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    Games that you've started, and intend to finish

    I sometimes think I have a major problem with buying games. I get loads on Steam sales, start them, and never actually finish them. So, I want to know whether this is exclusive to me.

    Obviously we've all got ones we've started and given up on, so I'm just interested in the ones you intend to go back to and progress with at some point in the future, even if that's just to pick up some more trophies or get a 100% completion.

    So, my list at present:

    PC

    Batman: Arkham Asylum
    Bob Came In Pieces
    Braid
    Bully: Scholarship Edition
    CoD: BLOPS (Multiplayer ranking) - Can't be bothered
    Chime
    Cogs
    Company of Heroes
    Crayon Physics Deluxe
    Defense Grid: The Awakening
    DiRT 2
    Dragon Age: Origins
    Driver: Parallel Lines
    Oblivion (Started this game at least 10 times, never properly completed it)
    Far Cry 2
    Flatout: Ultimate Carnage
    Football Manager 2011
    Fortix (don't know why, it's one of the worst games I've ever played yet I still go back to it occasionally)
    Galcon Fusion
    GTA III
    GTA Vice City
    GRID
    Half-Life 2: EP2
    Metro 2033
    P.B Winterbottom
    Monkey Island Special Edition
    Napoleon Total War
    Osmos
    Peggle Deluxe
    Peggle Nights
    Psychonauts
    Red Faction Guerrilla
    Sam & Max 104: Abe Lincoln Must Die!
    Shatter
    Civilization V
    SimCity 4 Deluxe
    Spore
    Super Meat Boy
    Supreme Commander 2
    Time Gentlemen, Please! - Completed
    Toki Tori
    Torchlight
    Trine
    Uplink
    The Witcher
    Worms Reloaded
    C&C 3: Tiberium Wars
    Burnout Paradise
    Crysis Warhead

    PS3

    inFamous
    LittleBigPlanet
    Uncharted
    Saints Row 2
    God of War III
    FIFA 11
    LA Noire
    Gran Turismo 5
    Driver 1
    Theme Hospital

    And probably the main reasons I don't make any progress:

    Currently replaying New Vegas, got at least 2 more characters in mind after I finish this run-through!
    Currently replaying GTA San Andreas, on top of my previous 5 (guessing) runthroughs
    Currently replaying Mafia II
    Will return to a replay of GTA IV: Lost and Damned
    Will return to a replay of M&B Warband
    Will return to a replay of Plants vs Zombies
    Will return to a replay of World of Goo
    Intend to replay Fallout 3
    Intend to replay Mass Effect 1
    Intend to replay Mass Effect 2
    Intend to replay Red Alert 2

    If I didn't spend so much time replaying games I've already finished, I would probably make some more progress on the ones I haven't finished, but they're too great not to play.

    I've also noticed that I have simultaneous savegames on GTA III, Vice City, San Andreas, and IV

    Is it only me? How many games do you keep on the go? Do people really just play 2 or 3 games religiously and then move onto the next batch?
    Last edited by jim; 18-07-2011 at 05:19 PM.

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    Re: Games that you've started, and intend to finish

    God of War 3
    Final Fantasy 13 (2nd play through) - PS3
    Batman AA - PC
    Amnesia - PC
    Dirt 2 - PC
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    Re: Games that you've started, and intend to finish

    I try to stick to 1 game at a time, I find it easier to motivate me to play it when I'mnot getting other storylines in my head at the same time!

    My list is only small now

    ARMA II (after the Steam sale)
    Army of Two: 50th Day (PS3)
    Resistance (PS3) - This is the 3rd time I've owned this game, people love it and the second one but I've never got more than an hour into either, I will finish it this time!

    My next buys are Killzone 3 then Deadspace 2, but I'll only play one at a time (if I get time, I've barely touched my console recently)

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    Re: Games that you've started, and intend to finish

    My list is pretty long

    Notable titles.....
    Mass Effect 1
    GTA4
    Forza 3 (class as finished reaching level 50)
    Halo 3 series games
    Grid
    Crysis 2
    Fable 3 (Need to get the time to sit down and finish it as I can tell I'm near the end)
    Gears of war 1 & 2
    Darksiders

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    Re: Games that you've started, and intend to finish

    So that's 57 for me, 4 for Terb (on the basis that you've already completed FF13), and 3 for Rob. I'm on my own so far then

    Finlay's 10 makes me feel a bit better though

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    Re: Games that you've started, and intend to finish

    So so so so many..I should take a picture of my game cabinet and I can tell you that out of the hundreds that are there, I have only completed maybe 20 of them. Almost of those that I have completed will be pre year 2000 games also.

    I used to play games to the end - Doom, Quake (1+2), Red Alert, Half Life..and in the case of Quake I completed it over and over and over again, until I got a modem and then it was Quakeworld all the way

    These days there are so few - i've finished all the CODs, HL2 and umm well, that's probably about it. I think it has a lot to do with having less time to play these days, coupled with having a disposable income so I can go and buy more games when they get released, even if I have not finished the previous ones.

    The advent of multiplayer gaming has also had an effect..I have sunk more hours into counter strike and WoW than any other game ever created, and you can never actually complete either of them. Starcraft 2 is another one - got about 60% through the campaign but then i started playing it online..and suddenly the campaign wasn't as interesting anymore.

    That and the fact that no one has come close to making a better single player game than the original quake or HL1 yet

    edit: Oh and I do always intend to go back and finish all of those games...One day I will beat that final level in Startopia (oh how I wish they would make Startopia 2!), i'll crack that last mission in Commandos 2, and I do fully intend to complete Doom 3 one day..if I ever get the time.

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    Re: Games that you've started, and intend to finish

    I tend to get most the way through a game then just stop and start something else, I do tend to go back eventually though. Notable titles for me :

    Red Dead Redemption PS3
    Assassins Creed Brotherhood PS3
    Mass Effect 1 PC
    Dead Rising 2 PS3
    Bayonetta PS3
    Final Fantasy 13 PS3 - Lost a 14 hour save due to PS3 dying and have never restarted
    Lost Planet 2 PS3
    Amnesia Dark Descent PC
    Bully PC
    GTA 4 PC
    Mafia 2 PC
    FarCry 2 PC - 36 hours so far! Near the end though
    Alpha Protocol PC
    Gothic 2 PC

    A load of the stuff I have bought in the Steam sales actually, hence why there are quite a few PC games in that list, some of them havnt even been installed or dont run great on my now older system (GTA 4 & Mafia 2 for example) so bought them so I have them when I finally get round to buying a new system later this year and can actually run them properly!

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    Re: Games that you've started, and intend to finish

    DA:O.
    Witcher.
    Trine (and a fair few indie games)
    Just Cause 2.
    Sup. Commander.

    Many more but I have forgotten about them now; give your wife your credit card! You're not alone.

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    Re: Games that you've started, and intend to finish

    Man, and I thought I was bad, this thread makes me feel better that I'm not alone!

    Just finished Dragon age 2 last night, probably get through a dawn of war 2 campaign next.


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    Re: Games that you've started, and intend to finish

    I REALLY need to get through some of those PC games, thinking about it. I am running out of disc space and the huge installs on some of the games is crazy.

    Methinks I will finish Farcry 2 today and then go back to ME as I finished the 2nd one on PS3 the other week!

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    Re: Games that you've started, and intend to finish

    I've got loads

    xbox
    alan wake
    batman
    lego batman
    pure
    forza 3
    fable 3
    lego star wars
    probably a few others

    ps3
    uncharted 1 and 2
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    Re: Games that you've started, and intend to finish

    I always have games that I never get round to especially after steam sales.

    GTA4 (almost done)
    The Witcher
    Farcry 2
    Borderlands GOTY
    Fallout 3 GOTY (mostly complete)
    Psychonauts PC (forgot about this)
    Stalker PC (save file corupted)
    Burnout Paradise PC (was free )
    Bioshock 2 PC (stupid GFWL didnt save!)
    Serious Sam HD 2nd
    Dawn of War II (just getting into this)
    Braid (cant remember how far I got)
    Crysis

    PS2/3
    Bayonetta
    Devil May Cry PS2 (ps2 is packed away)
    Burnout revenge PS2
    Silent Hill 2 PS2

    Recently Completed:
    Batman AA
    Monkey Island 2 SE
    Fear (pack)

    These are mostly on steam, I cant remember all the other ones on disc.
    After exams I will find the time I suppose

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    Golden Axe Myth, its a remake of the classic sega game

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    Re: Games that you've started, and intend to finish

    Short list right now thankfully, managed to resist steam for a while.

    Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (stuck due to a bug)

    Mafia 2 - only about 20% done

    Magicka - near the end just waiting for friends so we can finish it together
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    Re: Games that you've started, and intend to finish

    Quote Originally Posted by snootyjim View Post
    Finlay's 10 makes me feel a bit better though

    Those are just the 'big' titles I haven't finished

    I have literally stacks of games, I don't even want to list the ones I have bought and not started yet (Limbo for one)

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    Re: Games that you've started, and intend to finish

    I'm too scared to actually compile a list, I know there are well over 75 Xbox 360 titles that I've yet to finish or even start.

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    Re: Games that you've started, and intend to finish

    Okay, that's fairly crazy!

    I have loads more that I haven't started because I got them really cheap and never bothered... what I can't get my head around is how many I'm happy to leave part-way through a save without actually completing.

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