Me either, and I played a little. (Gaming)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Friday, December 11, 2015, 00:54 (3270 days ago) @ Funkmon

That is usually my limit on playing a game now. Within 10 seconds of shooting the first gun in Destiny I knew it was going to control my life. The first time I shot elites in the mess hall on PoA I knew I'd like Halo even if it was a corridor shooter. In the first 10 minutes of BioShock, I was hooked.

The only games I liked that didn't grab me in the first ten minutes are TLOU, which I powered through for mad.max, and Life is Strange, which I only came back to when I was bored and realised I downloaded the demo.

This may mean that I have to rethink my game testing policy, since those two games were probably in my top 5 of all time life changing games, but still.

Now, I download a lot of demos, play, decide I don't like em, and quit. Life's too short to play games that aren't fun.

I dunno. Playing a game for such a short amount of time, and passing judgement on that is a pretty lame thing to do. I try to play a game as long as I can before I decide for sure that I don't like it, since you have to get used to the game, and the ways in which it differs from your comfort zones. Especially in this day and age of progression systems, where games take a while to pick up and open up for players.

I bought Dark Souls, and played about five hours of it since everyone apparently loves it, and I absolutely hated the game every step of the way. The gameplay was stiff, the mechanics dull, the enemies cheap... But so many people loved it that I had to make sure that I wasn't missing something. Ultimately I gave up on it, since it never got better. I went on to play Dragon's Dogma, which is a similar game, but a million times more fun.

I also played Resident Evil 5, which I would give a 2/5 review-wise, but as a co-op game, it was really fun. If I had judged it on the demo alone, I never would have gotten it.

I'm having a similar experience right now with Fable Legends. Fable 2 and 3 were pretty lousy games, so my standards were low, especially since Legends has a pretty weak start, but the more I play, the more the charm is winning me over.

Imagine if everyone started playing Mass Effect, and gave up on it since the first two hours of it are mostly just walking around the Citadel and talking to people, and they found it boring... Think of all that they would miss...