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Games fulfil their role as long as they're fun or provide a fun challenge and/or a sufficient reward for beating the challenge. But what to do when the game fails in this respect while still making you feel that you shouldn't leave any business unfinished?
What are your thoughts and experiences?
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In relation to this I thought about the thing I called "the braking point" (it's the moment where you don't feel like playing anymore because of slow storytelling, sloppy level design, lack of challenges, character growth going stale, unenticing rewards, unneccessarily high difficulty preventing you from progressing in the game), and found where in the first Sacred game this point lies.
The first locations are finely hand-designed, and were enourmously immersive (the exploration was great) but after the first checkpoint in one of the first cities you visit, the finely crafted locations dissappear and instead you get vast, basically empty spaces like the plains or later the desert and the lava wasteland where objects like rocks or trees were just randomly strewn accross the map, which makes these locations simply boring. One one hand it's good the game gave you a freedom to explore, but apart from the cities and towns and some special locations there was nothing to explore, and the large amounts of constantly respawning monsters does help either). Despite the fact that the stats of items in the shops grew proportionally to my levels, I had so much money, I could buy anything and yet there was nothing to spend the money on, because I managed to collect a set of good rare and unique items.
Another breaking point was in a remake of an early Final Fantasy game for the Nintendo DS. I went back to NPCs who pretty much turned out to be monsters whom I had to fight one after another, and which beat me every time. Seeing that I had to grind before the boss battle (which was tedious), and that I didn't have enough healing potions to grind, I simply gave up.
For my brothers it was the endless walking around and fetch quests that made them stop playing Neverwinter Nights.