Topic: Games you recently DROPPED

Kingdom Come Deliverance
The game is fantastic, but litteraly unplayable due to the continuous bugs and crashes........

Death Stranding
The gameplay is great fun, but I can not play gritty games anymore, only games with good vibes. Well, I tried.

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon (NSO/GBA). Never played this one before, was excited to try.
I liked the look and concept, but found battles so thoroughly boring. I couldn't see myself doing a whole game like it. Wanted to like it, but could not.

I did appreciate that the game decided I was a lonely person based on the Q+A, so therefore I had to play Cubone. I feel both seen and judged in equal measure.

Potion Permit

Got to the 20th hour and encountered a bug where I couldn't diagnose patients.

I'm about to drop Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia. I got the Dominus collection in part because I wanted to try it.

After revisiting Dawn of Sorrow, I tried Ecclesia and was disappointed. To me, the glyph system is convoluted. Glyphs get obsolete rather quickly and having to navigate the menus to change them due to enemy resistances makes me want to just ignore them altogether. Rescuing the villagers so you can get fetch quests feels uninspired too.

Maybe I'm being overly negative and I should persist (I'm about to face Albus for the first time), but I know I'm close to the breaking point.

Edit: some typo

Horizon: Zero Dawn, second time I've dropped that game. Visually it's nice, but gameplay is just too repetitive to me.

@RygelXVIII I hear you about Majora's Mask. I only played it on my Wii U, and only because I was using save states like crazy. It eliminated a lot of stress to be able to take a snapshot, do some exploring then revert to my save state once I've wasted enough time or did not find anything interesting. I don't care that it's not the way I'm supposed to play it. There's a fundamental tension in my mind between being able to explore and having a tight time constraint.

Buccanyar

A neat action/rpg revolving around you controlling a naval vessel with a crew of cats.

Was having a fun time until I got to the first area boss who mopped the floor with me.

Baldo

A fairly lighthearted Zelda clone.

Unfortunately, I was triggered by the constant cawing of seagulls in the village.

Almost made me as mad as Robert Pattinson in The Lighthouse, lol.

(Temporarily!) dropped Echoes of Wisdom, just so I can finish off Broken Sword Reforged.
EoW seems great after an hour or so, but not quite enough to pull be away from George & Nico... to be continued

Kingdom Come Deliverance
Too much simulation in this rpg for my taste.

@theWildLink The gameplay is the thing that got me through it because the story is, well, I thought it was serviceable at absolute best. As if to say, not good. And I'd say it's definitely a step up on Forbidden West.

@Tanookduke I couldn't remember that fight so I had to look it up. There's some cheese ways of doing it based on what I saw online. Maybe look it up and see if you can close it out.

Zelda Echoes of Wisdom.

I'm someone who enjoyed the Link's Awakening remake, so I truly wanted to like Zelda Echoes, but after halfway through the game I just soured on the gameplay. It ultimately feels too cheap and repetitive. The dungeons seemed forgettable. The frame rate was the least of my concerns.

@Dev1024 Yeh you're not alone!

The FPS dips/drops didn't bother me at all, although admittedly they are quite prevalent (not any moreso than BOTW/TOTK though in fairness.)

It was just 'the game' itself that didn't click with me... it just felt - shallow(?) I guess? Condescendingly easy as well, even on Hero mode. I actually replayed the Links Awakening remake straight after, and couldn't believe how much of a better game that was - even moreso considering it is decades old!

Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble. I genuinely don't get the appeal to this game when compared to the classics. I just found it too easy in comparison.

@Tanookduke Just lock Stinger Missiles onto it, fire then quickly exit lock on so you can avoid its attacks. I assume you're talking about the first game? I actually found the fight against the multiple Metal Gears in the second game to be much harder.

@RubyCarbuncle @NintendoByNature After 3 hours I've finally beaten the game! Metal gear solid is a masterpiece but it isn't always fair for the sake of plot.

I can delete my old comment now...

@Tanookduke heck yeah! Always feels good to put a tough moment behind you

Looks like I'm gonna have to drop Banjo-Tooie. As somebody who likes Banjo-Kazooie, I really, really wanted to like its sequel, but I dunno... I don't think I like it very much.

My main problem with the game is its slow pacing. The game's worlds are pretty huge, and there is a lot of backtracking and swapping between Banjo and Mumbo/transformations. I found myself coming back to previous worlds a ton, because some Jiggies require that you have to learn a certain move later in the game. Like, I feel like I only make a small amount of progress every time I play this game. I did fully complete Mayahem Temple, and I'm only missing one honeycomb piece in Glitter Gulch Mine, but that's kind of it in terms of how many worlds I've done. The aiming controls are kinda bad too, with the reticle snapping back to the center when letting go of the control stick. That was especially a pain to deal with during some boss fights.

I know it's one of Rare's most ambitious games, but I'm not a big fan of this game, unfortunately. Which is a shame, because I really wanted to love it. I will say that it has a great soundtrack, however. Maybe I'll come back to Tooie sometime, but for now, I'll be taking a break from it.