Games you never finished?

[Launcelot111]

This happens pretty often for me when a combination of indifference towards a game and a good trade-in deal occurs. It's happened recently with Chrono Trigger and Hotel Dusk.

Very rarely do I give up on a game out of disgust, but it's happened twice recently, with LA Noire (repetitive gameplay and reality-shattering treatment of non-linear storytelling) and with Sakura Wars: So Long My Love (character driven game with horribly grating characters and the worst voice acting I've ever heard)

 

[NerfedFalcon]

Too damn many. Least I finally got Bastion out of the way. Now for Human Revolution, Braid, Psychonauts, Amnesia, Assassin's Creed 2, Shank, Sonic Generations, Okami, Chrono Trigger, Mass Effect, Bioshock, Half-Life 2, Arkham Asylum, Twilight Princess, Xenoblade, and in a few days Radiant Historia will be added to the list. Well, I guess all I have to do is focus on one at a time...yeah, like that's ever going to work.

 

[DanielBrown]

Brütal Legend - The shift to RTS was pretty dull. I'm not exactly a fan of the genre.
Yakuza 3 - Got sick of taking care of the orphans minor problems.
Jak 2 - Too damn unfair to the player with the lack of check points.
Jak 3 - A racing game? FUCK. THAT.

 

[Yopaz]

Too many to list. I probably got about 30 games I still need to finish. At the very least...

 

[Bvenged]

- I got bored of Borderlands, when I first owned it, by the third area. Then last year I bought it second hand to give it another shot with a friend on splitscreen (since I'd sold it). Gave up again in the 4/5th area (Not sure, there was a stupid bridge I had to lower for a deserted town). That game was bland as hell, bores the living daylights out of me. Just not my thing. Few (and I mean a few) funny quips though.

- Dead Island. I did the first few missions, got told to go somewhere but had no markers on the map, no labels on the terrain and no signposts pointing to it. I spent 1 hour and 40 minutes wandering around everywhere, including the hotels grounds, to see the same animated zombies respawn in the same spots in each pass. So I gave up. I had little patience for an over-hyped game.

- The Sims 3 (Xbox 360), bought it because I overplayed The Sims 1 & 2. The Sims 3 had too many loading screens, spent too long loading, had frame-rate stuttering if you fast-forward and was somehow really boring despite being not much different from The Sims 2. Sold it after a fortnight of only playing it 3 times.

- Pure, the most boring ATV racing game I have ever bought.

- NFS: Shift, was fun for the first 75 races, unwilling to do another 75 on top...

- Mercenaries 2 got boring half way, managed to push to 3/4 story completion with a friend... then we both got bored with the crappy ai protection missions and fucked off to play Halo 3.

- Endwar got tedious after a few hours. Good concept, slow practice.

- Modern Warfare 3. My brother bought it and since I had completed CoD 4/5/6/7 on 1000G gamerscore, I thought "what the hell, I hate the game but I should still give the SP a shot".
It sucked royal ass. The first CoD in years I haven't gained 1000G and I haven't even bothered selecting veteran. Never will. My worst game of the year for a multitude of reasons.

I re-tried its survival mode last night with a friend, who still likes CoD, to see if it could be more enjoyable. While that is true, we only played 3 games before we both got bored due to a lack of motivation and social stigma. Only 2 friends in a match? What is this, the freaking dark ages?

 

[Frankster]

I do try to finish games I own so what follows is more like a list of shame.

There are quite a few old skol games I never finished (the TMNT snes game, original ninja gaiden, etc) so gonna discount those to focus on more modern titles.

Monster hunter for the psp. Basically had bought a bunch of games for psp that I was told was decent and this was one of them. As soon as I started to have to fight big monsters the game just became insanely tough and frustrating. I hear you do have to play this game coop so that might be a factor but either way this is one of the few modern games to make me confess defeat.

FFXII. First final fantasy game to bore me senseless and I just could not get immersed at all. Gave up on the game and the franchise.

Dead Space 1: People say dead space series ain't scary cos its all jump scares and monsters going ooga booga. Jump scares and monsters going ooga booga scare me just fine for personal reasons no one would care about so lets just leave at "it works on me". Couple that with the feeling of not being able to control my character how I wanted and we get a game that's been on my "to be continued.." list forever but which I've always managed to avoid.

Sims3: Most of the customization options I wanted for my characters were things you had to buy in the EA shop... As was most accesories and house items... When I bought sims3 I expected more options, not less (im dead serious about this. Maybe its my memory tricking me but I swear in sims2 you have way more character creation items and house items then you do in the sequel) so this money diming was a big deal breaker.

Silent Bomber: An awesome game that time forgot from the ps1 era. To my great shame I simply could not beat the final boss despite everything I tried... I have always intended to replay the game and this time picking up every powerup and upgrade on every level to be as ready for the boss as I possibly can.
Have yet to get around to doing this ><

 

[TIMESWORDSMAN]

I skip out on a lot of games. I have a tendency to play them for three or four hours, then just switch to something else.
Off the top of my head:

Mass Effect
Assassins Creed
Pokemon Colosseum
Dynasty Warriors Gundam
Super Mario Bros. 3
Animal Crossing
Harvest Moon(GCN)
Shining Soul
Bomberman Hero
Glover
Sonic Unleashed
LOZ Twilight Princess
LOZ A Link To The Past
Donkey Kong Country
Super Meatboy

The list could go on forever, but I'll cut it off there so I don't wast page space.

 

[Some_weirdGuy]

Well to name a couple that tend to stand out for me:

- Baldurs Gate
and
- Civilisation

Bought them, played a little, never bothered much after that.
Some time I'll get to them again, but for now and the foreseeable future.... meh.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

To my eternal shame Jak 2:Renegade. My disc stopped working and so I never got past speeding to the race garage. D:

 

[Sandjube]

It would take too long, the list must be in the hundreds by now.

You aren't a gamer until your backlog is in triple figures and spans 3 generations or more.

This. Oh, god, this... I can't even count how many times "that one boss" or "that one stage" have halted my progress in a game, only for a new game to come out and monopolize my interest before I can rebuild my desire for the last...

Yaaaay, I'm not alone either ^_^

Yeah I think I've probably finished like 10 games in my life, the rest I just lose interest in I guess. Games have to be pretty damn interesting for me to finish them. I guess I have gaming ADD.

 

[EHKOS]

Pokemon White because its just terrible
Every touhou game above 6. can't unlock extra mode in any of them its too damn hard. Plus I haven't beaten 8, 11, 12 and 13.

Maybe some Darmanitan would cheer you up, GET YOU ONE!

OT: I've got hundreds, mostly from the PS2 era. Legend of Kay, Ininja, etc. Just, loads of games I buy because they're like, five bucks and then save for a rainy day.

 

[Dark Prophet]

FarCry, there is that one place fairly in the beginning where you have to fight a gunship a shit load of dudes who are all behind sandbags and some minigun dudes, and after something like 20th death I thought fuck it.
Assassins Creed, that game just did not click with me, part of it may be the sandbox, I don't really like sandbox games unless they are Fallout 3, and part of it was that there was too much doing fuck all in that game. The setting was nice though and I will probably try to finish it some day.
Spore, after I reached space age it become so fucking repeatitive.
Most NFS games after Porsche, especially the ones they tried to cramp some idiotic story into.

 

[Scrustle]

100%? Unless getting all the achievements on a game counts as 100% then none. I've never done everything on a single game. I've never found a game where completing all the side quests etc. were compelling enough to completely finish.

 

[Number-14]

I don't know about you but I can't stand any games I haven't finished. So to have an unfinished game in my library it's just torture.

So yes in my lifetime I have completed every game I put my hands on.

Though there was one time I gave up on Pirates of the Caribbean because the boss fight was ridiculous, not that he has instant kill attack moves, but after 1000000000 attacks his health bar only dropped to 99%. So yeah I gave up and after how long I looked at my PS2 library and saw that I didn't complete it, I popped the disc and beat him. In the end I did finish the game and didn't bother to revisit levels to find treasure map pieces.

I'm surprised that ALOT of people didn't finish their games.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

Recently gave up on Kindoms of Amalur.

It's not a bad game exactly, just... utterly unstimulating.

Shame, the setting had some potential. Somewhere.

I guess it doesn't get any better? That game is sitting on the backburner for me. It started out so promising and then it rapidly became bland and uninteresting when I realized nothing was at stake, the combat was so easy I could just mash attack, and nothing mattered at all.
On topic: I am pretty good about finishing games but of more recent titles, I still haven't finished Skyrim, Amalur, Missing Link for Deus Ex: HR. Those are just some decent games I haven't finished, I've played a lot of terrible ones I never finished like Crysis 2 and Duke Nukem Forever.
I have a few weird flukes too like Bad Company 2, which I have 200 hours in, but have never even finished single beyond like 3 stages.

 

[Xenowolf]

Too damn many to list here. Seriously, I am terrible with the "focus on one game at a time" thing.

 

[Rheinmetall]

Some of the numerous games that I have quit and I can remember:

Final Fantasy VIII: Stuck at the very last boss fight with Ultimecia.

Tomb Raider III: I have tried it a hundred times, but I always run out of crystal saves in the Nevada levels. Too damn difficult game with difficult jumps.

Resident Evil Remake: Hard as hell, with the zombies that revived after a few hours and were twice as hostile than before. I tried it twice then I decided to play the original game instead.

Final Fantasy XII: I was at 2/3 of the game, but I was so fed up with the unreasonable battle system, the confusing, pseudo-epic story and the androgyny characters that I quit.

Eternal Sonata: The cure for isomnia. Well..I got cured!!

Apache Air Assault. All were going fine in this very enjoyable helicopter sim, until the notorious Water Sharks mission, which is simply impossible for an average gamer.

No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise: I was trying to be patient with this annoying game but after the fourth assasination mission, I got totally sick of its immature style, the primitive graphics, the nervous controls and the environment glitches, you know, those that you get stuck into, and have to reset the game.

 

[Angry Camel]

Skyward Sword. I tried Twilight Princess again just for comparison, and I never swapped back. I really need to stick Alan Wake out longer.

 

[TerribleAssassin]

Deus Ex -- PC almost can't run it at all

Is your computer a stone with an Ethernet cable plugged in the back?

So many!

Ocarina of Time - Ran out of Deku Seeds in the second spiritual stone cave.
A LARGE amount of my PS2 collection.
Oblivion
Skyrim
Dragon Age: Origin
Mass Effect
Half-Life 1 and 2 and their expansions
Left 4 Dead 2
Skyward Sword.

Rather a bit of catching up to do.

 

[Mistermixmaster]

I got a small amount oof unfinished games on my Backlog... Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, ICO and Final Fantasy 7 probably being the worst (not worst as in "the game is bad", but worst as in "should have finished it aaaaages ago").

I just don't have the motivation to finish the games, because I got other games I want to play instead and I have limited time to spend... If I only had some time-manipulation device or something...