What's your breaking point with a video game?

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NickAwesome:
If I'm just not feeling it, it's pretty easy for me just to be done. Sometimes it takes 10 minutes, sometimes several hours. Hard to quantify. Usually it's if I am having "fun" or enjoying myself, but sometimes a game is not necessarily "fun", but still engaging, and I'll keep playing. Or maybe the mechanics are tricky, but I want to give the game a chance because once I figure it out, maybe I'll start enjoying the game.

For older games, usually the first 5 minutes tell you everything you need to know on whether you should keep playing or not. For newer more complex games, sometimes it takes many hours to uncover all the various game mechanics.

shawndude82:
Pokemon. I spend hours leveling up every little critter as high as I can, until I get fed up and quit because I haven't even made it to the first gym yet. I know, I do it to myself. It's the curse of having OCD. Pokemon isn't meant for us.

wolfen:
I don't drop a lot of games in the middle generally. I'm usually very picky and make absolutely certain I'm going to enjoy a game before purchase. That being said there are cases where I've tried to give a game a shot and it just wasn't working so I dropped it as soon as possible. Like Kingdom Hearts 2 for example. I loved Kingdom Hearts 1 a lot but I just could not get sucked into Kingdom Hearts 2 because the pacing was terrible and story uninteresting imo. So I guess my answer is that if I'm not actively enjoying a game it's getting dropped immediately.

marvelvscapcom2:
I usually play up until the time that the clock jumps off of the wall and whispers in my ear, it's cold black plastic arms wrapped around my spine. the whispers turn into SCREAMS.... "time doesn't exist, it's a mental construct created by modern man" and then the world melts around me. And i'm sitting in a chair just holding the melted clock in my hands. Pink panther theme song plays. And I am alone with all that really exists in the universe. my own thoughts.... Hideo Kojima.... and pain. Only pain. Napalm rain. Ocean eyes.

hoshichiri:

--- Quote from: marvelvscapcom2 on February 18, 2020, 11:30:43 pm ---I usually play up until the time that the clock jumps off of the wall and whispers in my ear, it's cold black plastic arms wrapped around my spine. the whispers turn into SCREAMS.... "time doesn't exist, it's a mental construct created by modern man" and then the world melts around me. And i'm sitting in a chair just holding the melted clock in my hands. Pink panther theme song plays. And I am alone with all that really exists in the universe. my own thoughts.... Hideo Kojima.... and pain. Only pain. Napalm rain. Ocean eyes.

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Apparently Death Stranding is weirder than I thought.

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