Games that you need to finish

[leader of mortals]

We have all had this happen, I'm sure. We are playing a game, and something interrupts us for a while. Maybe it's school, maybe it's work, or maybe it's another game, but we always say, in the back of our minds, that we will get back to it, and sometimes, we never do.

That's where this thread comes in! Rack your brain, everyone, and think of all the games that you still need to finish! Here's mine:

Persona 3: FES (The Answer)
Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
Infamous
Psychonauts
Golden Sun 3
Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2
Final Fantasy 8
The Last Remnant
Grand Theft Auto 4

That's all I can think of right now. How about you guys?

[NorthernChaosGod]

Skyrim (probably doesn't count since I still play it)

I started up runs of Xenogears, Banjo-Kazooie, and Earthbound at various points in the past year and never finished them though.

[Sephex]

More like games you need to finish AND games you have yet to start.

Being an adult sucks.

[Del Murder]

Good thread. I always have a couple of these. Games I play to the end and for some reason get distracted before I beat the final boss. Ones that come to mind are:

Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (DS)
Dragon Quest IX (DS)
Tactics Ogre (PSP) (second playthrough)

[Jessweeee♪]

Skyrim. It's not very good at holding my interest.

[Wolf Kanno]

To make this list a bit shorter for me, I'm restricting this to "new" games I have never beaten before and games I have actually started so I have a save file somewhere.

SNES
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
Illusion of Gaia

Playstation
Arc the Lad III
Silhouette Mirage

GBA
Sword of Mana
Shin Megami Tensei DemiKids: Dark Version

DS
Phoenix Wright
Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey
Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Sky

PSP
Final Fantasy Dissidia Duodecim
Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker
Persona 3 Portable
Assassins Creed Bloodlines

PS2
Shinobi
Chulips
Lupin the III: Treasure of the Sorcerer King
Suikoden Tactics
Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 1
Shadow Hearts
Steambot Chronicles
Front Mission 4
Zone of the Enders
Space Channel 5 Special Edition
Grand Theft Auto Vice City

PS3
Fallout 3
Valkyria Chronicles
Little Big Planet
God of War Collection
Disgaea 3
White Knight Chronicles
Demon's Souls
Mirror's Edge
El Shaddai: Tale of the Metatron
Devil May Cry 4
Penny Arcade: On the Rainslick Precepts of Darkness
Scott Pilgrim Vs the World: The Game

Wii
Mad World
Fragile Dreams
Mario Galaxy
Skies of Arcadia (GC)
Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
Phantasy Star
Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen

Not as bad as I thought, but this list balloons when I add the games I haven't even had the chance to start...

[Sephex]

Skyrim. It's not very good at holding my interest.

I half agree with that.

I also realize I didn't list any. I will list the ones I hope to finish or start soon. I am finally playing Arkham City, for instance.

*Kirby's Epic Yarn (Wii)
*Kirby's Return to Dreamland (Wii)
*Dead Space (360)
*Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (DS)
*A bunch of games that I got through various sales on Steam

[Jiro]

Oh god like every game ever. I mean maybe I could cut it by games that aren't really that good/great/fun but I still feel compelled to finish most of them anyway. Just have to wait until I get back home and it's holidays.

I think once I graduate I am going to play games for a year. I don't know how I'll survive but I'm just gonna do it.

[edczxcvbnm]

I have to play Digital Devil Saga 2 (I beat the first one).

Then uuuhhh...I got Tomb Raider Chronicles or something. At this point smurf that game. I am never gonna play it.

I have like 7 Wii games that I have not even bothered with but I just can't get into anything on the Wii. I admit that I have not tried very hard but it is so out of sight and out of mind. Maybe that is my problem. Put the games in plain sight along with the annoying controller.

I want to play through Carl of Duty: Black Cops as it looks stupid and thus fun (My mistake was thinking they were trying to be serious).

I am in the middle of a second playthrough of Tales of Vespiria and trying to get all of the achievements.

I am currently playing Picross 3D on the DS.

I guess I have a bunch of PSP games to play through as well. (METAL GEEEEAAAAAAR!)

I also have the entire tell tale collection to play through....sooooo FFFUUUUUU- ( I did actually play through quite a bit of these)

So what am I playing instead of all this crap? FFVII! Clearly I have my priorities straight! Then later on in the week instead of playing a good game I will play a completley troutty game with my friends called "Rock of the Dead". It is like typing of the dead but with Guitar Hero/Rock Band Guitars. YEAH!

[I Took the Red Pill]

Persona 3: FES
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Beyond Good and Evil
Skyward Sword

[Bolivar]

Been messing with a lot but the only game I really need to finish right now is Dragon Quest VI. I got second playthroughs of Tactics Ogre and Killzone 3 but I'm not in any rush with them.

[VeloZer0]

Games that I feel bad for not finishing:

FF2 - I've never been particularly interested in this one, but I still want to finish it. Unfortunately my copy of the game keeps crashing at a certain point, and I haven't enjoyed it enough so far to start over on a different copy/medium

FF8 - I got all the way to the end and gave up because, well, I don't need to start a FF8 hate train here. But I regret having an entry in the series remain unbeaten.

Mega Man X6 & X7 - I am not particularly fond of these entries but as a MMX fan I feel obligated to finish them... some day.

A single Mega Man Classic game - Just one would do.

Games I have stopped playing but didn't decide to write off:
Prinny, Can I really be the hero?
Blue Dragon
Resonance of Fate
Phantom Brave
Penny-Arcade: OtRSPoD

And lets not get into the games that I have yet to start/get into, or even longer the ones I have written off....

[Slothy]

Final Fantasy VI because apparently I spent all these years just reading the manual and really don't even know what the game is about.

But in seriousness, I've got a metric crap ton of games I need to beat someday.

3D Dot Game Heroes because it's awesome. Valkyria Chronicles and VC 2 for the same reason. Majora's Mask because, well, you know what I'm going to stop saying because games are awesome because really most of these are all awesome games I'll be listing. We'll toss in X-Com as well and Fallout and Fallout 2. Amnesia because I want to stop being a chicken. Dawn of War 2 because I hate myself.

But you know what, there's one game that stands out as not only a complete smurfing travesty because I've never beaten it, but because I've tried, so very smurfing hard: Persona 3. I've tried 3 times and never made it to the end. The first time I went away for school for a bit, forgot what happened and didn't want to just pick up where I left off. The second time, I got about as far, got busy with work, forgot what was going on and wanted to restart. The third time really hurt though. I restarted the game, made it easily twice as far as I ever had before. I was loving everything about it more than ever because I had a good handle on the story, knew the characters pretty well by this point and was having a grand time. Then FFXIII killed my PS3 and my save file was lost to me.

I'm going to restart it again soon, but I fully expect that this time my house will burn down around me because I refuse to leave before I'm done and they'll be prying the melted controller from my charred and corpsified hands.

[Pike]

Okay so, three things before I launch into this:

a.) This doesn't include stuff I haven't touched,
b.) This doesn't include stuff I have no intention of going back to, and
c.) Yes I am AWFUL at finishing games. I'm that person who will dump hours and hours and HOURS into a game and not actually beat it. So a lot of this stuff I have actually played considerably, just not through to the end. xD

Alien Soldier
Alpha Protocol
Altered Beast
And Yet It Moves
Aquaria
Atom Zombie Smasher
Baldur's Gate 2
Banjo-Kazooie
Bastion
Battle for Wesnoth
Ben There, Dan That!
BIT.TRIP RUNNER
Braid
Cave Story+
Cogs
Costume Quest
Crazy Taxi
Crusader Kings II (Yeah I still haven't played through a full game)
Darkest Hour (See the note for HoI 2)
DEFCON
Deus Ex
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Dino D-Day
Dungeons of Dredmor
Ecco the Dolphin
Empire Earth
Empire: Total War
Fallout
Fallout 2
Fallout: New Vegas
Fate of the World
Final Fantasy 3 (and various other FFs)
Frozen Synapse
Gratuitous Space Battles
Greed Corp
Half-Life
Half-Life 2 (SHUT UP OKAY)
Hearts of Iron II (Still haven't played a game to end date because I'm terrible)
Hearts of Iron III (>implying But maybe I can talk myself into actually doing it)
Jagged Alliance 2
Jamestown
Jet Force Gemini
Machinarium
Medieval II: Total War
[INSERT A CRAPTON OF MARIO GAMES HERE]
Master of Orion
Master of Orion 2
Metal Gear Solid 3 (I got distracted by... something? This was too long ago)
Napoleon: Total War
NightSky
Planescape: Torment
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Pokemon Emerald
Portal 2
Psychonauts
Red Faction
Revenge of the Titans
Ristar
Rome: Total War
Shadowgrounds
Shining Force
Sid Meier's Civilization: Colonization
Sid Meier's Civilization V (If I can actually talk myself into it)
SimCity 4 (Maybe doesn't count but I at least want to paint a whole region)
Sonic Adventure DX
Sonic Generations
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles
Space Empires IV
Space Siege
Starcraft 2
Star Ruler
Super Meat Boy
The Binding Of Isaac
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
The Temple of Elemental Evil
Total War: SHOGUN 2
Trine
Universe at War: Earth Assault
Victoria II (I got distracted by CK2)
Voxatron
VVVVVV
World of Goo
X-COM: UFO Defense (Still haven't beaten it )


I'll uh, be coming back and editing this as I remember more.

[Slothy]

Deus Ex
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
...
Half-Life
Half-Life 2 (SHUT UP OKAY)
...
Metal Gear Solid 3 (I got distracted by... something? This was too long ago)
...
Portal 2

I think we need to have a chat my dear...

X-COM: UFO Defense (Still haven't beaten it )

I don't think you beat X-Com. It beats you.

Psychonauts

I actually haven't beaten this either. I should get on that sometime.