Name a game (or two) you never completed

[Racecarlock]

Mafia II. I stopped at about the 3rd fucking time I was in debt because another deal went bad. I mean, jesus fuck this game reuses plot lines like hell. Not to mention I have to sit in traffic constantly, not to mention the game hates GTA/SR fans like me with a passion. In chapter 6, the game made me clean prison toilets and fight off a prison rapist, then in the next chapter it made me drive several miles and bury a body, then drive two guys several miles home, all with a hijacked radio. Then it made me pick correctly colored cigarettes out of the back of the truck. I played right up until the second part of chapter 10 where I had to earn up money to pay off a debt. Again. What, that was like the 5th time? Not to mention a stealth section somewhere in there that had not other option but sneaking through a sewer, but then when I go back to the restaurant to tell my boss the job is done, the game tells me I smell like shit and need to change. Excuse me game, but if you're going to insult me for following your exact objectives, then I'm going to stop playing regardless of your oh so wonderful story which I have yet to see what makes it so good. So far, I have a generic mafia story with lots of cover based shooting and sitting in traffic.

I now know what angry joe and the nerd feel like when they play a horrible game, but they must not be beat by it so they have to finish it all the way through. Only I didn't finish this game because it pissed me off so much. I know that it's not made for GTA fans like me, but the thing is that people on GTAforums keep asking for features from it, so I had to see what could possibly be in this game that's so good that it should be in GTA V. And I found nothing. In fact, I want mafia II to stay as far away from GTA V as possible, because there is no way I'm going to clean prison toilets in a video game ever again.

 

[CianTheMighty]

I had a pretty weak hold on my interest in Final Fantasy 13. Once an even remotely difficult boss fight came along I found I couldn't be arsed any more.

So, yeah. Never finished Final Fantasy 13.

 

[pixiejedi]

Resistance: Fall of Man. I couldn't tell you why I didn't finish it, I should do that someday. LoZ Ocarina of Time, yeah should probably do that to.

LoZ Oot can be run through in a day so that one isn't too bad.

On topic: There are a few. The ones that stick out are the Elder Scroll games, Dead Rising, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Half Life and Bayonetta.

I could not bring myself to care about what was happening in the Elder Scrolls and Arkham Asylum. I like the Fallout games, but if I don't care about your sandbox world then it doesn't bode well. Arkham Asylum, just annoyed me for some reason. I don't know.

Dead Rising: just bad controls, thats it.

Half Life: I don't get the appeal. I love portal, but maybe because I've played through the games that used the good aspects of Half Life, the series just doesn't do much for me.

Bayonetta: just got bored.

 

[PureChaos]

Zelda II: Adventure of Link. Tried to complete it twice but both times got fed up an quit

 

[ThePenguinKnight]

The two that I have been meaning to beat since I got them are Skyrim and Fallout New Vegas. I'm just starting anew on Fallout and this time I will see this through, no more recreating characters.

 

[Blobpie]

Batman Arkham city; this is the problem with the holiday season, you just start getting into a game and then a new one comes out. I thought i would go back to it after i played skyrim.... i was wrong... Hell i am still playing skyrim

 

[TakeyB0y2]

The first Metroid Prime, despite having finished Prime 2 and 3 (the former 100% on the hardest difficulty to boot). I really should get around to just finishing it...

 

[TakeshiLive]

Freakin' Borderlands. It's great for like the first two hours but then by doing ALL of the quests, it's way too easy to get over leveled. Then the game's just a grind....

 

[jollybarracuda]

Well let's see...

The original Deus Ex: I see the appeal, and when i was playing it, i was absolutely hooked. But then i stopped playing for like a day and it's been hard to get my interest back into playing it.

Also, the original Far Cry on PC: I really want to like the game. It looks great and the weapons are pretty fun. But...that AI...it's so...overpowering. It's like the game wants you to be stealthy, but enemies can detect you a mile away and you die in a couple of shots. It's brutal. Also the controls just feel awkward. Maybe i just wasnt used to keyboard controls at the time of playing, though.

I've also been wanting to finally finish Jade Empire. I cant count the number of characters i've made just to get to around the same spot, stop playing, and then repeat the cycle a year later.

 

[Tazzy da Devil]

I'm terrible at finishing games. I get about half way through each one before something else comes out and it's left to collect dust on the shelf. I've been meaning to finish some of them, but I never get around to it.

 

[TheGreatAndPowerfulZOG]

Half Life 2. I tried to go on foot where you're supposed to ride the boat and I eventually got to that wide open area where you fight the attack chopper. I tried to go back, but the game had auto-saved and the boat was unreachable. I know I should've just done things Valve's way, but fuck man, I didn't think it would be that easy to break the game. I didn't have another save and I wasn't about to play the first few hours over again, so I quit.

Metroid Prime. I played this on hard and I got all the way to the final boss battle. The only reason I didn't finish it was I was playing it on my friends gamecube, and when the semester ended he took the games home with him

 

[some1stolemyusername]

skyrim and about 50% of the games on my Steam library

 

[beastro]

Games I enjoyed but never finished:
Every TW game, though I've never had a bad game of it, I just don't like it once you become in dominant power and the struggle ends and hate short games of it because it cuts you off when they're still enjoyable (even though you can continue them).

FFIV but that was because my PSX died on my near the end and I've never gotten around to playing it on an emulator because of my glut of PC games.

The main game I never finished because it was so bloody boring and bad: FFVIII because the story was unengaging, I never liked the characters or the plot twists. I only got halfway through it on PSX but almost to the end on my PC byt by the time I found myself having to grind the hell out of it to be ready for the end and years of playing MMOs has turned me off of such things, especially when it's a game like this where I never liked it to begin with (thanks mainly to magic not being tied to magic points but to the quality of it you have and not only the furtherer grinding you must do during battles to get enough for the good stat builders.

That then means you then can't use those bloody spells because they weaken you and are usually the best ones around which reduces the game to a mass of summoning. That means you having to button mash to boost your summon which I've despised in every game that has it because a game feature should never leave you with carpel tunnel after every session.

 

[Dreadman75]

Final Fantasy X-2: At about the second chapter, or whatever they 5 story parts are called, I finally realized "Hey! This is just fucking terrible." And I just stopped. Never went back, and to this day I have not regretted that decision.

Red Dead Redemption: Even though I think I'll be crucified for just saying this: I just lost interest. No idea why, the story just seemed to start dragging in the third act and I just stopped.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution: This one I also don't have a really good reason for. Mostly because I think I fucked up my current run and I don't want to start over.

...and there are a few others but those I haven't even STARTED yet. So I'm not sure if I would never finish them if/when I get around to them.

 

[StormShaun]

I will say two and they are pretty much the same.

Demon Souls
Dark Souls

You wanna know why. Because I can't get past the first level, IT'S HORRIBLE!

I'll probably try Demon Souls once more.

 

[A BigCup of Tea]

Brutal Legend, the last stage battle is complete BS to me, so I haven't touched it in a few years.

Dark Souls, I really love that game, but every time I make some good progress I get my ass handed to me and I end up rage quitting. One day I will finish it, one day.

Yup Brutal Legend because of the last stage battle (got just past the bridge and then i'd get ass raped) ummm and majoras mask (in all fairness I've never played it, not sure if it's better or worse than OoT)

 

[lord Claincy Ffnord]

Assassins creed 2. I'm not saying I don't like the game, but it just got a tad repetitive and nearish the end it asked me to pull of 10 (i think) assassinations that were all pretty similar, and then the game glitched out on me and after that I just couldn't work up the desire to go back to it and kill the remaining 8 to move on.

 

[ameemo]

1. Final Fantasy 13- 2 hours in and i just stopped. hope and vanille, please die!
2. Vanquish- the story and characters were just horrible.

 

[Fasckira]

GTA San Andreas. I lost all motivation to play it and cannot get back into it as the game at that point expects you to know how to fly with the terrible controls and I cannot get the motivation to relearn. And I refuse to start over because that save has alot of things, like the respawning guns in two hide-outs

This! I loved SA but I still recall getting to the point where the only mission available was that stupid plane one and I had to put up with that guy phoning every 5 minutes and saying, "Learn to fly, Carl!".

That was playing on the PC though, tempted to try again someday with the 360 controller plugged in for analogue goodness and see if it helps.

 

[culpeo]

Despite devoting an outsized portion of my time playing their multiplayers, I never finished the single player campaigns in Starcraft or Warcraft 1-3.

Metal Gear Solid got left behind for some reason - maybe because I made the unfortunate misstep of playing MGS2 first.

I don't think I've finished most of any of the Final Fantasies I've played. The most recent one I have finished is FFX and that was about ten years ago.

As with others, GTA:SA fell out of favor at some point. Not really sure why.

Skyrim was the first ES game that I actually did finish. I never started the first two Elder Scrolls, and both Morrowind and Oblivion became some combination of tedious, repetitive, or nigh unplayable because of poor choices in character development. Usually I went with some combination of birthsign/race/attributes/skills that roughly translated to a character I thought I would have fun playing, but it always somehow felt like I was behind the curve if I didn't devote an excess amount of time diligently planning my tree and committing to every last detail before I even started the game.

Okami somehow makes this list, too. I'm not where in the story I stopped (or why), but whenever I think its a good time to pick it back up, I open the case to discover the disc missing. Then I forget that the disc is missing, go to play it at some later date, and then remember that I forgot to remember that I lost the disc. This has been happening for at least five years.