May I suggest time compression as a reason *rolls eyes*
Personally I can't finish about 2/3 of the games I start. I game hop. Or you could just say I have gaming ADD.
Most recently, I started and didn't finish Super Mario Galaxy, Kinect Sports, NHL 10, Kung Fu Panda, X-Men: The Official Movie Game, Ninety-Nine Nights, Ace Combat 2, and Dragon Age: Origins (although that last one is my second playthrough the game)
EDIT:
Come to think of it, I seem to have the opposite problem. I like too many games just enough to try them but then something new and shiny comes along and ...
Golly gee jeepers I wonder why. [http://spoonyexperiment.com/category/final-fantasy-viii/page/2/]
-Speaking of, any Final Fantasy game is one that I've never finished. The only one I ever bothered to beat was FF3 on the DS. (No, god dammit, not FF6, FF3. I don't care what you grew up with!) The only one I've played extensively is Dissidia, honestly, and even then I just said "fuck it" and downloaded a completed save file.
-Basically any Ratchet and Clank game, with the exception of Deadlocked. I love 'em all, but for fuck's sake... Racing and hacking. Those two mini games in any and all of the games are so atrocious that I just plain can not finish any of the games (DEPARTMENT OF REDUNDANCY DEPARTMENT OF REDUNDANCY). Again, except for Ratchet: Deadlocked. Which was about 6 hours long anyway. I'll try and pick 'em up again later, but... Urgh.
-Tales of Legendia. I beat the first half of it, and then the credits started! Then the credits ended and there was STILL MORE GAME TO GO. Really, the fuck? I enjoyed the game, though, but not because I thought it was good, I thought it was a perfect example of "so bad it's good."
The villain fires a FUCKING LASER CANNON AT A FUCKING MOUNTAIN. AND MISSES.
-Startropics 2. There was a sewer level. That is all.
-Prinny 2. It's one of those games that makes you lose faith in your gaming peni--sorry, gaming skills.
-Kingdom Hearts 2. I never played past the first five minutes or so of the first one, and KH2 convinced me not to bother. Ever. Not only was it an unremarkable, completely forgettable experience that left absolutely no impact on me, I was TWENTY-EIGHT HOURS into the game and I had absolutely NO FUCKING IDEA WHAT WAS GOING ON. And for fuck's sake, I played all the way through Dawn of the New World, all 35 torturous hours of horrible dialogue and worse writing, and that game still stands to this day as my personal WORST GAEM EVAH, and even then I still beat it... KH2, you'll get no such courtesy from me.
oh i'm very sad i haven't finished quite a lot of games. mostly because of tedious gameplay or me getting stuck in them for various reasons. and some are just bad games probably.
jericho (stuck)
bionic commando (bored)
dragon age: origins (stuck - really WANT to finish it though)
eat lead (stuck)
gta IV (bored)
mercenaries 2 (bored)
overlord 2 (idek)
the force unleashed (aargh)
viking (stuck)
wet (aargh)
God of War III, for the two primary reasons.
1) There wasn't even a need for a #2 (I played the second one before the first one. Then I realized just how stupid the premise was for a second and third game.)
2) It was so gratuitously violent I actually LOST the urge to continue playing, and I LIKE violent games, lots.
There are a few other reasons, but not as relevant as these two ^
Mercenaries 2 was pretty damn unplayable. As for not finishing, there are many, but Far Cry 2 leaps to mind because I can't find anything so wrong with it as to render it unplayable (7/10, I'd give it quickly), but I could never get past the first few hours.
Two Worlds on Xbox 360. It ... was ... so ... damn ... AWFUL! Seriously, I was beyond hyped for a new Oblivion style fix, and I even got the Limited Edition. From Gamestop. That was ALREADY OPEN! I took it back two hours later, the bastards wouldn't give me my money back. I traded it in for one-third original price, and swore I'd never buy another game again unless it was from a publisher I truly love (Bioware), or I'd read at least two reviews about it. However, TW2 was NOT awful like the first, and I really enjoyed it to my surprise.
I keep trying, and I know I'm close to the end... But every time I pick it back up, I either end up with a terrible headache or just lose interest within a few minutes.
Not sure why, either. I like a lot of things about the game, especially the use of color. I just can't seem to get past where I am.
Borderlands (Got bored)
Fallout 3 (Bored)
Bioshock (Scared/Depressed/Bored)
Mirror's Edge (Hard/Bored)
Dead Risings 2 (The bosses pissed me off and I quit playing)
Prince of Persia Warrior Withing (Got bored halfway through the game)
GTA San Andreas (If there IS an ending )
Magicka (Too fucking hard!)
Serious Sam 2 (Bugged)
Shank (Can't beat the stripper boss)
Section 8 Prejudice (Meh ... nothing really caught my interest)
Spore (I don't think there IS an ending)
Heroes of Might and Magic III & V ... (Bored/Hard ... although I was only 7 a the time)
Like some others here, Bioshock. I know it's supposed to be one of the best and most important games ever, but after the big reveal I gave up. I liked the setting and premise a lot and parts like Sander Cohen were great, but overall the gameplay was very stressful and I just wasn't enjoying it. I don't think it was the oppressing atmosphere that was stressful, more like the game mechanics, such as the tedious hacking and the shooting, which somehow got kind of repetitive later on.
As I've said in many places, Kingdom Under Fire: Circles of Doom. Seriously, do not buy that game. It takes boring, shits in it's mouth, rolls it down a hill, stamps on it, then fills it with 200% extra boring, then stuffs it with repetitiveness.
Run down this path, bash A constantly until things die and hope you don't die in the process, carry on running down the path, bash A constantly, run into a shop guy that sells nothing at all of interest, run down the path, bash A until you're killed by the repetitive enemies that have swarmed around you.
Oh, and there's a stamina bar you have to wait to recharge before you can attack at all.
Did I mention fights are made up literally of just bashing A?
That too.
After playing ME2, I don't think anyone can enjoy ME1 anymore. That being said, at least they made that interactive comic thing so we don't have to touch ME1 ever again.
I love Mass Effect 2, and I played through it twice and got all the achievements bar two (complete on Insanity and also recruit the Merc - I would do it, but it costs 1200 points to download...) in the space of a month or so. My friend lend me Mass Effect 1 to play and...I don't know, I'm trying to get into it. Apparently the story is better (though I thought ME2's was very good), but I think it's the gameplay elements - you can tell it came out before 2.
Limie said:
Infinite undiscovery. The main character was so unlikable in the beginning I couldn't play any further to see if it gets better.
Likewise, although I think I got quite far in the game....but eventually I gave up. I was stuck on a boss for a bit and just had no motivation to try and defeat him. It was a poor game, with WAY too many characters.
Bioshock 2 - I just wasn't a huge fan. I had it on PC, but I never really got in to it.
Darksiders - I want to like it, but I just find it a bit boring. I'm not very far, and again I have it on PC.
Marvel vs Capcom 3 - Don't know if this counts as you can't really "complete" it as such, but I traded it in after a day. It's not that I don't like fighting games - I love Mortal Kombat - but I just got bored of MvC3. There was little to do and it was very Japanese.
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