Games You Need to Beat

[Darkmoon]

I'm betting I'm not the only one with a list of games that I need to beat, games I've either bought and never completed (but want to) or games I've never even started.

Well, as part of my attempts to stop spending money on games I've decided to stick up a list of the damned things so I can tick 'em off when I beat them. Maybe then I won't spend so much. Like getting Alan Wake and pre-ordering Fable III and Fallout New Vegas...

Feel free to list the thorns in your paw too.


PS1

Command and Conquer - I've beaten the NOD missions before, but not the GDI

Vandal Hearts II - I hunted this game for years, and was lucky enough to spot it in a pile of trade ins at my local shop before it went on sale. Got it for a song. Now I just need to play it...

Bsuhido Blade - In fairness, I only got this last week.

Crusaders of Might and Magic - Same. I owned this years ago, but traded in because rather than talking to people I attacked them instead, so I couldn't buy new gear.



PS2/GameCube

Final Fantasy XII - I got fed up. Think I'm playing it wrong. I grind until I kill the boss of an area without breaking a sweat, only to get owned in the next area in the first fight. So sick of grinding.

Pokemon Colosseum - It's for the kids! Honest. Really.

Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time - Yes, I know. I get part way through Zelda games and then do something else for so long I need to restart them.

Legend of Zelda Wind Walker - See Above.

Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess - See above. More.

Killer 7 - Bought it in a buy 4 for £10 sale.

Alone in the Dark: A New Nightmare - Got stuck pretty early.

Half Life - Never finished this one.

Devil May Cry - Saw it cheap a couple of weeks ago. Thought I'd see why new Dante was creating so much rage.

Haunting Ground - I grabbed it cheap. Never played it.

Resident Evil: Dead Aim - I never finished, for some reason.

Resident Evil: Gun Survivor 2 - Played it years ago. Bought it months ago but still need to beat it.

Obscure II - Liked the first one. Never started this one.

Ring of Red - I have no idea what this is. I got lent it by a friend who then vanished.



PS3/360/Wii

Resonance of Fate - I enjoyed this, but the controls are awkward as hell and I forgot them when I didn't play it for a while.

Dead Rising - I know shame.

Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Whoo for sales?

Dead Space Extraction - I like Dead Space. On rails shooters? Only for playing with my wife...

Cursed Mountain - Cash Converters gave it to me dirt cheap. I laughed!

Folklore - Awesome game. Beat me up though.



PC/Handheld

Baldur's Gate - Old D&D rules make me cry; Clerics can use axes too! Plus the laptop with my game got...squished.

Baldur's Gate II - Wanna beat the first one first.

Fate/Stay Night - Beat the Fate and Unlimited Blade Works paths. Heaven's Feel is intimidating me.

[Branden_Lucero]

a lot

[Canas Renvall]

How so very descriptive.

I need to beat Valkyria Chronicles, Final Fantasy XIII, Half-Life and Half-Life 2, Silent Hill 4, and Silent Hill: Origins off the top of my head.

[Rancid Cheese]

Quite a few decent games up there I'm particularlysurprised by Half Life 1/2

My Thorns look like this:

Started Never Finished:
Kingdom Hearts:Chain of Memories
Kingdom Hearts:358/2 Days
BioShock 2 (Meh)
FFXII
FFXIII
Dead Space
Street Fighter IV
GTA IV
Devil May Cry 4
Super Mario Galaxy 2
The Conduit
New Super Mario Bros. DS
Pokemon Platinum
Pokemon Silver
Cursed Mountain
Boom Blox Party
Dragon Quest VIII
Dragon Quest IX
Sonic Chronicles
Metroid Prime 3:Corruption
Resident Evil Gun Survivor (Always got bored)
Sam and Max Season One
de Blob
A Boy and his Blob
MySims
Wario Land:Shake Dimension
Little King's Story
Trauma Centre: Second Opinion (Saw Awesome Centre byEgoraptor and could never take it seriously again)

Never Even Started:
Eternal Sonata
Viva Pinata Trouble in Paradise (came with xbox)
Assassins Creed (got it for a fiver)
Super Street Fighter IV
Dragon Ball Z Tenkaichi 2
Command and Conquer 3 (sale too)

<SIGH>

Thats all I can think of for now and thats just staying almost exclusively in this generation . . .

[Alexia_Ashford]

Red Dead Redemption, Resident Evil Zero, Killzone 2 (will probably never complete it because it bores me), Dead Rising 2, and a lot of XBLA games.

[TheSelfishGene]

Aliens Vs Predator
Resistance 2
GTA IV
Super Paper Mario
Super Mario RPG
Paper Mario
Smash Bros Brawl
Killer 7
Okami
World of Goo
System Shock 2

These are all games I've accquired in the past year or two, and for some reason never bothered finished. Some I really like but don't have the time to finish (like World of Goo and Mario RPG), but others I just won't bother with (Resistance 2 and GTA IV)

[Agent_Wong]

I'm embarrassed to actually post some of these as they might get me murdered in the street. And most of these are because they were stolen from me earlier this year.

Failed to finish:
Resident Evil Zero (was in the process of playing this)
Resident Evil Code Veronica (see above)
Fallout 3
IL 2 Sturmovik (barely started this)
Dead Rising (took it back because it bored me)
Perfect Dark

Games I never started for one reason or another
Resident Evil Outbreak 1 and 2
Resident Evil Dead Aim (honestly I'm waiting to try and find a guncon 2 so I can play it properly, but of course that means I'll have to find a damn old school TV then too heh)

I'm planning on getting Fallout New Vegas as well hehe. Already have Black Ops and Medal of Honor paid for soooooooo, unless I get really bored with those I don't see getting anywhere on this list too fast.

[A-J]

PS1

Command and Conquer

You're doing it wrong !

[Gradon]

C&C is best on PC. :3
I couldn't bare playing the C&C3 demo on Xbox, and the PS1 versions of one feel so clunky.
I have too many games to finish, like, I'm not even messing, the list would take the page; I buy too many games then NEVER play them. >.>

[Enrico Marini]

PC:

IceWind Dale
Diablo
Fallout 1 2 tactics
Midnight Nowhere
Devil may Cry 3


Snes

Battle Toads
Mario Kart

MegaDrive:

Decap Attack
Sonic 1 and 2 (can't actually remember if I ever completed them without cheating as a kid)
Sonic CD
Ecco The Dolphin

PS1:

Deathtrap Dungeon
Metal Gear Solid
Time Crisis
Alone in the Dark: ANN
Final Fantasy IV and V (kept loosing my saves)
(pretty much any of the PSX games I picked up Jan to Mar)

PS2:

Onimusha
Devil May Cry (picked up as a 3 for £20 back in 2005)
unlimited Saga (got bored within 5 mins)
Final Fantasy XII (got to airship bahamut, got bored with silly AI)

Xbox 360:

Hitman: Blood Money (need to rape for all achievements)
GoldenAxe Beast Rider (picked it up dirt cheap new, and realised why it was)
Phantasy Star Universe (played online for a few months but didn't have interest in the main game.)
Saints Row 1 (stopped playing due to a RRoD and by the time I got my console back in 2006 I lost the drive to complete it)

There are probably more I can't think of but most of these games are classed as "graveyard" for me, as in they are dead. not getting a dust off to play.

[leftshoe18]

I want to finish any game in the Half-Life series. Unfortunately, Valve games make me incredibly nauseous if I play for more than 15 minutes at a time.

[Darkmoon]

You're doing it wrong !

C&C is best on PC. :3
I couldn't bare playing the C&C3 demo on Xbox, and the PS1 versions of one feel so clunky.
I have too many games to finish, like, I'm not even messing, the list would take the page; I buy too many games then NEVER play them. >.>

What can I say? I'm a console gamer through and through. Which is not to say I don't have Command and Conquer for the PC...not when it's free to download on the site. No, it's more that I can't get it to bloody work.

[Gradon]

The First Decade + the Unofficial First Decade patch fixes everything.
Seriously, for £10, you can't go wrong with every C&C up to Generals.

[Carnivol]

My backlog's creepishly huge. Don't think I'll even bother listing it - but I know that once Reach, Enslaved and Castlevania's out of the way, Wanted and Velvet Assassin might be up next.

I couldn't bare playing the C&C3 demo on Xbox

Had no problems wrapping up the GDI Campaign on Hard on the 360. Controls are surprisingly easy to handle once you get a hang of using the shortcut keys and group commands.

(Achievement whores better stay away from that one, though, since the difficulty achievements don't stack and you have no way of knowing whether or not you've finished a level on a lower difficulty if you've already done it on a harder one )


Either way, I'm probably returning to it later to wrap up the rest + possibly do the expansion and Red Alert 3 (and I've had Commander's Challenge since day 1, just never wrapped it up). Totally don't mind playing them on console - they really nailed the controls pretty well.

[Xander Ashford]

Resident Evil Code Veronica (see above)

This is absolute blasphemy to me. I can understand not finishing Resident Evil Zero as it really isn't the pinacle of the series. I think Resident Evil Zero is good, but yeah, definitely not Resident Evil at its best...But CODE: Veronica?! This is like killing babies and eating their hearts to me.

I'm kind of surprised that a lot of people have never finished Final Fantasy XII; I actually saw this to be one of the better ones of the newer series. It is definitely a massive improvement over those mind abortions that are Final Fantasy X and X-2. I think the only thing I never did in Final Fantasy XII was beat the ultimate monster...Yziamat or something to that effect. The battle could take anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour and, I'm sorry, but that is just a waste of time.

Anyway, games I've yet to finish...

Overlord II
This was fun in the beginning, but just got a bit repetitive after a while.

Dead Space Extraction
I loved Dead Space, but I just couldn't really get into this. It just really lost a lot of its original element when put onto the Wii and especially on the rail system.

inFamous
I've come to the conclusion that I don't really like free range games like inFamous and Grand Theft Auto. I like games to be a bit more on the linear side and not have the whole world at my disposal (unless it is done like the PS1 Final Fantasies to where you do some linear/story crap AND have free world roaming).

That's all that comes to mind at the moment...

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