Games you never played again

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  1. Shadowlayer

    Shadowlayer KEEPIN' I.T. REAL!!

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    This is about you have (or had) and that you only played once or twice, and never came back to finish them/play them all over again.

    Mine are:

    Quake 4 campaign: I just stop playing it when it stopped being fun & scary and started being boring and gross...

    Sonic Shuffle: bought it, played it, got it out of the DC, feed it to my dog, burned the remains...

    Half Life 2: believe it or not I'm still in Ravelholm. Got bored and didnt had the time to finish it back in the day, and now I found out my save is corrupted and I've to start it all over again (and I'm too lazy to do that).

    Age of Empires III: same as sonic shuffle

    Luigi's Mansion: got it on launch day with my GC, and finished the entire game in 4 days. It wasnt bad but it wasnt great either, so I didnt wanted to play it again, and now I barely remember how it was!.

    Pikmin: I played the game over and over back in the day, but I didnt like it too much and got frustrated most of the time, so I never played it again.

    Jet Set Radio: same as Pikmin, specially becos the difficulty is sometimes too high for the game to be truly enjoyable. Sometimes I pick it up, just to put it back into the case. Its a good game anyway.

    Halo: sometimes I do feel like I want to play it, but then I remember about those damn mazes in the middle of every level and how boring it really was.

    Slave Zero: its shit! thats all I'll say...

    KKND: this sorry excuse for a RTS was so bad that I played the demo just once.

    C&C Generals: played it on a LAN with my buddies, tought it was kinda silly (specially with all the propaganda) and never got to play it again.

    GTAIII: got stucked near the end and thats it. I still have to uninstall it to free some space in my rig.

    Thats all...
     
  2. Barc0de

    Barc0de Mythical Member from Time Immemorial

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    90% of the games I play. I m extremely picky, so before I go out and pay money for a game I "usually" do some research.

    That said, when I finish a game, I look forward to the next. It is quite rare for me to re-complete games that I ve already finished once.

    Somewhere in between those extremes, I ve left plenty of games on stand-by, some wanting to complete, and some just not caring enough. Chibi Robo I look forward to completing hopefully, but my gaming time (when alone) is next to zero. Whenever I get some time with my friends it's always multi-player naturally.

    This busy schedule has really made my DS shine, especially in the crapper and in bed =)
     
  3. Shadowlayer

    Shadowlayer KEEPIN' I.T. REAL!!

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    Tell me about it: it seems everytime I've to spend some time in the toilet I'm not carrying any of my portables, so I have to rely on my cellphone to get some gaming.

    I must be the world's foremost expert on Snake III:lol::dance:
     
  4. ASSEMbler

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    That terrible xbox boat game, blood something...
    Horrid.
     
  5. z_killemall

    z_killemall Familiar Face

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    Most of the times I keep returning to a lot of games, since I rarely play a game without getting bored in a matter of weeks or even days.
    But there's an exception: Final Fantasy VII. It's a great game (in fact, I improved my English knowledge a lot just playing it, my english was really crappy before and I never took any lessons), but I spent so much time playing it that when I finished it I really didn't wanted to play anything anymore, even I didn't started or continued with a game for at least 6 months! Even today it's extremely difficult to me to keep playing the same game for a couple of weeks without getting bored...
     
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  6. Barc0de

    Barc0de Mythical Member from Time Immemorial

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    I actually learned English through video games myself, never did I attend classes or had a formal education on the language. I had scored a 99.6% or something along those lines at the TOEFL before going to Law School.
     
  7. GaijinPunch

    GaijinPunch Lemon Party Organizer and Promoter

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    I just sold my Arcana Heart on the PS2. Not b/c it's not great, but it's a 2 player game, and I live a 1 player life.

    Not to sound like Milhouse, but you must really suck at games. Those are beyond easy. Just continue until you win. Yeah you have to start at the checkpoint but it's only a few minutes back. Such a joke in terms of "difficulty".
     
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  8. Shadowlayer

    Shadowlayer KEEPIN' I.T. REAL!!

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    To be honest I dont even remember the last time I played those, and frustration is not the same than lack of ability.

    Pikmin gets repetitive too quickly, with most of the actions you make being redundant, and after a while the entire game fells dull and repetitive.

    And JSR (which is considered as having a high difficulty level by most gamers I've encountered) while the normal levels are pretty easy the boss ones (when you have to tag an entire rival gang) are characterized not for an advanced AI or high difficulty at all but unresponsibe controls that just seem to screw things up in the most decisive moments, specially in that level where you have to tag every member of the noise tanks gang.

    Overall, I did play those games from beginning to end, but didnt feel like playing those again simply becos the aforementioned issues do outweight the actual fun you can get out of the games.

    If I want entertainment, I play a game, but if I'm looking for a big challenge then I go back to my real life:lol:
     
  9. GaijinPunch

    GaijinPunch Lemon Party Organizer and Promoter

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    Most gamers you know must be under the age of 20.

    Get Mame. Find any fun arcade game from the 90's that's not a fighting game. A shooter or platformer will do. Put in a credit. Try to finish the game. Don't continue. Do that until you clear the game. Then go back and laugh at how easy JSR is.

    I think JSR is challenging if you want JET ranks on all the stages. Otherwise... it takes like an hour to get used to the controls.
     
  10. mooseblaster

    mooseblaster Bleep. Site Supporter 2012, 2014

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    I got as far as Ravenholm when I first bought it... and then it's sat there since. It's only yesterday, after using the intro to test my graphics card and getting back into it. I think it'd be worth it though.

    I would say replay - but seeing as me and my girl just restarted it and got so irritated by how stupidly long Two Betrayals is.

    I would say that the most uncompleted game I have attempted to complete is either Bubble Bobble on the NES - 98 levels of reasonable easiness, followed by stupidly difficult end game boss which I ended up giving up on because it's stupid to go through all that and die (and as such not get a happy end) or Final Fantasy II (PSX), which me and my 3 friends are still trying to level up enough to defeat the boss - so far we've racked up about 150 hours of gameplay and have concluded that obviously we did something wrong and have given up.
     
  11. Twimfy

    Twimfy Site Supporter 2015

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    I am terrible with games, I commit to so little.

    I think it comes down to the 'been there bought the T-shirt' effect, Genre's are becoming over populated and stale. It takes something really different to hold my attention and I find myself lured in by AAA titles or hardcore (yet well known) franchises because they almost gaurantee a half decent experience with little risk.

    Steam is my haven these days, anything they churn out i'll play because I know the quality is going to be high, I loved playing Portal I really did.

    A game I recently invested in was Star Wars Renegade Squadron for PSP, I'd been looking forward to this for so long, I gave it twenty minutes and give up.

    Other recent titles include:

    Final Fantasy XI
    Star Wars Empire at war
    Final Fantasy XII
    Kingdom Hearts
    Baldurs Gate II

    I guess my other achilles heel is that I'm a huge fan of RPGs yet modern life and my girlfriend don't allow me the time to play them. Yet on the other hand, if they were awesome enough to grab my attention, I'd make time to play them.

    I think I'm expecting too much.
     
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  12. Jasonkhowell

    Jasonkhowell Well Known Member

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    Wow, glad to see someone else that is the same. Ever since the N64 days, I have usually traded or sold my games so I can get new ones once I finish the old ones. I have two shelves: One for games I keep, and one for games I will eventually sell. I try to thin out the keep shelf every few years if anything comes up that I need money for.

    With that being said, there are only a couple I replay. I also have a really bad habit of getting excited for online multiplayer games, and then never play them. There are also some older games that are just too dated for me to enjoy, and some that are nearly 20 years old that I still play on a regular basis. Just depends on how addictive they are.
     
  13. PhreQuencYViii

    PhreQuencYViii Champion of the Forum

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    Pikmin wasn't too hard, but I got to say I never finished either JSR because I would end up getting near the end, getting another game, and trying to go back and beat those and have no fucking clue what I was suppose to do because I didn't remember, and I don't think either game will let you know.
     
  14. hrahn

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    Wasn´t it in Final Fantasy so that the bosses were harder to kill the higher your own level was?
    Atleast it felt like this in FFVII on the PC, although iirc it only depended on Clods level.

    KKND was a beautiful strategy game btw, challenging but fair. Just a tad to difficult for the Command&Conquer-crowds who were used to dumb, script-driven AI.
    KKND2 was heaven. As was M.A.X.

    Never-played-again:
    I guess that would be Half-Life. Played it through once, got so fed up with the last few levels that once I beat it, it´s only reason to sit on my harddrive was to act as a basis for mods.
    Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday. Bought it for the C64, played it a lot, somehow lost interest in the middle of it and then left it.
    Aliens vs. Predator: I pimped my whole setup for this game: 4-channel speakers with a SBlive, a monitor which could do 120hz in a reasonable resolution so I could use my 3d shutter glasses with it and a geforce3.
    The game looked stunning, the 3d effect was never as good as with this one. The only problem: I chickened out. I got so scared, especially by the directional sound effects that playing the game was impossible when it got dark.
     
  15. PhreQuencYViii

    PhreQuencYViii Champion of the Forum

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    Yeah, if I remember right 8 did this to me.

    Same! Except I never beat it. I never did like that game. I did like 2 though.

    Oh man that was an awesome game. I forgot about it.
     
  16. Tachikoma

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    FFXII... I started cutting myself whilst playing it... oh god that was such a shit game...
     
  17. Shadowlayer

    Shadowlayer KEEPIN' I.T. REAL!!

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    Actually nope, I'm the younger guy in the group, except for this guy's son who is like 8, but he barely plays games at all, he's more into card stuff.

    And I was pretty good at those old arcades, not like "I'm so suave I can finish final fight on just a quarter" but suave enough nonetheless. My problem is when the moves get too complex, and specially in JSR when it seems the controls get jammed and the character just doesnt does what you command it to do.

    But back to Pikmin, I wasnt into RTS games at the time mostly becos I was a speed gamer, but pikmin seemed like a perfect fusion between an action/adventure platformer and a simple RTS game. The problem was in my opinion how the game actually works: the fact that you as olimar have to be exactly in the same location of the pikmin(s) to command them is a pain in the ass, but the biggest problem was that the AI of the pikmin was clumsy and some of them got lost all the time. In the first parts of the game is only a minor problem for the player, but when you get further into the game it becomes a major annoyance since those lost pikmin got eaten by the monsters. It just gets worst when the monsters and bosses get stronger and your pikmin numbers diminish, making the game more frustrating than say harder or fun to play.

    I had the exact same problem a month ago when I picked up the game and tried to play it again. Dunno the gameplay is not as instictive as say sonic or other similar games.

    I may try to replay HL2 when I get the orange box (if I'm not too busy playing EP2, team fortress and portal:dance:) but one thing that annoys me about ravelholm is the damn headcrabs: they're everywhere, and I hate the damn things...

    About Halo, I got saves of pretty much every scene of the game so if I want to play it I just load the save and play the action scene I want.

    Thats the one that comes with the darth vader PSP right? dammit I was looking foward to that game too...
     
  18. graciano1337

    graciano1337 Milk Bar

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    lolz Blood Wake... quality...
     
  19. samson7point1

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    I very rarely ever pick up a game I've already played through. Final Fantasy IV, VII and Symphony of the Night are probably the only real exceptions to that, although I'm strongly considering playing through HL2 again to see if the Orange Box version is really any better.

    There are plenty of games that I put down and haven't picked back up again, not because they were bad or boring, but because I just have so many frikken things to do.

    I've played through the first three discs of FFVIII about 3 times now, and cosmic forces always seem to intervene right as I'm about to get somewhere I haven't been. This time my wife planned a trip to Disney World to thwart me from discovering the ending to the game.

    I've completed every single Metroid game except the first one. I keep getting part way through it and I just lose my motivation to continue.

    I'm on the last dungeon of Zelda on the FDS and I'm just too damn lazy to drag out and set up my FDS to finish it, and I'm also too lazy to just play one of the dozen other copies of the game I have laying around. I have friends that seem to play through Zelda on a regular basis like they're doing a weekly crossword puzzle, but I've never managed to get all the way through it.

    I'm about half way through Zelda II, but I can't remember which one - NES, GBA, or GCN.

    I played Final Fight Streetwise for about 6 hours and my XBOX locked up. It was at that point that I realized that the game wasn't auto-saving. There is no option to "save and continue" You have to quit every time you want it to save. I was so furious that I haven't picked it up since.

    I'm about half-way through Morrowind but I can't bring myself to look at it after playing Oblivion for the last year.

    I almost finished Seiken Densetsu 3 but I keep losing my damn savegame somewhere.

    And a whole bunch of others that would make this list unreadable.
     
  20. WolverineDK

    WolverineDK music lover

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    I learned English through The Official Nintendo Magazine (UK version to be exact), and some Amiga plus C64 gaming. And there I read everything I could get my hands on, to learn words and all that jazz. Since my English teaching in school has been very limited. And it is no wonder why my English is sometimes weird . To sum it up in a few words :)
     
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