Games you owned but never beat

[Ultra Mantis]

AssMan's thread got me thinking, I've beat a lot of games multiple times but then there are those games I've owned but never finished for whatever reason.

XCOM Terror From The Deep - The was a glitch in this game that prevented you from ever completing it if you researched out of sequence.

Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne - Got quite far into it before I got totally fed up with every boss raping the shit out of me and having to start again from the last save point, which is often a few hours before the boss.

Kingdom Hearts II - Don't know why I never finished this one, I might have been trying to beat a secret boss or something and got bored with it.

Shadow of the Beast - Fuck this game.

Die By The Sword - There was some stage with giant gears that you clearly had to cross, but the controls were so awful that I just couldn't do it.

There are probably more, especially Nintendo and Sega games, but these are the ones that stick out to me. What games have you failed at?

[Xero]

90% of my collection, honestly.

Mainly because I'll get bored of the game, then want to play it a few months later. But if more than a week or so has passed since I played it I need to start over, so it's a vicious cycle.

[whiteyford]

Last 2 or 3 Zelda games, almost completed them all but for some reason got sidetracked by something and never went back to them. If a game comes out of the console i tend not to go back to it for a while no matter how close i am to finishing it.

[BigDaddyCool]

I would say probably about 20% of mine now. I have beat all the RDR, Assassins Creed 1 & 2, Braid, Lego Starwars, Lego Indiana Jones. You don't really beat wii sports or sports resort, they are just a ton of mini games. Same thing goes with Magic the Gathering, Risk Factions, and Monday Night Combat, you don't really beat them, you just keep playing, unless you mean getting 100% completion or beating the tiny mini-campaigns in Risk and Magic, which I have done. I haven't beat Portal because I can't figure out this fucking puzzle or get the timing right because I'm dumb, and the rest of orange box bores me. So that and some really awful games I own I never beat.

[LoDownM]

Bioshock, Bioshock 2, Dead Space, Spider Man: Shattered Dimensions, Medal of Honor(new one), Black Ops(Only done the first level of campaign).

[BigDaddyCool]

Also I have beat games I don't own, like Call of Duty. I have beat both Modern Warfares when I rented them for a weekend.

[NoJabbaNoBogRoll]

Mainly because I'll get bored of the game, then want to play it a few months later. But if more than a week or so has passed since I played it I need to start over, so it's a vicious cycle.
Complete opposite of me. I pick things up again after a year, and continue where I left off (I'm the same way with books). For this reason, I finish most of my games.

Currently incomplete:

Oblivion: Bored me. Might get back to it one day, if I run out of more exciting games.

Fallout 1: Stuck in an insanely hard fight with Deathclaws.

Resident Evil: Nemesis: I'd have to start this again, since the save file was about four computers back. I'd rather replay Resident Evil 2.

Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir: This expansion was utter shit, and I will not be completing it.

If we're talking consoles, then probably 90% of the games I owned were left unfinished, since I was a child (Children have attention span issues).

[LoDownM]

Oh yeah, haven't beat Oblivion because I got side tracked doing the Shivering Isle and have no idea what I am supposed to do now.

[OssMan]

Forsaken 64

[Blitz]

Final Fantasy XII. Just never got around to finishing it.

[Splaya]

Final fantasy 12
Final fantasy 13
Star Ocean- Till the end of Time

[whiteyford]

Oh yeah, haven't beat Oblivion because I got side tracked doing the Shivering Isle and have no idea what I am supposed to do now.

I had about 40+ hours on that, i completed the 1st quest and then fucked around with the guild side quests. I only completed the 1st quest because you need to actually get out of the sewers to really start the game.

[El Fangel]

Zombies Ate My Neighbors - Stuck at like level 45-48 for the LONGESSSSSSST time before I gave up.

[Eklipse]

MX vs ATV unleashed
Need for Speed Most Wanted
Home Alone 2 (snes version)

[Miotch]

Fallout 3.

[El Fangel]

Home Alone 2 does not count, that was ridic hard.

[Shaved Monkey]

Home Alone 2 does not count, that was ridic hard.

I think that's the only game where I could not get past the first boss. Stupid fucking game.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

I think that's the only game where I could not get past the first boss. Stupid fucking game.

It's also hard for all of the wrong reasons. It is hard because it is so glitchy and temperamental that if you don't play it perfectly you die. I'm all for hard games, but come on that game was stupid-hard.

I think they made the games super hard on purpose in order to sell Game Genies.

[El Fangel]

I wouldnt doubt it.

[PapaGeorgio]

Donkey Kong 64: I literally did everything I could. At like 99% or 100% I think, but I never beat King K Rool and the end. Just never could get the job done, always annoyed me too. That is all I had to do to like 101% the game.

Majora's Mask: Not sure if my game glitched or I was an idiot. But I got maybe half way through, little more and could NOT find the next temple. I looked online to see where to go, I went there and there was supposed to be a cave after you beat a level. There was no cave. Eventually just said fuck it and gave up.

[El Fangel]

Goldeneye, I never could finish it for some reason. Maybe because Multi player kicked so much ass.

[Emperor Smeat]

Probably 1/4 - 1/3 of all the games I end up trading away don't get beaten but from the games I currently own:

Conkers Bad Fur Day
GTA Vice City and San Andreas - Can't past the driving required missions
LoZ Ocarina of Time - Got to Gannon but never bothered to beat him
The Punisher (NES) - Got to Kingpin and almost killed him
Soul Calibur II - Missing 1 character (Lizzardman I think)
Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt - Never could make the long jump on one of the World 8 levels
Super Monkey Ball 2
Bubble Bobble
Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Got to Bowser but never bothered to beat him

[LoDownM]

Thread just reminded me I still have to beat Final Fantasy 13.

[Xero]

It's also hard for all of the wrong reasons. It is hard because it is so glitchy and temperamental that if you don't play it perfectly you die. I'm all for hard games, but come on that game was stupid-hard.

I think they made the games super hard on purpose in order to sell Game Genies.
Games were "super hard" so people got more out of what would normally be a 1-2 hour max game.

[El Fangel]

Gotta agree with Xero, many games nowadays are only difficult on the hardest difficulty.

Like God of War is only difficult on the highest difficulty.

[Eklipse]

I have realized that the most difficult temples in recent (64 and up) LoZ games are always the water temples. Majora's Mask water temple was a nightmare.

[Jeritron]

I used to very rarely beat games. Only the great ones. Like on SNES and Sega when difficulty was much higher and there weren't a lot of save points. Mainly continues.

Then when 64 came along I started beating more games, but most of the time I'd also lose interest in them (or have to return them). So I'd really only beat the great ones that I owned.

Now I really only buy games I think/know are going to be great, and almost always beat them. It's also much easier to beat games now, as long as you put the time in.
Not that it's any less fun. But the fun is more in the gameplay and narrative of the game now, so they give you infinite continues and generous save points.
Challenge used to be most of the attraction.

6 and 1/2 dozen really. I still love both types of gaming experiences. I do like a little mix though. I enjoy having to grind out a mission a few times before I get it.

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Tetris

[DaveBrawl]

Probably like 85% of all the PS2 games I bought. I would buy a game cheap and some of them I would play once or twice and then put it away and never look at it again. I have gotten better with my 360 though.

Sports games seem to be the worst for me now though, they used to be all I played, but I bought Madden 10 and played it like twice, same with NBA 2k10 (although my brother played it a lot when he was over). I sold both of those and bought NFL 2k5 thinking I played it so much on the PS2 I would play it a lot again since you can still get updated rosters, also bought NBA Live 10 thinking I would like it better than 2k, but I have played both of them once. Fight Night Round 4 I get very streaky with I will play it for hours for a couple days then not look at it again for months.

[Fox]

Sub-Zero: Mythologies

Fucking stupid hard.

[Executioner]

Super Mario Bros. 3 (I dont like using warp whistles and I hate...hate...hate...hate Pipe Land)

any GTA from 3 on (beat all the missions, but never 100% clear the game)

Devil May Cry

and up until this past spring, Final Fantasy 1 (never beat it as a kid, lost it, found it, then beat it)