Poll: Games you never Finished
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Halo 2 (don't look at me like that) mainly because I was runnning a hacked copy that would work on XP (again with the looking, what can I say? I'm a purebred PC gamer and I didn't have or want a copy of vista), got to a point half way through and it just glitched the hell out and stubbornly refused to go any further.
Rome: Total War and Medieval2: Total War due the fact that finishing one of those campaigns takes forever, and frankly I lost interest after a few days of not really getting anywhere....
Warcraft 2: Don't ask why, I really don't remember.
StarLancer: A great regret of mine because I loved that game to bits. Got to the last level and fluffed it. Went back a few years later to do it, couldn't get past the big fuck off Ion Cannon mission, fml.
C&C:Generals: Never finsished the Chinese campaign, again, I have no idea why, I got to the last mission and did most of it, went to bed or something and never went back to it.
C&C1, C&C:Red Alert 1: I think they were cases of getting to a level which was just too hard for my 9-year old self and me subsequently giving up after repeated failures.
C&C: Red Alert 3 : Great game, painfully cheesy and kitschy so played as long as I could bear to. Not very long I'll be honest, not helped by the other new case on my shelf containing what I'd been told was a new IP version of KOTOR(which I loved) and now know to be one of the best games I've ever played (i.e. Mass Effect 1).
Space Siege. God was that game a disappointing waste of time (I was expecting something really good considering what GPG had done with Dungeon Siege 2 and that they were mining that rich vein of environments and atmosphere that System Shock 2 had opened up. Instead I got handed... That thing). I just lost the will to play, mainly to prevent myself losing the will to live.
Genesis Rising: Very quickly turned into an excercise in arse-rape and gave up.
Homeworld: One of my great regrets. Got to Bridge of Sighs and inspite of long since working out how to beat the bloody thing, at the time really couldn't and consequently continually got my head handed to me until I got bored and wandered off to play Cataclysm again.
March: Offworld Recon: I found it in a bin, it rapidly found it's way into another one.
Arguably, Dawn of War Dark Crusade (only ever finished five of the campaigns, got halfway through the other two before I lost interest). A similar argument could be made about Age of Wonders.
Wow, that was a lot of games... Christ...
Rome: Total War and Medieval2: Total War due the fact that finishing one of those campaigns takes forever, and frankly I lost interest after a few days of not really getting anywhere....
Warcraft 2: Don't ask why, I really don't remember.
StarLancer: A great regret of mine because I loved that game to bits. Got to the last level and fluffed it. Went back a few years later to do it, couldn't get past the big fuck off Ion Cannon mission, fml.
C&C:Generals: Never finsished the Chinese campaign, again, I have no idea why, I got to the last mission and did most of it, went to bed or something and never went back to it.
C&C1, C&C:Red Alert 1: I think they were cases of getting to a level which was just too hard for my 9-year old self and me subsequently giving up after repeated failures.
C&C: Red Alert 3 : Great game, painfully cheesy and kitschy so played as long as I could bear to. Not very long I'll be honest, not helped by the other new case on my shelf containing what I'd been told was a new IP version of KOTOR(which I loved) and now know to be one of the best games I've ever played (i.e. Mass Effect 1).
Space Siege. God was that game a disappointing waste of time (I was expecting something really good considering what GPG had done with Dungeon Siege 2 and that they were mining that rich vein of environments and atmosphere that System Shock 2 had opened up. Instead I got handed... That thing). I just lost the will to play, mainly to prevent myself losing the will to live.
Genesis Rising: Very quickly turned into an excercise in arse-rape and gave up.
Homeworld: One of my great regrets. Got to Bridge of Sighs and inspite of long since working out how to beat the bloody thing, at the time really couldn't and consequently continually got my head handed to me until I got bored and wandered off to play Cataclysm again.
March: Offworld Recon: I found it in a bin, it rapidly found it's way into another one.
Arguably, Dawn of War Dark Crusade (only ever finished five of the campaigns, got halfway through the other two before I lost interest). A similar argument could be made about Age of Wonders.
Wow, that was a lot of games... Christ...
I use to be this way with all of my games.
I actually went back and finished a bunch of games in quick succession about a year or 2 ago, because I was sick to fucking death of having so many unfinished games hanging about.
I now try to not start a new game that I want to spend a lot of time on unless I've finished the last big game. (ie. When I was playing DA2, no other biggish games were started, no I'm getting through mass effect, then I'll move on to Alan Wake. [footnote]Yes I realise I'm a little behind but study comes first[/footnote])
I haven't ever finished a main story final fantasy game.
I haven't finished BG2 still dispite it being one of my favourite games of all time (One of the games from when I rarely finished games which I didn't get around to in my completion fest).
I haven't finished any Bethesda games.
I haven't finished Bioshock because I recovered my gamertag at my brother's place and lost about5 hours worth of achievements (and possibly progress, I've not checked) that I'd gotten offline at home. I realise that progress in game is stored on the hard drive but Army of Two: The 40th Day took away all of my progress through the guns and such, but I was upto the same level, was weird. I just don't have the heart to see how much damage was done. I think I'll leave it until I've got nothing to play and start from scratch.
I actually went back and finished a bunch of games in quick succession about a year or 2 ago, because I was sick to fucking death of having so many unfinished games hanging about.
I now try to not start a new game that I want to spend a lot of time on unless I've finished the last big game. (ie. When I was playing DA2, no other biggish games were started, no I'm getting through mass effect, then I'll move on to Alan Wake. [footnote]Yes I realise I'm a little behind but study comes first[/footnote])
I haven't ever finished a main story final fantasy game.
I haven't finished BG2 still dispite it being one of my favourite games of all time (One of the games from when I rarely finished games which I didn't get around to in my completion fest).
I haven't finished any Bethesda games.
I haven't finished Bioshock because I recovered my gamertag at my brother's place and lost about5 hours worth of achievements (and possibly progress, I've not checked) that I'd gotten offline at home. I realise that progress in game is stored on the hard drive but Army of Two: The 40th Day took away all of my progress through the guns and such, but I was upto the same level, was weird. I just don't have the heart to see how much damage was done. I think I'll leave it until I've got nothing to play and start from scratch.
While I do stop playing games that did got too hard but sometime i simply lost interest with the game as a whole.
Metroid 1 and 2 (I didn't get all of the extra ammo, health etc when I was near the final boss.)
Tales of Symphonia (I lost interest with the characters.)
Skies of Arcadia (I dislike the limited save points.)
Fire Emblem: Radient Dawn (Lost interest with the characters.)
Sonic Color (I had lost interest in it quickly and it was hard.)
Advance Wars 2 (I can never get pass the final level.)
Metroid 1 and 2 (I didn't get all of the extra ammo, health etc when I was near the final boss.)
Tales of Symphonia (I lost interest with the characters.)
Skies of Arcadia (I dislike the limited save points.)
Fire Emblem: Radient Dawn (Lost interest with the characters.)
Sonic Color (I had lost interest in it quickly and it was hard.)
Advance Wars 2 (I can never get pass the final level.)
All my 360 games I've completed, but I'm just looking at my Steam library. I won't count the games I've bought and haven't played yet (alot of them):
Borderlands; hated it with a passion. Bought for a fiver off Steam because I was told to by my mates, played it with them, felt nothing but boredom. A co-op game that is boring to play co-op? No thanks. Haven't played since.
Crysis: Was loving it, up until the game decided it didn't want to work anymore, right around the time it got interesting (when the scientist gets frozen). Reinstalled, defragged, follow every single troubleshooting guide I could find, nothing. Can play Warhead and Wars, but not the original.
Bioshock: I really did not like this game. All the way through playing it, all I could think was "This would be better on 360." The controls felt sluggish, I couldn't enjoy the atmosphere, etc. My brother currently has Bioshock on 360, and I'll get round to playing it on that. Pretty sure itll be better.
Half-Life 2 Episode 2: Eurgh... Far too much wild-eyed praise. It didn't live up to my expectations, and I just couldn't enjoy it. Bloody fanboys...
I've realised that this list would probably cause mass heart attacks among some people on the Escapist. Tough.
Borderlands; hated it with a passion. Bought for a fiver off Steam because I was told to by my mates, played it with them, felt nothing but boredom. A co-op game that is boring to play co-op? No thanks. Haven't played since.
Crysis: Was loving it, up until the game decided it didn't want to work anymore, right around the time it got interesting (when the scientist gets frozen). Reinstalled, defragged, follow every single troubleshooting guide I could find, nothing. Can play Warhead and Wars, but not the original.
Bioshock: I really did not like this game. All the way through playing it, all I could think was "This would be better on 360." The controls felt sluggish, I couldn't enjoy the atmosphere, etc. My brother currently has Bioshock on 360, and I'll get round to playing it on that. Pretty sure itll be better.
Half-Life 2 Episode 2: Eurgh... Far too much wild-eyed praise. It didn't live up to my expectations, and I just couldn't enjoy it. Bloody fanboys...
I've realised that this list would probably cause mass heart attacks among some people on the Escapist. Tough.