Games that you ALMOST beat!

What games were they, and what held you back from seeing those end credits?

Jet Force Gemini - I fought the last boss dozens of times, but I usually ran out of bullets (except the pistol obviously) and would die.

Final Fantasy VIII - I almost got to the fourth disc, but I already had alot of the best gear and stats with almost zero grind. The game was too easy at that point and the story wasn't enough for me to muster through another 15+ hours.

Armored Core 2 - Not actually sure how far I was in the game, but I had beaten all 50 Arena Challenges and had what I thought was the best gear at that point in the game. But the missions would drag on and I was depleating all my saved up cash on non-energy weapon ammo. I tried to do energy weapons only, but that ended up being a long frustrating dance of overheating and running in circles.

There are other games that I was close to beating and simply shelved, because I got a shiny new game and still haven't bothered to come back to (but I do intend to... if I can remember what games those were... :P ).

So, what are some games you ALMOST beat?

Resident Evil 5. On the part when you're fighting Wesker in the lava area, ran outta bullets, using the dagger on him was near impossible, so I gave up. That fight dragged on for so long with no bullets. Oh well, one day...

Final Fantasy IX and XII.

Star Wars The Force Unleashed. I was so damned bored with it by the time I got to that last boss fight I just said screw it :lol:

The only final fantasy I could beat was 12.

So pretty much every other final fantasy game.

Lost Planet

Bayonetts

-I almost stopped at that rocket part which was just stupid, but I actually did stop at that turret section shortly after which is also stupid.

a lot, i have a backlog of games. but the last 2 i can think of is killzone 2 and final fantasy 13.

i bought a new ps3 and sold my old one so i couldnt transfer the data. when i tried playing it again, the aiming made me dizzy

final fantasy 13, i got stuck in gran pulse...couldnt figure out what to do

Blue Dragon.

I got to the end boss and lost. I hated the game so I stopped playing.

Trials HD. I made it to the 2nd of the 'Extreme' levels, but I just could'nt after that. The game is still fun, but I just lack the controller competence to make it through those last levels. After hours of failing, I just stopped trying and started playing the minigames instead.

Grand Theft Auto IV.

Got to the end, but never got around to beating the game.

Resident Evil 5. On the part when you're fighting Wesker in the lava area, ran outta bullets, using the dagger on him was near impossible, so I gave up. That fight dragged on for so long with no bullets. Oh well, one day...

cyborg100000

Beating Wesker with the knife is just a pattern. Learn his few moves, stab, run away, stab, and then it gives you the option for a QTE. Rinse, repeat. I think it's actually easier with the knife. Also, don't forget at the very beginning of the fight to turn around, there's ammo by the wreck that most people miss.

Star Ocean 3. I was in the final dungeon, which has save points that are stupidly far apart and machine gunner soldiers can chain juggle you until death. Died after like 40 minutes without a save point, got mad, stopped for awhile. About a month later my PS3 died and took my save file with it, so...there went that.

Final Fantasy X. I got to the final boss, couldn't beat his final form and had absolutely no interest in leveling up so I just quit and watched the ending online. I didn't think it was a terribly good game in the first place, so it wasn't much of a loss.

Hokuto No Ken - Ken's Rage (360) I made it to Sautzer and kept trying to beat him for a couple hours before casting the game in the fire of Mouth Doom.

Final Fantasy VIII (PS1) I got to the bit near the end where a boss is holding a character captive and I was never able to beat it and there was no way to grind for levels or go back to the world. Stuck. Cast the game into the fire.

Condemned (360) I made it to the very end, but the game glitched out on me, some planks blocking my way in an attic wouldn't disappear, impeding progress. Game over.

Mafia (PC) 10 years ago I could never beat the final level, no matter how hard I tried I kept dying at the very end.

Devil Summoner: Raidou Vs. Soulless Army - It was all a great game, but in the last dungeon, I just lost interest.

Super Mario Galaxy - In the last stages of stars, again lost interest to finishing it.

Shadow of the Damned - Boredom came in.

batman arkham asylum. i got to joker and couldnt figure out how tofight him, i was continually fighting these grunts soi just gave up..

Hokuto No Ken - Ken's Rage (360) I made it to Sautzer and kept trying to beat him for a couple hours before casting the game in the fire of Mouth Doom.

Black_Knight_00

Souther...I only died at him twice. But I kept at him until he was done. I made sure to upgrade Kenshiro's abilities as much as I could.

Ninja Gaiden 2 - I got to the final boss :'(

Final Fantasy 9. Got to the very final boss (Necro, I think it was called), got turned inside out and found the prospect of fighting my way back to him too disheartening, so I put it to one side. I was Final Fantasy-ed out at that point.

FFX; the first time I played through I got to Braska's final aeon, died and never tried again. However, I do want to eventually beat FFX someday

The cell shaded Prince of Persia. I totally lost interest, one of the biggest upsets this gen for me. I recently bought it again for 8 bucks at EB to try again though..

Final Fantasy VIII and Dead Space 2, which for some reason i never finished.

Resident Evil 5. On the part when you're fighting Wesker in the lava area, ran outta bullets, using the dagger on him was near impossible, so I gave up. That fight dragged on for so long with no bullets. Oh well, one day...cyborg100000

Turok - the entire experience was frustrating with very few checkpoints, and as I got close to the last section I just gave up because I wasn't enjoying it at all.

Turok - the entire experience was frustrating with very few checkpoints, and as I got close to the last section I just gave up because I wasn't enjoying it at all.

Venom_Raptor

I recently bought Kirby 3D classic off the eshop and never had played it in my NES days. It was suprisingly kinda tough for a platformer. Anyway, I still cant beat the final boss (That you have to fight in two or three forms with never getting your energy replinished). Might give him another go soon.

I almost beat the original Tomb Raider, but before I did, my PS got stolen with the game inside. I almost beat Star Ocean: Until the End of Time and Xenosaga II, but they got way too hard for me at the end. JustPlainLucas

The expansion pack to AVP2, cus It sucked so hard. And I never finnished Sanitarium, but I will some day =) mark my words!

The only three that I can think of are:

Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction - While the game was fun, it got repeptitive quickly and I eventually lost interest.

Killzone - Probably the most uninteresting game I played on the PS2. Tried getting through it twice and quit for another game each time.

Xenogears - The tone of the story was too depressing through the 30ish hours I played, and the combat was fairly simple and slow-paced.

Final Fantasy VII and Ocarina of Time from the Gamecube Collector's disc. In both cases my memory card save games corrupted and I couldn't be bothered to go back after sinking so much time. I mean I literally did everything in those game: I got all the skulltulas, the golden chocobo, final limit breaks. It kind of sucked.

Splinter Cell's 1, Pandora Tomorrow AND Chaos Theory. That's right, I haven't completed any of the Splinter Cell games (including Double Agent, by the way, but I got nowhere near the end on that). Well, I did complete the PSP Essentials and Conviction... twice. These are games that I want to complete very soon though. Funny though, because these games are in my top 10 of all time. I can't recall any specific parts I got stuck on now, but they just got tough, and they were always really far in to the game. I tried so many times as well. I remember on the original it was around this snow level, maybe just after it actually.Ashley_wwe

They're all great games but if you haven't finished the originals but have finished Conviction twice . . . it goes to show how dumbed down Conviction really was. I remember i absolutely hated SC when it 1st released due to its high skill level, unforgiving difficulty & trial & error gameplay. Im glad i stuck with it though.

You should give them a shot again. It's very satisfying to finish those games. They still feel like an experience you can't find anywhere else.

God Of War 3. I was never into the GOW series but after the constant praise & love the series gets i thought i would give it a shot.

I cant pinpoint my exact location but i played about 3/4 of the way through. Very close to the end the puzzles start to pick up & slow your progression to the end. I hated every minute of the game but i lost all patience at the end when i just wanted to finish it as fast as possible.

I now Hate GOW & Kratos. Just not my kind of game. Maybe the new Devil May Cry reboot will get me back into the beat em up genre.

Too many games to name. Usually right before I beat one game I end up getting side-tracked with life and don't revisit it before another awesome game comes out.

FFXIII, FFXII, Skyrim, Lost Odyssey, GOW3. Just kind of lost interest.

Alpha Protocal

They're all great games but if you haven't finished the originals but have finished Conviction twice . . . it goes to show how dumbed down Conviction really was. I remember i absolutely hated SC when it 1st released due to its high skill level, unforgiving difficulty & trial & error gameplay. Im glad i stuck with it though.brucecambell

Persona 3, Persona 4. Never quite beat them :(

Torchlight. The endboss was just too unreasonably beefed up, especially considering the amount of time I had put into leveling my character to get there. After it became obvious for a couple hours that I could not defeat the boss unless I put a bunch more hours into the game leveling up more in side missions, I was never going to beat it. So I said screw it.

Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks. The final bss was absurdly cheap, and I decided it just wasn't worth it.