If at all possible, I dedicate myself to a game until it’s complete. As such I don’t have a list of games never finished. I do however have a couple games I own but haven’t even started playing:
Majora’s Mask
Star Fox Adventures
Metroid Prime
I also refuse to count Super Monkey Ball as unfinished, even thought I’ve only got through the Beginner and Advanced stages. The Expert and Master stages are just too hard.
OMG drop everything and play Metroid Prime! It’s one of the greatest games I’ve every played.
Then again, some people have said the same thing about GTA3…
I’m glad I’m not the only one who hasn’t finished it.
Like a lot of people I gave up on Half-Life when it started to get stupid (the alien levels).
I’ve finished all the more modern Zelda games except GB Link’s Awakening, which is by far the hardest. I’ve also kind of given up on Metroid Prime because I can’t kill the Ultra Pirate or whatever he’s called.
I completed the first Tomb Raider after a full year trying, but gave up on the second halfway through and barely tried the third. And as for the GTA series (or 1 and 3 anyway), the missions just get boring.
This is really sad, but almost every single RPG I own, I have yet to finish.
See, I get to/near the end and think to myself “Self, if you finish this, you’ll never play it again.” So I put the game aside and…never play it again.
Plus, most games don’t have an engaging enough story to hook me until the very end. I get close, I figure out the plot/ending, and stop playing.
Recent games: Xenogears, .hack, Suikoden III, FFX.
NE Texan, I’d suggest going back to Arcanum. I love that game, and the replay value on it is pretty amazing, depending on in-game choices you make as to the final ‘ending’ of the game.
Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask… I finished the Ocarina of Time in no time, and it was the most awesome game ever! But Majora’s Mask, while still a great game, never really stunned me with it’s awesomeness. Plus, I got to the end of one of the dungeons and the timer was running out… so I never played it any more after that…
Super Mario Bros. 1 That’s right. The origional from the NES. Screw Bowser anyway.
I haven’t finished GTA3 or Warcraft3 and I haven’t really finished Diablo II though I have about 8 characters in different stages of not finishing.
I have also never finished Dark Cloud or Final Fantasy (the one for the PS.)
I know I should, I just haven’t done it.
Oh, I’m pretty sure I will, it’s only a question of when. I have to have the right amount of free time. Also, right now, enough time has passed that I don’t remember enough to go on from where I was, but little enough that I won’t have a lot of patience with the beginning of the game, so I need to wait a little while longer (until that part slips from my immediate memory).
But it isn’t like there are a lot of turn-based RPG’s coming out these days, either, so it’s nice to have one waiting.
Ultima 5. Never could get out of the underworld alive. Consequently, never able to kill one of those shadowlord thingies with the forcefields. My favorite trick was to get an unlimited supply of skull keys really cheap in the … castle down on the islands in the south. Can’t remember the name of the castle. but there’s a “serving wench” in the castle who will sell you 5 skull keys really cheap. You can complete this transaction an infinite number of times so long as you never tell her your name. I then liked to use the skull keys on the treasury in Lord British’s castle’s basement.
Riven - for some reason, the computer stopped believing in it’s CD drive (after replacing it 3 times) so I stopped playing… never went back once I replaced the machine. Too many mazes, I hate mazes.
11th Hour - I liked 7th Guest, this was just annoying, and weird, and not marketed to women in their early 20s, not by a long shot.
And more recently Black & White. I don’t think I ever made it out of the introductory level. I couldn’t smack the stupid creature (it just wouldn’t work - no matter what I did, it thought I was praising it) which does not do a lot for the whole training idea. And the game just got annoying (navigation was not the simple thing I think they meant for it to be).
Mr. Hand reminded me. (Although, this one is less of a “never finished”, and more of a “never started”.)
Ultima 9.
I had anxiously awaited Ultima 9, but when it came out, it needed a stronger computer than mine. (As was so often the case with those last few Ultimas.) So I didn’t immediately buy it, hoping that by the time I had a better computer, the product would be cheaper, and have bug fixes.
What actually happened was that by the time I had a better computer, the game was nowhere to be found. So perhaps someday I’ll run across a copy and try it, but I haven’t found it yet.
And consequently, have never finished it.
Gran Turismo 3: This tells you all you need to know about the game - I’m cheating like mad in every way possible (Gameshark 2), and I still don’t have anthing NEAR 100% completion. Just too many freaking impossible tasks, everything from licenses to time trials to series events to the insane arcade mode (which has no 'shark codes). Frustrating, frustrating, frustrating. I actually considered throwing it away rather than bothering to look for a buyer because it was so aggravating. Codebreaker has finally come out with arcade codes, so if I pick one up, maybe I’ll give this another try.
Final Fantasy: Rented it. Got to the part where there are a gazillion enemies and no way to rest up or heal. Decided right then that console RPGs weren’t my thing. Returned it and never looked back.
UFC Throwdown: Got about half the gold belts before falling into a catatonic stupor due to the endlessly repetitive gameplay. Haven’t touched a UFC game since.
WWE Smackdown: Blargh. Ugh. Yuck. Horribly designed game. Don’t understand how anyone can get to the end.
Exile: Wandered around the first area, with no information and no clue what to do next, getting pretty nasty motion sickness in the process, and couldn’t get anything at all done. Hard drive reformatted, game wouldn’t reinstall. Not trying anymore. Why does this franchise keep getting worse and worse?
Duke Nukem 3D: Played it for about three minutes before deciding that mega-complicated shooters with 30 billion things to remember weren’t my thing.
Never finished Diablo. I just got bored of the constant “choppa-choppa-choppa-choppa-choppa-choppa”
I guess I never really finished any videogames for the PC. I would just rather play “skirmish” game that lasts up to an hour or so than 20 identical “campaign” missions.
I’m with msmith537; I never finished Diablo. Hit some level where I started dying and was never motivated enough to try to get past it.
But, my all time worst goes back a few years. Anyone remember Interstate 76? I never managed to complete the first frelling mission in that one. Probably the least play value I ever got out of a game.
I understand all the people saying “Warcraft 3”. I had to cheat to even survive half the missions. I lost a couple where I’d turned on the cheats. Way too hard.
Every single Final Fantasy game as well as Chronotrigger and Chronocross. I love all these Squaresoft games, and yet I’ve not finished a single one. I think the furthest I ever got was on Final Fantasy 3/6, with 7 being the runner-up. Wonderful games but I’m totally unable to finish them. I tend to play them in bursts, for hours each day, and then get to a boss that kills me. This annoys me and I stop playing. I’m currently at that point with FFX, FF3/6 and FF8. FF7 unexpectedly crashed when I was in a middle of a long sequence and I haven’t been able to bring myself to do the whole thing over again. My sister wrote over my saved games for FF9 and I didn’t like the game enough to play it again. I lost my Chronocross disc1 and ran out of enthusiasm for Chronotrigger. I’m so pathetic.
To boost my ego, I must add that I did complete Diablo, numerous times. Never by myself however, which makes it about 100x easier.
Black and White: I got up to Level 4 and got smashed by the creature bug. I found that there was a patch, but then I’d have to start over. I even went so far as to go find a creature editor in the net, but I couldn’t recall what the stats would have been, so I didn’t bother.
Dungeon Keeper 2: I love the concept, the atmosphere, the creatures, everything. But when it gets down to just Keeper vs Keeper infighting in the later levels… bleh.
Fallout Tactics: I actually enjoyed this game. (Stop hitting me!) But I keep getting bored with the stupid Beastmasters. Yes, they have sticks. They throw bugs. Once in a while one will have a pistol. They command the wasps and the dogs. Hooray; I command half a dozen badasses with AK47s. I know that there’s robots later on in the game, but - I just don’t want to deal with crawling through those stupid tunnels after those idiots!
Final Fantasy 7: The last guy used a weapon that blew up the universe and that was too much for me.
GTA3: It just got boring and repetitve for me.
I never finished Ever Quest.
I’m yet another one who never finished Black & White. I loved the graphics, but the creature i had (a monkey) seemed to have a learning disability, and couldn’t even figure out how to eat villagers, even after I showed him about a hundred times. Instead, he’d wander around puny little starving thing, and kept dying, nothing like the huge creatures shown on the box. I think I got to level three, and then got sick of it all.
CIV III - I was disappointed that it didn’t improve much on CIV II, and even seemed to have been a step backwards in some sense.
Maybe CIV IV will advance the series?
Never finished GTA III, only because it was too frustrating (my computer gives me about 1 fps on that game).
Haven’t finished Metroid Prime yet, but I’m planning on it.