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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
I should continue playing StarCraft 2. Played the crap out of the first and loved it every second, but something is missing in 2
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.
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.
Most games I’ve ever played
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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.
System Shock 2. Scary. I start pooping from the front around Hydroponics and can’t continue.
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 :).
Subnautica:Below Zero.
I got quite far, I think. But the overworld bits are just kind of bland, and boring.
It seemed to be missing a key ingredient in the level design that the first had.
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.
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
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.
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.
Besides the very first Zelda, this is the only other one I actually DID finish, lol.
@jessuwu Wind Waker on GameCube was indeed a chore. I always meant to replay it after the first playthrouhh but it was just a huge time investment. If you ever get a chance to play the remake on your Wii U (or some other means), you can get access to a fast sail relatively early on that makes it a lot more fun. Sailing was so slow in the gamecube version as basically an alternative to a loading screen so it’s so slow for a technical reason not a gameplay reason. And further into the game you get a fast travel option that cuts down on sailing times even further.
