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Games that you Loved, but never Finished
Lucascraft
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Are there games that you have played, which you absolutely loved, or thought were brilliant, but never completed them? I'm not even talking about games that are hard. I'm just talking about games in general, that for one reason or another you never finished. I myself have 3 which I will begin this discussion with. (There are more. These are just 3).
Bioshock
I played as far as the "big reveal" and just a little bit past that, like maybe 20 minutes past, and just never finished the game. I don't know why I never finished it, I just never did. The gameplay was fun, the hacking was one of the greatest minigames ever, and the graphics were gorgeous. Yet I have not completed this masterpiece of a game.
Baldur's Gate 1
I played this game SO MUCH when it came out. I was in love with the character creator, which was quite in depth at the time. I started so many adventures and played them through the first chapter. In my main game, I got as far as the actual City of Baldur's Gate, and at this point, my PC at the time was not able to render everything all at once and I could not function in town. The game was virtually unplayable upon reaching this point. And I've had several PCs since that time, but I just haven't gone back and played it all the way through.
Mass Effect
Another brilliant Bioware game, that sadly I have never completed. I thought the combat was great, the story was compelling, and the characters were fun to interact with. The problem I had is that when they gave me my own ship, I lost all focus. All of a sudden I had the ability to see and do everything, and I was so overwhelmed with choices that I did nothing.
Bioshock
I played as far as the "big reveal" and just a little bit past that, like maybe 20 minutes past, and just never finished the game. I don't know why I never finished it, I just never did. The gameplay was fun, the hacking was one of the greatest minigames ever, and the graphics were gorgeous. Yet I have not completed this masterpiece of a game.
Baldur's Gate 1
I played this game SO MUCH when it came out. I was in love with the character creator, which was quite in depth at the time. I started so many adventures and played them through the first chapter. In my main game, I got as far as the actual City of Baldur's Gate, and at this point, my PC at the time was not able to render everything all at once and I could not function in town. The game was virtually unplayable upon reaching this point. And I've had several PCs since that time, but I just haven't gone back and played it all the way through.
Mass Effect
Another brilliant Bioware game, that sadly I have never completed. I thought the combat was great, the story was compelling, and the characters were fun to interact with. The problem I had is that when they gave me my own ship, I lost all focus. All of a sudden I had the ability to see and do everything, and I was so overwhelmed with choices that I did nothing.
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Just haven't had the time unfortunately
Also Disgaea DS and FFTA2
It's better that you just leave it and go on thinking it's a masterpiece.
The Guardian Legend for the NES. That game was so good, but I never managed to finish it.
Beautiful game, fun, great story, but...
Do... Re... Mi... So... Fa.... Do... Re.... Do...
Forget it...
I've gotten to Xen a couple of times and I've gotten all the way to Nihilanth a single time, but I've never beaten the last part.
But I'm guessing there were hundreds out there that stopped at the same point as me. The very last boss. UGH.
Ninja Gaiden
I love this. But it gets far too difficult for me to handle. I admit it; I'm a sucker at NG.
Dead Rising
I was so closed to finishing this but the console broke. I guess I would have done so if the 360 still worked.
Our first game is now available for free on Google Play: Frontier: Isle of the Seven Gods
Don't let the choice paralysis get to you; you can ignore pretty much all of the uncharted worlds, go to the story planets that the game hits you over the head to go to, and have a blast. Being OCD with the game will kill any interest you have; just follow the natural flow of the game and you'll be fine.
I was doing a good number of the UCWs and was maybe 16 hours into the game when I started feeling myself get bored, so I said "Fuck it" and barreled straight through to the end of the game. Was so worth it, and I wish I had done it hours earlier; the gear I got was tons better than the stuff I was slowly building up on the UCWs, and the story gets awesome right at the end.
I was completely sold on the 'throwback' in terms of its art direction and battle mechanics. The story, the art, the music, it all felt as if I was playing FF4 all over again. To top it off, the lead character wasn't some goddamn whiny bitchboy (I'm looking at YOU, FF8).
But for some reason, I never finished. Hell, I couldn't even tell you where I left off. Maybe I should dust it off and throw it back in the ol' PS1.
But I was having a really good time, and I'm a FF completionist most of the time. Just couldn't do it.
dead rising
trauma center: New Blood
Resident Evil 4 Wii (never beat it on gc either)
Should have warned that it was such a huge spoiler.:?
For me, it's Trauma Center on the DS...just never finished it. I think it started getting really hard, and I just lost interest.
It's a good thing. As you might be aware, the ending contains nothing but misery and woe for all who experience it. It's almost mandatory that after the end you come to the Fallout thread and talk about how much it sucked.
Me too. Most of the game was really good, even if it took me a long time to play through it. Then the final part came around and it was bad. It was annoying platforming with constantly respawning enemies. Then the first form of the final boss is so easy and spawns so many health items that I ended it with more health than I entered with and then the second form requires constantly switching visors and standing in very specific places.
FF12
Currently, I'm sitting on a TON of unfinished games. I'm trying to go back to them, but damn it, getting a 360 lately has opened up more games upon games...and now, with new releases for PS3 and 360 about to fall and drown me...I think my list is just going to get bigger and bigger.
Now I'm wondering if I should even finish it.o_O
Baldur's Gate, Throne of Bhall: I started this immediately after finishing BG2, but wasn't willing to slog through all the bosses.
Planescape Torment: I tried playing this via Gametap. Unfortunately, there is a random bug (maybe just in the Gametap version?) that corrupts all your saves, and there is absolutely no way to recover from it. After restarting 3 times within a 2 week period, I gave up. Maybe someday I'll try to track down a copy on eBay.
Less interestingly:
Thief 3
Mechwarrior 3 & 4
Doom
Battletoads (for obvious reasons)
Okami for the same reason as listed above
RE4
A bit more recent: Metroid Prime 2. Apparently I'm supposed to find a visor, but the game hardly gives any clues of its whereabouts. Heck, I didn't knew I needed it until someone here pointed it out.
Also: Resident Evil 4. Low on ammo + Regenerators = me shitting in my pants.
I got to the final boss and could not beat it. I am currently in the process of playing through the game again, though. Hopefully I can beat it this time. It's really not that hard of a game, I don't know what's wrong with me.
EDIT: Hell, until this month, I hadn't beaten Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door either. Same deal. I played through it again and realized I hadn't given ANY of my partners a second upgrade. It was no wonder I couldn't beat it. The final boss was almost embarrassingly easy this time.
But what about Liberty Prime?
Fallout 3 (although I'm still trying)
Otagi 2
Planescape Torment (this is one I should be wholly ashamed of)
Super Mario Sunshine
Ugh. Fuck that boss.
I was able to get it down to where maybe one or two more hits woulda killed it, and then metroids kept humping my head. My lack of vision led me to my untimely death.
I have never had trouble with the second form of Metroid Prime. You guys need to hunt more energy tanks or something.
My set up was as follows:
Edwin the red wizard, mazzy the dwarf archer/fighter, I cant rember his name but he is a dwarf who specialiazes in axes I belive and fighted with mazzy alot ( I want to say Korgan but im not sure), Viconica my healer, Jan my rouge/other mage. There was one other, it might have been Jahera, although I rember she fights with Vicionica alot.
Granted my spelling will mostlikely be off, its been awhile.
You remember the part where...
But I actually just busted out the Half Life Platinum Collection and I'm installing it back to my computer right now. I plan on beating Half life and then move on to Blue Shift and Opposing Force. By the way, which one of those came first? I wanted to go in order.
Opposing Force came before Blue Shift.
But, I'm not sure it matters, since the plot lines from all three intersect, but don't follow each other. You might consider HL, Blue Shift, then Opp Force for plot, but they came out HL, OF and then BS.
Me and my brother played it for a long time, but my memory card corrupted and I didn't have the patience to go through it again.
Great game, though.
I would highly recommend playing the core Half-Life game first. The two expansions make a lot more sense if you have a strong background understanding of the events of Gordon Freeman.
Opposing Force was made second, and Blue Shift third. Both are really good expansions, although Blue Shift is very short.
Kingdom hearts 2.
I absolutely adore any and all kingdom hearts games, and this one was no exception. I had power leveled myself to 60 and I had just gotten to the lion king world, when my little brother corrupted my save file. I can't bring myself to invest all that time in the game again and it will forever haunt my dreams.
Metroid Prime 2
Wind Waker
Okami (though any other game would have ended twice by the time I got to the part I'm at)
Dragon Quest VIII
Metal Arms
And even more that I'm forgetting
PSN ID : DetectiveOlivaw | TWITTER | STEAM ID | NEVER FORGET
The final straw was when I was a few shots away from defeating the fucker and I died. I vvaguely remember it but I know I had a lot of health left at that point and I just wanted to break the fucking console pad. I sold the GC a few days later.
To anyone who has beat Half Life, how close was I?
Same here. Like I thought it was pretty good and I like the Wii controls but it didn't grab me like Prime or Zero Mission.
I guess Link to the Past is one I like a lot but have probably played the first 3 pendents more than actually getting past them.
Also The Witcher. Its fantastic but due to load times I just gave up. I have the enhanced edition patch but haven't got around to playing it.
Its been awhile but refresh my memory, what weapons did you have and when did you get them?