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I have a bad habit of buying games and then never getting around to playing them, or only playing them for a little bit. Kind of a waste of money, eh?

Talk about the games that you've purchased (or had given to you) but have never actually played through. Let's say that less than half of the game completed with no plans to continue in the near future counts as unplayed, while more than half of the game completed and you just lost interest in it counts as being played. (If you really want to talk about those games, start another thread.)

Here's my list (that I can remember at the moment):

Siren - PS2 - survival horror: I just never got into this. I played the first few missions, but when I realized that shoddy controls, poor camera angles, and insane difficulty were going to unite to beat me down, I gave up. Oh well.

Eternal Darkness - GC - horror: Really, I'm going to play this someday. Everyone tells me how good it is. I just haven't been in the mood for a horror game that I don't know inside-out.

Fatal Frame - PS2 - horror: I played a few hours into this and really liked it, but realized that I hadn't been doing a very good job of conserving supplies, so I restarted the game. That was a mistake, because I lost interest in replaying what I'd already completed. Oops.

Resident Evil - GC - survival horror (really, I play other kinds of games, I promise!): I bought this because everyone seemed to like it, but I just can't get into it.

Arc the Lad Collection - PS1 - RPG: I played a little bit into the first game in the series but quit when the battles got insanely hard. Was I missing some trick of gameplay? Was I supposed to level for eight hours? I'm not really sure. The story didn't seem to justify the effort, though.

Lufia II - SNES - RPG: After the first few "get item, take item here, open new path, get item..." plot twists, I lost interest.

Secret of Evermore - SNES - RPG: Having to collect materials in order to level up magic was really frustrating, but I quit when I got to the coliseum and had to choose between a good sword and good armor. I couldn't decide, and I never wound up playing again.



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Veni, vidi, dormivi.

Oh God. This list is sickeningly long for myself (all of those are either untouched or less than an hour played in). I still own all of these games, too, and I blame the inexpensiveness of old games.

PS1 - Brave Fencer Musashi, Valkyrie Profile, Tales of Destiny, Valkyrie Profile, the FF II portion of Final Fantasy Origins, Persona 2: Innocent Sin, Mega Man Legends, Dead or Alive. I'm working on them, trust me....

Dreamcast - I gave my Dreamcast away to a friend around two years ago, on the condition that he never sell it or any games, but there was one game I gave him that I owned but never played - Rayman 2.

XBox - Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. I bought this game intending to sell my PS2 version and replaying it for kicks, but I've never gotten around to it.

Gamecube - nothing, I don't think. Keep in mind I own six GC games, five XB games, and at least twenty or thirty PS2 games.

PS2 - Phantom Brave, Star Ocean: Till The End of Time, Primal, Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven, Primal, Klonoa 2, Wild ARMs 3, Beyond Good and Evil, Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne,

Handhelds - the only one that I can think of is the GBC Wario Land III I have. I'm never going to get to that thing, I should try and sell it.

Game Boy Advance -

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PS2- Virtua Fighter 4, Ghost Recon, SOCOM 2, Medal of Honor: European Assault

Gamecube- Resident Evil 4, Medal of Honor: Frontline

i don't know why, but i just cant get into these games.

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moé in the streets, senpai in the sheets

damn, this brings me back:

War chess (PC): I bought this not knowing it was a very pretty version of chess. After playing about one game I forgot about it.

Gladiators: Intergalactic Circus games (PC): I thoroughly enjoyed the lovely graphics, but it was stupidly hard, and I got bored after the third mission.

Megaman and Bass (GBA): I got it at the same time as Megaman Battle Network 3 because I was in a megaman mood, but I realised how stupidly hard it was. I thought megaman Xtreme (gbc) was hard when I first played it, but it is nothing compared to this. I somehow managed to beat Cold man then gave up after countless deaths at the hands of Burner Man.

that's all I can remember off the top of my head...

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"Fire and steel
follow me through the lands
you will burn hordes of hell
in the deadly raging flames of revenge"

Rhapsody - Flames of Revenge

Simpsons Road Rage

Poor, poor game, even if all you do is race around. To make it even worse, it plays out like a Crazy Taxi ripoff where you have to collect fares to save the Springfield city buses or something lame like that. I will pay you not to buy this game.

Star Ocean Til the End of Time

I actually played this quite a bit (up to the Marquis), but considering the game's length, I'd say I'm still in the shallow end. It wasn't bad, it wasn't terribly good, but it just ended up in the middle, which is when I find other games to waste time on.

Final Fantasy Anthology

As much as I want to, I still haven't gotten around to beating either FFV or FFVI. I dinked around the other day looking for the Phoenix Cave and couldn't find it, so I went off and played WA3. I guess they can't hold my attention when I'm feeling listless...?

WWF Raw

It was the worst ten bucks I've ever spent, and Tomb Raider: Last Revelation, for as shoddy as that game plays out, is infinitely times better. Perhaps I just wanted to believe the game could be good, after the awesomeness of WCW/NWO Revenge (64). Needless to say, I never spent another dime on wrestling games, and even gave back the Mayhem (64) game that someone gave to me since it played out the same way just about.

Samurai Legend Musashi

Uh...well, I actually played through the entire game, but now I can't think of a reason to go through it again. It was just a bland hack-and-slash with a hint of "Press (X) button a few times to learn this ability" junk. Some hard parts, yes, but I'm only going through again if I feel up to a game script (please let there be one already!).

La Pucelle Tactics

This game wasn't bad in any means, and after the fun of Disgaea and Phantom Brave, I actually have a reason to play this game. It just happened that I got bored and drifted to another game like I usually do, and never came back to it in-depth. 'Twas only twenty bucks, so I think I should give it another shot. Quite fun and still a little twist-up from the other Nippon Ichi-esque styles.

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It's gonna be a glorious day
I feel my luck can change

I'm not one in the habit doing these type of things, but there's one game that I'm guilty of it with: Link to the Past: Four Swords (GBA). I bought it used at GameSpot one time, and it stayed in my GBA tote ever since. It's not helping that I can't find it now, that I have yet to play it.

Edit

Yes, I've played the original SNES version of it

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kame, tortue, tortuga, schildkröte, tartaruga, turtle

"Arthur Dent?"
"Yes."
"Arthur Philip Dent?"
"Yes."
"You're a total knee biter."

Ohh, I hate in when bought games collect dust (like my guitar).

FF Origins I currently have games on FFI and FFII, but haven't gotten around yet to finishing them. MediEvil I so wanted to finish, but it magically got lost when I lent it to someone. It wasn't a big loss considering it's been so long since I played before I lent it. Not too many more come to mind, but I'm sure there are Sega Genesis and more PS1 games that I forgot. FFVII is a game that I've beaten before, but I've been putting off another play-through.

This post has been edited by FabulousFreebird on 8th November 2005 22:14

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"Thought I was dead, eh? Not until I fulfill my dream!"
Seifer Almasy


"The most important part of the story is the ending."
Secret Window


"Peace is but a shadow of death."
Kuja

For me only three games.

PS1:FFVII. Started it a long time ago but never really got around to actoully beat it.

PS1:Mega man legends 2. Forgot i even owned up untell now.

SNES:Jurassic park II. Way too hard thats all.

Maybe i should play them some time.

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"You know that feeling you get when you're on a merry go 'round, and you want to jump off to make the spinning stop, but you know it'll suck when you land? I feel like that all the time"- Keno

"I stab my girl until I fall down"
-Yukari
Do you like Horny Bunnies?

Let's see,

Chrono Cross -- I just didn't get in to it like Trigger and so I got about 2.5 hrs into it and stopped.

FFV (from anthology) -- The load times bothered me originally so much so that I couldn't play it. Since that first time though I have slowly begun playing it again. I may in fact take this off the list.


I just don't tend to buy games I don't intend on finishing. Chrono Cross was a gift and I really bought Anthology for FFVI (not that I didn't want to play FFV, simply that FFVI was the primary reason)

Last year, for some reason I still can't figure out besides peer pressure, I bought the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game for XBox. It was only $20, and I was with a couple of friends at the time, and remember saying "I'm not leaving until I buy a game", and they thought it would be hilarious if I bought it. I still don't know why I chose this game, though. I played it for maybe ten minutes, got incredibly bored with it, and haven't touched it since. Shame.

I have all the Turok games for N64, which I've never played partially because I don't have a Save Pak. Though, honestly, I'm really just not one for FPS games.

I also haven't played Soul Calibur II in like nine months, the game just got really boring since neither of my brothers could touch me.

for me it's project gotham racinfg for xbox, came with the system, never played it

also forsaken for playstation, some obscure relative gave it to me for christmas, played 1 minute of it and got bored

other than that i dont buy ennough videogames to not pick them up

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"Have you ever seen a baby do that before?"

Hmm, I was always one of those weird kids who would rent a game 4 or 5 times before actually buying it, so everything I bought I played and enjoyed. There is only one case in which this differed:

FFIX (PS1) [Gift] - I remember getting this for Christmas one year, without having undertaken my extensive trial period first. The first couple of hours I thought it was great, but towards the end of the first disc I just thought it was tedious, but I pushed on. At the start of disc 2, I remember being stuck with the two characters I absolutely didnt want to be stuck with, Steiner and someone, so I put it down to play more interesting things and never got around to picking it back up.

some more recent examples, and the only other games which I havent played extensively:

Destroy All Humans (PS2) [Gift] - Got it back in July or so. I played about 25 minutes and lost interest.

Area 51 (PS2) [Gift] - Got it with Destroy All Humans. Still shrinkwrapped.

Unlimited SaGa (PS2) [Bought] - Back in September, used, but in mint condition. Since, I've played it on two occasions, both lasting 2 hours or so. It's not that it's a bad game, I fully intend to play it, I just havent gotten around to it yet. $20

Star Wars: Bounty Hunter (PS2) [Bundle] - Came with the PS2. Removed from shrinkwrap, but never played.

Onimusha 2 (PS2) [Bought] - In a clearance bin at a local store. Still in shrinkwrap. In all fairness, I've only had it for 3 days. $10

Wild ARMS 3 (PS2) [Bought] Same as Onimusha 2. Also $10

Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter (PS2) [Bought] - Same as the previous two. $20


Wow, that list was far more extensive than I had thought.

Here are my purchasing mistakes from the past.

FFVIII of course, no real explanation needed.

Colony Wars: Red Sun was another. The first two were an absolute blast, but the third installment of the series was something I just couldn't get into. The ships looked silly and the system for buying weapons and such was confusing and annoying. I gave up on it pretty quick. There was one mission on it though that was the coolest space battle I'd seen on a console, but since the rest was ass, it just wasn't worth it.

This post has been edited by Narratorway on 9th November 2005 18:36

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Arts

Farts

Twarts

For me it's Shadow Man (PS1). Rented a long time ago. I liked it. Then I found it at a bargain price, but when I brought it home I couldn't remember what was good about it. Haven't touched it since.

Also Star Ocean 2. finished disc 1 with the dude. Didn't have enough patience to play through disc 2 as the chick. Again, forgot why I liked the game.

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Do you think we're forever?

Star Ocean Till The End of Times- Nice game, but for some reason I don't remember I traded in!

SaGa- I don't remember which it was, the one where the red pirate chick starts out in a town where there's a funeral, didn't know how to handle the menus, TRADE!!

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PS3 tag: TipoDLuffy

"...quite possibly the greatest game ever made"

The only game i can think of that i have boughten but never got around to playing was alone in the dark the new nightmare for the playstation 1.

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Why is it that rpg's are now a dying breed?

I bought crash banticoot wrath of cortex, and I only played it once. Plus the loading time were awlful.


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In the begining their was nothing... then god said "let their be light".... and it was good.

ATV Offroad Fury 2
came with the playstation, and I hated it, and I couldn't sell it (not for retail sale)

Of course, like many things in my household, it "mysteriously dissapeared"

seriously, We used to have it, but suddenly we don't have it. I have no frikkin clue as to were it went, nor do I have any recollection of me hiding it somewhere.

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Neneko is Neneko because Neneko couldn't be Neneko if Neneko wasn't Neneko!
--as quoted from Neneko, Mahoraba {Heartful Days}

I can stab a man with a thick paperback book thru the ribcage.

I have many games I have hardly played...

Unlimited Saga, I bouth it and when I went to see what the critics said about it I was shocked and dissapointed...I haven't even bothered to play it once (even though I once tried but I needed a Memory Card...)

Samurai Legend Musashi, I played around 3 hours and the got bored of it.

The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind, War of the Ring, my computer can't run them x_X

Legacy of Kain: Defiance, a friend scratched the disc accidentally before I could even play it...

Xenosaga Chapter II, I'll play it when I finish the first one

Shadow Hearts, I started to have nightmares because of this game (I'm serious T_T)

Prince of Persia, it sort of bored me...

Resident Evil: Outbreak 2, it bored me too quickly...

Killer 7, it was good...but I was distracted by Resident Evil 4 n_n




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x_X

I have several Star Trek games for the SNES that I've never even touched before. My brother bought them when the Super belonged to him. Poor misguided fellow.

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TURKEY! - (The only way not to get blocked for using Fowl Language)

Final Fantasy- crystal chronicles. I don't think the game itself was so bad, but I couldn't get any of my roommates into it, and I think the game was enhanced significantly by the multi-player function, especially with PSPs.

Star Ocean- TTEOT- Like everyone else I enjoy this game, but haven't had the uninterrupted months of nothing to do that it takes to make a dent in the game.

Vagrant Story- Seemed like it could have been good, but I never really got the hang of the fighting system, so I gave up on it relatively quickly.

Backyard Football- I think Backyard Baseball is one of the more fun sports games out there, but it just didn't translate that well into football for some reason.

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Hip-Hop QOTW:

"Yeah, where I'ma start it at, look I'ma part of that
Downtown Philly where it's realer than a heart attack
It wasn't really that ill until the start of crack
Now it's a body caught every night on the Almanac"

"Game Theory"
The Roots

The SNES Star Wars games (one for each movie), Tomb Raider: Last Revelation, Donky Kong 64, some fishing game, and some war game were given to me as gifts, and I have yet to play them. The 2k1 sports games that came with the DreamCast, I've never played (sports games aren't my thing). Wild ARMs 2 and an Atarii collection for the GBA I got I haven't gotten around to yet. I haven't touched FFVIII in forever, and FFVII has been played less recently.

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"I had to write four novels before they let me write comic books."
-Brad Meltzer

FFT: I can't stand the uber-long battles, and I think I've only gotten about 4 battles in. I've tried to play it a few times.

FFV: I have it on Anthologies, and just kept losing interest.

Xenogears: I lost interest in it.

Kingdom Hearts: Lost interest in it early on, and didn't like the battles. This is a big point for me; if I feel that I can't play the game for all the fighting, I lose interest.

There are about 47 (!!) various console games that my husband owns that I've never played. I don't have an interest in most of them, and I don't think my husband has finished a quarter of them.

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I had an old signature. Now I've changed it.

ive played tons of games most of wich i just throw in my closet.


star ocean,till the end of time:i played it bout an hour then never touched it since.it wasnt that bad of a game just didnt like the battle system.


star wars jedi power battles: dont ask me why my bro bought this game well it sucked but the co-op wasnt that bad but its still lost probably under my bed with the cookie monster


bualders gate dark alliance: i played this game for about 5 days with my brother.
i just got realy bored i bought ther best armor and weapons and my skills were high
then i just stoped playing it. not a bad game though.

megaman battle network blue: i was bout half way in the game when my lil sis restarted and messed my file up one day i was at school. decided i wasnt starting over i have no idea were this game is.


dynasty warriors 4: tthis game is sweet but i p00ned all my freinds in it so its wasnt much fun any more.

blitz (for ps1): this game owned on ps1 then when ps2 came out it just wasnt sweet anymore so i dont play it.

spider man 2,the movie : i liked this game for bout to hours then who knows what happened to it.


these are just some of the many many games ( i spend way to much money on these games )

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I dont think we can help anyone...
family freinds...no one.
I decided to live for your sake.
Yes, It was my decision...
I think...that I want to be
forgivin... yes..

I want to be forgivin
-cloud strife [ff7 ac]

This topic was made for me.

Games I've bought but haven't beaten....

PC - Morrowind, Diablo 2, Dungeon Seige, Starcraft + expansion

GCN - Eternal Darkness, Resident Evil, Resident Evil 4, Tales of Symphonia, Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, Metroid Prime, Super Mario Sunshine, Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat, all the games on Sonic Mega Collection, Lord of the Rings: The Third Age, Goldeneye: Rogue Agent, Animal Crossing (Could not get into this game), Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 2 (More but I can't think of them/ don't want to to look at them to remind me)

PS2 - FF X, Arc the Lad: Twilight of Spirits, Wild Arms 3, DBZ Budokai 3 (haven't unlocked all characters), Virtua FIghter 4 Evolution (haven't really played this much at all)

SNES - Chrono Trigger, Casltevania 4, Breath of Fire (Not going into emulation)

GBA - Breath of Fire 2, Castlevaina 1 NES, Castlevania: Circle of the Moon

DS - Nintendogs (could not get into this game), Advance Wars: DS

And there's more likely then not lots I missed.

Where to begin.........
1. Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
2. Evil Zone
3. Enter the Matrix
4. Robotech: Invasion
5. Eternal Eyes
6. Capcom V.S. SNK
7. Resedent Evil 3: Nemisis
8. Need For Speed Underground 2
9. Kingdom Hearts
10. Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance
11. Seven Kingdoms 2
12. Super Mario Bros.
13. Super Mario World
14. Mega Man Legends 2
15. Blood Omen-Legacy of Kain
16. Legacy of Kain-Soul Reaver
17. Mega Man Battle Network 3
18. Final Fantasy 2 (for the super old, black&white gameboy)
19. Final Fantasy Origins

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"The doom of a planet…Crush Punch!"

Quote (Christopher @ 1st December 2005 14:24)

18. Final Fantasy 2 (for the super old, black&white gameboy)

That game was on the NES/Famicom. I take it you mean Final Fantasy Legend II (for the Game Boy), which really isn't a Final Fantasy game at all. It and the other two FF Legend games are part of the SaGa series, but were renamed as such in North America as a marketing ploy.

As for me:

Star Ocean: Till the End of Time - I really enjoy the original Star Ocean and Star Ocean 2, but Star Ocean 3 just couldn't hold my interest. I think I got about five hours into it before quitting.

Radiata Stories - Much. Too. Slow. Seriously, the game progresses like frozen sludge, and even after twelve or so hours into the thing I still couldn't detect any hint of an actual plot.

Resident Evil 0 - The two-character system got old very quickly, and Capcom's bright idea of nixing the item storage crates was sadistic at best. I dunno how many times I was forced to backtrack the entire length of the mansion or estate grounds just to pick up a key I didn't have room to carry. Most of my hours recorded on my single file are 'cause of things like that!

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - Unlike the other GTA games, I just couldn't get into this one. I have no clue why though. Maybe it was the characters, or the atmosphere... or the awful realization that I was once again trapped in the 80's.

Sunset Riders - I used to love this game; I'd play it at the arcade every chance I got back in the day. I even beat it after spending around forty or fifty some-odd quarters. I later got the game for the SNES, but to this day I've never once touched it. I guess the replay value isn't too high, but I've really been meaning to play it again, I just keep forgetting.

The Adventures of Dino Riki - One awful and badly programmed NES game. I could never get past the second or third level - it's freakin' brutal! Think Adventure Island, but with dozens of objects, projectiles and creatures slamming into you every nanosecond.

All the aforementioned games that I played but abandoned weren't even progressed halfway through... I don't think.

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Words of Wisdom:

If something can go wrong, it will.

If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong. - Murphy’s Law

Boing! Zoom! - Mr. Saturn

To be honest, I have an appalingly large amount. I do have a real reason however, and that is my sister. Whenever I go into GAME, I am either simply having a look with possibility of purchase, or looking for a certain game to buy. Then my sister either gets bored and rushes me into buying a game I dont want all that much ( I do try to play these) or she buys about six on top of my one.

Eg. I went into GAME recently to buy The Sims 2 Christmas Party Pack after meeting my sister in town. I left with the aforementioned game along with:

1. Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the silver earring (I just got her into CSI)
2. Wildlife Park Gold Edition (No idea...)
3. Medal of Honor: Rising Sun
4. Medal of Honor: European Assault
5. Delta Force: Black Hawk Down. ( I was looking for a future purchase to maybe get ONE first person shooter... but I got stuck with three... great.)

I also wanted to say if there is anyone living in England who wants to sell some games they don't want, I am quite interested. Just PM me ok? Just so you know I am looking for a copy of FFVIII (shock, horror!)

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The frosty one.

I bought Sims played it once and got bored with it (i Lend it to my nephew he likes it for some reason)
Imperium Galactia 2 ( too hard no matter wich race you pick)
Divine Dininity ( bought never played it)
Lands of Lore 2 ( Just couldnt undestand it at all!)
black and white ( it looked so cool but after an hour of playing i couldnt stand those villages anymore)


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It takes 2 people and a weapon
to commit a murder

Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is mystery,
today is a gift, thats why we call it the present.