Hollow Knight...need to put in the time to finish it at some point still.
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...you're supposed to finish them?
Heretic, Hexen, and Hexen II.
Skyrim, obvious as hell
Fallout 3 doesn't quite count since I technically did finish it once but I have endless unfinished playthroughs and never finished the DLC main quest
The Last of Us. Not sure why, I freaking love the game, just never finished it myself.
LoZ Breath of the Wild
So many. Skyrim among them. In the same vein, I've never finished Oblivion or Fallout: New Vegas, either, despite massive hour counts in all of the above and owning them across multiple systems. I think I have some kind of disorder that if I really like a game, I can't force myself to finish it, because that'd mean it's over. As a result of that, I have hundreds of games that are proably about 3/4s complete. I don't get it.
I'm in the same boat with oblivion and Skyrim. Add Morrowind to that list as well. I love open world games but have a hard time finishing them because I get distracted by side quests and then distracted by life, stop playing for awhile, then when I pick it back up I forget where I left off, have a hard time remembering the mechanics, don't want to restart from scratch, and just move on to something else. Now I've been playing (and replaying) mostly linear fps games like all the old Jedi knight games, the halo games, and a few other games that are more "on rails" that I know I'll be able to finish.
Morrowind was the only Bethesda game I beat everything for until relatively recently, and it still took me forever to finish the main quest. That was back when I was younger and could handle staying up all night to play it though.
Witcher 3. Cyberpunk. Shadow of War. Horizon zero dawn. Ghost of Tsushima. Red dead redemption 2. God of war. Ratchet and Clank. Control. Returnal. Fire Emblem Engage, and Three Houses. Hollow knight. Xenoblade Chronicles 1, 2 and 3. Demons souls remake. Monster Hunter Rise. Outer Wilds. Death Stranding. Prey. FF7 remake. Half life Alyx. And many many many more.
I've played through most of them and tried replaying them multiple times but always get bored before the end.
The only reason I haven't purchased ff16 is because I know I won't finish it. That and it looks like a devil may cry clone so I'll wait for it to be on sale.
I have a major "never finish good games" problem. It's probably a shorter list to name games I have finished.
More games than I would like to admit. But since I got a steam deck my backlog has actually been shrinking a bit!
Super mario oddessey is unreal, the darker side of the moon level still gets me every time though. So much perfection chained together.
I also have started it takes two a few times but never finished.
Factorio. Beautiful elegant game but hard af.
Witcher 3. So good. So hard to finish.
This is a game that should be my ideal game. Everything about it screams that I'd love it. But I've attempted to start it probably 6 different times, ranging between 2 and 10ish hours of play each time. I just can't get hooked and now I've done the intro too many times :( I really want to love this game.
I found that I really had to put all other games aside and focus on it.
I actually started by playing the first two games before starting 3 and that really helped me focus on just playing 3 because at that point I was super invested. 1 and 2 are both pretty short games (compared to 3) but super different from each other so if you want to give that a try it might be worth it.
Witcher 1 desperately needs a remake. Everything about the game is just janky. But the story is good, which is what got me through it. 2 is much closer to 3 in terms of gameplay.
But I agree that playing 1 and 2 puts context to so many things in 3. It really enhances the experience.
RDR2. I like every game design philosophy this game stands for. I love how slower-paced and contemplative, how tactile with everything it is. I just can't summon the excitement to go through the story.
Almost every game I have played in the past few years. Between personal life and a shit attention span it's harder to finish games I enjoy before jumping to the next one.
Tons. Sometimes I don't get bored of the game, per se, just the genre, and start playing something totally different.
Played heaps of Warhammer and rarely reach the long victory condition. Ah well one day maybe I'll finish a full campaign!
Darkest Dungeon, in my case. Love the vibe, love the gameplay, realise that I'll be doing basically the same thing for the next 60 hours if I want to beat it, lose interest.
lol I have never finished a game
Divinity Original Sin, the first one. Always loses me somewhere in the middle and then it has been too long to come back.
Neverwinter Nights 2
I'm sure my list is crazy long, but:
- Factorio
- Fortresscraft evolved
- Any witcher game
- I never accomplish my goals in star citizen before a wipe
- I never accomplished my goals in wow before the next patch hit
And probably a lot I forgot about. My gaming career is a chaotic trail filled with the wreckage of unfinished games.
Shameful to say but The Witcher 3 WH. I love the game and the plot but somehow I always get overwhelmed and drop off.
Borderlands 2. Never could be bothered with all the endless lot boxes full of trash... Killed by inventory management
Funnily enough I managed to sit down and finish Skyrim not too long ago, DLC included. What I have been struggling with is The Witcher 3. (Which a friend gifted me back in 2019)
In a lot of games i feel the need to do all the side content and never manage to finish the game proper before I end up really burnt out and bored.
It's pretty much like being a completionist but not enjoying it at all lol
Red Dead Redemption 2
... most of them, embarrassingly. I buy games when they're on steep sale, but rarely actually gst to the end of them (Hollow Knight was the last one I completed, as I recall).
The list is long, I've started and stopped each of these games so many times.
- Assassins Creed Odyssey
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Dark Souls 3
- DOOM
- Skyrim
- GTA 5
- Halo Infinite
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- Mass Effect all of them
- Red Dead 2
- Titanfall 2
- Undertale
I need help, someone tell me which to pick first and I'll just finish it!
Titanfall 2
Ok, time to reinstall and get it done
I had 16 different play throughs before I finally finished Skyrim lol.
Bravely Default, Xenogears, Final Fantasy 5, Final Fantasy 9, Final Fantasy 10, Final Fantasy 11, Final Fantasy 12, Zelda ALTTP, Zelda MM, Harvest Moon A Wonderful Life, Xenoblade 1, Xenoblade 3...
I set a rule with myself. I'll play games while I'm having fun and then stop when there's something else. I don't really care to beat games, I'll play them to enjoy them! 😊
The outer worlds by obsidian
Felt like a spiritual successor to fallout: new vegas, loved the story. I've puttens of hours into it over multiple run throughs, I just can't seem to stick with it to the end. Worst part is I have no idea how close I've got. Was I an hour away from beating it? 10 hours? I think I'll go download it again honestly
I did finish this game and I was disappointed with the length (which is a good thing). But also i remember feeling that it was pretty obvious that the end game was coming up soon. So maybe you weren't close.
Death Stranding started playing it twice, played throught almost the whole story but never finished it.
The story is truly great. I understand the gameplay can be a bit boring, but maybe try to look at it as more meditative than anything.
Strangely enough, I quite liked the gameplay.
I loved it myself as well
Kingdom Come Deliverance. I love the game, but when ever I start playing I end up wandering around the forests and exploring the game world. Though I think I'm most of the way through the main story.
I think I've restarted it a bunch of times after various patches and just never followed through and finished. I'm going to give it ago again and try not to get distracted
Hard part is the dedication required. Whenever I come back from hiatus I need to learn combat combos all over again. Easy to get distracted these days.
Don't knock getting distracted, I love getting distracted in open world games. Though to be fair I have ADHD, so it's inevitable.
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Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto Vice City. The missions are incredibly difficult.
And I never thought I'd finish Grand Theft Auto San Andreas until I finally figured out what I was doing wrong with Big Smokes Mission.
All you have to do is follow the damn train.
I think Vice City is the only one I've actually finished from that era.
Elden Ring, it seriously burnt me out exploring every crevasse...
This would have to be mine too. I played for 80ish hours and stopped right after I made it to the Capital. I still feel like I got my money's worth and enjoyed every minute of it.
Same here. Currently at Maliketh and not super interested in dealing with his shenanigans 😂 maybe I’ll decide to one day.
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