Which Film/TV/Game/Book is to better abandoned early?

Ironhide wrote:

LewisD wrote:

Knoyleo wrote:

Ironhide wrote:Half-life 2 - just before Ravenholm

Insane, one of the games best parts.

Surprised he's not getting pulled up on this more
The entirety of HL2 is fantastic, play the whole thing.

I appreciate it's a good game but I just really didn't get on with HL2, I tried to enjoy it but a) I've always struggled with FPSs (motion sickness mainly but also getting disotiented by the constant camera movement) b) I don't handle horror settings very well.

See Deus Ex and Metroid Prime also.

I can appreciate the difficulty with controls and motion sickness, but Ravenholm is the level that makes the gravity gun, which is ultimately the weapon that makes HL2. If your view is that you should stop before that, you may as well not play it at all.

Knoyleo wrote:

Ironhide wrote:

LewisD wrote:

Knoyleo wrote:

Ironhide wrote:Half-life 2 - just before Ravenholm

Insane, one of the games best parts.

Surprised he's not getting pulled up on this more
The entirety of HL2 is fantastic, play the whole thing.

I appreciate it's a good game but I just really didn't get on with HL2, I tried to enjoy it but a) I've always struggled with FPSs (motion sickness mainly but also getting disotiented by the constant camera movement) b) I don't handle horror settings very well.

See Deus Ex and Metroid Prime also.

I can appreciate the difficulty with controls and motion sickness, but Ravenholm is the level that makes the gravity gun, which is ultimately the weapon that makes HL2. If your view is that you should stop before that, you may as well not play it at all.

I hated the gravity gun with a passion.

Ironhide wrote:

Knoyleo wrote:

Ironhide wrote:

LewisD wrote:

Knoyleo wrote:

Ironhide wrote:Half-life 2 - just before Ravenholm

Insane, one of the games best parts.

Surprised he's not getting pulled up on this more
The entirety of HL2 is fantastic, play the whole thing.

I appreciate it's a good game but I just really didn't get on with HL2, I tried to enjoy it but a) I've always struggled with FPSs (motion sickness mainly but also getting disotiented by the constant camera movement) b) I don't handle horror settings very well.

See Deus Ex and Metroid Prime also.

I can appreciate the difficulty with controls and motion sickness, but Ravenholm is the level that makes the gravity gun, which is ultimately the weapon that makes HL2. If your view is that you should stop before that, you may as well not play it at all.

I hated the gravity gun with a passion.

poshrule_uk wrote:

Victor Mildew wrote:Wtf vermi series 1 of westworld was amazing! I too gave up at the end of 3 though.

Sex education, just watch 1-3 and pretend series 4 doesn't exist.

Oh god season 4 of sex education was shocking, gave up after a few episodes.

I powered through series 4 as up until then it had been such a generally strong 3 series (though series 3 was good, but not amazing like the first couple of series), it was really disappointing, it had a handful of scenes throughout the 8(?) episodes, episode 1 set the tone for me though, unbelievably cringeworthy just for the sake of it I'd rewatch the first couple of series again without hesitation, actually leaves it on a really nice scene even if you don't get closure on that scene till the mid point of series 3.

In answer to the original question, Game of Thrones for me,

- The 8 series, stop at series 4 if you want 4 10/10 series, or series 6 if you want another couple of solid series (with the odd great episode), if you must, finish at The Spoils of War episode in series 7, do not pass the wall, do not collect your wight, do not run a marathon.
- The books? Jump off at book 5, books 6 and 7 are really light on content.

The Outer Wilds is best turned off at the title screen.

I still have no idea how this won so many plaudits. Not for me.

Imrahil wrote:X-Files. If I'm being objectively ruthless, I'd say stop at the end of S7.

But I'm an X-Files fanboy and love all the seasons, even the later ones without Mulder/Scully so I'd still watch all of them.

I bought the entire series on dvd and rewatched the first few not that long ago and bloody hell it really hasn't aged well at all.

The number of really gooseberry fool episodes is insane and characters I thought were important are hardly involved.
They also drive what can only be described as shitboxes at all times and a car chase never seems to get over 50mph with tires screaming and them holding on as if they're in F1 cars.

Aliens hardly feature and watching in origonal screen res (I was going for the real authentic experience) was strawberry floating horrible.

Just how many times can Scully get kidnapped?

Moggy wrote:

Ironhide wrote:

Knoyleo wrote:

Ironhide wrote:

LewisD wrote:

Knoyleo wrote:

Ironhide wrote:Half-life 2 - just before Ravenholm

Insane, one of the games best parts.

Surprised he's not getting pulled up on this more
The entirety of HL2 is fantastic, play the whole thing.

I appreciate it's a good game but I just really didn't get on with HL2, I tried to enjoy it but a) I've always struggled with FPSs (motion sickness mainly but also getting disotiented by the constant camera movement) b) I don't handle horror settings very well.

See Deus Ex and Metroid Prime also.

I can appreciate the difficulty with controls and motion sickness, but Ravenholm is the level that makes the gravity gun, which is ultimately the weapon that makes HL2. If your view is that you should stop before that, you may as well not play it at all.

I hated the gravity gun with a passion.

A lot, evidently.

What sort of person doesn't like the gravity gun?

Next thing you know they'll say they don't like cake .

Peter Crisp wrote:

Imrahil wrote:X-Files. If I'm being objectively ruthless, I'd say stop at the end of S7.

But I'm an X-Files fanboy and love all the seasons, even the later ones without Mulder/Scully so I'd still watch all of them.

I bought the entire series on dvd and rewatched the first few not that long ago and bloody hell it really hasn't aged well at all.

The number of really gooseberry fool episodes is insane and characters I thought were important are hardly involved.
They also drive what can only be described as shitboxes at all times and a car chase never seems to get over 50mph with tires screaming and them holding on as if they're in F1 cars.

Aliens hardly feature and watching in origonal screen res (I was going for the real authentic experience) was strawberry floating horrible.

Just how many times can Scully get kidnapped?

It has its quirks!

I just love the invention and ideas, even if some of them don't pan out successfully. Plus even in the episodes that don't work, they would often contain lots of Mulder/Scully interactions that were still fun. It's always felt quite a unique, comfy show to watch for me.

Carlos wrote:The Outer Wilds is best turned off at the title screen.

I still have no idea how this won so many plaudits. Not for me.

Contender for worst post of the year.

Imrahil wrote:I just love the invention and ideas, even if some of them don't pan out successfully. Plus even in the episodes that don't work, they would often contain lots of Mulder/Scully interactions that were still fun. It's always felt quite a unique, comfy show to watch for me.

I think my problem was I went back in with such high expectations as I loved the show so much.
I've also grown to love the whole quality-over-quantity approach that new shows have.

Peter Crisp wrote:What sort of person doesn't like the gravity gun?

Next thing you know they'll say they don't like cake .

Cake is good.

Victor Mildew wrote:

Carlos wrote:The Outer Wilds is best turned off at the title screen.

I still have no idea how this won so many plaudits. Not for me.

Contender for worst post of the year.

Might be a tie:

Ironhide wrote:Half-life 2 - just before Ravenholm

Some that come to mind: deffo agree with that GoT horse pic, and glad its prime deemed to be up to and including 4. Some of the direction in 5 and 6 is weekend drama special bad in a way it never was in the first 4 series.

Also: Your Lie In April - much revered romance/drama anime. Watch the first 12 episodes. Ignore the next 12. Then watch the ending. I can very very guarantee this is the best way to experience the things it does well

Maybe controversial but: Attack on Titan - Hard to say exactly where to stop but it's definitely before the finale(s)? Would be hard to resist getting (and not getting) good closure though.

Game of Thrones is an obvious one. Possibly the largest drop off in quality I have ever seen in a TV show. Can't believe some of the people on this forum defending some of the Tripe served up in defense of the later seasons .

Other, lesser known examples may be:

West Wing - Such an amazing show, but the last couple of seasons were a rough ride.
The Bear - I thought season 2 was rubbish compared to S1, appreciate that might just be me though.
Pacific Rim - The first wasn't that great, the sequal is just straight to DVD rubbish.
Starship Troopers - See above
Home Alone - See above
Men in Black 1 and 2, skip the rest.
Batman Begins/Dark Knight - Thought the third one was utter Pap.

S2 of the Bear definitely isn't as good as S1 and it's quite inconsistent but if you don't watch it you miss out on the 2 best episodes of the whole thing.

Agree on the Nolan Batman films. He really strawberry floated the third up.

Victor Mildew wrote:Wtf vermi series 1 of westworld was amazing! I too gave up at the end of 3 though.

Don't get me wrong, it wasn't a bad show, i just didn't really enjoy it that much.

Then from season 2, it just went further and further downhill.

On a separate note...

Fear The Walking Dead - Seasons 1-3 were good, then season 4 came along and it was such an absolute shitshow, i abandoned the entire series and never went back.

BioShock - turn it off after the twist. The final fetch quest stuff is a poor finish.

Hannibal - season 2 ends with possibly the best episode of a thing ever, ending it like that would have been brutal and horrible and possibly genius. (I did enjoy season 3, especially the second half of it, but season 2 ending is just a different level of TV.

Albert wrote:Game of Thrones is an obvious one. Possibly the largest drop off in quality I have ever seen in a TV show. Can't believe some of the people on this forum defending some of the Tripe served up in defense of the later seasons .

I don't think I'm a hard defender of the last two seasons of GoT (or the last 4 really, but a little bit of series 5 and 6 are a lot better than the last two series we got, the Dornish plot line though ), but even those had the odd good moment? I thought Spoils of War was the only good episode of series 7, the previous 3 were poor at best, far from the amazing episodes we had in the earlier series. Knight of the Seven Kingdoms was the only good episode of series 8 as well, but even all that build up was undone by the Long Night, so in hindsight even the one good episode of series 8 falls flat on its face.

Its just so disappointing

Albert wrote:Batman Begins/Dark Knight - Thought the third one was utter Pap.

i thought i was the only one who thought the last one was rubbish

Robbo-92 wrote:

Albert wrote:Game of Thrones is an obvious one. Possibly the largest drop off in quality I have ever seen in a TV show. Can't believe some of the people on this forum defending some of the Tripe served up in defense of the later seasons .

I don't think I'm a hard defender of the last two seasons of GoT (or the last 4 really, but a little bit of series 5 and 6 are a lot better than the last two series we got, the Dornish plot line though ), but even those had the odd good moment? I thought Spoils of War was the only good episode of series 7, the previous 3 were poor at best, far from the amazing episodes we had in the earlier series. Knight of the Seven Kingdoms was the only good episode of series 8 as well, but even all that build up was undone by the Long Night, so in hindsight even the one good episode of series 8 falls flat on its face.

Its just so disappointing

I was (and am) fine with GoT, up to the final 3 episodes. The quality obviously dropped in the final few seasons, but it was far from the war crime people make it out to be.

And I still think the basic plot could have turned out ok if the dipshit writers hadn't decided they wanted to do other things and rushed everything into a single final season.