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Post by feilong80 on Jun 20, 2011 9:09:01 GMT -5
Sometimes I get through a good chunk of a game, then life happens, and I forget about said game... only to remember it later. But by then you are doing other stuff, and it is surprisingly hard to get back into an old game's groove.
What games do you have that deserve finishing, but are currently dormant?
Currently a huge one for me is Eternal Sonata on the 360. Got through 2/3 of that game when it came out. Pretty fun combat system, and a premise that hit me for massive damage.* It is also drop dead gorgeous to look at. Not only did I stop playing, but I don't even own the game. I'm going to have to pick up a used copy at some point to finish it off.
*You freaking play as CHOPIN. Mother effin' CHOPIN. The game world... IS HIS MIND, AS HE IS DYING.
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Post by elchevalier on Jun 20, 2011 18:54:10 GMT -5
Maybe i should go back to finish Suikoden III, but the game feels soooooooooooo slugish in it's pacing. ALmost 40 hrs of gameplay and i couldn't explain you what is suppose to be happening.
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Post by ECM on Jun 20, 2011 19:57:39 GMT -5
This is like the "ashamed" thread in that I'm having a hard time thinking of games I abandoned *that I also intended to go back to* (lots of games I quit that I didn't like, of course).
Gonna have to noodle on this one and get back to you...
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Post by Borsalio on Jun 20, 2011 21:02:31 GMT -5
Man, I loved Suikoden 3, but yes, the game takes something like 30 hours to get going. I think it was something like the third chapter for all three main characters where it picked up. I still feel like it has the best overall story of all the Suikoden games*, but it's a real slog to get it going.
Anyway, this thing (leaving games unfinished) happens to me more often these days, since I have less time to play games but arguably more than ever that I want to play. I only got halfway through Mario Galaxy 2 despite loving it. Dropped Wind Waker near the end (Triforce Hunt!) Still wandering around Alltrades Abbey in DQ9.
Final Fantasy 13 was the first FF game I'd actually beaten since FF7, even though I'd played through the other games. Got to the final boss in FF8 (final form, even) and got beaten, and never went back. Made two attempts to beat FF9, got to disc 4 on the second attempt but didn't finish. Got to Sin in FF10 but got sidetracked on Blitzball and never beat it. Didn't get more than a couple hours into FF12 because I hated all the characters besides Balthier. I guess I don't really regret that one.
*I know most people would say Suikoden 2 has the best story (and I do think it's the best *game* of the Suiko series), but I just loved 3's story. But then, I'm a total chump for the "multiple viewpoints that converge at the end" storytelling style, which is why I love Dragon Quest 4 and Yakuza 4 and SaGa games so much.
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Post by ECM on Jun 20, 2011 21:51:23 GMT -5
Actually, FFXII is one of them.
I've started that game 3x and *every time* something in life has prevented me from getting more than half way through. (I keep restarting because, by the time I return, I've forgotten what was going on/how to hell to make the most of the Gambit system/etc.)
What makes this particularly egregious (I can hear chevalier screaming from his Mexican dungeon as I type) is that this is a Matsuno game and ECM loves him some Matsuno.
Ah well, someday!
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Post by feilong80 on Jun 20, 2011 22:09:28 GMT -5
I feel the same way about Final Fantasy III/VI. I keep wanting to start it back up (I have the PS One edition with the horrible CGI cutscenes).
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Post by Justin on Jun 20, 2011 23:32:40 GMT -5
I'd like to finish FF13 one of these days. I've put that game down twice over now. Once due to extreme boredom and once for school.
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Post by CHI on Jun 21, 2011 8:53:27 GMT -5
While there are many games I never finished, FF III/VI stands out. While I've finished FF III/VI a couple times, I never completed the most recent outing. I stopped right before the final battle. This was in 2003 and I still have this half-hearted intention to dig out the SNES and finish it off.
My most recent failure was Little King's Story. A long, drawn out sidequest near the end was super boring and tedious so I just stopped.
Quitter.
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Post by elchevalier on Jun 21, 2011 16:27:27 GMT -5
I like FFXII, but as i said before, it truly feels unfinished. You can see that Matsuno was still not done with the game, but you know square "RELEASE GAMES BEFORE THEY EVEN WORK" enix, they don't care.
I will also add the first Disgaea to the list, fun but way too time consuming. That franchise was made for people with OCD and other mental disorders.
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Post by ECM on Jun 21, 2011 18:30:22 GMT -5
Yeah, I've tried to get into Disgaea, repeatedly, and I just can't get into the insane minmaxing, though I normally love it. But Disgaea takes it way past 11! and into a parallel dimension where Spinal Tap rules the world a la Dethclock (a world feilong would, I imagine, love to live in).
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Post by ECM on Jun 21, 2011 21:53:15 GMT -5
Yeah, it didn't help that game was in development for most of eternity: I remember seeing it at E3 for the first time and then seeing it *years* later, again at E3, and in the intervening years, it had changed drastically, particularly in the combat system. (I want to say I saw it at E3 in 2002, iirc, and again in 2005...and it still didn't show up for another year after that.)
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Post by runinruder on Jun 23, 2011 5:31:50 GMT -5
When I start a game, I almost always feel compelled to finish it, so very little of the stuff I try lies dormant. For some reason, I gave Saint Sword a try just recently, and what I played of it actually wasn't completely awful, so I'd like to get back to it and complete it at some point.
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Post by ECM on Jun 23, 2011 9:23:07 GMT -5
RE: Saint Sword
Haha! Me too, oddly enough! It isn't exactly completely horrible, but it isn't exactly good, either, existing in some sort of 'playable enough' netherrealm if you aren't doing something constructive like clipping your nails or eating pickles.
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Post by runinruder on Jun 23, 2011 10:38:29 GMT -5
RE: Saint Sword Haha! Me too, oddly enough! It isn't exactly completely horrible, but it isn't exactly good, either, existing in some sort of 'playable enough' netherrealm if you aren't doing something constructive like clipping your nails or eating pickles. That's exactly where I'd place it too. "Taito" plus "huge characters" had me worried that it'd end up being a disaster along the lines of Rastan Saga II. But for such a drab-looking, clunky-seeming thing, it really isn't all that bad. |
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