Games that you abandoned and then managed to finish years later?

[BLKJotaroK420]

i ruined this with my own hands
discovered an enemy that gives a lot of exp points, grind there for a couple of hours, and i had a too much strong party

battles when on second and third cd's were a cake, and i got bored
shame on me

Oh yeah I grinded so hard towards disc 3 that the difficulty was trivial lol but the story and OST was pretty worth Imo

 

[Deathdime]

I didn't have a memory card for the PS1 for quite some time when I first received the console back in 2000. Grandia was one of the first PS1 games I had any involvement in picking out. I would leave my console on for as long as possible while trying to get further each time I had to restart. Over the years, I had tried to revisit the title and complete the game.

Took me approximately 24 years, and the eventual release of the HD collection on PC to complete the title. I tried multiple times over the years to play through the game, but something always happened to my progress, or the time I had to actually play the game. To this day, it is still one of my favorite JRPG's of all time. The stories scenarios were all so wonderfully Cliché. The soundtrack was always charming, and the combat was extremely fun (if not easy to cheese).

 

[Boo Man]

I didn't have a memory card for the PS1 for quite some time when I first received the console back in 2000. Grandia was one of the first PS1 games I had any involvement in picking out. I would leave my console on for as long as possible while trying to get further each time I had to restart. Over the years, I had tried to revisit the title and complete the game.

Took me approximately 24 years, and the eventual release of the HD collection on PC to complete the title. I tried multiple times over the years to play through the game, but something always happened to my progress, or the time I had to actually play the game. To this day, it is still one of my favorite JRPG's of all time. The stories scenarios were all so wonderfully Cliché. The soundtrack was always charming, and the combat was extremely fun (if not easy to cheese).

hehe Grandia is my favorite JRPG of all time as well, it would have been almost impossible to beat with no memory card!
i have a habit of getting to the final boss in JRPG's and not beating them because i dont want the game to end

 

[Poppet]

God of War, the first PS2 one. I was like... 9yo, lost in the Temple of Pandora and not knowing how to continue forward. I was so dumb not even guides would help me and I was getting REALLY frustrated thanks to the big amount of gorgons roaming the temple.

I played the PsVita port years later and had a good time with it, finished it from back to back. A very satisfying itch to scratch, lol.

 

[Mopeybloke]

In 2018 I finished both Mega Man Legends and Xenogears. I had dropped these games years before because of how tedious X can be sometimes, and how slow the dialogue is. Legends' controls took a while to get used to.

 

[Kiddo perkedel]

Monster hunter 3rd portable, back then zinogre used to beat me like it was nothing. I learned from my mistakes and took on every quest as long as there was zinogre in it. After beating him I finally understand why everyone loves this franchise so much

 

[reila]

Lol when I was little I used an action replay for Bowser's Inside Story, so I ended up softlocking myself at Plack Beach for years. Guess the game didn't take too kindly to playing as Mario/Luigi and meeting Broque Monsieur instead of Bowser. I finally decided to wipe my save file and ended up beating the game 8 years after it came out. (I can thank Chuggaaconroy's Superstar Saga LP for making me play the series again when normally I'd be peer pressured into leaving it unfinished.) As for recently I can't really think of anything for some reason I guess its bc games I drop I just drop and don't always come back to them.

 

[UnrealCC]

Suikoden 1 and 2. Tried beating them for the first time ages ago, only to drop them and only recently playing through them

 

[OrionP]

Slight cheat, but Rygar on the NES.

I played the PAL version back in the day and couldn't beat the final boss. Tried soooooo many times, even started looking for cheats (button combinations) to try and get some help...I actually managed to do something that made the sprite disappear, so I could enter the room and he wouldn't fire anything until I started hitting him at which point his sprite would appear.

Anyway, years later I decided to replay it and see if I could beat him. I played the NTSC version on emu. I prepped myself for a grind, went into the room and, boom! beat him first time!

Slightly confused I read up on the game and found out that there was a bug in the PAL version that limited your levelling and made the latter stages REALLY tough and the last boss pretty much impossible!

Was really great to finish the game as it had haunted me that I'd spent so long on that boss.

 

[RandomHajile]

.hack infection. I bought it back when it came out. I was disappointed with it, I found it too hard and I didn’t understand it. A couple of years ago I got interested in trying it again. I fired up PCSX2 and played through part 1 through 4. I loved it this time around. It’s so immersive, I’ve never played a game like it. I bought GU on Switch, I enjoyed that too.
I even played the .hack game on PSP and PS3 but those games are nowhere near as good as the PS2 games.

Yeah, for me it was all 4 of the original Dot Hack games. I had the first but it just didn't resonate with me. The whole idea of an offline/online game that was a dungeon crawler, I never got far because I didn't get it. Then a friend I met online kept telling me how epic it was and to play it on the emulator and give it another shot. This was around....2011 or so?

I ended up sitting down, giving it a chance, and it really grabbed me. Beat all 4 in order within a month. Really great, underrated RPGs. I'd go on to play GU as well. Wish they'd make a new series.

 

[skramz]

san andreas.
as a kid i played very little of the story and was primarily on mta or samp, but a few months ago i finished it for the first time, but i've yet to 100% it

 

[Kremiso]

san andreas.
as a kid i played very little of the story and was primarily on mta or samp, but a few months ago i finished it for the first time, but i've yet to 100% it

only GTA i have reached 100% is Liberty City stories on PSP
it was a strange feeling to see the map empty when loading the last save :)

 

[skramz]

only GTA i have reached 100% is Liberty City stories on PSP
it was a strange feeling to see the map empty when loading the last save :)

oh man, i'm on my way to 100% chinatown wars, nice1!

 

[Jdan-S]

Breath of Fire III

I originally played the PS1 version on actual hardware. I was at the final dungeon. I got stuck with one of the dragon statues, particularly the one that said "Bow down and pray before me. I will show you the path when your heart and mind are as one." I had no idea what that meant. I even went as far as waiting for a random encounter where I'd be facing the statue and let my HP get to critical levels so that Ryu would be kneeling or "bowing down".

I wasn't familiar with GameFAQs then. Turns out, all I had to do was

Spoiler

just stand in front of the statue and do nothing for about 10 seconds.

Much later on, I emulated the PSP version (fast forward and save states helped). Finally beat it, but now I still need to finish II and IV. And okay, maybe even Dragon Quarter.

 

[Kremiso]

Breath of Fire III

I originally played the PS1 version on actual hardware. I was at the final dungeon. I got stuck with one of the dragon statues, particularly the one that said "Bow down and pray before me. I will show you the path when your heart and mind are as one." I had no idea what that meant. I even went as far as waiting for a random encounter where I'd be facing the statue and let my HP get to critical levels so that Ryu would be kneeling or "bowing down".

I wasn't familiar with GameFAQs then. Turns out, all I had to do was

Spoiler

just stand in front of the statue and do nothing for about 10 seconds.

Much later on, I emulated the PSP version (fast forward and save states helped). Finally beat it, but now I still need to finish II and IV. And okay, maybe even Dragon Quarter.

i feel that lol
i would be extremely disappointed, to the point of hack that text line into the game :)

 

[Deleted member 58254]

pretty much every game i played as a kid

 

[Bomberman]

Resident Evil 6 (xbox360) is my last one
Abandoned (at 50% more or less) because i found it boring back then, and i see one chapter with on average low reputation reviews and players critics.

Btw i finally reached to complete the Leon story in these days, and i see the game unlocks something more; interestingly i have started the Chris Redfield story and i'm liking it a lot more than the Leon one, but to me it does plays like a Call of Duty in third person more than a Resident Evil classic title; but again i'm liking it surely more, at least i have found something good for me into it, playing it eons later :)

What are yours?

Resident Evil 6 is underrated here in the west. It has so much content and great movement.

I enjoyed my time with it even tho I will admit brightness settings are bullshit

 

[medisinn]

Persona 3 FES comes to mind, even though I have done this with many games. A friend gave me a burned copy in 2009 and I quickly became enamored with it, even bought a physical copy for PS2 later. Got probably 50-60 hours in within a few months but never saw it through to the end for some reason. Restarted it later on PSP and dinked around for a while, played through and beat all of Persona 4 Golden and vanilla Persona 5, and then eventually went back to my Persona 3 FES file and finished off the last 20-30 hours in early 2020. And then quickly fell off from trying to play through The Answer and I guess gave up.

 

[Nickakyoin]

It actually took me 3 (or 4?) years to beat it. I had to take my time because man oh man if this game was overwlheming for the action packaged and how intense it can be to play on a 3DS. And it's still one of the best games Nintendo ever made for personality and dialogues. I pray that Sakurai for the next game isn't relegated again to Smash but a new project (you know, like a sequel to this gem. Or an HD Remaster in worst case, but after his last videos it seems very unlikely).

 

[Tuesdays]

Catherine and Killer Is Dead. Catherine I first played when the Steam port came out, got through the first couple chapters then dropped it for whatever reason. Didn't finish it until I went back at the beginning of this year and played it all the way through to the end. Pretty much the same story for Killer Is Dead.

Same story for me with Catherine, I first started playing it for PS3, but eventually put it down because of life getting in the way of my gaming habits. Eventually when things settled down and it got rereleased for the switch, I picked it back up and finished it completely, along with the additional content that the rerelease got.

 

[Tonberry]

Probably Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.

I’m not very into the AC games but Odyssey and Valhalla being so different is probably what made me interested.
I played it a lot at launch, then kind of abandoned it for a while, then got back into it waaay later when it was added to Gamepass (originally played on PS4 but it has a cross-save feature so I didn’t lose anything) and now I’m almost done with the main game (I think).

It’s pretty braindead but I found the story surprisingly engaging and the setting is nice enough to prance around in.

 

[Guinea]

Pokemon Colosseum. I put it down in 2023 and picked it back up a few months ago.

 

[solnK!]

Oof...there are so many
Kingdom Hearts
MGS
DMC 3
Persona 3

 

[DjQuick2008]

Recently finished super puzzle fighter II for the first time this week. Was released in the 90s so im proud of that.

 

[Kremiso]

Resident Evil 6 is underrated here in the west. It has so much content and great movement.

I enjoyed my time with it even tho I will admit brightness settings are bullshit

indeed needs a dedicated brightness setting (360 version here) into the options, without a perfect one

i choosed an extra bright setting, that at least have less of those strange gray shadows everywhere