10 Video Games You Couldn't Make Yourself Finish

As AAA games go, L.A. Noire actually isn't too long, clocking in at about 20-25 hours, though of course "too long" is a relative term, and any game can outstay its welcome if the pacing sucks.

For though the opening hours of L.A. Noire offer up a deeply compelling film noir-indebted story complete with state-of-the-art facial animations - for the time - the novelty ultimately wears off after a while.

For one, the central interrogation mechanic is disappointingly simplistic and repetitive, ensuring that it's a genuine slog to make it to the later stages of the story.

This a game that probably should've wrapped up at around the 12-15 hour mark, but it just keeps going, and considering the central gameplay loop has very little variation, it's tough to convince yourself to push through all the way to the end.

For all of its technical achievements, there's good reason that L.A. Noire faded from the cultural conversation so quickly.