The shorter list for me is Games I have finished.
This is the way
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.
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.
Shit that's basically half my steam library, if I'm honest.
I have a bunch of games that I don't like that I haven't finished too.
What, you have like 2 games?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'm strangely not as hyped for Stormgate as I thought I would be when it was announced
Most. lol
System Shock 2. Scary. I start pooping from the front around Hydroponics and can't continue.
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.
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 :).
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.
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.
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
That’s a great list of games for this question. Several good games on there with pacing issues in the middle, the kind that would make you drop the game.
Only one I don’t relate to is Witcher 3.
The vast vast majority of games I play.
Oxigen Not Included, RimWorld, Gone Medieval, Stationeers, Starbound, Stardew Valley, etc
Most games I've ever played
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.
Goin on like 30-something years with Battletoads now
I love this meme because I found the game quite easy.
but if you're serious just use an emulator with save states.
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.
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
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.
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