How Many Current VideoGames Do You OWN ... That You Haven't Played/Finished Yet?

[apoppin]

I am looking at my current PC collection and realize I haven't played through to the end:

Deus Ex (my next game . . . I was going to take it to Hawaii but it didn't run too well on my Win2K notebook; instead, I settled for playing and finishing Unreal, NOLF, Star Trek Elite Force and Serious Sam SE over my 3 month vacation).
Hitman Codename 47 (interesting enough but the controls have me a bit perplexed)
Sacrifice (I played a few campaigns and may come back to this)
Giants: Citizen Kabuto (ditto)
Project IGI (never even inserted the disk - any good?)
Thief II (I had to reinstall Win98SE and never went back for the 2nd half)
. . .

and these are just my current games . . . I still have Sanity, Might & Magic, Nox, Soul Reaver: Legacy of Kain and Rollcage that I haven't really played . . .

Anyone else in the same situation? Do you always complete your games?

Of course, I got most of these games as "Hot Deals" and some were bundled with my video cards. It just seems whenever I get to an older game, something new comes out (Max Payne, RtCW, Serious Sam) to grab my attention.

 

[PsychoAndy]

Project IGI is okay. I liked it cuz it was kinda realistic, but when you get into the levels, guys start respawning. Like, you'd go into an area with a bunch of mobile-home lookin buildings, and you'd kill everyone outside, go into the building, kill everyone in there, come out and shoot more people outside, and then shoot more people who pop out of the building you just came out of I liked it though.

 

[Willoughbyva]

The games I like to play but haven't finished are

Quake 2 I have all the expansion packs, but don't play on line.

American McGee's Alice in Wonderland (great game so far)

SR Legacy of Kain, but haven't tried playingit in a long time.

Tomb Raider forgot which ones. its been a while.



I have a couple of others, but I really am not into them at all.

I really haven't seen any games that I am excited about.

New games cost so much. I guess I'll wait till they hit the bargan bin.

Will

 

[toph99]

Total Annihilation and the Core Contingency
Rainbow Six
Diablo II
Command and Conquer

i have played Deus Ex and Max Payne to completion many times

 

[PsychoAndy]

Oh, and I don't think i've played 50% of the games that I have. Pretty sad

 

[pyonir]

i can't count that high.

 

[apoppin]

Thank-you . . . I feel better now!



At least it looks like a few months 'till the next generation of videogames that interest me - Unreal II, especially. This'll give me time to finish up a few . . . and save up for the upgrade/replacement of my 1.24Ghz/Radeon64 system.

EDIT: Speaking of Soul Reaver: Legacy of Kain . . . do you find it weird that it doesn't use a mouse? (I though't it'd be ideal for a notebook but Win2K is not supported.) I had problems with "saving" the game in Win98 and just gave up . . .

 

[mithrandir2001]

I rarely finish any game....the last game I finished, I think, was Super Mario World for the original GameBoy. I'm more of an immersive experience gamer...play to play, not play to win.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

The only game that I own that I haven't beaten is DeusEx. That's because I keep forgetting that I have it (but not installed).

nik

 

[Kadarin]

Games that I've got but haven't played/finished:

Quake II
Quake III
MoHAA
Sim City 3000 (or whatever it's called)
Giants (Citizen Kabuto)
Tribes 2
Rainbow Six

Lately, I've been spending time on Civ III. I think I like the strategy games better than the FPS games...

 

[apoppin]

<< I rarely finish any game.... >>



I am so different. I have to see the ending (if I like the game). For example, I missed doing a lot of other (important) things until I finished RtCW last week in about 3 evenings - but I hated that ending . . . I wanted something more special.

And if the game is really really hard, I'll look up the walkthroughs and even the cheats just to get to the ending.

 

[Burnt]

deus ex - got to the end where there's that huge monster walking on the bottom floor
Jedi Knight 2 - haven't had the time
Final Fantasy 2 - got to the end, but wasn't really strong enough.

 

[308nato]

I don't think I've ever not finished one. Really its because I'm cheap. I refuse to buy another game till I finish the last one. I just bought Clive Barker's Undying and am playing that. I've been stuck for a couple of days but I will figure it out. I've also never used a cheat and have never posted "HELP HELP, I'M STUCK ON MISSION 3-WTF-HELP" or "HOW DO YOU KILL THE BUNNY ON LEVEL 4".

If you can't figure out the game you should switch to playing with crayons or something.

 

[Cougar]

Man, there was a time that I beat every game that I bought or rented. I think the last PC game that I beat was probably Half-Life.

Let's see here:

Revenant - Christmas present years ago.....stupid glitch in the game kept me from beating it and there were no more updates for me to download.
Brood War - beat Starcraft but only for through 2 "races" in the expansion. I think the humans are the last race and I never finished their missions.
Tomb Raider 2/3 - Buddy borrowed Tomb Raider 2 then kept it and moved away so I never beat it. Tomb Raider 3 was only played for a few levels.
Quest for Glory 5 - man how I waited for this one....same buddy that borrowed Tomb Raider 2 borrowed this one and I never saw it again.
Interstate 76 - buddy borrowed it and yep, you guessed it...never beat it 'cause he moved away (some buddy huh?)
Darkstone - got about 30 - 40 percent through the game and lost interest.
Zork Nemesis - I think I got through maybe 10 - 15 percent of this game before I lost interest.
Mechwarrior 2/Mechwarrior 2: Mercanaries - lost interest in both of these which is no small feat considering how many hours I logged playing the first one on my 286 (now that machine was a beast).

It seems like that's usually the reason that I don't beat games any more (apart from friends borrowing them and never returning them). I'll play the game for a while then I'll just lose interest. That's why I usually just download demos to games that way I can play them without ever having to drop a dime. Return to Castle Wolfenstein was really cool, but I know if I bought the game it would just sit on my hard drive taking up space. I dunno if todays games just lose their appeal really quickly or if I just get bored a whole lot quicker now. Either way I don't play or beat as many games as I used to.

 

[kamiam]

<< How Many Current VideoGames Do You OWN >>

I stopped counting @ 100

<< That You Haven't Played/Finished Yet? >>

it would be easier to count the ones I have finished ...about 5

 

[CraigRT]

MOST games i never finish..... i always lose interest unless it's a game like Sid Meier's Civilzation.. THOSE games I finish.

 

[apoppin]

<< don't think I've ever not finished one. Really its because I'm cheap. I refuse to buy another game till I finish the last one. I just bought Clive Barker's Undying and am playing that. I've been stuck for a couple of days but I will figure it out. I've also never used a cheat and have never posted "HELP HELP, I'M STUCK ON MISSION 3-WTF-HELP" or "HOW DO YOU KILL THE BUNNY ON LEVEL 4".

If you can't figure out the game you should switch to playing with crayons or something. >>



Oooh, maybe they should errect a statue to you . . . or an altar to the "Cheap Gaming-god".

Some of us have other things to do (when were not playing with crayons). I can figure out just about any puzzle - sometimes a time issue and impatience comes into play with some games. For example, I get sick of some of the jumping and puzzles in console ports and would just rather skip the parts that are "boring" to me.

And I am cheap too. I got 6 relatively current games for about $7 each in one hot deal last year (5 of them are on my unplayed list including Giants, Project IGI, Hitman, Soul Reaver and Sacrifice).

 

[apoppin]

Up for the day shift . . . anyone else?

 

[Angrymarshmello]

I have a whole box of 8-bit NES games I've never finished....a lot of 8-bit Gameboy games I've never finished (only because I have a couple 82-in-1 game cartridges), still haven't beaten Zelda 64, Mario 64, (with 120 stars) bunch of other N64 games, pretty much all of my PC games, (Half Life, Metal Gear Solid, the zillions of OEM games I have), and PGR, SSX Tricky, THPS2x, Genma Onimusha, and Blood Wake for the XBox.

 

[vi edit]

I think about the only games I've actually finished are Quake II, Soldier of Fortune, Diablo I, Diablo II, and the Delta Force games.

Those were about the only games that I could keep my attention focused through. I've tried playing through the Baldurs Gate games but after 40+ hours of playing over the course of a month or two, I just completely lost interest in them.

I dunno...I enjoy games that are more sit down and play for 20 minutes (like a UT CTF match, or a level or two of Diablo) than I do that require hours upon hours just to finish a single level.

 

[Alienwho]

apoppin you got a good list of games there,

Deus Ex is really an awesome game, I loved it.

Hitman seems kind of dated, but it really is a cheap thrill, and REALLY fun game. I can't wait for hitman 2 to come out.

Sacrifice was a good game and I beat the campaigne but never really continued.

Giants was really fun.

Project IGI was ok.

Thief II and the original Thief are my favorite computer games EVER. I can't get enough of the sneaking. Jumping rooftops, shooting rope arrows and climbing into the rafters of buildings, sneaking up behind a guard and knocking him unconcious and throwing him into a river so he drowns, hiding in shadows 3 feet away from people walking right past you, putting out torches to get more shadows, using moss arrows to make tile floors as quiet as carpet to walk on. Not to mention great storyline. Fantastic game, I hope someday they make Thief 3 or we atleast need more Sneaking Shooters. I can't get enough of the stealth .

 

[spanky]

i never finished any games i get, just becuz i am a scrub like that. i think the only game i ever beat was street fighter 2. i never even finished super mario brothers (1, 2, 3, etc...)

 

[DaveSimmons]

I have a closet shelf full of games I haven't even had time to start, including Baldur's Gate 2, Icewind Dale, Half-Life, Wing Commander Prophecy, Jagged Alliance 2: Unifinished Business, HOMM _3_, and more.

I have another long list of current games that I haven't gotten around to buying because I'm still working through Fallout Tactics, including RTCW, MOHAA, HOMM 4, Civ 3, Freedom Force, and Morrowind (out soon).

Kind of sad that I can now afford to buy as many games as I want, but don't have the time to play more than a few of them all the way through. I need to take a 6-month vacation from work to get caught up.

 

[AUMM]

i have like 60 DC games out of which ive only completed like 4. most times when i get a new game ill play it nonstop for like 2 days and then not touch it for months