Are There Any Games You Loved, but Never Finished?

[You Can't Take the Sky From Me]

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. I was at the fight in the big round elevator and got stomped a couple times so I decided to take a bit of a break from the game. Three days later my basement flooded and my PS2 got fried. I never got to finish that wonderful game... That makes me sad.

 

[Random Argument Man]

You can't really finish an Elder Scroll game...

I didn't had a chance to finish Resident Evil 4...because my roommate moved out.

 

[Happiness Assassin]

The only one is Rome: Total War. Though right now I am getting close with my Brutii playthrough. I will beat you yet game.

 

[anAngryHamster]

I only beat the first Golden Sun about 3 weeks ago. Give me another 20 years and maybe I'll complete the trilogy.

 

[Lovely Mixture]

I technically finished Odin Sphere, but I didn't get a full 100%.

To get the best ending you have to beat five bosses with five combinations of characters. You have to do some of the wrong combinations in order to get all the cutscenes so you unlock the true end after you do the correct combination.

I did the right combination, but I had to do a third wrong combination and I could never beat the fourth boss with the fifth character.

 

[Laurents van Cauwenberghe]

planescape torment.
i almost made it to the end but there was this one boss who kept casting spells, that itself isn't really the problem but my game had some kind of weird glitch that every time someone cast a spell, my screen would flicker. casting 1 or 2 spells was fine, i could still play, but that guy kept casting until my screen just crashed.

 

[Catie Caraco]

Just about every JRPG I've ever played. Mostly Chrono Trigger and Dragon Quest IX. In both cases I played them non-stop, until I came across a boss that would require lots of level grinding to beat, so I just stopped and haven't gotten back to them.

This is, at least to me, a fundamental flaw in many jrpgs. ESPECIALLY if you get locked into a final dungeon with the same handful of mobs over and over so the grinding required to level up becomes even more of a headache. That's why I never beat Lunar:SSSC and Eternal Sonata. Same thing happened both time, and oddly enough, both games had specific mobs you ran into over and over.

 

[CC17]

Skyrim for me too. Played it through 3 times, but I end up doing all the side quests and so forth and then I just cant be arsed to finish the game. Still spent over 300 hours on it though.

 

[ChaplainOrion]

Fallout NV, I did all the LC but I wouldn't beat it because I have to do all the companion quests and I can't seem to do those random encounters

 

[Mr.Squishy]

Baldur's Gate 2
I've gotten pretty far twice now, but each time there's been a fuckup with the save, and I've had to start all over again. I never want to lay eyes on Irenicus' lair ever again.

 

[C4tt4nn4]

this is going to sound strange, but XCOM: Enemy Unknown. I love it: the base management, the grand total of 3 characters, the randomized soldiers, the missions... but the stress of getting the harder missions and attempting to get my guys through in one piece was just too much. under normal circumstances, it would have been fine, but i have so much work at the moment that i just cant bring myself to play such a stressful game in my off time.

 

[Poetic Nova]

Killer 7, damn those Heaven Smiles.

 

[ScoopMeister]

Rayman 2: The Great Escape. I got it when I was about five, and it would crash at a certain point about 2/3 of the way through the game- so I never completed it.

Oh lawd. That game was fantastic, and totally worth playing to the end. You can get it on gog.com if you want.

Cheers dude, I'll go check it out

 

[Scrustle]

Some of these replies have made me remember a few more of mine.

God of War. I played it all the way through, and loved pretty much every second of it. Then I got to the final boss. I just simply couldn't do it. I got slaughtered pitifully over and over again. Then suddenly one day my disc just broke. No scratches or anything, my PS2 just refused to read it. It wouldn't even spin. It still works with all my other games (apart from Gran Turismo 4), so I don't get what went wrong. But it means I never played any God of War game again, despite really enjoying that first one.

There's Morrowind too. A lot of people have mentioned various Elder Scrolls games, but I'm not sure they really qualify in plenty of cases. It takes forever to completely finish those games, and I don't it really matters how many or which quest lines you bother to do. Although the main quest line is probably more "important" than the others, it's still doesn't really count for much. You can even ignore them all and experience a huge chunk of the game just through random side-quests.

That said, with Morrowind I've barely ever got anywhere with it. I've started it a bunch of times, but then either screwed myself with a crappy build or just got bored of it and moved on. My most recent try has gotten me further than any other attempt, and I think I have a decent build for how I play, but I still haven't experienced the vast majority of the game. If I remember rightly I'm only like level 3 or something.

Darksiders 2. The combat is fun enough and I like the outfit customization, but as soon as I got to the Land of the Dead I lost interest in going for another 2/3 or so of the game.

If it's any consolation, after the Land of the Dead the game narrows down dramatically. Although the dungeons themselves get larger, the number of them drops a whole lot and the overworlds become almost nothing more than a straight path from the Tree of Life to the one or two dungeons in the area. So it picks up the pace quite a lot, with the exception of one dungeon that is a bit of a drag.

 

[Dead Seerius]

Every Bethesda RPG I've ever played. So much content, so little time. I like doing sidequests before doing the main story so I usually lose momentary interest in the game before beating it. Then I come back, play it some more, still don't do main quests, repeat.

And Dishonored. Loved that game to death but the holiday rush distracted me from beating it. It's on my summer to-do list now.

 

[KungFuJazzHands]

The Saboteur is probably my favorite game of all time, but I never could be bothered to finish it. I got to around 93% complete before I just gave up and finally uninstalled it after four years of taking up space on my hard drive. The irony here is that I uninstalled it to make room for Max Payne 3, a game I played for thirty minutes and then promptly forgot about.

 

[Nocenious]

I have not finished Borderlands 2 yet despite having a bunch of time to fix the disc.

Also Zone of the Enders 1 HD. Trying to finish the game with an A ranking first time certainly killed it for me this time around (did finish the PS2 version back in the day).

 

[CarlsonAndPeeters]

Top Secret Confession: I never beat Ocarina of Time.

I'm so sorry, world. I've failed you. I love it so much but I've played the beginning so many times and I just never get around to finishing a full playthrough oh my god I'm a monster.

 

[Da Orky Man]

Rome: Total War. I love the game, but I've never actually finished a long campaign. I am a good way through with the Carthaginians though; most of North Africa is mine, as is all of Spain and southern Italy. My next marches will be through part of Gaul to stymie the Julii coming through the Pyrenees, and then onto ROme and the rest of Italy.

Also, Just Cause 2. Though thats simply because while the story isn't very good, I can't get enough of surfing fighter jets with attached passenger liners into military bases.

 

[BathorysGraveland2]

Skyrim. I really did enjoy the game, but I never finished any of the quest lines. The quests were just so boring this time. It seems like Skyrim was an improvement over Oblivion in every way except the quests. The main quest was so uninteresting to me that I just stopped playing it entirely, and the civil war questline had potential, but failed to have any sense of scale at all.