Guilty Confessions: What game did you not finish?

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Forgive the random post. It's Friday afternoon and I'm already in weekend mode :p

I want to know - what games did you really get in to, but never finished? There are some rules as to what counts… it has to be a game that you played for a significant portion. It has to be a guilty confession!

You can't say you didn't finish C&C because you don't like RTS. Just as I can't say mine was Deus Ex as I never really got into it, no matter how much I wanted to like it. Half-Life could count if you got as far as Xen and then gave up because you didn't like alien landscapes.

So, for me it was Grand Theft Auto IV. For all it's sloppy controls and stupid PC requirements I enjoyed the hell out of that game. According to xfire I've sunk 113 hours into it (I know that number is actually a lot higher). But I never finished the main story! I reached the 3rd Island and finished a few missions but never got around to wrapping it up. I've since lost my original save and now can't be stuffed trying to play through it all again. It will forever be a guilty sin though, as I'm sure I would have enjoyed it to the end.

So tell me OcUK - what's your guilty confession?
 
Nearly every game I do ever play, purely because I don't like good things coming to an end! :p Except easy games like Devil May Cry 1 and multiple ending games.

I finished Dragon Age however, that was too sublime not to see what happened.
 
Mass Effect 1. I'll get round to it one day. I'm usually very good at finishing games and make an effort not to start more and more games untill I have finished some of the game I'm currently playing.
 
Definitely Mass Effect 1; I heard so much hype and bought it on sale but there's waaaaaaayyyy too much talking in it and the character controls were completely unrefined for my FPS accuracy to handle.

That's the only one I've stopped intentionally, I'm a tight wad so only spend on the games I'll love.
 
trentlad said:
Definitely Mass Effect 1; I heard so much hype and bought it on sale but there's waaaaaaayyyy too much talking in it and the character controls were completely unrefined for my FPS accuracy to handle.

That's the only one I've stopped intentionally, I'm a tight wad so only spend on the games I'll love.
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Well it is a story driven game, isn't it? :p
 
Half-Life 2 - I absoloutley dominated online whether it was TDM or FFA, so got drawn away from the single player.

Stalker SoC - The abismal weapon accuracy just killed the gameplay for me once I got further into it. I was emptying clips into people from mere yards away with no hits, couldn't get the accuracy mods to work when I came back to it a second time around.
 
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I hardly finish any games.

A new one comes along and I play that instead, and it just goes on that way.

I did finish Borderlands though (first playthrough and without the LDCs), but I got a much bigger kick out of playing it than actually finishing it. That doesn't really interest me.

As for story driven games: I don't really care for them, I can never wait for the ruddy cutscenes to end so I can carry on playing the actual game, If I want a really good story, I read a book. That's something no game that I know can touch.
 
For me, King Arthur. I really enjoyed the game, was having a good run with some decent armies built up over time... and then I stopped and haven't really gotten back to it. I keep seeing it in my library on steam, but always end up playing something else. Really good game too.
 
Despite its fiendish addictive quality I never got close to completing Diablo 2, nor could I get beyond the earlier acts of Icewind Dale 2. IWD 2 in particular should've been right up my alley, so to speak... It was a tough, party based RPG, but I just couldn't quite love it in the same way as BG2. A bit old skool, but probably amusing to the right set of RPG freaks...

Also, despite my rampant fanboy-ism, I never completed UFO Enemy: Unknown either. :o A corrupted save (way in to the game) was to blame. One of the very few lost saves I've ever experienced too. It still haunts me now. :(
 
Mass effect, after I got fed up of the driving sections.

Empire Total War, still on my harddrive, but need loads of time to finish this one.

Men of War, stuck on the first american mission but completed german & russian campaigns. Again still installed on my harddrive.

Crysis, got bored quickly.

Farcry2, see Crysis.

Amred Assault & Armed Assault 2, too many lovely mods and the mission editor for building "Generation Kill" or "Saving Private Ryan" scenarios.

Hellgate:London, this started off good with fun missions, but grated on too long and became a reptative chore. The idea behind the game was good, kind of Borderlands but set in London with zombies and L4D style action.
 
Men of War. I finished all the campaign missions and all but the very last bonus mission, but I was finding this last bonus mission so chuffing hard. My pc was due a windows reinstall at the time and actually *am* guilty I gave up and didn't reinstall the game to beat that final bonus mission. I'm guilty because of all the games I've played the Soldiers Heroes of WWII, Faces of War, Men of War games have been some of my absolute faves and I relished every minute of playing them. It was just that last mision in Men of War was too tough for me. :(
 
I still haven't finished Dragon Age. I am stuck at the section in the fade (or whatever it is called).

Well, I wouldn't say stuck, just too bored to continue it. It reminds me of those awful dream sequences in Max Payne 1
 
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Has to be Mass Effect 1.
Sunk a good 30 hours into that game, then got stuck. Could only run around a space ship talking to people, I had no idea where to go or what to do. I have never opened it since :P
 
Deific said:
I was emptying clips into people from mere yards away with no hits
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That's your problem right there.

Never more than 2-3 round bursts :p


Plus once you get a half decent gun it's much easier.

The poor acuracy if you where anything more than crouched still and iming down the sight for 30 seconds before firing was somthing i liked.

much better than the usual "yes you, rather than a half starved, half frozen guy stuck in one of the most in hospitibal places on earth, are in fact a super solider with pin point accuracy with any weapon regardless of if you''ve ever picked it up before and can hit a fly on the run with a sawn off shotgun."
 
Mass Effect 1 - it's a bloody awesome game, I just can't really play it comfortably due to the the controls. It's the sort of game I would probably appreciate more with a game pad, so I may have to do that to get back into it.:o

lol! seems to be a bit of a trend going on for Mass Effect 1. :p

Bioshock - again an awesome game but I got very bored at the start even though I appreciate the fact that it is a good FPS. Maybe I will revisit and force myself through the the first part of the game to appreciate the rest.

Myth 1 - I loved this game so much but I never could finish it. The game just got harder and harder towards the end. Very good strategy game, if you like mythical/middle age/LOTR type themes. Quite old now though.

Thief 1 - I got right to the end of this game but I got more and more disturbed by parts of the game so I decided to call it quits like a big girl that I am. :o
 
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