Games you have never completed (No matter how hard you try)

[Dead Seerius]

Oh God. The amount of games I've never finished is staggering, so I'll trim the fat to some prime offenders.

Boredom:

Mass Effect
Both Pokemon games I own.
Fallout: NV

Me not wanting to finish a game because I have too much fun doing extra stuff in the open world to be bothered:

Skyrim
Zelda: TP (I've re-started this game probably 3 separate times, never finished once. But I love it.)

 

[PureChaos]

I have tried to play Zelda II twice but got fed up and quite both times. Also tried one of the early Final Fantasy games but it was on an emulator and just didn't get round to finishing it. Shame, it was a great game.

 

[Quazimofo]

Ooh thats a hard one since the list would be quite long but off top of my head

1 Super Mario - I am just not that good at it
2 Sonic - Same reason as above
3 Most RTS games - Those later stages are just nuts

I find most games aside from the ones above nowadays are pretty easy to beat

Yeah, i never beat Lego Rock Raiders because one of the levels in the 3rd to last tier i just couldn't beat. (and the AI was kinda painful at times, but for the most part a charming game despite flaws).

Same with red alert 2, Allied campaign (I actually beat the soviet campaign once, and only once). That last mission is just NUTS!

Other RTS games which I got stuck in a campaign mission for at least one of the campaigns (if there are multiple, one for each race)

Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge (something about hollywood, i just cant get past)
The Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth 2: Rise of the Witch King (couldn't break into erebor)
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts, the british campaign, part 3 of the battle for Caen. (shit's NUTS)
Shogun Total War 2. Long campaign for any faction. I just cannot deal with that many armies when the realm divide hits. Just can't.

And yes, this is a large number of RTS games that got me, but I am rather good at RTS games in general. I just couldn't beat these bits when I tried, and for everything but shogun, its been years since I have.

For Non-RTS examples,

Starfox Adventures (got halfway, then by older brother deleted my save. haven't had the heart to try again since)
Metal Arms: Glitch in the system (long story short, the penultimate boss fight and I no longer own a copy)
Dark Souls (the 4 kings. Can't take them out quick enough)
Dead Space (I scare easily. I just can't play past the very beginning)

For games that Just plain old bored me into stopping playing.... Where to begin?
There's easily a couple dozen my older brother bought which I just wasn't too interested in, and so never really wanted to play in the first place.

For ones that seemed interesting but didn't hold up, some highlights as I can't list all off the top of my head.

Red Dead Redemption
Borderlands 1 and 2
Rage

And there are probably others, since I've been gaming rather prolifically since the N64 was new, on several systems too (gamecube, playstation 2, xbox 360, PC, nintendo 64). But I just can't recall, since its been years, and my memory of my early childhood (i.e, before high school), is pretty much a blur of bits and pieces in no particular order, almost all of times I did something stupid, or small but embarrassing, or tidbits of anxiety attacks which plagued my early childhood. Otherwise, its just things that i KNOW happened, but can't really remember.

 

[HellbirdIV]

I've still got Donkey Kong Country sitting there with King K. Rool waiting to be beaten.

 

[00slash00]

stalker. i keep hearing how amazing it is but honestly, i just keep getting frustrated and uninstalling. i know it gets better later on when you start finding guns that arent complete garbage and maybe im just not hardcore enough, but the learning curve is just too much for me. on 3 separate occasions i have installed the game, played all day, and uninstalled that night

 

[Kiyeri]

The first Xenosaga game: So many cutscenes. So many! And they're not short ones either, I think I remember one being over half an hour. I just got bored, even though I heard the main antagonist is incredible.

Assassin's Creed 3: This game just makes me sad. I've been so bored, why did they decide to have most of the game be tutorial? And have it in Boston? And have Connor be bland? And have so little assassinating so far. Yeah, I dropped it. Maybe I'll force my way through it, but not yet.

Xenoblade Chronicles: I soooo want to finish this. I just went off to college before I could, so I don't have access to my Wii anymore. Amazing game, just no time.

Twilight Princess: Not sure why I stopped with this game. Maybe because I had it on the Wii?

Pikmin 2: I just can't stand to see those Pikmin die. Too stressful, which is odd for such a colorful and fun game.

My evil playthroughs of the Dragon Age games: I can never be a dick it seems. I'm still missing an achievement in Origins because I can never recruit the secret party member, since you have to hurt everyone's favorite Prince to get him. Even in a video game, I just can't be evil.

Okamiden: Again, not sure why I gave up on this. I think I got bored?

There are probably others, but this is all I can think of. It seems I usually give up from boredom, not from inability to complete the game.

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

Ninja Gaiden
Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings
Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume

I'm generally very thorough about completing games (even Donkey Kong Country Returns), but these three simply got too difficult for me to ever hope to complete them on my current file. Valkyrie in particular has some ludicrously hard escort missions, and that's when you're not faced with enemies capable of one-shotting any of your characters even with defensive buffs. I love isometric strategy but that game is insane.

 

[necromanzer52]

As has previously been mentioned, Rayman is absolutely impossible. I have however beaten it using cheats.

Abe's Oddysee is a game I always really liked, but I've never gotten very far. I think I'll give it a serious try this summer, as I'm quite a bit older, and more experienced than the last time I tried.

 

[Section Crow]

Two games come to mind...

Deadly premonition - i couldn't play that game because it scared me, i died for the first time and this enemy stuck its hand down my throat and slithered inside, now i think i now have a phobia of people sticking their hands down my throat but its a very specialist fear so no real-life examples yet, i may get back to it when i toughen up, for now i hid it in another room where it will no longer plague my mind.

Grand ages : rome - i made some progress with it but i couldn't stand how boring it was just to build up a stable town so i can do all that 'fun' again it was interesting for the most part however, when you start forcing me to wait for a building that i apparently HAVE to build to meet objectives and it becomes more bothersome then entertaining then i'm out. I may return to it when i am in the right mindset.

There are others but these are the games i have put down and said NO MORE.

 

[cip_raziel]

Let's see...
Dragon Age 2 - got to about half the game I think and then got reaaaally bored of the overused levels and lame story, nothing was happening and I just lost interest.
The Witcher - I started that game like 4 times, finished the first chapter the gave up, it just didn't click for me and I gave it alot of chances but I found the story boring and the combat didn't really helped, although it wouldn't have been an issue if the story would`ve been more interesting.
Max Payne 3 - abandoned the game at the airport mission, pretty close to the end from what I heard, but sadly I didn't enjoyed the game that much to begin with, Emo Payne was just too much for me to handle.
Persona 3 - the most recent, after hearing so much praise around this franchise I though I'd give it a try. I usually like turn-based JRPGs, but this one I found to be bad and boring, tryed it for like 5 hours before I gave up on it (1 hour was just the intro till it let me to actually move around on my own). And I never get it why they had to make that stupid animation for casting spells (put a gun to your character's head and shoot).
Final Fantasy X-2 - it was mmm...too "girly" I think, seriously dancing in battles, I liked FFX, but this one, meh... I hope I didn't missed anything major.

Others already mentioned: Wolfenstein 3, Far Cry 1, Last Remnant, Prince of Persia Forgotten Sands and the cell-shaded QTEs horror.

 

[TaboriHK]

For different reasons, but the same level of dislike, I quit playing Velvet Assassin, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., and FFX-2 within fifteen minutes.

 

[Jfswift]

1. Dragon's Dogma - I really want to finish it, I just lose motivation a little bit after you get the Wyrm Hunt License
2. FFXIII - It just fails to interest me enough to play through the first few chapters
3. Halo 4 - The campaign is just really average and not fun to playthrough

I kind if felt that way too with Dragons Dogma but I pressed in. It starts being fun again after a bit and the dragon fight is just epic. I did eventually lose interest in end game events though.