I was thinking about some old games I never meant to stop playing, but things happened, and I never got back to them. And now 10+ years later there is less than .00001% chance I will get back to them.
Dungeon Master. I really liked the game, can’t remember why I got away from it, college or some such crap. I would have liked to have finished it, I hd to be fairly close to the end,I had played a lot, had a pretty mean party as I remember. I started the spiritual successor, Legend of Grimlock. Not bad, but didn’t grab me the same way this time.
Alien Mind. Kind of a 2d shooter for Apple 2GS. Had amazing graphics for it’s day. I got stuck on a password locked door. Hint was “The answer is a scale”. No cheat sites back then, I tried hundreds of things from “Musical”,“Major”,“Minor”,"Tonic’,“Richter”,"Fujita’ etc. I looked through reference books for any kind of scale I was missing for months. Never figured it out thought and had to abandon which really pissed me off. I finally looked up the answer a couple years ago…
CDEFGABC :smack: I guess I never thought to try it that way.
Daggerfall. I got so caught up exploring the massive world, and exploiting the character creation system, I drifted away before I ever actually completed the plot. However in my defense, I bought at release, and the plot quests were so freakin bugged, you had to step away from the plot about an hour in for the first 3 months. I just never got back to it after the patches came out, even though I continued to play for long time.
First time I played Fallout 2 I didn’t finish it. It just didn’t grip me like Fallout 1 did. It wasn’t that I intentionally decided to stop playing, but just because you make a game 1.5 times bigger than its predecessor, that doesn’t mean its better. There was too much breaking of the fourth wall. The underlying plot wasn’t as interesting, either. Gameplay was tweaked for the better, but the atmosphere just wasn’t as good. And then I got busy and eventually stopped playing. I went back and replayed it a few years ago and this time finished it.
Baldur’s Gate is another one I just got too busy while playing and didn’t finish.
Dragon’s Age: Origins is another I started and then got too busy and then never finished.
So it oddly happens frequently. Unless a game really holds my attention, if I get too busy for it I’ll eventually never return when I get time to play again. Mainly because some other game has grabbed my attention at that point.
I do this quite a bit, especially with games I’m re-playing. Most notably among first-playthrough games were Mass Effect 2 and Skyrim. For ME2 I kind of lost motivation to finish doing all of the loyalty missions and then figure out how to assign characters for that one big mission. With Skyrim, I played the hell out of it for a few weeks, and then just kind of stopped playing. I needed to get rid of the bounty that Solitude had put on my head, and couldn’t find the evidence locker to get my stuff back after breaking out of prison. I didn’t really feel like storing all of my stuff somewhere before getting arrested.
I was loving Arkham City until about 8 hours in freakin’ GFWL ate my saved games. I just recently noticed they switched over to Steamworks, though, so I might give it another go sometime soon.
Oh, here’s another one with a Seinfeldian reason for abandoning. Dragon Age: Origins. I played it for about 8 hours, and it seemed promising, but I got sick of the way my mage looked, especially in the hat he was wearing (it was one of them leather helms that didn’t suit him at all). Maybe the bickering of my companions also turned me off.
I can’t finish a Bioware RPG to save my life. Baldur’s Gate 2, Planescape Torment, Mass Effect 1, Dragon Age Origins. I’ve ended up abandoning them all. At the same time, I have finished and enjoyed other RPG’s, some quite similar to Bioware’s style, like Arcanum, Oblivion. I don’t get it.
Both Kingdom Hearts games I abandoned midway through because my access to a PS2 was taken away.
I was also only halfway through it anyway and didn’t really level up very well so I was relatively bad at it as well.
I’d love to play it again but I don’t want to shell out the money for it on PS3 as of yet, and the second one isn’t even out yet for the 3 (in it’s remastered pretty version)
I was very much enjoying Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag except, as it turns out, I was mainly enjoying all the open world side quest style stuff. Once I had my ship fully outfitted, all the forts defeated, the observation points discovered/climbed, home/town upgrades, etc (even beat the dumb shipping route mini-game) and what was left was trudging through the ninety-twelve “follow these guys and listen to their boring chatter but don’t get caught” missions mixed with “Go hack computers by playing Frogger in a cubical” nonsense, I drifted off and haven’t felt much reason to return. I never actively “quit” the game but, realistically, I’ll probably always have something else to play first.
I’m also a terrible offender of playing a game, enjoying it, buying DLC and never going back to play it. Bioshock Infinite “Burial at Sea”, the mission DLC for Metro: Last Light, the various gameplay DLCs for Borderlands 2, etc.
I was playing Ni no Kuni on my PS3 when my wife’s fish tank developed a tiny leak.
The fish tank sat two shelves above the PS3 in the entertainment center. The water pooled in the corner of the shelf, dripped down the back, and landed directly on the HDMI cable going into the PS3. From there it trickled down the cable into the PS3. I’m not sure how long it had been doing this, but it wasn’t instantly fatal to the machine. By the time it stopped working the whole bottom of the PS3 was full of water, and large sections of the circuit board were corroded beyond recognition.
When I finally got around to getting a replacement, I already had an XBox One and most of my gaming switched to multiplayer BF4 or Titanfall with friends.
I’ve been meaning to play Sid Maier’s Pirates! again, but I “safely” stored away the map somewhere and can’t find it. The game is just easier to play with the map. I could buy another map on Ebay, but am hoping I’ll find it somewhere. I should have drawn a map of its location.
But…it’s the CARIBBEAN. It’s not like the names have changed. o.o Okay, fine a FEW of them have, but by and large, ANY map of the Caribbean will show you your way around Pirates! And it has an INGAME map. o.o
I play that game every couple of years when get a hankering for sword and sail, and I’ve never once thought “Geez, what I really need is a map!”
I got a free copy of Watch Dogs about a month ago. I was really enjoying it, then I finally figured out how to get GTA 4 running, so I blazed through that in a few days and was about to go back to Watch Dogs, but then Wasteland 2 dropped and now I’m knee deep in that.
I’ve tried that back in the pre-internet-has-everything era and there’s quite a few different names, towns that no longer exist, etc. For the effort in hassling with a modern map, you’d be better off just looking up a map c. 1640 or just finding an online copy of the game map.
I abandoned Bioshock 2 because I could never get that wretched Games for Windows Live to work properly. I finally finished when it was patched to use SteamWorks late last year.
Skyrim. Loved the game. Was attached to my character and had logged 85 hours playing while barely touching the main quest. One day while exploring, I literally fell into a hole in the ground and ended up in an underground temple or something with really difficult monsters. I got frustrated and put the game aside for a bit. The bit ended up over a year as I haven’t played it since.
