Games You've Never Finished

[TinCow]

It happens to all of us, we buy a game and play it for a while but for some reason never end up completing the thing. So, what final boss battles or dramatic twist endings have you never seen? Here are a few of mine that stand out:

Witcher 1 & 2: These ones puzzle me. I enjoyed the games, found the different universe somewhat refreshing, and thought they were well made. Yet about 2/3 of the way through both, I just got bored and stopped playing. I can't really figure out why, but it's the truth. Witcher 2 is still installed on my computer right now and I keep thinking I'll finish it... but I doubt I ever will.

FarCry 2: The endlessly repetitive gameplay on this one bored me to tears. I intentionally stopped playing this one and was very pleased to not have to finish it.

Black & White: I loved the concept of this game, but the control system was so screwy that I simply couldn't do what needed to be done to complete the second to last map.

Temple of Elemental Evil: A gorgeous Infinity-engine clone with huge promise for implementing many great D&D adventures. Unfortunately, it was so buggy I couldn't finish it due to crashing and save game corruption.

[Hooahguy]

GRAW: I got to mission 8 of 11, but then my hard drive got wiped and the game was really difficult so I didnt try again.

M2TW: Never completed a campaign.

Brothers in Arms Earned in Blood: the aiming was very frustrating, so I never even finished the first mission.

Sniper Elite: just couldnt get into it.

Splinter Cell Chaos Theory: got pretty far into it, but just lost interest.

[johnhughthom]

Final Fantasy 7. I couldn't find my way down into the final dungeon.

[Samurai Waki]

Operation Flashpoint, ARMA II (C'mon Multiplayer was WAAAY more fun than Single Player + Too many Excellent Mods), Any Paradox game (Once I establish dominance, it's like What's the Point of going any further?), Rome: Total War + Medieval 2 + Empire + Napoleon + Shogun 2... Actually now that I think of it, I've finished less games than I've completed... it would be easier to list which games I've completed-- Every Fallout, Every Baldurs Gate, Every Neverwinter Nights, both Kotors, both Mass Effects... ummm... The Witcher 2, Morrowind, Shogun I, Medieval I... Civ 4... well, I've played a lot of games...

[Drunk Clown]

... that would be a really, really big list.

Resident Evil 4
Metroid Prime 1 & 2
Zelda: Twilight Princess
No Total war game (if I got to the point of feudal knights in M2TW, the fun was somewhat over, as you could steamroll everything without thinking)
Oblivion (did the guilds, not the main quest)
Fallout 3 (no time)
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Half-Life (everything, do not like + motion sickness)
Titan Quest
Black & White 2 (gawd the repetitiveness),
Morrowind (started too late and now it's ugly and annoying)
San Andreas (dunno why was at big smoke)
GTA IV (due to helicopter bug in final mission(s))
Harvest Moon: A wonderful life (boring after you have everything)
Warcraft 3 (was young then)
SSX on Tour (repetitive)
Starfox Adventures (and don't want to)
Paper Mario: The thousand year door (dunno stopped before last boss)
Not a single Fire Emblem (got 5, and I find this most sad but every time I'm at the end of the game something new comes up, subsequently I want to start over again; a never ending cycle)
Super Mario Sunshine (When I was young I found it difficult, now I've not been that enthousiastic)
Tales of Symphonia (really sad, one of the best games ever)
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (you need gameboys as controllers to play MP, which it's created for)
Baten Kaitos (them voices! the horror!)
Prince of Persia (Two Thrones + Warrior Within)
Advanced Wars: Blackhole Rising (shame)
Tenshu: Shadow assassins (wii sucks in this game)
Beyond Good and Evil (did not like,)
Final Fantasy IV (I'm at the last boss)

Hmmm can't think of more.

Strange is that I fully played Pokemon Channel twice, just to get Jirachi. And for those who don't know, Pokemon Channel is one of the most retarded and mindnumbing game there is.
Also I did manage to complete Assassin's Creed which is repetitive to the max and just a complete chore to play.

[phonicsmonkey]

Final Fantasy 7. I couldn't find my way down into the final dungeon.

I never finished that one either despite sinking about a hundred hours into it. turned out I'd missed some materia that sunk into the sea when an island collapsed and I couldn't beat leviathan without it. From my murky memory, it's been at least ten years...

I'm playing FF3 on my iPhone right now!

[Zim]

I'm sure there were a fair amount of games I played as a kid I didn't finish, especially since I rented a lot of games. The only one I remember is some version of Shadow of the Horned Rat.

I never finished Final Fantasy IX. I bought The Witcher a while back but never got around to starting it. I think I might have beaten ETW once (If nothing else I did finish the campaign for the U.S.). Never finished Torchlight. I've tried a couple MMORPGS over the years but never found myself getting further than level 20 or so in any of them.

That's really about it for the last ten years. I don't really buy a lot of games and tend to finish those I do (even made it from the earliest start date to the end in EU3).

[Abokasee]

Duke Nukem Forever: And why should I? It's like watching a porno of your favourite cartoon series from when you were a kid - a twisted horrid nightmare.
Z: Steel Soldiers: If it didnt constantly glitch out on my PC, I would of finished this long ago!
Supreme Commander: Heavily distracted by playing online with buddies.

[Whacker]

Oh boy, list time!


Final Fantasy 6: I've come very, very, very close in some specialized low level playthroughs, but never actually finished it off. No idea why, I love this game, and I finished FF4 and FF5.

Final Fantasy 7: Same as above, actually started the battle with Sephi a few times but ... just never finished it.

Doom 2: Time for some heresy. I liked Doom 1 far better than Doom 2. Levels, originality, everything. Never got too far past level 20 or so, it bored me to tears.

Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion: Zero incentive. Boring game, boring/ridiculously shallow story, unimaginative characters, slow(er) computer at the time. Mods can salvage some of this game but it can't magically weld a lot of depth onto this horribly shallow game. I completed the Thieves' Guild and Mages' Guild quest lines, but that was it. I'll begrudgingly admit that the final bits of the Thieves' Guild quest line was actually kinda fun, but the Mages' Guild definitely wasn't.

Fallout 2: I came late to the Fallout series, about 2005. Fallout 1 is basically the top game on my personal list of "Games I Deeply Regret Ignoring When They Were Released", and it's easily one of my favorite RPGs of all time. Fallout 2 was fun at first, but then the bugs crept up, and I started to get real frustrated and real sick of it fast. This was long before the wonderful fan patch was finally compiled, and it soured my experience. Eventually came back to it when the fan patch was done, but it just never had the same enjoyment factor that 1 had. Got pretty far into it, but again just never completed it.

Neverwinter Nights: Got way far into the first campaign, but never finished it off. Dunno why, it's by far my favorite of the entire Baldur's Gate/Icewind Dale/NWN series and probably one of the best constructed CRPG's ever, along with KOTOR1.

Vampire the Masquerade - Redemption: Don't care what the haters say, I liked this game a lot. Did NOT like the modern era though, so that's as far as I got in about 4-5 playthroughs.


Honorable mentions:

Quake 2: Had it since it was out, until 2006 I'd never bothered much at all with the base game, just played Action Quake 2. Finally finished it off that year after finding a "modernized" engine based on the released source code.

Heretic: Same as above, got into an "old id Software games" playing fit in '06 and this was another one. jDoom/Doomsday engine + md3 models + textures = great fun, glad to finally have finished that game.


Closet of Shame:

Mechcommander and Starcraft. I never beat these games without cheating heavily. Mechcommander probably could've done without cheating, but not Starcraft.

[Chaotix]

They actually have a whole website dedicated to this sort of thing- useful for long lists like Drunk Clown's and Whacker's:

The Backloggery

[Major Robert Dump]

XCOM 2: The siege maps and ship maps were entirely too long. The game was not challenging on normal levels, and on hard levels it was so time consuming it was unplayable.

Black And White: Loved it and even made a trainer to grow my animal and make her uber (I had a sheep) for use in the campaign. Bought the expansion, computer crashed, lost the CDs in a move and never got the chance to finish. It was a shame because the multiplayer was REALLT FUN

King Aurthurs Role Playing Game: I cannot in words indicate how suck this game was. Total War with magic. Yay. It just sucked. Spells that decimate an army from the other side of the map? No thanks.

Titan Quest: ran out of time, lost my coop players

Freedom Force: ran out of time, very cute and entertaining game, especially the hero builder, may DL it again I have it on steam


Theres so many others, but those are the ones that bothered me, except king aurthur, that one was just terrible and I mentioned it because I am still angrly that I bought it new

[naut]

Pretty much every game I've ever played....

[drone]

I went through a phase a couple years ago where I went back and tried to finish games I had on the shelves. Not as enjoyable as it should have been...

Big ones still unfinished:
Doom 3 - When I got it, it barely ran on my PC, so I shelved it (wasn't that impressed with the game anyway). Might want to give it a go on my newer box, just to get it out of the way.
NWN I (and HotU/SoU) - I've probably created dozens of characters, but I always stop playing after a certain point and just can't get back in. Probably because it's an RPG, I think I lose my personal connection with the character.
MoO3 - waaaay too much like work.
RTW/MTW2