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| 23 MAR 2003 at 11:42pm |
InlandAZGuild Master
Posts : 5586
Joined: 4 MAY 2007
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Randy-JA (23 MAR 2003 11:29pm)
Does anyone else have a game or games that they know they will never finish but keep on trying?
The posting for Evidence got me thinking about this. I've tried to play that game at least 6- 7 times, install, delete, reinstall and over a period of 3 years and have never gotten very far - get bored, graphics are choppy, poor interface.
But the very, very worse for me has to be Ecstatica. I have literally installed, deleted and reinstalled this game over 30 times. The 3D polygon graphics and the fantasy/medieval plot suck me in every time. But the fighting sequences are SO poorly implemented that I never get far and always quite in frustration. I seem to remember once gettting about 3/4's of the way through the game before giving up, but lately I can't even get past the opening sequence.
There's a few more, but those two are probably at the top of my will never finish list.
Say it ain't so -
Well, alright it wasn't the prettiest or best implemented game - but, I did have fun with it. I'm not sure was any worse than Alone in the Dark 1 graphics wise... (a little bit worse but not much)...
My all time number zero is: The Daedalus Encounter, followed very closely by AITD4.
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| 23 MAR 2003 at 11:49pm |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
Posts : 5696
Joined: 23 OCT 2002
Location: AR, Buenos Aires
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By InlandAZ (23 MAR 2003 11:41pm)
Well, alright it wasn't the prettiest or best implemented game - but, I did have fun with it. I'm not sure was any worse than Alone in the Dark 1 graphics wise... (a little bit worse but not much)...
AITD graphics were awesome for its time
Randy, I had one of those games in such list for a long time, not because it was bad but insanely difficult Maupiti Island. I did finish it in the end but it took me several years (no kidding!).
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| 23 MAR 2003 at 11:50pm |
dimidimidimiSchattenjger
Posts : 1784
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Grim Fandango...have tried 3 times IIRC to start and finish it but I always get bored at some point and stop it. Quest for Glory 5...two times....don't know why really. It is not that bad actually but it just hapenned that two times I never felt like playing it any further. Strange cause I loved all the rest of the series. Maybe the pseudo 3D graphics put me a bit off.
And to the king of all games that I am sure I will never try again to play...Black Dahlia. I love FMV graphics but I could never stand the puzzles of this one.
I don't know what gave me strength enough to actually finish Mystery of the druids...one of the worst ever imo.
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| 24 MAR 2003 at 12:10am |
jujigatameSchattenjger
Posts : 1976
Joined: 14 FEB 2003
Status : Online | I had problems with QFG4 where the game wouldn't allow me to advance at some point. It frustrated the hell out of me. Thankfully, this only started happening after I had already beaten the game once.
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| 24 MAR 2003 at 12:18am |
| Deleted User | Cryo's Odyssey. I hate it.
Also the 7th Guest. I get quickly bored with flipping tile puzzles and such especially when the only reward is an awful FMV sequence and another puzzle. I may finish it eventually though.
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| 24 MAR 2003 at 12:29am |
JoGuild Master
Posts : 3313
Joined: 3 NOV 2002
Location: AU, Qld.
Status : Offline | Also the 7th Guest
I actually quite enjoyed that, although took me a year or more to get through it all mainly because I thought I'd done the maze and hadn't :-[ pretty stupid!
Grim Fandango - nah! couldn't move around in it for some reason.
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| 24 MAR 2003 at 1:06am |
WimliGuild Master
Posts : 3259
Joined: 14 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | Myst
Whenever I start this game, it looks great and I really want to play it. And it being one of the most difficult games out there, you really want to play it to the end. But every time I get bored with it after a few hours and stop playing it, uninstall it and put it away again where it will gather dust untill I'll give it another try. Last month I installed it on my computer for the fifth time, but yesterday I uninstalled it again. Myst will remain my 'never finished - but keep trying' game for a long time to come.
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| 24 MAR 2003 at 12:29pm |
Tally HoSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 341
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | I confess to giving up on Schizm. In spite of the marvelous graphics and great sounds, I finally just felt overloaded by the puzzles. And I LIKE puzzles!
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| 24 MAR 2003 at 12:34pm |
StammerGuild Master
Posts : 3894
Joined: 5 JAN 2003
Status : Online | I dropped Schizm too but only for a week or so! I am quite proud and i couldn't let a simple game let me down like this, so i re-started it and guess what.....i finished it........yeah
Resistance is not futile, we're gonna win this thing, humankind is too good, we're not a bunch of under-achievers! We're gonna stand up, and we're gonna be human beings. We're going to get fired up about the real things, the things that matter! Creativity, and the dynamic human spirit that refuses to submit.
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| 24 MAR 2003 at 5:12pm |
jamarchandSchattenjger
Posts : 1665
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Return To Zork......I don't finnished yet....and playing it about 3 years! evidently, I abandoned it in my other just-DOS HD. And don't decided when I'llcontinue to play it.
Byzantine, too, but for different reasons....I never finnished, beacuse when I was close to finnish, the PC break out, than I lost my pre-saved games.
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| 24 MAR 2003 at 6:17pm |
SunspiralSpace Cadet
Posts : 122
Joined: 9 NOV 2002
Status : Online | Final Fantasy 8
I loved the FF series but that game is just horrid. The endless repetitive dialog kills my motivation to play every time but I come back to it....cause its FF. In a year or two I should be near the end.
Hard to forget the story since they literally repeat everything constantly.
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| 25 MAR 2003 at 12:14am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | probably Gabriel Knight 3! i install it, dislike it, uninstall it, then someone (whos opinion i value) tells me it's great and i should give it another chance, so i reinstall it, redislike it, reuninstall it..... i think that will go on forever!
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 25 MAR 2003 at 12:41am |
Z-GirlPrivate Detective
Posts : 503
Joined: 12 MAR 2003
Status : Online | I have installed Shivers 3 or 4 times on my computer. Each time I will play it for a few weeks, then I die, then I give up. A year or so later I will install it again, play it, die...and the cycle goes on. Actually, I don't think it's because the game is difficult, I think that I don't continue the game out of pride/annoyance ("...I got killed, so screw that game!...". Although one day, I declare, I will start it and finish it for good....yes I will!
Z-girl
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| 25 MAR 2003 at 12:48am |
TeoSpace Cadet
Posts : 185
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Deus Ex
I`ve installed it 3 times but every time I don`t even finish the first level..I just can`t get into it..too boring :/
I`ll probably install it again sometime. people keep telling me it`s such a great game and then I`ll have to try again.
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| 25 MAR 2003 at 1:02am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7058
Joined: 14 SEP 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Teo (25 MAR 2003 12:47am)
I`ll probably install it again sometime. people keep telling me it`s such a great game and then I`ll have to try again.
Peer pressure can be a terrible thing... by the way, Deus Ex is a truly excellent game, one of the best
I forgot my sig.
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| 25 MAR 2003 at 2:20pm |
Adventure ZweiIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 21
Joined: 19 FEB 2003
Status : Online | How could I foget "runna : Morbus Gravis"
I will finish it (not this life).
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| 25 MAR 2003 at 3:18pm |
| Deleted User | Godfather - you got a maths degree or something? I gave up on Schizm and sold it on. I loved the graphics, less the sub-Myst implementation of them (at least Schizm 2 will be true 3D), but those puzzles... ARGH!
The atmosphere was great, only spoilt by some of the worst acting since Plan 9 From Outer Space. Could those actors be any more wooden?
I also need to finish GK3... one day I may have the time...
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| 25 MAR 2003 at 5:08pm |
| Deleted User | I've uninstalled Zanzarah for the 3rd time(got irritated) and still having the saved file. I don't know how to end that game because I just want my faries to be perfect. ANd having too many faries and too many choices to choose from, I find it hard to finish the game. But once in a while, reinstalled it again.
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| 25 MAR 2003 at 11:47pm |
JPSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 217
Joined: 24 NOV 2002
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Aya Brea (25 MAR 2003 12:14am)
probably Gabriel Knight 3! i install it, dislike it, uninstall it, then someone (whos opinion i value) tells me it's great and i should give it another chance, so i reinstall it, redislike it, reuninstall it..... i think that will go on forever!
Aya, listen to your own feelings - if you dont like GK3 dont play it!
If you've installed it and un-installed it so many times then it proves that you dont like it! ???
Personally, I dont understand as I still consider it one of the best AGs I have ever played, but I really think you have played it enough times to have formed a reasonably independent opinion of it!
Everybody's taste is diferent!
Bow down before the one you serve&&You're going to get what you deserve !
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| 26 MAR 2003 at 12:01am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By JP (25 MAR 2003 11:47pm)
Aya, listen to your own feelings - if you dont like GK3 dont play it!
If you've installed it and un-installed it so many times then it proves that you dont like it! ???
Personally, I dont understand as I still consider it one of the best AGs I have ever played, but I really think you have played it enough times to have formed a reasonably independent opinion of it!
Everybody's taste is diferent!
i know but when ppl that like the same advs that i do and whos opinion i value a lot suggest to me to give it another try i feel that there's smth there that i missed :
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 26 MAR 2003 at 12:18am |
JPSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 217
Joined: 24 NOV 2002
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Aya Brea (26 MAR 2003 12:01am)
i know but when ppl that like the same advs that i do and whos opinion i value a lot suggest to me to give it another try i feel that there's smth there that i missed :
I understand, but in the same way - people whose opinions I value have found GK3 boring - the person who owned the game shop where I purchased GK3 actually tried to dissuade me from buying GK3 (and he plays AGs!)
Fortunately I had read the box and the storyline made me want to play it no matter what!
Basically, to sum it up - buy a game because you want to, and have done research into the storyline etc...
there's always a chance you wont like it, but hey, that's what life is about
Bow down before the one you serve&&You're going to get what you deserve !
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| 26 MAR 2003 at 2:50am |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By Teo (25 MAR 2003 12:47am)
Deus Ex
I`ve installed it 3 times but every time I don`t even finish the first level..I just can`t get into it..too boring :/
I`ll probably install it again sometime. people keep telling me it`s such a great game and then I`ll have to try again.
God! The same thing to me!
Maybe it's something with the first level...
One day, I'll start it for real I hope.
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| 26 MAR 2003 at 4:48am |
Jenny100Guild Master
Posts : 3510
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Relentless (aka Twinsen's Adventure aka Little Big Adventure) - the action combined with the horrible save game system (where you overwrite your saved game as you play) was too much for me. I found a trainer for it, but it didn't seem to work like newer trainers. If I can figure out how to get that trainer working, I'll go back to it. I liked Twinsen's Odyssey (aka Little Big Adventure 2), which had a decent save system.
The Last Express - I got frustrated by trying to figure out the save system. You couldn't make saves. You had to turn back the clock. I'm not good with games that are on a timer or have timed events. The little bit of the game that I did play seemed very good otherwise.
I never uninstalled either of these games. They don't take up much space so why bother? I'll get back to them someday. I think.
Simon 3D - I'm going to try to force myself to finish this one by playing it along with my brother.
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| 26 MAR 2003 at 8:21am |
SusanGuild Master
Posts : 5485
Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Location: 0
Status : Offline | Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine - It has way too much action for me and it's taking a long time to complete. For one, it has quite a few levels and two, I keep dying! I've decided to take my time with it b/c to replay it will take me just as long and that might not happen for awhile.
Myst 3 - The minimum system req. are a little too much for my system. With 166 mhz and 96 megs of RAM I tried to get it to work. The environments look fine but animation, video, and voices are just too slow and choppy that I've given up on it until we get a brand-new computer. But until then, I'm happy with what I've got.
I miss my Bubba: 1986 - 2006.
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