What games did you never finished or got time to?

[Professor Bear]

I always feel a bit stupid when I look up my gamer tag in one of those 'achievement' websites. Looking through the games I've played and list of achievements reached in each is quite frankly embarrassing!!!

I like that the only gold star you seem to have is for something called Costume Quest, and a 90 percent on Minecraft.

I am similarly poverty-stricken when it comes to cheevos, but have racked up plats 18 times over regardless on the usual time sinks like Fallout and Skyrim, which are great when you're hungover and just want to wander aimlessly about being anyone else.

I keep forgetting to play Gears of War 1-3 and Halo ODST, so they'd be another few to bung on my unfinished pile.  With the former I recall preferring  Rogue Trooper, to the point that I bought it on the Wii to play it again and had to take the 360 out of the living room, only to remember that I hated using the Wii controller, so I put the Wii away and played my existing copy of Rogue on the old PS2 - still a great game, and I have still to see why the train level bugs people as I do it in one go every time.

Also MechAssault 2 on the original Xbox, which I recall thinking was great fun every time I played it (and which looks to be ripped off heavily for the upcoming Titanfall).  You stomp around in giant power armor being fucking awesome until some jerk blows up your robosuit, then you leg it as a puny human until you can find another stompy robot to be awesome in.  Every time I clock it on the shelf in the spare room I wonder why I never finished it.

[shaolin_monkey]

I think I got all the achievements for Battlefield 1943 too, but that's about it.

Like your Mech game, another I dearly loved on the original Xbox, but again did not complete, was Steel Battalion. It was the single most immersive game I have EVER played.  However, it was insanely difficult.  It took me longer to learn how to drive a mech than it did my car!! Google it, and you might get an idea why.

I still own it, and am determined that one day I'll rig it all up again, and beat the bastard.  I know I'll have an awesome time trying!

[pictsy]

I have somehow managed to avoid achievement based gaming. 

I have always considered finishing a game to mean getting to the end, not having it 100% complete.  There are plenty of games as well that I feel have blurred end goals if any end goal at all. 

[sheldipez]

I have somehow managed to avoid achievement based gaming. 

I have always considered finishing a game to mean getting to the end, not having it 100% complete.  There are plenty of games as well that I feel have blurred end goals if any end goal at all.

When I first got the 360 (when they first came out) I was playing anything and everything for achievements for a few years until I realised just how many hours of my life wasted playing games purely for the achievements. I didn't miss any good games because of achievement hoarding unlike some that just go for easy games, I was playing most everything for a good long time, and there's quite a few games I really enjoyed that I wouldn't of otherwise touched had it not been the draw of MORE CHEEVOS. After that point I didn't even look at the achievement list on the game I was playing and disabled notifications altogether. I haven't really touched the Xbox in any meaningfull way (jumped over to PS3 when I saw just how good value PS+ was) in maybe two or three years now and I've still got the most achievements amongst my friends.

[ThryllSeekyr]

I just looked in my Steam Library and have 85 game downloaded there. Some of them I haven't even touched and most of them I haven't even completed.

C64

I will start with the very first memorable game I played on the C64. Firebird's (Now Frontier Developments!) Elite  I'm mentioning this one because excited about.... because of the upcoming Elite - Dangerous (Thank for telling me of it's development. I might never have known otherwise!) To be fair, I must played Elite non stop for 2-3 years trading/fighting and upgrading my Cobra Mark 3 until it could be regarded as a Iron-Ass after finally getting my hands on a copy of it in 1986 and then played it for several more years just on the occasion. I had gotten as far completing the second mission of hunting down the stolen Constrictor which I believe was how I was awarded either the status of Dangerous or Deadly and after that I just sort went on trading until I had amassed a fortune in credits that I could perhaps by my own planet with. I had purchased a Galactic Hyper-Drive and travelled to the next galaxy, but hadn't found anymore missions. I kept playing the C64 version until I misplaced a essential connecting cable for the machine after I had moved away to live in a rented house with some friends and then back home. Never reaching the status of Elite! These days I'm having a poke at Oolite, but haven't got so far with it. As it's harder without a joy-stick controller. Right now, I have been downloading and testing out the many and various OXPs for it. They have certainly given the game more flavour since it's wire-frame days. I've also had a brief look at Frontier: First Encounters and Vega Strike. The former is some reversed engineered freeware that is one of the Elite sequels. I finally got it working and it less intuitive than the original and supposedly more realistic. Though just seems to be lame in comparison. I eventually got up and flying and made it as far as hyper-spacing to another system, before I stopped. This was after I was given directions to website with a special tutorial on it.  While I can't even get the latter to work. I think there is conflict with C++. BTW, Vega Strike isn't a sequel to Elite, but just another game that is basically the same idea with colourful graphics. I will link both sites where these free downloads can be found.

PS2

Numerous game on the PSTWO have been started and never finished.

GTA: San Andreas

I got as far as the mission where I had to shoot at some cars or motorbikes while either in a car or on the back of a motorbike or in it's side car. While driving along one of those huge dry-concrete canals they have in Los-Angeles. I could never beat this mission. So, I just content myself by riding motorbikes fast through the small the towns and along the country roads running from cops. I also enjoyed turning all the cheats on for this game. Ones that allowed him to jump real high, and knock people flying when he punched them. There's also cheat that gives you massive pink dildo as a weapon. Yeah, I had fun running around attacking people with that as well. Most fun of all was the flying car cheat. As I would often start on the streets or somewhere up on White-Rock. Sometimes I would fly to Mount Diablo (And ride a stolen push-bike down one of it's various tracks!) or where the Las Vegas like area was and then see how long I last there as I  wasn't a really supposed to go there yet. Also used the jet pack cheat as well. Though I never finished this one, I still had a lot of fun with it.

Rogue Trooper I really loved the attention to detail in this game, but could never beat the train level. Too hard, I don't think I was shooting at the right things and I let the train take too much damage in the earlier stages of that mission. I think I will have to watch how it's done on You-Tube sometime. I've just recently purchased this game for the PC on Steam as well. As for the game itself, I love the commentary you got from Gunnar, Bagman & Helm and setting up Gunnar on a tripod to shoot at Norts from the front while I got Rogue to flank them. I also like his sneak attack.

There's another game that I had on PSTWO and PC that was a GTA clone. In it, you were Mexican just recently let out of jail and you had to clear out your family's farm of bandito's. There were tractors you could ride,  lots of guns, lots of special attacks, towers you could climb, chickens to shoot at, travel between tower and roof of one building to the warehouse by flying-fox. You actually had to knock down a water-tower and steal the sports-car park in the garage to complete the level. Easily done, and I made it to as far as the city level which was open ended, but full of missions and special tests for you to accomplish.
I just lost interest in this game. Could anybody tell me it's name? I forget. I remember this Mexican Day of the Dead mode where you would be chased by Mexican's dressed up as skeletons.

PS3

Red Dead Redemption   Lovely game, beautiful horses, and how I thought the wild west might be. This game certainly brought a multitude of possibilities not present in any of it's predecessors. I was happily completing the random missions and the story missions on that woman's ranch. I think had got up to mission where I had to help the Sherriff clear out a gang from that Canyon and have saved the man with his miracle elixir and helped him fool some locals into buying some of the stuff by pretending that it worked and beating up on and out shooting one of the local tough guys. I also did the first grave digger mission where we both had to find a old acquaintance of his and rough him up a bit for a treasure map. With the female rancher though. I had just completed the mission where she gave me a lasso, taught me how to use it. Then we had to catch and break some wild horses at Cholo Springs, out near Hanging Tree Rock and that was where I was offered pearl white Stallion after catching and breaking it. I declined as I was attached to my first horse. That's as far as I got with the main story mission. I had a lot of fun, retrieving stolen horses, stolen carriages, saving people from hanging (Though I was only successful at this only once!) shotting bandits who were waiting in ambush while I got lured by a prostitute. Saving prostitutes from bandits, shooting or catching criminals, gun duels, shooting wild birds of prey out of sky while on the back of a train, hunting, shooting and skinning, coyotes, wolves and cougars. The Jackelope. I managed to shoot me one! Clearing out gang hide outs, and hunting down bandits and tying them up and taking back on horse back to the lock-up. Fining and discovering new plants. Shooting bandits from horse back, sometimes all at once with my quick shot abilities. Giving and receiving money from Nuns. Playing Poker and Blackjack. The background music, and the sunsets. Though I decided to stop playing when I couldn't complete the mission out at Twin-Rocks where I had to clear out another gang hide out and rescue a farmer's daughter as well. I did this without a hitch the first time round, but when I tried to redo this mission later, I failed, over and over again. The daughter would always end up shot by the head bandit before I could get a shot off at him. It was difficult because you had to sneak around the side of entrance of the door to room where he was holding her and shoot him the second I had him in my sights. Very hard this was and I soon just stopped playing. I had also cleared out the canyon of bandits a few times as well with better luck each time. Though that farmer's daughter mission had stopped me dead in my tracks.

I also have Undead Nightmare waiting for me when I complete it.

Perhaps, one day.....

SkyRim    Another beautiful game, and I got as far buying my first house in White-Run. I picked a Norn and called him Slaine (They should make a game about Slaine!) Perhaps I should have chose to be a Breton and called him Slaine. I do know that slaine would more likely be the latter than the former, but the Norn seem more tribal in this game. Anyway, I met the head - Norn/Viking from White-Run, killed my second dragon, discovered I had shouts and might be Dragon-Born, was called to Mount H'Rothgar and learnt more about shouting while avoiding the large troll. I also avoid those giants. I had brought a horse, that was before I travelled up the mountain. I had also joined the Brotherhood and cleared a out a few lairs. I brought a house partially furnishing and was in the process of empting my considerable inventory into it's many containers and my character was still encumbered and stopped playing this game to start on Dead Island! I could have gone on but I took a arrow to the knee.

I also got this game as a freebie download for X-Box 360 which I did and had started playing a Khatijit and called him Cat-Head as a more rogueish thief type this time and I cannot kill the second dragon that appears at a outpost near White-Run this time. It's got me stumped. I must have set it at a much higher difficulty. I've stopped playing that one as well. Though I have just recently purchased all the add-ons and expansions for it last weekend. Everything for DawnGuard which I think needs me to be a Gold Member for me to purchase that one. It just wouldn't let me purchase that one. It said it wouldn't authorise that purchase. I had the same problem with trying to buy the full I Am Alive game as well.

I have also not completed Morrowwind (As a game a found in a bargain bin and purchased cheaply for $20!) and Oblivion ( A even cheaper download fromSteam at only $5!) I had started Morrowwind again playing something in it and didn't progress far. Although I had previously played a Orc Warrior in that game when I first got and was doing completed some mission when I got so completely lost in it that I stopped playing and in Oblivion I really need to beef my character up, another Norn Warrior named Rorg before entering town to rescue the late King's Heir where a portal to Oblivion has opened. So I took to the nearby seaport town of Anvil to joined the Fighter's Guild and now he has to go around visiting temples as one of side-missions.

Dead Island Now I was so determined to complete this one, playing it every weekend and then I just dropped it because it was so stressful. Weapons would break, but you could fix them and zombies would always respawn in places you cleared out. I must admit I had fun at the start when my character the ex-football player who had to retire because of his bad knee who was good at throwing things was first asked by some survivors to go outside the beach-hut and help the lifeguard with the dodgy Australian accent and then clear out the Lifeguard Station. Then find the other survivors at the Light-House and help some one in garage build a Armoured Truck and driving it to the city and fight your way into the Church where there were more survivors waiting. Those missions were fun, but the rest was really stressful. Especially the missions that sent me through the town. There was one set in the Police Station. There were a couple there, actually. There was one partically bothersome one where I had to switch on a system of speakers, three at a time in three separate missions. So the church could broadcast about their safe haven over the speakers. There was one section there where the fast running zombies kept spawning non-stop and they would always be able to climb up after me when ever escaped to a rooftop. I think one of the main problems with this game is they had decided specialist zombies in it. I could almost probably understand the shamblers or shufflers that were just your normal slow moving zombie. Most common to Day of the Dead and The Walking Dead! The fast moving zombies that are most common in 28 Days! and the Thug zombies that were hard to safely melee with. But the Bloaters that release poisoness gas and exploders that would need to shot at from a distance to be safely dealt with or else they would explode in your face. You couldn't even safely run these over with the re-spawning heavy utility. There was the huge straight-jacketed zombie whose only weak
spot was hitting it from behind. Yeah, I would always just run them over or throw Molotov cocktail at them. I think the other one was a complete maniac with both hands missing. They would run up to you like a fast moving zombie and attack you with the exposed and sharpened wrist bones. I hadn't run into one of those yet, but I had heard of them. Yea, those last few zombies were just silly. At the moment I had found another bunch of survivors holed up in a house at the other end of town. I'm busy doing their missions and then I ran into a man who tricked me into a ambush by some local gang. I fought them off, and when I confronted the man. He told me he was forced to as they were holding his daughter hostage. So my latest mission, was rescuing his daughter. I stopped there as the one thing worse than hordes of mindless undead and those that still live and can shoot back you. I'm not sure If I will ever get Dead Island Two.......too stressful this game is.

These next few games I had stopped playing after one off sessions of all night and the next day. I didn't nessasarily hate them. I just found some of then too hard to ever complete with out restarting them again and playing them differently, making better choices (Dead Space!) or to ever complete as I wasn't going to spend more time on them for now.

Dead Rising Two  I had played for just a few hours one day not long after getting it and had stopped with the intention of continuing some other day but never getting around to it. As I started playing this.....ahh running over groups of zombies that had been rounded up and put into a arena to entertain crowds. He these chainsaws attached to the front wheels, I think. I thought even this is a little tasteless. Then the zombies, of which there are awful lot of as always have suddenly broken the containment they are in and have started a riot. They are on the loose and people are falling prey to them. This all happens when I
was safe in my dressing room inside the complex. As soon as I was given word of whats going on. I had to fight my way to the room where I left my young daughter. Though I found her safe, it soon turns out she was previously bitten by my undead wife and I have been giving her some miracle meds, Zombex to halt her zombiefication. She has to be given a dosage of Zombex at regular intervals. Something that was reasonably easy until all hell broke loose. So after carrying her to the safe area that I think a girl on the radio informed me of. Being only able to kick at the large numbers of zombies surrounding me on the way there. This was tough going and I think I missed out on saving another survivor as I was rushing to the safe area. Once I'm there, I have to go on a mission to the nearest chemist to get her dosage of Zombex! The safe are is littered with those health replenishing upgrades, cans of soda, and junk food. People, other survivors are just sitting around waiting while I make my way to the secret exit. On my way, I notice a workbench for fixing, upgrading and combining material to make into weapons. Is this game going to be another Dead Island or is that the other way round as I think this one came out first. I leave by clibing into a ventilation shaft leading back out to a arcade in a shopping mall filled with groups of Zombies armed with nothing but a electric guitar which gave out on me after a while. These zombies don't aggro unless you are real close to them. So, I did my best to avoid them. After fighting/avoiding zombies on my way to the chemist, I confront some looters and they are crazy. After dispatching them, all three of them after dieing once and reloading. I find what I'm after and head back and I'm greeted with warning from one of the other survivors about going off alone. Now that I have the Zombex just good for one dosage. I can't use it for another 8 hours as it's a strictly timed thing. So I wait there patiently as there are no other missions from the girl on the radio... I was thinking maybe I should replay this level again to save that one survivor that I thought I missed, but haven't bother playing this game again. Well atleast the zombies don't come in specialised class's like in Dead Island or do they? Maybe it's too early to find out.

To be continued until I eat my breakfast.

BTW I have just dragged out most of my PS3 games, so I can list the ones I've only played for a bit.....
 

[Goaty]

Oh right...?

[Link Prime]

Really liked the ironic post ThryllSeekyr!

[ThryllSeekyr]

Really liked the ironic post ThryllSeekyr!

Oh, you just opened my eyes and shown me what I did there, I swear didn't see the irony at the time. I was just hungry.

I promise I will conclude my post

[shaolin_monkey]

[Link Prime]

One for the Win column.

[ThryllSeekyr]

I would love to have that as my new signature?

Can I steal that from you?

Please 

[shaolin_monkey]

Of course, be my guest!

[The Doctor Alt 8]

Never did Finnish Populous 2 by Bullfrog due to my cat Romana (sadly no longer with me...) managing to stop my PC from working by using it as a bed/ way to punish me for not worshipping her...

[Goaty]

Not been play Assassin's Creed 3 for a year, back on it tonight to finish it! Guess that why I hadn't got Black Flag yet!

But tonight I just play the first ship mission, oh wow, is that really good and better in Black Flag?

[mogzilla]

star wars rogue squadron rouge leader on the gamecube ,that last level was hard getting out of the death star
actually I did it once with cheats then couldn't do it again.

dragon age 2 that last boss battle floored me just couldn't get anywhere!

gta 3,4 and all spinoffs dlc   as soon as I get a chopper I just lose interest  and go pootling about.

final fantasy-all of them cos im crap.