Games you've played the hell out of but never beaten

Never_Scurred · Post by **Never_Scurred** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 2:03 am

A coworker and I were choppin' it up this morning and just takin' it back to the old school and one of the subjects we touched on was games. After naming a list of all the usual suspects and whatnot, I came to the realization that there were many games that I remember playing the shit out of, but never actually finishing. Its like, I can tell you about every level of the Metal Slug series, the Super Marios, Contras, Mega Man, whatnot, but I can't tell you what the endings were from personal experience. Its like I get far enough, put them down for awhile, then pick 'em back up later and play.

So, I ask you guys, what games have you played forwards and back but have never completed? I'm not talking about games you picked up once or twice or games you are trying to beat, but the ones you enjoy and spent a great deal of time on but never cared to finish.

1. Dodonpachi DOJ

2. Metal Slug 2-6

3. Street Fighter 2(Played the fuck out of this game and even owned the SNES version but have never seen the endings)

4. Super Mario 1, 3, World, 64

5. Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic and Knuckles

6. Ikaruga (I pick up this game at least once a day. Play a little before work)

7. Mega Man series (Own all of the common NES and SNES games, but haven't beaten a single one even though I used to play the shit out of them religiously)

8. Marvel Vs. Capcom 1 and 2(especially 2, they have a machine at school so I get at least one good play before class)

9. Castlevania series (same as the Mega Man series)

10. Battle Garegga/Batrider(I don't even want to beat these games, I have fun picking up and seeing how badass my dodging skills are)

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 2:07 am

Final Fantasy 6 and 7...really weird, because I was right on the cusp of finishing both. I literally got to the final boss's doorstep, having fought past everything else and collected all the stuff in the final dungeon, but then backtracked outside for some reason, maybe to build levels or whatnot...but in both cases, after having gone that far in both games (and for the most part enjoyed the trip) just never went back and beat the final boss. I honestly have no idea why this is...

DJ Incompetent · Post by **DJ Incompetent** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 2:20 am

Super Ghouls & Ghosts. 2nd loop.
I can rape that game with anything but that goddamn bracelet.
I used to try once a year when I was little. I gave up, realizing the challenge was too fucking stupid instead of challenging.

About 2 years from now I'm probably going to say Varth...

BIL · Post by **BIL** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 3:14 am

ESPRade. It was the first Cave shooter I played seriously, and I put about 200 hours on it in four months. Just couldn't get a 1CC, although I came within one life of it. I've not gone back to it since, but I'll probably try to knock it off before trying out the eight or so Cave ports & ROMs I've got atm.

Nuke · Post by **Nuke** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 3:15 am

Well, excluding Shmups: Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, Digital Devil Saga, Disgaea, Viewtful joe, Gradius V, The Red Star, Ico, Suikoden II, Z.O.E: The 2nd runner, Fallout 2, Arcanum, Freedom Force...etc.
Phew, I really need to finish what I start more often.
(Currently playing Popful Mail and Metal Gear Solid 3)

Dale · Post by **Dale** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 3:33 am

Killer8 mode is still eluding me. I just lost my save for it too,maybe down the road I'll finish it but now I doubt it.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 4:04 am

morrowind
oblivion (dark brotherhood)
fallout 1 & 2
atelier iris 1 & 2
raiden fighters jet
battle garegga
perfect cherry blossom
sispri gauntlet
half-life 2 smod: remastered redux (custom extreme2 difficulty)

aside from the RPGs that aren't fallout and PCB i've been intending to finish these

Pirate1019 · Post by **Pirate1019** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 5:57 am

Every Final Fantasy ever.

I went as far as to hope that I would beat XII, but then my dumb ass went and bought Magna Carta: Tears of Blood* and Radiata Stories.

*With voice acting second only to Castle Shikigami 2.

Ayanami · Post by **Ayanami** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 6:34 am

Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne

Love that game, but never came close to beating it.

Battlesmurf · Post by **Battlesmurf** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 7:38 am

lol..fucking battletoads....I could get to the end without continuing (you continue- you're screwed) and sometimes get there with a stock of lives- having only died once or twice only to lose everything on that fucking tower ....

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 9:58 am

Darkmere.

And then there's a long list of hateful action games that let me reach the final boss only to crush me mercilessly. The Super Shinobi comes to mind.

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 5:40 pm

The Super Shinobi comes to mind.

hahaha... I've beaten that one many times.

Daigohji · Post by **Daigohji** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 9:28 pm

Ouendan on the highest difficulty setting. Normal and Hard took a fair while to beat, but I just can't topple the Very Hard version of Ready, Steady, Go. It's the first verse that kicks the crap out of me. If I can get past those first few bars, I can usually get about halfway through the song, but most of the time the first couple of bars drop my energy almost completely. Of course, the most annoying part of that track is the unskippable 35 second intro.

FRO · Post by **FRO** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 9:51 pm

The original Double Dragon NES. Still haven't finished it.

Lunar 2: Eternal Blue (PSX). I finished the original game, but not the Epilogue quest.

Parasite Eve. Again, I finished the regular game, but not the EX game.

A countless list of shmups....

Final Fantasy VII. I have started a new game on that at least 4-5 times with the intent of using the 450+ page guide I printed several years ago to finally "walk through" the game, but have still never finished it. I get to about mid-way through disc 2 & either lose interest (usually due to more pressing matters in life taking precedence) or I neglect to play for a couple weeks & then I'm utterly lost when I go back to it. It's such an interesting game, but with as little time as I get to dedicate to gaming on a regular basis, it's just too tall an order. That's why I'm trying to work my way back up to that. I'm working in Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door right now, and it's going fairly quickly. Hopefully that will get me in the mood to go back to Lunar 2, then maybe back to FF7.

Pirate1019 · Post by **Pirate1019** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 12:46 am

FRO wrote:Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door

I'm at the final boss. (Literally, three steps away) and I just quit. I died on my first try and I didn't want to watch the 5 minute scene before the fight so I just stopped. So close.

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 1:29 am

Strider77 wrote:
The Super Shinobi comes to mind.
hahaha... I've beaten that one many times.

Well, let's hear yours unfinished games, maybe there's something I completed

Koa Zo · Post by **Koa Zo** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 3:48 am

Milon's Secret Castle would have to be first on my list.
Back in the day a friend and I played it for months, progress was slow to come, but the game always drew us back for more. Eventually we were just plain stuck, unable to figure out how to get through a series of slightly diagonal corridors. I've read elsewhere that the game was really easy. There was a lot of tricky hidden stuff, so that might have been some of the problem. But even after trying it again on Hudson Best Collection Vol.3 I got my ass handed to me pretty quickly in just the first room.
This thread has inspired me! I think I shall go find a good FAQ or walkthrough and give it another try.

edit:
A quick Google search was a little surprising, not only is Milon's Secret Castle regarded as damn difficult, but there is a definate fan base out there, as told of in the mailbag section of Milon's Secret Website. And as coincidence would have it, the game was just released on the Wii Virtual Console last week in North America.
I also found exactly where I had been stuck, evidently we had made it pretty far into the game (my friend and I easily had over 100 hours of combined playtime to get there), at 12:22 in this YouTube playthrough is the passage we never found.
Hey, now I don't have to bother playing through it! I've just seen the ending.

Daigohji · Post by **Daigohji** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:22 am

Pirate1019 wrote:
FRO wrote:Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
I'm at the final boss. (Literally, three steps away) and I just quit. I died on my first try and I didn't want to watch the 5 minute scene before the fight so I just stopped. So close.

I've completed this one, but it took at least half a dozen attempts at the final boss to do it. After 30 hours of pure entertainment, that tedious sequence was a nightmare to have to sit through, over and over.

Squirrel · Post by **Squirrel** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 7:25 pm

I haven't beaten any shmups.

Games I'm working on: DDR Extreme. I can almost pass max 300 on heavy, then after that I have the even worse songs of Maxx unlimited, legend of maxx, paranoia survivor and paranoia survivor max. *sighs*

I'd have to say that's the closest I am to beating a game, is passing those ddr songs. The rest I have a long way to go, I have been playing Zero Gunner 2 like mad lately, but I still can't get past 1-6 on one credit.

DBH87 · Post by **DBH87** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:42 pm

god of war 2 (got to 2nd to last boss, now play red star and toaplan shooting battle)

Resident evil 3 (near end left it for another game)

loads of games ive completed but also lots more that ive played but not completed

gavin19 · Post by **gavin19** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:58 pm

I put around 60 hours in to Rogue Galaxy, loved every minute of it but never got past the final boss. I still felt that I had achieved everything I wanted to anyway. Only other game comparable would be Oblivion which I am playing at the minute, around 80 hours or more, and I could see another 80 hours going into it easily.

zinger · Post by **zinger** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 10:06 pm

Shooters aside, Devil Hunter Yohko (MD version) - I spent A LOT of time trying to beat the boss in stage 4, but never pulled it off. Real cheap! Same goes for the last boss in the MD port of Valis III.

seattlexc · Post by **seattlexc** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:52 am

Donpachi, I've put quite a few hours into it and have yet to 1CC it, but I still love that game.

Xargon · Post by **Xargon** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:35 am

Squirrel wrote:Games I'm working on: DDR Extreme. I can almost pass max 300 on heavy, then after that I have the even worse songs of Maxx unlimited, legend of maxx, paranoia survivor and paranoia survivor max. *sighs*

Play ITG, you'll get better at DDR. Or... Play ITG and you won't come back to DDR.

eight · Post by **eight** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:28 am

Wow, I remember the time when Max 300 was all new and everybody went 'OMG NEVER!' and one week later the first video appeared of somebody actually doing it.

Diabollokus · Post by **Diabollokus** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:48 am

@Fro

Let me guess Kao Megura's FF7 FAQ of gamefaqs? I did exactly the same, got to near end of disc 2, then just quit.

Chronotrigger, got to last boss inside lavos, died never came back.

Phantasy star 4. Got to Lasheich in Sky castle, kicked my ass then quit.

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:24 pm

Lunar. I'm on the final boss and have never beaten it. The save file is probably over four years old.

Squirrel · Post by **Squirrel** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:15 pm

Acid King wrote:Lunar. I'm on the final boss and have never beaten it. The save file is probably over four years old.

The ending is amazing, go beat it now

-Bridget- · Post by **-Bridget-** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:45 am

Ghosts & Goblins on the NES, or the arcade one.

WHY DOES THAT DANG GAME HATE ME SO MUCH???

And why is the NES one so buggy?

Same question for the original Ninja Gaiden, which I also just cant finish......

Never_Scurred · Post by **Never_Scurred** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:13 am

-Bridget- wrote:Ghosts & Goblins on the NES, or the arcade one.

WHY DOES THAT DANG GAME HATE ME SO MUCH???

And why is the NES one so buggy?

Same question for the original Ninja Gaiden, which I also just cant finish......

I feel your pain.