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Unfinished games - Your biggest regret.
Ryadic
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We've all been there. There is not a single person in this world that has finished every game they start unless they have only played a few. People in this forum in particular do not fall into that category though.
I am very guilty of it. In fact I think back on a lot of games I started with every intention of finishing, and never do and I realize that I regret a lot of them. Some of them I don't finish because a bigger anticipated game for me is released and I devoted my time to that.
Sometimes I get stuck in the game and am so frustrated with playing the same part over and over I completely give up.
Other times I just got caught up in online gaming (Quake 3, Diablo 2, WoW, FFXI, etc) that single player games get set aside and sometimes forgotten about.
Or I just completely lose interest in the game all together for various reason. Story has gotten boring or too dumb. Game play has gotten too repetitive.
When you think back on all those unfinished games, you have to realize that there's one game out there you never finished that you regret not finishing. You also look back and realize you'll probably never finish it. You just don't have the energy to put the time into it to finish it. You don't care to go through those 1 - 2 hours of terrible game play to finish it.
For me, I think it has to be either Final Fantasy VIII or XII. These are games that I had every intention of finishing. Hell I got to the last boss in VIII but because your characters are randomly selected for the final fight (if I remember correctly) they never gave me the 3 I wanted after about 10 tries. So I gave up. I started a new game intending to equally level all characters as best I could and what not, but I gave up about a 3/4s the way of the second disc.
XII just had a boring story for me. I tried so hard to play the game, but I just couldn't play it. The characters were dull and boring and the story just never grabbed my attention. Also, combat got too difficult at times and was sometimes very unforgiving. I think I got close to 15 - 20 hours into the game with about 5 of that dedicated to grinding out EXP and items and such. I realized that I didn't care to finish it.
These are two games that I'll probably never finish. Final Fantasy VIII may get finished if I decide to get it off of PSN and play it on my PSP (If I can find the fucking thing) because I can slowly work through that at times where I'm off somewhere.
Other games I never finished that I somewhat regret, but not nearly as much as the others:
Baldur's Gate II
Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops
Final Fantasy Tactics
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Final Fantasy III (DS)
Deus Ex
Grand Theft Auto 3, Vice City, San Andreas
Devil May Cry 2, 3
Brave Fencer Musashi
Parasite Eve
Windwaker
Metroid Prime
Games I'm working on, and fear I may never finish:
Oblivion (I've started no less than 10 games of this in attempt to finish this)*
Fallout 3
inFAMOUS
GTA 4*
Jade Empire (Such a cheap game on Steam over the Holidays, had to get it. With all these other games, this one would be easy to set aside)
*I will regret not finishing these games.
I am very guilty of it. In fact I think back on a lot of games I started with every intention of finishing, and never do and I realize that I regret a lot of them. Some of them I don't finish because a bigger anticipated game for me is released and I devoted my time to that.
Sometimes I get stuck in the game and am so frustrated with playing the same part over and over I completely give up.
Other times I just got caught up in online gaming (Quake 3, Diablo 2, WoW, FFXI, etc) that single player games get set aside and sometimes forgotten about.
Or I just completely lose interest in the game all together for various reason. Story has gotten boring or too dumb. Game play has gotten too repetitive.
When you think back on all those unfinished games, you have to realize that there's one game out there you never finished that you regret not finishing. You also look back and realize you'll probably never finish it. You just don't have the energy to put the time into it to finish it. You don't care to go through those 1 - 2 hours of terrible game play to finish it.
For me, I think it has to be either Final Fantasy VIII or XII. These are games that I had every intention of finishing. Hell I got to the last boss in VIII but because your characters are randomly selected for the final fight (if I remember correctly) they never gave me the 3 I wanted after about 10 tries. So I gave up. I started a new game intending to equally level all characters as best I could and what not, but I gave up about a 3/4s the way of the second disc.
XII just had a boring story for me. I tried so hard to play the game, but I just couldn't play it. The characters were dull and boring and the story just never grabbed my attention. Also, combat got too difficult at times and was sometimes very unforgiving. I think I got close to 15 - 20 hours into the game with about 5 of that dedicated to grinding out EXP and items and such. I realized that I didn't care to finish it.
These are two games that I'll probably never finish. Final Fantasy VIII may get finished if I decide to get it off of PSN and play it on my PSP (If I can find the fucking thing) because I can slowly work through that at times where I'm off somewhere.
Other games I never finished that I somewhat regret, but not nearly as much as the others:
Baldur's Gate II
Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops
Final Fantasy Tactics
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Final Fantasy III (DS)
Deus Ex
Grand Theft Auto 3, Vice City, San Andreas
Devil May Cry 2, 3
Brave Fencer Musashi
Parasite Eve
Windwaker
Metroid Prime
Games I'm working on, and fear I may never finish:
Oblivion (I've started no less than 10 games of this in attempt to finish this)*
Fallout 3
inFAMOUS
GTA 4*
Jade Empire (Such a cheap game on Steam over the Holidays, had to get it. With all these other games, this one would be easy to set aside)
*I will regret not finishing these games.
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So far as games I never beat that I wish I would have... in recent years the New Prince of Persia. I got about half-way and just kinda stopped playing. Its still setting on my bookcase I just haven't had the will to finish it.
Oh, one other thing -- if you play Jade Empire make sure to take the attack that lightning/stuns your enemies. You can trounce the whole game by shocking/stunning and then using White Demon to beat the shit out of them.
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Fallout 3.
I got up to meeting Three-Dog and totally lost all interest in the game. Granted beforehand I shot a super mutant in the face with a mini nuke, but it just didn't grab me like I was expecting it to. I will give it another chance at some point during 2010 though.
Half Life 2, and both episodes
Beyond Good and Evil
Fallout 3
Indigo Prophecy
Chrono Trigger
The World Ends With You
The Witcher
Dragon Age Origins
Metal Gear Solid 4
There's probably more, but I'm just including recent games that I have actually bought, and not just rented.
As for me? Morrowind. is the biggest. I just can't bring myself to not go around doing all the side content. I just collect stuff and homes and create stuff to obliterate everything on the island... then I get busy with work, or distracted by another game, etc. So I've been all the way up to almost beating it once, and that's it. lol
But my biggest regret is Xenogears.
Not my fault, really. Loved the game, loved the story. But either my copy of the game was bugged or the CD was not working properly, because I had an issue that made me finally give up on the final boss.
On the second CD, after the game goes into "welp we ran out of money so here is a novel to tell you what happens instead" mode, combat got a little wonky. Either every time I selected an option in combat be it attack or magic, it would take 5-10 minutes for the game to do anything. So between reading enough text to fill a dictionary and battle sequences that it threw you in that would take me 3 hours to complete, I finally gave up.
I tried fighting the final boss, but I believe I looked it up at the time and after you got so far into the battle it went to a second part, yet after about five hours of combat I still never reached that midpoint and finally gave up on beating the game.
My other regret is Final Fantasy VII. I cheesed through all the hard bosses by putting an amulet on one character that would protect them from the only type of damage that boss would do (in fact, it would heal the character) so by time I got up to the final dungeon / boss, I was 10-15 levels lower than what i should have been to fight him. Never did care to grind back up.
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There are many more, but these are the games that really bug me.
As you can see, I currently have a lot of time on my hands. Thanks, lousy job market!
I'll get hung for the real answers, though. I couldn't finish Planescape: Torment or Deus Ex. Yes, I like video games. That's why I never finished Doom 3.
The same goes for Crisis - Day of Disaster. Never could defeat
Some day I will finish Deadly Creatures. I stopped playing midway because a few other games came out and haven't gotten back to it yet.
I'm still only in Chapter 2 in The Witcher. I play it for a few hours once or twice a year. I just don't enjoy playing on the PC as much as playing 360/PS3/Wii from my couch and on my 60' TV.
UFO: Aftershock
Hidden and Dangerous 2
Because I don't hate myself enough to actually finish them. I doubt I'm missing much.
Until recently, I never finished Final Fantasy 6. I would always OCD on trying to get everyone every spell and fussing about their stats during level up. Also got bummed out on how unbalanced the gameplay was in the player's favor. Finally, I restarted the game and only learned magic from level ups (no espers, spell-granting items, etc) and fucking loved it from beginning to end.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
Legend of Zelda - Twilight Princess
Final Fantasy 7
Final Fantasy 9
Half Life 2 - Episode 1 through whatever they're on now
Half Life 1
I'm pretty much a terrible person, right?
I never made it through the second level.
I probably should put Half Life 2 on my list too. I'm so pissed I never finished it, but I do plan on one day finishing it. No regrets there.
Chrono Trigger is a game I somewhat regret because of the hype, but I just didn't like it. It's not for me. I hate to say it, but I tried the game no less than 5 times and each time the game just never really grabbed me like I hoped. Honestly all you fan boys, I tried to like it. But I'll say it, the game is overrated to me.
I can't agree, but I can understand :P
This was actually the game that made me regret that it was over.
So, I guess that's the opposite of regretting to finish a game.
Go back and finish the game, dammit.
Don't be a pussy, bring your cup o' lifenoodles.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
Not only JRPGs though, there are a lot of games I just never finish but get right to the end of. I think it's part of me not wanting the game to finish, so I just don't. GTA IV, for example, I played for like a whole week, and did every thing, and never finished.
I think games that offer up a lot of side quests/side events that are repetitive. I have a compulsion to complete them all, and I'll get around 70% of the way through them and just get bored. Assassin's Creed is guilty of this. I still haven't finished it.
"What do you mean I have to drive for 20 minutes before anything happens?" indeed
- God Hand
- Class of Heroes
- Parasite Eve 2 (well, this not so much regret because was a horrible game)
- Gundam Battle Universe
- Seiken Densetsu 3
- GTA: San Andreas. Fuck that car race mission.
Banjo-Tooie (stopped when I couldn't beat the bird thing in a race in one of the last levels)
Animal Crossing (didn't get into this one at all... I don't know if there's even an end, but I didn't do enough to consider it beat)
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (liked the idea of the game, but found the story convoluted and the gameplay boring... maybe 60-70% through?)
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles (played with friends but stopped once their interest died out. I think I saw most of the areas in the game, just not the end)
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (got frustrated with it about 1/2 way through and gave up)
Pikmin 2 (most of the way through, I just got to be too much of a perfectionist - kept restarting if I lost a single Pikmin... wore myself out)
Looking back, I was much better at finishing PS2 games than Gamecube games for some reason.
Oh, and... Majora's Mask. I was very late to the MM party and it didn't immediately grab me (only played for 30 minutes or so, so I didn't even list it as a game I played). I really should try again, though I'm not too good at going back to really old games and being forgiving that it doesn't play as well or look as good as current games. If it places in the Top 5 in GotD, though, I promise I'll go back and try it.
Aw come on Parasite Eve 2 was like 3 hours long heh. You can get off the first disc in like a half hour to an hour if you power through it. Such a stupid short game. The first one however is amazing. I never finished it though because the last boss kept fucking me
Im not going to say every game. No. But I will say LoZ Ocarina, Majoras, Twilight, ...>.>...yep. All the big ones. Annnnnd I wont keep naming games. TOOOO many to recall lately what with having so many now. Saddening.
Then theres pretty much ALL the total war games... never finished a full campiegn ever... although I've played countless skirmishes.
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Me too. The last boss was so absurdly hard I stopped. Same with the first Galerians. Almost happened with Vagrant Story´s final boss, but I loved the game so much I made the effort to defeat that final boss.
Yeah, I do that a lot too. Most of those big turn based games, like the Civ games, I rarely finish as well. Because I can't do it in one sitting, and by the time I sit down to play again, it's so sprawling and confusing and easy to forget what I was doing, so I just start a new campaign.
Ico just got too hard at some points and I got frustrated. No bitch, you run from the bad things. Don't stand there...
Shadow of the Colossus was just all about killing the Colossi. Nothing bad, but after you take down about 7 or 8, you start to lose interest. I tried to finish them both, but my PS3 shat out on me and I had to get a new one and no more backwards compatibility. Maybe they'll remake them for the PS3? Goddamn I hope so.
Part of my 2010 plan is to actually finish more of my games before buying more. I just beat Assassins Creed 1 that I had got for christmas in 2008 so I can play thru Assassins Creed 2.
SotC, though, was a letdown to me (blasphemy, I know). I dunno, I just didn't like it as much as Ico. I'm pretty sure that I built up SotC in my head to much, because of my love of Ico. I was picturing colossi the size of the titan in God of War, where you can forget that you're on a moving being. A few colossi got close to being unbelievably huge, but others were not that big and not that impressive. Maybe I need to give it a second chance.
Some notable games I haven't finished (yet):
Final Fantasy VII (saved right outside of the crater but for some reason never finished it)
Final Fantasy VIII (saved somewhere right at the end)
Final Fantasy XII (got about halfway before moving on to something else. I fully intended to restart this soon)
Ocarina of Time (Tried this a couple of times, but always lose interest a good ways through)
Half-Life 2 (got bored at the prison)
I know there are a ton others, but this is all I can think of right now. I also have copies of Paper Mario and Viewtiful Joe that I never opened.
Think about joining the backlog challenge thread we have here. It's full of people with the same plan as you.
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Those ones shame me profoundly.
Strider in the arcade.
... some day.
It's difficult to finish game that average out to around 50 hours each. I surely do not blame you. They're difficult.
My first FF7 save got me nearly to the end of disc 2 at about 57 hours. My brother saved over it. I nearly sent him to the hospital... I was sooo pissed.