I feel you on not completing games. I play on easy a lot also, as a busy parent who doesn't like getting stuck in games anymore. I've also embraced "watching the ending on UA-cam" though my kid will rub it in, saying mom, u didn't really beat the game... ugh..
I agree with you on this. A lot of the newer games, if there is an easy mode or story mode, I tend to play on those. I just like to enjoy the game and not struggle too much.
I definitely understand. I’m not a parent. But, I work so much that, at this point, I just want to know how the story progresses and ends. If I’m having too much trouble on normal mode then I’m going to easy to try and complete the game. Game completion takes forever for me now, as I MIGHT have time to game on a Saturday.
This is not really relevant to the video, but I just wanted to say that you've become one of my new favourite comfort gaming UA-camrs! I'm always in for a treat when you come out with a new video, and I just wanted to thank you for all the hard work you put into your content!
I ALMOST dropped Bravely Default! But I endured through the last portion of the game and overall really enjoyed the experience. Same thing with Sea of Stars… my interest in the game dropped around the second third of the game but I managed to keep going and ended up enjoying the experience despiste the low moments. Nice video!
I think, in hindsight, the only game I've ever truly dropped was the original GameCube release of 'Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean'. I was in my teens back then and I just *could not* wrap my head around it. The card battling was slow, exploration was unexciting and, story wise, I think I even got lost and had no idea what I needed to do to advance. Fast forward to the present day: I bought the 'Baten Kaitos I & II HD Remaster' after much hesitation. This time 'round - I absolutely *loved* it! Everything made more sense (the UI is prettier) and I generally found it to be a fun and enthralling adventure from beginning to end. ✌😁
Yeah, playing games at the right time in your life really makes them more enjoyable. I had a few similar instances (for example Unicorn Overlord wasn't jiving with me because I was playing the demo while planning a vacation and I couldn't focus on it but I love the game now that I'm back. And Monster Hunter 1 took me 3 months to really get the hang of and I've spent hundreds of hours on the series as a whole ever since. I loved Baten Kaitos 1 and 2 when I got them on Gamecube but didn't buy the new port.
Every Assassin's Creed game . I don't think I've ever completed one as they start out super cool and interesting then lose their luster after 30 hours.
I’ve only played the Ezio ones, so I can’t relate. Or I wouldn’t be able to if I didn’t also play the one that takes place in Colonial America. That one lost me pretty hard, and I never ended up picking up another one.
Hmm, interesting you dropped Tokyo Mirage. I absolutely loved it and the combat system was one of the most fun turn based systems I've ever played. It still is cool to me to see how different we all are as humans and how we think. I dropped Tales of Berseria and posted about it on Facebook about how boring it was and so many people came at me for that lol. Bold of you to do this video despite the hate I'm sure you're going to get. Great video as always, Femtrooper!
BD1 is amazing, and personally didn’t find it that hard. It was just fun finding interesting job combo and enjoying the story, towns, side quest and the SUBLIME music (specially the final boss). Maybe give it another shot. Truly a gem (it is on my top 5 rpg ever)
@@femtrooper that's how I played! I use a guide that told me what job gives what, so i knew what job to level up to get certain passive. I don't know where you stopped but in the desert area you get like 4 new jobs and 4 more in the next one. After 10 hours (on 50) you got a large panel of possibility and fun. Because, if the only problem is the difficulty, I think it's only beacause of the starting curve that expect you to grind a bit to get like 2-3 passive. For example, each playthrough, I farm the monk for like 20 mins for everybody, to get the passive : hp + 10%, so that way my team is tankier. That's a tip for you ;) Also Femtrooper, that's my opinion, but you should really gave another shot to BD1. I can't explain to you how AMAZING the story gets. So many plot twist! And seriously the cast. Those four are just way too funy during the skits. It is a big plus for me. Seeing someone gave up on this game because of the difficulty genuily makes me sad. To me, it is a masterpiece, way better than ff6 or ff7. Just the rpgs with loveable characters, world map, airship, job system, awesome music, story and combat. That's my jam, and BD1 fit all those. For example, here's some other games that I loved that were somewhat similar : Chained echoes, Harvestella P.S. I have a few other tips for you if you are interested, so ask if you want :) Bravely Default > Bravely Second >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Bravely Default 2
Thanks for doing this, there's no shame in dropping a game and we should do our best to make sure there's no stigma around that. For me, a recent one I dropped was Astria Ascending. Wasn't feeling the story, and it was SO grindy. I just had to abandon ship, I was miserable!
I love bravely default and end second layer. End second layer is very much a direct sequel so your better off not getting unless u can beat the first. I rarely drop games myself because I hate having an incomplete story
Golden Sun for me...everytime i try and play it, i hit a brick wall. Not that the game is hard or im not enjoying it. Just something else comes along that i want to play or i get into that gaming funk where i get burned out or sometimes life happens. Poor Golden Sun, a victim of circumstance. One day.....one day.
I wanted so much to get into Sonic Mania because I actually did like the gameplay but, I absolutely hate the underwater sections and as someone who didn't grow up with Sonic either I wasn't very good at it and was not gonna restart the whole game after getting a game over.
I remember playing the demo for Bravely Default 2 as it seemed like my kind of game. Can't remember how far I got but I know the difficulty put me completely off it. Thank goodness for demos.
yeah the devs are kinda idiots for making these games so hard. I dropped BD2 for the same reason but I may go back to them with a cheat engine table or something (to halve the incoming damage or double my damage... ...maybe both?)
Yes!! Dude, I’ve always felt like I play Sonic the wrong way or something. I would dash through until I either got a bunch of rings or hit something and lost all my rings. I went back recently and tried to play without rushing through, and that was kinda fun, but it def felt like I was playing it wrong by not running around the whole time.
I love your honesty and respectful candor when referring to these games that you didn't finish! Definitely looking forward to hearing additional games that you didn't finish, as I've had to do this a number of times as well. Great video again!
I dropped Final Fantasy 8 because I hit a brick wall on a boss fight and hated the junction system. I didn't care much for the story either, so it felt like I was just playing it because it was a Final Fantasy game and not because I was actually having any fun.
I dropped the first Yo-Kai watch for a similar reason. Lovvveeedd the town and the music and the characters. Was such a cozy world to explore, but I seriously didn’t understand the combat. It felt completely automatic and even when I could have some input I had no idea what I was doing lol
I just started Yo-kai watch, I can feel you on the combat. I am so busy doing thing on the lower screen that I have no idea what is going on in the fight. It doesn't really let you figure out how to play well.
Regarding Bravely Default. It's a great game. It looks so beautiful. It's like peering into a diorama, or a doll house. The 3d effect really enhances the aesthetic too. I managed to get all the way to the final boss and then that was it for me. It was so soul crushingly difficult, and I normally like challenging games. I just couldn't do it. It really sucks getting 99% through a game, only to have that happen. I'm a lot better at games now than I was back then, so maybe I'll try again one day. That being said, the final boss theme in that game is a fricken masterpiece. Also you're right about the difficulty setting making zero difference.
I've been watching you since 2014 or so, and I think it's awesome that you're still tagging people or encouraging other creators to join in and do their own response. I'm thinking about doing my own but I have maybe 70000 games I've dropped over time--especially as a kid thinking I had to play everything on hard 😂
Great video! Thank you so much for sharing! I just discovered your content and it's great quality and you have a great personality! On my end: Twilight Princess, any MegaMan, any Ghost & Gobblins/Gouls & Ghost, Mario Sunshine, Super Mario Galaxy 2, any RPG, any Gran Turismo (maybe due to the license exams), Revenge of Shinobi, Shinobi III, Sonic Mania, Sonic 2, and any game with art direction that don't resonate with me, haha! Cheers
I’ve dropped quite a few games (especially back in the day when I’d just hop from game to game with no real drive to complete them) but the first to come to mind was *The Thing* for PS2. I was already not having a good time with how poorly the game’s controls have aged and how the “Trust/Fear” system was easily exploitable (give your teammates an empty gun and they’ll trust you 100% without question) but wanted to stick with it because I was interested in the “Infection” system, where any of your teammates that were out of sight from you during a fight had the potential of being a transformed “Thing” in disguise. The only way to know for sure is to use limited blood tests you find throughout the game. Finally, after a big fight that had me cut off from the rest of the team for a brief moment, I decided now would be the perfect time to see the infection system in action. I tested my teammates and they all passed with flying colors. I then made my way to the stairs that lead to the rest of the game but, before I could go down them, all of my teammates transformed into Things and started attacking me… mere SECONDS after I proved they weren’t monsters. What?! Turns out the game has set moments where your teammates transform so you can do the next section alone. I think I cleared the monsters in the next room before going “actually, screw this game. I’m out.” Haven’t played it since and I don’t plan to.
For me, the first game I ever dropped by choice was Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World for Wii. I disliked it from the beginning, but back then I always had the mentality of "if you play it, you need to finish it." So, I pushed my way almost to the final boss. I was in the last dungeon, and I died. And I was about to restart without a second thought, but then I stopped myself. I said "why am I doing this? I only have one life, why am I wasting it on something I don't like?" So, I quit. Left the game unfinished and never looked back. Now I drop games routinely. If I'm not enjoying my time, I won't think twice about moving on to something else.
I've quit on a last boss a few times and regret nothing. The endings are on UA-cam and I enjoyed the journey. It's better to derive your accomplishment from real life endeavors and rely on games for some relaxing fun.
I think for me, Sonic games (Sonic 2 and the two Adventure games) are mostly about vibing with the music. Then memorizing the stages and enjoying how it looks to fly through them, similar to the F-Zero games. If you don't love listening to the music then I'd imagine Sonic games become a slog as you are going to die a lot learning the levels.
I have dropped many games some at the final dungeon (and sometimes boss), every game where the 'true end' is after the credits roll and some where I have 'had enough' (I dropped the first Xenoblade after about 80 hours when I discovered I was barely halfway through the game as i'd spent so long doing sidequests and exploring) The game I have dropped the hardest though was Unlimited Saga on the PS2 a game I hated so much I had to get someone else to return it for me as I never wanted to see it again I am much further into my first play through of Bravely Default right now and can see what you are saying but, luckily, I've found grinding to be so easy and so much fun I haven't minded. There are some spots where I can just set up your attacks turn on auto attack then just put on a movie or get on the exercise bike and by the time I have finished whatever hump I have come upto has been well and truly flattened
Bravely Second has a system where if you're able to chain a few battles exp and job points skyrocket, but depending on your jobs and skills it can still have some hard battles.
I've done the same this year. I've bought so many switch games over the last few years now, and not even started on most of them 😅 so this year, I'll focus on actually beating at least 10 games. I've done 2 so far (Crisis Core Final Fantasy 7 Reunion and Granblue Fantasy: ReLink), and I'm pretty close to finishing Final Fantasy 7 Remake. So I'm on track so far 😊
I’m in denial that I’ll go back and finish everything, just “later”. I’ve got the weird habit of playing a game for 10-20 hours then dropping it for a long time before returning and beating it all. I’m not the best at jrpgs even though I love them. There’s times where I know I should probably drop them at the final boss and watch a video but instead I’ll grind 20-30 levels to beat them through brute force. 😅 It kills me so much but it’s so nice to finish. FF7 broke my heart cause I thought I’d grinded enough but I overdid it and made the final boss harder, so I just grinded again. 😭
From what I have heard, the thing with Bravely Default is that you have to figure out the job system. Not trying to come across as any kind of expert, just trying to possibly point you in the right direction.
That's surprising because I actually love Sonic's gameplay style over Mario. The sense of flow and speed running as you're learning the level layout and getting rewarded for performance. People often mistake the game as going fast, when the reward is maintaining that speed. There are many indie titles that adopted it's formula. Maybe you'll like those.
@@femtrooper people also think the sonic adventure is a good evolution of the originals so there's that. It's fine if you just have different taste though. Really commendable if u do pick it back up. I really like your enthusiasm.
@@RyansChannel0203 None taken. I always get this typical answer whenever I mention something is hard. Don't know why but you & others think it's supposed to be super easy for whatever reason....I did beat this by the way, it's not like I struggled on the 1st level
@@tonyp9313 Fair enough, but I just cannot see how one can prefer Sonic 1, 2, or even CD over Mania. Sonic 3 & Knuckes I'll give an acception to though. That game is also a masterpiece.
That shirt!! I love it! I'm currently playing Like a Dragon for the first time. There have been very few games that I have put down because I didn't like. Most of them I either got burnt out on the game because I'd been playing nonstop. Or a new game came out that I couldn't help from starting to play. Or life got in the way.
oh man I had a similar experience w/ Bravely Second, I kept powering through it for about 20-ish hours until I got to an area where I kept getting decimated by the enemies, and it's like am I missing something? I also just did not feeling like powering through it any more so screw it, I dropped it and sold it
I know it's deeply loved by I dropped Xenoblade 3. I was 15 hours in still doing tutorials and hour long cut scenes. It got tedious. But I actually really enjoyed Xenoblade 1!
I did beat XC3 but I can completely understand why you dropped it. There was way too much unnecessary dialogue throughout the game compared to the other two games and it had a confusing storyline 😆
Great video! I drop games a lot now that I am older. Years ago working at Funcoland I dropped FF7 since a customer came in and ruined the “big twist”. Now years later I am trying FF7 remake. Elden Ring was another where I loved it, but just too hard for me. I am a parent too, finishing up school, and taking on new responsibilities at work all the time. I really just want to enjoy the games I play. If I don’t enjoy them what is the point. Keep up the great content.
Reflecting on Bravely Default now, the only reason that I was able to get through the early chapters of the game was because my brother beat the game years before me so I was able to take advantage of the Streetpass of the game and utilize his stronger moves. I think without that, I wouldn't have been able to get through the game without some major grinding first.
Happens to me less now that I generally pick games I *know* I will like, but a few of your choices I've had on my list, most notably bravely default 1 & 2. I just could not get into them. And it's a shame because I am the target market for these games but they just never clicked! Side note - I absolutely NEED your shirt!!!!!! 😂
Thank you for your experience with these games. I appreciate you being honest with some of these games. Ironically the thing that put me off playing yokai watch was me hearing reviews saying it was too easy. Im on the other side of your tastes, I love hard strategy games. Your review made me want to start playing yokai watch and Bravely.
I remember buying Nioh, attempting to beat the first boss and getting so stressed and furious and anxious that I took it back and got my money back. Then I kept thinking about it and feeling irritated by my decision. I actually bought it back and forced myself to learn how to play it and eventually beat it. Out of pure stubbornness 😂 I found it really stressful and pretty much never played another souls like again
I don't mind dropping games I don't like but a few games I tried liking and dropped 20 hours in are : Monster Hunter 4 (The gameplay just didn't click for me), Dragon Quest 8 (Weirdly enough, I thought it was too big), Tales of Zestiria (It lacked polish and I hated the equipment system) and Project X Zone 1 (It's fun as long as you get new characters but the late game battles are way too tedious)
Final Fantasy V is my favorite of that series, and so I love Bravely Default, but I can confirm that they're difficult. And it doesn't get any easier as the series goes on. Bravely Second is related to the first and you wouldn't want to play it on its own anyway, and Bravely Default II is probably the most difficult of the bunch. At some point they all expect you to understand what combinations of abilities from different jobs will essentially break the game in your favor, and if you don't the final bosses are impossible. You could look up a guide on how to create the good combinations if you really wanted to play it, but that doesn't sound as fun to me. I think the topic of what games don't really click for people is really interesting, especially when difficulty or controls are involved. I'm a bit embarrassed to list specifics, but there are some "not difficult" games I've basically rage quit because I couldn't play them at all, despite being fine with some games that are considered difficult. Like there's taste obviously, but there's also something personal about jiving with controls that doesn't get as much attention.
I drop games faster than poorly optimized games drop frames. I rarely finish games (which I've mentioned here before) so it's easy for me to drop them. My most recent game I dropped was Unicorn Overlord. I love most of what Vanillaware develops but I this one just didn't click for me, mostly because I don't like most SRPGs so I can't be too surprised. Both difficulty and genre mostly play into my decision to drop games. Bottom line is that I need to have fun. Take care!
My heart lol…you know with the default games, you really (and this is me talking about my experience) you need to be ok with breaking the battle system because if you don’t it gets really REALLY hard. I mean BD 2 was a cake walk until the end fight and I had to redo my whole party just to make it to phase 3…then there was another phase, so I had to do it ALL over again with some tweaks. So while I love the series (and these sorta battle systems are my jam), I wouldn’t say they are the easiest to get into/finish because it’s more of a mindset cap then a skill cap, which is fun, but can also put a damper on an experience. Again while I love 2, that last boss was a load of nonsense…ff5 has the same problem with the last boss too, you need all ninjas to even live. Octopath I think is way more forgiving with preferred setups vs min/max and star ocean is just star ocean, it literally just tells you to do your thing lol
BD II is definitely difficult but it's fairly workable - in fact there are one or two moves that you will eventually unlock that are completely broken and you wipe out enemies pretty easily. But yes some big difficulty spikes in BD II for sure!
I think I have ended up dropping about 70-80% of games I play 😅 Mostly because I take too much time getting through it, and either have to take an extended break for some reason and find it hard to go back to, or something new and shiny has distracted me to play that instead.
I'm a Sega kid, I grew up with the Master System, the Genesis, Sonic etc and same as you : I dropped SonicMania pretty hard lol. I like platformers too but yeah, I don't really know if the game actually was meh and overhyped or if I grew out of Sonic games (I still like playing Genesis Sonic 1 from time to time but I think a big part of it is nostalgia)... I don't know. It doesn't help either that they're very simple games with no RPG elements or something to keep your interest. If at least you could, I don't know, use rings as money to buy better shoes or something? I think once Metroidvanias or games with gripping stories came in full force, my interest for these simple 2D "get-to-the-end-without-dying" platformers kinda went away. Even 3D ones (I recently tried the latest Crash Bandicoot) can't hold my interest for long.
These are games I dropped, keep in mind I love 100%ing games - Xenoblade Chronicles Wii (I respect it but the game is extremely completion unfriendly) and dropped it out of frustration - FF IX (…. Jump Rope side quest, too brutal, even worse than the FF X Lightning challenge) - Tales of Graces f (10/10 combat, 7.5/10 graphics/art, story was leading to being a 8 or 9/10 however, two things crushed it, just like Xenoblade, very completion unfriendly and i feel like they blue ballz the viewer with the relationship between Cheria and Asbel, after everything they don’t end up together!! felt cheated a bit) - FF VIII (On paper this should be my favourite FF of all time, Orphanage Scene…. dropped) - Eternal Sonata (This is a game I try and force myself to love so badly every 2 years 😂, 10/10 graphics, 10/10 OST, 10/10 gameplay but man….. that story, ambitious but poorly executed, Cleves scene didn’t help) - FF VII PS1 (The entire story was already spoiled for me way before I played it for the first time in 2017, I play the game, not really getting captivated, get to the honey bee inn section….. was un-impressed, granted I know the honey bee inn section is supposed to be light hearted but everything till then I was like…. thats the hype, might of been amazing at the time and I’m sure the remake’s are fantastic but I don’t feel like FF VII PS1 holds up anymore nowadays) - Majoras Mask (Purely didn’t like the time mechanic, love literally everything else it has going for it but the time mechanic ruined the game for me) - Tales of Symphonia (Huge Tales fan and a massive fan of Tales of the Abyss, everyone says in the fandom the Holy Trinity is Abyss, Vesperia and Symphonia, I play Symphonia….. like FF VII i was unimpressed, story didn’t feel original either using a lot of narrative from FF X, combat just isn’t as good as Abyss or games before or after… dropped)
I also dropped Xenoblade Chronicles on the Wii but finished it on the Switch! Much easier! I totally relate! I tried Eternal Sonata YEARS ago but I’d have to check it out again.
Over the last couple of years, I've started more and more to drop games that did not mesh with me after I've given them a fair go. There's so many games out there now, I don't want to waste my time on something that I'm hating. I think the game that hurts the most that I have dropped is The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel (the first one). I clocked in 54 HOURS!! I just was not liking it. And each time I kept on trying to get back to it, I just found an excuse not too. I'm thinking of restarting it on the PS4 as I don't remember anything (think it's been 4 years now since I started it), but I'm not sure if I want to invest that many hours again for a game that I just didn't care for... Bravely Default I started over SO many times, to the point where I restarted it 4 or so times as I kept on dropping it. Last year was the year I finally gave it a fair go and I was not liking it still BUT what kept me going, is something that normally makes me hate a game even more, I got spoiled by accident as I accidentally went to my partners completed save. Once I got spoiled, I got really excited because I guessed what was going to happen and I was so excited it was happening. If I didn't get spoiled, I probably would of dropped it completely and never returned.
i dropped bd1, not because it was too hard but because i kept running out of mana before one of the first boss fights and had no way of replenishing my mana, loved everything else about it though. still tempted to go back and give it another shot played bd2 and loved it. put over 100 hours in it and didn’t have any issues with mana or difficulty. i think it’s way better than the first in almost every way and worth at least playing the demo
@@oldmanondorf2062 First the streepass was sadly shutdown recently, so I the village stuff is near impossible now. BUT this was and always be optional side content. You can totally skip it after the tutorial. Also, BD1 is totally worth it. One of the best RPGs of all time in my opinion.
Bravely default 2. I liked the story and I wanted to finish but I found the grinding tedious . I don’t know … maybe I was doing something wrong but I didn’t care to stick around any longer and figure it out
Heh. I still have a sealed copy of Bravely Default that I bought on discount from a store that was going out of business like 9 years ago. I also have sealed copies of Bravely Second and Default 2 because I'm just like that I guess. I have a very recent dropped game: The Tomb Raider Classic Collection that came out last month. I had never played the original games in the series - my only connection was TR Legend on Xbox 360 which I liked - so I was interested in trying where the series started. The problem I ran into is those games use a type of control setup that I have never gotten used to - tank controls - and I was struggling super quickly and dying multiple times on the second level. I talked to someone who was very into the games and they told me "Yeah, the controls are very Had To Be There and I can't imagine trying to play them now." So I gave up. Maybe I'll try again later. In the meantime I decided to see if the later games would be more my style, and the Reboot trilogy was on sale all 3 for like $20 total to probably tie-pronote to the Classic Collection release. So I bought them, started the first game, found it much more workable for me, and beat it a week.
I also walked away from Tokyo Mirage Sessions… I put 18 hours into it and took a 2 month break. When I went back, I was SO confused. I wanted to start again, and the I remembered HOW BORING the dungeons were… I also walked away from Monark. I LOVED the story, design and characters, but the difficulty spikes are just too much. I’d estimate I fought one boss like 25 times, and then just uninstalled the game. Maybe one day, but I have a hearty backlog of better more balanced games at the ready.
Games I've dropped one was Detective Pikachu Returns because it was boring, and the other game I dropped I made a huge mistake of finishing the Mass Effect Trilogy before playing Kingdom Hearts 3. Because Kingdom Hearts 3 had way to many cutscenes and the story was what the hell is going on.
First off, I love the sweat shirt! As for dropped games, like yourself, I typically finish the game whether I thought it was great or meh. My problem is getting distracted. I'll be enjoying a game for 20+ hours, and than a must play pulls me away. Didn't like Sonic Mania eh? I thought it was a great platformer, the speed is a big point to its uniqueness. But I can see folks not enjoying it. So, I kind of feel ya on Bravely Default. Loved the game, one of the best combat systems in all RPGs. Until I had to play the entire game again... You didn't get far enough to enjoy that part. As far as it being easy, I can't speak to it because I played it on hard (same for BD2). Maybe must be not grasping the combat entirely? This was a great video Paige! I can see why everyone is doing responses!
I can totally relate with Bravely Default. I have tried to play it through twice and both times I put it down part way through, despite loving the music and graphical style. It just burned me out, I guess? Anyway, great video!
Thanks for sharing Paige! The Bravely games are fantastic, all three of them. The ending of Bravely Default was incredible playing on original hardware (a lot of people seem to emulate it, and it loses a LOT of the magic without the 3DS features). I dropped Breath of the Wild, just couldn't gel with it.
As a huge Sonic fan, I actually don't really like how Classic Sonic games play, so I wasn't huge on Sonic Mania either. I just prefer the modern games.
Bravely default honestly would be so replay-able if it wasn’t for the later chapters just repeating itself. Maybe if it only did it once and then the plot twist happened. But not 5 times :/ A game I’ve dropped recently was demon turf. A 3D platformer with flat 2D characters. If you master the controls, you could zip and flip your way across the area. It felt too precise for me and I wasn’t having fun. For Tokyo mirage session, it’s been a while since I’ve beaten it. But I remember there were shops and character slice of life episodes. Heck the shop is a combination of Anna and Jack Frost (there’s a hidden black frost Anna later on). But I understand if you didn’t enjoy it! That’s what makes us all different
@@femtrooperit has to do with plot progression. After you destroy the four crystals, you’re sent to a parallel world and decide to see what happens if you destroy the crystals again. This happens for four more chapters until the plot twist. It’s very annoying!
The one that hurts me is I dropped Dragon Quest XI. I was 100 hours in and was working towards the true ending (got the basic ending...but that's not the real ending...I know, spoilers). I played that game at the tail end of a long run of very lengthy RPGs which included Persona 5 (86 hours) and Pathfinder: Kingmaker (170 hours). I just ran out of steam with long RPGs and needed a break...and then the Definitive edition came out. I intend to try again, but I'm waiting for a good time to try again.
They only game that comes to mind is Paper Mario and the Origami King, I got atleast 50-60 percent through the game and I lost to a boss that was taking forever, so I just gave it up, the battle system was no my thing at all.
I probably "soft drop" a lot of games. Where I stop playing for whatever reason and just never end up going back to it. Not a choice I made to drop it.... but it's still kinda dropped lol
Final fantasy 16..... I just couldn't take it anymore. It started of amazing and then I got tired of the boring side missions and the fact you could only level up armor and weapons if you prosper thru the story.
Hey FemTrooper, this was a great video, can't wait for the next part. Regarding Bravely Default, the way to make it easy it to grind and grind and grind. When I played it, I decided to max out every job (which is overkill I know) but it made the game very easy. If you can stomach the grind, then the game is worth playing. Anyway have a great day and thanks again for the video.
Forgot to answer the question 😅 I drop games all the time, because if I feel meh about them I usually end up thinking about things I want to play instead and I feel like I'm wasting my time. So if I still don't feel it after a couple of hours, it's gone! Here are some notable ones I binned: .Hack//GU - Too much showing, not enough playing. I don't mind cutscenes but .Hack's attitude is "why have the player do something when you can show someone else doing it instead?" Cool boss appears? You can guarantee you won't fight it, it'll be done in a cutscene. Bleh. Monster Hunter Stories 2 - It's a JRPG and I liked it but it was too long for me. I played for 44 hours and I was maybe halfway through. I struggle with long games, I tend to lose steam after a while, and this one has very little story. I want to go back to it eventually but I don't know if I could do another 50 hours. Ys II - I've liked every other Ys game I've played but the last dungeon of Ys II suuuuuuuucks 😂 so even though I was probably only a couple of hours from the end, I just couldn't bear playing it any longer.
@@femtrooper It is a good game and fun to play, I just struggle with anything longer than about 40 hours. I start to feel burnt out. I suspect you have stronger tolerance for long games than I do so you might be fine XD
Chained echoes is mine and I think i got story locked because I couldn't do anything except fight the boss. I couldn't grind my way out or do side missions because of how the game is structured and where i was at. Their is a demo bravely default 2 on the switch.
Cross Edge - I got stuck, so I grinded for 2 hours. Then I could progress for 5 minutes, then had to grind for another 2 hours, progressed, got stuck again. At some point I gave up. Apparently you're not supposed to use the party members that you like, but the ones that have synergy. That went over my head. Ys Origin, Ys Oath in Felghana and Ys Ark of Napishtim - I suck. Got stuck on a boss, and gave up. I did finish Ys 8 though and I loved it. But it does make me hesitant to buy more Ys games. I got Celceta because it was cheap, and I'm interested in Ys 7 and 9 since they also use the party system which might make it a bit easier for me. But I'm not sure Ys 10 is going to be for me. I'm hesitant about Nayuta as well. Folklore - I really really wanted to like this game. I played it in late 2022, so more or less a decade after it released. I think this game would be great with some quality of life updates. I felt like I was fighting the camera and controls more than the actual enemies. I've had times where I got stuck in a narrow passageway because a big monster blocked my way out, I couldn't dodge because there was not enough space and I couldn't move past the monster because it was body blocking me, all the time the monster was attacking me and there was nothing I could do. The more frustrating part about this, is that the boundaries of what is walkable and what not are not very clear. So everything is green grass, and there's only a small bump in the grass indicating the walkable edge. So if you're busy dodging monsters, you might not see that you're walking into a death trap untill it's too late. I also got turned around many times, since the map is sort of a dungeon crawler like thing, so everything looks kind of the same and the map only shows you which room you're in and not which way you're facing. With all the dodging around I would frequently backtrack instead of moving forward, and going back respawns the enemies. The game has dual protagonists and they go through the same areas for each chapter. You can play all chapters for one of them and then go back for the other, or play a certain chapter for both of them back to back. I did them back to back, because I read there was a point halfway through the game where both protagonists need to be caught up anyway. Well, that makes for extremely boring gameplay, since the environments/maps are the same and if you want to do sidequests, those only get unlocked after you beat the chapter and send you right back into the same dungeon you just came out of. So if you do both protagonists including sidequests, you're going to be in the same dungeon 4 times in a row. This is everything that was wrong with the Soul Hackers 2 dungeons, but then twice as frustrating. You can tame enemy monsters to add them to your party. It uses a very underused ability of the PS3 controller and the monsters are fun and varied. With a celtic theme, which you don't see that often. You're kind of encouraged to swap monsters as you go, kind of like Persona and SMT. Monsters aren't fused, but the ones in a new chapter are stronger than your old monsters. You can also strengthen your monsters, but for that you need to grind materials. With all of the frustrations that I had with the camera, controls, maps etc, the grind for materials was just too much. I gave up. I'd really like a remake of Folklore though. I think it's a very unique game and if the camera, control and map issues get solved, I think it would be a fun game.
Totally agreed on Tokyo mirage sessions. That game was a complete miss for me. It should have been right up my alley. I love JRPGs, especially SMT and persona. But I put about 25 hours into Tokyo mirage sessions and then I ended up dropping it.
I’ve been on the fence on continuing the 1st Octopath Traveler lately. It was fun for a while, but at about halfway it just feels very formulaic. I like the concept of a bunch of stories coming together but it just feels so disconnected
I got right up to the last boss on Bravely Default and then suddenly they made it so my specific team was useless and you are locked in to an airship with only 1 really bad place to fight enemies so lvling up a different set of classes that stand a chance will just be so tedious 😢. Besides that the only time I can remember quitting a game with no intention of returning was Oblivion. Just found it such a disappointment.
Coming from a sonic fan . I grew up loving it however I completely get what you mean . Compared to a lot of other great platformers sonic hasn't really aged too well.
So I'm still confident that I'll finish it since I actually do love the game, but Xenoblade Chronicles 3 for me. I think it's just that I will be playing it and then another game comes out that I am super interested in and then I switch games. Pretty sure I'll get around to finishing XC3 though.
I technically dropped Hollow Knight. I beat it and got the bad ending, and I tried getting the good ending but I keep failing at killing the real final boss and decided to move on. Hurt a little because I really do like the game but once it started being a chore I decided it was time to drop. Bravely Default is very hard and I dropped it myself but not becase it was hard but because the 3DS is uncomfortable to me. If they ever remaster it for modern home consoles I will take another stab at it.
I binged Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE so hard. It’s just so weird and dumb that it seems cool to me. Dropped Mighty No. 9 (easy to see why). I also thought I would like Pokken Tournament, I enjoyed the demo once. I can’t get into the game Sonic Mania was great to me but I played the originals up until Adventure and a little of the gba games. Aside from that I think the games are hit or miss (mostly miss) til this day so its not really a big deal. i welcome the difficulty for games like Bravely Default. i used to start these types of games on hard but i switched to normal. think my file in Bravely Default is still on hard. i just like the idea of something cute and or silly being brutally challenging
Just like books, I end up dropping most games 😅, or putting them aside, and forgetting about them, though I already have 70 hours on Tears of the Kingdom so I'll probably see that one through. Im very slow at things in general haha. One game that I did finish was Metroid Dread and my wife was happy that I was finished with it, because she had never heard me yell and swear so much at a tiny screen before. A lot of games, I make it to the near end and lose interest because the final boss was too difficult and I figure that ive already seen almost everything there is to see.
Zelda twilight Princess ... i remember was not a game that you can stop playing for a while and then continue because you just lost yourself , and i love other Zelda games And souls game they're just to hard for me 😅
Sometimes I drop games that I'm really enjoying because something else comes out that I want to play. I did just finish Yakuza infinite wealth and I can already say it's my game of the year.
I can so relate to your take on Bravely Default. There are difficulty spikes throughout but that wasn’t what made me want to drop the game. Without spoiling anything, I reached what i thought was the end game only to find out it wasn’t… then rinse and repeat… I’m finding Bravely Second End Layer way more difficult than BD. Still in like the first chapters and have died many times during boss fights, even if my character’s levels are above the suggested range. If you found BD hard I would stay away from End Layer or play with a guide to get through the story. Or maybe I’m just getting worst at games as I age lol.
When I think of games I dropped, 2 in particular come to mind-- Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment and Final Fantasy IV Pixel Remaster. SAO: Hollow Fragment was enjoyable enough until this one character that just sort of suddenly appears in the story became legitimately rage-inducing for me. In the end, I had to ditch my playthrough of SAO: HF entirely and remove it from my PS Vita (I had bought the download version off of PSN). In the case of FFIV Pixel Remaster, don't get me wrong-- I've been a fan of Final Fantasy since the '90s. However, the boss battle with the Giant of Babel's CPU had me so fed up and infuriated that I swore off playing FFIV any further. Also, I didn't finish Sonic Mania or Bravely Default 1 either. No feelings of frustration or anger there though-- they just both got to a point where they weren't fun for me anymore.
I love the Bravely Default and Octopath series BUT they both suffer from the same problem of making the bosses way too hard compared to the normal encounters. It makes it so you either have to grind a lot or use some cheap strategy to cheese the battle and neither of those are fun imo.
I feel you on not completing games. I play on easy a lot also, as a busy parent who doesn't like getting stuck in games anymore. I've also embraced "watching the ending on UA-cam" though my kid will rub it in, saying mom, u didn't really beat the game... ugh..
I agree with you on this. A lot of the newer games, if there is an easy mode or story mode, I tend to play on those. I just like to enjoy the game and not struggle too much.
Haha, easy for the win! And yeah, it’s hard as a parent. Just play how you want to!
I definitely understand. I’m not a parent. But, I work so much that, at this point, I just want to know how the story progresses and ends. If I’m having too much trouble on normal mode then I’m going to easy to try and complete the game. Game completion takes forever for me now, as I MIGHT have time to game on a Saturday.
That’s understandable. You got more going on and are in able to sink hundreds of hours in anymore
This is not really relevant to the video, but I just wanted to say that you've become one of my new favourite comfort gaming UA-camrs! I'm always in for a treat when you come out with a new video, and I just wanted to thank you for all the hard work you put into your content!
Hey, that actually means so much to me! Thank you so much!!! I hope you enjoy everything I have planned that’s coming out soon!
I ALMOST dropped Bravely Default! But I endured through the last portion of the game and overall really enjoyed the experience. Same thing with Sea of Stars… my interest in the game dropped around the second third of the game but I managed to keep going and ended up enjoying the experience despiste the low moments.
Nice video!
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Thanks!
I gret up watching your videos when you had around 50k subs and now we both enjoy the same video game vlogger with 10k subs lol
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I think, in hindsight, the only game I've ever truly dropped was the original GameCube release of 'Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean'. I was in my teens back then and I just *could not* wrap my head around it. The card battling was slow, exploration was unexciting and, story wise, I think I even got lost and had no idea what I needed to do to advance.
Fast forward to the present day: I bought the 'Baten Kaitos I & II HD Remaster' after much hesitation. This time 'round - I absolutely *loved* it! Everything made more sense (the UI is prettier) and I generally found it to be a fun and enthralling adventure from beginning to end. ✌😁
Yeah, playing games at the right time in your life really makes them more enjoyable. I had a few similar instances (for example Unicorn Overlord wasn't jiving with me because I was playing the demo while planning a vacation and I couldn't focus on it but I love the game now that I'm back. And Monster Hunter 1 took me 3 months to really get the hang of and I've spent hundreds of hours on the series as a whole ever since. I loved Baten Kaitos 1 and 2 when I got them on Gamecube but didn't buy the new port.
That’s awesome! I like to hear that!
Every Assassin's Creed game . I don't think I've ever completed one as they start out super cool and interesting then lose their luster after 30 hours.
There is a couple I've finished, the longest ones, I might be unusual because I like Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla best
After 30 hours? The best ones (ezio trilogy + black flag) are all under 30 hours.
I’ve only played the Ezio ones, so I can’t relate.
Or I wouldn’t be able to if I didn’t also play the one that takes place in Colonial America. That one lost me pretty hard, and I never ended up picking up another one.
Odyssey is the only one I love and beat. The rest I can’t seem to get into.
Omg, I feel this so much!
Hmm, interesting you dropped Tokyo Mirage. I absolutely loved it and the combat system was one of the most fun turn based systems I've ever played. It still is cool to me to see how different we all are as humans and how we think. I dropped Tales of Berseria and posted about it on Facebook about how boring it was and so many people came at me for that lol. Bold of you to do this video despite the hate I'm sure you're going to get. Great video as always, Femtrooper!
Funny enough, not really any hate! People seem to relate to it. We all drop stuff for various reasons! :)
BD1 is amazing, and personally didn’t find it that hard. It was just fun finding interesting job combo and enjoying the story, towns, side quest and the SUBLIME music (specially the final boss). Maybe give it another shot. Truly a gem (it is on my top 5 rpg ever)
I should…maybe I should look up some tips and tricks!
@@femtrooper that's how I played! I use a guide that told me what job gives what, so i knew what job to level up to get certain passive. I don't know where you stopped but in the desert area you get like 4 new jobs and 4 more in the next one. After 10 hours (on 50) you got a large panel of possibility and fun. Because, if the only problem is the difficulty, I think it's only beacause of the starting curve that expect you to grind a bit to get like 2-3 passive. For example, each playthrough, I farm the monk for like 20 mins for everybody, to get the passive : hp + 10%, so that way my team is tankier. That's a tip for you ;)
Also Femtrooper, that's my opinion, but you should really gave another shot to BD1. I can't explain to you how AMAZING the story gets. So many plot twist! And seriously the cast. Those four are just way too funy during the skits. It is a big plus for me. Seeing someone gave up on this game because of the difficulty genuily makes me sad. To me, it is a masterpiece, way better than ff6 or ff7. Just the rpgs with loveable characters, world map, airship, job system, awesome music, story and combat. That's my jam, and BD1 fit all those.
For example, here's some other games that I loved that were somewhat similar : Chained echoes, Harvestella
P.S. I have a few other tips for you if you are interested, so ask if you want :)
Bravely Default > Bravely Second >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Bravely Default 2
Thanks for doing this, there's no shame in dropping a game and we should do our best to make sure there's no stigma around that. For me, a recent one I dropped was Astria Ascending. Wasn't feeling the story, and it was SO grindy. I just had to abandon ship, I was miserable!
Oh yuck! I hate it when it’s TOO grindy…just not fun anymore!!!
I love bravely default and end second layer. End second layer is very much a direct sequel so your better off not getting unless u can beat the first. I rarely drop games myself because I hate having an incomplete story
Same, it’s so satisfying to see the end!
Golden Sun for me...everytime i try and play it, i hit a brick wall. Not that the game is hard or im not enjoying it. Just something else comes along that i want to play or i get into that gaming funk where i get burned out or sometimes life happens. Poor Golden Sun, a victim of circumstance. One day.....one day.
I’ll have to try that one someday and see if I like it!
I wanted so much to get into Sonic Mania because I actually did like the gameplay but, I absolutely hate the underwater sections and as someone who didn't grow up with Sonic either I wasn't very good at it and was not gonna restart the whole game after getting a game over.
Yeah, that’s awful!!!
I remember playing the demo for Bravely Default 2 as it seemed like my kind of game. Can't remember how far I got but I know the difficulty put me completely off it. Thank goodness for demos.
Demos save me!!!
yeah the devs are kinda idiots for making these games so hard. I dropped BD2 for the same reason but I may go back to them with a cheat engine table or something (to halve the incoming damage or double my damage... ...maybe both?)
Yes!! Dude, I’ve always felt like I play Sonic the wrong way or something. I would dash through until I either got a bunch of rings or hit something and lost all my rings.
I went back recently and tried to play without rushing through, and that was kinda fun, but it def felt like I was playing it wrong by not running around the whole time.
Yeah, it just wasn’t my thing and it doesn’t really feel like anything else. It’s definitely its own thing.
I love your honesty and respectful candor when referring to these games that you didn't finish! Definitely looking forward to hearing additional games that you didn't finish, as I've had to do this a number of times as well. Great video again!
Thanks!!! :)
I dropped Final Fantasy 8 because I hit a brick wall on a boss fight and hated the junction system. I didn't care much for the story either, so it felt like I was just playing it because it was a Final Fantasy game and not because I was actually having any fun.
I dropped FF8 for the SAME reason!
Xenogears for me. I got to that dang sewer level and got to the boss creature and didn't buy enough healing items and couldn't beat the tough boss.
I need to play that one day!
I dropped the first Yo-Kai watch for a similar reason. Lovvveeedd the town and the music and the characters. Was such a cozy world to explore, but I seriously didn’t understand the combat. It felt completely automatic and even when I could have some input I had no idea what I was doing lol
I just started Yo-kai watch, I can feel you on the combat. I am so busy doing thing on the lower screen that I have no idea what is going on in the fight. It doesn't really let you figure out how to play well.
It is a weird battle system but I actually liked it!
Bravely default 2 has some tough difficulty spikes. The bosses are insane
Yeah…haha pass!
Regarding Bravely Default. It's a great game. It looks so beautiful. It's like peering into a diorama, or a doll house. The 3d effect really enhances the aesthetic too. I managed to get all the way to the final boss and then that was it for me. It was so soul crushingly difficult, and I normally like challenging games. I just couldn't do it. It really sucks getting 99% through a game, only to have that happen. I'm a lot better at games now than I was back then, so maybe I'll try again one day. That being said, the final boss theme in that game is a fricken masterpiece. Also you're right about the difficulty setting making zero difference.
Haha glad you agree. It’s hard!
I've been watching you since 2014 or so, and I think it's awesome that you're still tagging people or encouraging other creators to join in and do their own response. I'm thinking about doing my own but I have maybe 70000 games I've dropped over time--especially as a kid thinking I had to play everything on hard 😂
WOW! That means soooo much to me that you have been watching my videos this long! Thank you thank you!!! :)
Great video! Thank you so much for sharing! I just discovered your content and it's great quality and you have a great personality! On my end: Twilight Princess, any MegaMan, any Ghost & Gobblins/Gouls & Ghost, Mario Sunshine, Super Mario Galaxy 2, any RPG, any Gran Turismo (maybe due to the license exams), Revenge of Shinobi, Shinobi III, Sonic Mania, Sonic 2, and any game with art direction that don't resonate with me, haha! Cheers
Thank you so so much!!!
I’ve dropped quite a few games (especially back in the day when I’d just hop from game to game with no real drive to complete them) but the first to come to mind was *The Thing* for PS2.
I was already not having a good time with how poorly the game’s controls have aged and how the “Trust/Fear” system was easily exploitable (give your teammates an empty gun and they’ll trust you 100% without question) but wanted to stick with it because I was interested in the “Infection” system, where any of your teammates that were out of sight from you during a fight had the potential of being a transformed “Thing” in disguise. The only way to know for sure is to use limited blood tests you find throughout the game.
Finally, after a big fight that had me cut off from the rest of the team for a brief moment, I decided now would be the perfect time to see the infection system in action. I tested my teammates and they all passed with flying colors. I then made my way to the stairs that lead to the rest of the game but, before I could go down them, all of my teammates transformed into Things and started attacking me… mere SECONDS after I proved they weren’t monsters. What?!
Turns out the game has set moments where your teammates transform so you can do the next section alone. I think I cleared the monsters in the next room before going “actually, screw this game. I’m out.” Haven’t played it since and I don’t plan to.
What a great idea for a video! I'm doing a classic old school UA-cam video response on this one!
PLEASE DO!!! I miss those days of video responses!
For me, the first game I ever dropped by choice was Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World for Wii. I disliked it from the beginning, but back then I always had the mentality of "if you play it, you need to finish it."
So, I pushed my way almost to the final boss. I was in the last dungeon, and I died. And I was about to restart without a second thought, but then I stopped myself. I said "why am I doing this? I only have one life, why am I wasting it on something I don't like?"
So, I quit. Left the game unfinished and never looked back. Now I drop games routinely. If I'm not enjoying my time, I won't think twice about moving on to something else.
I get it!!! If you aren’t having fun, stop!
I've quit on a last boss a few times and regret nothing. The endings are on UA-cam and I enjoyed the journey. It's better to derive your accomplishment from real life endeavors and rely on games for some relaxing fun.
YES! So true.
I think for me, Sonic games (Sonic 2 and the two Adventure games) are mostly about vibing with the music. Then memorizing the stages and enjoying how it looks to fly through them, similar to the F-Zero games. If you don't love listening to the music then I'd imagine Sonic games become a slog as you are going to die a lot learning the levels.
Haha, yeah, just wasn’t for me.
I have dropped many games some at the final dungeon (and sometimes boss), every game where the 'true end' is after the credits roll and some where I have 'had enough' (I dropped the first Xenoblade after about 80 hours when I discovered I was barely halfway through the game as i'd spent so long doing sidequests and exploring)
The game I have dropped the hardest though was Unlimited Saga on the PS2 a game I hated so much I had to get someone else to return it for me as I never wanted to see it again
I am much further into my first play through of Bravely Default right now and can see what you are saying but, luckily, I've found grinding to be so easy and so much fun I haven't minded. There are some spots where I can just set up your attacks turn on auto attack then just put on a movie or get on the exercise bike and by the time I have finished whatever hump I have come upto has been well and truly flattened
Bravely Second has a system where if you're able to chain a few battles exp and job points skyrocket, but depending on your jobs and skills it can still have some hard battles.
That’s good to know!
ive dropped so many games, thats why i started that resolution to complete games, my next target is alone in the dark
You can do it!
I've done the same this year. I've bought so many switch games over the last few years now, and not even started on most of them 😅 so this year, I'll focus on actually beating at least 10 games.
I've done 2 so far (Crisis Core Final Fantasy 7 Reunion and Granblue Fantasy: ReLink), and I'm pretty close to finishing Final Fantasy 7 Remake. So I'm on track so far 😊
I’m in denial that I’ll go back and finish everything, just “later”. I’ve got the weird habit of playing a game for 10-20 hours then dropping it for a long time before returning and beating it all. I’m not the best at jrpgs even though I love them. There’s times where I know I should probably drop them at the final boss and watch a video but instead I’ll grind 20-30 levels to beat them through brute force. 😅 It kills me so much but it’s so nice to finish. FF7 broke my heart cause I thought I’d grinded enough but I overdid it and made the final boss harder, so I just grinded again. 😭
Yeah, sometimes grinding works but other times it doesn’t. It’s so hit and miss.
From what I have heard, the thing with Bravely Default is that you have to figure out the job system. Not trying to come across as any kind of expert, just trying to possibly point you in the right direction.
Oh, it could be that! I like simplicity so when things get complicated I have a hard time LOL
That's surprising because I actually love Sonic's gameplay style over Mario. The sense of flow and speed running as you're learning the level layout and getting rewarded for performance.
People often mistake the game as going fast, when the reward is maintaining that speed. There are many indie titles that adopted it's formula. Maybe you'll like those.
Interesting! Clearly I’m missing something and that’s okay.
@@femtrooper people also think the sonic adventure is a good evolution of the originals so there's that. It's fine if you just have different taste though.
Really commendable if u do pick it back up. I really like your enthusiasm.
Seeing Sonic Mania on here hurts, but I understand it. 😭
Haha sorry!!!
Not as good as the originals. The bonus levels are really awful & the last level takes a long time to beat.
@@tonyp9313 No offense, but sounds like a skill issue.
@@RyansChannel0203 None taken. I always get this typical answer whenever I mention something is hard. Don't know why but you & others think it's supposed to be super easy for whatever reason....I did beat this by the way, it's not like I struggled on the 1st level
@@tonyp9313 Fair enough, but I just cannot see how one can prefer Sonic 1, 2, or even CD over Mania. Sonic 3 & Knuckes I'll give an acception to though. That game is also a masterpiece.
That shirt!! I love it! I'm currently playing Like a Dragon for the first time.
There have been very few games that I have put down because I didn't like. Most of them I either got burnt out on the game because I'd been playing nonstop. Or a new game came out that I couldn't help from starting to play. Or life got in the way.
Yay! The Yakuza series is so underrated. Such a good time!
oh man I had a similar experience w/ Bravely Second, I kept powering through it for about 20-ish hours until I got to an area where I kept getting decimated by the enemies, and it's like am I missing something? I also just did not feeling like powering through it any more so screw it, I dropped it and sold it
100% get it!
Hey! Great video! Was looking forward to this topic!
Yay thanks!
I know it's deeply loved by I dropped Xenoblade 3. I was 15 hours in still doing tutorials and hour long cut scenes. It got tedious. But I actually really enjoyed Xenoblade 1!
I did beat XC3 but I can completely understand why you dropped it. There was way too much unnecessary dialogue throughout the game compared to the other two games and it had a confusing storyline 😆
Give future redeemed a try and it’s worth it
Sonic doesn't control well. I got stuck in the 2nd level jumping through the water. It's giving Super Mario 2
@@therealjaystone2344 I loved Future Redeemed!
I’m due to play that one this year!!! Hopefully I like it!
The life is to short and I’m not in school anymore is why I’ll use a guide.
Absolutely!
Great video! I drop games a lot now that I am older. Years ago working at Funcoland I dropped FF7 since a customer came in and ruined the “big twist”. Now years later I am trying FF7 remake. Elden Ring was another where I loved it, but just too hard for me. I am a parent too, finishing up school, and taking on new responsibilities at work all the time. I really just want to enjoy the games I play. If I don’t enjoy them what is the point. Keep up the great content.
Thanks so much!
Reflecting on Bravely Default now, the only reason that I was able to get through the early chapters of the game was because my brother beat the game years before me so I was able to take advantage of the Streetpass of the game and utilize his stronger moves. I think without that, I wouldn't have been able to get through the game without some major grinding first.
Something that you can’t do in bravely 2
Oh, nice!
I absolutely agree with you on Bravely Default. I reached near the end of the game, and for the life of me, I could not defeat the final boss.
Oh nooooo! That really sucks.
That is exactly how I feel with Sonic. Exactly.
Yay!
Happens to me less now that I generally pick games I *know* I will like, but a few of your choices I've had on my list, most notably bravely default 1 & 2. I just could not get into them. And it's a shame because I am the target market for these games but they just never clicked! Side note - I absolutely NEED your shirt!!!!!! 😂
Haha, I am the sweater master! Also, I hear ya on BD! It’s everything I want in a JRPG but I just couldn’t do it!
Thank you for your experience with these games. I appreciate you being honest with some of these games. Ironically the thing that put me off playing yokai watch was me hearing reviews saying it was too easy. Im on the other side of your tastes, I love hard strategy games. Your review made me want to start playing yokai watch and Bravely.
See! I love this! If you’re the opposite of me you’ll have a great time!!! :)
I remember buying Nioh, attempting to beat the first boss and getting so stressed and furious and anxious that I took it back and got my money back.
Then I kept thinking about it and feeling irritated by my decision. I actually bought it back and forced myself to learn how to play it and eventually beat it. Out of pure stubbornness 😂 I found it really stressful and pretty much never played another souls like again
Wow, that’s intense! Good job!
I don't mind dropping games I don't like but a few games I tried liking and dropped 20 hours in are : Monster Hunter 4 (The gameplay just didn't click for me), Dragon Quest 8 (Weirdly enough, I thought it was too big), Tales of Zestiria (It lacked polish and I hated the equipment system) and Project X Zone 1 (It's fun as long as you get new characters but the late game battles are way too tedious)
Haha, Dragon Quest games can be too big sometimes but I still loved 8. I get it though!
Final Fantasy V is my favorite of that series, and so I love Bravely Default, but I can confirm that they're difficult. And it doesn't get any easier as the series goes on. Bravely Second is related to the first and you wouldn't want to play it on its own anyway, and Bravely Default II is probably the most difficult of the bunch. At some point they all expect you to understand what combinations of abilities from different jobs will essentially break the game in your favor, and if you don't the final bosses are impossible. You could look up a guide on how to create the good combinations if you really wanted to play it, but that doesn't sound as fun to me.
I think the topic of what games don't really click for people is really interesting, especially when difficulty or controls are involved. I'm a bit embarrassed to list specifics, but there are some "not difficult" games I've basically rage quit because I couldn't play them at all, despite being fine with some games that are considered difficult. Like there's taste obviously, but there's also something personal about jiving with controls that doesn't get as much attention.
Yeah, I don’t care anymore lol if a game is easy and I rage quit lol it’s okay! That’s life!
I drop games faster than poorly optimized games drop frames. I rarely finish games (which I've mentioned here before) so it's easy for me to drop them. My most recent game I dropped was Unicorn Overlord. I love most of what Vanillaware develops but I this one just didn't click for me, mostly because I don't like most SRPGs so I can't be too surprised. Both difficulty and genre mostly play into my decision to drop games. Bottom line is that I need to have fun. Take care!
Yeah, Unicorn Overlord didn’t do it for me either. I tried the demo and was like NOPE.
Gonna have to say I try not to drop anything.... It just goes back on the shelf for a really long time.
I have a few like this…
Lowkey, I've always thought Sonic was better as a character than he is as a video game character, if that makes sense.
100% agree. I like Sonic as a character too!
My heart lol…you know with the default games, you really (and this is me talking about my experience) you need to be ok with breaking the battle system because if you don’t it gets really REALLY hard. I mean BD 2 was a cake walk until the end fight and I had to redo my whole party just to make it to phase 3…then there was another phase, so I had to do it ALL over again with some tweaks. So while I love the series (and these sorta battle systems are my jam), I wouldn’t say they are the easiest to get into/finish because it’s more of a mindset cap then a skill cap, which is fun, but can also put a damper on an experience. Again while I love 2, that last boss was a load of nonsense…ff5 has the same problem with the last boss too, you need all ninjas to even live. Octopath I think is way more forgiving with preferred setups vs min/max and star ocean is just star ocean, it literally just tells you to do your thing lol
Haha, I am so mad that I struggled with BD! So many aspects of it are perfect for me so it’s a real shame!
BD II is definitely difficult but it's fairly workable - in fact there are one or two moves that you will eventually unlock that are completely broken and you wipe out enemies pretty easily. But yes some big difficulty spikes in BD II for sure!
Oyyyyy…haha, I may still wait on it.
I always got confused in Sonic Mania. Even after I beat the game, I didn't feel like going back to it. It.
Yeah, I did NOT get it.
I think I have ended up dropping about 70-80% of games I play 😅
Mostly because I take too much time getting through it, and either have to take an extended break for some reason and find it hard to go back to, or something new and shiny has distracted me to play that instead.
Oh no! Well, I hope you still have fun playing what you do play!
I can relate to the completionist thing. I hated Lost Words but had to finish it!
Yeah, I’m like that with certain games!
I'm a Sega kid, I grew up with the Master System, the Genesis, Sonic etc and same as you : I dropped SonicMania pretty hard lol. I like platformers too but yeah, I don't really know if the game actually was meh and overhyped or if I grew out of Sonic games (I still like playing Genesis Sonic 1 from time to time but I think a big part of it is nostalgia)... I don't know. It doesn't help either that they're very simple games with no RPG elements or something to keep your interest. If at least you could, I don't know, use rings as money to buy better shoes or something? I think once Metroidvanias or games with gripping stories came in full force, my interest for these simple 2D "get-to-the-end-without-dying" platformers kinda went away. Even 3D ones (I recently tried the latest Crash Bandicoot) can't hold my interest for long.
I hear ya!
My Time at Sandrock. I couldn’t play more than 3 hours before packing it up and trading it in.
I get this for sure!
These are games I dropped, keep in mind I love 100%ing games
- Xenoblade Chronicles Wii (I respect it but the game is extremely completion unfriendly) and dropped it out of frustration
- FF IX (…. Jump Rope side quest, too brutal, even worse than the FF X Lightning challenge)
- Tales of Graces f (10/10 combat, 7.5/10 graphics/art, story was leading to being a 8 or 9/10 however, two things crushed it, just like Xenoblade, very completion unfriendly and i feel like they blue ballz the viewer with the relationship between Cheria and Asbel, after everything they don’t end up together!! felt cheated a bit)
- FF VIII (On paper this should be my favourite FF of all time, Orphanage Scene…. dropped)
- Eternal Sonata (This is a game I try and force myself to love so badly every 2 years 😂, 10/10 graphics, 10/10 OST, 10/10 gameplay but man….. that story, ambitious but poorly executed, Cleves scene didn’t help)
- FF VII PS1 (The entire story was already spoiled for me way before I played it for the first time in 2017, I play the game, not really getting captivated, get to the honey bee inn section….. was un-impressed, granted I know the honey bee inn section is supposed to be light hearted but everything till then I was like…. thats the hype, might of been amazing at the time and I’m sure the remake’s are fantastic but I don’t feel like FF VII PS1 holds up anymore nowadays)
- Majoras Mask (Purely didn’t like the time mechanic, love literally everything else it has going for it but the time mechanic ruined the game for me)
- Tales of Symphonia (Huge Tales fan and a massive fan of Tales of the Abyss, everyone says in the fandom the Holy Trinity is Abyss, Vesperia and Symphonia, I play Symphonia….. like FF VII i was unimpressed, story didn’t feel original either using a lot of narrative from FF X, combat just isn’t as good as Abyss or games before or after… dropped)
I also dropped Xenoblade Chronicles on the Wii but finished it on the Switch! Much easier! I totally relate! I tried Eternal Sonata YEARS ago but I’d have to check it out again.
wow, I've never seen someone miss the point this hard before
Over the last couple of years, I've started more and more to drop games that did not mesh with me after I've given them a fair go. There's so many games out there now, I don't want to waste my time on something that I'm hating.
I think the game that hurts the most that I have dropped is The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel (the first one). I clocked in 54 HOURS!! I just was not liking it. And each time I kept on trying to get back to it, I just found an excuse not too. I'm thinking of restarting it on the PS4 as I don't remember anything (think it's been 4 years now since I started it), but I'm not sure if I want to invest that many hours again for a game that I just didn't care for...
Bravely Default I started over SO many times, to the point where I restarted it 4 or so times as I kept on dropping it. Last year was the year I finally gave it a fair go and I was not liking it still BUT what kept me going, is something that normally makes me hate a game even more, I got spoiled by accident as I accidentally went to my partners completed save. Once I got spoiled, I got really excited because I guessed what was going to happen and I was so excited it was happening. If I didn't get spoiled, I probably would of dropped it completely and never returned.
I do NOT like the first Cold Steel game at all. It’s soooo boring and tedious.
Same thing happened to me with first bravely default too. And I was having some fun too but just moved on. Someday I’ll try again
Yeah, maybe I’ll give it another shot.
i dropped bd1, not because it was too hard but because i kept running out of mana before one of the first boss fights and had no way of replenishing my mana, loved everything else about it though. still tempted to go back and give it another shot
played bd2 and loved it. put over 100 hours in it and didn’t have any issues with mana or difficulty. i think it’s way better than the first in almost every way and worth at least playing the demo
LOL bd1 is bd2 but better, you should really try it again.
@@NockLegacy i do want to try it again someday. also didn’t like all that street pass stuff in bd1 though
That’s a good idea!
@@oldmanondorf2062 First the streepass was sadly shutdown recently, so I the village stuff is near impossible now. BUT this was and always be optional side content. You can totally skip it after the tutorial. Also, BD1 is totally worth it. One of the best RPGs of all time in my opinion.
Bravely default 2. I liked the story and I wanted to finish but I found the grinding tedious . I don’t know … maybe I was doing something wrong but I didn’t care to stick around any longer and figure it out
Ahhhhh haha yeah I should probably skip that.
Heh. I still have a sealed copy of Bravely Default that I bought on discount from a store that was going out of business like 9 years ago. I also have sealed copies of Bravely Second and Default 2 because I'm just like that I guess.
I have a very recent dropped game: The Tomb Raider Classic Collection that came out last month. I had never played the original games in the series - my only connection was TR Legend on Xbox 360 which I liked - so I was interested in trying where the series started. The problem I ran into is those games use a type of control setup that I have never gotten used to - tank controls - and I was struggling super quickly and dying multiple times on the second level. I talked to someone who was very into the games and they told me "Yeah, the controls are very Had To Be There and I can't imagine trying to play them now." So I gave up. Maybe I'll try again later. In the meantime I decided to see if the later games would be more my style, and the Reboot trilogy was on sale all 3 for like $20 total to probably tie-pronote to the Classic Collection release. So I bought them, started the first game, found it much more workable for me, and beat it a week.
Yeah, I skipped that collection cause I know I’d react the same. Some things just don’t age well.
2D Sonic takes a bit to get used to. I’d give it another go and it’ll feel like you have more control
I may try another one sometime!
I also walked away from Tokyo Mirage Sessions… I put 18 hours into it and took a 2 month break. When I went back, I was SO confused. I wanted to start again, and the I remembered HOW BORING the dungeons were… I also walked away from Monark. I LOVED the story, design and characters, but the difficulty spikes are just too much. I’d estimate I fought one boss like 25 times, and then just uninstalled the game. Maybe one day, but I have a hearty backlog of better more balanced games at the ready.
Yeah, it’s too bad cause it had a lot going for it.
Games I've dropped one was Detective Pikachu Returns because it was boring, and the other game I dropped I made a huge mistake of finishing the Mass Effect Trilogy before playing Kingdom Hearts 3. Because Kingdom Hearts 3 had way to many cutscenes and the story was what the hell is going on.
Oh, that’s too bad!!!
First off, I love the sweat shirt! As for dropped games, like yourself, I typically finish the game whether I thought it was great or meh. My problem is getting distracted. I'll be enjoying a game for 20+ hours, and than a must play pulls me away. Didn't like Sonic Mania eh? I thought it was a great platformer, the speed is a big point to its uniqueness. But I can see folks not enjoying it. So, I kind of feel ya on Bravely Default. Loved the game, one of the best combat systems in all RPGs. Until I had to play the entire game again... You didn't get far enough to enjoy that part. As far as it being easy, I can't speak to it because I played it on hard (same for BD2). Maybe must be not grasping the combat entirely? This was a great video Paige! I can see why everyone is doing responses!
Yay!!! Thanks, dude!!! And yeah, I think I just suck at Bravely Default LOL
I can totally relate with Bravely Default. I have tried to play it through twice and both times I put it down part way through, despite loving the music and graphical style. It just burned me out, I guess?
Anyway, great video!
Thank you! :)
Thanks for sharing Paige!
The Bravely games are fantastic, all three of them. The ending of Bravely Default was incredible playing on original hardware (a lot of people seem to emulate it, and it loses a LOT of the magic without the 3DS features).
I dropped Breath of the Wild, just couldn't gel with it.
Yeah, the new Zelda format is NOT for me.
Games I dropped could be the name of my channel! But I will admit a lot of games I drop are just due to time or interest.
Haha! 😂 Do a response!
As a huge Sonic fan, I actually don't really like how Classic Sonic games play, so I wasn't huge on Sonic Mania either. I just prefer the modern games.
I would be totally willing to try some more modern ones!
Bravely default honestly would be so replay-able if it wasn’t for the later chapters just repeating itself. Maybe if it only did it once and then the plot twist happened. But not 5 times :/
A game I’ve dropped recently was demon turf. A 3D platformer with flat 2D characters. If you master the controls, you could zip and flip your way across the area. It felt too precise for me and I wasn’t having fun.
For Tokyo mirage session, it’s been a while since I’ve beaten it. But I remember there were shops and character slice of life episodes. Heck the shop is a combination of Anna and Jack Frost (there’s a hidden black frost Anna later on). But I understand if you didn’t enjoy it! That’s what makes us all different
I hate that when in games they make you redo bosses or other stuff. Like why? To me, it’s lazy game design.
@@femtrooperit has to do with plot progression. After you destroy the four crystals, you’re sent to a parallel world and decide to see what happens if you destroy the crystals again. This happens for four more chapters until the plot twist. It’s very annoying!
The one that hurts me is I dropped Dragon Quest XI. I was 100 hours in and was working towards the true ending (got the basic ending...but that's not the real ending...I know, spoilers). I played that game at the tail end of a long run of very lengthy RPGs which included Persona 5 (86 hours) and Pathfinder: Kingmaker (170 hours). I just ran out of steam with long RPGs and needed a break...and then the Definitive edition came out.
I intend to try again, but I'm waiting for a good time to try again.
DQXI is one of my favourite games of all time but it is LONG. I wish it was shorter.
I can’t believe I had to pay $70 for TMS from a reseller. Playing this on normal mode and it wasn’t too hard because I’ve played Megaten games before.
Yeah, I’m a totally n00b when it comes to SMT. Just not my style I guess.
They only game that comes to mind is Paper Mario and the Origami King, I got atleast 50-60 percent through the game and I lost to a boss that was taking forever, so I just gave it up, the battle system was no my thing at all.
I LOVED that game but I’ll admit it was very strange.
I probably "soft drop" a lot of games. Where I stop playing for whatever reason and just never end up going back to it. Not a choice I made to drop it.... but it's still kinda dropped lol
I get this!!!
Final fantasy 16..... I just couldn't take it anymore. It started of amazing and then I got tired of the boring side missions and the fact you could only level up armor and weapons if you prosper thru the story.
It was a SLOG! I beat it but it was definitely a struggle.
As a sonic fan i also dropped sonic mania i do LOVE sonic 1 and sonic 2 but that's it honestly
Interesting!
Bravely Default I gave up as it got too tough on the refight every boss section. Still going to play BD2. Eventually.
Yeah, it’s brutal!
Hey FemTrooper, this was a great video, can't wait for the next part. Regarding Bravely Default, the way to make it easy it to grind and grind and grind. When I played it, I decided to max out every job (which is overkill I know) but it made the game very easy. If you can stomach the grind, then the game is worth playing. Anyway have a great day and thanks again for the video.
Haha thanks! Maybe I’ll try it again someday!
JRPGs should never force you to grind to progress though, it's just boring.
@@armorvil That's unless you enjoy the grind :)
Forgot to answer the question 😅 I drop games all the time, because if I feel meh about them I usually end up thinking about things I want to play instead and I feel like I'm wasting my time. So if I still don't feel it after a couple of hours, it's gone! Here are some notable ones I binned:
.Hack//GU - Too much showing, not enough playing. I don't mind cutscenes but .Hack's attitude is "why have the player do something when you can show someone else doing it instead?" Cool boss appears? You can guarantee you won't fight it, it'll be done in a cutscene. Bleh.
Monster Hunter Stories 2 - It's a JRPG and I liked it but it was too long for me. I played for 44 hours and I was maybe halfway through. I struggle with long games, I tend to lose steam after a while, and this one has very little story. I want to go back to it eventually but I don't know if I could do another 50 hours.
Ys II - I've liked every other Ys game I've played but the last dungeon of Ys II suuuuuuuucks 😂 so even though I was probably only a couple of hours from the end, I just couldn't bear playing it any longer.
I’ve always wanted to try the Monster Hunter Stories series…I guess I’ll have to see!
@@femtrooper It is a good game and fun to play, I just struggle with anything longer than about 40 hours. I start to feel burnt out. I suspect you have stronger tolerance for long games than I do so you might be fine XD
Chained echoes is mine and I think i got story locked because I couldn't do anything except fight the boss. I couldn't grind my way out or do side missions because of how the game is structured and where i was at. Their is a demo bravely default 2 on the switch.
I want to try Chained Echoed and see what I think.
Cross Edge - I got stuck, so I grinded for 2 hours. Then I could progress for 5 minutes, then had to grind for another 2 hours, progressed, got stuck again. At some point I gave up. Apparently you're not supposed to use the party members that you like, but the ones that have synergy. That went over my head.
Ys Origin, Ys Oath in Felghana and Ys Ark of Napishtim - I suck. Got stuck on a boss, and gave up. I did finish Ys 8 though and I loved it. But it does make me hesitant to buy more Ys games. I got Celceta because it was cheap, and I'm interested in Ys 7 and 9 since they also use the party system which might make it a bit easier for me. But I'm not sure Ys 10 is going to be for me. I'm hesitant about Nayuta as well.
Folklore - I really really wanted to like this game. I played it in late 2022, so more or less a decade after it released. I think this game would be great with some quality of life updates. I felt like I was fighting the camera and controls more than the actual enemies.
I've had times where I got stuck in a narrow passageway because a big monster blocked my way out, I couldn't dodge because there was not enough space and I couldn't move past the monster because it was body blocking me, all the time the monster was attacking me and there was nothing I could do. The more frustrating part about this, is that the boundaries of what is walkable and what not are not very clear. So everything is green grass, and there's only a small bump in the grass indicating the walkable edge. So if you're busy dodging monsters, you might not see that you're walking into a death trap untill it's too late.
I also got turned around many times, since the map is sort of a dungeon crawler like thing, so everything looks kind of the same and the map only shows you which room you're in and not which way you're facing. With all the dodging around I would frequently backtrack instead of moving forward, and going back respawns the enemies.
The game has dual protagonists and they go through the same areas for each chapter. You can play all chapters for one of them and then go back for the other, or play a certain chapter for both of them back to back. I did them back to back, because I read there was a point halfway through the game where both protagonists need to be caught up anyway. Well, that makes for extremely boring gameplay, since the environments/maps are the same and if you want to do sidequests, those only get unlocked after you beat the chapter and send you right back into the same dungeon you just came out of. So if you do both protagonists including sidequests, you're going to be in the same dungeon 4 times in a row. This is everything that was wrong with the Soul Hackers 2 dungeons, but then twice as frustrating.
You can tame enemy monsters to add them to your party. It uses a very underused ability of the PS3 controller and the monsters are fun and varied. With a celtic theme, which you don't see that often. You're kind of encouraged to swap monsters as you go, kind of like Persona and SMT. Monsters aren't fused, but the ones in a new chapter are stronger than your old monsters. You can also strengthen your monsters, but for that you need to grind materials. With all of the frustrations that I had with the camera, controls, maps etc, the grind for materials was just too much. I gave up.
I'd really like a remake of Folklore though. I think it's a very unique game and if the camera, control and map issues get solved, I think it would be a fun game.
I would like to try Folklore!
Totally agreed on Tokyo mirage sessions. That game was a complete miss for me. It should have been right up my alley. I love JRPGs, especially SMT and persona. But I put about 25 hours into Tokyo mirage sessions and then I ended up dropping it.
Yeah, BORING!
I’ve been on the fence on continuing the 1st Octopath Traveler lately. It was fun for a while, but at about halfway it just feels very formulaic. I like the concept of a bunch of stories coming together but it just feels so disconnected
I dropped that haha, but I figured I’d mention it in another video. It got so insanely hard that I just couldn’t go on anymore lol
I got right up to the last boss on Bravely Default and then suddenly they made it so my specific team was useless and you are locked in to an airship with only 1 really bad place to fight enemies so lvling up a different set of classes that stand a chance will just be so tedious 😢.
Besides that the only time I can remember quitting a game with no intention of returning was Oblivion. Just found it such a disappointment.
Ugh!!! That’s awful and bad game design if you ask me.
Coming from a sonic fan . I grew up loving it however I completely get what you mean . Compared to a lot of other great platformers sonic hasn't really aged too well.
Interesting hearing that from a fan!
So I'm still confident that I'll finish it since I actually do love the game, but Xenoblade Chronicles 3 for me. I think it's just that I will be playing it and then another game comes out that I am super interested in and then I switch games. Pretty sure I'll get around to finishing XC3 though.
You can do it!
I technically dropped Hollow Knight. I beat it and got the bad ending, and I tried getting the good ending but I keep failing at killing the real final boss and decided to move on. Hurt a little because I really do like the game but once it started being a chore I decided it was time to drop.
Bravely Default is very hard and I dropped it myself but not becase it was hard but because the 3DS is uncomfortable to me. If they ever remaster it for modern home consoles I will take another stab at it.
They should bring it to the Switch!
I binged Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE so hard. It’s just so weird and dumb that it seems cool to me.
Dropped Mighty No. 9 (easy to see why). I also thought I would like Pokken Tournament, I enjoyed the demo once. I can’t get into the game
Sonic Mania was great to me but I played the originals up until Adventure and a little of the gba games. Aside from that I think the games are hit or miss (mostly miss) til this day so its not really a big deal.
i welcome the difficulty for games like Bravely Default. i used to start these types of games on hard but i switched to normal. think my file in Bravely Default is still on hard. i just like the idea of something cute and or silly being brutally challenging
I wish I liked it so much!!! It makes me sad lol
Bravely default is so good but there is so much to do over and over just to completely finish is.
Ugh, that sucks! It seemed so perfect for me and so not LOL
@@femtrooper I will say this, bravely default 2 is way better. Bravely second is really good but you better do your research lol
Just like books, I end up dropping most games 😅, or putting them aside, and forgetting about them, though I already have 70 hours on Tears of the Kingdom so I'll probably see that one through. Im very slow at things in general haha.
One game that I did finish was Metroid Dread and my wife was happy that I was finished with it, because she had never heard me yell and swear so much at a tiny screen before. A lot of games, I make it to the near end and lose interest because the final boss was too difficult and I figure that ive already seen almost everything there is to see.
It’s hard but I promise that sticking with one game and seeing the end credits is sooooo worth it! :)
Zelda twilight Princess ... i remember was not a game that you can stop playing for a while and then continue because you just lost yourself , and i love other Zelda games
And souls game they're just to hard for me 😅
I need to give that game another chance.
Sometimes I drop games that I'm really enjoying because something else comes out that I want to play. I did just finish Yakuza infinite wealth and I can already say it's my game of the year.
YAY! I’m currently playing it! On Chapter 13 out of 14! So close!
@@femtrooper good deal! So you already know lol.
I can so relate to your take on Bravely Default. There are difficulty spikes throughout but that wasn’t what made me want to drop the game. Without spoiling anything, I reached what i thought was the end game only to find out it wasn’t… then rinse and repeat…
I’m finding Bravely Second End Layer way more difficult than BD. Still in like the first chapters and have died many times during boss fights, even if my character’s levels are above the suggested range. If you found BD hard I would stay away from End Layer or play with a guide to get through the story. Or maybe I’m just getting worst at games as I age lol.
I heard about that end game thing and YIKES!!!
When I think of games I dropped, 2 in particular come to mind-- Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment and Final Fantasy IV Pixel Remaster. SAO: Hollow Fragment was enjoyable enough until this one character that just sort of suddenly appears in the story became legitimately rage-inducing for me. In the end, I had to ditch my playthrough of SAO: HF entirely and remove it from my PS Vita (I had bought the download version off of PSN). In the case of FFIV Pixel Remaster, don't get me wrong-- I've been a fan of Final Fantasy since the '90s. However, the boss battle with the Giant of Babel's CPU had me so fed up and infuriated that I swore off playing FFIV any further. Also, I didn't finish Sonic Mania or Bravely Default 1 either. No feelings of frustration or anger there though-- they just both got to a point where they weren't fun for me anymore.
If it’s no fun, DROP IT!
I dropped baldurs gate 3 halfway through. I really like the game but just don't have the time or motivation to finish.
Makes sense! It happens!
Hcbailly has a pretty good walk through for bravely default if you wanna watch a non spoiler walk through on UA-cam
Thanks!
I love the Bravely Default and Octopath series BUT they both suffer from the same problem of making the bosses way too hard compared to the normal encounters. It makes it so you either have to grind a lot or use some cheap strategy to cheese the battle and neither of those are fun imo.
Yeah, that’s super uncool haha