Ever had a game where you started playing but then something got in the way? I am not talking about those games that were so horrible that you stopped playing because you could not bear to stand another moment of it. Rather, I am talking about those games that you enjoyed (even if it was mildly enjoyable). If so:

  • What was the game?
  • When was it that you stopped to play?
  • Why did you stop playing (i.e. what was it that got in the way)?

Here is my list of shame:

  • Prey: got stuck in one level after nearly shitting my pants, and then went for lunch... he wasn't heard from since :P Seriously though, got too much RL stuff going on to really enjoy this game at the moment, and it deserves my full attention.
  • Nikopol: this is sadly my greatest shame. I won it here on SG long before it was on the bundle, but I only managed to run it once for 20 minutes, before being engulfed in life's problems (think I am getting too old for games :/)
  • Portal: Never really understood what was going on at first... its on my "to play again" l;st though...
  • Gothic 2:: Dunno why it is taking so long :/ Though I must admit I am a thorough RPG player and it took me 167 hours to finsih Gothic... I am still at 75 hours I think for this one...

Your Turn.... :)

1 decade ago*

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Stop making topics and go play Portal. Now.

1 decade ago
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THIS omg, i won it last friday and finished it on Sunday :D

1 decade ago
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That sounds impressive, but considering my first playthrough lasted like 3 hours, that's not saying much. :p

1 decade ago
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I'm fairly sure he wasn't bragging about his completion time :p

1 decade ago
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It just kinda sounded a bit weird. If it were a big game, that'd be worth mentioning. It just seems weird to mention it for a shorter one. No offense meant. XD

1 decade ago
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It would've sounded weird if he only said "I won it last friday and finished it" - or just "I won it and finished it", maybe that's just me I dunno.

1 decade ago
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I only finished 2 or 3 games from my whole steam library (100games) the list is just way too long

1 decade ago
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Same here, way too many aborted playthroughs on my list, and not just my Steam library. 200+ installed games and I've probably only completed about a dozen of them.

1 decade ago
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same here 2 or 3 games from my whole steam library. Over 500 games in my library

1 decade ago
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  • MW3 SP & MP
  • SP after 20 min, MP 22 hrs
  • it's sucks & i will never play it again.
1 decade ago
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yes, it sucks if you are noob, but if you are at least a bit skilled, itΒ΄s perfect ! So, the problem is in you !

1 decade ago
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If you don't like the game, the problem is in the game, not in you.

1 decade ago
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If you don't like the game, you don't like the game. I don't see why the game has to be bad or why the person has to be faulty. - That said I have played MW3 MP for +100 hours, it was fun, sometimes it wasn't.

If a game is genuinely bad, no one plays it. If it's popular, that means it is entertaining people aka. it's "good". But it doesn't mean everyone likes it.

1 decade ago
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lolthisisacrapgame

1 decade ago
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the game was made for noobs like mw2. fixed that for you

1 decade ago
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Gothic 3. I'm a HUGE gothic fan but the game is just SO
DAMN
LONG

1 decade ago
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I know... I know...

1 decade ago
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Started it 3 times (before and after the fan patches) but never got to finish it even if I love the Gothic series. Moved on to Arcania which was a big dissapointment. I liked Risen though.

1 decade ago
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Duke Nukem Forever... Shame on me :(

1 decade ago
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Shame on them

1 decade ago
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DNF is boring.

1 decade ago
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DNF is one of the greatest games ever :P

1 decade ago
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Turok,Duke,Freeman;all amateurs, Serious Sam is the only serious action hero out there

1 decade ago
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He is, but his latest game sucked as well

1 decade ago
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I couldn't even make it through the demo so I don't think it's you. Bad game. Bad.

1 decade ago
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Fallout 1

1 decade ago
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i played 10 mins xD

1 decade ago
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I didn't know how to kill things or where to go :(

1 decade ago
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that happened to me too, but after the first hour or so you get the hang of it, walkthroughs help too.

1 decade ago
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For shame! All of you! Plus, you can always save and reload when you screw up.

1 decade ago
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Rure you are to young for this game, you will no understand this game...

1 decade ago
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Deus Ex:HR, quit on the last mission because I got bored.

1 decade ago
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The endings are really good. You should consider finishing the game sometime.

1 decade ago
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hahahaahahaha, nice joke

1 decade ago
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They are definitely better than what ME offers.

1 decade ago
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Are you trolling?

1 decade ago
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skyrim, risen, dragon age origins, dragon age 2, fallout 3, fallout new vegas, bfbc2, homefront, basically all the games i won that have story lines which is a shit load of games

1 decade ago
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I was playing The Witcher, but then Christmas hit and my girlfriend bought me Skyrim. So I put The Witcher on hold even though I was really enjoying it. I'm installing it again now to continue my adventures.

1 decade ago
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I've played it 23 hours but i stuck at a quest and got bored. But surely, i'll check it out later.

1 decade ago
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I just can't get over the fighting style. I could never get into Witcher 1 to be honest.

1 decade ago
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Witcher 1 is just plain boring. I could only get to the third map but damn.

1 decade ago
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Everything on my steam list.

1 decade ago
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Same here

1 decade ago
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Crysis 2. The AI sucks. Still, the multiplayer rocks.

Shogun 2. Loading takes forever. Small game font that hard to read. And I hate that English Japanese accent.

1 decade ago
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Normally English Japanese accent isn't like this. Loading duration is real problem. Also if you have only a laptop to play games, it's hard to resist to framerate drops :/

1 decade ago
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SEGA improved some of the loading times and AI turn duration in the Fall of the Samurai patch, though the only thing they changed about the Angelo-Japanese accent was adding tea. So much more tea.

1 decade ago
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dead island : was fun at the beggining, save file was deleted dunno why, dont want to restart all the game... :/

1 decade ago
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like 70% of all games i ever started, i didnt fully finished them

most of the time i get bored of a game and start a new one and so on

some of the games i've finished and rly enjoyed (HL,HL2 + episodes,l4d2, portal 1,2,oblivion,thief 1,2,3,legacy of kain series)

1 decade ago
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Same here. After a while I tend to play less and less of a game and start playing something else. There are the occasional titles that will suck me in and that I won't let down until I'm completely through but they are few and far between.

1 decade ago
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Because of my backlog it's more common to discontinue a game than finish it right away. I usually just check out the game and go play it through a few months later.
But not Portal.

1 decade ago
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  • Alice: Madness Return -> Chapter 3 -> Ultra long and repeat.
  • Just Cause 2 -> 2 hours -> Not my type of free-roam.
  • Two World 2 -> 6 hours -> Boring gameplay for a RPG.
  • Space Marine SP -> 1 hour -> Nothing more than shoot and slash.
  • Payday: The Heist -> 30 minutes -> Was too busy with BF3 :p
1 decade ago
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+1 on Just Cause 2 and Two Worlds 2. I installed, deleted and reinstalled them but never finished them because there were others games that got my attention

1 decade ago
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Most of them.

1 decade ago
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This.

1 decade ago
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Yeap. I can feel you.

Played through Septerra Core about 4 times and never finished it. I love the game, but it is too long and later in the game the battles become just too tedious.

1 decade ago
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Yup.

Bastion, Coil, Tiny Bang Story, Crayon Physics, Most of the GTA games, PVZ, AI war, Jamestown, I-Fluid, Eufloria, Sequence, EYE, super meat boy, costume quest, build a lot, fractal: make blooms not war, SPAZ, far cry, defense grid, and more.

To be honest, I do come back to most of them every so often, and play again, but I usually either a. start over and stop again before I finish or cheat to bypass a hard part, or b. (games like gta) I'm not interested in playing the game the way it was intended to be played, I just cheat like crazy and do what I want. This mostly involves running over cops in a tank in gta.

1 decade ago
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I did finish The Tiny Bang Story (with a bit of online help).

1 decade ago
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To elaborate a little, these days I don't even install most games (such as those I buy in the indie bundles; I typically don't even activate them on Steam). Some games I try and even enjoy, but don't play more than one session. I just don't have much time to play, so unless the game is casual and easy to play, and grabs me somehow (like Faerie Solitaire), I just don't play it much.

But it was always the case that I didn't finish most games. I remember quitting Warcraft 3 at the last mission. Star Control 3 I bought, started playing Star Control 2 which came with it, played it for quite a while but got stuck and stopped, and never got to 3. Even Planescape: Torment I didn't finish the first time, but I came back to it a few years later and played it through, and I'm happy about that (it's a very good game). The only type of games I finished in a relatively consistent manner were point and click adventure games.

1 decade ago
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Jet force gemini, i never got all ship parts, and never kill mizard. :(

1 decade ago
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Miles Edgeworth and Last Window, cuz my NDS is broken ;_;

1 decade ago
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Barbie Pony Runway Projeckt Adventure.
I didnt finish it because I woke up...

1 decade ago
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Most of the recent games.

What I regret is Dead Space. Have to finish it sometime. Plus I have the sequel.

Currently put off Deux Ex: HR, but that's a must to finish.

1 decade ago
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serious sam 3 bfe and payday (horrible)

1 decade ago
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really? Payday was that horrible?

1 decade ago
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It's not baaaad.. Just repetitive, tedious, and for me has turruble mouse acceleration.

1 decade ago
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yea is very difficult to shoot...

1 decade ago
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is the same as the left 4 dead 2 but with masks and without zombies

1 decade ago
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Amnesia
17mins
....too dark, cold and scary lol

I will go play again though! lol

1 decade ago
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This...I really can't handle horror games.

I had it in my library for half a year until I decided to give it a shot - I set up my livestream for a couple of friends to join, played like fifteen minutes and got so stressed out I just had to stop playing before I soiled my pants.

1 decade ago
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Borderlands 5x played it from start because i saved no my saves yea and now i have no loss to play it again from start.

1 decade ago
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Played about half the game the first time, and about 2 zones the 2nd time. Then i deleted it again, but kept the saves this time.

1 decade ago
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1) Almost all of them, since the event of #3

2) I stop to play as often as possible, thankyouverymuch

3) Wife & kid. Daughter is starting to play multiplayer stuff on our iPad though. :D

1 decade ago
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Unlike you I actually started finishing more games after I got married and had kids, simply because I switched to playing more casual ones, specifically quite a few hidden object adventure games. That kind of game often has 2-3 hours of gameplay in it, which makes it possible for me to finish. But more hardcore games I will likely not finish in the foreseeable future.

1 decade ago
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Almost every single game in my game list.

1 decade ago
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Closed 1 decade ago by h4r5h4v3ng3r.