So we have Barc0de's great thread about games we've just finished up. Now I don't know about all of you, but I start way more games than I finish, and I thought this might be a good place to share frustrations. Did a game just fuck you off? Did it start out well but kind of fizzle out? Get stuck at a particular place and couldn't be bothered to carry on? Vent about it here. I'll kick it off with a couple of Wii games that I borrowed from a mate. Boom Blox I'd heard good things about, Steven Spielberg was involved, so that's a good thing... I guess? Anyway I don't know if I'm doing it wrong or what but I can't figure out a way to swing my arm so the game reliably registers how hard I want the throw to be. It's maddening to throw that fucker forwards as hard as I can and see the ball just kind of flop onto the ground. Fuck you, Boom Blox. The second is Goldeneye, which is basically just a mediocre FPS with nostalgic attachment, lasted about an hour before switching it off out of boredom. The switching of Pierce Brosnan to Daniel Craig is kind of weird. Might try out the multiplayer, I guess, but the single player campaign is dull.
There's a veeery long list of these games for me. In fact, nowadays it seems like it's more common for me to start playing a game and never finish it than to complete one... But a few notable examples: No More Heroes, the third boss's one hit kill attack made me stop playing, besides, the game really wasn't all that great anyway. Gears of War, the game was boring as hell so I stopped playing it. Gran Turismo 5...unless they actually come up with that patch to enable saving in endurance races, I'm not doing the A-spec 24h races. Metroid Prime 1 was also almost one of these games, since I got so frustrated with the chamber flooded with Metroids at the end. However, a year later, just when MP2 had come out, I finally went back to the game and defeated Metroid Prime.
I'd say Xbox Ninja Gaiden. I did like it in the beginning, but past level 1 I think there were many unfair and damn right low gameplay tricks which I think just got wrongly attributed to it's difficulty, and the nonsensical story drove me nuts. Probably so much I can't play the game at all now. Oh, and the lack of camera control (which they fixed in Ninja Gaiden Black though) I found frustrating as it would just get lost most of the time for me.
Tales of Vesperia, Apparently. I really, REALLY wanted to finish this one, but I'm stuck in the snow. I cannot exit the current dungeon, and I cannot kill the cheap fucking boss next to which I've saved my game. I cannot level up, leave, or win. And I will not start over, I'd already played like 40 or 50 hours. Sad.
Possibly Yakuza 1 if I can't figure out a way to beat that bullcrap Car shoot out section in the game. =| WTF where they thinking.
Man, fuck that. I remember in Half-life (I think this was the DC version) falling to instant death down a huge cylindrical room but passing an auto-save point along the way. Gah.
Kings Field for PS1. It's a huge early 3D first person maze. I put it on because I was looking for a real challenge. Got two thirds of the way through and realised I had sold a key item I needed to continue. To much work and frustration. Highly doubtful I will ever complete it.
XIII (GC) - good art but the AI is cheap and dual analog FPS kinda sucks. Puzzle Quest - Bored after a while. Final Tactics Advance 2 - I put 75 hours in the first but after one of the first mission was to find out how to solve the mission ( that's simply retarded ) I haven't touch it ). Tingle DS : Nice graphics and novel concept but the"bet system" is kinda unfair. I had other games to play so I stopped play it. GTA DS: I bought cheap only to admire the graphics and I must say I wasn't disappointed. Advance War DS: This is the only one I'm disappointed I haven't played more. Machinarium : Art is great but I didn't found the puzzle as good as some else said to be. Kinda random. Maybe when I stop buying games I can finish some of those. DarthVaderNooo.jpg Joking aside I can see why NMH ( or any other Sude games ) isn't for everyone. With that boss ( Shinobu I guess ) you only need to be ready to dodge the one hit kill when she has low health. You haven't miss much. Stopped playing the series after IX. Dragon Quest is way better.
Rock Band/Rock Band 2 - Being forced to play in hard and then expert mode isn't a lot of fun when you're incredibly cack-handed like me. Brutal Legend - Great soundtrack, shit game. Ridge Racer 7 - As broken as a racing game ever could be. A crying shame considering how much better the PSP versions are. Klonoa: Door to Phantomile - Yes, it's gorgeous. Yes, it's a dream to play. Sadly it's also piss boring. Metal Slug 3D - Absofuckinglutely shit. Completely irredeemable. Epic Mickey - Very, very pretty but very, very repetitive. Burning Rangers - Just didn't do it for me. Jet Set Radio - A great idea but I just found it a chore to play. There's literally hundreds more from over 30 years of gaming but these'll do for now.
I'm pretty sure there was a thread exactly like this one a year or so ago. Oh well, here goes anyway: I have somewhere around 230 games. Of those 230, I'd say I've actually completed about 20 or 30 of them. Part of that is the fact that many of them don't really have an ending because they're arcade style games, or some other type of game that doesn't really have an ending. The other part is that a lot of them just aren't very good - not good enough for me to want to complete them. Some games I'll get halfway through and realize I'm no longer interested in it. Others I'll play once, and I'll actually think it's a good game, but I'll never play it again because there are better games to play. Some games I've played through about halfway: Super Mario Sunshine Resident Evil Zero Resident Evil Code Veronica Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee Super Mario 64 Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Seaman All of those are actually really good games, but for whatever reason I just never finished them. Maybe I will some day.
Fallout 3 I found really difficult. I don't think I was playing on easy though. I got a point where i was pinned down in a room with super mutants out side and I had the BBgun pistol and a few bullets left in a SMG and everytime I died it respawned me there. Just so difficult. I might give it another go. To date I have yet to finish SM64 and since I sold everything I don't own a copy or an N64 anymore (I Emulate everything now) I have a rule of thumb with console games now. Only pick it up if its cheap and something I'll actually play.
Interesting topic. I was pondering the exact same thing recently, after thinking which game to play next from my backlog.. I have naturally finished all my N64 games and most of my GC games, on the Wii however, I haven't even finished Twilight Princess nor Super Paper Mario yet and I still wish to play Uncharted 2 and 3D Dot Game Heroes when I feel the urge to on the PS3..I also need to complete all 120Stars on Galaxy 1 with luigi and do some more work on Galaxy 2..on the 360 I've got quite a few things I need to go through including Alan Wake and a proper playthrough of Forza (I just do laps with all the unlocked cars sometimes for about 10 minutes between other things) That's the thing though, I find myself committing less and less to games, hence why I prefer something Arcade-y and fast that rewards experience instead of just exploration. I think once you know how video games are made, exploration becomes mundane...it also doesn't help when all you've got is a couple of hours to game. That said, I do like an open world like Brunout Paradise a lot. I had a great time playing online with Porto from here the other day.
Brutal Legend was the first game I simply said to myself "I don't have to play any more of this" and took it out and returned it.
Give it another go, man. It gets much, MUCH easier. Use VATS whenever possible in these situations. Otherwise, just try and RUN like a mofo, until you reach a place where you can fast-travel. I was stuck in this sort of situation two or three times in my hundred hours of travel through the wasteland. It really is worth it to continue this one.
Ditto, that game just frustrated the shit out of me. Looked lovely, very stylish, but I could not be fucked with the gameplay. (there go my Dreamcast Fan credentials) I know it's kind of redundant to say it, given the endless love for it that people have, but... it really is a great game. Blast through it on Project 64 or something. I'll add another one: Beautiful Katamari. Bought the NTSC version for £20 or so, on 360, only to find out that it was region-locked (lesson fucking learned). Then bought the PAL version for about the same. Played a couple of levels and got bored.
Beautiful Katamari: pay full price for the game, then pay $/€5 more for levels that are already on the disc! Namco, the masters of rip-off DLC. e: Actually, it was more like $/€20. I was going by Wikipedia which said 80 points per level, but it used to be 200 points.
I never finished Fallout 3, I really liked the game, but the bugs are horrendous, plus it kept crashing on my comupter (and I don't have a crappy computer).
