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Ever given up on a game for technical or usability reasons?

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Warhammer Online is currently patching after I manually altered the URLs it was hitting in a config file. If it continues to persist in not fucking working then I'm out, with close to half my monthly bandwidth down the drain and nothing to show for it. It's safe to say that this would qualify as a negative impression of the game, one that I'd be sure to share with others in future. :lol:

I've little patience for games that hand me problems or don't meet expectations these days. Red Alert 3 was axed within fifteen minutes after I couldn't progress through the tutorial because I don't have a middle mouse button and the control menu provided no workaround. Assassin's Creed suffered a similar fate when it appeared that someone had copy/pasted analogue stick code from the Xbox 360 version onto my mouse. Similarly I discarded Metroid Prime 3 on Wii after I couldn't get the hang of the control system in ten minutes. I didn't make it even that far into Unreal Tournament III after being hit with a console-style 10-foot menu screen.
 
Madden 08 constantly crashes on my PC. I'm thinking it's because I'm using a Radeon video card instead of an nVidia. Either way, had to let it go.
 
The most recent would be MLB Front Office Manager 2009, which is a baseball game where you take on all of the roles of GM and also the manager to some extent. The problem is, the interface is very poorly designed, and it is almost impossible to do anything easily, like call up a player. The game didn't even make it clear that I had to offer contracts to a few of my younger players (it seemed like their contracts were still valid). So without warning, I was missing half of my roster and I had to restart the sim. I even read a negative review of the game which explained all of the problems, but I ignored it to my peril. After about the second attempt at running a team I just gave up, as it was too annoying. This is coming from someone who enjoys the kind of 'spreadsheet baseball' sims like the Baseball Mogul series (which is far superior and WAY better designed).
 
BOTF. The slowdown that occurred as you went on made it unplayable after a point
 
Dead Space on the PC. Gave up on it because the controls just make the game unplayable. Why they refused to let you use the Xbox 360 controller I don't know.

Plus, Mass Effect is full of bugs too.
 
Path of furon is not merely a derivative and awful game in almost all aspects, it is also horribly broken. A sad and terminal chapter in what was once an enjoyable series.
 
Star Trek new worlds jumps to mind, the game was a 3d RTS and on release it would crash constantly no matter what you did, the game was dumped into the wild and never patched, it was at best a beta build.

And to add icing to the cake there was no save game during the missions, and like most RTS games can you imagine playing a level for a good few hours only to have it crash on you just before your victory and then you had to do it all over again.
 
I still play Catan from Xbox Live Marketplace, but playing against the computer is the most frustrating thing because they cheat worse than Mario Kart. Yet I keep on playing.
 
i'm confused as to what you're referring to in UT3...

i've given up on Hind because you can NOT get the fucking helicopter to fly straight and level. at best you rollercoaster through the sky.
 
My worst was probably the PC port of Resident Evil 4. Bad enough that it didn't offer a keyboard control option, but the gamepad movement and aiming were way too sensitive and twitchy an adjusting the settings didn't seem to help at all. I gave up about a third of the way through.
 
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Haggis and Tatties said:
Star Trek new worlds jumps to mind, the game was a 3d RTS and on release it would crash constantly no matter what you did, the game was dumped into the wild and never patched, it was at best a beta build.

And to add icing to the cake there was no save game during the missions, and like most RTS games can you imagine playing a level for a good few hours only to have it crash on you just before your victory and then you had to do it all over again.
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That's pretty much the only one that I can think of
 
After playing a third of Far Cry 2 the glitch emerged that didn't let me save anymore. I don't have X-Box Live to download the patch to fix it. See ya! The good news is I bought it for clearance at $10 and I just sold it on Amazon for $16 :D
 
Star Trek Legacy on the PC had on screen instructions from the X-Box version. How the hell am I supposed to get phaser lock pressing the 'yellow A' button on a platform that doesn't even have it?

Then when I finally got through to the TOS missions, for some reason I was stuck with Archer's Enterprise. Not good.
 
Cutter John said:
My worst was probably the PC port of Resident Evil 4. Bad enough that it didn't offer a keyboard control option, but the gamepad movement and aiming were way too sensitive and twitchy an dadjusring the settings didn't seem to help at all. I gave up about a third of the way through.
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Capcom have come a long way on the PC since then, their recent Streetfighter IV benchmark is impressive. I'd love to see this sort of thing as standard in the industry.
 
I gave up on the Battlestar Galactica xbox game
save points were just too few and far between
 
Anthony Sabre said:
Madden 08 constantly crashes on my PC. I'm thinking it's because I'm using a Radeon video card instead of an nVidia. Either way, had to let it go.
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I use Radeon cards on both my PCs (HD 4850 on my desktop and an X600 on my old laptop) and never had a bit of trouble with Madden 08. Not that you're really missing out. ;)

I almost gave up on KOTOR due to technical issues. That game DOES hate ATI cards. Every playthrough I had to suffer through 1-2fps whenever I was outside on Dantooine. :scream:
 
A couple of years ago I had bought a new desktop and at the same time I purchased the latest version of Silent Hunter, a WWII sub simulator that I really enjoyed in it's previous incarnations. And for whatever reason, I couldnt' seem to get it to work right on my new PC although it supposedly had more than enough horsepower to run the game. So I never got to play it.

Incidents like that are the reason why I'm a dedicated console gamer and will almost never play a PC game now. I'm also not surprised to see that a good deal of the responses to this thread involve PC games.
 
I had Desert Storm for PC (heli sim) and the copter would always go nose down first when you moved the joystick. It made low-level flight impossible. Now the game is the drink coaster on my desk.
 
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