Games you liked until you finished.

[Thaluikhain]

I've mentioned Blade Kitten in a few of my posts, and it's also the source of my avatar.

It's very silly, rather camp, but alot of fun (at times).

I'd gotten stuck on the last level, when you are been shot at by a flying mech piloted by the evil british lizard woman terrorist leader, on a level that is being eaten up by one of them slow moving grindy blendery things approaching from below, while pointy crystal things rain on you from below.

I got killed again and again, until I realised that while blocking, you are totally immune to falling crystals and death ray things, and the glow on the mech was supposed to indicate I could throw my sword at it and it'd tear bits of the mech off.

So then it was easy, and I beat the game and saw the final cutscene.

Spoiler: And it was lame

It turns out, right, that the terrorists are actually freedom fighters! Wow, what a great and innovative twist, right? It was the unpleasant mercenaries that keep shooting at me and being generally annoying that were the evil ones.

That time Kit starts having random flashbacks to her traumatic childhood, and seeing her family killed by monsters? Not an awesomely random bit of character developmen at all, those same monsters are by complete coincidence, on the same world you are on. Your mucking about which unknown ancient relics has led to bad things etc

Add to this, the dialogue and voice acting was painfully bad.

Has anyone else had this sort of experience, where your enjoyment of a game would have been much greater if you hadn't quite been able to finish it?

 

[wammnebu]

The Amazon Trail ending, the ending just didnt fit with h=the game

fighting through natural hazzards, cholora and conquistadors for an environmental message

 

[pyrosaw]

Fallout: New Vegas. It pains me to say Mr. House was that easy to kill.

 

[Sonicron]

Viking: Battle for Asgard.

Never before or after this game have I played anything that was this much fun and then so utterly ruined by the final boss fight and ending cutscene.

 

[HassEsser]

Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Episode One, Episode Two and Portal. The ending sucked because it was the ending and I would have enjoyed it so much more if it never ended.

 

[BlindMessiah94]

Gears of War 1. I was actually enjoying it quite a bit (to my shock as I usually hate games that everyone else seems to love), but then I got to the boss at the end. I had played the ENTIRE game without dying once, then got to him and died like 20 times, no joke, before I finally caved in, read a FAQ, watched an LP, and exploited a glitch to beat him because apparently he's got some BS one hit KO's and other weird shit that ROFLstomp you, and the game does nothing to prepare you for an outcome like this. Also if you choose the wrong two weapons when going in to beat him it makes it nearly impossible to beat him without exploiting the glitch.

Anyhow, it ruined the game and series for me. I don't mind difficulty when it's on a curve. Not when it's flatlined the entire game and then spikes to top of the chart at the end without preparing you.

 

[Space Spoons]

I always sort of felt this way about Final Fantasy IV. The game's just about 20 years old now, but as it was recently remade on the DS, I'll opt for a spoiler tag. If there's any JRPG fans out there who haven't yet played this masterpiece, you've been warned.

Spoiler

The game's story isn't the best story ever told in gaming. The plot points are actually fairly trite by today's standards, that much I can admit. That said, it is very well told, and does an excellent job of making the player care about the characters. Cecil's quest to vanquish his inner darkness, atone for his past sins and protect his loved ones is extremely compelling, as cliche as some parts of it might be seen today.

One such moment is the revelation that Golbez, the all-powerful sorcerer you've been gearing up to battle for 3/4ths of the game, is actually Cecil's brother. Both Cecil and Golbez struggle with the burden of this knowledge, but Golbez eventually errs on the side of his own plans and makes the fateful decision that as long as Cecil stands in his way, he must be destroyed.

This, to me, would have been the perfect setting for the end-game. "Brother Against Brother" is hardly an original theme, but the way Square told the story was so compelling, so pained, that I can't help but think the final duel between Golbez and Cecil would have been spectacular.

The problem, of course, is that shortly after Golbez's final attempt to kill Cecil and his party (they're saved by the timely intervention of Rydia), a mysterious wise man named Fu-So-Ya reveals that Cecil and Golbez are both part of a race called the Lunarians, and that one such Lunarian, Zemus, wants to take over the world, and has been using Golbez as a puppet to accomplish this.

That's right. A compelling character in his own right, with his own motivations and inner-turmoil, has his entire character reduced to mind control at the hands of an evil space wizard. Zemus, incidentally, turns out to be the physical incarnation of the "evil feelings" of the Earth, and can only be truly defeated by Cecil and his party countering with THE POWER OF LOVE.

Oi. Perfect lesson in leaving well enough alone.

 

[Lord Rothschild]

for me it was metal gear solid 2
Aawesome game running around as snake doing ah badass thing then the game sudenly snake gets taken out and i have to play what is basicly an extended playable cut seen where i have to use this whining emo bit that is forced to listen to hin **** girlfriend telling him that he is a bad peoson but still loves him

worse fucking ending ever!!

 

[StormShaun]

I've mentioned Blade Kitten in a few of my posts, and it's also the source of my avatar.

It's very silly, rather camp, but alot of fun (at times).

I'd gotten stuck on the last level, when you are been shot at by a flying mech piloted by the evil british lizard woman terrorist leader, on a level that is being eaten up by one of them slow moving grindy blendery things approaching from below, while pointy crystal things rain on you from below.

I got killed again and again, until I realised that while blocking, you are totally immune to falling crystals and death ray things, and the glow on the mech was supposed to indicate I could throw my sword at it and it'd tear bits of the mech off.

So then it was easy, and I beat the game and saw the final cutscene.

Spoiler: And it was lame

It turns out, right, that the terrorists are actually freedom fighters! Wow, what a great and innovative twist, right? It was the unpleasant mercenaries that keep shooting at me and being generally annoying that were the evil ones.

That time Kit starts having random flashbacks to her traumatic childhood, and seeing her family killed by monsters? Not an awesomely random bit of character developmen at all, those same monsters are by complete coincidence, on the same world you are on. Your mucking about which unknown ancient relics has led to bad things etc

Add to this, the dialogue and voice acting was painfully bad.

Has anyone else had this sort of experience, where your enjoyment of a game would have been much greater if you hadn't quite been able to finish it?

A few, you mean heaps, and she is also quite cute....well duh

and well their is.....

Fable III
Fable II
Modern Warfare 2
Assassins Creed brotherhood
Fallout New vages (NO continous DLC)
Fallout 3 same as above
Halo Reach (The ending)

 

[Retronana]

Ass creed brotherhood and bulletstorm as well, both seem to lead conveniently into further sequels, which is good. But bulletstorms ending reaalllly pissed me off, so very disappointing. Less said about brotherhoods the better.

 

[Mallefunction]

Assassin's Creed (first one)...too much sequel baiting.

 

[Z(ombie)fan]

persona 4 I still like, but with couldn't the last dungeon been more like the other ones? ten hours of grinding just to beat ONE boss, with none of the more compelling social link gameplay to help make it less tedious. I just wish there wasn't a pointless time skip :/

 

[irani_che]

Star wars KOTOR
it reeks of a rushed game at the end.
Kue Jin ending of VTM bloodlines. They pretty much go, you chose these sons a bitches? fuck you.

 

[CleverCover]

Fable 2. It wasn't great, but it was an amusing time-killer.
Hoping I would like it, because I liked some of Fable 1.
Then I beat the game, put the controller down, screamed BS!, and went to bed.

Only RPG I only ever played once. >.>

 

[varulfic]

Demon's Souls gets really easy about halfway through. Like, as challenging as a normal game easy, and that's NOT why you play Demon's Souls. After about halfway through the game, you've leveled quite a bit and you've aquired your endgame gear, and then there's simply nothing stopping you. I killed all bosses in World 5 by running up next to them and using one firestorm spell, instakilling them without taking any damage. Then, when you finally beat all five worlds, you don't even get a satisfying conclusion. There's no endboss! All you do is go into a big tree and the big bad goes to sleep. After such a challenging first half, I was left pretty disappointed by the end. Hopefully Dark Souls will keep the challenge all the way through and with an ending that's worth the effort.

 

[Sebbery101]

Halo 3 I felt was pretty disappointing at the end, after arguably the most epic end level of the entire series... even after watching the end credits and seeing Master Chief survive it's still a cliffhanger. Maybe that's what the writers want, as I'm not sure about a possible Halo 4 (?) but to me it was just... meh.

 

[Nexus4]

All the Assassins Creed games, finished each once and will never touch them again. Also, any ridiculously long JRPG due to the fact that I can not be assed to slog through it again.

 

[Nethank]

Final Fantasy 10, worst ending imaginable in my mind. Easiest final boss I've ever faced down.

 

[Catchy Slogan]

I'm going to go with Bioshock. Awful ending. It was a great game up untill near the end. It makes me sad.

EDIT: also Enslaved: Oddysey to the West

 

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

Bulletstorm. Awful ending. They've set it up for a sequel when none was needed.