Too true, too true 
Guess I did complete i then… but then I fell for its pretty little sister, EQ2 
I never finshed Space Invaders 
Ultima II - I figured out how to win, but my character could not get any stronger(I boosted all the other stats and rolled them over at least once and never got my strength up) and therefor couldn’t waer a space suit, which is needed to win. I finaly used someone else’s char to win.
Utlima III - I figured out HOW to win, but got too bored building up my chars for the final battle, so I used a cheat program to beef up thiuer stats and win the game.
KOTOR - right now I’m in the Black Vulcar base, about to face the boss. But all my chars are at low health and I’m out of medpacks. At some point I’ll walk all the back through the sewers and buy some medpacks.
Brian
GTA3, GTA Vice City, or GTA San Andreas (great track record, huh?)
Well I didn’t own San Andreas, my roommate did, so I never had my own saved file on it.
The other two… I’d play about 3/4 through then play around with cheat codes before moving on to some other game.
From what I’ve heard the endings (I won’t spoil it here), well, are not really… well… anything to spoil, except for the third.
Now THERE’s a game that begs to be remade! I think there’s something inherently cool in modding your van into a spaceship and flying to Mars.
Did you ever get to the puzzle where you have to make a spacesuit out of household parts? IIRC you had to duct tape together a wetsuit, a fishbowl and an airline oxygen cylinder.
I agree, the sequel’s ending sucked tremendously, and (minor spoiler):
the romance pathways went absolutely nowhere.
In the PC version - and maybe XBox - of KotOR1, you can go to inventory (where the game is paused) and once per round use an item like a health pack, stim, etc. I used that to get through the end battle. It’s very rough unless you’re playing a guardian, pretty much.
I haven’t been able to finish KotOR1 on a Dark Side path, or even get that far - I feel bad about disappointing the NPCs! 
I gave up on Baldur’s Gate (1) years ago just before getting to that city, as I picked up EverQuest. Then late last year I started playing it again since I’d never finished, and got to the maze right before facing the big bad guy at the end. Freaking hated it, plus my order of BG2 from Amazon had arrived, so I quit again.
I can’t get terribly far into Morrowind because it makes me motion-sick after a while, and I didn’t like it enough to keep going back to play after taking breaks due to nausea.
I barely started Planescape: Torment (got out of the first building, explored a few places in Sigil), and quit out of disinterest.
Oh cool, I beat EQ twice then! 
Would you like my copy if I can find it? I really loved that game too - I even reinstalled it and played it through again a few years ago. I remember it being somewhat frustrating the first time, and having to stop and do research or seek out hints, but the second time I was able to play through to the end in a shockingly short time. Like an hour or two.
I agree, it was a great game, haven’t played one like it in a LONG time. There is something about a game about aliens taking over the phone company.
That sounds familar, but to tell the truth, it has been so long since I played it I honestly don’t remember.
Super Mario Bros. - Yes, the one that came with every Nintendo. For some reason, I could never get through the final level without dying before I got to Bowser.
Devil May Cry - Got way too fed up with the final boss (I think it was the final boss) a year ago and haven’t picked up the game since.
Life or Death 2: The Brain - An old, old PC game where you got to diagnose patients and perform surgery. Very, very good graphics for its time (late 80’s). I beat the first Life or Death, but could never complete the second. These two games are what originally made me want to go into medicine. If you know where I could get them, please let me know!
Do MMORPG’s count? I played Final Fantasy XI for a year and a half, but couldn’t get to Tu’Lia (the continent in the sky where all the high-level players go) before quitting last month.
Adam
You do realize the last dungeon is a maze, don’t you? If you go the “wrong” way, you’ll just repeat each section ad infinitum…
Fade to Black…the original one. I’d love to be able to d/l the original. If anyone knows where it’s at, let me know!
It can’t be more than a few megs total.
You can contact me (in case I can’t check this thread) at almost any large webmail service with my s/n before the ampersand.
Oh yeah, I suppose Doom 2 qualifies. I made it all the way to the end, and I know in theory how you’re supposed to kill the last demon, and I’ve done it with cheat codes a dozen times, but I never managed to do it straight up. And I believe anyone who says they did is lying. So there.
I’m not one hundred percent sure that “ampersand” is the word you’re looking for.
The list of games I did, in fact, complete in my 20 years of gaming, is infinitely shorter!
When I was younger and at school/university I completed every game I bought - that’s what they were there for right?
At the moment I still keep meaning to go back and complete:
XIII
Pikmin
Viewtiful Joe
GTA: Vice City
Metroid Prime
Have you tried the Play The World add-on for Civ III? That’s what I’ve been playing for, oh about a year now. Adds eight new civilizations (Koreans, Celts, Carthanigans come to mind), but my favorite new function is an ‘Explore’ button. Sends your units out wandering around blackened areas. It seems to make them get to goody huts faster than if you manually controlled the unit.
I can’t remember the name of the game I’ve always wanted to finish but never did. It was a role-playing game, broken into chapters. You got out of a castle through the sewers, had to fight assasins, then wander around the country. You had to unlock chests to get weapons, money, armor and spells. You could sell stuff you found at different shops. Every chapter you would switch characters. I loved it, and have been looking for it for years now. It was on a PC platform, and it reminded me of The Prince of Persia but that wasn’t it.
Recently added one more, Grand Theft Auto Vice City, which deserves mention because it has a feature I absolutely cannot stand. I.e. the completey impossible required task.
There are two, BTW: The leaflet-distribution one (there is novehicle in existence more ridiculously uncontrollable than that seaplane) and the match race against the driver…with a much, MUCH faster car. Ever read any of those comic strips that say cheat devices make it really easy to get to the end of the game? Well, that’s exactly what I was trying to do with GTAVC (I must’ve used at 12 Codebreaker codes, not including the ones I found to be useless), and I didn’t come close thanks to these two sticking points.
What kills me is that this is, for the most part, a pretty fun game, and for some reason it has to have these utter monstrosities of missions (and a few others which are pretty close, like Guardian Angels).
I became freakishly good at both of those missions. The leaflet drop I can do every time, once I got the hang of controlling the seaplane. The car race is a bit more touch and go but it’s ultimately quite fun as the only way to win is to force the other guy to ram his car into obstacles: police cars, pedestrians, buildings, etc.
Alone in the Dark, the early 90s 3D (in as much as the early 90s allowed) Lovecraft-themed mystery/horror game. I loved that game, got it when it first came out, but could never get beyond Captain Norton in the front room. I just tried playing it again, and I still can’t. How do you kill that pirate? I know you’re supposed to use the sword from the suit of armor, not that decorative sword from the upstairs bedroom that breaks after a few blows, but every attack I make, he defends, and if I get close enough to slash him directly, he hits me too (and I’m a bit too weak to take it, you see, as I haven’t played in a decade, and the first monster encountered injured me greatly while I was trying to remember how to make my own character fight).
I never finished Super Mario World. I don’t remember where I kept getting stuck, but I know it was one of the ghost houses and I could never find the exit. Similarly, I’ve gotten to the final castle in Mario Brothers 1, but never solved the maze before time ran out.
Apart from the Thy Dungeonman parodies, I’ve never completed any text adventure game. They start out entertaining, but then tend to lose my interest after a while.
That sounds to me like Betrayal at Krondor - an excellent game all around. It’s one of the relatively few examples of genuine abandonware, as well - Sierra (as was) abandoned rights to it when they were promoting one of the sequels, so if you’re feeling nostalgic a Google search should turn up a copy.