Games you just couldn't play/finish...

[9thRequiem]

Mirror's Edge. Great ideas, poor execution. Tried so hard to push through, till I realized I was only playing in order to finish, and wasn't actually enjoying it.

 

[Juk3n]

Assassins Creed 2 - i HATE Ezio, i really can't play the game because i can't sympathize with him. I completed the first Assassins Creed in 2 sittings, i was hooked and i loved it. It just felt more authentic..im not sure if thats the right word, but the game just grabbed me. AC2 just didn't, i forced myself through 3 assassinations, then i realized i was FORCING myself to play and quit. The game felt like a chore. Unlike say Uncharted 2 which flys by and is a pleasure to play from start to finish.

 

[Wintermoot]

COD VII
I kept dying on the chopper (in the final chapter)
and I simply said to myself "I have beaten the game"
I,m pretty sure I completed it for about 99%
also mirrors edge it also didn't help that much it was frying my videocard.

 

[Wintermoot]

Lost. I played about 5 minutes of it and then got bored. Then i went on a much better game...Viva Piñata

dammit! you made me lose The Game!

 

[Joshica Huracane]

I don't know what the reason for this was, but i just couldn't get into Oblivion. I wanted to, but I was so bored the entire time. I'm gunna give it another couple of goes, and we'll see what happens.

 

[Gotrax038]

LoZ Wind Waker (collecting pieces...)
Pokemon White, got to victory road and turned it off

 

[SilkySkyKitten]

Half-Life -- Xen. Need I say more?

Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 -- Alright! This game is kick ass! So now I have to go and wipe out some guys at an oil refinery... without my squadmates? I have to do that whole section alone?
...
Shit.

Call of Duty: United Offensive -- So I died and have to go back to a point I was at 30 minutes ago because the game failed to autosave when it should have? AGAIN?!?! *ragequit*

Far Cry -- Trigents. I wouldn't say they killed the game for me, but they are one of the reasons I just stopped playing halfway through.

 

[Dectomax]

Lost. I played about 5 minutes of it and then got bored. Then i went on a much better game...Viva Piñata

dammit! you made me lose The Game!

You legend xD

 

[MarsProbe]

Not many really.

Ecco the Dolphin - I may have finished the final stages, but I had to do it by using a level select code so I could skip that one level I just couldn't finish. Don't ask which one though, this was 19 years ago.

Outland (that game that came out on XBL recently-ish (and maybe PSN as well?) - got to the flying serpent boss, just couldn't kill the damn thing. So I just gave up.

Homeworld - the last mission. Just when the homeworld was in sight, I couldn't get past that accursed Taiden mothership.

 

[TheKramers]

Mass Effect 2, I made a post about it a little while ago on here. I just can't finish it, I wanted an RPG, if I wanted a shooter I would've bought a real shooter.

 

[ChildishLegacy]

Kane and Lynch: Dog days
Got it for like a fiver when I picked up a new xbox because my old one broke.
Have about 20-30 mins play time on it. It disgusts me to say I own it.

I don't think I ever finished FF VIII due to the last boss being a *****, but I did enjoy it.
FFXII because I tried to speed through it with 0 grinding, and am stuck on a boss near the end and I can't be bothered to run round killing enemies for god knows how long.

 

[liquidsolid]

I started Final Fantasy IV, VI, VII, VIII, X, XII, and XIII and out of all of them only managed to finish X. It's a tough and time consuming series for me. I still really like them.

On the flipside, I did manage to finish MW2, but it was a slow and excruciating process. The singleplayer was really annoying with a really bad plot and main characters that you weren't attached to because they died every few levels. Garbage.

 

[AnAngryMoose]

Prototype. I really wanted to love it, but the execution was really bad and the most interesting mechanic was the Web of Intrigue, but a lot of the snippets you got were pretty meaningless. Also, halfway through the game when half the NY is infected, chasing a Web of Intrigue target is a pain.

 

[Belgian_Waffles]

I have a rather large backlog of games

Castlevania Order of Ecclesia (Those bosses, THOSE BOSSES!)
Final Fantasy IV (Mother fucking Dark Elf)
Bioshock (Too nerve wracking for me at the time)
New Vegas Expansion Packs (I don't have the money)
Grand Theft Auto IV (I'm really on and off with that game, I'm pretty sure I'm close to the end but I can't stop raging when I die seconds before the end of the missions)
Prince of Persia series (Yeah.)
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood (I lost it)
Arkham Asylum (Same as Brotherhood)
Link's Awakening (I'm working on it)
Dragon Age: Awakening (Too busy with New Vegas)
Pokemon Black (I feel weird playing it on my 3DS, take that as you will)

That's all I can think of right now.

 

[Geo88]

Out of curiosity, what's your thought on Victory studios? Rumor has it that they are going to *try* and make a new C&C and do it right. I too enjoyed C&C 3, it won't live up to Westwood's standards but I didn't expect it too. Honestly I expected EA to defecate all over it, but I feel that they did as good as not-Westwood could have done with the game. I even liked RA3 for all it's quirks though it probably should have served as a warning that EA was playing with the formula in the wrong ways.

Oh, also - American McGee's Grimm. I may be cheating since it was episodic and I did finish an episode or two, but I didn't finish the whole series. I liked the art, the weirdo humour, all that stuff - it's just that the gameplay was entertaining for 5 minutes at the most and ultimately I just ended up watching the cliff-notes versions on YouTube for later episodes.

Victory Studios is just another branch of EA designed specifically to take over Command & Conquer, so I'm not exactly giddy with anticipation. Still, I might pick up the first game it makes to see how it is, though. Like I said, I liked Command & Conquer 3 and Kane's Wrath a lot. But I'll need confirmation ahead of time that they're ditching that terrible, horrible, awful "building" system. No way I'm going to dump $50 on another C&C4.

 

[Febel]

Just Cause 2.

People tell me that it's a crazy fun action open world game... and yet the tutorial was so boring, I never bothered with the rest of the game.

I'd highly advise finishing the tutorial, once you get past that and the world opens up you can easily get dragged in (via tow cable).

Deus Ex. It just couldn't get into it.

I'd normally run away after saying such a thing, but I think I've just caused everyone to start installing the game again, which makes them too busy to hunt me down.

Eh, don't worry about it, after listening to people recommend it so highly I gave it a try and just couldn't get into it. Apparently theres some group working on a mod to up the graphics to around Half life 2 levels. If that ever gets released it might inspire me to give it another try.

 

[Akytalusia]

i couldn't finish labyrinth of touhou. not because i don't like it, but because of the grind wall. i'm not sure anyone's completed it legitametly.

 

[RaNDM G]

Fallout 3. I had a sudden urge to play it, but after a two-week run I just stopped. It's actually been two weeks since I've been anywhere near my 360 because I've pretty much played every game on that system half-to-death.

Been playing a lot of Super Nintendo, though.

 

[Febel]

i couldn't finish labyrinth of touhou. not because i don't like it, but because of the grind wall. i'm not sure anyone's completed it legitametly.

Well, I've never beaten a Touhou game. Not out of frustration or annoyance, but because I suck, you see. Still got all 6 main PC ones on my harddrive though.