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 Post subject: Re: Games you've never finished
PostPosted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 14:20 
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Deus Ex (whatever the last one on console was called) I was enjoying it as well, apart from the stupid difficulty spikes around the bosses.
Bioshock Infinite. I think I was pretty close to the end but real life intruded.
Gears of War 3. Didn't get very far with this one at all, not entirely sure why, other than it felt different to the previous two, and not in a good way.

More driving games than you can shake a gear stick at. Simply don't have the time anymore.

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 Post subject: Re: Games you've never finished
PostPosted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 14:51 
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I got my step daughter to finish Bioshock Infinite for me. I don't like timed missions and the last one is timed and made my bollocks twitch. So when she was here last she played it all the way through :D

I too didn't finish Deus Ex. Was a bit poo if I'm being honest.

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 Post subject: Re: Games you've never finished
PostPosted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 17:47 
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Grim... wrote:
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Whichever Final Fantasy had the Black Mage in it. He was cool, and I liked the game, but there was a part where your party was split up, escaping from somewhere, and I couldn't find the exit. There were random battles every couple of steps, and after a while it got annoying and I stopped playing.

A few of them, but I presume you mean FF9. Main guy had a tail?


Yeah, I think so. It was the first one I played to have a Black Mage as a playable character. He looked like a cute wizard jawa.

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 Post subject: Re: Games you've never finished
PostPosted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 18:00 
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I never completed the Original Deus Ex... I just got really, really bored of it around the Gas Station.


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 Post subject: Re: Games you've never finished
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Really?

I’m surprised that bit of the game didn’t get you

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 Post subject: Re: Games you've never finished
PostPosted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 18:24 
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Pundabaya wrote:
I never completed the Original Deus Ex... I just got really, really bored of it around the Gas Station.


It faltered a bit around there, then ran on really quickly to the end. I seem to recall the early missions being much better than the later ones.

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 Post subject: Re: Games you've never finished
PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 21:46 
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Betrayer. It looks lovely and is atmospheric as all shit but the combat's fucking awful and I can tell that's just going to annoy the tits off me. Also the inventory system barely works with the control pad and is all kinds of half arsed so it can fuck off.


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 Post subject: Re: Games you've never finished
PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 22:29 
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The map and inventory work with the controller but you can barely see what's being highlighted. Yes, that bit was fucking annoying.

The combat is alright after a bit and you figure out that you need a short bow which lets off arrows like an SMG. Still crap though.


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 Post subject: Re: Games you've never finished
PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 22:43 
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An SMG won't fire arrows at all, so that bow sounds useless.

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 Post subject: Re: Games you've never finished
PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 22:47 
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I ended up with a longbow and a musket and couldn't for the life of me figure out how to switch between them without getting up and crossing the room to hit buttons on the keyboard. I'm blaming that for the fact that I got murdered three times on the trot by the group of four guys who seemed to be guarding something interesting and that's about there my patience ran out with it. If the combat was less crap, or the baddies easier to actually pick off with stealth, I could've seen me quite enjoying it with the atmosphere and the good use of sound and the mystery and all that jazz. Shame.


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 Post subject: Re: Games you've never finished
PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 22:49 
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Erm, wasn't it left bumper on the pad?


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 Post subject: Re: Games you've never finished
PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 22:52 
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Unless you meant you couldn't figure out how to change weapons in the inventory (I'm pretty sure it automatically loads you with three weapons as you pick them up though).

To switch weapons it was: highlight weapon (easier said than done), press X to equip (it says that at the bottom of the screen where the buttons are mapped) and then highlight a space out of the three available (easy enough as a red arrow pops up).

Other than highlighting the weapon, I didn't have any other problem.


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 Post subject: Re: Games you've never finished
PostPosted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 14:46 
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Something something PC with mouse is king.

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 Post subject: Re: Games you've never finished
PostPosted: Sat Jun 27, 2015 18:22 
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Dark Souls, because the Four Kings annoyed me out of playing it for a bit, then a bit became a long time


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 Post subject: Re: Games you've never finished
PostPosted: Sun Jun 28, 2015 13:36 
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Four-king hell.

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 Post subject: Re: Games you've never finished
PostPosted: Sun Jun 28, 2015 21:11 
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MrPSB wrote:
Dark Souls, because the Four Kings annoyed me out of playing it for a bit, then a bit became a long time


That almost happened to me with Bed of Chaos. Terrible terrible boss. Eventually i forced through by i left the game for some months.

I liked Four Kings though.


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 Post subject: Re: Games you've never finished
PostPosted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 0:07 
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Any game I ever played. I don't think I ever finished any, although some of them prolly didn't have an end.

But the one that I gave up on because try as I might, I couldn't clear one level, was Interphase on the Atari ST. Despite what I've read about it recently, to me it was very much like a game version of the part of Max Headroom (the movie), when Theora Jones was guiding Edison Carter around The Network 23 building. I only got about as far as level 5 and was milliseconds away from clearing it, time after time, when I'd get annihilated by the guard droids because I just couldn't disable a security camera fast enough ....(IIRC). So close and yet so far. Drove me fucking bonkers.


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 Post subject: Re: Games you've never finished
PostPosted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 8:56 
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We got a PC in 1994, and it came bundled with 'Chip's Challenge'. 21 years and several different machines later, I still haven't finished it. Love the game though. One day I will beat it. One day.


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 Post subject: Re: Games you've never finished
PostPosted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 9:01 
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Still never finished Nethack, Moria or Angband.

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 Post subject: Re: Games you've never finished
PostPosted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 9:20 
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Kern wrote:
We got a PC in 1994, and it came bundled with 'Chip's Challenge'. 21 years and several different machines later, I still haven't finished it. Love the game though. One day I will beat it. One day.


You know that a sequel was finally released last month right?

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015- ... e-2-review


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 Post subject: Re: Games you've never finished
PostPosted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 9:23 
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Bamba wrote:
Kern wrote:
We got a PC in 1994, and it came bundled with 'Chip's Challenge'. 21 years and several different machines later, I still haven't finished it. Love the game though. One day I will beat it. One day.


You know that a sequel was finally released last month right?

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015- ... e-2-review


No, I didn't. Thanks for that: something for me to look forward to in 2036 or thereabouts.


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 Post subject: Re: Games you've never finished
PostPosted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 17:55 
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Hotline Miami 2. It just gets too difficult and so the repetition became boring. I was banging through it for a while and was even prepared to bang my head against the first solider level long enough to get that done. Note: that level is bullshit because you can't pick up enemy guns so as soon as you run out of ammo you're largely fucked; it's an interesting idea to mix things up but in practise it made for frustration. I then got to a later level, 11 I think, which had a room stuffed with guard dogs (which can't be meleed with your fists) and one of those mini-boss sort of guys and his hair-trigger shotgun lieutenants. I need to shoot at the dogs as I've got no other option but this means I run out of ammo instantly and the suddenly alerted mini-boss contingent run straight of their room and shoot/punch me to death. The mini boss guy in the previous level had given me unbelievable amounts of trouble and I had a lot of options and loads of weapons available there. This time round I was painted right into a corner and there's flat out no way I'd have got through it so I sacked it off. A slight shame but I only paid a couple of quid for it so got my money's worth for sure, and if I was struggling this much at level 11 there's no way I'd have made it through the 25 (!) levels to complete it.


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 Post subject: Re: Games you've never finished
PostPosted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 18:23 
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I loved the first Hotline Miami, but for some reason I was never eager to try the sequel. I felt the concept was fully explored in that game and that it never needed a sequel. Maybe someday i'll play it, even if it's just for the soundtrack.


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