I hear you about Splinter Cell 1, even without a bad save point. It’s hard to act covertly when all the bad guys are frakking psycic or something. I’ve never been that great at stealth games, aside from MGS, but SS is a class of its own.

Overlord is definitely a fun game however sometimes I felt like if I didn’t expect it, it’s not that easy. I didn’t expect this to be a challenging game….but it definitely requires patience, something I don’t always tend to have lol. A lot of the times, fighting a boss, all my minions die and I’m left there, dodging, hacking and slashing all on my lonesome. Also if you take a break and don’t play the game for a bit, you end up scratching your head at ‘where the heck was this magical forest I was in 3 months ago’ sorta of thoughts…

As for Eternal Sonata, I understand it always takes a while before you can actually get to the prime meat of an RPG game because it has to set itself up much like a book……. But for me it took way to long. When I sit there for 3 hours on a game basically just watching a(series) movie(s)….I’d rather do that. Watch a movie. As much as I really wanted to like it, I just couldn’t bother to play with it especially since I work a lot and just don’t have the time to sit there and have to wait to play a game for 3-4 nights of trying to play a game.

As for me, my one Xbox360 game that rendered itself unfinishable was Ninety Nine Nights. It’s decent when it comes to the Dynasty Warriors hack’n’slash however all the bosses have their difficulty cranked way up there compared to the pointless fodder you slash through. At lot of times, I feel the game wants you to sit there and grind your character’s level way up there so you can complete the current levels and that’s where I put the controller down. I don’t feel I should have to grind myself up to the top level to beat what should be a simple level especially since the bosses are about as strong, if not stronger than your character. Again, patience is one thing I don’t always have.

That explains ICO for me, had it for more than a year, got about halfway through and got distracted, picked it up a year later and thoughraly enjoyed the rest of the game, Team ICO rocks and I can’t wait for their announcement on their new game, will most likely get a PS3 for that and god of war III

Kane & Lynch. We’re stuck at the stupid dump truck part and unless there’s some miracle, I’m not picking that game up again ever.

Other than that, I’ve either finished my games or I just haven’t gone back since I got distracted with other shiny. However, I’m known to pick up a game after a year of owning it and play it through, so who knows.

First, there are the games that I just sort of dropped out of…

Hitman: Contracts :: I fully intend to finish this game, now that I have relatively easy access to it. Previously, the PS2 lived at my boyfriend’s apartment, and I just plain didn’t have time to play through.

Halo 3 :: *cringe* I wanted to finish this. Embarrassingly enough, I got through two boards before I got distracted by something else (Orange Box, I think) and totally forgot about it.

Then, there are the games that I am just not able to clear…

Grand Theft Auto IV :: Yep, despite my enthusiasm for this game, I’m nowhere near done. I’ve had plenty of fun sandboxing all over the place, but when it comes down to the missions…nothin’. My logic: I can’t drive very well in real life, and I also can’t drive very well in games. The missions that require me to get from Point A to Point B in a certain time limit, or chase someone before they speed away? Fuggedaboutit.

Portal :: There is one board that I *know* how to do, physics-wise. I just can’t get the jump to work out. I set the game aside for now, because I know that the cake is a lie, and I’ll come back to it once the frustration subsides.

I’ve played all of them, but there is always one point where the clues get way too cryptic and the puzzle nearly impossible to complete, and it breaks my spirit EACH TIME.

Any time someone tells me they finished an Ecco game, I have to pause a second in awe.

Viking: Battle For Asgard came very close to landing on this list. Most of the game is fine, but the major chapter-ending battles are rough and the final battle before you face the last boss is painful. (I think I tried it about 10 times before succeeding.) The final boss herself is easy, though.

Number 2 is Conflict Denied Ops. I was staring at it in Walmart trying to find games me and my brothers could play that we didn’t already own and this one ended up being bought. Un-known to me however is that one player has a machine gun, and the the has a really Crappy sniper rifle. We got through one level before that game was put to pasture. I want my 20$ back

3 for me was Farcry. The first one. I fought all the way to this one part where there was 5 huge gun carrying mutated freaks in the last zone in some tree top area where I tried religiously for a week to get past that part. This was long after the “You’ve fallen out of a plane and have one clip of ammo” part.

Thats all I can remember for now because I generally finish a game one way or another but those 3 killed me.

I never even entered the crater at the end because I was still spending my time grinding and doing all the things that I missed. Am I right in saying that you can’t leave the crater once you enter? Anyway, I wanted Knights of the Round; but that involves breeding Chocobos and we all know how long that takes!

I feel ashamed even writing that!

Of course, there’s a tonne of other games I haven’t completed (usually through sheer boredom or frustration) but it tends to be RPG’s that I don’t finish. It’s funny because it’s my favourite genre and I hate an unfinished story. However, I usually just spoil myself by reading the ending on the Internet.

I think I’ll re-start Overlord tonight!

Yeah I loved Overlord when I first started playing but for some reason it just got very difficult very fast (there was some boss I just could not pass) so I also left it behind…I did think the minions were the cutest.

Best. Final Fantasy. Game. Ever.

Hojo – I’m glad I’m not the only one who finds Eternal Sonata difficult. If you work out how to kill the Pirate Wench, let me know. It took me FOREVER to even get down to that bloody level of the ship, and now I cannot pass it!

Doll – I’ll definitely have to go back to Overlord as I really did enjoy it a hell of a lot! I just got easily distracted by other games, hated the lack of map and so I gave up on it really.