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CloseWhat RPGs have you played long ago but never finished? Feel free to include RPG maker games.
Breath of Fire IV - This is one of the few games on this list I'd really like to try beating. I'm honestly not sure why I never finished it. Guess I got busy with other stuff. I remember loving Breath of Fire III as a kid so, one day I'll try to finish this game. I'll probably start up a new file though because it's been many years since I last played.
Lunar 2 - I sorta rage quit it. Lunar 1 was awesome played it all the way through and thoroughly enjoyed it. Lunar 2 was good too but at some point in the game I got to a dungeon that just went on and on and on. The dungeon was so big that I just said screw it and never played again.
Skies of Arcadia - One of the few Dreamcast RPGs. I enjoyed the first few areas of the game but never got to finish it. Again I got busy with other stuff. Part of the reason I didn't continue was that I heard people saying the story was horribly generic.
Shadow Hearts - Like BoF IV I might want to revisit this game one day it was pretty interesting. I just for whatever reason never finished.
Baten Kaitos Origins - The first Baten Kaitos was great played the whole thing I recommend it to any RPG fan. The sequel however had a new battle system that I hated so I stopped playing early on.
Final Fantasy II - (not to be confused with FF IV my favorite FF) Final Fantasy II is the only FF game that I have started and not finished I've tried beating it 2 or 3 times but something always happens to make me lose my save file. I got really far too. But whatever I can live without seeing how Firion and friends save the day.
Opoona - Said to be a hidden gem RPG on the Wii. In reality its kinda so-so.
D for Dungeon - I usually finish RPG Maker games that I play but I stopped playing this one. D for Dungeon is a very well constructed game and it's very addictive. But it openly admits to not having much story. So, after a while I just stopped. I think this game is worth playing for a bit but unless you just love grinding in RPGs its not seemingly worth finishing. This is not a review though. This is more like impressions. I would only review something I finish. If this game did have comical dialog and story to go along with the fact that you are a baby going through a dungeon than I would finish it.
There's a couple of other RPG maker games that I started and then quit on but I don't think they had as many redeeming qualities as D for Dungeon.
Breath of Fire IV - This is one of the few games on this list I'd really like to try beating. I'm honestly not sure why I never finished it. Guess I got busy with other stuff. I remember loving Breath of Fire III as a kid so, one day I'll try to finish this game. I'll probably start up a new file though because it's been many years since I last played.
Lunar 2 - I sorta rage quit it. Lunar 1 was awesome played it all the way through and thoroughly enjoyed it. Lunar 2 was good too but at some point in the game I got to a dungeon that just went on and on and on. The dungeon was so big that I just said screw it and never played again.
Skies of Arcadia - One of the few Dreamcast RPGs. I enjoyed the first few areas of the game but never got to finish it. Again I got busy with other stuff. Part of the reason I didn't continue was that I heard people saying the story was horribly generic.
Shadow Hearts - Like BoF IV I might want to revisit this game one day it was pretty interesting. I just for whatever reason never finished.
Baten Kaitos Origins - The first Baten Kaitos was great played the whole thing I recommend it to any RPG fan. The sequel however had a new battle system that I hated so I stopped playing early on.
Final Fantasy II - (not to be confused with FF IV my favorite FF) Final Fantasy II is the only FF game that I have started and not finished I've tried beating it 2 or 3 times but something always happens to make me lose my save file. I got really far too. But whatever I can live without seeing how Firion and friends save the day.
Opoona - Said to be a hidden gem RPG on the Wii. In reality its kinda so-so.
D for Dungeon - I usually finish RPG Maker games that I play but I stopped playing this one. D for Dungeon is a very well constructed game and it's very addictive. But it openly admits to not having much story. So, after a while I just stopped. I think this game is worth playing for a bit but unless you just love grinding in RPGs its not seemingly worth finishing. This is not a review though. This is more like impressions. I would only review something I finish. If this game did have comical dialog and story to go along with the fact that you are a baby going through a dungeon than I would finish it.
There's a couple of other RPG maker games that I started and then quit on but I don't think they had as many redeeming qualities as D for Dungeon.
ALL OF THEM.
Currently in my Steam library:
>Pillars of Eternity
>Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
>Dynasty Warriors 8 (has RPG elements)
>Pier Solar and the Great Architects (huge disappointment though, game sux)
>Of Orcs and Men
>Cthulhu Saves the World
>ClaDun x2
>Child of Light
>Breath of Death VII
I don't even want to look at my DS/3DS games...
Currently in my Steam library:
>Pillars of Eternity
>Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
>Dynasty Warriors 8 (has RPG elements)
>Pier Solar and the Great Architects (huge disappointment though, game sux)
>Of Orcs and Men
>Cthulhu Saves the World
>ClaDun x2
>Child of Light
>Breath of Death VII
I don't even want to look at my DS/3DS games...
RedMask
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What did you think of Child of Light?
I've been considering buying it.
Also why did Pier Solar disappoint you? (I've heard of it but haven't played it.)
P.S. That's a really cool image of Rydia and Cecil on your profile Craze!
I've been considering buying it.
Also why did Pier Solar disappoint you? (I've heard of it but haven't played it.)
P.S. That's a really cool image of Rydia and Cecil on your profile Craze!
I won't list the ones that I've only played like 10 minutes of to keep the list short. These are the ones that I've actually sunk a lot of time into:
Final Fantasy IX: I don't think I'll end up finishing this to be honest. The last time I ran it I got all the way to the beginning of Terra and by that point my interest had reached the bottom of its downward spiral. I just can't stand the story and the focus on Garnet at that point in the game, which is a shame, because FF9 is a brilliant title and the first disc is great.
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga: I got to the last boss and never beat it. I don't know why I never sunk the time into it but w/e, I suppose I might pick it up again at some point.
Ni no Kuni: I REALLY need to get back to this. I've been meaning to pick it up again for a while now. The problem in my last run is that I evolved all of my monsters as soon as they were available to evolve, meaning I forced myself into a grinding heavy situation and had all low levelled monsters... Killing my interest in playing. I got up to the Hamelin Palace fight with Porco Grosso and couldn't beat it because of the low levels.
Final Fantasy IX: I don't think I'll end up finishing this to be honest. The last time I ran it I got all the way to the beginning of Terra and by that point my interest had reached the bottom of its downward spiral. I just can't stand the story and the focus on Garnet at that point in the game, which is a shame, because FF9 is a brilliant title and the first disc is great.
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga: I got to the last boss and never beat it. I don't know why I never sunk the time into it but w/e, I suppose I might pick it up again at some point.
Ni no Kuni: I REALLY need to get back to this. I've been meaning to pick it up again for a while now. The problem in my last run is that I evolved all of my monsters as soon as they were available to evolve, meaning I forced myself into a grinding heavy situation and had all low levelled monsters... Killing my interest in playing. I got up to the Hamelin Palace fight with Porco Grosso and couldn't beat it because of the low levels.
redmask: http://i.imgur.com/afv8OjB.jpg i dunno who it's by :<
Child of Light is okay but not that amazing. the text is a bit tedious with forced rhyming, and the characters are visually appealing but do very little. the battles are fun but a bit slow due to the game's nice but drawn-out animations and overall style (it's a very purposefully slow game, not in a laggy sense but everything has a sense of weight behind it). if you can get it for really cheap, give it a go. for full price? not worth it.
pier solar is just a really slow and clunky rm2k3 game with a wonky, unattractive art style. i had such high hopes... but it's oldschool without anything that made the old games fun or memorable.
Child of Light is okay but not that amazing. the text is a bit tedious with forced rhyming, and the characters are visually appealing but do very little. the battles are fun but a bit slow due to the game's nice but drawn-out animations and overall style (it's a very purposefully slow game, not in a laggy sense but everything has a sense of weight behind it). if you can get it for really cheap, give it a go. for full price? not worth it.
pier solar is just a really slow and clunky rm2k3 game with a wonky, unattractive art style. i had such high hopes... but it's oldschool without anything that made the old games fun or memorable.
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
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Child of Light is super pretty. It's the prettiest video game I have ever seen. The gameplay is like kindergarten though. It's easy to imagine quitting it early and just watching someone else play the rest on Youtube or Twitch.
I finish about 95% of the games I start. For RPGs the number is even higher. Uh. World of Warcraft I guess. I haven't beaten that one. My list of unfinished RPGs is probably almost identical to the list of RPGs I've played that go on forever without ending.
Oh, Skyrim. I quit that after a hundred hours or so. Not counting a good ten hours spent trying to get mods to work that would make the game marginally enjoyable to me. I don't think I was particularly close to beating it. I got the Fus Ro Dah and then travelled to Solstheim and got entangled in some plot shit and never made it back to Skyrim.
I finish about 95% of the games I start. For RPGs the number is even higher. Uh. World of Warcraft I guess. I haven't beaten that one. My list of unfinished RPGs is probably almost identical to the list of RPGs I've played that go on forever without ending.
Oh, Skyrim. I quit that after a hundred hours or so. Not counting a good ten hours spent trying to get mods to work that would make the game marginally enjoyable to me. I don't think I was particularly close to beating it. I got the Fus Ro Dah and then travelled to Solstheim and got entangled in some plot shit and never made it back to Skyrim.
I could never get very far into Baldurs Gate 2. I dont know why though... maybe its starts at level 7 and leveling up is slow and I miss the quick high from leveling. or maybe it was the downer start to the story.
I have about 2 dozen other rpgs that I could list but I dont want to bore you
I have about 2 dozen other rpgs that I could list but I dont want to bore you
Housekeeping
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Yeah, I'm like Locke; I finish just about everything I start. I even went through and beat 7th Saga since it was a game that haunted me as a child (I used save states and frameskip as an adult, so I don't know if this counts, but fuck you, that game is such a chore). I only beat one character's game on Unlimited Saga since all my console games got stolen and I never got a chance to go back and play it. I didn't beat Star Ocean 3 because it was my friend's and I didn't realize that the second disc was missing until I got to that point. I got stuck on the last boss on Xenogears as a kid; I tried to go back and play it as an adult, but the writing is way, way worse than I remembered.
That's all I can remember. Damn. I even beat Beyond the Beyond. What have I become?
That's all I can remember. Damn. I even beat Beyond the Beyond. What have I become?
If it makes you feel better, Xenosaga 3 is one of my favorite RPGs, I've beat it like four times at least, but I also can't beat Xenosaga 1's final boss. The penultimate boss gives me little trouble, but...
Desertopa
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I'm another one who pretty much always finishes the games I start. I sometimes left games unfinished when I was a kid if I got hopelessly stuck, back before I could just check GameFAQs or something, but I'd generally come back and finish them eventually as I got older and better able to figure stuff out.
There have been a few games which pissed me off to the point that I permanently dropped them though. Final Fantasy X-2 was one. I made it far enough for the final dungeon to be accessible, but I found the encounters inside overwhelmingly too powerful for my party. The basic idea is that you're supposed to tackle enough of the various sidequests and subplots before you're strong enough to complete it, and most of the game is composed of said sidequests. And normally, I'm extremely completionist with this kind of optional content. But the fact that I just wanted to head straight for the final dungeon to wrap things up, and got pissed off when I realized I had to go back and play more of the game, drove home just how obnoxious I'd been finding most of the game up to that point. Once I realized I couldn't see finishing the game as anything other than a chore, I put it aside for good. It's one of very few games I have never attempted to replay.
Rogue Galaxy is another one which just completely failed to win me over. I bought it in a spate of buying up PS2 games on Amazon, and I considered it a more disappointing purchase than Okage: Shadow King, which I bought around the same time, which I paid for and was simply never delivered. While I can appreciate a finely constructed or innovative gameplay experience (which Rogue Galaxy didn't offer,) I approach RPGs primarily as a storytelling medium. A lot of reviewers criticized Rogue Galaxy for having cliche storytelling, but plenty of games I've enjoyed (Grandia and Forever's End for instance) have gotten the same criticism. But Rogue Galaxy isn't just cliche, it's just flat out inane. Every scene made me want to punch the writers. It's not even funny-bad, just endlessly, tediously irritating.
Final Fantasy V was another. Probably if I'd played it as a kid I'd have finished it eventually (although the combat is way harder than VI, and it probably would have taken me a while to figure out how to finesse it.) But by the time I actually played it, the writing just came off as juvenile. I wasn't sold enough on the plot and characters to put in the effort to finish it (and either that game takes a lot of grinding to develop the job skills necessary to handle the combat effectively, or I was just playing it wrong.)
There have been a few games which pissed me off to the point that I permanently dropped them though. Final Fantasy X-2 was one. I made it far enough for the final dungeon to be accessible, but I found the encounters inside overwhelmingly too powerful for my party. The basic idea is that you're supposed to tackle enough of the various sidequests and subplots before you're strong enough to complete it, and most of the game is composed of said sidequests. And normally, I'm extremely completionist with this kind of optional content. But the fact that I just wanted to head straight for the final dungeon to wrap things up, and got pissed off when I realized I had to go back and play more of the game, drove home just how obnoxious I'd been finding most of the game up to that point. Once I realized I couldn't see finishing the game as anything other than a chore, I put it aside for good. It's one of very few games I have never attempted to replay.
Rogue Galaxy is another one which just completely failed to win me over. I bought it in a spate of buying up PS2 games on Amazon, and I considered it a more disappointing purchase than Okage: Shadow King, which I bought around the same time, which I paid for and was simply never delivered. While I can appreciate a finely constructed or innovative gameplay experience (which Rogue Galaxy didn't offer,) I approach RPGs primarily as a storytelling medium. A lot of reviewers criticized Rogue Galaxy for having cliche storytelling, but plenty of games I've enjoyed (Grandia and Forever's End for instance) have gotten the same criticism. But Rogue Galaxy isn't just cliche, it's just flat out inane. Every scene made me want to punch the writers. It's not even funny-bad, just endlessly, tediously irritating.
Final Fantasy V was another. Probably if I'd played it as a kid I'd have finished it eventually (although the combat is way harder than VI, and it probably would have taken me a while to figure out how to finesse it.) But by the time I actually played it, the writing just came off as juvenile. I wasn't sold enough on the plot and characters to put in the effort to finish it (and either that game takes a lot of grinding to develop the job skills necessary to handle the combat effectively, or I was just playing it wrong.)
Super Paper Mario: I got all the way up to the final castle and stopped playing when I got my first game-over (falling for Dimentio's trick in defeating Count Bleck). I should probably get back to it since I already spent so much time on it.
Final Fantasy: I don't think I could ever stand more than a few hours playing it before moving onto something else. But I don't know, it kind of haunts me.
Dragon Quest/Warrior: Same as above, but in a recent playthrough of the SNES port I made a lot more headway. Haunts me just the same.
Stargazers: Shit game is shit. I'm slowly losing my desire to play games that I know are terrible. I pretty much need a walkthrough to get through it, too.
Heroes Realm: I really don't know why I didn't finish this. I completed the puzzle with the imps and ladders and then I forgot it existed for no apparent reason.
Paradise Blue: Similar to the above. I remember enjoying it, but I left it aside past the intro stages for no reason.
Sonic and the Chaos Dragons: I think I ran into a game-breaking bug and quit, I'm not sure. It's in a similar boat with Stargazers above.
Evoland: I love this game's concept, but I haven't gotten around to finishing it ever since I changed my motherboard. It's just sitting there in my Steam library...
Final Fantasy: I don't think I could ever stand more than a few hours playing it before moving onto something else. But I don't know, it kind of haunts me.
Dragon Quest/Warrior: Same as above, but in a recent playthrough of the SNES port I made a lot more headway. Haunts me just the same.
Stargazers: Shit game is shit. I'm slowly losing my desire to play games that I know are terrible. I pretty much need a walkthrough to get through it, too.
Heroes Realm: I really don't know why I didn't finish this. I completed the puzzle with the imps and ladders and then I forgot it existed for no apparent reason.
Paradise Blue: Similar to the above. I remember enjoying it, but I left it aside past the intro stages for no reason.
Sonic and the Chaos Dragons: I think I ran into a game-breaking bug and quit, I'm not sure. It's in a similar boat with Stargazers above.
Evoland: I love this game's concept, but I haven't gotten around to finishing it ever since I changed my motherboard. It's just sitting there in my Steam library...
Final Fantasy II: I got it on the iPhone (it's just a port of the PSP one with touch controls) and just never got into it. It's just too different from all of the other Final Fantasy games.
Final Fantasy XII: Working on it. I had stopped a long time ago because I got stuck at a boss.
Final Fantasy XIII: Never started. I just left it lying around because my brother tried it and told me it was complete shit. I figure I'll get around to it when I'm recovering from foot surgery all summer.
Baten Kaitos Origins: Disc 2: Point of No Return
Class of Heroes: It's like Etrian Odyssey for people who hate fun.
The Last Story: I'll get around to it eventually.
Final Fantasy VIII: I hated most of the characters.
Dungeon Explorer: The 80's were hard.
Dungeon Explorer Sequel: Neither the DS or PSP one had the appeal of the old TurboGrafx one.
Persona: I got to the final boss and decided to consider it finished.
Hoshigami: Ruining Blue Earth: No.
Rondo of Swords: Up there with Hoshigami in terms of how-fucking-hard-can-a-game-be?
Persona 2: They censored Hitler and that was really just a downer. I wanted to fight Hitler.
Rogue Galaxy: My old PS2 cooked the disc.
Final Fantasy XII: Working on it. I had stopped a long time ago because I got stuck at a boss.
Final Fantasy XIII: Never started. I just left it lying around because my brother tried it and told me it was complete shit. I figure I'll get around to it when I'm recovering from foot surgery all summer.
Baten Kaitos Origins: Disc 2: Point of No Return
Class of Heroes: It's like Etrian Odyssey for people who hate fun.
The Last Story: I'll get around to it eventually.
Final Fantasy VIII: I hated most of the characters.
Dungeon Explorer: The 80's were hard.
Dungeon Explorer Sequel: Neither the DS or PSP one had the appeal of the old TurboGrafx one.
Persona: I got to the final boss and decided to consider it finished.
Hoshigami: Ruining Blue Earth: No.
Rondo of Swords: Up there with Hoshigami in terms of how-fucking-hard-can-a-game-be?
Persona 2: They censored Hitler and that was really just a downer. I wanted to fight Hitler.
Rogue Galaxy: My old PS2 cooked the disc.
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