Games you've spent tons of hours in but never beaten?

[Prism_Red]

Practically Payday 2, I haven't finished some of the heist, including ones from DLC, clocked in about 650 hours now.

 

[Ikagura]

What? You guys not finish games? Every time I play a game I end up finish it, its a must do.

I'm curious about why you think "it's a must do."

What if the game is either just bad or boring to you? What if you have other more interesting games so you forget about it or even just that you have lost your save and don't wanna redo everything?

I salute completionists but I feel that most games have a tedious 100% goal.

If you end up forcing yourself to finish a game then wouldn't it make it more like a chore than an entertainment?

 

[goregoregoregoregoregore]

I'm curious about why you think "it's a must do."

What if the game is either just bad or boring to you? What if you have other more interesting games so you forget about it or even just that you have lost your save and don't wanna redo everything?

I salute completionists but I feel that most games have a tedious 100% goal.

If you end up forcing yourself to finish a game then wouldn't it make it more like a chore than an entertainment?

The repetition of those boring actions to 100% a game deprives the person of the enjoyment temporarily to then achieve the 100% goal so they feel rewarded. You feel more inclined to receive satisfaction upon achieving something that was hard or required patience than something you can easily do. Chores normally don't have a very highlighted representation to your brain that you did something good as opposed to seeing everything done in a game, and you can also see clearly your progress being made. It's like how if you go on a heavy diet for a month, the day you eat a pizza again it's way more delicious and you still feel like you did something good

 

[lil_thang]

• Noita (my gamestats say i won once but it was with mods so i dont count it but it somehow incremented my non mod count idk lul)
• Hitman2 (does it really count? its mostly a fuckaroundin kinda game but tbqh i've only really 'completed' 3 maps in the game)
• Subnautica (i've put 48 hours in the first one and probably about as much into Below Zero but have never 'finish the campaign' in either of them, just like exploring round getting spooked by the fishes)
  
  many more games i've started and not finished but those are two that come to mind as ones i've spent a significant amount of time in despite not really 'completing' them

 

[Hikari.EXE]

Dragon's Dogma, at least the Dark Arisen part of the game. I've beated Daimon phase 1, but never actually got around to going through BBI for a second time for awakened Daimon, BBI gets insanely unfair on your second time running.

 

[destinyduelist]

its a must do.

Why? If I don't like it I don't finish it
For example Pokemon Violet was abysmally boring and bad so I dropped it, it just wasn't for me
Sometimes I just decide to play something else and don't finish it
For example, I still haven't finished Yakuza 0 because I wanted to play Vanquish, so I ended up finishing Vanquish instead. I STILL haven't finished Yakuza 0 because I wanted to play the PSP one, it really doesn't matter honestly, story games are meant to be enjoyed and had fun with or to form an emotion with it's story and characters in my opinion

 

[fishboneKiller]

doshin the giant is one for me, i really enjoy that game's atmosphere and look a lot but i have zero fucking idea what to do to progress, so i just sorta... walk around for a while and then turn off the game. i do this every couple of years as if im gonna beat it and then never do

 

[Ikagura]

The repetition of those boring actions to 100% a game deprives the person of the enjoyment temporarily to then achieve the 100% goal so they feel rewarded. You feel more inclined to receive satisfaction upon achieving something that was hard or required patience than something you can easily do. Chores normally don't have a very highlighted representation to your brain that you did something good as opposed to seeing everything done in a game, and you can also see clearly your progress being made. It's like how if you go on a heavy diet for a month, the day you eat a pizza again it's way more delicious and you still feel like you did something good

I'll be honest: this isn't a compelling game design to have a list of checkmarks to fulfil.

I don't want to waste time of my life for a virtual medal either. The time I spend on that chore is less time for games I may have enjoyed.

 

[lil_thang]

i only care about those tasks when they are an incidental part of a game i'm already engaged with, it seems kinda soulless and 'coffee without cream' Zizek big chungis to actively seek out checkmarks to fill gameplay design. though i suppose that is shifting to be the predominant game design ethos so it only makes sense for future generations to want to actively seek out such a thing

 

[SinAkuma]

So many hours on the first kingdom hearts as it was bundled with my ps2 console but never beaten it.
ah.. and grant turismo as well:p

 

[lil_thang]

that's a good one actually, i can't even remember if i ever did finish KH1 as a youngun but i did play the ever loving shit out of it

 

[Tbest25]

For me is Tactics Ogre Knights of Lodis. The game is pretty good but it's unbalanced as hell, and the level of grinding needed to advance the game(which is a lot) just demotivated me to continue.

 

[ZakkWylde]

I must have gotten to the last stretch of Breath of Fire III 10 times as a kid and for one reason or another never beat it. Maybe now as an adult I can go back and actually understand the systems instead of just making random dragons or using a GameShark.

 

[KiwiiiJuicy]

Any PS2 musou game basically. I finished Warriors Orochi 1 and 2 on psp but funny enough i spent more hours on the ps2 versions. Haven't finished neither because I'm just goofing around doing random stages with the least grinded or my favorite characters.

 

[Tonberry]

Feels like all of them.
I’m really bad at finishing games because I tend to play whatever I feel like.
But a somewhat recent one with an ending that I’ve played for like 90 hours without getting too close to the end has been Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.
Oh and Dragon’s Dogma 2. I want to finish up as much as I can in the world because New Game Plus is apparently really bad in that one.

 

[DanVzare]

If you had asked me a couple of months ago, I would've Uncharted Waters 2: New Horizons. But I finally decided to finish it. As a matter of fact, recently I've kind of taken it upon myself to do that with quite a few games I've left unfinished over the years.

Hmm... speaking of which. I've spent a lot of time playing the original Dungeon Keeper, but I've never even come close to finishing it. I should probably add that to the list as well.
Oh, and the original Thief. (You're probably wonder how it's possible to spend a lot of time playing it, but never finish it. Please don't ask. I don't know either.)

 

[MangaMunchkin]

We have over 1000 hours in Skyrim and 392 hours in Pathfinder, bugs and glitches with Skyrim and eventually had enough of Pathfinder despite getting to right up to the end.

 

[BobbertMoss]

I'm absolutely horrible at finishing anything, I will often stop watching a show right before the last episode, and the same goes for games. Never beat Baldur's Gate 3 despite getting near the end, never gotten to the end date in Crusader Kings, and I lost my Tales of the Abyss save after stopping halfway through. The worst of these is Xenoblade Chronicles X, where I just wanted to get to the mechs, but I played it two separate times getting right to that point, then stopping, and losing my saves.
Surprisingly enough Skyrim is not one of these games, when I played it I rushed straigth to the ending. I have also played Pathfinder Kingmaker on and off for several years on the same save, so I hope that's a game I'll eventually finish

 

[Opapete]

Gran Turismo 3. Put too many hours into it as a kid failing to even get bronze on licences all while stuck in eternal poverty.

Alternatively, Trackmania United Forever, still never even unlocked the black tracks.

 

[biggoof]

the big ones are probably terraria and minecraft loool. theyre both childhood games and ive always played them with my brother and friends, so i technically never beat them on my own

 

[SpeciumRay]

a lot. Especially jrpgs, i played for hours upon hours then got bored stopped playing it then coming back to it 3 months later and forgot everything about it eventually deciding to start over from the beginning. I regret not finishing any of it :(

Here's a short list
-Breath of fire 4
-FFT
-Chrono cross
-Persona 2
-Xenogears

 

[ouyrtuy]

Every MMO and gacha

 

[Opapete]

Every MMO and gacha

Pretty sure you can't even beat those.

 

[CozmeZek]

Dragon's dogma, stuck on a certain boss and got bored.. might pick it up again in the future

 

[KirboDeku]

Bahamut Lagoon... I picked up the game twice, and got my save data corrupted twice. This was when I was new to emulation and had no idea what I was doing.