Fallout RPGs you will NEVER come back to.

[Dark Souls II]

Dark Souls II.

 

[ferratilis]

7- Wasteland II: Played soon after release. Huge disappointment, even while not really expecting it to be another Fallout. Mid to lategame is absolute trash.

Wait what? The game is boring af while in Arizona, when you get to California it gets much better and opens up, and it has a nice climax. Maybe you've mixed it up with something else?

Sometimes I feel like the only person on Codex who actually likes W2, even though it was voted in the top 100 in 2019.

 

[Fargus]

7- Wasteland II: Played soon after release. Huge disappointment, even while not really expecting it to be another Fallout. Mid to lategame is absolute trash.

Sometimes I feel like the only person on Codex who actually likes W2

Nah, there are two of us

 

[AlwaysBrotoMen]

Witcher 3

 

[Nas92]

7- Wasteland II: Played soon after release. Huge disappointment, even while not really expecting it to be another Fallout. Mid to lategame is absolute trash.

Wait what? The game is boring af while in Arizona, when you get to California it gets much better and opens up, and it has a nice climax. Maybe you've mixed it up with something else?

Sometimes I feel like the only person on Codex who actually likes W2, even though it was voted in the top 100 in 2019.

Everyone says what you're saying, but I actually agree with the guy you're replying to. Arizona was a slog and California was somehow even worse. Aside from the annoying robot and synth ambushes, I only remember how utterly retarded God's Militia was (their songs were pretty nice though gotta admit). I'm not a practicing Christian, but I was offended on their behalf. Also just plain mad that Fargo promised complex moral choices when basically 99% of the choices are black and white.

 

[Serious_Business]

Probably the Gothic series. Like them a lot, especially G2, but for once I remember it being fucking exhausting, and then the state of third-person rpgs changed a lot since then. I know you got the PB gremlins, but I don't get it, I'd rather play some Fromsoft game to be honest, or maybe some "Soulslike" like Lies of P. The challenge of figuring out an open-world by identifying what zone is made for early, mid and late game isn't so exciting, and it's purely knowledge-based, there's no skill involved. Especially with that combat system, oof. This bothers me because I did want to try out the Archolos mod, but so far I sadly don't see myself pushing through.

 

[Semiurge]

Skyrim. I can never get back the hours I wasted on it, and I'm not about to waste more on such a formulaic sandbox with boring quests. I'd much rather replay Oblivion even, unmodded it's ugly as sin but the quests are better and the world feels more alive despite the fact that Skyrim uses a refreshed engine with (allegedly) more advanced A.I.

 

[JarlFrank]

Dragon Age.

I played a pirated version back in 2009, at some point I added it to my Steam wishlist with the intent of maybe playing it again one of these days...
But every time there's a Steam sale and I scroll through my wishlist and see Dragon Age Origins I remember the incredible amount of copypasted trash mobs this game throws at you, and how drained I felt when I finished it. This game gave me trash mob PTSD. And the tedious amount of literally copypasted encounters is the only thing I can think of whenever I see this game.

I don't think I want to submit myself to this torture again.

 

[Lemming42]

If we're limiting it only to games we enjoyed, I don't think I'll play Fallout 2 again very often. Every time I've revisited it in recent years I've enjoyed it less and less, to the point where I'm pretty sure if I played it now I'd just feel antipathy toward it above all else.

I don't know if I'm likely to bother replaying the 80s Ultima games either. I've played each of them once and I appreciate them but I just can't be arsed.

Wastleand 2 is a game which I quite liked and which I keep thinking about replaying but the various barriers are just too high to make the idea appealing - it's janky, it's badly paced, it starts off on the wrong foot, etc.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Games that have the combination of a pregenerated protagonist and a plethora of cutscenes featuring that protagonist, e.g. The Witcher III and Kingdom Come: Deliverance. The irritation of not being able to customize the player-character is made far worse by being forced to view and listen to that character in cutscenes that cumulatively last for hours over the course of a game, while the game's reliance on cutscenes is made far more irritating by the presence of a protagonist foisted on the player by the developers. Even though these games can still be enjoyable, as was the case for the two listed, replayability is obliterated.

 

[Raghar]

RPG that have story that depends on surprise. Basically you read book once and you know the surprise thus, what remains?

 

[baba is you]

Whenever I replay the Ultima series, I always skip Ultima 2.

 

[Funposter]

As others have said, of course you need to limit this to games that are actually good. You guys don't need to know that I'm not planning on replaying Gothic 4.

1. Mass Effect 1/2 - played to death at the time, don't feel the need to revisit them knowing how it all ends. Might have got all of the Xbox 360 achievements, for reference.
2. Dragon Age: Origins - sort of the same thing, although I didn't like it as much as ME. Played through it three times as the different base classes, got all of the 360 achievements.
3. The Age of Decadence - enjoyed it quite a lot, but I think I got everything out of it that I really could, even with just the single playthrough. The setting was cool and I was most interested in learning about it, more than the gameplay.
4. Divinity: Original Sin - doesn't feel like there's any reason to play it after the release of DOS 2, although that game has its own problems that make it difficult to pick up again.
5. ELEX - cool game, but not one that feels like it has all that much replay value.
6. The Witcher 2 - played it twice on release, got what I wanted out of it.
7. Dark Souls - probably sunk 300+ hours into it across all of the different playthroughs back in 2012-4 and officially ruined it for myself.

Was going to include The Witcher 3 and Elden Ring on here but I still have a Death March playthrough of TW3 to finish (it would genuinely require like three hours to finish) and I sort of want to play the expansion at some point. Elden Ring I may return to for the expansion content once it's on sale, but I found the game to be equally fun and annoying on release. The scale was just too big, lots of superfluous content. Probably don't need to dig through it all now that everybody knows where the good gear is.

Also yes a lot of this stuff is from the early 2010s when RPGs sucked. I was in high school and actually had the spare time to play RPGs, let alone complete them.

 

[Inec0rn]

Pretty much all of them after 1 decent playthrough.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Realms of Arkania HD

 

[Jaesun]

Deus Ex: Invisible War. Played and finished it once. It was like what in the fuck were they thinking (Consoles). That still pisses me off.

 

[santino27]

Neverwinter Nights 2 - I will not suffer through the starting area again. Fuck that, even if that means I won't get to play MOTB.

I don't get this one. MOTB is largely a separate campaign. Yes, there are some references to the OC, obviously as it's the same character story-wise, but you can just create a new character and jump directly to it without playing the NWN2 OC again at all.

As for my game list... I am more into the story than the combat (while wanting a game to do well at both), so once I've completed a game and exhausted the story possibilities, I'm pretty much done with it. Give it a few years though and I'll have forgotten enough to make a replay worthwhile as long as I have vaguely positive impressions of that game.

 

[huskarls]

essentially everything 'good for what it was' where i neither recommend it or dissuade some one from playing it: wizardry, f3, divinity original sin, dragon age origins. I feel like fallout 3 is a good rule of thumb for some of you guys here, we really shouldn't be recommending games worse than fallout 3. there's a place for discussing games that aren't very good, but we need to set a certain minimum respect for human time where there should be a advisory when a game drops below it

 

[CanadianCorndog]

I almost completed another run through Fallout 2 but got hit by the save game corruption bug near the end. I didn't want to backtrack a couple of hours because it's so tedious to destroy the turrets. The first eight hours of grinding in the game are also dull. It was great for its time, but I can't imagine doing another run. The vibe and setting are more interesting than the gameplay. The writing and dialogue are weak, but I appreciate that they made every group at least a bit evil. The pop culture references are stupid. The death animations are great when you do heavy damage. The game is a mixed bag.

 

[Beans00]

It's easy to pick a shit game. I played torment numabluba once. Playing it again was crazy, but playing it in the first place was crazy.


Might & magic 6

It probably took me ~24 months and ~250 hours to beat the game, maybe longer. The terminator robots at the end are a form of cruel and unusual punishment.

Just googling MM6 TERMINATOR, once I saw that it sent a shiver down my spine.

 

[BruceVC]

The only games I can say with certainty I wont play again are games that I find were boring around the narrative and I measure that on a simple question " do I remember the overall narrative now "

Because if I cant remember anything about the point of a game then I wont replay it

And that includes Kingdom of Amalur and DA:I

But apart from that with the wonderful and comprehensive world of modding I can change and improve so many things I like replaying certain games like Oblivion and F:NV

 

[Ryzer]

Dragon Age.

I played a pirated version back in 2009, at some point I added it to my Steam wishlist with the intent of maybe playing it again one of these days...
But every time there's a Steam sale and I scroll through my wishlist and see Dragon Age Origins I remember the incredible amount of copypasted trash mobs this game throws at you, and how drained I felt when I finished it. This game gave me trash mob PTSD. And the tedious amount of literally copypasted encounters is the only thing I can think of whenever I see this game.

I don't think I want to submit myself to this torture again.

There is more trash mobs in Morrowind than in Dragon Age Origins.

 

[Losus4]

Your mom.

I have reported you to the moderation team.

 

[*-*/\--/\~]

Dragon Age.

I played a pirated version back in 2009, at some point I added it to my Steam wishlist with the intent of maybe playing it again one of these days...
But every time there's a Steam sale and I scroll through my wishlist and see Dragon Age Origins I remember the incredible amount of copypasted trash mobs this game throws at you, and how drained I felt when I finished it. This game gave me trash mob PTSD. And the tedious amount of literally copypasted encounters is the only thing I can think of whenever I see this game.

I don't think I want to submit myself to this torture again.

Heh, looks like I made no mistake by ignoring that game.

 

[Maxie]

Trails of Cold Steel 1. One was more than enough for me to lose interest in the entire series.