Games you’ve never finished

With the amount of games that release every month, inundating us and keeping us from ever making a dent in our libraries, it’s hard to keep track on what you have and have not completed.

And should you make a dent in your backlog, in among those games that you no longer play, lie the titles that you’ve not finished, moreover, and don’t plan to.

There are any number of reasons for not finishing a game: because they’re just too damn difficult, too long, or just so badly made that playing through them is a chore in itself.

Here are some games you’ve probably never finished.

Dark Souls – Hot damn, it’s difficult

The Dark Souls franchise has become one of the greatest series in the industry.

This is mostly thanks to the success of the Souls series, like Dark Souls, Demon’s Souls and Bloodborne, which is more a spiritual successor.

It’s also because the series has done its best to push the boundaries of challenging combat, exploration and complex lore since its debut back in 2009.

There is one slight issue though. Great as the series may be, not every gamer out there respects what From Software have created and thinks that the game is an average hack-and-slash title at best, its only redeeming factor being its difficulty. And boy was it hard.

Many gamers out there have started playing Dark Souls, or Dark Souls 2 and have succumb to the harsh difficulty curve that the series is known for. Many of these gamers have given up on the game and have never returned.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – It’s so damn long

CD Projekt RED created a mammoth RPG with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

Its 200 hour gameplay is something to behold, but so few of us have the time necessary to dedicate everything to one game.

And The Witcher 3 is a whole new sort of beast. There are so many quests and locations to explore in The Witcher 3 that opening your map and just trying to figure out where to start is a quest in itself.

Sure, the game promises great adventures, but some gamers might feel overwhelmed by the magnitude of the world and its inhabitants.

Skyrim – The quests, they never end

Not completing Skyrim was not your fault, it was the game’s quest generator that kept spewing out quests for you to complete, making the game literally everlasting.

Bethesda worked on a quest generator that they called the Radiant Quest System. This system would generate tasks for you to complete depending on your level and game progress.

It would also make new quests available for you or your faction and provide them to you over a number of mediums.

As a result, Skyrim literally never ended, and that’s not your fault. Just the same, you were never finishing this one, not completely anyway.

Far Cry 4 – There’s just too much to collect

To take in the magnitude of Ubisoft’s Himalayan shooter is something to behold. The game’s environment and landscape is something spectacular and trying to traverse the entire world is a mission, albeit a beautiful one.

There are just so many side quests to try and get through, so many treasure to collect, and so many of those freaky Masks of Yalung to track down.

To complete everything in Far Cry 4 means that you are on some other level of completionist, and I take my hat off to you.

Just the thought of trying to climb up that rock to find a bell to rotate makes me queasy.

Sonic the Hedgehog – Too buggy; not worth the trouble

One of the worst rated Sonic games in history was criticized for its poor story, bad gameplay, dull environments and being an overall buggy mess.

I remember playing through it as it was one of the first PS3 games I ever bought.

As I played through it, I lost hope for gaming and I prayed, hoping that this would not be the future of the PS3.

SEGA made a game that was impossible to play. Damage boxes were a disaster, floors disappeared, load times wore horrendous and stupidly frequent, and the overall buggy experience left you crying in the corner of your room.

It was an unpleasant experience from start to near finish for me. I could have never completed it because the last level was so buggy that it was impossible to get through.

What games have you never finished because they were just too many to include.

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