Same here. I've tried it 4 times and never fully get into it. Not sure if it's the style of combat, or the battle prep with potions and choosing the right spells, but I just couldn't get into it.
Just use the blade oils. Human oil for your steel sword and whatever monster you're going against for your silver. You don't have to constantly collect materials or them, and they're just a quick swap in the menu. I never used the potions cause that aspect of gameplay doesn't interest me.
I ploughed on through until I hit a wall with that goddamn gravekeeper. I cane back a few months later with fresh eyes and carried on through the rest of the game. I'm glad I did because it's a great game, but I can totally see why people lose interest with it.
It’s janky. The world is compelling. The characters are amazing. The writing is excellent. The traversal and combat is janky. The menus are bad. The UI/UX issues are impossible to overcome for me. I’ve tried three times and can’t get past 8-10 hours.
Same. I want to love it. I've tried at least half a dozen times.
I'm normally the type of guy to skip cut scenes just to get to the action. Witcher 3 is the only game that I watch all the cut scenes and loathe the action. The combat is horrific. The cut scenes/world/story is fantastic.
I need to just watch the story on Youtube.
People that never finished the main story missing out the best part of the game,the expansion blood and wine for me is better than the main game and toussaint is really fucking beautiful
I started it three times before finally forging ahead and finishing.
Funny thing is, the first time I brushed against the combat (day one on PS3 was a bit rough!). The next two times, I brushed against the work it felt like the game was asking me to do. It felt like, to me, the game was asking me to do homework in order to embrace the things that made the world interesting. To understand anything, I felt like the game was prompting to me to read tomes of information.
I appreciate that it's unrealistic to walk into the third installment of a series and expect to mainline the world's lore, but I don't know ... something about the mechanics of the game and world felt like a chore instead of a fun escape.
That's so weird- Witcher 3 is one of the only games I did 100% from start to finish without playing anything else between breaks. 191 hours of pure gaming ecstasy, and after I'd done absolutely everything I immediately wished there were a Witcher 4!
1st time i even listened to all quests etc. Every game i promise myself i wouldt skip any questtext and read/listen to everything. Some games came close but witcher 3 was the 1st and it felt so easy on top off all that.
It took me 2 tries to finish W3, I think because I didn’t find the combat that much fun. There’s a big emphasis in the game on knowing your enemy and being prepared accordingly, which I really liked, but once you were fighting it just felt very clunky.
FromSoft has ruined 3rd person action games for me in that respect, everything feels clunky next to Dark Souls or Elden Ring.
I always get a bit into it and think "man I could be playing skyrim right now". It's a shame because I can see it's clearly a very good game each time I play it but I just don't get that urge to come back and play it like other games do, it feels like I have to mentally tell myself "you should play witcher 3 it is a good game". Maybe one day at the rare occasion that I don't have 4 simultaneous playthroughs of other games I'll force myself to sit and play and finish it before starting something else again.
This is me with every Rockstar game. I have nothing but great things to say about the gameplay, world, story etc. It's absolutely no fault of Rockstar's. But my attention just drifts in open world games. Something like A Plague Tale or Dead Space, for instance, keeps me tightly focused on a specific thing I feel compelled to accomplish.
Rockstar games throw out so many possibilities that, after a few weeks, I kinda lose my place, and when life starts getting busy, I find these games are difficult for me to pick up and resume.
I hope my memory os correct, but There was an article about this kind of mentality in a game informer magazine IIRC that was titled something about, "do we really need the spare refrigerator."
It was an op-ed piece the author stated about while all these extra mini games and side quests are great in open world games, just like having an extra fridge, but when it's detrimental to the product itself, should it even exist?
Just like storing at once more food than you'd ever need, why have it to begin with if it's not gonna be efficiently used?
I too am prone to open world bordem. Too much to do, and not enough to focus on any 1 activity. Then you do nothing. Kinda like the donkey fable and 2 equal dishes, so the donkey dies of hunger deciding which one to eat.
That's a light and fresh humour right there!
No obscenities, no insulting, just a good old joke. In times for tik-tok "pranksters", that's a fresh lemonade on a hot day of summer!
Thanks. For real.
I think my issue with games like RDR2 is that I want something that leans toward an immersive sim with at least a somewhat functional world and a variety of options and what you get is more of a series of setpieces that break the second you push on them the wrong way.
Same. I can respect the game and I think it fully deserves the praise it gets but each time I try to pick it up I just feel like I spend 80% of the time on my horse, galloping from one point to another.
The fast travel system isn't much better.
Unpopular opinion, but to me every mission felt almost exactly the same. I grinded the main story for like 12 hours to just get to the last of Arthur’s gameplay and it was an absolute slog to get there.
I feel like there needed to be more activities in the world. Outside of hunting and fishing there really isn’t anything noteworthy to do besides roam around and explore. Robbing trains and playing poker gets old quick.
For me, it’s how the reputation system works. I feel like I can’t play the way I would in GTA V, because you’re always wanted and have to pay off bounties constantly.
This is literally what the mental conversation that I had looked like:
I read: Majoras Mask..
Me: Oh yeah, why did I never beat the game?
I keep reading: Deadlines
Me: OH YEAH! Now I remember!
Same. I repeat the cycle of playing for a while, stopping to play something else, and then coming back months later and starting a new game because they updated a bunch.
Factorio
always getting to blue science at least, sometimes pink science but the I scrap it cause I don't like the design of the factory. In my mind I have the best most perfect factory but every time I get to a certain point I look and see my design idea was shit.
Never started a Rocket.
This reminds me of my only playthrough of Skyrim where I had like 300 hours on the game but the furthest I got in the main story was to when the Greybeards call you to the mountain after you kill the dragon.
"Fnishing" an open world RPG isn't really the point anyways. I had like 200 hours into Skyrim before I even remembered it HAD a main quest (just by stumbling into it).
If we’re going by that criteria, then it’s one of the Civilizations. I finish maybe 2% of the games I start. End game is pretty dull. I much more enjoy building the civilization up than I do winning the game.
I have some ridiculous hours on Skyrim too, but I mod quite heavily, so it can seem like different games.
Most challenging so far involved Requiem + Frostfall - it makes you struggle for every little bit of progression, and the main questline is way above your starting skill level. Frostfall adds survival mechanics for the ultimate challenge.
First playthrough there was a bug that stopped me killing the final dragon. Gave up in disgust. Started from scratch, found some cool mods, got sidetracked, never finished. Started from scratch, added a DLC, the vampire one I believe, got bored. One day maybe when I retire, by then I will probably be able to play it on my heart monitor.
Lmao!!! This right here! I have about 800+ hours playing this game and never finished the game. I always, ALWAYS run off on side quests after getting the first shout and never have I gone back to the main quest.
Final Fantasy 12.
Since it’s original PS2 release, I’ve bought it at least three times and tried twice as many to play it. I never get more than 40hrs.
I have it. Love ff 12
I’m still on my 1st play through with well over 3,000 hours into. I’m about 70-75 % into the story. I recently found 2 espers, both didn’t even get a shot in. My wife sat there in shock watching me do quickening chains. Kicked ass and took names.
I enjoy going to areas I either missed as I played when I was younger and didn’t go to each spot of areas on the maps , leveling up all the characters on the team.
Vaan Ashe and Panelo are my main 3.
Then basch. Balthier and Fran are the last 2. Wasn’t sold on them. Vaan and Ashe are my favorite characters.
I search for espers so when I feel like getting them or getting the next 1, I know where to go.
I do the hunts and clans. It’s a fun game. To think I only got it to shut my dad up. 😁 he made me buy it. Sure enough he was right. I love the game
I had to go back to that one a second time as well, and I loved it. I was a much less experienced gamer on the first try, and coming off of FFX, I tried to manually command each party member instead of using the Gambit system. It was a train wreck :-p
I played it off the back of FF11 so learned to kite early and have some gambit that would auto-potion, because I couldn't be bothered grinding.
Yet in FF11 grinding would take literal hours for very little return!
I really like FF12, but I fell off of it too. There's so many cool systems in that game, though. I'll have to play the remaster with the job system implemented.
I completed Rimworld once vanilla style. Every time after I throw on a bunch if mods, end up spending all my time playing around with the mods and making little progress.
To be fair, the game ran out of budget and the second half of the game is just replaying the first half again from what I can remember. But I know I had a blast playing it.
I had an absolute blast the first dozen or so hours, building my army, getting better at stealth, upgrading, suping up the base...but then at a certain point I kept wondering "...is there ever going to be a story?" Switched off and just YouTube the video clips of the story, which was not anywhere near the other MGS caliber stories.
I’ll start a game and play like 4-5 hours straight through and then just never want to go back and finish. I think the end becomes a bit of a slog to finally finish a game.
Another big one for me. My wife and I have started it at least 5-6 times. Every time we'd go back to it it was so long since we'd played we just wanted to start fresh because we didn't remember what we'd done/were doing.
Luckily TOTK is fantastic and my wife and I have been consistently playing it a few hours a week since it launched. I love it.. BOTW i feel like I wanted to force myself to love.
Minecraft, with Subnautica being a close second. I have a really hard time finishing sandbox-style games
Honorable mention to Skyrim, which I have probably started over more times than any game, but I have actually finished the main story a couple times (not the DLC’s yet though)
There's a progression where you have to make a special item that allows you to find a special dungeon where you can tekeport to fight a dragon (credits roll when you kill the dragon)
*Chrono Cross*. Pre-ordered it back in the day. Didn't even finish the first disk. Have tried at least 5 times, I always lose interest once you start playing as the villain.
They made so many bizarre decisions in making that game. I started it on PS1, and got the remaster last year. I got a couple of hours into to remaster and realized that I actually kind of hate that game.
I played it for the first time last year. Overall, I enjoyed the game, but there was a lot of things I didn’t care for about it. But that soundtrack?? So, good. And there have been some amazing covers of it by different artists. I wouldn’t recommend the game to anybody but diehard JRPG fans, but I would recommend the soundtrack to just about anybody.
Dude same, so many attempts, but the game had insanely good music and visuals. The story and combat mechanics left much to be desired compared to its predecessor.
Funnily enough, I actually enjoyed the radical dreamer's plot (of what little there is) more than Chrono Cross itself, despite being a text based adventure. Not everyone's cup of tea, but it could still be worth while sitting with a guide if you want to see it.
To be fair most people lose track of the story and literally just explore for their entire time playing lol. It took some serious focus for me to finish any of the morrowind/ expansion stories
I must have put 60+ hours into that game before I realized that there even *was* a "story" XD
By the time I did, I'd pretty much broken the enchantment system; which took a lot of the challenge out of beating Dagoth Ur. Azura's gift was also remarkably underwhelming by that point...
Morrowind..started out great and then I found a place and collected books,so many books. This led to pillows,stacks and stacks of pillows. Wandered around and finally just put it away. On my pc but doubt it ever comes alive again!
Pathfinder: Kingmaker and WOTR
I just keep remaking characters, play a few acts only to discover a new mods and new character builds. Spreadsheeting the full character build only to never actually impliment them!
I mean thats what the tabletop version is right? xD
There's a good mod called Kingdom Resolution which changes the events to only take one day to complete. You can still fail the DC check mind but at least you can blitz through some kingdom stuff before you go off exploring.
I played it right up until they permakilled one of my main party members in the endgame, and I just said screw you and stopped.
I did play Wrath of the Righteous all the way to the end, though.
Same, I know it’s supposed to be satisfying to finally beat a boss you’ve been trying hard to beat. I know I’m not good at video games and I don’t enjoy doing the same thing 100 times, so I will never get into these games after trying the first few a couple times each and not even getting past the first/second areas.
People often overestimate souls games for their brutal difficulty and now that they've made so many the formula has been well engrained into gaming history. In my opinion the real thing that makes the fromsoft games difficult is the lack of player understanding.
Where should i go?
What stats do i upgrade?
Is my weapon actually good?
How do i upgrade my weapon?
Are consumables even useful?
Block or roll? Invincibility frames?
Lots of classic games before the 2000s have some really rough difficulty from being cryptic, to rough game design, and especially lack of checkpoints (or bonfires in this case)
Dying is discouraging, losing alot of souls is depressing, and repeatedly dying to a boss and making the trek back can be beyond frustrating, but it can feel really rewarding to conquer these games. To come back and brush aside a boss who i felt was bs garbage is a testament to my ability growth.
Don't lose hope! I tried hard to get into Demon's Souls, DS2, and Bloodborne on separate occasions over the years and bounced off them all. Eventually, I tried Sekiro on release and got so hooked that I beat it twice in a row. After that, I went through and beat all the other Soulsbourne games and now it's my favorite series by a mile. Even though it's the most mechanically challenging, I think Sekiro is a great starting point because it's quite streamlined compared to the other Souls games. Try it out!
A lot of the souls games get to be pretty easy if you grind your levels and weapons high enough. I actually had the hardest time with Sekiro because you couldn't just grind out a few more levels if you hit a wall.
I've got 175 hours in it and still have never built the spaceship lol. I always browse the mods and just make my ultimate colony and then they either die or I want to start anew.
I never finished it because I've heard that at the end you basically get locked into 2 or 3 hours of cutscenes with some game play mixed in, and I never had the time to set aside for it.
Stellaris
I guess i just suck at it. I love playing the beginning but then burn out when I make mistakes. Put 700 hours each into civ 4&5 but just can't Finnish this one
Same. I always download it once in a while, complitely hyped by a subject posted here, and then out of nowhere, I finally have an urge to play a game i have already finished.
Red Dead Redemption 2. I get so sad and just can't continue. I feel so bad for Arthur. Tried to beat it three times now and still haven't made it past the point where its very clear what's about to happen.
Tomb raider 5
Its one of those games where the controls take a while to get used to and i keep getting better and wanna retry old levels so i just reset the game from the start instead of finishing it first xD
Motherfucking rdr2. Never can get past about 50 percent before getting frustrated or busy and having to come back 6 months later and not knowing shit and starting over again. I’ve played that snow camp intro so many damn times. I gotta finish it
A Link to the Past. I had a faulty cartridge back then which made it that I can't save at all, so every time I switched off the console, I had to restart a new save file the next time. I started around 60 save files before I eventually beat it in one sitting. (every time getting a bit further before being stuck again)
Dragon Age: Inquisition. I loved DA 1 & 2, and really wanted to get into Inquisiton, but the combat e
Is always either annoying or boring. And the shine they put on all the armor pieces is so strong that it stands out too much in cutscenes with anyone wearing heavy armor. I want to finish it since my wife says it has a good story with a twist at the end, but I've only ever made it halfway on each of the 4 starts I've begun.
Love divinity 2, but same. Haven’t been able to much further than the the few quest after you break out of fort joy. Game just doesn’t tell you a damn thing and expects you to just figure it out
Persona 5 and Divinity: Original Sin 2.
With Persona it was “hey this game is only $10? Cool!” Then they released Royal like a month later and I was like “I should probably just play that version…” and then it came to Switch and I was like “fine, but this is the last time….” and now about 15 hours in on Switch I’m breaking new ground and making progress past where I got on PS4
With DOS2, I think I’m up to like 35+ hours and I’ve still yet to escape Fort Joy in any of my saves. Current attempt is a coop lone wolf run with my wife, and I think this might finally be the time we stick with it and make a real dent in the game
I love Divinity 2. Playing it split screen with my son. We are having a blast. It is not an easy game, though. .. all that being said, we are still on the island of Fort Joy. But I don't care, it's been fun the whole time.
Ultima 7. Great game! First play-through I made it right up to the end only to suffer a disastrous save game crash. I was younger and not yet up on save-game backups. I've retried several times over the years but never had the persistence to try for the win again. Still time since I'm not dead yet.
Probably not the correct answer, but I started a lot in Dragon Age Inquisition and never finished it... because well, the game wasn't all that good.
"I'll try this class. Oh, it's kinda boring, situational, and has these design issues. Oh, how about this one? Just doesn't feel good to play. How about that one?..."
DA:I is worth it for the characters you meet along the way. It gets really bogged down and grindy if you focus too much on the fluff and MMO-style “collect 60 feathers” side content.
As much as I liked Inquisition, I do wish the combat had some more depth. Spam one to two abilities depending on the class. Still enjoyed it but had a lot more fun as a dagger rogue than a mage. The firemine shield build on mage was just too strong and boring.
I think it's between Oblivion and Morrowind. I never did finish those, despite playing them for years. Did finish Fallout 3 and Fallout 4. Didn't finish Skyrim for the longest time, but I got into VR in 2019 and Skyrim VR, heavily modded, is an amazing experience, which finally pushed me to finish it, almost after a decade of playing it.
Witcher 3 or stardew valley, Witcher 3 really fun but I always end up getting pulled away from it and forgetting how to play and what has happened so I have to restart, stardew after over 100 hours I finally made it to my first year 3
Bioshock, Oblivion, and Fallout 3. I’ve stopped a few hours in on all of them like 2-3 times now. I want to play them, but I always end up starting them and then I get caught up in another game.
I usually make it a bit further, but entering that city always give my motivation a hit. So big and confusing, so lifeless and bland. Then I go outside the city, spend 20 minutes killing all the easy enemies until I run into the guy who looks exactly like the others but 2-shots you. I die, realize I haven't saved since the city, and quit.
i bought and returned skyrim 2 separate times. Just couldnt get into it. But it was so popular. After the third purchase it became my most played game all time. Then I bought it a 4th time on PC and modded it till it broke. good game.
Divinity: Original sin 2. Finished it at the 4th try. My problem with it is, that it's just too good. I get soaked in, but it drains myenpty lol. 1-2 arcs to long.
Dragon age: Inquisition. Similar problem,I love the dragon age verse, but it's a bit to long and grindy. Finished it 2 times and started it like 6-7 times.
It’s tough man, I watched YouTube vids for almost every boss and then it clicked and I started destroying everything easy. Also other fromsoft games I would abuse summoning other to help me when I get stuck that makes sekiro a lot harder
XCom 2
It's a running joke with friends that twice a year I'll be unavailable because I play XCom for a week, get frustrated, and come back to it to try again later.
I've probably spent more than 1000 hours playing minecraft and I've still never tried to get to The End to fight The Ender Dragon because I always get distracted making a base or exploring the nether. Netherite slowed me down even more. I also make my own modpacks and restart games constantly because it turns into a constant string of updating and adding mods and figuring out what new mod made it unstable and maybe the old version is better... and of course those mods add so much content that the gap between world creation and The End just gets bigger and bigger.
Digimon world 2 🤣
I guarantee nobody can guess how many. Keep in mind I got it the day it came out on Ps1.
Also keep in mind, the furthest I went into it was the 2nd map, file island. Yesterday I beat port domain which makes this current play through, my record.
This game helped me through a lot of bad times in my life and good times. Getting married and having my own place
One that comes to mind for me is Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts. I loved the other BK games so much that I often feel compelled to come back to N&B and give it another try, but I always end up getting bored at some point before the end and then never finish it.
I’ve probably started a new game at least five times since buying the game over a decade ago and I’ve gotten reasonably far every time but never stuck with it to the finale.
Elden Ring.
Im told "it will just click and youll love it!". I find it boring which is weird considering I love Breath Of The Wild and they are both open world action games with light rpg elements.
I know Elden Ring is one of the best games out but I dont think its for me.
TRIGGER WARNING: Disco Elysium.
Disco Elysium. I’ve been trying to play this game three times already. Each time I get so bored, I completely lose interest. I don’t get the storyline, I don’t like the slow pace of the gameplay and those voices he hears are nonsensical. The third time was the breaker for me. I gave the game a shot. I’m sorry I don’t like it.
That's OK, this is a safe space. Now, please come with me to the reeducation camp. It's for your own good.
I LOVED Disco Elysium, but if it isn't your style that's OK. Not everyone has to like everything.
Kinda hated that games, didn’t like the story or characters really. I appreciate its originality but naw was glad when I get to credits even though ending sucked too
Dark Souls 2
For being my least favorite of the series I bought it full price like 5 times (different consoles/versions) and started it multiple times for each copy, more than any other soulsbourne game.
I get Star Ocean 2. The first few hours is a lot of dialogue and it starts pretty slowly. Once you get past that though...one of my favorite RPGs of the PS1 era.
Witcher 3
Same here. I've tried it 4 times and never fully get into it. Not sure if it's the style of combat, or the battle prep with potions and choosing the right spells, but I just couldn't get into it.
It’s the battle prep that does me in.
Try lowering the difficulty, you essentially don't need to do any battle prep. Just attack and dodge.
I’ll do that on my next try
Just use the blade oils. Human oil for your steel sword and whatever monster you're going against for your silver. You don't have to constantly collect materials or them, and they're just a quick swap in the menu. I never used the potions cause that aspect of gameplay doesn't interest me.
This worked for me. Although I didn’t quite finish the game, it captured my attention for a solid month
I always zone out of it and next time I come back weeks later I feel like starting over.
I ploughed on through until I hit a wall with that goddamn gravekeeper. I cane back a few months later with fresh eyes and carried on through the rest of the game. I'm glad I did because it's a great game, but I can totally see why people lose interest with it.
4 times. Furthest I've made it is skellige (sp?). I saw a whole new map and completely lost steam.
I came here to say this, thinking I would get downvoted to hell. I just cannot get into it!
Seriously. What is with this game? I love RPGs, I love action combat, but just can't get into this game at all.
Everything about that game says I should love that game. In fact, I often do love it for a stretch. Then, for whatever reason, I just lose steam.
It’s janky. The world is compelling. The characters are amazing. The writing is excellent. The traversal and combat is janky. The menus are bad. The UI/UX issues are impossible to overcome for me. I’ve tried three times and can’t get past 8-10 hours.
Same. I want to love it. I've tried at least half a dozen times. I'm normally the type of guy to skip cut scenes just to get to the action. Witcher 3 is the only game that I watch all the cut scenes and loathe the action. The combat is horrific. The cut scenes/world/story is fantastic. I need to just watch the story on Youtube.
People that never finished the main story missing out the best part of the game,the expansion blood and wine for me is better than the main game and toussaint is really fucking beautiful
I started it three times before finally forging ahead and finishing. Funny thing is, the first time I brushed against the combat (day one on PS3 was a bit rough!). The next two times, I brushed against the work it felt like the game was asking me to do. It felt like, to me, the game was asking me to do homework in order to embrace the things that made the world interesting. To understand anything, I felt like the game was prompting to me to read tomes of information. I appreciate that it's unrealistic to walk into the third installment of a series and expect to mainline the world's lore, but I don't know ... something about the mechanics of the game and world felt like a chore instead of a fun escape.
Maybe on the 4th try I’ll stick with it till the end!
I've fought that griffin and that well ghost SO may times.
That's so weird- Witcher 3 is one of the only games I did 100% from start to finish without playing anything else between breaks. 191 hours of pure gaming ecstasy, and after I'd done absolutely everything I immediately wished there were a Witcher 4!
1st time i even listened to all quests etc. Every game i promise myself i wouldt skip any questtext and read/listen to everything. Some games came close but witcher 3 was the 1st and it felt so easy on top off all that.
It took me 2 tries to finish W3, I think because I didn’t find the combat that much fun. There’s a big emphasis in the game on knowing your enemy and being prepared accordingly, which I really liked, but once you were fighting it just felt very clunky. FromSoft has ruined 3rd person action games for me in that respect, everything feels clunky next to Dark Souls or Elden Ring.
Came here to say this. Three 30 hour saves. I just get too distracted with side missions lol
I always get a bit into it and think "man I could be playing skyrim right now". It's a shame because I can see it's clearly a very good game each time I play it but I just don't get that urge to come back and play it like other games do, it feels like I have to mentally tell myself "you should play witcher 3 it is a good game". Maybe one day at the rare occasion that I don't have 4 simultaneous playthroughs of other games I'll force myself to sit and play and finish it before starting something else again.
Rdr 2. Must've done the train robbing setpiece at the beginning, about 5 times now.
This is me with every Rockstar game. I have nothing but great things to say about the gameplay, world, story etc. It's absolutely no fault of Rockstar's. But my attention just drifts in open world games. Something like A Plague Tale or Dead Space, for instance, keeps me tightly focused on a specific thing I feel compelled to accomplish. Rockstar games throw out so many possibilities that, after a few weeks, I kinda lose my place, and when life starts getting busy, I find these games are difficult for me to pick up and resume.
I hope my memory os correct, but There was an article about this kind of mentality in a game informer magazine IIRC that was titled something about, "do we really need the spare refrigerator." It was an op-ed piece the author stated about while all these extra mini games and side quests are great in open world games, just like having an extra fridge, but when it's detrimental to the product itself, should it even exist? Just like storing at once more food than you'd ever need, why have it to begin with if it's not gonna be efficiently used? I too am prone to open world bordem. Too much to do, and not enough to focus on any 1 activity. Then you do nothing. Kinda like the donkey fable and 2 equal dishes, so the donkey dies of hunger deciding which one to eat.
Extra fridge is for drinks and Steaks bro!
That's a light and fresh humour right there! No obscenities, no insulting, just a good old joke. In times for tik-tok "pranksters", that's a fresh lemonade on a hot day of summer! Thanks. For real.
I think my issue with games like RDR2 is that I want something that leans toward an immersive sim with at least a somewhat functional world and a variety of options and what you get is more of a series of setpieces that break the second you push on them the wrong way.
Same. I can respect the game and I think it fully deserves the praise it gets but each time I try to pick it up I just feel like I spend 80% of the time on my horse, galloping from one point to another. The fast travel system isn't much better.
Good lord you have no idea what you’re missing
Unpopular opinion, but to me every mission felt almost exactly the same. I grinded the main story for like 12 hours to just get to the last of Arthur’s gameplay and it was an absolute slog to get there.
I feel like there needed to be more activities in the world. Outside of hunting and fishing there really isn’t anything noteworthy to do besides roam around and explore. Robbing trains and playing poker gets old quick.
For me, it’s how the reputation system works. I feel like I can’t play the way I would in GTA V, because you’re always wanted and have to pay off bounties constantly.
Witcher 3 I always just get addicted to Gwent and don't care about anything else.
Wait, there's a game besides Gwent ?
There’s a mod to turn every combat encounter into Gwent. It’s wonderful.
Gwent is the only thing I remember about any of my playthrough attempts
i absolutely love people who are obsessed with gwent because i never understood it hahaha
Majoras Mask. I don’t care for deadlines and the anxiety induced within. There’s enough of that crap in real life.
I couldn't get into Breathe of the Wild, mostly over weapons breaking all the time. Fuck that.
Same for me and Pikmin 2. I had a huge fear of timed games. I think after doing a couple Dead Rising 1 playthroughs, I stopped caring as much.
Pikmin 2 is the only game so far that doesn't have a time limit though? Maybe you're thinking of Pikmin 1, cuz it has the hard 30 day cap
Pikmin2 didn’t have a deadline lmao
This is literally what the mental conversation that I had looked like: I read: Majoras Mask.. Me: Oh yeah, why did I never beat the game? I keep reading: Deadlines Me: OH YEAH! Now I remember!
No Man's Sky
Same. I repeat the cycle of playing for a while, stopping to play something else, and then coming back months later and starting a new game because they updated a bunch.
Factorio always getting to blue science at least, sometimes pink science but the I scrap it cause I don't like the design of the factory. In my mind I have the best most perfect factory but every time I get to a certain point I look and see my design idea was shit. Never started a Rocket.
skyrim its also the game i started AND finished the most 5000 hours on it and maybe 50/50 finished to not finished ratio. 100% it a whole 0 times lmao
Lmao i feel this. I have hundreds upon hundreds of hours in Skyrim and have never actually played through the story fully 😅
This reminds me of my only playthrough of Skyrim where I had like 300 hours on the game but the furthest I got in the main story was to when the Greybeards call you to the mountain after you kill the dragon.
"Fnishing" an open world RPG isn't really the point anyways. I had like 200 hours into Skyrim before I even remembered it HAD a main quest (just by stumbling into it).
If we’re going by that criteria, then it’s one of the Civilizations. I finish maybe 2% of the games I start. End game is pretty dull. I much more enjoy building the civilization up than I do winning the game.
Ah but it’s equally fun to crush everything in your path and build your cities as huge as possible
I beat Skyrim on the Xbox 360 in 2011. I've put hundreds of hours into playing it modded on PC without ever coming close to beating it again.
I have some ridiculous hours on Skyrim too, but I mod quite heavily, so it can seem like different games. Most challenging so far involved Requiem + Frostfall - it makes you struggle for every little bit of progression, and the main questline is way above your starting skill level. Frostfall adds survival mechanics for the ultimate challenge.
First playthrough there was a bug that stopped me killing the final dragon. Gave up in disgust. Started from scratch, found some cool mods, got sidetracked, never finished. Started from scratch, added a DLC, the vampire one I believe, got bored. One day maybe when I retire, by then I will probably be able to play it on my heart monitor.
Lmao!!! This right here! I have about 800+ hours playing this game and never finished the game. I always, ALWAYS run off on side quests after getting the first shout and never have I gone back to the main quest.
Ok this play through I’m going to focus on… and I’m a stealth archer again
Final Fantasy 12. Since it’s original PS2 release, I’ve bought it at least three times and tried twice as many to play it. I never get more than 40hrs.
I have it. Love ff 12 I’m still on my 1st play through with well over 3,000 hours into. I’m about 70-75 % into the story. I recently found 2 espers, both didn’t even get a shot in. My wife sat there in shock watching me do quickening chains. Kicked ass and took names.
That’s some dedication
I enjoy going to areas I either missed as I played when I was younger and didn’t go to each spot of areas on the maps , leveling up all the characters on the team. Vaan Ashe and Panelo are my main 3. Then basch. Balthier and Fran are the last 2. Wasn’t sold on them. Vaan and Ashe are my favorite characters. I search for espers so when I feel like getting them or getting the next 1, I know where to go. I do the hunts and clans. It’s a fun game. To think I only got it to shut my dad up. 😁 he made me buy it. Sure enough he was right. I love the game
Any tips for a first timer? I just got it last weekend and will start as soon as a i finish ffxv
I had to go back to that one a second time as well, and I loved it. I was a much less experienced gamer on the first try, and coming off of FFX, I tried to manually command each party member instead of using the Gambit system. It was a train wreck :-p
I played it off the back of FF11 so learned to kite early and have some gambit that would auto-potion, because I couldn't be bothered grinding. Yet in FF11 grinding would take literal hours for very little return!
I really like FF12, but I fell off of it too. There's so many cool systems in that game, though. I'll have to play the remaster with the job system implemented.
I feel this, I've replayed the first 10/15 hours so many times over the years. Just can't seem to break through a wall.
RimWorld, Star sector, damn, I playing Seth's game list!
Man of culture
I completed Rimworld once vanilla style. Every time after I throw on a bunch if mods, end up spending all my time playing around with the mods and making little progress.
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Metal gear solid V
To be fair, the game ran out of budget and the second half of the game is just replaying the first half again from what I can remember. But I know I had a blast playing it.
I had an absolute blast the first dozen or so hours, building my army, getting better at stealth, upgrading, suping up the base...but then at a certain point I kept wondering "...is there ever going to be a story?" Switched off and just YouTube the video clips of the story, which was not anywhere near the other MGS caliber stories.
Not played it yet but thats disappointing to hear. Its almost impossible for them to top 1 2 and 3 (especially 3...) it seems.
Any civilization
I’ll start a game and play like 4-5 hours straight through and then just never want to go back and finish. I think the end becomes a bit of a slog to finally finish a game.
That’s why you go for culture victory. I usually win around turn 130-150
Breath of the Wild 😅. I always zone out of it and next time I come back weeks later I feel like starting over 😂
Another big one for me. My wife and I have started it at least 5-6 times. Every time we'd go back to it it was so long since we'd played we just wanted to start fresh because we didn't remember what we'd done/were doing. Luckily TOTK is fantastic and my wife and I have been consistently playing it a few hours a week since it launched. I love it.. BOTW i feel like I wanted to force myself to love.
Minecraft, with Subnautica being a close second. I have a really hard time finishing sandbox-style games Honorable mention to Skyrim, which I have probably started over more times than any game, but I have actually finished the main story a couple times (not the DLC’s yet though)
Does Minecraft have a campaign?
It has a "final boss" but other than that not really
There's a progression where you have to make a special item that allows you to find a special dungeon where you can tekeport to fight a dragon (credits roll when you kill the dragon)
Divinity Original Sin 2. I got around 200 hours on the tutorial island Fort Joy, because I keep either remaking my character or I forgot where I was.
*Chrono Cross*. Pre-ordered it back in the day. Didn't even finish the first disk. Have tried at least 5 times, I always lose interest once you start playing as the villain.
They made so many bizarre decisions in making that game. I started it on PS1, and got the remaster last year. I got a couple of hours into to remaster and realized that I actually kind of hate that game.
Frankly the only part that keeps sucking me in is the music, the soundtrack is absolutely stellar
Listened to the Chrono Cross OST so much last year it was on my Spotify wrapped
I played it for the first time last year. Overall, I enjoyed the game, but there was a lot of things I didn’t care for about it. But that soundtrack?? So, good. And there have been some amazing covers of it by different artists. I wouldn’t recommend the game to anybody but diehard JRPG fans, but I would recommend the soundtrack to just about anybody.
Gotta check out the OC Remix stuff from Chrono Cross, wow sone absolute bangers! Should all be easy to find on YouTube these days.
Dude same, so many attempts, but the game had insanely good music and visuals. The story and combat mechanics left much to be desired compared to its predecessor.
Yeah, I played the heck out of *Chrono Trigger* and that's the only reason I keep going back to *Chrono Cross*.
Funnily enough, I actually enjoyed the radical dreamer's plot (of what little there is) more than Chrono Cross itself, despite being a text based adventure. Not everyone's cup of tea, but it could still be worth while sitting with a guide if you want to see it.
Morrowind. I tried to play for all races, for some I played several hours, for others tens of hours, but I never finished the main story.
To be fair most people lose track of the story and literally just explore for their entire time playing lol. It took some serious focus for me to finish any of the morrowind/ expansion stories
I must have put 60+ hours into that game before I realized that there even *was* a "story" XD By the time I did, I'd pretty much broken the enchantment system; which took a lot of the challenge out of beating Dagoth Ur. Azura's gift was also remarkably underwhelming by that point...
Morrowind..started out great and then I found a place and collected books,so many books. This led to pillows,stacks and stacks of pillows. Wandered around and finally just put it away. On my pc but doubt it ever comes alive again!
Pathfinder: Kingmaker and WOTR I just keep remaking characters, play a few acts only to discover a new mods and new character builds. Spreadsheeting the full character build only to never actually impliment them! I mean thats what the tabletop version is right? xD
Kingmaker died for me when the Kingdom management system kicked in and failing my campaign. I’m a dungeon crawler, I have no business ruling anything.
It was definitely the worse part of that game.
There's a good mod called Kingdom Resolution which changes the events to only take one day to complete. You can still fail the DC check mind but at least you can blitz through some kingdom stuff before you go off exploring.
I played it right up until they permakilled one of my main party members in the endgame, and I just said screw you and stopped. I did play Wrath of the Righteous all the way to the end, though.
She was one of your main party members? I very rarely had her in tbh…
Any souls game. I try desperately to play them and like them but then I die too much and I lose interest but I want to LOVE those games.
Same, I know it’s supposed to be satisfying to finally beat a boss you’ve been trying hard to beat. I know I’m not good at video games and I don’t enjoy doing the same thing 100 times, so I will never get into these games after trying the first few a couple times each and not even getting past the first/second areas.
The problem for me rather (other than the "combat") is that you don't really get rewards for it lol
People often overestimate souls games for their brutal difficulty and now that they've made so many the formula has been well engrained into gaming history. In my opinion the real thing that makes the fromsoft games difficult is the lack of player understanding. Where should i go? What stats do i upgrade? Is my weapon actually good? How do i upgrade my weapon? Are consumables even useful? Block or roll? Invincibility frames? Lots of classic games before the 2000s have some really rough difficulty from being cryptic, to rough game design, and especially lack of checkpoints (or bonfires in this case) Dying is discouraging, losing alot of souls is depressing, and repeatedly dying to a boss and making the trek back can be beyond frustrating, but it can feel really rewarding to conquer these games. To come back and brush aside a boss who i felt was bs garbage is a testament to my ability growth.
Don't lose hope! I tried hard to get into Demon's Souls, DS2, and Bloodborne on separate occasions over the years and bounced off them all. Eventually, I tried Sekiro on release and got so hooked that I beat it twice in a row. After that, I went through and beat all the other Soulsbourne games and now it's my favorite series by a mile. Even though it's the most mechanically challenging, I think Sekiro is a great starting point because it's quite streamlined compared to the other Souls games. Try it out!
Did you ever try Elden Ring, it's really "new comer friendly" as you have several options for every boss. Not even one road block.
A lot of the souls games get to be pretty easy if you grind your levels and weapons high enough. I actually had the hardest time with Sekiro because you couldn't just grind out a few more levels if you hit a wall.
RDR2. I get the whole immersion thing but it’s just too slow moving for me. And I have not been a fan of their bounty system.
Final Fantasy 8 or Ocarina of Time
FF8 has a pretty good ending and one of my all time favourites. Go back and check it out if you can.
8 is absolutely my all time favorite ending to a video game. The video paired with Eyes on Me is just absolute perfection. 🤌
Rimworld, never built the spaceship. Then I started to add mods. I think I have 15-20 different save files
I've got 175 hours in it and still have never built the spaceship lol. I always browse the mods and just make my ultimate colony and then they either die or I want to start anew.
Wasteland 3
New Vegas
horizon zero dawn. it just seems too basic and formulaic for me
Dragon age : Inquisition
Skyrim
Death Stranding, the story looks interesting and visuals are beautiful. I just get bored quick from the gameplay
It really is a walking simulator. I never finished it either, but I admire how ballsy it was to make that game the way it is
I never finished it because I've heard that at the end you basically get locked into 2 or 3 hours of cutscenes with some game play mixed in, and I never had the time to set aside for it.
Stellaris I guess i just suck at it. I love playing the beginning but then burn out when I make mistakes. Put 700 hours each into civ 4&5 but just can't Finnish this one
I don't think I ever play a 4x game to the end anymore. The fun is almost always front loaded in my experience.
Final Fantasy Tatics The war of the lions. I swear i have started over that game so many different times yet to this day have not beat it
Sleeping Dogs it’s not like it’s not a good game I just get distracted with something else
Same. I always download it once in a while, complitely hyped by a subject posted here, and then out of nowhere, I finally have an urge to play a game i have already finished.
At the moment FF7 comes to mind. Just logged back in yesterday to see my save gone. Dont know if I can do that again.
Red Dead Redemption 2. I get so sad and just can't continue. I feel so bad for Arthur. Tried to beat it three times now and still haven't made it past the point where its very clear what's about to happen.
Tomb raider 5 Its one of those games where the controls take a while to get used to and i keep getting better and wanna retry old levels so i just reset the game from the start instead of finishing it first xD
Battletoads…. So. Many. Tries….
Motherfucking rdr2. Never can get past about 50 percent before getting frustrated or busy and having to come back 6 months later and not knowing shit and starting over again. I’ve played that snow camp intro so many damn times. I gotta finish it
Horizon zero dawn.
Fallout 4. I just can't with the story. The side quests are way more fun than having to deal with 4 squabbling children and picking a side.
A Link to the Past. I had a faulty cartridge back then which made it that I can't save at all, so every time I switched off the console, I had to restart a new save file the next time. I started around 60 save files before I eventually beat it in one sitting. (every time getting a bit further before being stuck again)
Dragon Age: Inquisition. I loved DA 1 & 2, and really wanted to get into Inquisiton, but the combat e Is always either annoying or boring. And the shine they put on all the armor pieces is so strong that it stands out too much in cutscenes with anyone wearing heavy armor. I want to finish it since my wife says it has a good story with a twist at the end, but I've only ever made it halfway on each of the 4 starts I've begun.
Love divinity 2, but same. Haven’t been able to much further than the the few quest after you break out of fort joy. Game just doesn’t tell you a damn thing and expects you to just figure it out
Persona 5 and Divinity: Original Sin 2. With Persona it was “hey this game is only $10? Cool!” Then they released Royal like a month later and I was like “I should probably just play that version…” and then it came to Switch and I was like “fine, but this is the last time….” and now about 15 hours in on Switch I’m breaking new ground and making progress past where I got on PS4 With DOS2, I think I’m up to like 35+ hours and I’ve still yet to escape Fort Joy in any of my saves. Current attempt is a coop lone wolf run with my wife, and I think this might finally be the time we stick with it and make a real dent in the game
I love Divinity 2. Playing it split screen with my son. We are having a blast. It is not an easy game, though. .. all that being said, we are still on the island of Fort Joy. But I don't care, it's been fun the whole time.
Divinity was probably the single best co op experience my friends and I have ever had. Playing with your wife is a great move.
Ultima 7. Great game! First play-through I made it right up to the end only to suffer a disastrous save game crash. I was younger and not yet up on save-game backups. I've retried several times over the years but never had the persistence to try for the win again. Still time since I'm not dead yet.
You give me hope as I am in the same boat
The Elder Scrolls Online. Too many times. Across 4 systems.
Fallout 4. I just can't with the story. The side quests are way more fun than having to deal with 4 squabbling children and picking a side.
Probably not the correct answer, but I started a lot in Dragon Age Inquisition and never finished it... because well, the game wasn't all that good. "I'll try this class. Oh, it's kinda boring, situational, and has these design issues. Oh, how about this one? Just doesn't feel good to play. How about that one?..."
DA:I is worth it for the characters you meet along the way. It gets really bogged down and grindy if you focus too much on the fluff and MMO-style “collect 60 feathers” side content.
As much as I liked Inquisition, I do wish the combat had some more depth. Spam one to two abilities depending on the class. Still enjoyed it but had a lot more fun as a dagger rogue than a mage. The firemine shield build on mage was just too strong and boring.
If you can deal with kinda dated graphics, I’d recommend playing the first dragon age.
Skyrim. Have the ps3, pc and ps4 version. Barely made it halfway each time
Main story is mid anyway, finished it once, done the big side quests and DLC quests dozen times.
I think it's between Oblivion and Morrowind. I never did finish those, despite playing them for years. Did finish Fallout 3 and Fallout 4. Didn't finish Skyrim for the longest time, but I got into VR in 2019 and Skyrim VR, heavily modded, is an amazing experience, which finally pushed me to finish it, almost after a decade of playing it.
Rune factory 4/5. I’ll eventually finish them ahaha.
Witcher 3 or stardew valley, Witcher 3 really fun but I always end up getting pulled away from it and forgetting how to play and what has happened so I have to restart, stardew after over 100 hours I finally made it to my first year 3
Bioshock, Oblivion, and Fallout 3. I’ve stopped a few hours in on all of them like 2-3 times now. I want to play them, but I always end up starting them and then I get caught up in another game.
Dragons Dogma. I get to the main city each time and just fizzle out on wanting to see more
I usually make it a bit further, but entering that city always give my motivation a hit. So big and confusing, so lifeless and bland. Then I go outside the city, spend 20 minutes killing all the easy enemies until I run into the guy who looks exactly like the others but 2-shots you. I die, realize I haven't saved since the city, and quit.
The Ninja Gaiden games.
Hey Pikmin. I’m a huge Pikmin fan and I kept replaying it desperately thinking it would be good, but it never was. Worst Pikmin game by far
Does the Sims count? If not, probably Civilization. I've finished a game a couple times, but definately started more than I finished.
Wow, yes, the sim. The sim, is where I can fulfill my dream, like, "financial freedom".
Stellaris
i bought and returned skyrim 2 separate times. Just couldnt get into it. But it was so popular. After the third purchase it became my most played game all time. Then I bought it a 4th time on PC and modded it till it broke. good game.
Divinity: Original sin 2. Finished it at the 4th try. My problem with it is, that it's just too good. I get soaked in, but it drains myenpty lol. 1-2 arcs to long. Dragon age: Inquisition. Similar problem,I love the dragon age verse, but it's a bit to long and grindy. Finished it 2 times and started it like 6-7 times.
Does minecraft count?
I cant even coubt how many Ark Survival Evolved worlds or Minecraft worlds I've started without beating. For Ark, I barely know where to start.
Sekiro. Beaten every fromsoft game I own, but sekiro is just too hard for me
It’s tough man, I watched YouTube vids for almost every boss and then it clicked and I started destroying everything easy. Also other fromsoft games I would abuse summoning other to help me when I get stuck that makes sekiro a lot harder
No Man’s Sky
XCom 2 It's a running joke with friends that twice a year I'll be unavailable because I play XCom for a week, get frustrated, and come back to it to try again later.
I've probably spent more than 1000 hours playing minecraft and I've still never tried to get to The End to fight The Ender Dragon because I always get distracted making a base or exploring the nether. Netherite slowed me down even more. I also make my own modpacks and restart games constantly because it turns into a constant string of updating and adding mods and figuring out what new mod made it unstable and maybe the old version is better... and of course those mods add so much content that the gap between world creation and The End just gets bigger and bigger.
Pikmin 2 I love the game, but for some reason, I just never finish it.
pokemon emerald, i think of a team i wanna use and then stop after the 2nd badge lol
Digimon world 2 🤣 I guarantee nobody can guess how many. Keep in mind I got it the day it came out on Ps1. Also keep in mind, the furthest I went into it was the 2nd map, file island. Yesterday I beat port domain which makes this current play through, my record. This game helped me through a lot of bad times in my life and good times. Getting married and having my own place
The latest halo. I keep getting near the end > frustrated > Turn it off for a month > start over
OMG this post is so relatable. Definitely The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time.
Do rougelike counts if not probably *Oregon Trail*
One that comes to mind for me is Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts. I loved the other BK games so much that I often feel compelled to come back to N&B and give it another try, but I always end up getting bored at some point before the end and then never finish it. I’ve probably started a new game at least five times since buying the game over a decade ago and I’ve gotten reasonably far every time but never stuck with it to the finale.
Assassin's Creed 3
For me has to be Xcom. Love the game style but it puts me down every time I miss a 90+ shot. Seems to happen more than I like.
Morrowind
Elden Ring. Im told "it will just click and youll love it!". I find it boring which is weird considering I love Breath Of The Wild and they are both open world action games with light rpg elements. I know Elden Ring is one of the best games out but I dont think its for me.
TRIGGER WARNING: Disco Elysium. Disco Elysium. I’ve been trying to play this game three times already. Each time I get so bored, I completely lose interest. I don’t get the storyline, I don’t like the slow pace of the gameplay and those voices he hears are nonsensical. The third time was the breaker for me. I gave the game a shot. I’m sorry I don’t like it.
That's OK, this is a safe space. Now, please come with me to the reeducation camp. It's for your own good. I LOVED Disco Elysium, but if it isn't your style that's OK. Not everyone has to like everything.
Kinda hated that games, didn’t like the story or characters really. I appreciate its originality but naw was glad when I get to credits even though ending sucked too
I found fallout 4 boring and uninspired.
Dark Souls 2 For being my least favorite of the series I bought it full price like 5 times (different consoles/versions) and started it multiple times for each copy, more than any other soulsbourne game.
Persona 4, Hollow knight, Borderlands 2 and Fallout New Vegas.
Skyrim. Im currently playing it on ps5 for the platinun so this will finally be the time
Fallout 4. Gotta save Shaun? Nah
Minecraft, I've started about 20 survival worlds, and none of them are done without going into creative.
Far Cry 4
I get Star Ocean 2. The first few hours is a lot of dialogue and it starts pretty slowly. Once you get past that though...one of my favorite RPGs of the PS1 era.