Following months of frustration just to get it to work on our system, gave up on The Riddle of Master Lu after completing the Baron's Lab puzzle the first time with step-by-step instructions from walkthrough only to be faced with "now you have to undo what you just did and re-do it another way". Just threw my hands up and said "What's the point?"

Yes, it was true pleasure to uninstall it.

I gave up on ...

Rama - too much inventory

Myst III - couldn't get into it (not a big fan of the Myst series) and the game engine really bothered me

Normality - even when I turned down the sound I still couldn't stand the game.

I used to insist I finish every game that I started but now I feel like there are too many games and not enough time so I refuse to continue if I'm not enjoying it.

Kim

The Arrival and Nine for me. The Arrival for me was sort of like Schizm. Some puzzles seemed so technical (to my unscientific brain) they were boring. And Nine? Well, what can I say? Have to add the Crystal Key. Really boring.
Of course, without wts there would be a lot more!

Nine...the organ puzzle

The Longest Journey...talk, talk, talk

Ring II....I was really enjoying this game but for the life of me I couldn't get past the wall of nails. I tried for days and days. I'm too stubborn to accept a saved game. I'll try again some time.

~Dee

kwbridge: Did you not realize that in Rama you could get rid of all the little cards you were carrying around (or any other inventory items you didn't want anymore) by tossing them in the plastic bin back at the entrance to the main part of the ship?

The Ward gets my #1 vote, could not get through the LASER sequence just to open a door!
Then there was The Last Express......too frustrating even with a walkthrough
May give up entirely on Titanic An Adventure Out Of Time, started it more than once and it is just sitting on the shelf glaring at me!
There have been several that I did not get to start very well because of technical problems, don't remember what they are now...
Love, Betty Lou

So far I haven't given up completely on any adventure game. I've installed, played some and un installed quite a few however, but always tell myself I'll get through them some day and I will - some day.

But I swear the next time I try to play Nine, I'm going to shoot that annoying airplane right through the propeller

Hey Laura, wasn't it you that didn't finish Shivers? Or was that Syd?

~Dee

Wasn't me - I finished both of them - just never had the patience to keep doing the end sequence in Shivers II over and over and over and over in order to get the good ending - so I said to heck with it (actually I said something much stronger, but this is a family board after all) and let the bad guys win

Schizm, loved the graphics, but the game ugh!!! Also The Last Express, got killed too often in the beginning of the game, finally gave up.

Just because of the raves I tried the original Myst and Riven both of which I wound up giving up on. Just can't get into games that are mostly puzzles with thin stories surrounding them. I like games with strong plotlines and character interaction which is why the Tex, Gabriel,Broken Swords, TLJ (sorry Dee but the very reason you disliked it is why I did), Black Dahlia and am currently playing Hitchcock and loving it. Oh well as they say different strokes for different folkes.

Happy gaming,
Lewton

I jused to finish every game I started, then I started Simon 3. I have started it three times, but the first two times a bug stopped the game. Now I have installed a patch, and has started again. But I really don't think I will finish that.

I've given up on so many games I can't even remember them all. Whenever a game stops being fun -- hey, there's LOTS of other games calling to me.

I don't understand this urge to FINISH. Well, not if it takes a lot of work.

I also always read ahead in novels.

I gave up on Egypt 1, was just too much like work.

But my latest 'QUIT' will probably get me some flack

Omega Stone!!! I used the keycards just to visit the four main locations for a look, and ecstatically traded it for Salammbo.

Wow, I'm starting to feel like a real trouper after reading this thread. I have mentioned before that the only games I gave up on were Traitor's Gate (glitch) and Of Light and Darkness (totally lost). I WANTED to give up on The Ward but stuck that one out. It could have been such a good game.

Glitches will ruin a game faster for me than anything else. I've been very lucky that I've encountered very few of them and most can be worked around. A few Boomers sound like this happens frequently to them, so I send my sympathies. We all know how it feels to have a buggy game, ick.

I don't blame you a lot, Granny. I absolutely adored Riddle of the Sphinx. Which is why The Omega Stone gets my vote for the Biggest Disappointment of 2003. I don't know what happened to the Toblers, but for the most part, TOS was missing all the beauty and sheer FUN that made RotS such a delight. By the time we finished Chichen Itza in TOS I had a headache, needed a shower to get all the virtual grime off, and made myself a giant Bacardi & Pepsi.

After having stated this morning that the only game I ever gave up on was In Cold BLood, I'm thinking of giving up on another one - Arthur's Knights. I couln't play it two years ago on my old computer, because of my wimpy video card, so I tried it this afternoon with XP. It appears to be running so-so, but Holy Moley, what an awful interface! Mouse for inventory control, and keyboard to move your character around! Of course he keeps bumping into walls, but mostly he just shrugs his shoulders when I want him to do anything.

I've only been playing with it for about and hour, so I'll give it a little more time to see if this potential turkey is worth continuing with.

Koala Lumpur had an arcade sequence that I just couldn't too so I uninstalled it. (Other than that I liked the game though.)

ROTS A lot of people liked it but I was put off by the isolation and I don't like caves.

Rama - I don't play games to do math.

Hello,
Of Light and Darkness
The whole game is a timed sequence.
I finished American McGee's Alice with lots of saves and god mode cheats. I like point and click.
Starting Dark Fall,
Rick

Ok...oldman brought up what has become a very sore point with me.

Yes, Rama had some math in it. Some very basic math in Base 16 and in Base 8. There are even machines to assist you in doing the translation and give you tutorials in the simple addition and subtraction that is required set up adjacent to these two puzzles. Yes, there are only two little puzzles in the entire game which require math.

What seems to have stymied reviewers, walkthrough writers(with one notable exception) and players alike is that they all tried to use math to solve the puzzles of the keycard tiles. This is completely unnecessary, as the tiles cam be figured out using simple pattern recognition.

(Kudos to Tally Ho for recognizing and explaining it in his/her excellent walkthrough! I had it figured out on my own but ran across TH's walkthrough after I was done with the game and looking for advice on a particular point I had forgotten to help someone else.)

I compare it to a game puzzle where you are in a car and a tire goes flat. It seems that 99% of people went through the rigamarole of finding a rubber tree, tapping it, processing the rubber and making a new tire to put on the car. Tally Ho and I just looked in the trunk and put on the spare. Both methods work, but one kills the game and one lets it progress with minimal interruption.

It's true that the patterns on the (correct) tiles were rooted in many various alternative numbering systems. But every one of them could be solved by simple visual inspection of the tiles. ("Hmmm, in this set the dot moves 1 wedge clockwise in the outer ring with each succeeding tile, 4 wedges in the middle ring, and 2 in the center ring. So the missing tile must have dots here, here, and here.")

Sorry to temporarily hijack the thread like this, but as I said, this is a sore point with me. I believe that the reviewers who mention the hundred kinds of math necessary to play the game are scaring a lot of people away from discovering what I think is a truly great game. And the walkthrough writers who then offer those people who do buy the game the "rubber tree" solutions make sure hardly anyone finishes the game.

Pardon the interruption. We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread, already in progress.

HIYA>>>>>>>>
Burpee...thought we'd lost ya there and I agree with some of the things you came up with..Of Light and Darkness...are you kidding me????
~DEE...ROTHFLOL>>Your comment on TLJ >>>TALK TALK TALK>>>too funny..and true....but remember oit did come in as #1 game likede by all ..even WITH the Talking !!!!!!
I too never really got the point. BUT I'd have to say that there has never been one YET !!! that I completely gave up on...except Obsidian (Granny..you think you're going to get flack for Omega Stone)...I just did not see the logic in the pointlessness of going from one puzzle to the next ( it was like someone had lots of ideas for puzzles but no way to incorporate them into a logical theme-like grouping with story and all where what you did made sense to the game and it's ending. I took it out and gave it back to the person who so lovingly gave it to me..( I don't think they have really forgiven me for NOT liking it) But I did not..I at least tried it, and I could do it ...it just seemed pointless so I stopped...my bad !!!!!
Hanksdog

The more I read your posts - the more I like the way your mind works, Jim

First - yes Dee - I was the one who didn't finish Shivers. What annoyed me was that you could only carry one lid around. I love the puzzles and the atmosphere - but the other feature aggrivated me at the time. I will finish it and just need to be in the right frame of mind.

Back to Jim.

I agree with the rubber tree analogy. I can never do a WT because I have such odd ways of solving game puzzles. For one thing if there is a number combo puzzle and it is 3 digits I will most certainly just cycle the numbers rather than look around or try to figure out the solution. I am there - it won't take long and then I can look in the safe or door or whatever the lock is hiding.

Mechanical puzzles I tend to fiddle with and click stuff. You never know and many times it somehow just gets solved. Why did it work? - don't know and I don't care. It's done. The railroad track puzzle in Schizm was a good example: I just played with the tracks - saw them moving in the right direction and fiddled with it here and there. Problem solved onto the next one.

I will solve a puzzle if required and some tickled me - some ticked me off. But I am always more into the story, characters, music and stuff than the puzzles. Unless of course it is a puzzle game that I am playing for that reason only. Like Cassandra Galleries, Milo, Mystery Museum. 7th Guest.

Wild Wild West was a game that I really liked - because there were always ways to be clever and get around a bad guy or situation without shooting. SO either way would work. I admire games with built in flexibility or a variety of clues to a possible solve. I of course used the visual clues to many puzzles in Rama myself. I don't think mathmatically but abstractly.

Now

Laura

I'll tell you the most simple way to do that Laura, email me when you're ready. I play Shivers all the time to relax. I love the music and graphics.

~Dee

Well, as anyone who reads the Glitches Forum knows, I spent days and bothered people who really tried to help me trying to run Flight of the Amazon Queen. I couldn't do it and really felt badly about it, because Jenny100 and Scout went to a lot of trouble to help.

Thanks Sweetie, I haven't given up on the game - loved the rest of it.

Laura