Dumbest reason you quit a game

[Your Mom]

I feel like I might have done this before but like someone pointed out recently we've been at this a long time so everything old can be new again and this just came up for me so whatever  

Anyway I had decided Silent Hill 2 remake was going to be the next game I played but as I started I found out the sprint button is L1 and that's super awkward for me and I know I would be sprinting a lot so I just said fuck this and quit.

I can't figure out how to change it so I got like 10 minutes of play on a game I spent $50 on

[Mick]

I wouldn't say *dumb*, but I really didn't care for the car crash sounds in GTA IV. They were way too close to home, and it honestly made it so that I couldn't play it. 

[apsham]

1 hour ago, Your Mom said:

I feel like I might have done this before but like someone pointed out recently we've been at this a long time so everything old can be new again and this just came up for me so whatever  

Anyway I had decided Silent Hill 2 remake was going to be the next game I played but as I started I found out the sprint button is L1 and that's super awkward for me and I know I would be sprinting a lot so I just said fuck this and quit.

I can't figure out how to change it so I got like 10 minutes of play on a game I spent $50 on

It's pretty dumb that you can't remap on the PS5, but it looks to at least had the sprint toggle setting - you would then just have to tap it when you want to run at the very least.

[Ruki]

If I get an Xbox achievement that ends in a number that isn't a 0 or a 5. That is brought on by me playing a game and just getting 8.....

 

But I may be free of this now. Apparently I got an achievement that ended in a 2 from this game already, so I am stuck with a non-0 or 5 number forever!

[Benji]

I tried to replay GTA3 the other year and the old school style of controls just broke me. "X" to shoot is madness after evolving to shoulder buttons. I know I could change things but I'm lazy

[Bobfoc]

1 hour ago, Benji said:

I tried to replay GTA3 the other year and the old school style of controls just broke me. "X" to shoot is madness after evolving to shoulder buttons. I know I could change things but I'm lazy

I remember the Playstation version of the original GTA requiring you to hold down X to move forward. Even though it was back when developers were still getting used to the Playstation controller, it seemed like a baffling decision.

Something that didn't make me quit the game, but did sour me on the experience a little was in Fable 2. For some reason, the message "Press A to move furniture" got stuck at the top of the screen for the entirety of the game. I tried everything I could think of to get rid of it, but it clung stubbornly to the screen. It certainly drew my attention away from many of the game's biggest moments.

[SantAZM]

4 hours ago, Bobfoc said:

Something that didn't make me quit the game, but did sour me on the experience a little was in Fable 2. For some reason, the message "Press A to move furniture" got stuck at the top of the screen for the entirety of the game. I tried everything I could think of to get rid of it, but it clung stubbornly to the screen. It certainly drew my attention away from many of the game's biggest moments.

 

Also, a miniquest breaking because you entered a dungeon through the wrong door

[Benji]

49 minutes ago, SantAZM said:

 

Also, a miniquest breaking because you entered a dungeon through the wrong door

Vaguely related, the amount of times I've almost quit Skyrim because a random dungeon accidentally lead me to Blackreach and I couldn't find my way back out is very high.

[Dang117]

Not sure if it counts but I'll go with it anyway, Jedi Fallen Order's map layout and specifically Zeffo made me shut the game down for a good few months before going back

[GhostMachine]

Not so much as dumbest as much as the one that made me rage the most:

Blitz: The League for PS2. An American Football game with a storyline, where you advance sort of like in Soccer leagues. There's one particular game you have to win to advance, and I swear to this day that the game was cheating. I tried three times to win the game and lost. Fourth try? I have it pretty much won, with a close lead. Lo and behold, the other team starts blowing through my defense with less than 2 minutes left. The final straw? I've got one particular annoying WR covered, and the QB manages to throw a bomb that's so far downfield the WR runs backwards doing a wave taunt into the end zone. And no time left on the clock for me to attempt a comeback. THAT was the game waving `bye-bye'. I traded it in the next day.

The controls on that game were shitty.

 

Edited January 10 by GhostMachine

[Captain Kirk]

When I was younger(10) I quit Final Fantasy VII for about 6 months at the first reactor as I was so dumb I didn’t realise I was to go back the way I came once the bomb was set. 😂

Genuinely thought I was Einstein when I figured it out. Also ran away from almost every battle unknowingly have a super low level game.

[JasonM]

20 minutes ago, Captain Kirk said:

When I was younger(10) I quit Final Fantasy VII for about 6 months at the first reactor as I was so dumb I didn’t realise I was to go back the way I came once the bomb was set. 😂

Genuinely thought I was Einstein when I figured it out. Also ran away from almost every battle unknowingly have a super low level game.

This, but Grim Fandango. Never got beyond the second(?) area because I had no clue where I had to go or what I had to do.

[Bobfoc]

I would probably have stopped playing so many games if it weren't for the internet. I get stuck in games very easily, although modern quality-of-life features have tended to mitigate most of the reasons why.