Games That You Kinda Just Stopped Playing.

[RJ 17]

Made this topic after mentioning one such game in another topic. What I'm talking about here are games that, just as the title says, you just kinda stopped playing. It's not that you didn't like the game, it's not that you were bored by it, hell you might have even found yourself really enjoying it. But for some reason after the last time you played it you never went back to it to finish it.

Castlevanai: Lords of Shadow was the game that I mentioned in another topic as being one that I just kinda stopped playing. As mentioned above, I had nothing against the game (other than a shoddy camera), but for whatever reason after I ended a session upon beating the werewolf boss, I never played it again.

Other games like this for me were Halo 2, Ninja Gaiden 3 (current gen, not the old-school NES one...though that one I never finished because it's frickin' impossible ), and I guess technically Skyrim. With Skyrim I did most of the stuff that you can do, but there were a bunch of sidequests that I never bothered with, always telling myself that I'd get back to them. After completing the Civil War (having completed the main story beforehand) I started up a new character, got out of the town that gets attacked at the very beginning, and I haven't touched the game since them.

So I ask you, my fellow Escapists, what games have you "kinda just stopped playing"?

 

[fornever1]

The lord of the rings: the war in the north: got stuck, gave up
condemned 2: didnt holdmy attention
skyrim: did everything but the main quest
fire emblem: shadow dragon: just stopped playing.
fallout:new vages: file got corropted. still can't bring myself to restart.
Legand of Zelda: skyward sword: just stopped playing it.
every pokemon game once i get a new one.

 

[Catfood220]

Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, I stopped playing because Dead Space 3 came out a couple of weeks after it did and I didn't pick it up again until last month. I started enjoying it again but unfortunately I was on call for about 3 weeks and every time I tried to get anywhere, I got called out, never got much further than I was and its gotten shelved again.

 

[DyqstARD]

Fallout 3, I found New Vegas to just be the same but bigger, better, more.

 

[Norithics]

Virtually all games, to my complete shame. I always finish a Mega Man or a Castlevania, but that's pretty much it- I lose interest in modern titles so easily it's not even funny. I don't know if they're poorly paced or I'm just getting old or what, but man that 85% mark fatigue is really becoming a thing for me.

 

[Specter Von Baren]

I seem to have this unavoidable habit with Disgaea games. I play them for a good while, I have fun with what I'm doing, then I get to a point where I get tired of all the leveling up and I stop playing it for a long time. Then eventually after a lot of time has passed, I end up finishing the game. Happened with the first game, happened with the second, and I'm still on hold from Disgaea 3.

 

[shrekfan246]

So I ask you, my fellow Escapists, what games have you "kinda just stopped playing"?

Too many.

At the moment, the most prominent would be Beyond Good & Evil, Metal Gear Rising, The Witcher, Dishonored, Metal Gear Solid 4, Warcraft III, BlazBlue: Continuum Shift EXTEND, Of Orcs & Men... I have too many games.

Currently, the reason most of them have been put on the backburner is because I've been going through the Kingdom Hearts franchise on each game's respective Hard difficulty, attempting to 100% at the same time, and recently got a 3DS so I'm playing Dream Drop Distance for the first time (decided to do that on the Hard difficulty as well since I had just gone through Birth By Sleep and started up a Hard-mode Kingdom Hearts 1 game).

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

Oblivion and Skyrim. Put like 100+ hours into each of them, but never bothered to finish either. I've tried a couple times with each of them, but I always end up getting incredibly bored by 'em.

Max Payne 3. I dunno why I never bothered to finish this. It wasn't a bad game... it just didn't feel much like a Max Payne game. I mean... Max is definitely there, and I think they did a pretty good job on him as a character... it's just everything else that feels... off. I'll probably get around to finishing it at some point though, if nothing else because I loved the first two.

 

[Catfood220]

Fallout 3, I found New Vegas to just be the same but bigger, better, more.

Strange, I stopped playing New Vegas when I realised the game was basically forcing me around in a circle and any attempt to deviate from that path would get me super murdered. I preferred Fallout 3 because even though you had missions to do, you could wander off, explore, do your own thing before going back to that mission.

 

[RJ 17]

Fallout 3, I found New Vegas to just be the same but bigger, better, more.

Strange, I stopped playing New Vegas when I realised the game was basically forcing me around in a circle and any attempt to deviate from that path would get me super murdered. I preferred Fallout 3 because even though you had missions to do, you could wander off, explore, do your own thing before going back to that mission.

So I take it Yahtzee's mention of the giant killer space flies of death wasn't just an exaggeration?

I seem to have this unavoidable habit with Disgaea games. I play them for a good while, I have fun with what I'm doing, then I get to a point where I get tired of all the leveling up and I stop playing it for a long time. Then eventually after a lot of time has passed, I end up finishing the game. Happened with the first game, happened with the second, and I'm still on hold from Disgaea 3.

I've only played Disgaea 2, and yeah...that's what happened to me. I played it, really enjoyed it since it reminded me of Final Fantasy Tactics in the way its battle-system worked. Think I got about halfway through it then just stopped playing it. No real rhyme or reason, but I stopped playing and STILL haven't finished it.

 

[Catfood220]

So I take it Yahtzee's mention of the giant killer space flies of death wasn't just an exaggeration?

No, you try going in a certain way at the start of the game and you will be murdered due to your low level and lack of ammo by the giant killer space flies. I think its to stop you rocking up to New Vegas itself within 10 minutes of starting and missing a huge chuck of game.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I agree with Bethesda games. Rich worlds, rich lore, lots of content, but no real sense of challenge, no strong characters, a constant feeling of loneliness, and unchanging worlds. Each game since Oblivion of theirs I've put around one hundred-some hours over a year, then just pittered out of it. Mods are half the reason I kept staying with them.

 

[Bernzz]

I have a real problem with this.

On 3DS:
- Fire Emblem: Awakening

On Xbox 360:
- Far Cry 3
- Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation
- Dishonored
- Darksiders II

On PC:
- Spec Ops: The Line
- Thomas Was Alone
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
- Metro 2033
- Just Cause 2
- Mark of the Ninja
- Endless Space
- Wargame: AirLand Battle

Yeah. I have issues.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

- Thomas Was Alone

Oh, come on! Thomas Was Alone is hardly six hours long, and the actual game is rather easy. I know the last levels are a drag when you juggle so many characters, but at least finish it for the game's ending.

 

[JagermanXcell]

LA Noir.

Never before have I felt a game truly turn me off until I played LA Noir.
At least the game was free, now its just sitting there in my pile of games, staring at me... doubting me. Waiting. >_>

 

[SadisticFire]

Oh plenty. The most recent one being Dragon Age. I went to the elves, went into ruins, met shadow wolves. Struggled with first encounter, placed traps, succeeded. Had second encounter, all popped outa stealth and used overwhelm on each one of my party members. Stopped right there, don't want any more of that bullshit.
Metro 2033, found libary, got turned around, got lost. Didn't have will to continue another hour of being lost. Poor design in my opinion. Players shouldn't get lost and spend hours looking for the way they were.
Thomas Was Alone. Just couldn't hold my interest. I keep trying to open it, and play it, it's still installed, just can't get my interest long enough.
Payday 2. Love the game completely. Terribly bored of it, probably just burned out. Got 69 hours with in the first days of being released, and much more in the beta. Definitely recommend it though.
Witcher 2. Played it for 2 hours, found the control scheme
Sanctum 2. Found a level where spitters can shoot acid at your core from the vines, can't place tower to protect core. Can't find friend that plays sanctum 2.
Kerbal Space Program. Scott Manely makes it seem so damn interesting and not as complicated.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

GTA San Andreas. I never made it past the initial area map (right before you get betrayed). I had to go through a racing mission with Cesar Vialpando. I never even tried it, I kept postponing and doing whatever (hate racing missions since the limo thing in Vice City) until some random game took its place.

GrimGrimoire. Got stuck somewhere in Day 4, I think. After failing the same mission a few times I just gave up and moved onto something else. I could've lowered the difficulty but I was too proud for that, I'd rather lose on normal mode than win on easy. I've been thinking about getting back to it now and then but...

Hitman: Silent Assassin. I started it on a lark with my cousin, you know the take-turns-with-the-control thing. Once he lost interest, I made maybe one more mission with a psycho rating, and shelved it afterwards. Same story with Destroy All Humans! 2. Once I lost my co-op buddy, playing was half as fun. So fuck it, into the shelf.

Mercenaries 2. Horribly glitchy PS2 port. Gave up on it because FUCK ENEMY AI. It's really a shame, the first game was soooo good.

 

[piinyouri]

Eternal Poison.
It just really didn't 'grab me' as they say.

 

[TakeyB0y2]

Mass Effect 3. I got about halfway through it before the ending became such a buzz everywhere that it was almost impossible to avoid spoiling it. Once that happened, I just lost all motivation to finish it. And I shelled out all that extra dough on the collector's edition too.

 

[jamail77]

Mirror's Edge arguably: I finished playing through the campaign, but I got it on Steam and there were some non-campaign mode restrictions that involved getting an account with EA or something. Also, I think Steam users missed out on some aspects of the game. I just stopped caring about that extra content.

KOTOR II. I have the original KOTOR for the original Xbox but both were on sale on Steam so I got them for modding potential, to own and play KOTOR II, and for replay value. Unfortunately, with school starting, the genre being harder for me to stay committed to compared to other genres, and my propensity to goof off online (or even just read/watch news) when I turn on my laptop instead of play games I just stopped playing KOTOR II. It also partly has to do with me wanting to add the story and updated graphics mods (deleted content and a few fan ones I liked) for KOTOR I and replay that even though I already got an hour or two into KOTOR II and already beat the first one on the original Xbox.

(Edit) BioShock (1st one): I saw the post below and realized I never beat this either. I got it very late, a few years I think, and like the person below stopped playing around the big plot twist for similar reasons as KOTOR II above minus the genre issues and mod interest. I also have problems right now setting aside the kind of hours I'd need to finish any games with a more complex story than say a pinball or fighting game.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent. I barely got half hour into it. This is a perfect example for this thread: I really did just sort of stop without any simple, obvious, reasonable explanation. I liked what i played and should go back into it soon. Machinarium is the same exact issue and I'll probably start over after being away for so long.

There are some original Xbox games I did this with though I don't remember which ones. I think one was a Crash Bandicoot game in a situation similar to the Mirror's Edge drop, except I beat the main story and then didn't do the extra stuff that would have led to an extended story (ending) in addition to missing out on extra content (collectibles in this case).

I never beat the point and click adventure game The Dig or Indiana Jones: The Infernal Machine. In the case of The Dig the CD was borrowed by my sister's ex boyfriend and I didn't want to get it back after they broke up...or it got lost, I forget which lol. In the case of Indiana Jones, for a while after we got a newer computer it didn't run very well but my brother got it working somewhat recently. Also, life caught up with me when it was working so there's that too, things like school and work and laziness in finishing that particular game.