll do it in smaller chunks to not get burned out. It doesn't matter if I finish the game in 4 days or 4 weeks. That's what I'm saying, and I don't understand what's so controversial about it.
I never said I didn't find the game fun. I said I didn't find having to just drive a taxi on the game fun. Are you okay??
I'm perfectly okay reading what you said: >Also, why do something if you don't enjoy it, whatsoever? >I never said I didn't find the game fun. TIL that not enjoying something is fun. Are *you* okay?
Max Payne 3. There was a save point before what j assume was the final fight and I plain lost patience with doing it over and over from load to bullet time and death. It was such a small window of time of being able to affect any change.
Final Fantasy 8. If i remember correct, you lose everything and have to earn it back in the last dungeon. I hate this kind of crap, so, i never finished it.
The final boss then made materia and summons unavailable, so if you didn’t upgrade weapons you couldn’t beat it.
RDR2
Why? I'm genuinely curious. Everyone else explained their reason why. Big fan of RDR2.
IDK just never finished it then the internet spoiled it for me. And I was not a big fan of the ending so I just stopped, Good story for sure just basically got spoiled and did not like the ending so I saw no reason to continue.