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Soxafloppin

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Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, I played the tutorial and a bit of the first level and send it back to LoveFiLM, never been so bored in my life, and I really like Superheros.

Also Mirrors Edge, because the Trial and Error style of gameplay got old fast, I definitely did not have the patience for it, weirdly I actually enjoy watching gameplay vids on youtube.
 

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I couldn't list them if I tried. Let's just say, every game I've ever played bar about ten. And steam alone says I have like 300 games, so...
 

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Get_A_Grip_ said:
These are just the games on my steam list that I have played but haven't completed:


Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Atom Zombie Smasher
Bastion
The Binding of Issac
Borderlands
Borderlands 2
Breath of Death VII
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars
Burn Zombie Burn
Burnout Paradise (In all fairness, screw doing all 120 events for the last license)
Cave Story
Closure
Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3
Commandos 2: Men of Courage
Company of Heroes
Crysis
Crysis 2
Cthulhu Saves the World
Darksiders 2
Dead Space
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Doom 3
Dragon Age: Origins
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (More or less avoided doing any of the main quests)
Fallout: New Vegas (Got a save corrupting crash after 50+ hours and just gave up)
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
FEZ
FTL: Faster Than Light (Screw that end boss)
Grand Theft Auto III
Half - Life
Hitman: Codename 47
Home
Hotline Miami
Jamestown
Just Cause 2
Legend of Grimrock
Little Inferno
Lone Survivior
Mafia
Mass Effect
Max Payne
Medieval II: Total War
Metro 2033
MX vs ATV Unleashed
Oddworld: Abe's Exodus
Oddowrld: Abe's Oddysee
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
Rayman Origins
Razor2: Hidden Skies
Rock of Ages
Saints Row 2
Serious Sam
Serious Sam 3: BFE
Shank 2
Shatter
Sideway
Sine Mora
SkyDrift
Sniper Elite V2
Solar 2
Space Pirates and Zombies
Star Wars: Battlefront II
Stealth Bastard Deluxe
Super Meat Boy
Supreme Commander
System Shock 2
Thomas Was Alone
Titan Quest
Tomb Raider
Torchlight
Torchlight 2
Tropico 3
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
Worms Revolution
XCOM: Enemy Unknown


The funny thing is that I really like a lot of these games. The problem is that once I stop playing a game for a few weeks or so, I just never tend to get back into it.
Actually, this guy here has about the right of it. Whenever I stop playing a game, it becomes a risk I will forget about it completely, or just not care.
 

Strazdas

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The first would be War and Peace. That game was fun but i got distracted by other things.
Another thing i just game up on was Empire Earth. Yes, its fun, but theres onyl so much you can get a constant beating of clearly OP enemy planes (and scenario does not let you build any AA unit or building outside of your man base). Took 8 hours to complete one mission, and theres like 40 of them. So i just went and installed a next game.
Doom. the original. i never really did finish that game.
GTA 4. The PC port was so awful i just couldnt stomatch it.
Usually im the guy that will completely finish the game even if i dont enjoy it anymore, for example far cry 2, so the list is not long. but we will see where it goes to.
 

DarkSpartan

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I don't even want to start on a list of games I've not finished. My GoG, Steam and PSN libraries are littered with the shambling corpses of half-completed games.

That's to say nothing of games I have on disc, cartridge, or floppy(old!). If I stopped buying games tomorrow, I might get around to finishing the ones I have sometime this next decade.

Hrmmm... Now that I think about it, I have a large pile of games with female protags just dying to be played. Whatcha think, is there a maybe a market for a snarky webseries to see some of these ancient games through to completion?
 

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Bigbomb94 said:
Scarim Coral said:
Fire Emblem Path of Radience- I found the first protagonist (not Ike) to be obnoxous to liked and without a likeable character for me to follow, I quickly loose interest in the game even when I did get to played as Ike again.
I think you're talking about the sequel Radiant Dawn as Path of Radiance had Ike as the only protagonist. I never did complete Radiant Dawn as I gave up near the end of the game for reasons I can't really remember.
Yeah I meant Radiance Dawn. I just really hate Micah and I just didn't care for her cause to really want to played as her group.
 

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Let's see, games I didn't finish...

Neverwinter Nights: I got fairly far, but then I just sort of lost interest for a time and wound up selling the disc. I recently got it on GoG, but it's actually a bit difficult to run on my computer, and I'm finding that compared to newer games, the gameplay is actually a bit irritating with the henchman system; they're either being ineffectual in the back or charging ahead and having all the fun.

Fallout New Vegas: Again, got a ways in, but then I found that there's a "right" way to play and a "wrong" way. Or more specifically, there's an expected way to play and then there's the way I was playing. Apparently I was expected to make a beeline straight for New Vegas and ignore anything not part of the main plot along the way. What I -did- was stop at each town along the path, talk to people, get side quests and go on them. Eventually I just got kind of, well, frustrated with it because I felt like the way I was playing was "wrong" because I was making no headway in the plot, but didn't like the idea that I was supposed to IGNORE things right in front of me.

Quest For Glory V: Oh God, that in-game timer. It was like an hour of in-game time passed for every MINUTE of real time! And when you've got time-sensitive activities to go on, that gets irritating, FAST.

Dead Rising 2: I lost my interest in console gaming before I finished this game, basically.

Alone in The Dark (2006): Despite being a fan of the original trilogy, this one was a serious screw up. The controls were sketchy, the plot needed to be a LOT more subtle, and I can't say I was a fan of Carnby's new look (though it was tolerable). Like Yahtzee said, there were a lot of good ideas here, but the execution was terrible.

As for games I'm playing currently...

Mercenary Kings: A fun Metal Slug-esque game with customizable weapons. I'm moving along through the missions (with the help of a friend) but there's quite a few of them.

Payday 2: Awesome multiplayer game where you and others play as members of a four-man heist crew, pulling off a variety of high-stakes jobs, ranging from bank robberies to guarding drug shipments to political frame jobs. Of course, as this game isn't exactly made with an end in mind, it's not like I'm going to "complete" it.

Scratches: Point-and-click puzzle game in the vein of Shivers and The 7th Guest. You play an author whose bought a mansion in the English countryside, once owned by an architect and engineer who was suspected of murdering his wife just before he died under mysterious circumstances. I should probably pick this one up again soon; it's sort of been sitting idle while I've been on a faster-paced game kick.

Don't Starve: A hard-to-define game, you play as a "gentleman scientist" - or one of several other oddball characters - trapped in a wilderness world by a demon and must learn to survive by exploring and making use of the environment around you. I've been playing this game on and off; the thing about it is every time you die, you have to start over from scratch. Good thing it's fun to do, or I'd probably get frustrated as hell, heh.

Team Fortress 2: Do I really need to tell anyone what this game is?

Stealth Bastard Delux: A platforming puzzle game where you try to navigate though mazes full of stealth-based traps. A fun little time waster, but naturally on some of the harder puzzles I get bogged down (as is my current predicament).
 

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The most recent for me would be Grand Theft Auto 5. I did the opening, delivered the two cars with Franklin and his mate, and never went back it. There is nothing there that hooks me.

People tell me it gets better further in but I can't be bothered playing something I'm not enjoying to reach parts that I still might not enjoy.

I had the same with Final Fantasy 13, also unfinished. I'd played about five hours and was getting bored. Then one of my friends mentioned "it only really gets good about 15 hours in."

FIFTEEN HOURS! How about being good from the bloody start.
 

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Final fantasy 13-2, got right near the end and the last area the battles dragged on way too long.

Tales of Graces F there is the last dungeon with enemies that can one shot you. Went to a side dungeon and got to an overly complicated puzzle and lost interest completely.
 

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Fallout New Vegas. I tend to go on every other adventures than the main quest with my dysfunctional group of misfits.
Tomb Raider 2013. I might finish if I get to it (skipping all the cutscenes of course).
AC Rev, Dishonoured. Got off the boat. That's about all I have.
 

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Out of the games I've liked but haven't finished, I have to say Splinter Cell Conviction and the latest DMC. Both were fun, but lacked something to make me keep coming back so I kinda just didn't bother to open them up.. They're still sitting on my desktop. I don't want to open them up, but don't really want to uninstall them either.

Oh, and Thomas Was Alone. Interesting concept in many ways, but the fact that it's a platformer still keeps me from enjoying it for more than 30 minutes.
 

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I have a bunch actually, which is sad because they're all games I love.

The first and foremost is probably Baten Kaitos Origins. One of the best RPGs I've ever played and yet I've never finished it. I really need to re-hook up my Wii and GameCube controller and just buckle down and finish that one weekend or something, because it's been years since it came out and I've always wanted to but just never had the chance.

There's also pretty much all of the Operation Rainfall games (Xenoblade Chronicles, The Last Story, and Pandora's Tower), it's so sad because they're such amazing games, but they all came out in the US during my final year of college and I was just too busy to finish them then, and so many games have come out since then and I've been so busy looking for a job that I haven't had time to go back and play them. It's sad because I really want to, they're some of the best games on the Wii and a lot of people went to a lot of effort to get them imported to the US and I haven't even finished them yet. I'm almost done with Xenoblade, maybe about halfway through The Last Story (I think, I haven't finished it so I don't know) and I've just barely started Pandora's Tower.

Another one I want to finish someday is the Metroid Prime Trilogy. Metroid Prime has always been the only shooter I've ever really liked. It's not that high up on my backlog, but it's still something I'd like to get done one day.

There are some others, but those are the main ones. I actually have a list that's a little over two pages long of games I need to finish. I think it's because when I reached the age where I could readily and easily procure games for myself was also the age where I ended up getting super busy with work and school and stuff, it's also when my tastes expanded rapidly, so I got into a bunch of genre's I wasn't interested in before. I wasn't prepared for this, thus my backlog grew.
 

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Too many to count really.

Final Fantasy IX comes to mind. I got up to the end of the third disc and just stopped giving a fuck. The combat was just far too tedious and the story was doing nothing for me.
 

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Vagrant Story
Rouge Galaxy (but that will change eventually. It's a pretty easy game)

Harley Quin's revenge. I haven't even started that, but I've beaten Arkham Assylum.
 

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Games I'm done with that I haven't finished:
LA Rush: I had more fun with the sandbox driving than I did with the actual races.
some star wars fighter pilot game for the original xbox: the last mission is fucking impossible without cheats
Rome: Total War. Twice now I've gotten to a certain point, and my game crashes every time I end my turn.

Games I've started but haven't finished:
Psychonauts: I've gotten about 85% through it, abandoned it, 95% through it, lost a save file, and started over again. I plan on actually finishing it this time.
Limbo: Played through about 2 hours of it, got distracted by shiny objects, and also was too high to not be a little disturbed by the death screens, will probably finish it soon.
BF:BC2: I finally built a computer than can play it at more than 24 fps, so I should finish it reasonably soon
Dishonored: On the final mission
:Total War games: in Empire: Total War, I conquered a shitton of territory, then my hard drive died and I lost my progress. I've started a new game that I'm doing pretty well at. In Shogun 2: Total War, I made it to the point where everyone tries to kill you, then lost my save file in the aforementioned hard drive crash. I'm on my second playthrough and at about the same point.
Hitman: Absolution: Restarted it on built PC that can actually play shit and found it a hell of a lot easier, pretty late in the game right now.
 

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I only have one that I haven't finished and left out because I couldn't stand the game anymore due to the repetitivness and that game is called "Baroque".
I got it a few years ago to the Wii but after 10 hours I just gave up.

Unfinished games I will end but still am playing are Deus Ex, Tank Tank Tank and one I did DL form the e-shop but havne't started yet is Trine2

Otherwise I have finished every game I started, except MMORPGs like WoW and Lotro of course :p
 

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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. I get to the bits where you have to fly around and....ugh. The flight controls simply do not work with a keyboard and mouse. Great game otherwise, though.
 

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Moonmover said:
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. I get to the bits where you have to fly around and....ugh. The flight controls simply do not work with a keyboard and mouse. Great game otherwise, though.
It's not the keyboard and mouse - the flight controls really are just that horrific. I had it for the PS2, and it must have taken me five hours over three days to finish the flight school missions. The jetpack was a lot easier to manage. And a lot more fun.