What games are you ashamed to say you've never played?

Playing games can take a long time, like 70 hours for some. Worse case scenario, they never end. So you see, video game critics (read: journalists) are faced with a problem; if they're suppose to critique games as Roger Ebert does movies, shouldn't they play every single AAA title all the way through to do their job to the fullest?

Joystiq's own ninja columnist Kyle Orland examines the "limited time to complete so many games" dilemma in speaking with a variety of industry journalists. From his GameDaily column: "Many journalists that responded to my inquiry found they just didn't have the time to really get into certain epic games. CMP's Simon Carless lamented that he'd probably 'have to take a holiday' to put aside his current pile of games and finally get through Twilight Princess. GameDaily's Robert Workman is waiting for "a lazy summer day" to finally give Oblivion another go."

Yours truly? I've only played 20 minutes of Gears, probably won't play past the water temple in Twilight Princess, and have God of War (the first one!) still sitting in a box waiting to be played all because of fleeting time. Someone needs to tar and feather me. So what games are you ashamed to say you've never played or completed?

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Any castlevania game.....i have no idea why? for some reason ive never known anyone thats played them either?

Final Fantacy :(

Most of the Final Fantasy games I haven't beaten, but got very close. Theres alot of games I haven't played though

Final Fantasy VII - started to play it, got fed up with it's ridiculous characters, repetetive dull battles and monotonous overindulgent storyline. I know it's a sacred calf around these parts, but I find many games of it's ilk equally bloated and unplayable. I fully appreciare the amount of work that has gone into producing it, but it leaves me cold - I find very little game to actually play in these titles.

Barbie games

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Originally Posted by JKKDARK

Barbie games

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:rofl::rofl:

whatever......... there's kind of a long list.......MGS2 and 3, KH 1 & 2, EVERY XB360 game (and i'm not planning to do so)

Never finished:

Final Fantasy 7, for it bored the Bajeezus out of me.

Castlevania Symphony of the Night, ´cause always a new game appear when i try this one.

Halo, i played half of it drunk and lost the interest on the story.

Bought Marvel Ultimate Alliance but my PC could not play it, shame.

final fantasy in general. the battle system is a bit boring.

Half-Life
Shadow of the Colossus
Every Zelda game after Majoras Mask.

In the future:
Metal Gear Solid 4 (I'll never afford it :()

Im the same with God of War, have it, never played it
Never completed a Zelda.
Never completed a Final Fantasy. Only one that was slightly interesting was FFVIII. And Dead Rising, still havent got the good endng, just the shoddy, " the government never told anyone and made up a cover up" endings :(
I always complete the MGS games though, i buy em, sit down, play em till i complete em.
-Xiofire

Final fantasy X-2 and below I much rather prefer VPL. Although XII is very good.

Every medal gear solid game 1-3 and ops and all because of all my 75 PSP games that i dont evern play. (NOT UMD)

oh oh! ME too.. FFX-2.... i started it, but once i realized thatit was like a charlies angel style game i didnt want to play it anymore

Metal Gear Solid 3:

I know that is blasphemy but I just never got the time to play it when it was first released, then I heard about subsistence which I have been meaning to pick up but still haven't.

I really need to play Metal Gear Solid 3.

There are also a lot of games I have never played to completion. Especially PS1 games which I intend to tackle now that the PSP can play PS1 games.

Final fantasy games.. I've still never completed one but I have all of them(apart from online ones)

I keep getting to the last boss or the second last boss and for some reson stop playing =/

Now with the psp though as its portable I'll have more time to play them.

Breath of Fire 1 and 4 never completed these ones but have completed 2 3 5 cause 1 and 4 are really hard.

All castlevanias and Final Fantasy VII

Never played OoT. Never bought a N64. VC allows me to finally take mario64 off my this list, and it's only a matter of time with zelda...

I never played the Halo series or the splinter cell series. I used to be a more sony mgs fan than anything else.

every psone game except mvc and silent hill

heh, i have a long list of sad titles i didnt finsh...
(* means i own but haven't beaten)


*Halo 1
*Doom
Kh2
All Final Fantasies
*Chrono Trigger
All Castlevanias
*Advance Wars 1 and *2
all Soulcaliburs
tekken 1 =(
Time Crisis *1, 3, 4, 5(?)
*Lego Starwars
*Sim Tower
*KoToR
*Half life 1 and* 2
*007 Nightfire
*007 Agent Under fire
*007 Goldeneye
*Super Mario Bros. 1, 2, 3, (all but *64 lol)
*Mario Kart (all versions)
*Starfox 64(over 4 yrs and i stil cant get "on foot" mode- i also stoped trying)
All Gran Tourismos (i have 3 aspec)
Halo 2
All pokemon games but *red
The house of teh dead *2 and 3

Well thats all I can think of for now...

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Originally Posted by theICE_MAN

final fantasy in general. the battle system is a bit boring.

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I hear that. :)

Other games I haven't played, and I'm kinda ashamed I haven't, are Halo, FPS games like Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, etc(I don't really like FPS games), Devil May Cry series, Resident Evil series, Metroid Prime, Guitar Hero, Animal Crossing, and loads more I can't be bothered typing. :D

Hmmm... None, because I'm not a loser that hangs out with people that would look down on him because he hasn't played a certain game?

Never beat MGS 3 (got to very end but i couldnt beat boss

never beat zelda OOT or MM (I did beat TP and am playing OOt right now)

Never beat any FF game .Got very close on FFX (Braskas Final Aeon) but i am playing FFXII right now

Never beat God Of War

never beat sephy on KH2

never beat halo (on PC, dont have xbox)

never beat any Pokemon

I've never played a Resident Evil game. I've only played Castlevania: SOTN, Aria Of Sorrow, and Harmony of Dissonance. I still have my FFXII Pre-Order reciept, for the special edition too... doubt I'll ever pick that up lol. Let's see.... never had an xbox or 360 so all the games for those systems I haven't played. Not a fan of Zelda so rule those out. Devil May Cry = never played, so on and so fourth...

haven't finished Shenmue 2,MGS3,Einhander,PAPER MARIO and many more,lol

Castlevania games. Never heard of them until about a year ago.

I've never finished 90% of my PS2 games due to the modchip... Trust me, it's not easy to play ONE out of 150 games when you have all of them...
But the one I regret mostly is Grandia II (haven't finished) because my save was erased due to the ULTIMATE memory card of PS2 (Yes, it was 100% OFFICIAL) and I was really disappointed to play it again till there, Star Ocean - Till The End Of Time (never finished for the very same reason...) and Grandia III (haven't played because it never set its foot in Europe and it was not easy for me to find on the web. When I found it, the DVD would skip the cutscenes at first, and then the ENTIRE game froze...):(

I'll buy those games original this time, and I'll play them on my PS3 one last time to finish them, in order to be sure they won't be erased again with the HDD.

Final Fantasy VIII, i got to the end, but after losing to the last boss once, i didnt try again

Tales Series, never got into the series though played many of the games, but now with eternia sparking my interest, that will be over.
I bought ToE last week, still havent touched it.

Xenosaga Episode II, played it, finished 1st disc, never started second disc.

Resident Evil Remake on GCN, played it 40 percent done, never played it again.

La Pucelle Tactics, started over like 4 times, farthest i gotten was chapter 4.

and thats it lol

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Originally Posted by theICE_MAN

final fantasy in general. the battle system is a bit boring.

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Ditto.

PONG. Only seen it on tv once a blue-moon.

i never played any castlevania, any Final Fantasy, elder scrolls oblivion, god of war or any tekken games

ohh man have ninja gaiden black for the xbox for over a year and only played it the first day i bought it but the game is hot it's just most of the time i only be playing online or don't have to sit to finish it. Zelda Majora's Mask is a game that I love but only got up to the pirates section of the game and lost the game save but was my fault for leaving the game unplayed for a while. Grand Theft Auto Vice City for the xbox-lost game save. Banjo Kazooie got up to Rusty Bucket Bay with perfect and lost game save. Zelda Link to the Past- just been busy to settle down and beat it.

I know this is a thread for games that you're ashamed for NEVER played, but I want to be the first to admit that I actually enjoyed playing E.T. for the Atari 2600.

I am ashamed that Zombies Ate My Neighbors has never been re-released to other systems

I am ashamed that I owned the original 5.25" floppy diskette for the Apple IIe of Championship Lode Runner, and never mastered all 50 levels (I seem to rember if you mastered it without using the original level editor, you were given a special code, and from there you won some sorta prize).

I am ashamed to admit that after reading a online retro magazine, I decided to play, and enjoy Cabbage Patch Kids for ColecoVision (via emulation)

I am ashamed to admit that even though I liked all reincarnations of Pitfall, I never understood the concept for the original 2600.

I am ashamed to admit that I owned the original Robot for NES, and 1 of the 2 games that were made for it.

I enjoyed playing Illusion of Gaia for SNES, and got the cool free t-shirt when I first bought it, but I had no idea what I was doing in that game.

I am really ashamed to admit that I LOVED Gorf for Colecovision, but never "mastered" it, even on the easiest level.

I am ashamed to admit that I spent over $400 to buy the GP32 (nice bag, several memory cards, batter charger, screen, etc), just so I could play Atari 2600 at work, then later learned that the emulators were rather weak. I am equally ashamed to say I upgraded to the GP2X for the same reason, and love Stella.

I am ashamed to admit I just paid $100 to get the Nokia N-Gage from eBay (and a memory card, and tons of cool extras), just so I could play a Java version of Lode Runner I never heard of (Lode Runner is a old family favorite). I hate cell phones, and I only bought this, so I could play games

Something I'm ashamed of.... and also is quite funny:
In TES3 Morrowinds GOTY edition for xbox, i have done pretty much everything (guilds, warewolves, tribunal) EXCEPT THE MAIN QUEST! Its sort of funny... and i have a hella strong battle mage... I just am too lazy to beat the other quests.

I'm never really ashamed of not finishing my games that I still have cause we all have to do our part the business world, but... I'm really ashamed of not being able to play the import game of Bokura no Taiyou 3 *boktai 3 from japan* cause it's still hard to find a good online store to buy it that has it in stock. (if anyone does know a place that still has it. let me know =D except eBay cause that's also hard and expensive.)

Well what Have I never played
Well just about anything between Dreamcast and xbox 360 days with the exception of Unreal tournament games and Doom 3 and a handfull of original Xbox games
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Pretty much any jappanese type RPG

Halo 2

And as much as I like the original I've only played one other Resident Evil game all of the way through besides the original and that is Code Veronica for Dreamcast.




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I need to complete KH2 and DMC3 apart from that i've pretty much completed all my games. Except star oceon 3 which i will get round to.

Shenmue 2.

Completed Shenmue 1 after ages of playing it straight. Got Shenmue 2 for Xmas when it came out. Played it for about 30 minutes and couldn't face the long slog ahead.

Need to try again though as it has been a few years for me to get over Shenmue 1!!!