Legendary games you are too embarrassed to admit you never played/Finished

Arcadeheroes

I think we all have seen those top 100 essential list over the years from gaming forums and websites and thinking too ourselves , Jesus ! I never played half these games . For me personally I have no fond memories of the Super Nintendo outside of Mario all stars , nor have I owned a Computer till 2006 but did not get into pc gaming till 2011 . I thought it be fun to hear and list some of the games I am too embarrassed to never have played nor finished that are listed some of the industries greatest games of all time .

Diablo 2



Starcraft 2


Chrono Trigger


Super Mario 64


Earthbound


Honourable Mentions;

Final Fantasy 9
Dragon Quest Series
Half Life 1
Planescape Torment
Super Mario World
Thief 1 and 2

Penn

I've never been able to finish Sonic 2 on the Mega-Drive. Even a few years ago when I bought it on PSN, I still couldn't finish it. I can beat Metal Sonic, but not Robotnik.

I beat Sonic 1, 3 and S&K, but never Sonic 2. It is my Everest, but I can't be arsed trying to climb that mountain again.

Remouad

Skyrim

I've even owned a copy on PS3 but never played a minute of it.

Blazer

Mario/Sonic/Final Fantasy/Diablo etc.
None of them appeal to me in the slightest.

Canis Lupus

Skyrim and Witcher series I can think off of the top of my head. Pretty to look at but dull as f*ck in my book.

EDIT: I'll throw in with your Diablo 2 and Starcraft.

I remember being in Does not Compute in Dublin at the time, I was mad into Counter Strike and couldn't understand all the asian lads playing clickclickclickclickclick on Diablo 2

titan18

Never been a fan of Mario or Zelda games unless it was on a portable device, so missed pretty much all the widely raved N64, Gamecube, Wii games for them. Played one Zelda on the Wii and disliked it so never even finished it.

Diablo 3, MGS, Final Fantasy games (I love rpgs and JRPGs but never got into this). Tbh, pretty much anything pre 2000 that hasn't been remade, and even several years after that unless it was a sports game or a popularish game on the Playstation, I probably missed it. I'd say it wasn't until 2005 that I got properly into gaming, both PC and console, and there's only so much time to go back and play some of the older games whilst still playing new ones.

SomeSayKos

Games that are considered classics that I haven't finished :

Final Fantasy VII - To be honest, I don't think I've finished any of the final fantasy series.

Any 'seminal' pc game released since 1995. ( Stopped gaming on PC's around then )

The Witcher 3 - Really tried with this one but I just don't see what everyone else does. I don't like the combat or even traversing the world. Weird weightlessness to everything that just didn't sit right with me.

Chrono Trigger.

Symphony of the Night ( I've gotten close to beating it in the past but just stopped playing for some reason ). I'm going to go back to it though because it is a great game.

Any of the Mega Man games.

Chrono Trigger is only 20 hours long. Shame on all of you.

Sonics2k

Half Life 1 or 2. I've been a PC gamer since the 90's, and I've owned copies of both of these games for many, many years. I've played the first 30 minutes or so of both and never bothered to play more.

I think it's some kind of cardinal sin for a PC gamer.

Feisar

I've never finished the Baldur's Gate series, have gotten to the final boss in Throne of Bhall but never got over the line.

chrislad

Chrono Trigger - I've started it a few times, and gotten maybe 10 hours in, but it was always on an emulator - if it got a proper Switch re-release, I'd probably get through it.

Diablo 2 is another one, but I have finished the third one so I'm exempt from that shame

Portal is another one - got close to the end, but then Portal 2 came out, and that was more fun.

Monkey Island. I've actually finished the first and third, as well as the fourth, but the most critically acclaimed second one never fell across my radar. The links of Day of the Tentacle, Maniac Mansion, Grim Fandango fall in here too.

Donkey Kong Country - all of them. Just can't stick with them. Not necessarily difficulty, just boredom.

Shenmue. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Metroid Prime (the whole lot) - I have no excuses here.

Okami (I have started the Switch version, but it's been stalled a few weeks now)

Braid - just fell out of love with it, and I read the twist so I didn't bother after that.

LittleBigPlanet - falls into the Minecraft effect - I don't care about building worlds.

Super Mario Galaxy 2 - I didn't have a Wii at the time.

Penn

Oh yeah never played a single second of any Legend of Zelda or Metroid game. Barely even played any Mario until about 10 years ago, as all bar one of my friends/cousins were always Mega-Drive to Playstations. So I'd played a little bit of Mario up in house once or twice, but didn't properly play them until early 20's with an emulator on PC, then one or two of the DS games when I got a DS. Was always a Sonic kid, then onto Crash Bandicoot.

SomeSayKos

chrislad wrote: »

Donkey Kong Country - all of them. Just can't stick with them. Not necessarily difficulty, just boredom.

The newest one is an absolute gem. Was never a huge fan of the originals except for thinking they looked great at the time

baby and crumble

I've never played any of the Final Fantasy series, I'm just not a fantasy game fan. I've tried to play a couple of the Dragons Age series but I just can't get into the world. I love Bioware games (Mass Effect and the KOTOR games are some of my favourite games ever) but the fantasy world element just leaves me cold.

Remouad

chrislad wrote: »

Portal is another one - got close to the end, but then Portal 2 came out, and that was more fun.

Only just played it for the first time this year. Only takes 2-3 hours to finish. One of the pros for playing it was that I knew I'd be able to complete it.

baby and crumble wrote: »

I've never played any of the Final Fantasy series, I'm just not a fantasy game fan. I've tried to play a couple of the Dragons Age series but I just can't get into the world. I love Bioware games (Mass Effect and the KOTOR games are some of my favourite games ever) but the fantasy world element just leaves me cold.

Don't know if I'd define final fantasy games as fantasy games.
I think the last one that had a fantasy type setting was 9 and before that 6.
Still they are an acquired taste. Personally I haven't played any since Final Fantasy X.

Another one that I own and haven't gotten round to is The Last Of Us

Final Fantasy 8
Tried to complete it three times

Could never get into it

Ray Bloody Purchase

Any of the Final Fantasy games. Just can't get into them.

chrislad

SomeSayKos wrote: »

The newest one is an absolute gem. Was never a huge fan of the originals except for thinking they looked great at the time

I got about 4 worlds in (around the Fish boss) and just was bored by it.

Blacktie.

Feisar wrote: »

I've never finished the Baldur's Gate series, have gotten to the final boss in Throne of Bhall but never got over the line.

Ugh that final boss. I had a pretty kitted out crew and all maxed up level and still couldn't take him out. Baldurs Gate 2 on the other hand was so easy.

Sephiroth_dude

Fallout NV
FF 8
FF 12
Zelda BOTW

Stone Deaf 4evr

Bloodborne, got as far as Rom the spider before I finally admitted to myself that I wasn't feeling it like I Did the dark souls trilogy.

The first Dark Souls also
Blighttown was a load of ****e and got bored

Mr. CooL ICE

I haven't touched the Final Fantasy series, Diablo series, Zelda, Metroid, Baldur's Gate series.

Played a good bit but got bored of Skyrim and Bioshock. Put about 20 hours into the former. I think I almost finished the latter, but got to a point where I really couldn't be arsed.

Fred The Red wrote: »

The first Dark Souls also
Blighttown was a load of ****e and got bored

Now that you mention it...


I bought all three dark souls games on release, have yet to finish any of them

Liamalone

Red Dead Redemption
Sunset Overdrive
Half Life's
Witcher's

I own all of the above yet have barely dipped my toe into them.

Liamalone wrote: »

Red Dead Redemption
Sunset Overdrive
Half Life's
Witcher's

I own all of the above yet have barely dipped my toe into them.

Greyfox

Shocking the amount of people saying Zelda and Mario, in terms of pure gameplay there a step about almost every game ever made. Zelda botw been the greatest game ever made.

On my list there's Skyrim, Mass Effect 1&2 and Dead space, I will definitely get through them at some point as I've heard so many great things about them.

IrishZeus

All the Metal Gear games. Tried them, hated them. Just couldn’t get into them at all.

Retr0gamer

Quote a lot myself. Mostly RPGS.

Plenty of classic crpgs like planescape torment, fallout 1 and 2, ultima underworld. Never finished deus ex despite starting it multiple times. The witcher games as well.

For jrpgs there's plenty like secret of mana, ff13 lightning returns, valkyrie profile, tactics ogre, dragon quest 5, digital devil saga 1 and 2. I played but not stuck with them. I've also not played Persona 4 despite being a shin megami tensei fan and owning two copies of the game.

Plenty of others too numerous to mention. Silent bomber, megaman legends 2, loads of ds games. And I've been neglecting indie games. Thank god triple A is so boring so I can do some catching up.

RobbingBandit

My shame would be the following three

Final Fantasy IX
Majoras Mask
Suikoden

Retr0gamer

Never beat Super Mario Bros. Been trying the last year or so every so often but hit a brick wall around World 6/7.

People say it's easy but it's balls hard if you never grew up with a NES!