What is a game you return to a lot, but never finish?

[Irwin126]

For me, It's the original Portal. [Portal 2, however, I always find time to finish.]

While I love the puzzles and the smart thinking that goes into it, I just don't have the mood to finish it all.
Especially the non-testing areas. They, for me, are a run killer.

 

[Saelune]

If that is a soft never, then Morrowind, though I am actually up to fighting Dagoth Ur now, so bad example I suppose.

A better pick would be the old Sonic games. I have never beat any of them, but I play them often enough.

Sonic 1 I find I often give up on the second world. Too much lava and waiting.

Sonic 2 I usually peter out on or after Casino Zone.

Sonic 3 I just dont play much cause I usually go for 1 or 2 more.

 

[Irwin126]

I suppose C&C: Tiberium Wars. About three times I've returned to it to get a bit further in the GDI campaign. At the Croatia one now where you're waiting for reinforcements, fighting a war on four different fronts. If it wasn't so repetitious and reliant on memorizing hotkeys of the best commands I might have more motivation, but it just feels like more chore than fun at the moment. Something might inspire me to forge ahead in the future, but for now it's just sitting there.

 

[King Billi]

Half Life 2

I just find my enthusiasm drops very fast with this game, each time I come back to it I make it a little further I still haven't reached the end yet.

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

Never actually slogged through the end of Final Fantasy Tactics. Stall out around Chapter 4. Just don't want the story to end, you see.

Also, my completionist tendencies burn me out.

 

[Dalisclock]

For me, It's the original Portal. [Portal 2, however, I always find time to finish.]

While I love the puzzles and the smart thinking that goes into it, I just don't have the mood to finish it all.
Especially the non-testing areas. They, for me, are a run killer.

I take it you mean all the trials and such? Because I'd be surprised if you can't bring yourself to finish the 4 hour single player mode.

Never actually slogged through the end of Final Fantasy Tactics. Stall out around Chapter 4. Just don't want the story to end, you see.

Also, my completionist tendencies burn me out.

Chapter 4 is near the end of FFT, and aside from the ending scene, you're not missing too much honestly. The complexity of the first 3 chapters storyline narrows quickly down to "Oh, and demons! Kill Demons!". The game pretty much peaks around Chapter 3 and everything else is kind of a downhill slide from there.

For me, I haven't been able to finish Sunless Sea. Or a campaign of Crusader Kings II. I like both of them but damn does it take a long time to get anything done.

 

[Dornedas]

Baldur's Gate 2 ToB.

For some reason I always get bored shortly after leaving the city.
That might just be exhaustion because when I replay the games I always do a "full" BgT replay and start from Baldur's Gate 1.
And it takes a LOOONG time to get from Candlekeep to Saradush.

But according to my friends that managed to get to the end my squishy sorcerer wouldn't last long in the final battle.
So I probably wouldn't be able to see the end anyway.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

Deus Ex. The game interests me, but the crappy cover system, immersion breaking takedowns, and the boring game world make me lose steam quickly. I dont think I have ever gotten past the police station.

 

[BrawlMan]

Hyrule Warriors. I finished the main campaign on the hardest difficulty, but completed only half of the DLC Map packs. The fact that you're going through the same parts of levels, only in smaller sections with different challenges starts to where thin after a while. The game definitely needed more new actual playable maps, and not just on the 3DS. The arbitrary crud you have to go through to unlike certain sections on the map gets tedious and repetitive as well.

 

[Blitsie]

Fallout 4

On my fourth failed playthrough of the darn thing already and still the same story really, I get to the point where I can start building up that first settlement and I just somehow lose interest to play further. Usually because a big release I've been waiting for hits the shelves or I just get overwhelmed by all the things I have to start doing and never find the motivation to power through them.

But it was the same with Fallout 3 really, by my fifth try with that game something just clicked and 80 hours later I sat back wondering how the hell time flew past so quickly. Hoping its the same case with F4 then!

 

[sanquin]

That's most games for me these days. ^^;; Games have become huge and you can usually spend a good few dozen hours in each. But I tend to stop playing after about half-way to 2/3 through and either not play it any more or come back to it later.

As for games I still return to regularily:
Terraria: Once I get to the moon lord I usually stop.
Witcher 3: One of these days I'll finish it dammit! I don't start over every time though, and just continue one save.
Mass Effect series: I like the series a lot, discounting 3's ending. But these days after a few days of playing it my interest usually drops again.
Skyrim: Because of course Skyrim... >.>;; I mostly don't finish the game any more because I finished it once, and the main plot is just...meh at best. When I do start playing I tend to play for a good 50~60 hours over a few days though.
The 3 survival games I have: In this case I consider having stuff of the final tier and a base with everything you'd need as the 'end'. I usually find early and mid game a lot more fun than the endgame stuff, since for most survival games, during endgame the game isn't really about survival any more.

 

[Ryallen]

Any Dark Souls game. Not that they are bad, but I just never want to play them for more than half an hour at a time.

Fallout New Vegas. I've memorized the first 5 hours of the game. I know exactly who to talk to, where to go, and what skills to pick up based on how I usually play the game, which is NCR nice guy. The farthest I ever got was attempting to stop the Presidential assassination, which I just didn't feel like doing at the time then never picked up where I left off.

I've started Dragon's Dogma approximately three times. Once on the original game, once on Dark Arisen for the PS3, and once on PC. I'm just about to go fight the dragon, but there's still a lot that I wanna do in the game before I do so.

 

[SlumlordThanatos]

Dawn of War 2.

The game just won't let me be the horrible perfectionist that I can be; if I fuck up in a mission and don't get max rating, I can't just reload a save and try again.

I get that the game wants you to own your mistakes, but that's not really what I'm after in video games. If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right, after all, and I'll try it again as many times as it takes until I get it right.

DoW 2 doesn't give me that option.

So while as much as I like 40k and the good things I've heard about the game, I just can't bring myself to finish a campaign.

 

[Frankster]

As much as i love them, xcom type games fall into this for me.

Aswell as grand strategy games like ck2, eu4, hoi3, etc...

And in games like skyrim, where even is the ending? It's not like beating alduin is the core of most peoples playthroughs.

 

[Mcgeezaks]

Skyrim probably, I've got around 30 hours of game time and I've tried to get into it many times, the game just bores me after a while.

As much as i love them, xcom type games fall into this for me.

Aswell as grand strategy games like ck2, eu4, hoi3, etc...

And in games like skyrim, where even is the ending? It's not like beating alduin is the core of most peoples playthroughs.

Oh and this as well, I got 30 hours in Xcom:EU and 55 hours in Xcom 2 but I haven't finished any of them.

 

[MHR]

Elder Scrolls / Fallout 3 and onward.

These games have so much to do and explore in them that I never make it to the end. I've put in hundreds of hours and haven't finished a single one. I actually managed to clear out all of fallout 3 and collect everything, and finally get the vanilla ending. And then they came out with Broken Steel DLC which extended the game, and I haven't even started that.

 

[Amigastar]

Diablo 2 with Eastern Sun Mod.
Every once in a while i play it but just until Act 3, then i stop again till next time i play it again.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

The Fallout games.

I start playing and do every quest in the opening areas, and then just get bored after a while. I should just stick to the main quest if I want to finish the games, but the main quests in those games usually aren't the best and most interesting ones, it's the side stuff that's really fun. Unfortunately the "game" part of those games just doesn't hold up at all.

Every time I restart it's because I like the characters and the writing, and then I quit when I remember how terrible the actual gameplay feels and how janky the games are.

 

[LetalisK]

Fallout. Skyrim. Witcher. Every 4X game I try to play. Hell, right now I've got a 2 day Stellaris match going where I'm just rolling on people and I simultaneously want to finish it in order to justify the two long days of playing but I also really just want it to stop. 4X games are empty calories for me.