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?
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I like skyrim, but completing it is kind of missing the point IMO. The draw is to install a whole bunch of new mods and see if the game still works.
I had 200 hours played and still never beat the main game. Did everything up to that point.
I’d like to enjoy it as you do, I have never played it but I have it on Switch and PS4, so when I get to it, it will be modless.
you’re not even really missing anything either. The endings kind of nothing. You unlock the ability to yell a few different summons and can optionally get a cool looking hat that kind of sucks, though.
I probably spent longer trying to get mods to work than actually playing the game.
Me and most games that I have ever installed mods for
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.
XCOM: Enemy Within. I haven’t beaten it in general (got really close on Normal), but I’ve been specifically trying to clear Classic since that’s the mode where the game is mostly fair for both the player and the AI; the AI literally stops pulling punches and the game stops skewing RNG in the player’s favor.
It’s the dragon I’ve been chasing for over 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. BUT GODDAMMIT, IT’S SO FUCKING FUN TO PLAY.
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).
Minecraft. I love building crazy things in creative mode or on peaceful but I will never play with monsters on or even attempt to fight the Nether dragon.
Most of the games I don’t finish are because I don’t want the story to end. Currently its cyberpunk
I got so burned out trying to finish the side content that I became completely disillusioned with the game and probably won’t ever touch it again
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.
Old School Runescape. Kind of a cop-out answer as it’s a MMO, but I’m never gonna get maxed there
Kingdom Come Deliverance probably
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.
Subnautica. I always have a lot of fun building out my base and discovering things and poking around, but after a while I get distracted by another game and put Subnautica on the back burner. By the time I get back around to it, I’ve forgotten how to play and end up starting a brand new playthrough.
Another one is Darkest Dungeon. I have over 100 hours in that game and loved it, but I kind of stopped playing after all the strategies I had been using stopped working and all my parties kept getting annihilated. I was spending so much time recruiting, training, curing, etc that it sort of stopped being fun.You are keeping away an amazing story from yourself. I highly recommend the mod where you can get all of the required storage directly on your vessels, so you can focus on exploring and enjoying the story. Do yourself the favor and thank me later. 🥹
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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.
Fallout: New Vegas.
I spent many hours wandering the desert, being a completionist 100%ing all of the side quests I could find, finding all the stables, comparing lore and storylines with FoE, exploring, meeting people and comparing the geology to maps I looked up. Fabulous game, and I had a great time. I just never went into Vegas. I’ve honestly been considering another play through, but I will probably skip Vegas again out of principle.
I did everything up to the ending, but then decided that I wanted to do the DLC as well.
Went into one of them and got bored, so there it sits forever.
Probably Skyrim because I haven’t finished Dark Brotherhood yet, the last major vanilla faction questline remaining
