I have never completed any game in the major Nintendo franchises (Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Metroid), despite owning owning multiple titles from each series over many, many console generations.
@nezza: I don't think I have either, Mario definitely not (never liked mario games), Zelda, I finished Neutopia does that count?, You can't really finish Donkey Kong, I've never even played a DK country game, Metroid, I've only played the first one, I played it alot and still have it at home but I don't think I ever finished it.
I have over 500 games on Steam and I've finished maybe 40 of them.
I've never finished a Lucasarts adventure game.
I've had Red Dead Redemption since it came out, it's still wrapped, I just never got around to it.
When I was 17... I... I.. rubbed one out to the DOA: Xtreme Beach Volleyball trailer they had on Xbox live. 7 years later I still feel disgusted with myself...
When I was in my early teens, I played my first MMO, a game called "The Realm" (predated Everquest by a few years). Not understanding how these games worked, but having played games like Final Fantasy that gave you a party of characters, I assumed that such was the case here, and I would get to create each of the characters. My first character was a woman, and then discovered I only got one character.
People started assuming I was a girl and I did not correct them, and maintained the illusion for several months, including with my guild, before guilt broke me down and I confessed. (since I was young and most other people there were as well, nothing really scandalous really came of it, though)
My gaming confession: I tried playing Half Life 2 a few months ago. I played it for an hour, found it boring and never played it again.
I felt the same way when I first played it; I honestly recommend you play for a little longer, the intro is decidedly very slow. Having said that though, maybe it's worth just starting on Episode 2 (it gives you a recap on everything at the start), and I personally would say that Episode 2 is the pinnacle of the Half-Life franchise.
Anyway, I played the original WarioWare game on 3DS and used the circle pad (instead of the D-pad) to play some of the microgames...
I'm totally a dirty ROM pirate. Well, I don't do it that often but for major Nintendo games and such that I missed I recently dug back into emulation. Goddamn even if my CPU isn't quite powerful enough to run it at 100%, Super Mario Galaxy looks gorgeous on a 1080p internal render.
Mostly though I've just been catching up on a few GBA titles I missed out on. Hot damn WarioWare is great.
I own a bunch of them, but I have never finished a main series Final Fantasy game. Though, I did finish a bunch of spin-offs, most notably the Tactics games.
While I'm not ashamed, I find it pretty funny that the first time I played and beat Chrono Trigger was on my original XBox. I softmodded it to install a custom OS that let me run a SNES emulator on it. It was the only game I ever got around to playing on the emulator, but I really enjoyed it.
Ocarina of Time is the only Zelda game I have ever finished.
Most games that are universally hailed as OMG ONE OF THE BEST OF THIS GENERATION MUST PLAY NOW!!!!!!! I kinda hate. I think Bastion is boring, Half Life 2 is an average shooter, all Call of Duty games are sooper boring, GTA4 is like holding my leg straight and having someboy push down on my knee really hard over and over, Red Dead Redemption was nothing memorable, Bioshock 1 was an average shooter with too many "stop and listen to this old timey voice diary WHY ARE THERE SO MANY JUST LYING AROUND", etc.
I have never finished a Mario game. In fact, I am terrible at them.
When I was in my early teens, I played my first MMO, a game called "The Realm" (predated Everquest by a few years). Not understanding how these games worked, but having played games like Final Fantasy that gave you a party of characters, I assumed that such was the case here, and I would get to create each of the characters. My first character was a woman, and then discovered I only got one character.
People started assuming I was a girl and I did not correct them, and maintained the illusion for several months, including with my guild, before guilt broke me down and I confessed. (since I was young and most other people there were as well, nothing really scandalous really came of it, though)
I have been playing female characters since I was about six or seven years old but the only game that I didn't realize I was only really allowed one gender on was Ragnarok Online. I started playing the part in Everquest. It stopped bothering me after a time, then I got used to it, and then it turned out to be kinda true. Oops!
I got a 360 as a joint birthday present from my friends and I think it's the worst console that has ever existed and has set gaming standards back for more years than its intended life cycle.
I own a bunch of them, but I have never finished a main series Final Fantasy game. Though, I did finish a bunch of spin-offs, most notably the Tactics games.
Even worse, I own and have played a lot of the Final Fantasy games, but the only one I've ever bothered to beat was XIII.
I had an original XBOX, played a few games, liked a few of them, but ended up selling the system with all its games as they did nothing but take up space, gather dust, and none of the games I had held my appeal anymore. Stuck with Nintendo ever since, though I wonder if that was a mistake...
Selling my classic games collection, below is a list of some of the games I sold. I left out PS2,NES,N64,GB,GBA,DS and Dreamcast titles I've owned in the past in the list. I've mentioned this in another thread before. No one has sinned as much as I. I don't mind not having some of the square PSX titles as much anymore since they're on PSN but still having a physical copy is nice for a shelf collection.
Snes titles
DKC 1-3 (1-2 were boxed w instructions)
Yoshi's Island (boxed w instructions)
Earthbound (cart)
Turtles in Time (cart)
Contra 3 (cart)
Super Metroid (boxed w instructions) purchased new for $6 at Target when it was incorrectly priced
Super Mario RPG (boxed w instructions)
Gradius 3 (boxed)
Super R-Type (boxed)
Secret of Mana (boxed) purchased at a Blockbuster clearance bin used for $10
Zelda LttP: (boxed w instructions)
7th Saga (cart)
Kirby Super Star (cart)
Breath of Fire 2
All 3 Super Star Wars
PSX titles: All my PS1 games were with jewel case and instructions.
Einhander
Valyrie Profile
Brave Fencer Musashi
Parasite Eve 1-2
Star Ocean: The Second Story
Vagrant Story
G Darius (really regret this one, I purchased it new in a clearance bin at Wal-Mart for $10)
Kartia
Lunar 1-2 (complete with all the crazy stuff it came with)
Alundra
Wild Arms
FF 7-9, Tactics, Anthology (actually screw anthology the load times sucked)
Arc the Lad Collection
Breath of Fire 3 or 4? Can't remember which one I owned.
Suikoden 1-2 (I actually drove nearly 100 miles to buy Suikoden 2 at a Gamestop in Weatherford, TX)
None of the beloved Nintendo products interests me, no Mario, no Zelda, no Metroid. Platformers for the sake of platforming also does nothing for me.
Despite being a huge fan of RPG, I don't think I have ever beaten a RPG without some form of money cheats or mods. Grinding for money and exp just mess up pacing for me.
For a game that has difficulty setting I usually pick the easiest possible with only a few exception.
@maskedarcstrike: That Xenogears could have easily sold for at least its original price especially before Square did a short second run. I remember picking it up used before the second run at a gamestop for slightly less than a new game's price.
Lunar 1 was an expensive used purchase...probably one of my worst game purchase.
Never finished GTA San Andreas. Got to San Fierro and got bored. And I never finished GTA3 because I corrupted my save file with only a few missions left after filling my garage with Rhinos for reasons unknown to me after more than a decade.
I never actually finished FFVII and FFVIII. Played till the final area before the fight with Sephiroth in VII and stopped shortly after reaching the last disc of VIII.
I've never finished Final Fantasy VIII, IX or XII despite loving all three.
Oh man, I also just realised after this weeks TNT that I never finished Doom or Doom II. . . . . . Considering how I lived my life in the 90's that's literally disgusting, weirdly enough I'm finding it difficult to go back to it now, Doom is pretty fun but these levels. God Damn.
Man, everyone else's "sins" so far amount to having opinions or not finishing a game. I don't want to be the only one who's confessed to actual acts of moral disrepute. C'mon people! Confess your sins ye good faithful of Giant Bomb dot com!
I love Zelda but...I think Twilight Princess is so fucking boring. Everyone keeps telling me it's great, and in my opinion, it's nothing but stupid filler and puzzles I've done several times before.
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