Hello there Giant Bombers!
Today I was wondering if there has ever been a game/games that you really want to get through or have more time to play, but for some reason just can't get round to it?
For example - I love the Final Fantasy series and have desperately tried to complete FFXIII for months now, but everytime I put it in I get frustrated and end up turning it off, having progressed nearly nowhere. Another example would be the 60-odd games I have on Steam due to Steam sales and/or multi-buys but just lack the time to get through right now - I've replayed the first chapter of Magicka four times because I keep running out of time to finish it!
Games you want to complete but just CAN'T!
All the infinite-feeling games with QUESTS upon QUESTS, like S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernobyl, Borderlands, Oblivion, The Witcher .. I firmly believe that those games have no ending
I have Alan Wake, Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts, Godfather 2 and Turok that I own and have never finished. Granted two of those (I imagine you can all guess which two) I got at a bargain bin price knowing well that there was a good chance I wouldn't enjoy them enough to finish them. The other two (Alan Wake and Banjo Kazooie for those that couldn't piece it together) are both great games that I just haven't been up for putting much more time in on. Perhaps I'll give one of them another shot this weekend with my free time.
Bioshock 2's shooting is equally as horrible.I would love to complete Bioshock, but the thought of that horrible, horrible gameplay turns me off. I hear Bioshock 2 made the shooting less horrible, but sacrifices the great story of the first. I can't win.
I've started so many that I'd like to devote time to and finish, and the reason I don't is because is partially because they feel so outdated.
Just recently, Baldur's Gate, Fallout, Jade Empire, Silent Hill 2, Final Fantasy III (VI), Indigo Prophecy, and Deus Ex. I can't play any of them for very long without getting stuck, bored, mad, or annoyed by the clunky controls
You mean like a gaming Mt. Everest? I've got a ton of those.
- Metroid Prime 1-3
- Knights of the Old Republic
- Freedom Force
- Deus Ex
- Fallout 2
Darksiders. I LOVE the game, I just can't seem to find a good time to play it. Okami is another, I'm SOO close to finishing it, I just got side tracked and never got around to finishing it.
Majora's Mask is a big one for me. I've started it like 4 times. I just don't like the time travel mechanic at all. Also, Metroid Prime 2. Every time I pop it in, I get the same waypoint. I try to go towards it and hit the same roadblock and I don't care enough to explore my way around it. Though I'm pretty sure my data got corrupted, so that's something.
Darksiders. I LOVE the game, I just can't seem to find a good time to play it. Okami is another, I'm SOO close to finishing it, I just got side tracked and never got around to finishing it.Same actually! Darksiders was a lot better than I was expecting but I just didn't have time to play it so I lent it to my girlfriend and now she doesn't have time to play it either! It must be one of those things!
Exactly my problem! I thought I was alone in this thinking, I will probably sit down and finish it one day though. Perhaps when I know a new console is coming.I would love to complete Bioshock, but the thought of that horrible, horrible gameplay turns me off. I hear Bioshock 2 made the shooting less horrible, but sacrifices the great story of the first. I can't win.
New Vegas, I like the atmosphere and story, but I always lose the will to go on once I reach Fortification Hill.
Also Super Meat Boy, for reasons I shouldn't have to explain.
Heroes of Might and Magic V with expansions. I just don't know. Maybe it's the sluggish tempo.
@Ahmad_Metallic said:
All the infinite-feeling games with QUESTS upon QUESTS, like S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernobyl, Borderlands, Oblivion, The Witcher .. I firmly believe that those games have no endingThe Witcher is only full of quests in Chapter II. The rest of the game is pretty alright in that regard.
DN:F, I wan't to say that I've beaten it but I just don't want to play it.
LA Noire is fun but when I can connect evidence to a person and the game can't it infuriates me, and the wrong answer noise pushes me to stop playing.
Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean. Couldn't get past one of the late game bosses. I recently went back to it, to find I had forgotten how the combat worked, and did not feel the need to relearn it. One day.
Mirror's Edge. I love that game until a bunch of people start shooting you.
Neverwinter Nights 2. After playing DA:O, going back to the movement/camera controls in this game involves a steep relearning curve.
Monopoly. Every time I get close to beating this game, I get sent to jail. That, and the Banker is an asshole who is embezzling from the railroad business he owns on the side. Cheating scumbag.
Alpha Protocol was a game I got kinda bored with towards the end and I think I was very near the end but I stopped playing and never went back, the same thing happened with New Vegas. I had very little interest in seeing how the main story would end so I just kept messing around until I did everything worth doing and never went back, leaving the main story unfinished. Hilariously Deus Ex is also a game I never finished. That game is so damn long and drawn out that I lose interest towards the end and have to this day never finished it, although I got really close. I'll probably finish it before Human Revolution comes out.
Right now, it's Metal Gear Solid 4 in the CAN'T category. The stealth mission where you have to follow the civilian is nearly impossible for me due to visual problems and limitations. It sucks, but there's nothing for it, so I'll wait on the next one.
In the WON'T category, Final Fantasy XIII is the clear winner. I just don't have the patience for it, and I'm absolutely stuck on one boss fight. The Last Remnant, similarly, I just won't beat. I enjoyed the game, but the randomness of the attacks makes a certain mid-game boss battle fucking rough, and after restarting it at least seven times, I gave up.
The Void - it's a dark world and I feel like I have to have emotional energy to play it which isn't a mood I'm always readily in despite my strong desire to play it.
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together. I love it so, SO much. For some inexplicable reason, I cannot muster the energy to do the last mission (I saw the completed "The World" map thingy, so I know it is the final thingy!). Maybe I'm just worried that the ending will be unfulfilling. Maybe I am just a lazy bastard.
Also: Resistance: Fall of Man. Those outdated controls I try to live with, but when I die lots of times, I just get frustrated and play Resistance 2.
Oh and HL 2, I'm having trouble getting to the place.
Off the top of my head Deus Ex comes to mind. I played it when it first came out but I was too young and stupid to figure out how to get through it. Now it's just a tad too old to really appreciate it for what it did, no matter how much I try to put myself into the mindset of when it came out.
Runner-Up: Baldur's Gate 2
I try to replay it all the time, but I just can't get past the super low resolution, and the high resolution mods make the text unreadably small. I really wish Bioware would remake that game in a newer engine.
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, really got into it only to have my save data get corrupted, losing 10 hours of progress could never get back into it. Same thing happened to me with Fallout: New Vegas. I ether need to learn to make a new save every hour or stop buying Bethesda games.
I've started so many that I'd like to devote time to and finish, and the reason I don't is because is partially because they feel so outdated. Just recently, Baldur's Gate, Fallout, Jade Empire, Silent Hill 2, Final Fantasy III (VI), Indigo Prophecy, and Deus Ex. I can't play any of them for very long without getting stuck, bored, mad, or annoyed by the clunky controlsfor old RPGs you should do what I do just turn the combat to easy and enjoy the story and the world. I did that with planescape torment and BG2 recently (the old combat isn't nearly as good as I remembered)
@liquidmatt: @lhaymehr: @Turtlebird95: @DeeGee: @HatKing: Those are ALL excellent games that deserve finishing!!
...that said, I can't fucking finish Half-Life. I've tried playing both 1 and 2, and I just don't get what people see in it. Maybe i'll try again later this summer...
@Zyte said:
@Farley_Lives: You need to learn to patch your games! :)
That doesn't even matter. Oblivion has always been and will always be unstable. I've got all the patches, both official and unofficial, and all the bugfixes and everything installed, and it still crashed on me and I lost an hour of gameplay. I almost lost my whole save file, but luckily there was a backup from when I first entered the dungeon I was in. The game still crashes. Fallout is probably even worse because of how much extra shit they've tried to cram into the engine.
The only way to not get frustrated at Oblivion is to leave auto-save on, and save all the time. Don't even bother overwriting save files, because if your files become corrupt, you lose it all. There is no fix, and at this point there will likely never be a fix.
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