Poll: Games you never Finished

[Liudeius]

It depends what you consider finished.
Personally I haven't even beaten Oblivion's main quest line (or most of shivering isles), and I haven't even gotten into half of the Fallout 3 expansions, yet I consider both "done."

As games become larger, I find myself getting 100% completion on far fewer, and my standards for being finished become looser. I haven't beaten the omega weapons or any monster in the capture arena of FFX, yet I certainly don't look at that game box thinking "oh yeah, I need to get back to that."

In a shorter answer, for plenty of my games I have yet to finish the main storyline.

Especially PS2 games. Back then I couldn't often buy games, so I would buy them in waves (4-6 games at once). When I made the switch to PS3 I still had a couple games left to finish from my most recent purchase (along with some that I just hadn't managed to get all the way through). I ended up liking the HD visuals of the PS3 so much, that I couldn't go back to playing PS2 on my 13" CRT. I still have no idea how I managed to enjoy games on that tiny, low pixel-count, screen.

 

[XIII's Number XIV]

I tried to find a reason to keep playing FF: Dirge of Cerberus, but...I just couldn't. So I stopped. Other than that though, once I start something, I have to complete it.

 

[Fleetfiend]

I mainly put down games only when I get stuck.

Final Fantasy I, II, IX and XII are prime examples. And I've very recently thought about picking them back up again, because I really WANT to finish them both.

Oh, I also never finished a Banjo Kazooie game. Or gotten close, for that matter. Love them... dunno why I never finished them.

Jak 2 & 3... same reason, stuck. Don't remember where. And I don't own the games, so I can't go back to them... :/

Devil May Cry 3. BLOODY HELL. If you've ever played it, you know what I mean. And I thought the first two were hard...

 

[PekoponTAS]

I was really enjoying "Trails in the Sky" for the PSP, and a really funny character had just joined my party, but I just sudden;y stopped. I think the game was just too long. :/

 

[Charlie Emerson]

Infamous: I played it alot for a long time, but when i made it to the final area of the city, the first sons just got annoying. They took a million blows and the giant orange robots were boring because they gave you unlimited energy for them. Yet they gave you the karmatic ovrload thingy [gives you a burst of unlimited energy.] And because sucking in energy regenerates health all the real challenge was lost.

 

[Ddgafd]

I tend to leave a lot of RPGs unfinished. I have no idea why, I guess I just don't want them to end. Or maybe I don't feel like grinding for the end(I'm looking at you, Pokemon games).

 

[E.v.a.n.g.e.l]

Witcher 2.

I'm stopped in the middle (near end) of Act 2.

I honestly don't know what's happening nor do I care.

 

[LiraelG]

Every Final Fantasy game I've played, bar Final Fantasy XII which, in my opinion, had the mosty enjoyablre battle system. I got lost in the final dungeon in II, and couldn't get past Evrae in Final Fantasy X. Final Fantasy III didn't excite me enough, and I did NOT enjoy Final Fantasy X-2 enough to complete it. University got in the way of playing XIII after I reached Pulse. I decided to stop just before disc 4 in Final Fantasy VIII 'cause I didn't fancy battle after battle after battle at the time. I've baely started I, III, IV, VI, or VII so they are at least on the list of games to finish!

I've not yet finished Zelda: Wind Waker, either... I played it when I was 12/13, and loved it so much I didn't want it to end! Consequently, I just stopped playing, and never got back into it.

However, I'm currently working on finishing Wind Waker, as well as finishing Final Fantasy IX and X.

 

[Aphex Demon]

FF13, saying that I didn't even enjoy it.
L.A. Noire, didn't finish that.

GTA 4. Never completed 1 story even though I enjoy the game.

 

[BanicRhys]

GTA:4: it was pretty fun, but it was just so long and I was getting sick of those damn motorcycle chase missions.

Final Fantasy 2: its gameplay was as fun as any of the early Final Fantasies but I just couldn't be bothered finishing it, probably because I didn't like the characters and got lost a few times.

Banjo Kazooie: I got stuck on the last boss and ended up giving my N64 to my grandparents so my younger cousins could use it. I regret never finishing it because it was my first game and I'm pretty sure I could dominate it now that I'm not 10 years old.

 

[Inithra]

Prototype: I really enjoyed the gameplay. Storyline? Not so much. I have a savegame that is right before the final mission. Have just never played it since I made that save.

Darksiders: LOVE that game. Yeah, the gameplay isn't all that original, but it's still very good. The visuals are awesome, and the storyline is pretty cool too. It even has puzzles! Last time I played was just after meeting the Angel of Death chained up. Do you have to break three chains or something similar? If so, I think I broke the first one but haven't played since.

Half-Life 2: I got to what seems to be Ravenholme (have seen people on these forums describing Ravenholme, and it seems to mesh with the scary ass Church/Graveyard full of really fast enemies).
Although, considering that there are Episodes 1 and 2, and apparently Episode 3 has yet to appear, if the original storyline continues in those, it could be argued that nobody else has completed HL2 either.

As to why I haven't completed any of these, I have no idea. It's not that I haven't been playing any games, just not those particular ones. Perhaps I am saving them until I have no other good games to play, and none on the horizon either.

 

[goatzilla8463]

Oblivion. Kinda my bad in a way. I'm just a gigantic completionist and so every little side quest caught my eye.

 

[The Moehlinator]

Lost Odyssey was a fun game if you go for the jrpg sort of thing....but daaaaaammmmnnnnn those cut scenes were so friggin long! I couldn't take any more "My life is miserable because I can never grow old and die". Don't worry, main character who's name I can't even remember....the game got old and died for you.

 

[Nuuu]

most of my console games. Main would be "Sphinx and the Curse of the Mummy". I got right near the end, before going to the final boss, one museum animal to get, which was from the store... I never looked back at it.

 

[teebeeohh]

most sandbox games, there just isn't enough variety in them for me since i don't like minigames and everything else usually comes down to go there and maybe kill something, if not here is a cutscene

 

[Cheesus333]

I've had Metroid Prime 2 for 6 years and I'm still on the final boss. I'll beat it at some point, but not right now.

Also, Diablo II is my favourite game but I've never beaten it on single player. Countless times on Battlenet, but I'm afraid Brill the Barbarian is still lost in the jungles of Kurast for the time being.

 

[ethan22122]

GTA 4, I'm roughly a quarter through it, but I have never finished it, though I do enjoy it. I just don't have enough time to play it anymore, it's such a massive game

 

[lady man lady]

yes, super smash brothers melee

i have all the characters and all but one stage, but it got to hard and then i got a 360 and my gamecube and wii playing died off

 

[leonnasagawa]

There's a few, some of them I leave for ages unfinished and eventually finish, others I have still yet to finish, I'm notorious and always being made fun off or told off by my gamer friends for not finishing games (Well, one friend in particular is worse than the others).

The games that come in mind though that I have played and loved when I was a child but are unfinished, are Final Fantasy 8 and Zelda Ocarina of Time. FF8 I got up to the part in the future where your at Ultimecia's castle and I couldn't beat one out of the final group of bosses so I guess I just stopped, I've seen the ending though (ironically I bought that game on the playstation network recently and have been playing a LOT of that game. I've restarted the game many many times in the past and I am confident that I can beat that game now since I have a complete understanding of the junction and battle system. The other reason was I had to beat an optional boss at the castle to get one of my commands back and I sort of procrastinated and gave up playing for other games (I was young and had trouble finding that boss for some reason).

In Ocarina of Time, I kept restarting and playing the game up to the shadow temple and... I don't know...... I guess I got bored at that point and stopped playing, the thing about Ocarina is that it is not the type of game (well at least to me) that you can pick up from where you left off after a long time and know what puzzles you've solved and which ones you haven't. I rented the game when I was a child and somebody's saved file called JAZZ was left on the cartridge, this player was up to the final battle with Ganondorf, so after trial and error (and possibly a strategy guide), I figured out how to beat him and beat the game like that with a massive portion missed which I am yet to see.

P.S. For a long time Metal Gear Solid was one of those games but about two years ago I finally finished my childhood game. Another one I haven't finished is the first Playstation game I ever played the first time I got my PS for Christmas.... Medieval. There are a lot more games but I've already rambled enough... Thanks for making me ramble, normally I don't post too much.

 

[JWRosser]

Infinite Undiscovery....because it was rubbish. Just look at the name - that doesn't make sense!

I'm debating whether to finish LA Noire of give up. Thing is, I'm on Arson now so I know I'm quite far...I'm just so bored of it! I want to stop playing but the ending is insight herpa derp.