Games you didn't finish, and why

weyland yutani said:
Bioshock - just didn't grip me after a few hours play.
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What made the difference to me was switching to Easy. Before that I got bored. After I enjoyed it enough to move straight on to Bioshock2, which I also enjoyed (on Easy) despite its reputation.

These days, with so many games on my Steam list, I rarely bother shifting out of Easy mode. Of course sometime that doesn't help, because even on Easy I've never managed to overcome my huge frustration with Witcher2's stupid Octopus 'Boss' and the annoying 'escape from Croc over a lot of stupid walkways' in Arkham Asylum.

Sometimes life's just too short, especially if you only paid a few quid for a game. At full price I tend to work a bit harder, but then I rarely pay full price for anything these days; I've regretted too many purchases in the past to risk it.

I may make an exception for Fallout4 though. :-)
 
sean6919 said:
My most recent one that i didn't finish was Darksiders.
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I enjoy it for mindless fun, but I'm way too old to be wasting chunks of life perfecting the various boss battles, and I truly hate the ones where you beat one 'boss' only to have another tougher one spawn... then another, and my coordination skills suck too badly to enjoy the solutions which involve mastering lots of techniques to get past a barrier.

Having said that, I did crack and buy an XBox controller last week and it does make this kind of console game a bit more accessible. I resisted for a long time, but it does help.
 
Crysis 3 - got up to the last boss and didn't beat him the first time. Never want back to replay it and watched the ending on youtube instead. No big loss at all, shame really the game is simply stunning looking but the game play is pretty lacklustre.

Style over substance is definitely the phrase that best describes this game.
 
Bioshock infinite.

Its pretty, but the game itself seems shallow. Also I think it jumped into the chaos far too quickly. just seemed that one minute you arrive walking around next minute "ITS THE DEVIL KILL HIM", no wonder or amusement and I saw it coming a mile off.

Also the gameplay got boring quick, seemed like they borrowed some stuff from dishonoured (which was a much more satisfying game for me), oh look a wave of guards no worry if I take too much damage or run out of ammo the girl will scavenge some for me. That really broke immersion for me a few times. I just did not enjoy the game overall.
 
Original Assassins Creed. First game in some 20 years that I've never finished. Quickly thought "where's the skill in this!?" IE. hold a button down and just run along a wall. No need to time jumps etc. Hey... maybe it got better later on! Re-cycled it straight back to Ebay.
 
Batman arkham city.

Loved the movies and like the idea of playing as the dark knight but just could not get into it for some reason.

Only played for about an hour so not had much time with it. After I am done with The Witcher 2 I will revisit it and give it a good few hours.

Just have to resist the temptation as I have Bioshock and Crysis 3 waiting to be played, luckily they are not installed yet.
 
Pretty much every game I've ever owned, a few of note:

Batman: AA
BioShock
Borderlands
Borderlands 2
Braid
Capsized
Dead Space
Dishonoured
Dragon Age
TES Skyrim
Fallout 3
Farcry 2
Frozen Synapse
Just Cause 2
Mass Effect 2
Max Payne 3
MoH
Metro 2033
Mirrors Edge
Nexus
Portal
RAGE
Red Faction: Guerrila
Rock of Ages
STALKER: CoP
STALKER: SoC
Sang-Froid
Secret of Monkey Island
TW Shogun 2
Vampire the Masquerade
The Walking Dead
Wargame: EE
The Witcher: EE
X3
XCOM: Enemy Unknown


...so yeah, I'm not sure why I even bother buying games?
 
Bleek said:
Pretty much every game I've ever owned, a few of note:

Batman: AA
BioShock
Borderlands
Borderlands 2
Braid
Capsized
Dead Space
Dishonoured
Dragon Age
TES Skyrim
Fallout 3
Farcry 2
Frozen Synapse
Just Cause 2
Mass Effect 2
Max Payne 3
MoH
Metro 2033
Mirrors Edge
Nexus
Portal
RAGE
Red Faction: Guerrila
Rock of Ages
STALKER: CoP
STALKER: SoC
Sang-Froid
Secret of Monkey Island
TW Shogun 2
Vampire the Masquerade
The Walking Dead
Wargame: EE
The Witcher: EE
X3
XCOM: Enemy Unknown


...so yeah, I'm not sure why I even bother buying games?
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Yup i ask myself that all the time too, but still buy them?
I did finish ,, The Walking Dead, still found it a bit of a chore though.
Im also near the end of DS3, which i kinda enjoyed , but why oh why do they keep throwing those screeching little burnt gingerbread men things that try to teabag you, in packs all the time:/?
Theres just no innovation anymore, its always the same old thing dressed in new clothes , no matter what the genre
 
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pauLAW said:
Mass Effect 3 - Downloaded it from the PSN last month, I thought it looked dire and I didn't quite see what all the fuss was about.... maybe I didnt give it enough time.
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Did you play the first two? Coming into a story-based trilogy 2/3 of the way through without knowing what the hell is going on - yeah you're not gonna enjoy it. Start with the first one, treat it as an rpg not a shooter, persevere through the opening mission as it's not great, and start with a female character - the male voice actor is terrible. It's one of maybe 3 games that I've played to completion 4 times, it's got to be doing something right!

For me the only one in recent memory I can think of is Dragon Age: Origins. The lack of voice dialogue from the protagonist, and the point and click style rather than fps/3rd person combination kills the atmosphere and gameplay a little for me.
 
This thread has got me thinking... would you say we feel let down or dissapointed by a game because it doesn't push things beyond what came before? And if so then how much of that is simply because games have historically had so far to climb to get where we are now? It wasn't that long ago that almost every year the next amazing revolution in gaming, or graphics, or whatever arrived - big things too, like the first 3d games showing up, the first online multiplayer games... when they worked out how to do skeletal meshes or proper lighting or normal maps etc etc... You often picked up a new game and felt like you were playing and discovering something amazing.

The advances these days are getting smaller and harder to notice, some of it due to developer laziness, some due to the explosion in popularity of gaming... in terms of technology things like sub-surface scattering or depth-of-field or whatever don't have the same massive impact as some earlier developments did. I dunno, just a thought

Anyhow here's a few games I didn't complete

Fallout 3, Fallout NV, Just Cause 2:
I liked them, a lot, and may go back someday, but as others have pointed out the games are so damn huge with so many side objectives etc. and I think as a player I tend to want to complete things 100% (within reason) and this makes these games drag on a bit too much.

Amnesia and (nearly) Dead Space 1 & 2:
I almost stopped playing both Dead Spaces, because although I can tolerate the creepy atmosphere and the constant surprise-scare tactics, they make it difficult to relax whilst playing and as a result the game feels like more work to force yourself to play, having to be on edge waiting for the next thing to jump out at you - I did get there in the end but it took a long time. I've not installed Amnesia yet because I know it's more of the same, but I would like to play it when I get around to it.

Borderlands 2:
One of the guys I play with seems to have awful connection problems on BL2 (but no other games), so as a group we have put it on hold until we can find a fix for it.
 
No matter how hard I try I just can't get into Sleeping Dogs. I got it free with my AMD card and I just find it boring in all honesty. I find the story dull and the gameplay is essentially lots of consecutive point-to-point objectives and Transporter style fights.
 
Arkham City and Bioshock Infinite, for the same reason - stuttering.

Lost all hope for Rocksteady ever fixing AC, still waiting for news of the patch for Infinite.

Both Unreal Engine... perhaps both pushing the engine beyond its capabilities.
 
LA Noire

After the first hour it gets very samey, and frankly boring.

The gameplay consists of walking around until your controller vibrates, then pressing X to look at something. Often the only clue that something is interactive is the controller vibration, because you might not see anything of interest on-screen.

The 'game' is all about the story, which is frankly pretty uninspired from what I've seen so far. You are an aspiring cop/detective, one of the good guys, in a corrupt US police force. The only character who seems to have any back-story is the detective you play, and the only thing you really know about him is that he fought in WWII against the Japanese. You get shown this in cut scenes between missions.

So as for the 'game', literally the only thing you do is walk around waiting for your controller to buzz, find some clues about the latest murder case (yawn), and then ask a bunch of questions to the suspects.

Even if you don't find all the clues, or fail to work out when the suspects are lying, the game progresses anyhow, and you always get the right guy. It's pretty crap when you've totally screwed up a case, but it gets solved anyhow, and then you get a cutscene where everyone calls you a hero and you get promoted. Just bizarre. And I mainly screwed up the cases, almost every time :p

There's a bit of driving between locations, and this is where I found myself having some modicum of fun, as I went crashing into other cars, people and objects. All the while my partner screamed about my driving. Some genuine lols were had, but I'm not sure you're supposed to be play the game this way :p

So for me it was dull gameplay, characters I didn't care about in a 1950s setting that does nothing for me, a shallow story and lack of any sort of consequences for failure.

I stopped playing after about 5 hours.
 
Crysis 2: Just boring and nowhere near as good as the first
Borderlands: I gave up after the first mission. Didn't like the way it played and just didn't seem interesting enough to continue with
Bioshock 2: Rubbish compared with the 1st and 3rd
Skyrim: Go through this dungeon, then another, then another... Give me Morrowind any day of the week
Metro 2033: Didn't like it at all, gave up after 30 mins. No wonder it was free...

PooBrain said:
Half-Life 1, it's just a terrible game.
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Someone change his suspension to a ban, please.
 
Not being a troll or anything but some of you guys need to go back and finish some of these games. Seriously missing out either due to pole up backside, pc issues, difficulty or not letting yourself go in game.

My list involves two games: Mirrors Edge and far cry 2
 
LA Noire - I really want to like this game, but each time I start playing, I get so bored. As others have pointed out, the gameplay is very samey.

SpaceChem - I'm too thick to complete the puzzles.
 
Crysis 2: Just didn't enjoy it as much as the first one
FEAR 3: Again I loved 1 and 2, FEAR 3 just don't feel like fear..if you know what I mean
c&c 4: nothing needs saying on this
Alan wake: I dunno really as I enjoyed the first 2 hours, maybe time to reinstall?
 
Got 130+ games and not finished one of them :)

Dont seem to play a game that much before i buy another one and forget the one i was playing.
 
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