Board 8 > Games you have started the most times without finishing?

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Let's exclude classic arcade style games where the idea is to keep doing this...

I just started KOTOR again for what must be the sixth or seventh time, and I never get much further than becoming a Jedi. I think it's been a different reason every time...either getting tired of hiccups playing on the 360, realizing I don't like my build, having the laptop I was playing on die...
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Ogre Battle 64. It's just so long, even if it's one of my favorite games.
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Final Fantasy XII, every time I start it I tell myself "Maybe this'll be the time it clicks for me" and it just doesn't. I've started it like 5 times and gotten to various points.


And yes I will most likely being getting the HD version to once again try and see if it clicks.
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Final Fantasy Tactics. I've finished it a good deal due to sheer number of playthroughs attempted, but I tend to not care to actually play the game out once my team is all setup and a few of the more key difficult midgame battles have been hit.
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Final Fantasy VII
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I'm guessing you don't mean open world games where "beating" the game isn't very well defined.

Unfortunately, other than the Elder Scrolls series, I can't think of any games I've started multiple times and only beaten a few.

...Well, actually, I've started KOTOR several times myself and haven't even beaten it once, so let's go with that.
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I don't usually do this. If a game doesn't click for me I usually drop it for good. Hmm I think I tried Dragon Warrior 3 about 3 times before just being done for good. Nothing else really comes to mind

Either Dead Island or Final Fantasy XII
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FFVII maybe. I've played it at least three times without technically beating it. My main attempt I got to the final boss and died, so I went to grind a bit and then I just moved on to something else and never went back. Other times I just never made it that far again.

Though I watched my brother beat it once so I still saw the ending.
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Mario 1?
Never beat the game

Actually, a lot of NES/SNES games that I own.

But these may be considered Arcade games? I don't know why they would be though
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Does it have to be a game I have never finished, or just one that I abandon a lot of playthroughs? I thought the former but some people interpret it as the second

Anyway, my answer is Fire Emblem 7. I've even gotten to the final boss but never finished it. Have probably started it 5 or 6 times
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Oh if it's like, game I've started the most without beating it ever, Final Fantasy X-2 at 3. I don't generally fail to finish games I start.
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Oh wait, I'm pretty sure I've started up FFVIII more times than VII but never actually beat that game either.
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I don't think I've ever seen an EUIV campaign to completion.

MZero11 posted...

Does it have to be a game I have never finished

Do you finish a lot of unfinished games?
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iiicon posted...

I don't think I've ever seen an EUIV campaign to completion.

MZero11 posted...

Does it have to be a game I have never finished

Do you finish a lot of unfinished games?

The title is ambiguous because it could mean you start a lot of playthroughs that don't finish, even if you have beaten the game before. As you can see Lopen interpreted it that way
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Can't think of any games I've started over more than 3 times without beating, so I guess it's the two with three then.

Tales of Symphonia and Fire Emblem 6.
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Bane_Of_Despair posted...

Final Fantasy XII, every time I start it I tell myself "Maybe this'll be the time it clicks for me" and it just doesn't. I've started it like 5 times and gotten to various points.

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I think more people interpreted it that way or not given the posts.

Eh it's about 50/50 but yeah somehow I doubt one of someone's favorite games would be one they hadn't finished for example.
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FFIX

I HAVE beaten the game once

Everytime I restart it, i say to myself, this is finally gonna be the 100% playthrough

then I get way too overwhelmed and stop playing

Its happened at least 3 times
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foolm0r0n posted...

Bane_Of_Despair posted...

Final Fantasy XII, every time I start it I tell myself "Maybe this'll be the time it clicks for me" and it just doesn't. I've started it like 5 times and gotten to various points.

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I've started Kingdom Hearts II three times without completing it.
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Punnyz posted...

Everytime I restart it, i say to myself, this is finally gonna be the 100% playthrough

100% minus Excalibur II I assume?

FFIX is actually another possible answer for me since my disc 3 is scratched (which has killed at least two of my playthroughs)
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Banjo-Kazooie, and I've only started it twice

My save files were deleted both times I did it, kinda got me triggered the second time it happened
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This topic actually inspired me to try playing KOTOR again.
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I think I've started FFVII like 5 times or something. I only made it past the end of disc 1 once, and didn't get much farther than that. Two of the times I didn't even make it out of Midgar.
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I've probably started Uncharted Waters: New Horizons with each of the six playable characters at least once, and still haven't seen an ending. No idea why I couldn't get motivated to finish even one play through, since some aren't even that long.
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FFIV

I played so many different versions of it and none of them really clicked with me. Farthest I ever got was the moon. I keep telling myself I should beat it since I beat all the other Final Fantasies but I just don't like it.
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Tetris
never beaten it once
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SMB3
Banjo-Tooie, technically, since I only beat it with the Honeyback cheat.
Donkey Kong 64.
Bomberman 64
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles

Xenosaga.

I'M A FRAUD.
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FFIV or Fallout 2.

FFIV because the old SNES cartridge would reset around the time I got to the last fifth of the game or so. I only got to the Final Boss on one playthrough. I probably played through it 3-4 times for that reason, I had far more patience back then, since I really don't even consider it among my favorite games.
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Half Life 1. 7 or 8 times. I think it's the best traditional shooter ever, but it gets kinda repetitive for me. Then again, I really dislike shooters, so the fact that I managed to sit around for hours playing one even though I didn't finish it probably says something about the quality of the game.
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Kotor is so good storywise but it has high levels of jank so I understand why it is hard to keep playing lol.

For me, ffx
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there are a ton of games i've played and never beaten, but i can only think of a few that i ever started over in. Earthbound, Breath of Fire, Breath of Fire 3, Secret of Evermore. can't remember if i ever had a third playthrough of any of those.

FFVIII i've only beaten once and is probably the game i've tried to replay the most times since then without beating it. at least 5 times for sure, maybe more like 10? can't really remember.
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Probably Chrono Trigger. Great game that I've had a lot of fun with, but I nevee devoted enough time to it.

Super Mario World

By virtue of all my resets trying to run the game. If you ignore that, then it's probably one of the Pokemon games when I kept trying over and over again to rekindle my interest in the series.
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FF6, handily. I've started it like ten times and only finished it once.
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Oh actually mine might be Donkey Kong 64 also. Got to the end twice as a kid but man that final fight was impossible for young pyresword.
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Well, I'm officially further in KOTOR than I've been before; as in, I finally got past the Jedi planet and can actually, like, explore. I'm also doing the Dark Side this time (I usually play the good guy in games like these the first time), which is a lot more interesting.
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Arti posted...

I've probably started Uncharted Waters: New Horizons with each of the six playable characters at least once, and still haven't seen an ending. No idea why I couldn't get motivated to finish even one play through, since some aren't even that long.

Oh god this
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For games that I did end up beating, it has to be Aquaria, A Link to the Past, or one of SMB 2/3/World.

As for games that I never finished, Xenosaga. I think I went through the first hour or two half a dozen times
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LordoftheMorons posted...

Punnyz posted...

Everytime I restart it, i say to myself, this is finally gonna be the 100% playthrough

100% minus Excalibur II I assume?

FFIX is actually another possible answer for me since my disc 3 is scratched (which has killed at least two of my playthroughs)

Yes

I always saw the Excalibur 2 as a show off trophy for the speed run, not an actual requirement for completion
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since I recently finished the #1 (Secret of Mana) and the #2 (FFMQ) it’s probablythe #3 (Terranigma) by default.

I typically don't restart games no matter how far I'm in them or how long it’s been since I played
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I'm embarrassed to admit that not only do I not finish the majority of the games I start, but this includes several games that I actually consider favorites. Age of Mythology is in my top 5, maybe even top 2 games of all time, and I have never beaten the campaign (and I'm primarily an sp person in rts'). I've probably started it a dozen times, but have never gotten beyond about the 2/3 mark, mostly due to difficulty. On the PS2, I love and have never beaten Destroy All Humans!, Mercenaries, and Dark Cloud 1, despite having started them all several times. I've also never beaten Spider-Man 2 on Gamecube despite several play-throughs (though I've gotten to the final boss), and on the DS have never finished HeartGold despite having played it twice (once stopping shortly after the halfway point with the Elite Four, and once after getting 12 or 13 badges (though the latter save still exists and could theoretically be continued).

Donkey Kong 64 is probably my closest. Not in the way that I completely restart it, but since I got it when I was like 10, I've gone back to it and gotten back into it and inched closer to finally finishing it like five times over the course of 15 years. Though at this point, I'm beyond giving up on that shit.
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Pokemon games in general. Although I have beaten them, but every time I start a new game I quit once I get to the Elite Four because I get bored. I've done it numerous times, especially with Fire Red.
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Probably Super Robot Wars: Original Generation Saga: Endless titl-,er, Frontier. I always picked it up and was like,
"This is too complicated to resume from the middle after all this time."
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Whatever that game that Kirk Shilling made. I have it and started it over like 4 times but never beat it. I mean it's a good game gameplay and graphically wise, but it's a pretty soulless experience imo.
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Persona 4.

FF7 or FF8
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