I'm sure most of you have been there. For me it would be Colony Wars for the Playstation.

Wind Waker... I've had two scrolls left to find for going on three years (last played it on my birthday, late May 2004).

Christ... there's been a lot, actually. Most of them are more lighthearted stuff like platformers / action games. Some maybe because the difficulty is rather demanding, but more often because the newest Metal Gear or Halo or something came along and diverted my attention.

However, one that I always feel bad about is Xenogears. I believe my last save is at the final boss, yet I never got around to beating him. Not sure why. I think it might've been one of those situations where I decided I needed to do some leveling up, etc and figured I'd come back to it, but never did. What sucks is I still spent 80 hours on the damn game, although if I went back now and beat the game, the ending would mean fuck-all to me since I don't even remember hardly anything about the game...

Wild Arms 2 - I was trying to beat the pyramids before I tackled the final section but never finished.

Metroid Prime. I made it somewhere VERY close to the end. I think the giant spider. Not sure why I quit.

Phantasy Star II. I think you had to go more or less through a whole dungeon fighting random battles to get to the last boss, and then he'd kill me fairly quickly (or maybe in some way I just couldn't figure out--it was a long time ago so hard to remember) and after a half dozen tries or so I just wasn't up for it anymore.

Metroid Prime 2, I'm still in the process of finishing it. I've gotta start Beyond Good and Evil over again, cause I stopped playing it for whatever reason a long time ago...

Pong....it just never ends!!!!

I finish practically everything i play but kinda quit on Okami. Great game, just i dunno...

Zelda...I didn't know you were supposed to use the silver arrows on Ganon.

Oregon trail, I keep dying when I caulk my wagon to cross with Arkansas river.

There were plenty of NES/SNES games I never finished (the original TMNT, Battletoads, etc) but every PS1, PS2, Xbox, and 360 game I have played, I am pretty sure I have finished them all. As I got older, I developed kind of this attitude where I can not stand having unfinished projects just laying around that I will finish "someday." I always try to finish what I start, and I am really anal about it. I can't think of a game I have played in the last 3 generations that I never finished because of it. Even games I didn't like, I just "had" to finish anyway.

I know of more than a few in my collection. I'm currently playing Star Ocean 3, (for about six month now. Gives you an indicator of how long it takes me.) so I guess that counts.

The PS2 I can think of are GTAIII (despite beating VC and SA), Driver 3, Shadow Hearts and a bunch with stuff to unlock.

My PS1 has a plethora of games I got bored with and never finished.

The fourth game in the original .hack// series. Loved the story, but I took a break from playing the fourth game due to a rough semester of classes and when I started playing again I couldn't get back into it.

Pretty much every game I buy.

But one that I REALLY want to finish is Shadow of the Colossus. I keep meaning to get back to it and finish it, I just never do.

That's because the gameplay and visual presentation are great, but there's not much developing storyline to keep you hooked. Hence, no real reward for the action. At least, that's what happened with me.

Actually there are two, Star Wars Jedi Outcast (PC) and Doom for Xbox. I was in the middle of SW:Jedi Outcast when the Xbox craze hit so that took a back seat. I got Doom on sale after it had been out awhile but Halo was still hot. I took a long break from gaming then the 360 hit.


Kenny J

Yep, I gave up on it as well. Really no desire to go back. Very little story, a boring empty world, etc. leaves nothing but a bunch of boss fights and bosses are one of my least favorite parts of games.

What do you mean "one" game?

I'd say this is really MOST of the games I play, since I rarely feel the need to complete them.

The main one that comes to mind is Fallout 2. I've gotten to the final area on many different runthoughs, but I never wanted to actually finish it. Maybe someday.

I've been staring at Kingdom Hearts for about 6 months now. I couldn't even get around to starting it. I did play it Saturday... it's good and all, but I'm not dying to get back to it.

Pretty much all of them. Of the 1000+ games I've bought in my life, I've completely finished less than 40.

I complete pretty much everything I buy.
But the one major sore on my record is Vagrant Story.

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Same here, no matter how hard I tried I couldnt get into that game. I really wanted to complete it because I heard the story was the best part, but I always got distracted with another game