Do you have a favourite game that you haven't beaten?

[usergaycoolguy]

It's kind of easy for a lot of games to sink upwards of 50 hours on a game without actually finishing it. With that in mind, are there any games you consider all-timers even though you haven't actually rolled credits on them?

Thinking about this recently because I have the same thing with TV shows. There are loads of shows I love that I've spent a lot of time on but wouldn't consider favourites because I've not watched every episode (Deep Space 9, DBZ, Ranma 1/2, Always Sunny). I guess with shows there's also the aspect that a lot of shows just kind of suck after a certain point because the writers change or they don't know where to go with the story (I have no interest in seeing season 2 of Serverence or Euphoria even though I liked their first seasons well enough). But with a lot of games that aren't narrative driven, I often get the sense that I've kind of seen most of what a game is by the midpoint, because the assets and mechanics don't really meaningfully change after a certain point. But I still wouldn't consider them favourites because ultimately I didn't feel the need to complete everything they had to offer.

Or alternatively: I loved Warcraft 3 and played through it casually for about six months, but I'll be fucked if I'm gonna go through the entire first campaign and a half to get back to where I was and finish it now I'm on a new virtual machine.

Do you feel the same? Are there exceptions to this? Are there games you consider top 5 / top 10 but for whatever reason you don't feel any pull to go back in and finish yet / ever?

 

[Kaze01]

Yeah, I know what you mean.

In my case, I think that I could consider in this topic TimeSplitters: Future Perfect: that's because I love the Arcade Mode but I find really boring the Campaign, and this made me play a bunch of bot matches but knowing next to nothing about the story. This can be expanded to a lot of other fps.

Another one is Dissidia 012: I played a lot (and I really mean it, A LOT) of local and online battles over the last twelve years but never, for the life of me, played the campaign all the way to the end because of the tedious grinding. Even though, looking back, it would have taken less time to grind every character to level 100 than playing mindless quick battles over the last decade or so, but in the end ain't it the scope of fighting games?

Same with the whole Tag Force series on PSP: I love those games, but to the point of grinding hearts for all the 200 characters for each game? Hell no.

 

[DieDieDanmakuDoll]

Dead Rising i enjoy that game when i play it but i swear i never end up finishing it to the end of the campaign.

 

[Mal]

the one genre where i find myself with this issue is puzzle games, because they are either small little experiences you beat in a weekend or feel like massive games like baba is you or void stranger.

i never technically "beat" them (the massive ones), but i do often get far enough, as you said, to get that sense of acknowledgement.

the other are the souls games, but i would also say because i see them as puzzles games too? xD, go up to a boss zone, learn the pattern needed to beat it and win.
on top of that i dont personally care enough for the story to see through, just enjoy the feeling of a this world and its asthetic feels good enough.

 

[Clown Car Cats]

Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door
One of the games I had on the GameCube growing up. I would play it over and over. But never actually beat it. When I got bored or hit a point where I was really stuck and didn’t know how to advance I’d just start a new save file.
I still remember the game really fondly and consider it one of my favorite games. But I really need to go back and actually finish it.

 

[KamakoKamako's icon]

Probably Hollow Knight. The DLC for the game comes with a series of boss rush challenges that I was determined to beat before completing the game. I've technically beaten the final boss multiple times in the boss rush mode, but never finished the full gauntlet, so I haven't gone back to end the game. Finished 99.9999% of everything else though.

 

[Badseed Badseed]

Who would of thought I would play a medieval pheasant life simulator for almost 350 hours
and still not be finished and still interested.

 

[Mileena]

I honestly do not remember ever beating Mario 2 lol

I may have but now I want to play it and try to finish it and see cuz I really have no recollection and I like that game.

 

[Badseed Badseed]

I'll be f****d if I'm gonna go through the entire first campaign and a half to get back to where I was and finish it now

I have a room named : The "I'll be f****d if I'm gonna go through the entire first campaign and a half to get back to where I was and finish it now" room. I put all those games in it, it looks like this...

 

[Zerohour2k12]

Off what I have it's Arkham Origins/Knight, ReCore and Control. still playing through them in short bursts.

 

[Morgan Katarn]

Crimson Desert I wanna keep playing it but my PC can go fuck it self so bleh.

 

[moon200218]

Off what I have it's Arkham Origins/Knight, ReCore and Control. still playing through them in short bursts.

ReCore mentioned!!??? I liked that game and was intrigued but i cant be fucked to put up with the automatic aiming it takes the fun out of the game

 

[Megarockman _1987 Megarockman _1987]

Yeah, DMC3, I've been playing it and is amazing!!!!! I'm in 15 mission, so wish me luck!!

 

[SoThankful]

Wow you really made me think on this one, but I’d say Alien: Isolation. I really enjoyed it and never finished it. I keep postponing it because I have to be in the mood for a game like that. Still everything I played was really good.

There’s also games I never finished because I got stuck, but that’s another story.

 

[YoshifreakZX]

Never beaten Mega Man and Bass, but it's one of my favorite games in the classic series. You can probably guess which stage I got stuck on.

 

[DayBreak_Illusion]

Crimson Desert I wanna keep playing it but my PC can go fuck it self so bleh.

great game! its soooo fun

 

[Megarockman _1987 Megarockman _1987]

Never beaten Mega Man and Bass, but it's one of my favorite games in the classic series. You can probably guess which stage I got stuck on.

burner man?

 

[nobitakun]

Yes, it is Nier Automata. I have only played the demo when it was released and it became my second favourite game of all times after Final Fantasy X. It's not like I haven't finished it, I haven't even started playing it because my OCD couldn't allow me to stop mid game. Once I start a game, I have to finish it or it will end really bad in my brain. That's why I didn't want to touch it until now. Perhaps someday I will be determined to play it, or maybe I will die without doing it, I don't really know.

 

[Zerohour2k12]

ReCore mentioned!!??? I liked that game and was intrigued but i cant be fucked to put up with the automatic aiming it takes the fun out of the game

Yeah it's pretty cool. really been enjoying it so far.

 

[usergaycoolguy]

Wow you really made me think on this one, but I’d say Alien: Isolation. I really enjoyed it and never finished it. I keep postponing it because I have to be in the mood for a game like that. Still everything I played was really good.

There’s also games I never finished because I got stuck, but that’s another story.

Oh man yeah I really enjoyed the first four hours of Alien Isolation and then I hit a gamebreaking bug on PS4 and tried to rewrite my save but it reset all my progress. Maybe in another ten years I'll stop being angry about that and start from scratch.

 

[Badseed Badseed]

Crimson Desert I wanna keep playing it

Is the game good? I mean besides the apparently amazing graphics that no one can keep their big gobs
shut about? I was curious, that's a lotta disc real estate for a Skyrim clone.

 

[Morgan Katarn]

Is the game good? I mean besides the apparently amazing graphics that no one can keep their big gobs
shut about? I was curious, that's a lotta disc real estate for a Skyrim clone.

Yeah the game super fun and good but my PC is ass :( I can run it at 60fps if I put it on lowest >< but for some reason I get FPS drops in fight and I mena proper lag spikes. Not sure if FSR is buggy or my PC to weak >.<

 

[Badseed Badseed]

@SoThankful @usergaycoolguy
You guys should stick it out (NO! not like that) and finish Isolation
It's really worth it. Than again this opinion comes from a BIG fan
of the movie franchise

This is not from Aliens, it's actually my wedding video (I am on the right side)

 

[moon200218]

This game called Metal Max Xeno Reborn

I was looking forward to it before release, got it when it released and played it like crazy for 2 days straight, then put it down because i just had enough. I still think about playing it sometime but i dont have my old save anymore

 

[Badseed Badseed]

This game called Metal Max Xeno Reborn

I was looking forward to it before release, got it when it released and played it like crazy for 2 days straight, then put it down because i just had enough. I still think about playing it sometime but i dont have my old save anymore

The one on steam? DO NOT worry that game is a piece of shit. That's like inviting someone over to watch Star Wars and making them Watch the Phantom Menace, it is an affront to a great series.
If you get the urge, figure out some way to play Metal Max 3 on NDS, now THAT game kicks ass.