Submitted 10 months ago by simple@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
This question popped into my head when I was playing Void Stranger. I just got done with the game and will probably never play it again despite not finishing it. The game is genuinely amazing but it just gets so demanding as you progress through it. I ended up watching the second half of the game on YouTube.
What is your favorite game that you feel is really cool and special but you never felt the pull of actually finishing it, and why?
Escape From Tarkov.
I love the game mechanics. But I suck so bad, I’ll never get the last quests.
Have you heard of the the tarkov single player mod? It’s so good there’s even mods for the mod.
Factorio. I’m almost at the stage where you can build the launchpad for your rocket, which is technically the end of the game. But the Pyanomod and Space Exploration mods literally add like 1000 hours or more to the game, and I just think I’ll probably be dead or society will collapse before I finish those up. The game is literally infinite if you want it to be.
The Celeste mod Strawberry Jam. It’s a lot of fun, but I’d be more than satisfied with just getting through the expert levels, which are already at the point where simply watching gameplay of them would kill a small Victorian child, but I’m at just the right level of masochism that this is a tough but satisfying grind. But I’ve seen what’s next, I’m fully aware of the horrors of the Grandmaster levels, and I know I’ll hit my upper limit well before 100% completion.
At this point, FNV. Got it a year or 2 ago on PC with all DLC and I’m just now getting to New Vegas after an extended break of not touching the game.
That’s such a good one to finish, though. The final battle and conversation with Legate Lanius are good stuff.
I’ve seen many challenge runs and agree the fight and conversation with Lanius is.great, I’ve just gotten there. Hell, back when I used to play on xbox360 I never made it close to the damn. If I had more drive, I’d definitely go and beat it.
Final Fantasy VII. I was never able to beat the sephiroth boss fight. I enjoyed the story, but I don't feel the need to play it again.
I had that game to the point where I could fight seph but decided I wanted to go for the other stuff first and at some point just stopped playing. It was on an emulator, at least (legit copy of the game but I didn’t have the first PlayStation to play it on), so I might still have the save somewhere in my backups, but I’m not sure if I’ll ever circle back to it. Especially since my computer doesn’t even have a CD drive, so I’d need to get one just to read the discs (though I’d probably just go find isos instead, which I think I might have even ripped myself to avoid disc swapping back in the day).
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I still haven't finished Bastion because I didn't want to break the loop.
I still haven't finished Planescape: Torment despite playing it over many years because I had too much fun reloading and exploring parallel branches.
Well no-one else has said it yet but pokemon.
Over my childhood i played a hell of a lot of Red, Silver, Sapphire and Leaf Green, but i never got close to completing the pokedex.
On my first pokemon (silver) i had three pokemon at lvl100, and the rest of the party was lvl95-98 playing the elite 4 over and over and over with a single pokemon just to get the last few levels (after running out of rare candies) but i never got the dex closer than ~30 pokemon off. Even disregarding the trade or alternate version exclusives and the [practically]unobtainables (legendaries from event codes) it was such a grind to get some of the last pokemon with high evolution lvls and i just never managed to finish that pokedex.
I have come to terms that i will never infact ‘catch em all’.
Undertale. Got two of the endings and got to Final Boss of Murder Mode. Tried 50+ times and decided I’m just not skilled enough to beat that boss. Looked up a vid of the ending and was satisfied. What a wonderful game.
I’ve enjoyed a lot of Earth Defense Force, but it seems like there’s a TON of missions in it. I’m up to 30 or so and have already had some big “This is our epic final battle against the Giant Insects!” moments - and it goes up to 90-something missions, plus DLC.
Probably Skyrim because I haven’t finished Dark Brotherhood yet, the last major vanilla faction questline remaining
Darkbrotherhood is a fun story line but it’s not actually that long
Risk of Rain 2 for me. I’ve “finished” the final boss but there’s so much more to unlock and do in that game that I’m not sure I’ll ever be done with it. Absolute blast to play with friends especially when you get those miracle runs where you get all the items that are amazing for your respective classes!
I for sure will never ‘finish’ this game in the way you can finish things like binding of Isaac. I just love to play it for fun and no objectives in mind when I play.
Dungeon Master. I refuse to use a guide, so even though I’ve been playing it for almost 25 years, I still haven’t finished it. Always run out of food…
Horizon Forbidden West; I went on holiday just before the final mission and when I went to pick it back up, I discovered that my controller was fucked. Now I’m waiting for the PC remaster because, I still find using a controller slightly unnatural.
Probably Hollow Knight at this rate. That 112% is a lot.
If we’re counting 100%ing, then yeah, Godhome can suck it. Path of pain alone was pushing me to the edge.
I can’t get through path of pain and I’m done with trying.
Rust I guess? TF2? Anything multiplayer I had fun with people I know in. I can't start single player games anymore and put too much in unless I know it will go somewhere otherwise they kinda... get dropped.
Rust. TF2. Anything multiplayer…
Can’t finish a game that doesn’t end. 😌
A mod, not a game, but Terrafirmacraft.
I deeply love every part of it, except the ore prospecting system. I always use commands to find my first copper vein because I find it so grindy otherwise. Doesn’t help that the vast majority of TFC’s progression is locked behind copper.
The same devs went on to make Vintage Story and finding copper there can also be a real pain. It’s kind of wild to hear their Minecraft mod having the same issue.
Factorio with the space exploration mod.
Underrail. I love the game so much but every time I hit the level cap I just lose interest completely. Doesn’t help that the guy developing it is violently opposed to modding.
Right now it’s hogwarts legacy. My friend beat it within a week of launch, I got it the same day and only played maybe halfway through. It’s a good game but idk can’t get myself to sit down and play
For me I think it is more for JRPG genre games as growing older makes me unable to access them easily as I was younger due to time constraint, somehow I am more appreciate shorter game because I can finish them faster.
This reminds me of my Final Fantasy XII International Zodiac Job System that I had on PS2, lost track where I was progressing and not really want to finish it as I felt the world is large enough with some hidden optional bosses. Another instance of unfinished playthrough is my SMT: Strange Journey because I had lost my track due to irl stuff while the save had 80hr on the clock.
Another series that I would not finish is Harvest Moon/Story of Season, had Back to Nature and A Wonderful Life on PS2 back then (and now on steam), could not complete them as it feels more like a chore. First year is enough for me to mark it as complete.
Payday 2 too with thousands of achievements that I did not bother to collect, I just played them for fun and with friends.
Gta V will probably only be truly “finished” for me when gta 6 comes out (assuming that it’s going to be as good of a game). 10 years later I still keep finding new stuff in it. I really hope 6 can live up to it.
Probably shiren the wanderer, it’s a pure roguelite so you can’t brute force it like the more forgiving roguelites with permanent upgrades, but I only play in short bursts and always forget stuff when I finally play again.
I know it’s pedantic, but that’s a rogueLIKE. A roguelite has permanent upgrades
I wish there were more pedantic people regarding the difference. The more it gets diluted the harder it becomes to find the proper roguelikes.
I used to like playing hard games but I’m done with them now. I don’t have the skill to complete them without putting a lot of time in and I don’t have the time anymore.
Returnal was fantastic and Sifu was even more fun but I’ll never finish either of them.
Returnal was great, but even after you beat the last boss you still don’t know WTF was going on. You have to keep playing and looking for more audio logs and stuff before you have the full story. I beat the last boss, but can’t bring myself to keep playing.
I honestly have no idea if I ever finished Skyrim. I finished a ton of quests and became an unbeatable bow hunting dragon killer who yelled all the time. I’m pretty sure I got to some castle where I had to choose a faction and just didn’t bother. I explored for a couple hundred hours and never played again. 7 years later I played Morrowblivion and then replayed Oblivion (I couldn’t get Skyblivion to work if I remember right). I’ve debated playing VR Skyrim, but I don’t want to repay for the game.
I don’t think you have to join a faction to finish the main quest line
I got into no man’s sky late after a bunch of updates. I’ve got too much cool stuff to start over.
Ohhh too many to count. But the one that comes to mind is Demons Souls. I play all of the Souls games, but I just not built to finish a game like that.
Dead Estate. It’s hard to 100 percent it
Fallout: New Vegas.
Love the game, it’s potentially the best in the series. But I’ve hit the same game-ending glitch twice. Basically at a certain point an important faction decides to become completely hostile towards me despite me having positive faction rep and despite lots of tweaking with console commands to try to work around the problem.
I’d even restored a save from ten hours prior to triggering the big and still had the problem once I progressed a quest line.
Super frustrating. I’ve experienced a lot of the early game multiple times but never gotten to the end of any of the major quest lines.
XCOM: Enemy Within on Classic difficulty.
It’s been the dragon I’ve been chasing for a decade, but I’ll squadwipe on a mission that fucks up my entire run, ragequit, and never touch it again for a year or three, then go “how come I never beat it?” and start the vicious cycle again.
This is only vanilla btw, don’t even get me started on my Long War “attempts” (read: repeated wipes within the first couple of months).
Harpsist@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I was waiting to finish totk until the DLCs came out.
I’m still waiting.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
They confirmed there wouldn’t be any pretty early after release…
Toribor@corndog.social 10 months ago
TotK itself seems like it may have been DLC that eventually grew so large in scope that it became a full game.