This question popped into my head when I was playing Void Stranger. I just got done with the game and will probably never play it again despite not finishing it. The game is genuinely amazing but it just gets so demanding as you progress through it. I ended up watching the second half of the game on YouTube.

What is your favorite game that you feel is really cool and special but you never felt the pull of actually finishing it, and why?

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    6 months ago

    I like skyrim, but completing it is kind of missing the point IMO. The draw is to install a whole bunch of new mods and see if the game still works.

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      I had 200 hours played and still never beat the main game. Did everything up to that point.

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        6 months ago

        you’re not even really missing anything either. The endings kind of nothing. You unlock the ability to yell a few different summons and can optionally get a cool looking hat that kind of sucks, though.

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        I’d like to enjoy it as you do, I have never played it but I have it on Switch and PS4, so when I get to it, it will be modless.

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      Hey! Did that recently and whoops 100+ hrs later… I figured what the hell let’s beat this thing. Ending was meh

  • CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿@lemmy.world
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    Skyrim.

    I spent about 100hrs playing and even built my own house. There’s a branch in the story line part way through where you have to choose to be a Dragon killer or supporter. I couldn’t choose so I just kept doing side-quests. Not played it in years though.

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    6 months ago

    Most of the games I don’t finish are because I don’t want the story to end. Currently its cyberpunk

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      6 months ago

      I got so burned out trying to finish the side content that I became completely disillusioned with the game and probably won’t ever touch it again

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    Subnautica. I always have a lot of fun building out my base and discovering things and poking around, but after a while I get distracted by another game and put Subnautica on the back burner. By the time I get back around to it, I’ve forgotten how to play and end up starting a brand new playthrough.
    Another one is Darkest Dungeon. I have over 100 hours in that game and loved it, but I kind of stopped playing after all the strategies I had been using stopped working and all my parties kept getting annihilated. I was spending so much time recruiting, training, curing, etc that it sort of stopped being fun.

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      You are keeping away an amazing story from yourself. I highly recommend the mod where you can get all of the required storage directly on your vessels, so you can focus on exploring and enjoying the story. Do yourself the favor and thank me later. 🥹

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      Yeaaaa… Do what the other guy said. Subnautica is an amazing game. I wish I could play it again for the first time

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    Old School Runescape. Kind of a cop-out answer as it’s a MMO, but I’m never gonna get maxed there

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      Hard agree. I had a decent ftp account, made enough for a bond, and took a two week tour of the paid content. It’s pretty! But I couldn’t keep up a subscription at the time.

      Might do one of the Leagues eventually but knowing the whole account gets deleted at the end kills the excitement for me.

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      I did everything up to the ending, but then decided that I wanted to do the DLC as well.

      Went into one of them and got bored, so there it sits forever.

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    Rimworld.

    Over the years, on and off, I’ve put 2k hours into that game, and I’ve never, ever built the ship or helped the High Stellarch or found the Archo Nexus. Never even gotten close. I love building bases and growing colonies, and with all the DLC+mods there’s an endless amount to do, but yeah… doubt I’ll ever actually get to the end.

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    The Celeste mod Strawberry Jam. It’s a lot of fun, but I’d be more than satisfied with just getting through the expert levels, which are already at the point where simply watching gameplay of them would kill a small Victorian child, but I’m at just the right level of masochism that this is a tough but satisfying grind. But I’ve seen what’s next, I’m fully aware of the horrors of the Grandmaster levels, and I know I’ll hit my upper limit well before 100% completion.

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    Factorio. I’m almost at the stage where you can build the launchpad for your rocket, which is technically the end of the game. But the Pyanomod and Space Exploration mods literally add like 1000 hours or more to the game, and I just think I’ll probably be dead or society will collapse before I finish those up. The game is literally infinite if you want it to be.

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    Fallout 4. I keep finding new mods and other stuff to do so I never really got around to finishing it, even though I put hundreds of hours in.

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      IRC they just released the latest chapter of sim settlements, so yeah. I’ll probably return to FO4 in a year or two. Fallout London is also progressing, so that should be interesting. Thanks to content mods, you can largely skip the main quests of the original game.

      It’s become the new skyrim.

      I think skyrim’s golden age of modding is largely a thing of the past, but I haven’t played it in a few years (500+ mods at the time), so please correct me if I’m wrong.

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      Yeah. How I am with it. Spend so much time modding that I never actually get around to playing it. Add that to thr mod that makes every building have an interior and suddenly even when I do play it it takes forever to get anywhere

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    I’ve enjoyed a lot of Earth Defense Force, but it seems like there’s a TON of missions in it. I’m up to 30 or so and have already had some big “This is our epic final battle against the Giant Insects!” moments - and it goes up to 90-something missions, plus DLC.

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    Undertale. Got two of the endings and got to Final Boss of Murder Mode. Tried 50+ times and decided I’m just not skilled enough to beat that boss. Looked up a vid of the ending and was satisfied. What a wonderful game.

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    Well no-one else has said it yet but pokemon.
    Over my childhood i played a hell of a lot of Red, Silver, Sapphire and Leaf Green, but i never got close to completing the pokedex.

    On my first pokemon (silver) i had three pokemon at lvl100, and the rest of the party was lvl95-98 playing the elite 4 over and over and over with a single pokemon just to get the last few levels (after running out of rare candies) but i never got the dex closer than ~30 pokemon off. Even disregarding the trade or alternate version exclusives and the [practically]unobtainables (legendaries from event codes) it was such a grind to get some of the last pokemon with high evolution lvls and i just never managed to finish that pokedex.

    I have come to terms that i will never infact ‘catch em all’.