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End of 2012 - Games I Still Need To Finish

These are the games I have started but haven't finished yet (at least the ones I can remember doing so). Some of them I find really shameful purely because I love the game. This is only going by single player and I am not mentioning 100% games (otherwise my most shameful would be The ICO & Shadow of the Colossus Collection having still got one of the Colossi to defeat in Hard Time Attack and I haven't finished the second ICO playthrough yet). Also, I have to have at least finished the introduction zone/level/area because otherwise it will be filled with games that I got, turned on, and then left for other games I was still in the middle of. May hopefully 2013 be the year that I knock some of them out. (Probably not though - damn you exams and life choices!)

--- I'll finish when I get more time; will have to leave it here for the moment ---

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  • I am surprisingly close to the end - having just got to defeat Seath the Scaleless and head to the final area (I've even done some of the non-mandatory content already). However, because I am so far (and enjoy it so much), it annoys me even more having it hanging on the edge of completion.

  • I got this game in 2011 and still haven't finished it yet (mostly due to my compulsion to complete every quest that the game offers as I go through it). I am currently just over half way.

    What is so embarrassing though is that I got this game for my Dad on his birthday earlier in 2012 and he has already finished it (even though he is only able to play on weekends when he is at home - and a third of the time he isn't even in the country...)

  • Currently still in sand-land; but loving the mechanics (and especially the License system - I like how it keeps a feeling of lots of progression without making it clearly possible to over level as you have to acquire the items you unlock first).

    I semi-watched by dad complete this when it came out a couple years back and thought nothing of it. But for whatever reason, I got the urge to start it this Summer and see what it's all about (being arguably the most different of all the Final Fantasies; the franchise's Majora's Mask if you will).

  • Speaking of Majora's Mask. This was another title which I knew thematically lots about going in due to seeing most of it through the osmosis of others. But I had never taken the plunge myself. It isn't my kind of game mechanically (I hate time limitations on anything) but if it isn't a magnificently interesting world to be in. Currently half way, and if I can't fullfill my original promise to myself when I turned it on in 2011 (I want it finished before Skyward Sword coes out!); I can at least aim for a new goal - I want it finished before the next Zelda is released...

  • ...The big Elephant in the room for me all 2012. It didn't begin well for me at first (because not-soon-after Brad had mentioned his data was in limbo, my Xbox's hard drive died; during the first level of the game as well. for a week I had feared I had lost all of my playthrough of ME1 and 2. Luckily though I found a way to fix it and move all the data onto a new hard drive) but once I got into it I've loved it. I even got a gaming PC this year and still ME3 has had the most awe-inspiring moments of any game I have seen this year. Still, at some point I had to stop due to exams and have been apprehensive going back since... (I even let Brad beat me in finishing it - there's no way I am going to live in a world where Brad knows how ME3 ends and I don't!)

  • Got it to see what my PC could do and I am actually quite enjoying it (which is surprising since I usually find the first person perspective to be quite jarring - maybe the ability to substantially change the FOV has made a difference).

    I'm not very far in the story, focusing more on the world. But I probably should finish the story at some point because I am reaching the same point that I did in Skyrim - it just feels so soulless. And no matter how predictable or disappointing the story is, the characters up to this point in the story missions have been incredibly well acted - something I cannot say about Skyrim's.

  • Then again maybe they get interesting when you get deeper in some of the longer side-quests...

    I binged on it in late 2011 to see what the fuss was about, playing for at least 70 hours, but I don't think I'll ever go back. It is a good, enjoyable game (making my GOTY 2011 list as it happens). But I don't think it will stand up over time and ever be considered a great classic - then again I haven't even finished the main story quest so what do I know!
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