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

[Graustein]

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.

I managed to pull myself through by the sheer spectacle of the game. I was always eager to find out just what the next rapechild of Miyamoto and Physics would be.

 

[the_tramp]

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.

I thought if you accessed the map it told you where the vehicles that you've aquired are? Oh do you mean you just haven't got to the point in the game yet where you get it? If that is the case then get a walkthrough from the internet.

On Topic: Final Fantasy IIj. I have it on a GBA emulator on the PC, my computer got wiped after about 20 hours play and I can't bring myself to redo it despite actually enjoying it.

 

[Cousin_IT]

Morrowind. Got quite far into main quest but didnt have the patience to get all the tribes to name me whatever its called.

Most N64 games...& SNES games...& PS1 games. I didnt have a great attention span as a child :-D. Id especially like to try complete Disneys Hercules on SNES (hey I was young & it was a good game I thought. Certainly spent long enough playing it)

 

[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.

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.

That makes sense. I do miss being able to go into a level and have a whole bunch of options open to me. I start trying to kill the big Bomb-omb but instead I get the 5 red coins? Okay, there's that star. Or the star behind the chain chomp? If you want. It's a shame, I miss the more simplified version of SM64. I bought the DS remake when it first came out and that kept me entertained for months. One of my favorite nintendo games of all time.

 

[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.

That makes sense. I do miss being able to go into a level and have a whole bunch of options open to me. I start trying to kill the big Bomb-omb but instead I get the 5 red coins? Okay, there's that star. Or the star behind the chain chomp? If you want. It's a shame, I miss the more simplified version of SM64. I bought the DS remake when it first came out and that kept me entertained for months. One of my favorite nintendo games of all time.

Theres a DS version, thanks for telling me, looks like I'm heading to my local VG store to look for it. Really thanks.

 

[ranger19]

Theres a DS version, thanks for telling me, looks like I'm heading to my local VG store to look for it. Really thanks.

Oh yeah! It came out right when the DS came out. If you can't find it in a store, you can probably find it online for pretty cheap. It was a lot of fun, and even though the DS doesn't have an analog stick, I played the whole game with the D-pad and was fine.

Glad to help!

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.

I thought if you accessed the map it told you where the vehicles that you've aquired are? Oh do you mean you just haven't got to the point in the game yet where you get it? If that is the case then get a walkthrough from the internet.

I actually have the submarine and used it a bunch before, but now can't find it. Is my map really supposed to let me know where it is? Because the mini-map (when I press L or R) brings up a map of the overworld, but if it tells me where my submarine is, I can't tell how. I just finished Phoenix Tower last time I played, if you're at all familiar with the game.

 

[sequio]

I have alone in the dark 4: a new nightmare from a few years back. I never got to finish it because it keeps crashing and there was no patch that fixed this (that i'm aware of).

 

[Yegargeburble]

LoZ: Twilight Princess...I tried to finish it but lost interest around the point where I had to go to the bottom of the lake. I still tell myself I am going to finish it, but I have yet to even try.

 

[Gahars]

Okami

I accidently saved before a timed mission I could never beat

Kingdom Hearts (First time)

I got this game first when I was a lot younger, and got trapped in the Aladdin level

I hated the game with a passion

When the sequel was almost out, I decided to begrudgingly give it another chance

This time I soared past what I was stuck at and enjoyed the game and its sequel

Go figure

 

[Dr Spaceman]

I never actually finished Arcanum, a problem which has haunted me for years. I got painfully close, though. I was literally at the doorstep to the final area and I... stopped. I can't remember why. Once I tried to find that save to actually finish the game, but it had mysteriously disappeared. The game disc is sitting on my desk right now, staring at me, daring me to play it again. I just don't know if I have the wherewithal to go back and invest the amount of time and effort to beat it.

 

[ranger19]

LoZ: Twilight Princess...I tried to finish it but lost interest around the point where I had to go to the bottom of the lake. I still tell myself I am going to finish it, but I have yet to even try.

You know, the same thing happened to most of my friends that bought the game too. I personally loved the game and beat it, but perhaps that has something to do with the fact that Twilight Princess was the first 3-D Zelda game I ever bear. It's sad but true - I never owned an n64, and when Wind Waker came out for the Gamecube I was very anti-cell shading. (Man, add WW to the list of games I need to play/beat.. along with OoT, MM...). I wonder if it's because it was my first 3-D zelda game. Had you played OoT, MM, or WW before TP?

Okami

I accidently saved before a timed mission I could never beat

Kingdom Hearts (First time)

I got this game first when I was a lot younger, and got trapped in the Aladdin level

I hated the game with a passion

When the sequel was almost out, I decided to begrudgingly give it another chance

This time I soared past what I was stuck at and enjoyed the game and its sequel

Go figure

Shoot, I never played Kingdom Hearts, though I did help my friend try to beat the final boss (something like a big monster with a giant hear-shaped hole in him?). That's a game I really want to play too. It looks like.. so much fun! I remember my friend coming over the day after he bought it and he already had like 16 hours on it.. ahh good memories.


One game (series in fact) I hadn't beaten for a long time was the Halo series. I at first wasn't interested in it, but countless all-nighters with Halo 2 at my friend's house sold me. I eventually got the game so I could have people over/so I could practice up, and it was ages before I actually played the campaign. I actually enjoyed the first game's single player the most, followed maybe by the third. The last levels were so awesome in that game - I remember one summer beating the last level of Halo: CE with literally 2 seconds left. It was intense

 

[forever saturday]

the legend of zelda: majoras mask. its the only zelda game i have ever played that is truly bad. too much side quest stuff, dungeons are too hard (had the same problem, though admittedly less, with ocarina of time so it might be that they have bad graphics by what im used to cuz i got the version for gamecube about a year ago), having to rewind the game and losing a lot of money and stuff, only having like four weapons which are basically upgrades to the bow so like one weapon, and having a completely mind screwy story. may finish it someday but not likely.

 

[ranger19]

the legend of zelda: majoras mask. its the only zelda game i have ever played that is truly bad. too much side quest stuff, dungeons are too hard (had the same problem, though admittedly less, with ocarina of time so it might be that they have bad graphics by what im used to cuz i got the version for gamecube about a year ago), having to rewind the game and losing a lot of money and stuff, only having like four weapons which are basically upgrades to the bow so like one weapon, and having a completely mind screwy story. may finish it someday but not likely.

Really? I've heard people claim MM is one of the most unique, and one of the greatest Zelda games. I've never personally played it myself, but I'm surprised to hear someone say this. I'm curious.. when you say there are too many sidequests.. what do you mean? Usually sidequests are optional, so I can't understand how a game can be faulted for having too many.. you don't want to do them, then you ignore them.

I agree going back to older 3-D games can be tough sometimes. I was playing OoT and was in Jabu-Jabu, and it took me a while to realize something was a door. It wasn't a 3D object as doors usually are these days; it was more of a texture on a flat surface. Imagine my frustration when realizing that I was stuck for a while in the dungeon simply because I didn't recognize that object X or surface Y was a door or a button.

 

[mr mcshiznit]

Lost Odyssey... i'm on the 4th disc and can feel the end coming on, but i had to return it to blockbuster. I just cant justify spending 9 dollers for like another 1-3 hrs of gameplay.

 

[Mr.Pandah]

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.

This. I love the game and I love Zelda-esque games (unlike the quote), but I just lost track of it. Most games that I don't finish I almost always go back a few months down the road, but Okami was probably the only one I've never gotten back around to. A shame really, the game is absolutely stunning.

 

[darktheif28]

I really wanted to beat No More Heroes buy my dick of a friend told me exactly what happened during the game before I even got the friggin game

 

[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.

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.

Well, I'm 300 hours in, soo...

 

[Yegargeburble]

LoZ: Twilight Princess...I tried to finish it but lost interest around the point where I had to go to the bottom of the lake. I still tell myself I am going to finish it, but I have yet to even try.

You know, the same thing happened to most of my friends that bought the game too. I personally loved the game and beat it, but perhaps that has something to do with the fact that Twilight Princess was the first 3-D Zelda game I ever bear. It's sad but true - I never owned an n64, and when Wind Waker came out for the Gamecube I was very anti-cell shading. (Man, add WW to the list of games I need to play/beat.. along with OoT, MM...). I wonder if it's because it was my first 3-D zelda game. Had you played OoT, MM, or WW before TP?

I never played a 3D Zelda game before that one, but add OoT on my list of games to finish, too. Did not even make it to the first dungeon before forgetting all about it, and now it sits on my Wii, taunting me...I may actually try to play that one again, though.

 

[tijuanatim]

Resident Evil 4- Just got bored with it
Ninja Gaiden 2- I bought Rock Band 2 and became preoccupied and just never went back
Mercenaries 2- See Ninja Gaiden