You guys finish games?
Right? This question is basically asking for a list of games I love, excluding the ones that somehow tricked me into finishing them
Baldur’s Gate 3.
I played through one single player save and two multiplayer ones with different groups, enjoyed it all - but only got a little ways into Act 3 on any one save. A combination of middling performance with my older rig and just having sank so much time in I burnt out a little.
Still think it’s a fantastic game, but I don’t know if I’ll ever go back to finish it - I feel like I’d have to start a whole new save.
I’m in the same boat. I want to like the game and it is fun, but I got stuck with some area with orbs and my save corrupted…one of the orbs just disappeared after 50+ hours and I can’t bring myself to play again and possibly have the same bug pop up. Maybe someday but it’s just such a big game.
Yep, love the game and got a good portion into act 3 but then just lost all will to play.
It was the same with divinity original sin 2. The final act was so large, disorganized, and not fun. Like they had a lot of ideas they needed to use but didn’t know where until then, so they threw them all in a big city and called it a day.
I have that game and never made it past the first 20 min. Maybe I’ll give it another shot.
Despite my complaints, its one of my favorite games of all time. I highly recommend it. Let me know if you want to do a co-op run (on PC)!
In my experience act 3 was extremely buggy, we had a blast in act 1 and 2 with my friend but the bugs in act 3 killed basically all our motivation and we never finished it.
Idk if I had any bugs in the game at all. I just kinda lost the will to play
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You mean MC has something other than peaceful mode? Weird. I should try that one day.
That is an option.
I think the most frustrating part is to lose your inventory if you’re far into a mine and then die. So, as a purist, I only allow myself that one cheat: keepInventory=true
You keep the tension off Survival without the heartache of lost items
Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077. Both amazing games (latter after the many updates that brought it over to the good side).
If it’s “too” long (really, no such thing, but situationally this can be the reality) it can happen that life turns so that there’s no more time, and when I try to get back, too much time has passed and I can’t orientate myself anymore, can’t remember where I was and what I was doing etc.
On the other hand, I can’t start again either, for a few years, because I remember everything before the point I left off at, once I get into the places and puzzles and whatnot.
Annoys me to no end.
But c’est la vie.
I love long open-world games, but I also reached a certain point in TW3 where I just burned out. It was weird too, because up until that point I was getting anxious over how little map I had left to explore. Then boom, I just lost my drive. Maybe I subconsciously sabotaged it so that I wouldn’t run out of game. I’d really like to try again sometime.
I feel like some AAA games have gotten better at making it easier to return after a long absence. FFVII Rebirth basically has a timeline of every single event leading up to your current mission and FFXVI had the Active Time Lore system and basically an entire in-game wiki that you put together for that old librarian dude. It also had that strategist lady who would explain to you the state of the realm between events and missions.
Im honestly not sure the last time I actually finished a game.
A combination of not having enough play time and those rare occasions I do have the time I tend to burn myself out playing the game.
FFX
First time I played was at a boyfriend’s house. I got like 80% of the way through, then we broke up.
Second time, I let a friend borrow my GameCube in exchange for his PS2. I got about 80% of the way through, then he wanted his PS2 back.
I finally got my own PS2. Played about 80% of the way through but had a couple bad builds and couldn’t beat a boss. I didn’t have energy to grind my way into a better build, so I just never finished.
It’s been ~20 years. I still sometimes think I’ll break out the old PS2 and see if my save file is there. I probably won’t.
The remastered copy on Steam let’s you speed up the game. It is much quicker running around at x4 speed and clearing random encounters. Then slow game speed to normal for major bosses and events. I would highly recommend this route rather than trying to find a PS2 again.
If you haven’t played FFX-2 or FFXII then those are worth checking out too.
Omg, I had no clue that existed. Thank you!
I mentioned your comment to my partner after I saw it. Last night, he showed me he’d bought the FFX/X-2 bundle on Steam for me! So I guess I might actually finish the game after all :D
Awesome. Have fun.
Don’t sleep on FFXII. That’s on the Steam store as well after you’re done with this.
Spider-Man Remastered - 80% completed the story and left it there. Lost interest. Didn’t see any point in exploring most abilities when a hand full of AoE enemy clearing abilities were so effective.
Guacamelee 2 I left close to the final boss and still think of it as one of the best games I ever played.
Cuphead - had plenty of fun, but lost interest in replaying bosses so many times over and over.
Eldest Souls - excellent game, but I took along break from it and when I came back I forgot how the mechanics and ability synergies worked out and felt like I was relearning it from scratch (except I was on advance and difficult bosses).
Overcooked 2 - my wife stopped making time to spend on the game and would rather watch TV together instead.
It Takes Two - my brother’s schedule never lined up with mine.
Sifu - got too difficult.
I like playing minecraft. But i have never gotten to the credit screen
Same, played since beta era, haven’t even gotten to the end world. My potato farms are doing ok, though.
Almost all of them. I rarely finish a game. For a variety of reasons, all added together. The closer I get to the end, the more I want to put it off if I’m enjoying a game, so I will keep finding more and more nuanced stuff to do instead. A new game comes out and I eventually completely forget one of the 10 games I’m currently actively playing when it temporarily becomes 11, then back down to 10. My friends stop playing a game, but my character relied on them… maybe I’ll just start over with a character that can solo. Maybe that game will just go on the pile of “not today, but I’ll play it soon”, until it’s been in the pile so long that there isn’t much point anymore.
I should mention I am autistic and likely adhd but I haven’t got that diagnosed yet. So while some of this is probably normal behaviours, some of it probably isn’t too.
The Talos Principle.
I just stopped playing it one day and never touched it again. I didn’t dislike anything about it.
Same, but I’m stuck at one specific puzzle near the end.
Same.
Oh damn… You should try to finish it, the end is so satisfying!
Dwarf Fortress
I don’t think you can finish dwarf fortress
Most of them, but KCD is my favourite, I suck at sword fighting, bow shooting, but I keep returning to this game
The sword fighting becomes way easier once you unlock some skills through training. The first time I played I didn’t know about the training and it took me way longer than it should have to figure it out. Maybe you already know about that, but just in case you missed that like I did at first, thought I’d mention it.
I heard it’s the same for archery, I hope it’ll be more rewarding in KCD2 because I’d rather pick flowers now
Same.
I love the archery.
I haven’t played in a good while, but just sneaking through the forests poaching deer (to cook because the second it’s cooked it’s not suspicious at all that I have 500 pounds of meat for sale) is one of the more satisfying hunting in games experience I’ve had.
(Edit: it’s $3 on PSN right now. I have it on steam but I can’t resist rebuying to have on both at that price.)
Subnautica. Basically can’t figure out where to go next. Fortunately I got it as a physical release on Switch so I can just sell the cart.
Hint: ::: spoiler spoiler go deeper :::
I don’t even need to know where you left off in the game.
When I beat Subnautica, there were long periods of me just wandering around gawking at the scenery until I stumbled upon what I needed to do next. To me, that wasn’t a bad thing either. I wish there was some way to selectively wipe from my memory everything I remember about the game so I’d get to play through rediscovering everything again.
Metro: Exodus. I remember it being extremely pretty, but I never beat it like I did the previous two games
Fez. Got stuck and just couldn’t figure out how to complete the game.
For Hades, I beat him once after an enjoyable 35 hours, but didn’t have it in me to repeat that 9 more times for the credits to roll.
Same, I’ve been stuck in Fez for the mast ten years. It’s so hard to get your bearings !
I love FEZ and I totally understand that being stuck is frustrating. At one point, I consulted the internet only to find out that you HAVE to look up the solution for a certain puzzle on the internet (I believe it was on the game dev forum or something like that, it’s been a while). I liked that.
