Are There Any Games You Loved, but Never Finished?
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Stealth is there in Metro, but you never have to do it because it's impossible.hazabaza1 said:
I get maybe a kill, at most, sometimes, then just shoot everything.
I've never finished Viewtiful Joe and I don't know why.
I like platformers, the fighting in the game's different and fun, I like the overall art style. Yet for some reason, every time I get past the shark-guy boss, I just get bored and stop playing.
Maybe it's because hearing "Mmm, yummy!" every single time you pick up health just gets too unbearable.
I like platformers, the fighting in the game's different and fun, I like the overall art style. Yet for some reason, every time I get past the shark-guy boss, I just get bored and stop playing.
Maybe it's because hearing "Mmm, yummy!" every single time you pick up health just gets too unbearable.
I have yet to finish Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim.
Chances that I will play Morrowind or Oblivion again are very little, but I'm currently on a mod-filled Skyrim binge and my latest character might just make it. He actually came close to file corruption earlier today, but my savegame habits provided me with a "clean" save just one dungeon short.
I think I never seriously played Morrowind. I remember buying it on a whim, but when I first played it, I didn't quite get it. But it still made me buy the Oblivion CE, which I played excessively, just never too far into the main story[footnote]depending on if I wanted to deal with the gates popping up everywhere; because if they did, I always felt compelled to purge those daedric abominations RIGHT NAO![/footnote].
Aside from these:
Deus Ex HR; I played a really stealth-oriented character, so I hit a huge brick wall at the first boss battle... Took some time and many failed attempts, and shortly after I finally beat I had no motivation left for the rest of the game. But it's definitely still on my gamer bucket list
Then there's Gothic3, which I almost finished choosing Adanos's ending, but I never went quite through with it. I think my computer broke down that time and I forgot/didn't bother to backup my saved games.
Divinity 2 died under similiar circumstances.
Chances that I will play Morrowind or Oblivion again are very little, but I'm currently on a mod-filled Skyrim binge and my latest character might just make it. He actually came close to file corruption earlier today, but my savegame habits provided me with a "clean" save just one dungeon short.
I think I never seriously played Morrowind. I remember buying it on a whim, but when I first played it, I didn't quite get it. But it still made me buy the Oblivion CE, which I played excessively, just never too far into the main story[footnote]depending on if I wanted to deal with the gates popping up everywhere; because if they did, I always felt compelled to purge those daedric abominations RIGHT NAO![/footnote].
Aside from these:
Deus Ex HR; I played a really stealth-oriented character, so I hit a huge brick wall at the first boss battle... Took some time and many failed attempts, and shortly after I finally beat I had no motivation left for the rest of the game. But it's definitely still on my gamer bucket list
Then there's Gothic3, which I almost finished choosing Adanos's ending, but I never went quite through with it. I think my computer broke down that time and I forgot/didn't bother to backup my saved games.
Divinity 2 died under similiar circumstances.
MadWorld: I loved the gameplay, and I enjoyed the commentary. (until I ended up hearing Bender talk about injecting the health pill into his balls for the 100th time) But I got to world 3 or 4 and I had had enough. The fact that after the first few levels the only thing the game has going for it is the boss fights, and the fact that I has fighting an enemy that 1 shot you with every attack. AND it seemed that EVERY level took way too long to finish.
System Shock 1: Archaic UI/Controls, never understood cyberspace part of gameplay. (Any good LPs of it?)
System Shock 2: I watched an LP of it, and I wish my old computer still had a hard drive... or any working parts.
Metroid Prime Series: 1 and 2, I beat about 90% of the game. Only 2-4 bosses left on each. But the stupid forced backtracking bits in each. This was before I had the internet, so I didn't know to scan the artifacts/gather the keys in either one, so I gave up.
3, I gave up because the Wii controls were shit. There was a puzzle after you got the grappling beam where you had to pull down a satellite dish, swing to the next, pull that one down, for 3 or 4 dishes. All while enemies endlessly spawned and tried to undo your work. Unresponsive controls + timed puzzle + combat DURING said puzzle was enough for me to say "fuck it"
Most games I don't finish though are simply because I don't like the game for some reason.
System Shock 1: Archaic UI/Controls, never understood cyberspace part of gameplay. (Any good LPs of it?)
System Shock 2: I watched an LP of it, and I wish my old computer still had a hard drive... or any working parts.
Metroid Prime Series: 1 and 2, I beat about 90% of the game. Only 2-4 bosses left on each. But the stupid forced backtracking bits in each. This was before I had the internet, so I didn't know to scan the artifacts/gather the keys in either one, so I gave up.
3, I gave up because the Wii controls were shit. There was a puzzle after you got the grappling beam where you had to pull down a satellite dish, swing to the next, pull that one down, for 3 or 4 dishes. All while enemies endlessly spawned and tried to undo your work. Unresponsive controls + timed puzzle + combat DURING said puzzle was enough for me to say "fuck it"
Most games I don't finish though are simply because I don't like the game for some reason.
Ni Nu Kuni. Keep trying to put it back in but get distracted by new games. BioShock, DMC, Tomb Raider. I'm really enjoying it just haven't put in the 100 hours to really enjoy it fully.
Well there's Ratchet and Clank 2: Going Commando. The only R&C game I have yet to beat.
I got the PS2 version but never beat it, several years later, I got the HD collection, beat the first game, and went on to play the second. I was at the point where I was supposed to use the glider to supposedly follow this weird robot with a wrench. Unfortunately, the prompt that tells me to activate the gilder never showed up, so I couldn't proceed. I tried reloading my save a few times and it didn't work. I was unable to progress because of a game breaking bug. That pissed me off to no end.
So to this day, I have yet to beat it.
I got the PS2 version but never beat it, several years later, I got the HD collection, beat the first game, and went on to play the second. I was at the point where I was supposed to use the glider to supposedly follow this weird robot with a wrench. Unfortunately, the prompt that tells me to activate the gilder never showed up, so I couldn't proceed. I tried reloading my save a few times and it didn't work. I was unable to progress because of a game breaking bug. That pissed me off to no end.
So to this day, I have yet to beat it.
Yeah, I've been having that problem lately with Dark Souls. I made it all the way to the final boss with a tank build but he was just too slow. I've started a few other characters but I've never gotten as far. Lately I've gotten bogged down in Sen's Fortress and keep rage quitting. Holy shit that place sucks.Shax said:
Just about every JRPG I've ever played. Mostly Chrono Trigger and Dragon Quest IX. In both cases I played them non-stop, until I came across a boss that would require lots of level grinding to beat, so I just stopped and haven't gotten back to them.
I was in the same boat as you for dark souls. I ended up playing around 120 hours across 6 characters before I finally just surged through to the ending. Then I immediately made 2 new character, which both are up to around 40 hours each, and have since made another character with about 10 hours on it. (yeap, steam tells me I'm at 216.4 hours of darksouls atm)
I'm a little surprised to see you had trouble with grinding in chrono trigger. About a year ago I replayed through Chrono Trigger, and I don't recall ever having to stop and grind in that game, I just breezed through most of the areas. (granted I've played CT before, so maybe knowledge of the systems/bosses makes a difference?)Starik20X6 said:
Nope. If I love a game, I play it until it's finished. Actually, if I loved a game, chances are that I will play it multiple times.
Wait, video games have endings?!
All joking aside, I have a MASSIVE list of games I absolutely adored but never saw the ending of, and frankly, some of the items on the list are downright embarrassing. Here's just a small sample.
Kingdom Hearts
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
TES V: Skyrim
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Dark Cloud
Dark Cloud 2
Cthulhu Saves The World
Of Orcs And Men
Portal 2 (finished single player but not co-op)
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Mass Effect 3 (not that I missed out there)
There's a lot more to it than that, including several more Legend of Zelda games, but I think I've gotten the point across, and the point is that I suck at finishing games.
All joking aside, I have a MASSIVE list of games I absolutely adored but never saw the ending of, and frankly, some of the items on the list are downright embarrassing. Here's just a small sample.
Kingdom Hearts
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
TES V: Skyrim
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Dark Cloud
Dark Cloud 2
Cthulhu Saves The World
Of Orcs And Men
Portal 2 (finished single player but not co-op)
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Mass Effect 3 (not that I missed out there)
There's a lot more to it than that, including several more Legend of Zelda games, but I think I've gotten the point across, and the point is that I suck at finishing games.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. I was at the fight in the big round elevator and got stomped a couple times so I decided to take a bit of a break from the game. Three days later my basement flooded and my PS2 got fried. I never got to finish that wonderful game... That makes me sad.
You can't really finish an Elder Scroll game...
I didn't had a chance to finish Resident Evil 4...because my roommate moved out.
I didn't had a chance to finish Resident Evil 4...because my roommate moved out.
The only one is Rome: Total War. Though right now I am getting close with my Brutii playthrough. I will beat you yet game.