gaming Most Repetitive Video Games!

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 40,207]

Games. Games are fun right?! WRONG!! Well, sometimes wrong. Sometimes games can be fun, other times, they aren't as fun, one reason could be due to the extremely repetitive nature of the game. So we shall discuss that here. What are some games that just scream repetitive to you?  Why is it repetitive? 

 

Here is a recent one for me:

 

Hand of Fate: This rogue-lite card game RPG seems like it has tons of promise, but the game quickly becomes insanely repetitive with its repeating cards, dull combat and constant loading. Then if you get killed, you must start all over, like any rogue-lite, but here, it just feels so tedious that I have found myself to become bored with the game in less than a week. Good thing it was Free with Gold on Xbox One. 

[Megas 27,041]

As much as I like it, Dynasty Warriors, especially the bunch between DW4 and DW8. I mean it's basically "swing your weapon and defeat a billion dudes on your screen until your thumb goes numb" and the fact that each game is basically a remake of the last game with not much change doesn't help. 3 was a big improvement over 2, 4 was big over 3, but 5-7 feels like nothing's changed and just come off as the same shit with minimal changes. 8 was the first in a while that actually felt like a step forward

[Randimaxis 8,633]

PONG.

 

*drops the mic*

[CandyStrike 603]

Most platformers.  I don't know if I just have a low tolerance for retrying the same thing or I'm so bad at it that I'm repeating more then you should have to.

[1Bit 1,531]

Destiny's core is built off of repetitiveness. When you're on a constant grind through the same missions, strikes and raids constantly with little else to do in the way of entertainment...things get damn repetitive really quickly.

[pyroshark 19]

Maybe its just for me but in the later sections of Pokemon the grinding when your not strong enough to win but not weak enough to capture new ones.

[Chara 1,565]

The Order: 1886 is the most repetitive game I have ever put my hands on. 5 years of planning and development should not of gave us such a crappy game. Call of Duty is also very repetitive (wait for the haters to come), its core idea is do THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER, its crap and it gets boring after the first month.

 

Destiny's core is built off of repetitiveness. When you're on a constant grind through the same missions, strikes and raids constantly with little else to do in the way of entertainment...things get damn repetitive really quickly.

Destiny is basically do this, then do that, then do the same thing again. I play Destiny myself, but the only reason I play it is because I have friends that play it.

[Discordian 6,013]

I Wanna Be The Guy. It's kind of the way the game was designed to be.

[Jokuc 8,172]

Cookie clicker and Flappy Bird. They're fun for a while but get old very fast.

[Riganthor 483]

dragone age inquisition, just what the hell is this whole inquistition points and side quests being so bland?

[cmarston1 5,951]

Every single free to play game on the mobile market.

Edited February 7, 2016 by cmarston1

[Makazi 317]

Warframe. Kill enemies and grind for new gear, rinse and repeat.

[Fun Fact 24]

The Witcher, I bought three and sold it within two or three days. I was bored of side quests before I finished the second main quest.

[Mand'alor Dash 2,224]

BioShock 2. Fight a big daddy, escort the little sister around and fight the same enemies a thousand times, get ADAM. Rinse and repeat for the entire game.

[Castle Bleck 19,163]

Batman Begins.

 

You just do the same few moves over and over again.

 

Also, Batman's animations suck.

Edited February 7, 2016 by A.V.

[TailsIsNotAlone 3,694]

I'm shocked no one has mentioned this yet, but...I gotta go with "E.T." for the Atari 2600. I have personally played it, on an actual Atari 2600 machine with an original Atari controller and my own cartridge copy of the game. (They're not hard to find, despite the fact that millions of them were destroyed in a New Mexico landfill years ago.)

 

It is as repetitive, and boring, and just plain BAD, as everyone says it was. Many Atari games are very repetitive by today's standards. However, they were also fun to play. E.T. is not fun to play, which makes the drudgery far more painful. 

 

E.T. is walking across a field. There are holes in the field. E.T. will fall into these holes one by one to see if anything is at the bottom. Your job is to levitate him out of the holes in an extremely slow and frustrating manner, until you run out of holes. That is the entire game.

 

It killed gaming in the Western world for 4-5 years.

 

(Warning: language)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8APwHQUHwY

[Buttonmash1973 1,024]

 

Bridge it for Amstrad CPC 464.

[Detritus 258]

I'm gonna say Final Fantasy XIII. I've been playing it lately, and much of the game feels like a tedious chore. I can only play it for short periods before I grow tired of it.

[Odyssey 5,713]

The Pokémon series, hands down.

 

I get that that Pokémon is skewed to a younger audience, but it still doesn't excuse how painfully boring it is. Rather than taking risks with the gameplay, they always play it safe and stick with the same formulas they've been using since the Red/Blue days. I know that they've done changes like the Physical/Special split, but even so, it doesn't excuse how Game Freak always takes the easy way out with these games. And it really doesn't help that with each new generation, the games get easier. Again, I know this series is mainly for children, but still.

Edited February 8, 2016 by Entropy

[VengefulStrudel 1,486]

Cookie Clicker? Cookie Clicker.

 

Diablo, as much as I love it, can sometimes get a little stale. Kill everything, get loot, salvage loot, gamble for legendaries, rinse and repeat. Of course it gets less repetitive if you're using a godlike-one-hit-KO-the-entire-screen build.

[TheAnimationFanatic 3,543]

Batman Begins.

 

You just do the same few moves over and over again.

 

Also, Batman's animations suck.

Be thankful that you didn't play Batman Forever on the SNES or Batman & Robin on the PlayStation. Both of which had repetitive gameplay and crippled controls.

[Jest (Inactive) 875]

Every MMORPG every created on the face of the earth. Kill 10 pigs, return to exelceor the elf, congratulations you have earned 5 healing potions! Go forward and meet Malgorn the elf in the <Generic city name here> for you're next exciting mission! 

[Limeblossom 482]

I think about games with boring and unnecessary stretched levels without challenge. You can find many of them on the Wii, since the console became a dump-corner for shovelware.

[Jon the VGNerd 842]

The Pokémon series, hands down.

 

I get that that Pokémon is skewed to a younger audience, but it still doesn't excuse how painfully boring it is. Rather than taking risks with the gameplay, they always play it safe and stick with the same formulas they've been using since the Red/Blue days. I know that they've done changes like the Physical/Special split, but even so, it doesn't excuse how Game Freak always takes the easy way out with these games. And it really doesn't help that with each new generation, the games get easier. Again, I know this series is mainly for children, but still.

 

Don't forget the TV series. The plot became awfully recycled to the same thing instead of actually focusing on the main plot. The series itself has become lost, just like the TV series itself would.

[QuirkyUsername 1,576]

Borderlands. It's fun with friends but once the lulzrandum humor wears off it's nothing more than a dry, repetitive FPS with light RPG elements shoved in.

Edited February 9, 2016 by QuirkyUsername