So I tend to go hot on a game for about 3 to 4 days before I get distracted. A week later I'll ask myself "What the hell was I in the middle of anyways, and why didn't I keep playing it?"
I'm also a terrible completionist. Probably has something to do with watching my brother beat all the NES RPGs of old as a kid....I'm the guy that gets 95% done with a game they absolutely love and then puts it down. I suppose I just hate endings.
So it turns out there are a lot of titles I mean to finish but never do, for one reason or another. So post your laundry list of games you WANT to finish but haven't.
Excluded are: roguelikes and MMOs (because they aren't meant to be finished mostly) and games you've already finished but are doing a second run of. While it would be easy to list a bunch of crap games you might finish out of OCD tendencies, let's avoid those. We've all got plenty of bad games we'll never finish.
So anyways:
Overlord II - I actually made even less far in this one than in the original. I got the blue minions in the first and did a few missions, but I've yet to pick them up in the second. Overlord II is a good game but I can't seem to saddle up for the last 30 to 40% of it.
Hitman: Blood Money - When I average about 2 hours a level, with all the recon and restarts and testing, this isn't the kind of game I feel like I can just plop down and play a little at a time.
Company of Heroes - Same story. In video game warfare, I'm a big proponent of defensive advance. But building a new fire base on every new control point, furnishing it with artillery and blasting the enemy into submission before you advance again means each map can take anywhere from 2 to 4 hours to complete. I love CoH but even I don't have the patience for that.
King Arthur The Role-playing Wargame - This game gets so unforgiving past the middle part, you basically have to accept total failure somewhere along the path if you ever want to see the end game. I HATE that about this game, while I love everything else about it. Almost no games I play have this high of a quotient for failure, and yet KA basically says: prepare yourself the entire game for a handful of fights that require every single advantage you can pull out....or don't even bother trying and just accept whatever failure conditions they impose, because you'll just be throwing troops into the meat grinder otherwise. I get the itch to play this often, but I think about the agony that is all the evil Knight armies, the Armies of Samhain, the Crusader Armies, the Unseelie Armies.....and I go weak in the knees at the prospect.
Red Faction: Guerrilla - After leveling three zones and doing every quest I'm staggered by how much of the game I have left to do. I had a blast getting there, but leveling a whole enemy base can take a good 20 minutes or more IF you don't die, more when you factor in travel time and distractions. I want to finish this one because I know there are ways to explode things I haven't seen yet...but the completionist in me groans at how many objectives (that are honestly pretty redundant at this point) there are to do.
X-Com - Sort of like CoH and Hitman, the amount of time per level I can spend playing X-Com means I have to work up the desire to play it. After boarding Alien crafts and having to tip-toe everywhere, I wasn't going back to the Geoscape for 2 hours at a time. And I wonder where my days go.
Quest For Glory 3 - It's not a bad game, it's on par for all Quest for Glories. I'm just not a big fan of "Blond Hero's Big African Adventure." In truth the game I really want to finish is Quest for Glory 4 (aka "Blond Hero's Creepy Transylvanian Adventure"), but that would entail beating 3 first so I can import my character to 4....rather than having it create me a ghetto leveled character to start with.
Arkham Asylum - I think I got all the way up to the last area before Joker. By that point I had kicked so much inmate and crazy person ass, I was stuffed. And I'd spent probably 20 hours easily going back collecting stuff and solving riddles.
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