What games did you always want to finish but never had the chance?

[ranger19]

Everybody's bought at least one game that they thought they would like, but ended up hating, and never playing more than a few hours. This isn't about those games.

This is about the games you've played, wanted to complete, but for some reason never did. What are those games, and why haven't you beaten them? Too long? Got lost? Too hard?

I have a couple. The most recent is FFV on the GBA. The first time I played it, I got like 30 hours into it, but my save file was accidentally deleted. I played it again a second time, am now about 40-50 hours into it, but need the submarine to continue, and I just can't find it in the overworld. From time to time I boot up the game to try and find the submarine, but to no avail.

The other one that comes to mind is a very old game - Hook for the Sega Genesis. I always loved it, but back in the day I was too young and simply not good enough at games to beat it. I had some friends who lived next door to me who were older and better, and they actually beat it while I watched one day, so I know how it ends. Then a couple years ago I booted up the game again, played for hours and hours straight, taking advantage of this one level where you could get two extra lives, die, restart the level, and do it again to stock up lots of lives, but on the very last level right before the final boss (Captain Hook), the aging system froze, and all my hard work was lost. I don't think I could ever put myself through that again.

 

[Prons]

I keep swearing to myself I'm going to sit down and play through fatal frame 1 in it's entirety.

I always get started, then quit right away. Even though I almost beat Fatal Frame 2 and 3

 

[Ranooth]

Metroid Prime

I actually crapped myself the first time i fought a metroid (was dark and i turned on my X-ray visor to see this alien thing sucking my face clean off) and iv always been too afraid to continue playing. For some reason though i bought, played and finished Prime 2 and 3.

 

[Mister Benoit]

Okami on Ps2 Ugh. I've got one save thats 6 hours into the game and just got one 14 hours into the game because I restarted. Mind you though I don't like Zelda-esk games. But I really wanted to play Okami because the game is just so damn beautiful.

 

[TheGhostOfSin]

Dead Rising

Ummm, I mean....

Contra.

 

[Devil's Due]

Funny thing is, when I was younger I never, never finished a game. Ever. But about two years ago I got addicted to finishing games. Now I complete every game. Put it in the disk drive, and there I go.

But a game I couldn't finish was Black and White two. Dang it, leave my town alone so I can build up an army and conquer yours! </3

 

[Vlane]

LoZ: Ocarina of Time and Majoras Mask.

Shame on me.

Edit: Soul Reaver

 

[Conqueror Kenny]

Enchanted Arms. I got all the way up to what I presume was the final boss, and because I skipped every battle I could none of my characters were anywhere close to strong enough and there was no way to go back. So I got annoyed and sold it. I still regret the decision and would buy it again if I wasn't such a cheapskate.

 

[k3v1n]

Funny thing is, when I was younger I never, never finished a game. Ever. But about two years ago I got addicted to finishing games. Now I complete every game. Put it in the disk drive, and there I go. </3

exactlyy what happens to me, also I never got round to finish prey, I got stuck somewhere and couldn't get on...also,dead rising

 

[RhinoTuna]

Rogue Galaxy, Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, Majora's Mask.

 

[Dr. Feel Good]

^ Majora's Mask.
I never could understand that Stone Temple. ><

 

[Murrah]

I wanted to finish FF X-2 with 100% so that I can see the other endings.

 

[Blind0bserver]

I still need to double back and finish Assassin's Creed. I stopped playing it because another game I bought came in the mail from Amazon, and I just never got back to playing it.

 

[xitel]

Oblivion. Seriously, I never finished the Main quests. I keep coming back meaning to, but I get distracted by the side quests and trying to find cool items. It's almost as bad as it was when I first started playing and spent two hours just FINDING places. Not even going in. Just running to them.

 

[ranger19]

LoZ: Ocarina of Time and Majoras Mask.

Shame on me.

Haha, I know how you feel. I actually never owned a N64 (Genesis then Dreamcast) and so never got to play those games the first time they came out. I bought however the Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition for the Gamecube, which had OoT and MM on it. I play a little bit through OoT every once in a while; now I think I'm up to the Water Temple, and the Fire Temple I had just finished was frustrating enough that I needed a break before going back to it. I'm determined though to finish both that and MM one day.

Oblivion. Seriously, I never finished the Main quests. I keep coming back meaning to, but I get distracted by the side quests and trying to find cool items. It's almost as bad as it was when I first started playing and spent two hours just FINDING places. Not even going in. Just running to them.

I had that problem with Oblivion for a while too. That's actually one game I thought I would never finish, because my idiot brother 'accidentally' deleted my save file when I was 30 hours in. I was making a pure mage and doing the Mage's Guild quests, and I was a significant way through, too. It took me a while before I could muster up the motivation to redo all those missions. But I eventually did, then went on to do the main quest. It was probably easier for me because I'm a pretty goal-oriented person, and so even in sandbox games, most of the time I'm playing I'm actively working on a quest.

 

[MintyFreshBreathGuy]

I've been meaning to finish Mario Galaxy but nostalgia keeps bringing me back to Mario 64. I've also meant to finish Clock Tower: The First Fear but I'm already stuck at the beginning.

 

[RedDiablo]

I always tried to finish Red Faction, but I couldnt finish the part where you try to sneak around, and find Griffiths, or whatever his name was.

 

[ranger19]

I've been meaning to finish Mario Galaxy but nostalgia keeps bringing me back to Mario 64. I've also meant to finish Clock Tower: The First Fear but I'm already stuck at the beginning.

So do you mean that whenever you start to play SMG you instead play SM64? SMG was fun, but it took a little bit of effort for me to make myself play through the whole game. And unfortunately, there's no way I'm going to be motivated to collect all the stars now that I've beaten Bowser.

 

[MintyFreshBreathGuy]

I've been meaning to finish Mario Galaxy but nostalgia keeps bringing me back to Mario 64. I've also meant to finish Clock Tower: The First Fear but I'm already stuck at the beginning.

So do you mean that whenever you start to play SMG you instead play SM64? SMG was fun, but it took a little bit of effort for me to make myself play through the whole game. And unfortunately, there's no way I'm going to be motivated to collect all the stars now that I've beaten Bowser.

Thats pretty much how I but I just can't really bring my self to finish it. Most because I miss the free going where ever, do whatever mission you want feel in SM64 and even in Super Mario Sunshine. What I mean is, is that in SMG you choose a mission and then you have that one lonely select path to go on, where-as in SM64 and SMS you could go where ever you wanted and even in the mission you selected the whole world was available to you. Not mention they switched from coins to... whatever that star food thing is. That's really why I haven't been able to finish the game.