cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/1145865
Do you have any games that you like but you never finished for any reason? Which game is it? Doesn’t matter how many times you play and replay it you just never get to see the credits roll. I think Skyrim gonna be a quite common answer xD
The shorter list for me is Games I have finished.
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Zelda BotW, the game has all the elements of an RPG I like, but I just can’t enjoy it enough due to its weapon system. A metal sword shouldn’t break after 3 hits.
I just got a switch last week to play with my nephews. There isn’t really anything for me on the switch so i bought totk second-hand. The game is cool and all, but exactly for that reason definitely not for me. I’ll just never use them, because they break and i don’t want to be dealing with that. I juat read that the new zelda is the same unfortunately
Emulation mods/cheats improve the BotW experience so much. I played through the first 3 infernal machines on my Switch before putting it down and never picking it up again. I started playing on CEMU with unlimited stamina and increased weapon duration, and the game is far more enjoyable.
I’m having similar problems with Tears of the Kingdom. At first I really liked the changes to the game but after 5 - 10 hours I lost any enthusiasm to play it. I kind of remembered the experience playing BOTW which I really fought hard to try and like too.
It’s not just the weapon or combat system… I just struggled to care about anything after a while.
I think I’ve put over 500 hours into Skyrim and still haven’t met the Greybeards. What a game.
Final Fantasy 12 is another game I keep picking up every couple years and I swear I keep dropping it at the same point every time.
Dragon Age Inquisition I really need to pick up again, that was a good one, but I need to finish Horizon Zero Dawn first, then go back to Elden Ring, probably pick Witcher 3 back up at some point… yeah, I have a lot of unfinished games.
Shit that’s basically half my steam library, if I’m honest.
Define “finished”. A lot of the games I enjoy are ones that don’t have an “ending”, like Crusader Kings or Civ.
In general though, I try to finish games I’m enjoying and quickly stop playing games I’m not enjoying so that I can move onto something else.
Subnautica:Below Zero.
I got quite far, I think. But the overworld bits are just kind of bland, and boring.
It seemed to be missing a key ingredient in the level design that the first had.
Yeah, that’s part of it for sure. Another part is that exploring felt much more natural in the original. You got a radio signal, went to the coords, and maybe you’d find something you hadn’t before. It helps survivability and allows more exploration. Below Zero didn’t have that, instead it had me find body parts for an alien, which doesn’t do anything till the end game.
I’m a chronic side quest chaser.
I’d stop right before the final mission and then do all the left over side content.
I usually burn out and just never finish the game.
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You might be interested to know that a bunch of the people involved in SC2 made their own company to start working on a new RTS called Stormgate because Blizzard wasn’t interested in letting them make another RTS.
I should continue playing StarCraft 2. Played the crap out of the first and loved it every second, but something is missing in 2
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I’ve poured hours into total war shogun 2 but I don’t think I’ve ever fully completed a run.
all of them. no seriously, I have a habit of avoiding the endings thinking I will play more with open worlds and then stop playing.
Yep, I have a bad habit of getting like 3/4 through a game and never finishing it. I’ve been meaning to go back to Yakuza: Like A Dragon at some point because I’m pretty sure I’m nearly at the end by now, but for some reason I can’t bring myself to launch the game again and just finish it.
I have such an issue with not finishing games that I really enjoy because I don’t want them to end. I put off the final part for so longer that I stop playing the game. Never killed Ganon in BOTW, never actually finished Elden Ring
Final Fantasy 7, for some ridiculous reason. I’ve stared it so many times, then get distracted and stop, planning to come back, and then I forget.
Some some recent ones are Control and Pentiment. I got into both, then got distracted with other games and never got back to them.
Literally the same for me. I’m maybe 60% through FF7 (and rebirth coming does make me wanna finish it up), like 80% done with Control, and barely started up Pentiment.
Control just got frustrating hard playing with a controller that deep into the game (I’ve got it on PS+ not PC). Pentiment I keep forgetting I even bought.
Doom Eternal - I played a few hours, was having a good time, but put it off to play something else and just never came back.
Atelier Sophie- always been interested in the Atelier series and finally bought one. I enjoy what I see when I play, but I’m constantly dropping it for something else, only to come back months later, play a little, then drop it again. It’s a vicious cycle.
Divinity Original Sin 2- while I enjoy the game, it’s so tedious to play that it wears me down every time I try to play it until I drop it.
Guild Wars 2- as much as I enjoy it, I keep thinking I could be playing FF14 instead, which I like more and have a hard time trying to come back to it.
Playing D:OS2 with 3 others REALLY helped me get more into the game. I get dumb brain when I try to control all of the NPCs and I never really make it out of the first act. With a group, I finally hit the 3rd act for the first time lol
We are probably going to transition into Baldurs Gate when that officially drops though and I can see another few hundred hours going to that.
I played it by myself and it was fine up until the last fight in Lucien’s tomb (or whatever it’s called) where you need to sit through 50 enemy turns before you are killed after barely making a few steps. I just enabled cheats and finished the game, all the good parts of it were before that anyway.
I was thinking I might make my partner play with me, and make it just 2 players using lone wolf. Not sure if she would be down for it, but having to only manage one character would be much easier.
I keep going back to doom eternal. I usually play like a section or two and then i put it aside again.
Doom Eternal was a slog by the late game that I really had to push myself to finish. I found the 2016 Doom far more enjoyable.
Nier Automata. Started it 4 years ago, was having a blast but then I went through a breakup and lost my will to play.
