Topic: Games you've recently give up on

@nitraM I know what you mean. I’ve struggled to get into it too despite owning the collectors’ edition.

After 142 hours I'm thinking about quitting Baldur's Gate 3, the game is dragging a bit and some of the fights in Act 3 are a bit gimmicky. I might revisit the game at a later date.

Also thinking of stopping Star Wars Outlaws, it's getting a bit repetitive.

Think I might go back to playing Balatro and continue on with Astro Bot.

I have dropped a few games, both recently and not so recently;

Banjo-Tooie (Xbox) - I had already beat this but that was almost two years ago, but I chose to try a new save file for it because PX’s game club chose it as one of September’s games, butttttt I’m actually the one who requested the game and it got enough votes from everyone else. I don’t know, I actually don’t feel like I’m in the mood to actually replay it despite loving the Banjo games (especially the N64 ones) a lot. It has to do with how I’m remembering how frustrating the game is with its high difficulty level and how much more infuriating it is than the previous game. I think a remake for the game would be desired to iron out a lot of the issues, but I know that ain’t happening. I’d not say I gave up on it completely, only just gave up on it for now because I don’t feel like it at the moment. I might go back to playing it if I have the courage to since there is still time to play it this month.

DJMax Respect V (Xbox) - I am super into playing rhythm games on the phone, so when I was on Game Pass a year ago, I chose to try out DJMax since it was also a rhythm game and one of the few rhythm games Game Pass had at the time, plus it had some songs that I loved and recognized. Only played for 19 or so minutes and never actually finished a song track without messing up and failing and I just completely gave up on it and uninstalled. The game isn’t bad, it’s probably fun, but I gave up on it since I can’t get used to playing rhythm games with controllers and button inputs and not by simply using my fingers. It’s more on me than the game.

Conker’s Pocket Tales - This is probably the quickest game I gave up on. I gave up playing it the same day I started it. It’s a GameBoy Color game, but I had to emulate because the game is out-of-print and I don’t own a GameBoy Color thanks to the price tags sellers slap on those things. I’m pretty sure I only played this game solely because it was related to Conker. I started it around 1-2 weeks after I finished my second play through of Conker’s Bad Fur Day and thought “why don’t I give its previous kid-friendly entry a try despite how much no one remembers it?” and I had the intention to finish the game in August, but I hated what I played in Pocket Tales. Game is just way too confusing and the controls on the emulator I used were pretty awful and didn’t translate well so I couldn’t use an attack that used conkers against enemies and it resulted in me repeatedly dying and being sent back to Conker’s house, I’m assuming because the game does not have any sort of save state or checkpoint I can go back to when I die so I can save progress. Deleted the emulator with the game on it when I realized Pocket Tales wasn’t up my alley at all.