Your secret gaming shame

[Helmet]

I always preached for Oblivion over Morrowind and stubbornly ignored all the pleas from friends begging me to try it. They said once I got past Morrowind's slow start I'd love it, but I never gave it a chance. But last week I found myself bored with Oblivion, because I've done EVERYTHING possible within the game world haha. I've seriously overplayed that game in the last few years. Became a fuckin Oblivion guru. So, as a joke, I loaded up Morrowind. Played for a while and sadly had to swallow my pride and tell myself I FUCKING LOVE IT. Haha it's how Oblivion used to be for me, that is to say, I think about it when I'm not playing it, etc. Still haven't told any of my Morrowind-loving friends though...

Also, I've played most Final Fantasy games and love them but haven't beaten a single one. Usually quit near the final boss. Just get tired of them. Or have to be away for a while and lose my place in the game when I come back. So ashamed

I tried Oblivion about a year ago and (foolishly) jumped right into the main story line without attempting anything else. A level 2 Nord with shitty weapons and armor, basically no spells, and a vague idea of how to play trying to close an Oblivion Gate. I did worse than you would expect.

Gave the game back to my friend and ignored him every time he told me how awesome it is. I got tired of him whining about two months ago and tried it again, this time completing all of the guilds and the Shivering Isles before beginning the main quest. Fucking love it. One of my favorite things to do is put on the Grey Fox cowl and run through the cities, getting an army of guards chasing me. Makes me laugh every time.

And now, apparently, I need to play Morrowind. Damn.

Now, for the topic on hand.... Hmmm. Well, I bought Too Human the day it came out and beat it five times. In my defense, it was with a different friend each time, but FUCK that game.

 

[geK0]

I started the Warcraft 3 Frozen throne campaign before beating the reign of chaos one, and have yet to complete the reign of chaos campaign D :

I beat Vice City using cheat codes, quite excessively I should add.

I consider myself an avid Zelda fan, yet I have never completed any of its 2D titles.

I switched Dragon Age to easy difficulty to defeat the brood mother boss, and again to defeat the arch daemon.

I play Minecraft on peaceful, except to use mob farming towers.

Ive never beaten a left 4 Dead campaign on expert difficulty, and have given up trying.

I'm above level 120 in Runescape (this one I am most ashamed of)

 

[snow]

Having taken film production in college, there was this one course where the teacher would go on and on about why directors do this and that and the other thing to their movies. Whenever I watch a movie, I can't help but see movies from this perspective and sometimes this ruins part of the movie experience for me. For example and not entirely a ruining situation, mostly harmless. Wash from Firefly episode 1, when he is first introduced he is seen playing with dinosaur toys while he waits for the rest of the crew to retrieve some goods from an abandoned ship of some sort. Mentally I'm thinking. "Oh okay this guy is supposed to the comic relief character." Which he was and that was his characters purpose in the crew.

This has leaked into my game play and I feel that it sometimes ruins the immersion of the game. "Oh this is done here for this very reason and this reason alone."

Not saying I needed my education to see this, but I am most certainly aware of it now, and my god is it all too obvious in games. SC2 single player campaign is riddled with this to the point where I spoiled the entire storyline of the game for myself an hour into the game. I feel it is the developers fault for making it so obvious in the first place. If you're spoiling the twist at the end of your game THAT early, then you need to rework your story telling.

 

[Mallefunction]

It took me several months to beat Portal 2. Not because it was difficult...I was just bored with the puzzles so I put it off. Don't get me wrong, I liked the game well enough, but finishing puzzles isn't enough motivation for me. I need more of a story to like a game XD.

Hell, took me over a year with the first Portal...

Also, I've probably only beaten...maybe 15 games ever in my life. Either I get bored or stop playing for a while and forget or I just decide I no longer like it. XD

 

[infohippie]

I have played several hundred hours in Oblivion but I've never finished the main plot.
I once gave in and played WoW for a few weeks.

 

[AMX58]

to snipe or not to snipe that is the question and also dont piss me off i really go off killing everybody on free for all

 

[Epicspoon]

I haven't completed either portal game despite owning them both, I just got stuck and they simply weren't compelling enough for me to put in the extra effort and finish them.

haven't completed (or played) either of them. come christmas however I will definitely download the first portal

 

[Leemaster777]

Lets see...

I own Final Fantasy 7, but I've never beaten it. Hell, I barely played it. I beat the very first timed boss, and just completely lost all interest in the game.

Also, ditto on Half-Life 2. I've beaten Half-Life one, and I love it, but I just couldn't get into HF2. I tried my hardest to like it, but I just didn't stick.

 

[Epicspoon]

I still can't complete sonic the hedgehog

20 years damn it

me neither dude. Infact, the only Sonic game that i've been able to beat (I believe me I have practically every sonic game made) is Sonic and the Black Knight, which I needed help with from a friend on this one stupidly cheap boss.

while i don't look down on you for that i've gotta say that's really surprising. I mean I understand the sonic rushes due to the emeralds but not even sonic adventure 2? well there was that one mission as rouge in the bank so scratch that one. ummmm okay never mind they all kind of have their "that one level" or "that one boss"

 

[Epicspoon]

I've never beat I wanna be the guy despite getting to the final boss.

 

[Grotch Willis]

I played final fantasy 13

 

[LarenzoAOG]

Despite putting a nine iron in Andrew Ryan's skull 5 or 6 times, I have never actually completed Bioshock.

 

[Grotch Willis]

Also, I guess I could say that I've been stuck on 6-5 Omega in Super Meat Boy for about 4 months now.

 

[l3o2828]

I haven't beaten any of the God Of War games, despite owning most.

 

[Star Pancakes Muthaf]

I've owned the orange boc for a month and haven't even opened it because I've been playing Just Cause 2

 

[Searlero]

My shame is never finishing games because they frighten me too much.

I never got far in S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernobyl. The first time I heard a Bloodsucker scream, I refused to carry on playing it.

The same for Metro 2033

 

[technoted]

I hate Kingdom Hearts.
I like Navi from OoT.
I prefer Half Life 1 to its sequel.
I don't like Portal that much and have touched it twice since completing it.
I can't stand Mario and since Super Mario 64 I haven't liked a single Mario game not including Mario Kart.
And so many more but I really don't care.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

My greatest shame is that I didn't finish the Deus Ex games back when they were released and now I cannot tolerate the ancient graphics any more.

It goes the same for the Baldur's Gate series the old school Forgotten Realm games.I didn't own a computer back.

We(some of us at least)have been spoilt with a certain graphic tolerance which makes playing legendary games which were awesome due to their story/gameplay impossible because of the visual aspect ruining all the immersion.

 

[delnel]

I've never played half life. I am too young to have been interested in playing the first one, and I don't know if it will work on my computer, and I feel really guilty for this. From friends descriptions I know I would like it and it is a classic, but I just don't know how to go about playing it. Any advice?