What games have you abandoned? (temporarily or permanently)

[mikestorm]

Okay, first let me give you a little background. A few weeks ago I decided to sell all of my old PSX games on Ebay. As I was going through them, I came across a game called Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete that I bought over four years ago, and had stalled out on the last boss. I felt it would be a sin to sell a game I didn't flip, so I figured I would resolve to beat the boss this time around.

The only problem was I couldn't find the memory card that my saved game was on. Not to be deterred, I started the game from scratch, and forty hours of my life later (elapsed time two weeks) had completely beaten the game and the Epilogue quest.

I cannot tell you what a great sense of satisfaction I felt for beating a game that had stymied me four years earlier.

Of course, my PSX games sold, I moved on to my Nintendo games, and remembered that I was 95% done with The Legend of Zelda: Majoras Mask but had given up all those years ago due to ONE particular board that was tough to traverse. It was one of those levels where you had to time your movements perfectly or else you fell in to a bottomless chasm and had to start over. I remember I had "started over" over 100 times, and it was either put the game down or throw the console across the room

This time I did find my save file, and finally beat that game as well. I then began to think of all the other games I owned that I had yet to beat due to frustration or lack of interest and have decided to make a mid-year resolution and beat all of the games on my "to do" list. As of this posting, I am almost done with Chrono Trigger, a game I've been meaning to beat for almost three years now.

Here is a listing of games on my "to do" list:

Game: The Elder Scrolls III: Tribunal
Owned Since: Christmas two years ago
Details: This game is an expansion pack for TES III: Morrowind (which I beat). The expansion was more of the same, so I got bored and never finished it.

Game: Riven (the sequel to Myst)
Owned Since: Boy, I've owned this one since 98 or so
Details: It's a puzzle game, and I got stuck on some big puzzle. I'm too stubborn to go to gamefaqs.com and cheat.

Game: Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Owned Since: It first came out
Details: I think I burnt myself out. I had *just* finished Metal Gear Solid, and immediately started this one. As I started playing though the first level, I started to think about all the effort it would take to get to the end AGAIN after I just beat the first one. As such, I never got off the boat.

Game: Final Fantasy XI
Owned Since: October 2003
Details: As you know, it's an MMORPG. Well, I must have put in 200 plus hours in this damn game, and the most I had to show for it was a level 22 warrior. I got so frustrated at how long it took to level, and I didn't like the idea of needing to party to level (I've decided I'm a loner when it comes to MMORPGs) so I stalled out in January or so and haven't played it since. Of course, my character has long since been deleted, and those 200 hours I'll never get back.

Game: Final Fantasy X-2
Owned Since: It came out
Details: When I play games, I'm pretty anal retentive. I like to figure out every puzzle, get every item etc. etc. Well, when I found out that I had missed out on a whole bunch of job spheres and this game was so linear (I don't care what anyone says) that I coudn't go back and get them, I got so mad I put it down and never went back to it.

Anyway, that's my list. I know I'm not the only one who has a list, and am curious to know what other games are in this category for other players. That being said, post your list! Only list games you bought and had (have) every intention of eventually beating, but haven't played for months or years.

Go on, display your complete lack of follow-though with pride you slackers :anime:

[Juu-kuchi]

Xenogears (PS1): Accidentally deleted my file when I was at the end, and then got mad and decided to take my sweet time playing it.

And right now that's the only noteworthy game.

[Numbuh 4]

At one point I was gonna finish a bunch of Game Boy games:
Pokemon: Red, Blue, Yellow, Silver, Sapphire (All of which I've beaten before... cept Silver and Sapphire...)
Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken (I think that's its name O_o)
Zelda: Seasons and Ages
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga

But once summer started I got bored and gave up...

~:knd4:
Thrice as dumb as you.

[True Noir]

I've never abandoned a game, but I have come close to.

Blood Omen 2 - I played the game when it first came out, and then stopped playing it for a year. I did beat it though.

[James]

A fair few in my time. I never say never - I may go back to games. Games I have no current intention to complete are Enter The Matrix (which was getting annoyingly buddy and repetative), Dynasty Warriors 2 (which was becoming a little frustrating) and GTA Vice City (some of the water levels while they felt beatable, were just too dull - I don't waste my life playing something I am not enjoying).

FF Tactics for GBA, Kingdom Hearts and FFX2 are on hold but I do intend to complete them all.

[Tanooki]

final fantasy 8 for psx. my playstation froze up on me after 10 minutes of gameplay and i said "thank you, God"

final fantasy tactics for psx. i got my butt handed to me during a fight with a bomb early on in the game. it was a neat game but my friend offered to give me $20 for it when i bought it for only $10 so i'm like "heck yeah!"

chrono trigger, part of final fantasy chronicles for psx. magus kicked my butt during the first fight even though i fought through each area at least twice to level up. i said "this game cheats!" and gave up. i may play this one again though

final fantasy 2, part of final fanatasy origins for psx. just seemed to complicated for me. and i didn't really like the leveling up of weapons/magic/armor instead of leveling up the individual character

enter the matrix for gcn. same as sjj. got bored with it. no intention of returning to it

spider-man for gcn. stupid hard to pull off combos!!!!!1!!!1!!

that's it for me

Hero

[Tapout]

Metroid Prime. I only bought it because it Metroid + Wavebird was only $40 at a going-out-of-business sale. I've never been a big FPS or Metrod fan, and this combines what I dislike about both of them.

GTA III. I only bought this because I love Vice City and it was twenty bucks. I got bored with it an hour in and just quit.

Final Fantasy VII gets an honorable mention. I first played it very shortly after it came out, but I never got around to beating it until some time after FFIX came out.

[FerrariCake]

~Gungrave. I mean, I've beaten the flippin' thing left and right many times over, it's just really really really really difficult for me to make a perfect score and unlock the rest of the unlockables. I'll sit down and smack at it for a few hours, get all sorts of mad, spend the next week playing it, get mad, and abandon it for a few months.
~Kingdom Hearts... I dunno, I guess the neatoness just sorta wore off once I got to Halloween Town. *shrug* Haven't even looked at it in many months.
~Fatal Frame. Got up to the part where there's the blood and that dude falls but he doesn't but then bam! he's there and he's all RRRRRRrrrrrrrrrr . . . That game gave me nightmares. I haven't played it since I think november. o_o
~Jak II. Played for a bit, got to the little smuggling something to someone across town dealy and gave up. This game was mean to me.

[Captain Harlock]

Panzer Dragoon Orta - Indefinate hiatus. The game just isn't that interesting, and the gameplay is mediocre at best.

Suikoden III - Just seemed to stop playing and went to play other games.

Dragon Warrior VII - Spending alot of time building up my characters and their classes as opposed to continuing the plot.

Wild Arms 3 - Just got disinterested.

I'm sure I'll eventually go back to them, assuming that I reach a dry spell in new games.

[Nimbleness]

Mario Sunshine: For such an "accessible" game that red coin nonsense is pretty -_-

Banjo Tooie: Missing 1 Jiggy

Farcry: The AI is much too aware when you're near them, and once they find you the endless reinforcements start. They won't stop looking until they find you either. Your character moves much too slow, runs out of energy quickly ect.

Deus EX Invisible War: I've rented this one a few times and ended up frustrating myself with the too slow or too fast analog sensitivity. The environments were headache inducing, the game appeard to be dumbed down from the original, and for an ass kicking cyborg clone from the future that can jump 40ft I never got the feeling that I was superior (died too much and too easily), but hey, its only $20 so maybe the PC version will interest me.

- Butts

[DonkeyKongSnes]

There are a lot of games that I just stopped playing

I'll just list some of ps2 games I stopped playing since it is the console nearest to me right now.

PoP-got boring but I am going to beat it due to the sequal coming out
I-Ninja
XIII
Ratchet and Clank
Soul Calibur 2-never unlocked everything
Final Fantasy X- I thought it was just horrible
DBZ Budokai

and some others

[DuckDodgers33]

-Super Mario Sunshine-Booooorrring. I lost interest very quickly.
-Metroid Prime-I'm pathetic whenever it comes to adventures/first person shooters.
-F Zero GX-For about 7 months. It deleted my data and I got too aggravated to get to where I was again.

[Opaque]

Final Fantasy x-2

[Evil Dr. Reef]

Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask and Wind Waker - I played the everliving hell out of both games for around two weeks after I got them, and I just dropped both of them afterwords. It'll be pretty hard to finish MM, considering I sold my N64 a while back, but Wind Waker will be finished sometime before the next GC game comes out, swear to god.

Final Fantasy IX - Got stuck somewhere on the third disc due to my lack of leveling certain characters, and I never attempted to correct it. The ONLY FF game I've never beat, and I don't plan on it anytime soon.

Lunar 2 - I literally preordered this game the minute I heard about it at EB Games, mostly due to how incredibly fun Lunar was. After being delayed for a year and a half, I finally got my hands on it, and 20 hours later, I realized that I just wasn't having any fun with it. I haven't touched it since.

Pokemon Sapphire - Again, got this the day it came out. After playing through around 20 hours of the game, I got Kyogre and called it good. Haven't touched it since, but my Kyogre quest kept me happy during a 5-day blackout about a year ago.

XIII is on my beat list just so I can uninstall its two-gig ass from my computer, and I'll get around to unlocking everything in Soul Calibur 2 eventually.

[Lord Andy]

Beyond Good & Evil: Heard it was good, got it for cheep, didn't get into it, played more Animal Crossing instead.

Pokemon Coliseum: Such a disappointment I just gave up, stuck with Sapphire.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Only had one level left. Saw a friend accidentally beat the game (because that's how the last level works), and felt no need to do it myself. Maybe the new DS version will have a better overall feel to the game.

Super Monkey Ball: Got it for the multiplayer stuff, so poo to the rest of the game.

I also have a pile of Dreamcast games I've picked up for about five bucks each. I got five bucks worth of play time out of them, so no big loss for that one.

[mikestorm]

final fantasy 8 for psx. my playstation froze up on me after 10 minutes of gameplay and i said "thank you, God"
FF VIII *was* a game on that list up until a year or so ago. I bought it for PC when it first came out, and decided early on that because the magic spells were so weak, I wouldn't bother with drawing.

Well, 2/3 of the way into the game I'm getting my butt handed to me, and I say "Where the hell are all the Gespers? (or whatever the heck FFVIII calls Ifrit, Shiva, etc.)", as I only had like six, and I *knew* by this point I should have had much more. Well, I took a peak at a walkthough and discovered that you get the summoned monsters by drawing them out of enemies, and I had already beaten most of the bosses where you get them (doh!).

I got mad and said, "To hell with this!"...until about a year ago when I was getting ready for FFXI. I started chomping at the bit for *some* FF action and started it from scratch, this time drawing like crazy.

I will say, after all was said and done this is one of my favorite FF games.

[Batman's Biggest Fan]

Pikmin - I just never got around to it, I may go back and beat it one day, but not right now

Metroid: Zero Mission - I got stuck and lost interest for the time being.

[Zach Williams]

Taz:Wanted - The second game I have ever bought. It's good but It just doesn't interest me when I'm playing.

Ty the Tasmanian Tiger - Bassicly the same as Taz:Wanted, but the game is good, and I just never finished it. I'm thinking of it after I beat Bomberman Jetters.:D

I'll only do two for now.:)

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

Dragon Warrior VII - Spending alot of time building up my characters and their classes as opposed to continuing the plot.
.I'm playing it now. "Plot" isn't much here (as are all DW games) but I'm loving the journey. I'd heard stories about this game, how it's nothing but fights every two steps and that you need to level up all the time but I find that isn't the case at all. For the most part I've been following the game's main course and I haven't needed to take sidetrips to build them up very often. And the battles aren't that maddeningly frequent either.


As for me,

Grandia--Great game, but my game had a glitch where it couldn't load the Twin Towers stage very well and eventually it stops loading new scenes at a certain point in the dungeon (actually, it stops at a cliffhanger--literally and figuratively!). Unfortunately this game is now quite hard to find, so I might never find another copy to finish it.

FF VII--I did get to the end but I never finished the last battle, because, again, glitchy problems with the last stage. I eventually saw the end at a friend's house.

Skyblazers--I played it until I saw my sister beat the game before me. Then I just stopped playing it.

Chavez--SNES boxing game that killed my thumb muscles trying to enter the top 10 rankings. Gave up on it, my thumbs couldn't take it.

[Mad Monkey 7]

Superman: SOA for PS2. I am stick on a level and give up.

[WolfieKiwi]

(N64)L.O.Z. Majora's Mask I was doing great in that game until I got up this place called stone tower..then things got ugly..but I still try it when I'm really bored..

(N64)Mortal Kombat subzero..a waste of my ten dollars..kept on dieing..

(G.C.)Vexx..dunno got tired of it..

(G.C.)Godzilla Destroy All monsters: don't wanna talk about it..

(P.C.)House of the dead..freezes on the last level..

[Viper]

Where do I begin? Note: Sooner or later, I will finish these games.

PS1:

Aladdin in Nasira's Revenge--still have to make it through Jasmine's level
MiB: The Series Crashdown--need another memory card:rolleyes:
Megaman Legends--final boss is super-hard
Megaman Legends 2--haven't made it to final area
Misadventures of Tron Bonne--unfinished
all of my Crash Bandicoot games--never got to finish any of 'em
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command--having trouble beating one villain

PS2:

Jak & Daxter--haven't finished it
Scooby-Doo: Night of 100 Frights--need help from gamefaqs.com
Batman Vengeance--same reason
Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth--lost interest; I'll play again soon

SNES: Scooby-Doo--never have enough time for it

So, most of my games are unfinished because I never have enough time to. Hopefully, I will get to all of them, eventually.

[Master Moron]

FF VIII *was* a game on that list up until a year or so ago. I bought it for PC when it first came out, and decided early on that because the magic spells were so weak, I wouldn't bother with drawing.

Well, 2/3 of the way into the game I'm getting my butt handed to me, and I say "Where the hell are all the Gespers? (or whatever the heck FFVIII calls Ifrit, Shiva, etc.)", as I only had like six, and I *knew* by this point I should have had much more. Well, I took a peak at a walkthough and discovered that you get the summoned monsters by drawing them out of enemies, and I had already beaten most of the bosses where you get them (doh!).

I got mad and said, "To hell with this!"...until about a year ago when I was getting ready for FFXI. I started chomping at the bit for *some* FF action and started it from scratch, this time drawing like crazy.

I will say, after all was said and done this is one of my favorite FF games.

Actually you can get the summoned espers that you get from bosses in the last level. There's a bunch of mini bosses in the last level that you can draw the espers from. But, make sure you don't miss them a second time!

[Kinel Ozoa]

Hmm..there are so many..

NES

Mega-Man 2 (Seriously regret not finishing it...)

River City Ransom

Super Mario Bros (First one)

This is just what I can remember...


Sega Entertainment System

Earthworm Jim

Nitendo 64

L.O.Z Ocinaria of Time (sp?)

Banjo Kazooie


PS2

GTA III - Vice City came out and I just out this one down. Currently want to finish it.

DBZ Budakai - Just bleh..wish I hadn't spent my money on it. Shoulda got Soul Calliber 2

Dynasty Warriors 4 - Not my foult though, i haft to rent most my games and their copy kinda went kaput..

XIII - Didn't like this game that much

Gauntlet: Dark Legacy - Long loong game, but addictive. But I had to give up on it because every time I played I would quit to realise I had played thorught the entire night and then get in just a lil bit of trouble.

Jak 2 - Such a great game but I got to one mission where I had to break some wird creatures out of some Crimson gurad vehicles and after I get em out their to stupid to get on my car before it was almost shot to bits, I got frustraited and just gave up.


Odd...I should be able to think of more. The three I'm going ot go for for now is L.O.Z OoT, Banjoo Kazooie and Gauntlet...unless anyone knew where I could get a working NES :D ??? NO....well it was worth a shot, I miss that thing.

[Charlie]

Final Fantasy 7 through 9: I don't know how, but I always seem to just start over since I havn't played it in a long time, then just forget about it, come back and decide to start over so I remember the story. I plan on finishing 9 soon since its my favorite of the series.

Metal Arms: Died WAY too many times and it just got frustrating.
Double Dragon II: I can get to the end, but just can't finish it.
Black & White: To many reformats, farthest I got is island 4.
Robotech: Battlecry; I'm around the end and just don't want to play it right now.
Battletoads: Same as Double Dragon.
Oddworld: Munch's Oddyese; Just never got around ot it, seemed pretty long.
Serious Same (Xbox): Very very long, lost interest.

And probably a bunch more, this is just the top of my head.

[Behonkiss]

KOTOR. I seem to be the only person alive who hates this game.

[Zyzzybalubah]

Final Fantasy X- I thought it was just horrible
and some others
Thank you, I thought the game was boring and there was no feeling into the story! I eventually sold my copy of this title. Other games I had this happen with:

* Majora's Mask: I'm playing it now and have got to beat it because I beat every other Zelda (even the non-Zelda feeling, Zelda 2. :D) I was too 95% done but stopped because I was really bored.

* Golden Sun: Not a bad game, but I lost interest with it when I played some better games. I still own it, but sadly it's collecting dust bunnies.

* Xenosaga: I might still play, but it's coming close to me selling it. I've played it for a few hours and nothing interesting is happening. I may be a little impatient, but seriously "GET TO THE POINT!!!" I can understand this is mostly cinemas, but that still doesn't mean that NOTHING should happen.

[Mr. Pedro]

Final Fantasy VI and Golden Sun: The Lost Age are on hold until I get done with Fire Emblem.

FF V, VIII and IX are on indefinite hold until further notice. They might get pushed back even longer if I manage to get my hands on Tales Of Symphonia.

[Mynd Hed]

Majora's Mask: Eh, it was okay, but between getting tired of constantly redoing the same things after time reset and the fact that anything it did, Ocarina of Time had already done better, well, I just got bored. No plans to pick it up again any time soon-- I might if I get starved enough for some Zelda action I haven't played through and beaten before, but before that happens I plan on playing through some of my 16-bit favorites (FFVI, FFIV, maybe get the rest of the alternate endings in Chrono Trigger) again, and by the time I'm done with that, the new GC Zelda might be on the horizon.

FFVIII: No explanation needed. If you played the game, you know. Some people might have enough patience to spend hours upon hours doing nothing but drawing spells and watching beautifully rendered cut scenes of incredibly boring events featuring insanely lame characters, but I'm not one of them. No desire whatsoever to return to it.

FF Tactics: I really wanted to like this game-- the sheer customizability of your party is a huge selling point, and if the plot is convoluted and boring, the fun battles more than make up for it. But every time I try to play through, I always wind up getting frustrated at the unintuitive interface and the sheer amount of mindless leveling you have to do to progress at certain points, or else I save at one of the points in which you're just about to face a very difficult battle and can't go back and level first, and I give up. One of these days I suppose I might pick up a hint book and see if that helps any.

[Mango Fett]

I tend to do this with nearly every console RPG I have played. They all just seem to have a 'breaking point' where I completely lose interest.
In fact on Chrono Trigger I actually got all the way to Lavos and was strong enough to off him easily...but then I began having to fight all the bosses over again and it kinda got boring so I just quit. A friend of mine still won't let me live that down.
In breath of Fire 3 I got to the mech city in the sky...and quit. Just lost interest.

Most recently I was replaying Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete (which is my favorite console RPG of all time) and after beating it realized that while I love the characters and story I also seem to dislike playing the game. I've come to the conclusion that I hate the play mechanics of console RPGs.
So for now i'll just stick to Fallout.

[Master Moron]

In fact on Chrono Trigger I actually got all the way to Lavos and was strong enough to off him easily...but then I began having to fight all the bosses over again and it kinda got boring so I just quit.

You don't have to fight all the bosses again. You only have to fight like 8 or so. And half of them should die with 1 hit considering how strong you are. Furthermore, you can avoid fighting those ten bosses by crashing the Epoch into lavos.

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

I've come to the conclusion that I hate the play mechanics of console RPGs.
.
I have to agree, for the most part console RPGs are rather simplistic in play mechanics and menu systems seem to get quite boring after a while. I think my main beef with console RPGs is that the whole idea of "random battles" and creating a battle system in which to fight battles is quite repetitive and unenjoyable after an extended period of time. CRPGs vary in play mechanics but overall I find the on-screen battles in CRPGs much more entertaining on the whole than the all-too-structured world of console RPG battles.

[BrendaBat]

BATMAN: VENGEANCE: I got stuck at the Batmoblie level (the one where you have to engage in a high-speed chase with Poison Ivy's lacky). My sister and I both played that level 100 times and still kept losing. We're convinced that there's a glitch in our game because we checked out strategy guides on the net and, according to them, we did everything right.
I would have rented a copy and tried beating the level with that; but someone accedently erased the memory card file. But I suppose it was for the best. That game was a major pain in the ass.
*rant time*
I HATED the fact that I needed to handcuff all the baddies I took down; but I only had a limited number of batcuffs!! I ALWAYS ran out halfway through the level! And the game wouldn't let me pass a level if an un-cuffed bad guy was still in the room!!! AARG! :mad:
Thank goodness the 'Batman: Sin Tzu' game was actually fun......once I got the cheat codes :evil:

....it felt good to get that out of my system. :D

[guinaevere]

Thank goodness the 'Batman: Sin Tzu' game was actually fun......once I got the cheat codes :evil: bah! I didn't even know there were cheats for the game. We've had hours of fun playing through, first on easy, up to and then through Dark Knight level. It was the only way we could unlock everything. :D

As for games started but abandoned completely before finishing, there is one. Traitors Gate. I was so looking forward to this game. It wasn't too horrible, but they designed it so you had to switch CDs what felt like every 30 seconds. I couldn't take it.

I've yet to finish Rollercoaster Tycoon (well, the expansions, I've finished RCT), but I go back to that every so often.

[Kurtman]

Well,I quit playing all 3 Spyro The Dragons because I could not beat the final bosses in any of them. Sometimes I play Spyro The Dragon games but I mainly just fool around and stuff like start new games and collect as many gems as I can.

[Mog]

Front Mission 3- For some reason I haven't finished it, even though I love it.
Silent Hill 2- I started it, but Ihaven't played it very much. I beat SH3 quickly, but SH2.....hasn't drawn me in yet. It will eventually.
Rainbow Six 3- When I get wireless I'll play the MP, but SP is kinda boring.
Soul Calibur 2- I haven't abandoned it, I just don't play it so much anymore.
Naruto:GNT2- It's not that I don't play it anymore, just that GNT3 was announced with the remaining Genin, Itachi, and possibly all three Senin. I'm waiting for that, so I stopped playing GNT2 so much.
Shinobi for PS2- Got too hard and started to get boring.
Counter-Strike/Team Fortress Classic/Warcraft 3- I stopped playing online because of latency. That will change in a few months.

[Eddy]

Tiny Toons: Buster Busts Loose - I stopped playing this game years ago. When I was little, I finally got to the final boss in the game. He killed me. I got a game over. The game has no save feature. I never desired to play through it again.

The Simpsons: Road Rage - If there was an "ending" to this game, I'll never find out what it is. I lost intrest too quickly.

Pac-Man World 2 - It was fun for awhile... but I quickly became bored with it.

Final Fantasy X - Not sure if I've really "abandoned" the game or not, but I haven't played it since the day I got it. Which was Januray 18th, 2004.

Toy Story - This game sucked anyway, but I liked it when I was little. I remember getting all the way to the moving truck chase level. I failed, got a game over and the game has no save feature.

...I've sold a lot of games... but is it really considered abandoning them if you just don't like them?

[mikestorm]

Shinobi for PS2- Got too hard and started to get boring.

According to my brother, hard is an understatement. He banged away at this game for weeks and couldn't get passed a particular level. Eventually, he gave up.

[mikestorm]

...I've sold a lot of games... but is it really considered abandoning them if you just don't like them?Well, when I originally posted the thread I was primarily interested in games people inexplicably stopped playing, due to:

1) being stymied on a level/boss etc.
2) another newer game bumped this game back to second string
3) because you simply no longer had any time to devote to it
4) you burned yourself out (lost interest)

Games that you look back upon and actually regret you never got around to beating.

I was less interested in games people played for a while and quickly declared, "This game STINKS.", put it down and never looked back. Jeebus, we've all had our share of those :)

[Eddy]

I never got around to beating Banjo-Tooie... I still have it, I just never beat it. Same goes with Donkey Kong 64 and Diddy Kong Racing. I got fairly far in all three of those games, but I never bothered beating them.

[SuperStantzio]

The Games I gave up on was SSX Tricky for my game boy advance. It was fun at first then it got pretty hard and I could'nt finished and I tossed that game asided. I might trade it in though. I used to have N64 and the game I gave up on was Star Wars episode 1 racer and that game was the pits it was fun at first and then I could'nt beat that and I just stopped playing and traded it in For my gamecube and I haven't abandoned any of my games on that system yet. :cool:

[Fooly Cooly]

Me and my brother (Remy) have Chrono Trigger and we got stuck (for the 12th time) and gave up :(

[Kasumi]

The MAJORITY of my N64 games - The majority of them were donated to me :shrug: . They suck hard and I lost interest and dropped them. I would still play Star Fox and Mario 64 if we could hook up the sytem.

Super Mario World - I could just go out and buy it for the GBA but that would kill the work I did playing it when I was little. I've been playing it since I could remeber. Which is like 3-5 years old. I love this game. I didn't really abandon it really, it's just that we don't have much room for it. Darn that living room TV.

Final Fantasy VII - Currently I'm on the beginning of the second disc but really I have no desire to beat it really. It's boring to me. And I hate the materia system.

Final Fantasy Tactics - I got my butt kicked at Dorter Trade City. I dislike losing and everytime I tried to level up, the monsters would kick my butt.

Final Fantasy IX - I'm playing it now but I did abandon it for awhile. This was because everytime I was going from the third to the fourth disc my game would freeze up and the FMVs would get all screwy. Thanks to my mom who bought me a disc cleaner, I'm now playing it again. I've started a new game for the heck of it, because of those darn Yans at Memoria. So you could say I abadoned a save file.

Gran Turismo 3 A-spec - I still play it, it's just I abandoned the career mode. I would always get last place in the harder races. And I lost my strategy guide.

Legend of Zelda: The Orcania of Time - I can't remember where I'm at in that game but I think it's where you have to throw some rocks at some monsters to defeat them and there's lava. Yup that's all I remeber. And the monsters handed my butt to me :o .

That's all of the games I can think of for now. Not much of a gamer I thought I was.

[Jaguar]

The Sims: Bustin' Out. I just... don't care anymore.

[guinaevere]

That's understandable. I haven't played Bustin' Out (or any of the console The Sims games), but if it's the same open ended style as the PC original, (sort of like Animal Crossing), I'd completely understand. I mean, after a while... what's the point?

Animal Crossing I completed their inventories, saw & participated (as much as possible) in every event, et cetera. So I consider that game finished. But if not, add The Sims and Animal Crossing to my list.

[Eddy]

I supposed "Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World" could count as a game I gave up on.

My brother bought it a while ago, we already had the SNES version and beat it. So... it wasn't long until I became bored with the GBA version of the same game.

But, since I beat the original Super Mario World, would Super Mario Advance 2 really count as giving up on it? I guess not.

[Evil & Lovin It]

Ninja Gaiden. I'm at the final boss, but I haven't played for about a month. I may never have the motivation to beat it, then again, I might go do it right now.

[Eddy]

I also gave up on Harvest Moon for Game Boy. I got it in the first place because I love Harvest Moon 64 so much, but I quickly became bored with it since I couldn't walk around town or get married... It was about farming and ONLY farming.

[mikestorm]

Well, strike one game off my list. I just resolved the main plot of Tribunal, The Elder Scrolls III expansion pack. I now have about a half dozen active sidequests left which I either can't complete because they originate outside of my house, or I will not complete because they involve killing NPCs who in my eyes have done nothing wrong (The Warlords sidequest in Tribunal).

I'm now toying with the idea of getting Bloodmoon (the other expansion for TESIII)

[Angelus]

Silent Hill 1 for the ps1 - by the end of the game, the puzzles where just becoming so ambiguous I had to resort to a guide, as i was so desperate to get 2 and 3. And even when i ploughed through to the final boss, there was NO way to beat her unless you had more than two health drinks - every one of her attacks connects before you have the chance to shoot her.

[Ickis]

Nfs:underground:trading in why?Because the game freezes sometimes,its dangerous when it freezes whe your saving the game and it freezes,which happend once but lucky for me the game didn't wreck my XBOX hardrive,plus once you get up to the race where everyone is driving a Honda S2000 I can never beat it.I'm also abanoning and trading Crazy taxi 3 because the mission thing is way too hard.

[StarScream64]

Super Mario Sunshine. I just sloooowwwly lost interest in it when I turned my sights on beating Wind Waker. I do plan on finishing it though.

I also have yet to finish A Link to the Past on my GBA. I'm on the last level, I plan on finishing it....eventually.

And then there's the boatload of Genesis games and N64 games that I'm pretty sure will NEVER get beaten, for the simple reason that it's been so long on most of them that it would probably be like re-learning the game from scratch.

Then I've got games like Banjo-Kazooie where I say to myself, "why bother beating this game when you can finish the second one, which is even better?" Then when I'm about ready to start playing Banjo-Tooie, I think to myself "how can I finish this one when I still haven't even beat the first one?" It's a conspiracy, I tell you!! That's what sequels are for: to confuse the consumers!

[Master Moron]

Gran Turismo 3 A-spec - I still play it, it's just I abandoned the career mode. I would always get last place in the harder races. And I lost my strategy guide.


Most of the races should be pretty easy if you use a FO94/S and go to the Gran Turismo tuning guide and tune it properly. But, still, the game is pretty boring, so I wouldn't reccommend spending all that time to beat it.

[Outlander00]

Need for Speed: Underground - Just cant sit down enough to unlock the last level 3 upgrades! :p

Final Fantasy X-2 - So close... just need to snuggle up with it a bit to finish it.

Kingdom Hearts - Tried to get back into it a few months ago, but then was sidetracked :p

[Ickis]

Most of the races should be pretty easy if you use a FO94/S and go to the Gran Turismo tuning guide and tune it properly. But, still, the game is pretty boring, so I wouldn't reccommend spending all that time to beat it.If you have the bucks to get a fully upgraded Escudo use that,I wish they had an all chromed Escudo where there was no paint,just all chrome but thats a fantasy car and GT3 dosen't have any of those.:sad:

[SirLemming]

I abandoned Descent 1 for a while after playing Level 13 once and dying. Don't know why. But then I finished it after a little while. Glad I did.

There's this old game for Amiga called CarVup. You don't get any continues -- just a certain number of lives that run out -- so I never finished it. Neither has anyone I know.

The same might be true of Zool. I beat Zool 2, although I think I cheated.

I also cheated to get to the end of 3D Lemmings after almost getting all the way through it.
I never finished Lemmings Revolution.


final fantasy 2, part of final fanatasy origins for psx. just seemed to complicated for me. and i didn't really like the leveling up of weapons/magic/armor instead of leveling up the individual character
I got to that wall boss that moves closer and closer to you on each turn until it crushes you. It seems I wasn't at the level I should have been, so I guess I got stuck, and I gave up.

[creeper]

I have Vice city on hold right now. I had splinter cell on hold but since my girlfriend has my car, i was forced to stay home. Instead of doing housework I played Splinter Cell. I finally beat it. Boy was it a dissapointment. Is there anything for beating the game? Like invisibility or infinite ammo?

I hope Vice city is more profitable in the end. I think it will be a while before i play it again though.

[Master Moron]

If you have the bucks to get a fully upgraded Escudo use that,I wish they had an all chromed Escudo where there was no paint,just all chrome but thats a fantasy car and GT3 dosen't have any of those.:sad:

The scud is great for rally races and the super speedway and test courses, but for regular races you really can't turn well enough to win the race, especially if you tune it to go over 1000 miles an hour like I did.


I hope Vice city is more profitable in the end. I think it will be a while before i play it again though.

If you beat it with 100% completion you get a t-shirt that says "I beat Vice City and all I got was this lousy t-shirt." Best reward ever.

[Znath]

Majora's mask
Reason: no desire to finish, let alone try more after playing and getting frustrated with the game's very non-zelda atmosphere and loathing the time.. thing. Heck I got it on the zelda promo disk...why do i care if i don't finish it.

Gameboy zelda's:
reason: they're just different to the point where I just don't like em enough to finish em

[The Koopinator]

I've given up on Advance Wars 1. The last level with Sturm is too darn hard.