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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/1145865

Do you have any games that you like but you never finished for any reason? Which game is it? Doesn't matter how many times you play and replay it you just never get to see the credits roll. I think Skyrim gonna be a quite common answer xD

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The shorter list for me is Games I have finished.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is the way

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Zelda BotW, the game has all the elements of an RPG I like, but I just can’t enjoy it enough due to its weapon system. A metal sword shouldn’t break after 3 hits.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm having similar problems with Tears of the Kingdom. At first I really liked the changes to the game but after 5 - 10 hours I lost any enthusiasm to play it. I kind of remembered the experience playing BOTW which I really fought hard to try and like too.

It's not just the weapon or combat system... I just struggled to care about anything after a while.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I just got a switch last week to play with my nephews. There isn't really anything for me on the switch so i bought totk second-hand. The game is cool and all, but exactly for that reason definitely not for me. I'll just never use them, because they break and i don't want to be dealing with that. I juat read that the new zelda is the same unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Emulation mods/cheats improve the BotW experience so much. I played through the first 3 infernal machines on my Switch before putting it down and never picking it up again. I started playing on CEMU with unlimited stamina and increased weapon duration, and the game is far more enjoyable.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I think I've put over 500 hours into Skyrim and still haven't met the Greybeards. What a game.

Final Fantasy 12 is another game I keep picking up every couple years and I swear I keep dropping it at the same point every time.

Dragon Age Inquisition I really need to pick up again, that was a good one, but I need to finish Horizon Zero Dawn first, then go back to Elden Ring, probably pick Witcher 3 back up at some point.. yeah, I have a lot of unfinished games.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Shit that's basically half my steam library, if I'm honest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have a bunch of games that I don't like that I haven't finished too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What, you have like 2 games?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Probably close to 350 or so, if I had to hazard a guess. I just also don't really complete games before I get distracted by another.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The Stanly Parable. Just can't seem to get past the broom closet.

on a serious note Starcraft 2 Legacy of the Void. I've literally not even touched single player.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You might be interested to know that a bunch of the people involved in SC2 made their own company to start working on a new RTS called Stormgate because Blizzard wasn't interested in letting them make another RTS.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I should continue playing StarCraft 2. Played the crap out of the first and loved it every second, but something is missing in 2

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

the story line is kinda trash, multiplayer is good but because of good path finding units clump together making AOE incredibly effective.

High burst DPS just means games can end in seconds after possibly 10 minutes of build up, it can get real old real fast. but watching professionals do it is still great.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Horizon: Zero Dawn. I got absolute shite aim on the best of days and playing on a controller just makes it worse. Switched to m+kb eventually, but by then, the experience was already marred. Think I'll give it some more time, then try again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

all of them. no seriously, I have a habit of avoiding the endings thinking I will play more with open worlds and then stop playing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yep, I have a bad habit of getting like 3/4 through a game and never finishing it. I've been meaning to go back to Yakuza: Like A Dragon at some point because I'm pretty sure I'm nearly at the end by now, but for some reason I can't bring myself to launch the game again and just finish it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

System Shock 2. Scary. I start pooping from the front around Hydroponics and can't continue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There are plenty of games I thought were good but couldn’t get into, or games where I got distracted and fell off them. So I’ll limit this list to games where I got really far along and then made a conscious decision to stop.

Persona 4 Golden, at the start of the Golden content. I wanted to be done and it was too much to ask me to do another, even longer dungeon.

Zelda: The Wind Waker. I acknowledge it as a good game, but I just did not like sailing around.

Very recently, Age of Wonders 4. I really disliked the last story map and how many factions were running around.

Metal Gear Solid V. Reused missions in the second act, nuff said.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Besides the very first Zelda, this is the only other one I actually DID finish, lol.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have such an issue with not finishing games that I really enjoy because I don't want them to end. I put off the final part for so longer that I stop playing the game. Never killed Ganon in BOTW, never actually finished Elden Ring

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Final Fantasy 7, for some ridiculous reason. I’ve stared it so many times, then get distracted and stop, planning to come back, and then I forget.

Some some recent ones are Control and Pentiment. I got into both, then got distracted with other games and never got back to them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Literally the same for me. I'm maybe 60% through FF7 (and rebirth coming does make me wanna finish it up), like 80% done with Control, and barely started up Pentiment.

Control just got frustrating hard playing with a controller that deep into the game (I've got it on PS+ not PC). Pentiment I keep forgetting I even bought.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I finish all of my games nowadays, but in the past, I regret to have stopped playing at Skies of Arcadia. It’s an awesome game, and I almost finished it back in the days, but I was stuck and I stopped trying at some point. That’s a game I will definitely finish someday :).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Most games I've ever played

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Define "finished". A lot of the games I enjoy are ones that don't have an "ending", like Crusader Kings or Civ.

In general though, I try to finish games I'm enjoying and quickly stop playing games I'm not enjoying so that I can move onto something else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm a chronic side quest chaser.

I'd stop right before the final mission and then do all the left over side content.

I usually burn out and just never finish the game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Subnautica:Below Zero.

I got quite far, I think. But the overworld bits are just kind of bland, and boring.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It seemed to be missing a key ingredient in the level design that the first had.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's part of it for sure. Another part is that exploring felt much more natural in the original. You got a radio signal, went to the coords, and maybe you'd find something you hadn't before. It helps survivability and allows more exploration. Below Zero didn't have that, instead it had me find body parts for an alien, which doesn't do anything till the end game.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Dark Souls 1 and 2. Never beat their final bosses because I don't want the game to be NG+ afterwards.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most of them. One of my favourite games of all time, Twilight Princess, is one I haven't technically finished. Did a 100% run for my first full playthrough, spent hours and hours and enjoyed every second. Then I lost my save file (was playing on Cemu) when I was in the castle at the end. Like less than an hour left in the game.

I did play the game a bunch as a kid on my GameCube, but never finished it cause little me liked to just fuck around more than actually progress the game lmao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Same with Majora's Mask for me, honestly. Something has always just dragged me away from it at the wrong time... life stuff, emulator problems, whatever. It hurts. I've only heard about the ending details but I haven't seen it myself yet, but I will. It feels wrong to go look it up on YouTube.

ZTP is also my favorite Zelda tho, btw. Excellent taste.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The majority of my steam library and more, so many pre steam games I played ended up not finished. Might be easier to list the finished.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The vast vast majority of games I play.

Oxigen Not Included, RimWorld, Gone Medieval, Stationeers, Starbound, Stardew Valley, etc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

RimWorld and ONI end when everyone dies or you get a cooler base idea and restart. I don't think I ever played either to the proper end.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but oxygen not included sucks on the Steam Deck, at least handheld.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've started but never finished plenty of games but one always annoyed me till recently was factorio. I had over a hundred hours and I never even automated blue science.

Then a few months ago I said screw it, started a new save and over the course of 3 months and 150h I finally launched a satellite into space.

I am quite happy now that I did "beat" it but I'll probably revisit it soon, either to try improve my base or to play modded.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Doom Eternal - I played a few hours, was having a good time, but put it off to play something else and just never came back.

Atelier Sophie- always been interested in the Atelier series and finally bought one. I enjoy what I see when I play, but I'm constantly dropping it for something else, only to come back months later, play a little, then drop it again. It's a vicious cycle.

Divinity Original Sin 2- while I enjoy the game, it's so tedious to play that it wears me down every time I try to play it until I drop it.

Guild Wars 2- as much as I enjoy it, I keep thinking I could be playing FF14 instead, which I like more and have a hard time trying to come back to it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Playing D:OS2 with 3 others REALLY helped me get more into the game. I get dumb brain when I try to control all of the NPCs and I never really make it out of the first act. With a group, I finally hit the 3rd act for the first time lol

We are probably going to transition into Baldurs Gate when that officially drops though and I can see another few hundred hours going to that.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doom Eternal was a slog by the late game that I really had to push myself to finish. I found the 2016 Doom far more enjoyable.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I keep going back to doom eternal. I usually play like a section or two and then i put it aside again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nier Automata. Started it 4 years ago, was having a blast but then I went through a breakup and lost my will to play.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I really loved the setting of Assassin Creed Origin bit unfortunately didn't complete it. One of these days I hope...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Goin on like 30-something years with Battletoads now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love this meme because I found the game quite easy.

but if you're serious just use an emulator with save states.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wild. If I had to say which game is harder between Battletoads and Elden Ring, I’d say Battletoads hands down. I’ve gotten pretty far, but never beat it on NES. I guess I could go the emulator route just so I don’t get that awful feeling every time I see the cartridge, some amount of closure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So many! Right now I'm chipping away at Persona 5 Royal, but also on my list are RDR2, Witcher 3, Divinity Original Sin 2, Elden Ring, Dragon Age Inquisition....I want to pick up Yakuza Like a Dragon and Diablo IV but it doesn't feel worth it yet since I don't have much time to play these days

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