Unfinished games you hope/plan on beating someday

Dis · July 21, 2003, 20:26

I have all these games on my hard drives in which I intend on finishing someday, but haven't yet. This is in contrast to games which I have taken off my hard drive in which I have no intention of finishing (games like Black and White, Star Wars Rebellion)

So what games do you have on your computer that you someday plan on finishing?

My games are Icewind Dale 1 (with expansion), Icewind Dale 2, Baldur's Gate 1 (though i just played a couple of weeks ago- I'm in the city of Baldur's Gate now), Morrowind, Planescape: Torment, Call to Power 2, and I just reinstalled an old Dos game called Wasteland- a game I played in the Commodore 64 days. I want to finish this game.

Actually I'm not sure about ctp2. I don't think I will ever finish a single game of that. But I do have one save on my hard drive. That game's public works annoys me for some reason. I still may try a mod, but haven't gotten around to it.

Most of those games are decent games. But for some reason I lack the motivation to finish them. Perhaps they are only games in which I could get a few hours enjoyment from, and I'm actually bored of them now. Perhaps I just need to get in the right mood to play them. I don't know exactly.

da_hal · July 22, 2003, 00:06

phantasie, wizardry 7, mechwarriorIII, a couple others.

usually i try to play TBS with a non-inherent goal in mind, like fastest turns, etc. so they never really end for me.

DrSpike · July 22, 2003, 05:23

I think I have finished all the games I want to.

Dis · July 22, 2003, 05:43

one problem is I spend too much time here

. And often I'm not in the mood to play computer games.

Skanky Burns · July 22, 2003, 07:37

I would have liked to finish a game of MoM. But alas, I formatted my computer and didn't bother reinstalling it.

Harry Seldon · July 22, 2003, 08:20

Final Fantasy IX, AoEII Campaigns, Fallout II.

muxec · July 22, 2003, 08:42

Kings Bounty 2

FrustratedPoet · July 22, 2003, 11:39

All the Final Fantasy games after VII.
I get about 80-90 percent through them and then get bored. By that time my characters are already capable of destroying everything with ease and I can't be bothered to go through the motions of actually winning.

I'd also like to complete Half-Life one day. I always quit when I get to the bit on the Alien planet because it is boring, but have played up until that point several times.

vee4473 · July 22, 2003, 19:41

Baldur's Gate 2. I love the game, but I tend to have a rough time finishing lentghy games only because I love playing so many games that a game that may take 50 hours to finish may take forever to finish if you have to divide up amongst dozens of games.

vee4473 · July 22, 2003, 19:41

Baldur's Gate 2. I love the game, but I tend to have a rough time finishing lentghy games only because I love playing so many games that a game that may take 50 hours to finish may take forever to finish if you have to divide up amongst dozens of games.

Tuberski · July 22, 2003, 20:03

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Originally posted by da_hal
phantasie, wizardry 7, mechwarriorIII, a couple others.

usually i try to play TBS with a non-inherent goal in mind, like fastest turns, etc. so they never really end for me.

Phantasie!!! I won the first 2 but the 3rd was a lot harder, every time you turned around you were losing a leg or an arm.

Ultima IV, for me. I got to the last question at the bottom of the last dungeon and, for some reason, brainfarted and answered the question wrong.

Which, of course, sends you out of the dungeon.

ACK!

Zero · July 22, 2003, 20:18

Quake I, Soul Calibur II and red alert 2. and when I have time I'd like to try the "beat FF6 @ lv 6" challenge.

or did you mean just getting an ending for the game? Thats kinda bad definition IMO cause some games have multiple endings. I like to think of beating the game as in "you can do zangief's pile driver with your toes" level.

Sarxis · July 22, 2003, 21:47

I don't have these on my comp right now, but I have them and have never finished them:

Freespace 1&2
Pharaoh
Emperor
Heavy Gear II*
ORB**
Hegemonia*
Dark Reign II*
ONI
Final Fantasy VII**
Conquest: Frontier Wars*
Serious Sam 2
Age of Wonders II**
Sacrifice**
Jedi Knight 2
Age of Empires II campaigns*
Star Trek Armada II*
Hostile Waters
Alien vs. Pred 2 expansion*
GTA2*
Independence War 2
Might and Magic VI (never even loaded it)**
Homeworld (just never beat the last mission)

* denotes games I never finished, and don't plan to.
** denotes undecided whether I will ever finish them.

Elok · July 22, 2003, 22:37

Final Fantasy 8. I have the same problem as Frustrated Poet. Sure, I could pimp-smack Ultimecia with Squall's right pinky alone, but...why?

centrifuge · July 23, 2003, 02:08

I've got a few that I've been meaning to get to

Fallout 1 & 2
Planescape Torment (started it, great story so far, just haven't gotten around to finishing it)
Civ3 PTW

(I haven't played it since I got the expansion)
Baldurs gate: Throne of Baal (this will come soon, I love the Baldurs gate games)
Icewind Dale 1 and expansions (I finished Icewind dale 2, and loved it)
Pharaoh
Hearts of Iron (as Italy and Yugoslavia)
Soul Bringer

I think that's it, except for a few games of CTP, and CTP2

Urban Ranger · July 23, 2003, 03:57

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Originally posted by da_hal
phantasie, wizardry 7, mechwarriorIII, a couple others.

Wizardry 7 is excellent, and it has a few endings as well. Great game.

geeslaka · July 23, 2003, 04:22

FF2-6 (except 5)
Lufia1-2
Chrono Trigger
I have FP's syndrome.

FrustratedPoet · July 23, 2003, 04:36

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Originally posted by geeslaka
I have FP's syndrome.

I hope that phrase doesn't stick.

Chrono Trigger and the excellent Suikoden II are two other great (GREAT) RPG's I've never finished. I might try and complete Suikoden II if it ever looks like the sequel will be released in this country.

Harry Seldon · July 23, 2003, 08:31

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All the Final Fantasy games after VII.
I get about 80-90 percent through them and then get bored. By that time my characters are already capable of destroying everything with ease and I can't be bothered to go through the motions of actually winning.

It's even worse when your boredom causes you to make stupid mistakes, like forgetting to pull Alexander from the queen boss in FFVIII and missing out on several summons or forgetting to pick up the Final Attack materia in FFVII and being unable to beat the last two Weapons. I hate spending ninety hours on a game only to have to play it again to beat it completely.

Adagio · July 23, 2003, 08:46

There's two games I'd like to finish:

Chewy - Escape from F5 - Very funny adventure game, though it was made a long time ago... It took a long time getting it running under Windows 95, but I managed... I haven't been succesfull getting it working under newer Windows OS

Though if I get it working, I'll finish it

Conquest of the New World - I have finished it before, but only in easy levels. I've got this game working, that means: It can run. But this game is old also, and requires the CD to be in my first CD-drive, but that drive makes noises that drives me insane (It doesn't make noises when having other CD's in, it's only with this game)... and I haven't been able to find a NO-CD thing to it

Juggler · July 23, 2003, 09:06

Alien vs. Predator 1 - stopped playing it some time ago although I was doing quite well.

Baldur's gate 1 - have to finish Durlag's tower and kill the boss.

trickey · July 23, 2003, 10:11

Splinter Cell, as soon as I get over my addiction to RoN.

DinoDoc · July 23, 2003, 10:14

Red Alert II
Homeworld
Homeworld Cataclysm
Diablo II (with all characters)
This list is sure to grow.

da_hal · July 23, 2003, 13:25

oh yeah, just remembered another one: Autoduel.

At the end there's a fork in the road. If you take the wrong one, you can't get to the ending. I remember getting lost and then I got a new computer that couldn't play it because of cpu clock speed problems.

I would still play it just for the arena and the gambling...it was one of the best of the early gambling games too.

Space05us · July 23, 2003, 13:46

Fallout 2*
Wizardry 8
I have a feeling Im forgetting a game....must go check stack in bedroom...

I just recently finished an entire game of Medieval:Total War. I believe they should rename it Medival: Total Bore. You dont get any cinimatics or something special at the end, just a static screen and a short speech which is basically the same for every faction you play (I went through the sound files) Basicaly it says, "You have won, praise God/Allah. Your rule is mighty and you're filthy rich. blah blah"

* I know Im at the end of Fallout 2 but I hate those rooms with the electric floors, its too annoying to bother with finishing when you spasm every few seconds when all you want to do is finish the damn game already!

Carolus Rex · July 23, 2003, 14:34

Civ II.

J/k!

Let's see:

- Pharao
- Homeworld Cataclysm (a "must finish")
- Grim Fandango (a "must finish")
- Deus Ex (a "must finish")
- Half-Life and its expansionpacks (have not installed them yet, but eager to play)

- Shogun Total War (only played a little)
- B-17 Flying Fortress (haven't played it yet)
- Medal of Honour Allied Assault (have played it through on a lower level; have started (but not finished) playing the toughest level)
-MOO2 (I like this game a lot, but it has always been sacrificed for Civ's sake. Had I discovered MOO2 first, it would probably be the other way around)

The problem is that I'll be moving around quite a bit for a year or so, and I will not have access to my desktop or my games. The laptop is too old for most of these games...

Sigh!

Carolus

gopher · July 23, 2003, 14:42

Civ 3

Edit: And the Sims

Space05us · July 23, 2003, 15:10

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And the Sims

do you not see the irony in that statement?

asleepathewheel · July 23, 2003, 15:17

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Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
All the Final Fantasy games after VII.
I get about 80-90 percent through them and then get bored. By that time my characters are already capable of destroying everything with ease and I can't be bothered to go through the motions of actually winning.

Yeah I feel the same way about those games too. The last boss is never a challenge, though that could be due to me levelling up too much, and it just seems to be, well, anticlimactic. I've never beaten FF8. Got all the cards, had all the characters ready to go, but.....got distracted by real life and didn't get back to it. And now I would rather play FF1 than FF8. I'm finding though I have the same deal with FForigins now. I can take chaos, probably easily, but....FForigins really made the game too easy, it used to be the only challenging one, at least the final dungeon and boss, but now...

Adagio · July 23, 2003, 15:24

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Originally posted by Carolus Rex
- Grim Fandango (a "must finish")

I knew I missed something... I can't finish this game, since the game crashes when I starts the final round...