The Worst RPG You Spent The Most Hours On

[Ladonna]

Pool of Radiance 2. Being a huge fan of the original, I kept playing through, hoping for the payoff. It never really appeared, though the second part was a bit better.

 

[thesecret1]

D:OS2, probably. Started alright but got worse and worse with every hour. Dropped about midway through.

More recently, Solasta. Only put in about 10 hours, but I was terminally bored all throughout.

 

[J_C]

LOL at all the people who make excuses for playing games like Pillars, Divinity OS, Witcher, Pathfinder for hundreds of hours. Just admit that you liked them fuckers, no need to play the cool codex kid.

 

[Fronzel Neekburm]

81 hours logged in Underworld Ascendant!

(Easily twice that if you count the un-logged hours I spent playing backed up copies of earlier builds)

 

[rusty_shackleford]

LOL at all the people who make excuses for playing games like Pillars, Divinity OS, Witcher, Pathfinder for hundreds of hours. Just admit that you liked them fuckers, no need to play the cool codex kid.

I genuinely hate deadfire though.
Liked wm1+2

 

[typical user]

Dragon Age: Inquisition.

Jeez I felt lobotomized after I finished every single fetch-quest, every single question mark and did absolutely everthing in the base game.

 

[Ryzer]

Morrowind/Oblivion/Skyrim, I tried to fix the game as much as I can. Unfortunately, even the core of games must be changed in order to make it good.

 

[jackofshadows]

Why oh why had I thought this would be a promising thread? Oblivion, Witcher 3, PkM… yaaaawn. Those are your worst RPGs that you've played for hours upon hours? Give up on the entire genre maybe then finally?

On topic: that recent Swansong vampire game, 5-6 hours that I gave to it was too much for sure.

That is not quite right. It is about the worst RPG you spent the most hours on. That does not even mean that the RPG is particularly bad per se. Just the relatively worst in which you sunk a lot of hours in compared to better RPGs which you actually might have spent less on since they are shorter or have less replay value. See Daggerfall vs Planescape:Torment.

To quote OP:

Just point out that one RPG you have more hours logged on than is reasonable for such a crap game.

Take Oblivion for example: yes, it's a very crappy game and yet it still deserves its spot at the Codex 101, get what I'm saying? If someone feels that there're better things to do than to play Oblivion (there certainly are) then just drop that shit and do something else. Problem is, this approach goes beyond RPGs if not gaming in general. But my point was more about avoiding of citing x game from the same top 101 or any well-known around here one (although it was cool to read as Pink Eye cite PkM but that was an exception).

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

edit: $32 lol

 

[perfectslumbers]

Earlier i said Skyrim and TW3 but that was a mistake. I must've purged DOS:2 from my memory. I would've quit earlier but I was doing a coop playthrough with my girlfriend and ended up spending 120 hours on it. It's one of the worst RPG's I've ever played, matched only by Dragon Age 2 and Inquisition. The combat is garbage and becomes extremely repetitive once you unlock all your abilities (which happens quite early,) and the dynamic surfaces of the first game turned into an undispellable permanent fire caltrops, ruining the thing that made the first game so engaging. The writing and companions were mostly terrible too, at least the first game didn't take itself seriously, the second game was constantly going between grimdark and quirky. Some of the companions like Fane and The Beast were alright but most of them came off like tumblr ocs or something. It's like if you're playing a D&D campaign and you're just a normal adventurer while the DM is showing off all their cool and quirky NPCS that are totally better than you. This can be fixed by picking an origin character but I hate the idea of playing someone elses character in an otherwise freeform expansive CRPG.

Good engine though. I look forward to BG3

 

[Pink Eye]

Skyrim

childhood

I'm getting too old

Skyrim came out when I was 15, how old do you feel?

 

[CanadianCorndog]

I think I put 40+ hours into Oblivion. I played it when my first kid was born and I would veg out on the couch and play it while he slept on my chest. I can't remember anything remarkable about it except some of the lighting in the caves was well done.

 

[Not.AI]

I think I put 40+ hours into Oblivion.

Yep, Oblivion get my vote. I think I even had made some mods for it back then <- cringe

 

[Inhabitants of Khorinis]

Codexcel: I played this game for 60 hours and I came to the conclusion that it's shit.

Some retard: Lol, you silly boy, you played this game for 60 hours? Just admit you liked it.

Codexcel: I played this game for 3-5 hours and I came to the conclusion that it's shit.

Some retard: Noooo, that's not merely enough time to objectively judge this masterpiece, play it MOORE!

 

[Serus]

Grim Dawn is the one.
How long? I can't remember - that long.
Why? The gambling machine gameplay? Boredom?

Other D2-clones come close but at least in Diablo 2 itself I made a friend that i keep contact with after more than 15 years. I also learnt a thing or two about trading that can be related to real life (seriously). In Titan Quest and Path of Exile I had some fun. No such excuse for Grim Dawn.

 

[V_K]

I finished Divine Divinity when it came out. In my defence, I was 18 and had too much time on my hands.

 

[BanEvader]

Skyrim.
I still remember creating a character, leveling up, finishing the tutorial, reaching Riverwood and wondering "but where do I pick my class?" Then I finally realized.
But you know I bought the fucking thing and there was a lot of content so I finished it.
...
And then replayed it for a second time. I guess the landscapes were nice.

 

[Tony]

Good question! I'm not certain. Probably one from my childhood. Choices were limited back in the olden days. I can't think of any I dislike. I did, recently, try to replay through Wizardry 6 and wasn't able to get into it. I couldn't stop playing it when it came out, and replayed it a bunch. Ultima Underworld would be another. I also played Ultima Ascension way too much, as well as Betrayal at Krondor. When I was young and broke, if I paid money for something nothing was going to stop me from getting my money's worth.

 

[Sjukob]

Codexcel: I played this game for 60 hours and I came to the conclusion that it's shit.

Some retard: Lol, you silly boy, you played this game for 60 hours? Just admit you liked it.

Codexcel: I played this game for 3-5 hours and I came to the conclusion that it's shit.

Some retard: Noooo, that's not merely enough time to objectively judge this masterpiece, play it MOORE!

LOL at all the people who make excuses for playing games like Pillars, Divinity OS, Witcher, Pathfinder for hundreds of hours. Just admit that you liked them fuckers, no need to play the cool codex kid.

Frankly, I don't even understand why that "argument" exists.

Some people make effort to quit their bad habbits, get a healthier life style, get a better job, realize that they've been doing something wrong and stop it. And, of course, it's viewed as something positive, yet for some reason when it comes to video games the same logic doesn't apply. Why? I don't know. Better late than never I say.

 

[Robotigan]

I can't even remember the name of it, but it was some flash game where you picked a starting character then conquered the entire world by going from town to town and defeating each town's champion and his army. You could hire your own lackies and purchase better equipment at towns. Kind of like Mount & Blade, but the quality of a flash game.

 

[J_C]

LOL at all the people who make excuses for playing games like Pillars, Divinity OS, Witcher, Pathfinder for hundreds of hours. Just admit that you liked them fuckers, no need to play the cool codex kid.

Frankly, I don't even understand why that "argument" exists.

Some people make effort to quit their bad habbits, get a healthier life style, get a better job, realize that they've been doing something wrong and stop it. And, of course, it's viewed as something positive, yet for some reason when it comes to video games the same logic doesn't apply. Why? I don't know. Better late than never I say.

Quitting a bad habit still means that you enjoyed doing that bad habit, even if it was bad for you. The same applies here. You enjoyed playing that videogame, no need to make excuses.

 

[Lady Error]

Among more recent "gems", played Operencia for about 15 hours and was bored the whole time. Somehow hoped it would get better, but I doubt it.

 

[Laz Sundays]

Lionheart - Legacy of the Crusader. I'm still playing it. Every year. It's garbage and I like it, so many elements of it are cool and relaxing.

 

[agris]

edit: $32 lol

why is this shit ok? It's functionally the same as "Pownden Kameltow: A Hetero Chad Adventure"

 

[Maxie]

new vegas most likely. i just liked the hiking everything else was dreary shit