That one game you could never finish...
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ONE game? PAH. I could give you FIVE, all of which are not finished due to "couldn't" "wouldn't" or "haven't".
Most prominently though, ANY METROID GAME EVER. Hell, any NINTENDO game ever...
Most prominently though, ANY METROID GAME EVER. Hell, any NINTENDO game ever...
Darksiders. It was so insipid and samey - it was all just "Face enemies, keep mashing attack button until they're dead, look for next enemy group."
Every Mega Man game I've ever played, with the sole exception of Legends/64.
1, 2, 4, 9, MM&B, X. Never beat a single one of 'em. The last levels and bosses always screw me over.
Super Meat Boy is starting to look like another one. I am stuck on the second to last level. I've almost made it a couple of times, only to die. Then I end up not being able to get past the first fucking jump despite the fact that I've cleared it 100+ times before.
Oh, and Final Fantasy XII. Too long. Too linear. Too boring.
OH, and LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring for GBA because of a stupid game-breaking glitch.
And also Dungeons & Dragons: Eye of the Beholder. But that's more because it's a crappy game.
Also Earthbound. I keep starting it, getting fairly far into and even enjoying it. But then I get sidetracked, don't play for a month and forget what's going on in the story. So I have to start over again. This process has repeated itself 3 times so far.
1, 2, 4, 9, MM&B, X. Never beat a single one of 'em. The last levels and bosses always screw me over.
Super Meat Boy is starting to look like another one. I am stuck on the second to last level. I've almost made it a couple of times, only to die. Then I end up not being able to get past the first fucking jump despite the fact that I've cleared it 100+ times before.
Oh, and Final Fantasy XII. Too long. Too linear. Too boring.
OH, and LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring for GBA because of a stupid game-breaking glitch.
And also Dungeons & Dragons: Eye of the Beholder. But that's more because it's a crappy game.
Also Earthbound. I keep starting it, getting fairly far into and even enjoying it. But then I get sidetracked, don't play for a month and forget what's going on in the story. So I have to start over again. This process has repeated itself 3 times so far.
This. How so many people claimed this as the game of the year last year I have no idea.Casual Shinji said:
I usually put a game down if I loose interest, and there is a lot of those games. Some games I want to get back to at one point, like AssCreedBro and LBP2. Others I don't think I will ever touch again, like FF13 for being such a boring "game": Oh a corridor, oh still the same corridor, lets keep going straight ahead through the corri OH MY GOD GRASS PLAINS! aaand more corridors.
Wow, I'm shocked how many people said they couldn't beat FF13 due to the grind. Yet some people beat the game without using a single point of Crystiruim. That's right, beat the game, never boosting their stats nor getting any spell. Maybe there is some other reason hmmm?
Anyways, Majora's Mask, I got it from the Wii store a few days ago. After 10 years I'm finally going to beat it!
And any GTA game. Not that's their bad, I bought every GTA game from GTA3. I only do one thing in those games and that's cause chaos and destruction. Who needs story when you have rocket launchers and helpless civilians?
Anyways, Majora's Mask, I got it from the Wii store a few days ago. After 10 years I'm finally going to beat it!
And any GTA game. Not that's their bad, I bought every GTA game from GTA3. I only do one thing in those games and that's cause chaos and destruction. Who needs story when you have rocket launchers and helpless civilians?
We're both wrong. 150.000 bolts was the cost!lbucyk said:I think the ryno is 50,000 in the frist gameDanielBrown said:So did I... Until I farmed 1.000.000 bolts and bought the RYNO!Shockolate said:
OT: The last games I couldn't bother to finish was Brütal Legend and Yakuza 3.
Brütal Legend went from pretty fun to awful. RTS from third person perspective isn't very clever.
Yakuza 3 was just too dull. Kick some maffia boss' ass and then spend a few hours taking care of your kids problems. Over and over!
Still, might as well've been a million. Took forever to get that much.
I never finished FFXIII. I watched cutscene after cutscene of kids going on about Snow and Serah (Is it just me, or does Snow look like he's 25 and Serah look like she's 11?). After a bunch of those, I got stuck on a boss battle. I quickly realized that I was not having as much fun as previously thought.
I also never finished Bayonetta. I couldn't stand listening to the dialogue anymore, the story confused me to tears, and the sexualization was very off-putting.
I also never finished Bayonetta. I couldn't stand listening to the dialogue anymore, the story confused me to tears, and the sexualization was very off-putting.
Banjo Kazooie, try as I might I have never been able to free the blue jingo in the final battle
Aquaria.
I get that it's supposed to be a wide open world that allows for exploration and stuff, but it doesn't change the fact that it looks boring and takes far too long to travel around in. After spending hours just trying to figure out what the hell I was supposed to be doing I realized that I didn't care about the main character at all, the mystery was completely stupid, and that I wasn't getting anything out of the experience.
I get that it's supposed to be a wide open world that allows for exploration and stuff, but it doesn't change the fact that it looks boring and takes far too long to travel around in. After spending hours just trying to figure out what the hell I was supposed to be doing I realized that I didn't care about the main character at all, the mystery was completely stupid, and that I wasn't getting anything out of the experience.
The first game that springs to mind is Turok: Evolution (but not because of its difficulty).
It's not a game I'd normally have bothered with, but it came free with my GameCube so I figured I'd give it a try. I got to a certain point where you had to open a specific door to progress with game, except when I got the door open its collision geometry didn't move with it, meaning I still couldn't go through.
Didn't even bother reloading and trying again - turns out I can only forgive game-breaking bugs if I'm actually enjoying the game to begin with. Who'd have thought it?
It's not a game I'd normally have bothered with, but it came free with my GameCube so I figured I'd give it a try. I got to a certain point where you had to open a specific door to progress with game, except when I got the door open its collision geometry didn't move with it, meaning I still couldn't go through.
Didn't even bother reloading and trying again - turns out I can only forgive game-breaking bugs if I'm actually enjoying the game to begin with. Who'd have thought it?
Am I right in thinking you're specifically refering to that blue crystal forrest section with Lighting and Hope? Because that bastard really did just go on and on and on and on, didn't it?Aurgelmir said:
I stuck with FF13 to the point when it finally entered actual open space, where it apparently should've gotten better. Can you blame me for hoping?
For the longest time is was the first Knights of the Old Republic. I don't know why. I got it shortly after it came out for PC and didn't finish it until late last year. I would always start it up, get to a certain point, then go play something else and later uninstall the game. Lather, rinse, repeat for a long time.
Final Fantasy XII.
I bought it about a year after I beat X, and at the time I'd been playing a lot of emulated FF titles from the 90s, so I was pretty excited to try this new one. Gamestop messed up its pricing too, so I got the collector's edition at the price of the regular one. Neat-o.
It wasn't until about 50 hours in that I discovered I couldn't walk through this cave without the game freezing. I tried for 2 days, hoping it would get over itself, but to no avail. Turned out that the collector's case it made of... sturdier material than regular cases. The little button in the middle that keeps the game disc in place positively refused to give when I'd try to take the game out. The disc itself did instead. A fine, curved line scarred my game from the center to about an inch into the shiny part. I wasn't going to be able to keep playing.
The next summer I picked up another (normal) copy, but by then I'd forgotten what I was doing, who all the major characters were, and how to fight, so I decided it would be better to just start from scratch. (Words cannot express how much I regret that decision now.) I was about another 30 hours in when one day I decided to play some guitar hero. I went to smack my brother with the controller for being an idiot... the cord wasn't quite as long as I thought it was. PS2 was on a table. Sonofabitch.
Luckily, a few months later I got a PS3 -- and a memory card converter. After I figured out how to get it to work (my old card was a bit broken, it wouldn't read it sometimes), I picked up where I'd left off. Alas, I eventually got bored, and stopped by the time school was back in.
The next summer I decided to start new game. I finally made it past that part with the caves I couldn't get through. I made it through some forests. Fought some of those evil knight guys. Grinded 10s of levels. YLoD. Mother. Fucker.
I give. I can't beat that game. Fate has conspired against me.
I bought it about a year after I beat X, and at the time I'd been playing a lot of emulated FF titles from the 90s, so I was pretty excited to try this new one. Gamestop messed up its pricing too, so I got the collector's edition at the price of the regular one. Neat-o.
It wasn't until about 50 hours in that I discovered I couldn't walk through this cave without the game freezing. I tried for 2 days, hoping it would get over itself, but to no avail. Turned out that the collector's case it made of... sturdier material than regular cases. The little button in the middle that keeps the game disc in place positively refused to give when I'd try to take the game out. The disc itself did instead. A fine, curved line scarred my game from the center to about an inch into the shiny part. I wasn't going to be able to keep playing.
The next summer I picked up another (normal) copy, but by then I'd forgotten what I was doing, who all the major characters were, and how to fight, so I decided it would be better to just start from scratch. (Words cannot express how much I regret that decision now.) I was about another 30 hours in when one day I decided to play some guitar hero. I went to smack my brother with the controller for being an idiot... the cord wasn't quite as long as I thought it was. PS2 was on a table. Sonofabitch.
Luckily, a few months later I got a PS3 -- and a memory card converter. After I figured out how to get it to work (my old card was a bit broken, it wouldn't read it sometimes), I picked up where I'd left off. Alas, I eventually got bored, and stopped by the time school was back in.
The next summer I decided to start new game. I finally made it past that part with the caves I couldn't get through. I made it through some forests. Fought some of those evil knight guys. Grinded 10s of levels. YLoD. Mother. Fucker.
I give. I can't beat that game. Fate has conspired against me.
Super Meat Boy on PC...
I love my laptops keyboard, but that is one nasty hard game.
And Dawn of War | and ||, the Eldar annoyed me so much >.<
I love my laptops keyboard, but that is one nasty hard game.
And Dawn of War | and ||, the Eldar annoyed me so much >.<
Shinobi on the PS2. I got to the level where they took the ground away and you had to chain jump kill everything in the level to:
A) not fall into the bottomless pits of death and
B) finish the level before your sword sucked away all your health.
I always meant to go back to it one day, but other games came along, eventually better systems came along and I may eventually go back to it one day...but it's not looking likely.
A) not fall into the bottomless pits of death and
B) finish the level before your sword sucked away all your health.
I always meant to go back to it one day, but other games came along, eventually better systems came along and I may eventually go back to it one day...but it's not looking likely.
Going back a few years now, and I'm not counting games where I just gave up because they were lame or I got bored
Dizzy: Prince of the Yolk Folk on the Spectrum. Yes, I'm THAT old.
I completed every single quest in the entire game but on top of that you have to collect 30 cherries for a cake or something to wake the sleeping princess. I got 29 of those cherries and to this day I still have no idea where the last one is. It was a few hours to get to that point and after a couple more hours running from one side of the level to the other I had to give it up. One of the major pains of not having save slots.
Kids these days... don't know they're born...
Dizzy: Prince of the Yolk Folk on the Spectrum. Yes, I'm THAT old.
I completed every single quest in the entire game but on top of that you have to collect 30 cherries for a cake or something to wake the sleeping princess. I got 29 of those cherries and to this day I still have no idea where the last one is. It was a few hours to get to that point and after a couple more hours running from one side of the level to the other I had to give it up. One of the major pains of not having save slots.
Kids these days... don't know they're born...
Out of all the games I have played the worst one I could not finish was final fantasy XII, if I had a ranking system for my most unfinishable game in my collection it is this one. I honestly tried to like it I even got as far as halfway through the game, but I didn't really care for the characters the gameplay was mediocre and to top it all of the story was just so freaking long. On a side note I actually enjoy 13 simply because I actually took a liking to the characters, thought the story was interesting, and I actually had bought a strategy guid with it simply so I could beat it faster so I could move on to something else sooner. Plus I actually did finish it.