Community Shame Games, or: How have you *NOT* beaten that? (not the backlog thread)

[SpikeHitman]

Hey guys, I want to talk about Shame Games. I'm not talking about the lewd shit you wish didn't show up in your activity feed. I'm talking about the games where people will look at you funny for either having not played or not beaten. More to the point, they're games you really want to play, and feel like you should have beaten the hell out of, but haven't, for whatever reason. I have a couple entries to kick things off.

1) Baldur's Gate 2: Throne of Bhaal.

BG2 is one of my favorite games of all time, so this seems like a weird inclusion, but while I've beaten BG2 a few times, and I've beaten the first BG, I've never actually finished the expansion. Every time I decide I want to do so, I remember that I don't have a BG2 cleared file, and I want to have an import to work with to continue a romance, or so I have the holy avenger, or some other such item that would be really great to start the game with, and I just start over a new save of BG2 instead. Most of the time, these attempts to go back through BG2 don't actually wrap up, because BG2 is long as hell, and the few times they do, I'm so burnt out by the time I'm done with BG2 that I shelve it and don't wrap things up with ToB. The only time I've even tried to play through ToB I pulled in a mage that was already in epic levels, and I was resting in a pocket plane after every encounter because I would just time stop->improved alacrity->burn through all my spells to get through every encounter, and things got boring.

2) Quake

Oh, Quake. I didn't play it much on release, because something about trying to run Quake on a 486 just never really worked out very well. I ended up playing more games built on the Doom engine and the Build engine (loved me some Duke3d and some Shadow Warrior). But Quake was just a little too demanding, so I didn't play it a lot at the time. Fast forward to now, and I adore the aesthetic, the atmosphere, the architecture, basically everything about Quake, but I've never beaten it. With Dusk out, and evoking a lot of the same feelings Quake did, after I finished episode 1 I decided to remedy this and try to go all the way through Quake 1. I've beaten episode 1 a bunch of times, but never gone through 2-4. I went through episode 2 this weekend though, and hopefully I'll get enough time in the next couple weeks that I can get through 3 and 4, and go back through 1 again so I can go fight Shub-Niggurath.

Anyway, those are a couple of my Shame Games. What games are you ashamed to have never beaten, or maybe games you've reeeeeallly wanted to play, but just haven't, for whatever reason?

 

[Nahkapukki]

All of the Witcher games. I looove them but I don't have time to play hours on end so after a long pause I forget where I am or what I am doing.

 

[Gevin]

Same with Witcher, started the first one a few times and always left it in the middle. Some time I need to sit down and just play it through the end, the others will follow I guess

 

[MegaApple]

Never beaten a single RPG, despite playing a lot, LOT of them, both Western and Japanese.

 

[Nahkapukki]

RPG's suffer from pacing issues often. You go from fight heavy portions in to a lull of talky talk talk and there rarely is an inbetween. You either get tired of the constant fighting or the constant talking and some of the games boast having a robust story but the characters are written so that you are not drawn in to them.

 

[SpikeHitman]

Definitely never finished any of the Witcher games, and I've started all three. Every time I'm like "I'll come back after they patch it up" and I never do. Most recently tried to get into TW3 and stopped shortly after the Bloody Baron and the Witches quests.

 

[shepcommandr]

Pretty much anything pre-2013.
There's only a handful of games from the mid-80s to then that I actually put the time into completing. I didn't even beat the original Super Mario Bros until a year or so ago.
Since then... any popular game with a runtime of more than 30hrs or so.
Too much other stuff worth playing out there.

 

[lashman]

Definitely never finished any of the Witcher games, and I've started all three. Every time I'm like "I'll come back after they patch it up" and I never do. Most recently tried to get into TW3 and stopped shortly after the Bloody Baron and the Witches quests.

i finished 1 and 2 actually (i finished 2 like a week before 3 came out, lol) .... currently about 70h into 3 ... will probably take another 2 or 3 years to finish that one ... if not more

 

[Nahkapukki]

It's a shame really that The Witcher 3 feels like you need to do everything in it. It has a good main story that you could go through but instead you wind up chasing ? around the map, which is fun tho, while the main quest gets on the backburner and there's no feel of urgency to it.

 

[lashman]

It's a shame really that The Witcher 3 feels like you need to do everything in it. It has a good main story that you could go through but instead you wind up chasing ? around the map, which is fun tho, while the main quest gets on the backburner and there's no feel of urgency to it.

well, i mean ... pretty much all the side quests are well-written .... so you're kinda/sorta missing out on good stuff if you ignore them

Pretty much anything pre-2013.
There's only a handful of games from the mid-80s to then that I actually put the time into completing. I didn't even beat the original Super Mario Bros until a year or so ago.
Since then... any popular game with a runtime of more than 30hrs or so.
Too much other stuff worth playing out there.

too many games, too little time

 

[Nahkapukki]

I meant chasing the shipwrecks, monster nests etc etc. It's sort of a zen experience chasing them and getting them crossed over. I did that on the Xbox and I'm now doing it on the PC. It's not even giving proper loot for it.

 

[Parsnip]

All of Metroid was this for me for the longest time, up until couple of years ago when I finally played through all the 2D games from Super Metroid onwards.

Right now I can't really think of any.

 

[Wibblewozzer]

There's plenty I've never beaten, and a select handful I've never played, but the games hanging over my head at present as shameful are the Dishonored series' games (and by extension Prey, though that's more of a backlog issue).

I have played towards an hour of Dishonored but that's it. I really liked what I played and I know the series is in line with the type of experiences I usually enjoy. I own all of them and their DLC. There's practically no reason for me to not have played through them and enjoyed them immensely. The only real reason I put them off is I've purchased most Bethesda published games (excluding Fallout games) and I've found myself slowly going through one at a time on occasion and I've kept my gaming habits largely with that focus as I pick at their games between everything else I play.

One of these days I'll play Arkane's games and, I believe, will love them. And I imagine I'll finally finish DOOM and the Evil Within series as well.

Edit: And these aren't specifically just backlog games. I just don't really have that many older games I'd really consider shame games. I've washed myself clean of most older games I never got around to and I've played a ton.

 

[Panda Pedinte]

Life is Strange

I was enjoying all the aspects of the game and I just stopped playing for seemingly no reason. I was invested in the characters and the place where the plot was going to

I'll try to finish this game before the new year.

 

[Exzyleph]

For me it is probably Ocarina of Time. I've started on it a number of times, but I always end up abandoning the game shortly after the time skip. The first time I dropped the game was due to a game breaking bug, but I am not sure why I haven't been able to stick with it the other times.

 

[CrazyJuan]

This gen its probably Witcher 3. Own it, just cant get into it. Probably the most wasted purchase of the gen for me. I guess it depends on who you talk to tho, I made zero effort to play HZD/Spiderman/God of War/Bloodborne ect ect and I've got mass hundreds of hours in Elite and SoT so...

 

[Nahkapukki]

Life is Strange

I was enjoying all the aspects of the game and I just stopped playing for seemingly no reason. I was invested in the characters and the place where the plot was going to

I'll try to finish this game before the new year.

I enjoyed it too but then it took me to the dumpster trying to search bottles and I just can't find one. IT'S NOWHERE TO BE FOUND!

So after 1-2 hours of searching I turned it off and never returned to it.

 

[Panda Pedinte]

I enjoyed it too but then it took me to the dumpster trying to search bottles and I just can't find one. IT'S NOWHERE TO BE FOUND!

So after 1-2 hours of searching I turned it off and never returned to it.

I found the bottles easily.

 

[lashman]

I found the bottles easily.

you were one of the lucky ones then that last one was a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch to find

 

[CrazyJuan]

you were one of the lucky ones then that last one was a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch to find

Can confirm that burned way more time for me than it should have.

 

[RionaaM]

Life is Strange

I was enjoying all the aspects of the game and I just stopped playing for seemingly no reason. I was invested in the characters and the place where the plot was going to

I'll try to finish this game before the new year.

Please do, it might be the most meaningful game I've ever played, so it's always nice to see more people playing (or in your case, finishing) it.

I enjoyed it too but then it took me to the dumpster trying to search bottles and I just can't find one. IT'S NOWHERE TO BE FOUND!

So after 1-2 hours of searching I turned it off and never returned to it.

Haha, at least you can take revenge on Chloe right after that for putting you through this, although it's not on purpose.

 

[Nahkapukki]

I think it's a stupid design to do a set amount of bottles that need to be found without any extras around. I mean if you have to find 5 stuff and there's 5 hidden it's going to be shitty if you can't find them easily. This goes with every point'n'click game.

 

[RionaaM]

Yeah, there's really no point to that bottle search. People who want to explore the junkyard would have done that anyway, and those who don't will be annoyed at this. It doesn't add anything to the game, and it doesn't move the story, since there's nothing happening while you search.

 

[Ex-User (307)]

Most major JRPGs, which is probably silly since I self proclaim myself to love the genre generally.

Haven't finished but have played for some hours:

• Chrono Trigger
• FF 1-9
• Xenogears
• Xenoblade Chronicles
• Ni No Kuni 1
• Persona 3
• Any The Legend of Heroes games
• Earthbound
• Any Suikoden games
• Any Kingdom Hearts games

Haven't played at all:

• Any Dragon Quest games
• Lunar
• Any Phantasy Star games

The stupid thing here is that I actually own almost all of these games. In some cases, I actually own the games in format of the original platform they were released on.

There's just too many games to play...

 

[prudis]

Definitely Assassins Creed Unity .... been slowly playing it ever since launch and after 4 years i am finally in second to last chapter ....tbh .dont really know why i am dragging it too much as i kinda enjoy the gameplay itself (and most of the sessions i just do random side stuff and running around the Paris ) , but i guess Arno and his story is just so dull to me that its hard for me to get engaged by main missions

 

[lashman]

There's just too many games to play...

you can say that again

 

[bobnowhere]

Witcher 2. Beaten 1 once and 3 twice so far and kinda want to play it again!

Spiderman (PS4) - I don't get it, bores me.

 

[KainXVIII]

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines dropped near the end, still shamed to these days

 

[SpikeHitman]

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines dropped near the end, still shamed to these days

I dropped off after getting through the first district, which is a shame because there were so many great moments in that first area, and even years and years later I still remember the Jeanette/Therese connection and the Haunted House section. Incredible stuff. I went through as a Ventrue, if I remember right.

Maybe one of these days we'll pick it back up and go all the way through this time, eh? Never too late

 

[RionaaM]

At least you started that game, that's something. I've had it on my Steam library for years and never launched it once.

 

[SpikeHitman]

At least you started that game, that's something. I've had it on my Steam library for years and never launched it once.

I mean, that was also back when my steam library consisted of that, all the games that came with HL2's Silver edition, and ... SiN Episodes 1?

 

[KainXVIII]

I dropped off after getting through the first district, which is a shame because there were so many great moments in that first area, and even years and years later I still remember the Jeanette/Therese connection and the Haunted House section. Incredible stuff. I went through as a Ventrue, if I remember right.

Maybe one of these days we'll pick it back up and go all the way through this time, eh? Never too late

To be honest i played this game when its was just released, with crappy optimization (on crappy rig) and without any patches (if i remember correctly)

 

[Ibuki]

Undertale, Prey, XCOM2, Hollow Knight, Gravity Rush 2, The Last Guardian, and Yakuza Kiwami.

That's basically the list of games I actually really want to play but I still haven't.

 

[Stop It]

Mine has to be Bioshock infinite.

Not because it's a must play game, but because of when I bailed out.

I noped at the amazingly annoying ship battle as frankly it was something completely unintuitive, not in keeping with the rest of the game and frankly unfun.

Turns out I was basically at the end.

Oops.

I think I didn't finish Quake either, but my memory is hazy on that. Certainly finished 2 including the N64 port.

 

[SpikeHitman]

Mine has to be Bioshock infinite.

Not because it's a must play game, but because of when I bailed out.

I noped at the amazingly annoying ship battle as frankly it was something completely unintuitive, not in keeping with the rest of the game and frankly unfun.

Turns out I was basically at the end.

Oops.

I think I didn't finish Quake either, but my memory is hazy on that. Certainly finished 2 including the N64 port.

I stopped Infinite fairly early, maybe a few hours in. It just wasn't clicking with me, which is a shame because I adored the first game (skipped the 2nd though).

I did something similar to what you did with Halo 2 though. I got frustrated and stopped the campaign and only decided to pick it back up like a few weeks before Halo 3 came out. Turns out, I was on the last mission. So, I guess I neatly sidestepped the agonizing wait after that cliffhanger ending.

 

[Adnor]

I've...

I've had Dishonored 2 installed since launch...

I'm still two missions to finish it.

I really, really like what I've played but I'm too lazy.

 

[TheVectronic]

I get so much flak from saying that I've never played any of these games to the point I feel like the guy that has never seen Star Wars. It's not that I don't want to play them, it's that I don't feel the need to sit down right now to play them.

The Last of Us

Boy, do I get so many questions when I say I have never played it game... While I do own it, some people have offered me to buy me copies of the game in the past. I do understand the Naughty Dog quality when it comes to their games, but sometimes I'm not in the best mood to play a game from time to time. I will get to it eventually, but I mainly wanna focus on stuff I normally don't hear about to create a more interesting conversation that doesn't feel monotonous.

The Walking Dead: A Telltale Game

Keeping up with "WTF, You've never played that?!?!" comes TWD. I've had many a Discord call where I would have to point out that I'm the only person in the room that hasn't played the game at all. Not that it doesn't seem interesting, in fact I've played through most of Telltale's line up of games even their most obscure ones like Puzzle Agent or Sam & Max, but something about this game feels that I should wait until the proper moment. I don't plan on ever playing it in the following months, but I can see myself taking a shot of it sometime late 2019 or early 2020. Who knows?

Mass Effect Trilogy

Here's a real kicker. I've been told time & time again to play these games, but I'm not completely interested at the moment. Don't get me wrong, I own them via the PS3 Trilogy pack, but I don't think I can quite sit down to play these just yet. I got enough worlds to explore in other games, but that's about it.

The Entire Call of Duty Series (minus Black Ops 2)

Okay, while most people have been exposed to Call of Duty in some way or another, I'm not that person. Most of these games I've ignored in favor of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, & LittleBigPlanet 2 on the PS3, but the only one that has slipped from me was Black Ops 2. While I thought it was a cool looking game, I was so disconnected I didn't play much of it after I quit for other games. So far I've been trying to find the games to play through them in order of release just to see the evolution of the series first hand, so I'm actively doing something to correct this. Outside of that, I haven't been called on this just yet, mostly since people don't care as much as before.

The Entire Final Fanstasy Series

Yup, as it may be sound hard to believe, but I have never played a Final Fanstasy game before. I own some of the games, but most of these just don't make it for me. I do eventually want to sit down from the very beginning to appreciate the evolution of the series like with the Call of Duty series. However I may end up finding alternative ways to play the original 5 mainline games due to their age. Emulation could work just as fine, but anything to start these would be rather nice.

Red Dead Redemption

Here's another game that if I ever mention to my friend circles I may get get funny looks at. Red Dead is a series I like to dive in, but never get to feel to mood to actually sit down to play through it. While I do own the game, it's very weird someone talking to me about the game despite never even touching it. It was very weird when it did eventually happen to me. I'll never forget the day I got spoiled when I have never played through it. Guess they expected someone as integrated into gaming to actually play through it. Felt very weird, but at the same time I was pissed.

Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door

I don't know what's up about this title in particular that drives me nuts whenever I say that I haven't played through it. I've finished through Super Paper Mario & Paper Mario 64, but this title gets me into trouble at times when I mention that I haven't played through this despite me owning a GameCube. First, I never did own this when I first got my GameCube, nor after that. I wasn't aware of it's existence until much later. Super Paper Mario was my first exposure to the series & it was an instant hit between me & my sister when we first played it on the Wii. Shortly after I played through Paper Mario 64 on the Virtual Console. My issue with TTYD was that copies of the game were getting expensive to the point I was unable to find them around the stores anymore. I then looked at the Dolphin emulator to play through TTYD, but my computer couldn't run it. Nowadays, I am capable of emulating it, but for some reason I feel reluctant to play through it despite having it installed on my computer & working properly. It's kinda the same reason my first beaten playthrough of Earthbound was indeed on the Wii U's Virtual Console, I think not owning the titles may end up me being more reluctant than ever to play them. That or I may be sick of people trying to convince me to play through these games & more.

 

[RionaaM]

Mine has to be Bioshock infinite.

Not because it's a must play game, but because of when I bailed out.

I noped at the amazingly annoying ship battle as frankly it was something completely unintuitive, not in keeping with the rest of the game and frankly unfun.

Turns out I was basically at the end.

Oops.

I think I didn't finish Quake either, but my memory is hazy on that. Certainly finished 2 including the N64 port.

The problem with Quake 1 is that every level looks the same, so once you've finished an episode there's really nothing new in the others. I did finish it a few years ago on Wii, with a great homebrew port that added Wiimote aiming.

I get so much flak from saying that I've never played any of these games to the point I feel like the guy that has never seen Star Wars. It's not that I don't want to play them, it's that I don't feel the need to sit down right now to play them.

The Last of Us

Boy, do I get so many questions when I say I have never played it game... While I do own it, some people have offered me to buy me copies of the game in the past. I do understand the Naughty Dog quality when it comes to their games, but sometimes I'm not in the best mood to play a game from time to time. I will get to it eventually, but I mainly wanna focus on stuff I normally don't hear about to create a more interesting conversation that doesn't feel monotonous.

The Walking Dead: A Telltale Game

Keeping up with "WTF, You've never played that?!?!" comes TWD. I've had many a Discord call where I would have to point out that I'm the only person in the room that hasn't played the game at all. Not that it doesn't seem interesting, in fact I've played through most of Telltale's line up of games even their most obscure ones like Puzzle Agent or Sam & Max, but something about this game feels that I should wait until the proper moment. I don't plan on ever playing it in the following months, but I can see myself taking a shot of it sometime late 2019 or early 2020. Who knows?

Mass Effect Trilogy

Here's a real kicker. I've been told time & time again to play these games, but I'm not completely interested at the moment. Don't get me wrong, I own them via the PS3 Trilogy pack, but I don't think I can quite sit down to play these just yet. I got enough worlds to explore in other games, but that's about it.

The Entire Call of Duty Series (minus Black Ops 2)

Okay, while most people have been exposed to Call of Duty in some way or another, I'm not that person. Most of these games I've ignored in favor of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, & LittleBigPlanet 2 on the PS3, but the only one that has slipped from me was Black Ops 2. While I thought it was a cool looking game, I was so disconnected I didn't play much of it after I quit for other games. So far I've been trying to find the games to play through them in order of release just to see the evolution of the series first hand, so I'm actively doing something to correct this. Outside of that, I haven't been called on this just yet, mostly since people don't care as much as before.

The Entire Final Fanstasy Series

Yup, as it may be sound hard to believe, but I have never played a Final Fanstasy game before. I own some of the games, but most of these just don't make it for me. I do eventually want to sit down from the very beginning to appreciate the evolution of the series like with the Call of Duty series. However I may end up finding alternative ways to play the original 5 mainline games due to their age. Emulation could work just as fine, but anything to start these would be rather nice.

Red Dead Redemption

Here's another game that if I ever mention to my friend circles I may get get funny looks at. Red Dead is a series I like to dive in, but never get to feel to mood to actually sit down to play through it. While I do own the game, it's very weird someone talking to me about the game despite never even touching it. It was very weird when it did eventually happen to me. I'll never forget the day I got spoiled when I have never played through it. Guess they expected someone as integrated into gaming to actually play through it. Felt very weird, but at the same time I was pissed.

Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door

I don't know what's up about this title in particular that drives me nuts whenever I say that I haven't played through it. I've finished through Super Paper Mario & Paper Mario 64, but this title gets me into trouble at times when I mention that I haven't played through this despite me owning a GameCube. First, I never did own this when I first got my GameCube, nor after that. I wasn't aware of it's existence until much later. Super Paper Mario was my first exposure to the series & it was an instant hit between me & my sister when we first played it on the Wii. Shortly after I played through Paper Mario 64 on the Virtual Console. My issue with TTYD was that copies of the game were getting expensive to the point I was unable to find them around the stores anymore. I then looked at the Dolphin emulator to play through TTYD, but my computer couldn't run it. Nowadays, I am capable of emulating it, but for some reason I feel reluctant to play through it despite having it installed on my computer & working properly. It's kinda the same reason my first beaten playthrough of Earthbound was indeed on the Wii U's Virtual Console, I think not owning the titles may end up me being more reluctant than ever to play them. That or I may be sick of people trying to convince me to play through these games & more.

I love many of the games you mentioned here, and yet understand why it may not be easy to feel the urge to play them.

For TLoU and Walking Dead you need to be in the mood for a cinematic game set in a depressing world. Depending on the game you'll have a ton of shooting sequences or dialogue options, but otherwise they touch very similar themes.

With the ME trilogy you're looking at a total of around 120 hours if you plan on doing everything you can, so that's a lot of time you'll need to invest in them. Plus I'm sure you've already heard that the ending of ME3 is garbage, so there's no payoff after all that time. I still think ME1 is worth playing on its own, and ME2 is a good (although much inferior) sequel that ends in a cliffhanger, so if you play it you'll be tempted to go through the third game, which, to be honest, isn't bad but deeply flawed.

RDR is great, but it's still your regular Rockstar game. If you don't feel like playing something that follows their template, it may be better to skip this. I had the ending spoiled too when looking at the DLC details to see if it was worth buying (to me it wasn't, I didn't like it much).

I liked Paper Mario: TTYD a lot, although the first chapter or two were a bit boring compared to the first one. It gets infinitely better later on, so it's totally worth it if you liked the original. And I also got into the series thanks to Super Paper Mario, which I considered my favorite Nintendo game until Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey came out.

 

[SpikeHitman]

The problem with Quake 1 is that every level looks the same, so once you've finished an episode there's really nothing new in the others. I did finish it a few years ago on Wii, with a great homebrew port that added Wiimote aiming.

You think so? I think I felt the same way, but it's more a question of atmosphere than actual looks. I really like how the first level of each episode is a military installation that you work through to get into the realm you're trying to reach, and while there is a lot of the 'ol gothic castle architecture, I think going through it now, episodes 2 & 3 have a decent bit in common, while ep. 4 is *very* different. I did a little digging, and it looks like Sandy Petersen did the levels for episode 4, which explains soooo much. Sandy's levels are usually a lot more abstract, which fits in pretty well with the eldritch horror theme running through Quake.

 

[RionaaM]

You think so? I think I felt the same way, but it's more a question of atmosphere than actual looks. I really like how the first level of each episode is a military installation that you work through to get into the realm you're trying to reach, and while there is a lot of the 'ol gothic castle architecture, I think going through it now, episodes 2 & 3 have a decent bit in common, while ep. 4 is *very* different. I did a little digging, and it looks like Sandy Petersen did the levels for episode 4, which explains soooo much. Sandy's levels are usually a lot more abstract, which fits in pretty well with the eldritch horror theme running through Quake.

Guess I couldn't help but compare it to Duke Nukem 3D, where every level is unique. Except for the 2nd episode, that takes place in space and the Moon. Many of those levels blend together in my mind, and for that reason it is my least favorite and I rarely replayed it.

 

[SpikeHitman]

Guess I couldn't help but compare it to Duke Nukem 3D, where every level is unique. Except for the 2nd episode, that takes place in space and the Moon. Many of those levels blend together in my mind, and for that reason it is my least favorite and I rarely replayed it.

Yeah I was a duke guy growing up myself (largely because my computer could handle duke but it couldn't handle quake).

 

[lashman]

Yeah I was a duke guy growing up myself (largely because my computer could handle duke but it couldn't handle quake).

yeah ... i remember running (and playing!) Quake at 320x240 ... good times

 

[SpikeHitman]

yeah ... i remember running (and playing!) Quake at 320x240 ... good times

I remember jumping into a quake server running some mod that gave you a grappling hook and I basically slowed the entire server down...my computer was running quake at like 5fps or something so I spent most of my time in the chat and they were astonished that my computer could even *run* quake, let alone play online. I was like "this is *why* I don't play online" lol

sorry, didn't mean to make this a stealth quake thread, continue with more shame games, the contributions give me life

 

[AHA-Lambda]

Hollow Knight

 

[RionaaM]

I remember jumping into a quake server running some mod that gave you a grappling hook and I basically slowed the entire server down...my computer was running quake at like 5fps or something so I spent most of my time in the chat and they were astonished that my computer could even *run* quake, let alone play online. I was like "this is *why* I don't play online" lol

sorry, didn't mean to make this a stealth quake thread, continue with more shame games, the contributions give me life

I'm fine with these derails, they are funny and interesting stories haha.

 

[TheVectronic]

For TLoU and Walking Dead you need to be in the mood for a cinematic game set in a depressing world. Depending on the game you'll have a ton of shooting sequences or dialogue options, but otherwise they touch very similar themes.

This is exactly why I don't go for them despite being critically acclaimed in some regards. Adding to that, hype can mislead someone into believing something that it's not. I like to keep myself from being overhyped for games, I rather anticipate them until I can afford the time to play through them. Pressuring someone to play these is wrong, let it come to them. There's a reason why games can be jumped in at any moment, in it's prime, discounted or shelved with a handful of players still at it.

With the ME trilogy you're looking at a total of around 120 hours if you plan on doing everything you can, so that's a lot of time you'll need to invest in them. Plus I'm sure you've already heard that the ending of ME3 is garbage, so there's no payoff after all that time. I still think ME1 is worth playing on its own, and ME2 is a good (although much inferior) sequel that ends in a cliffhanger, so if you play it you'll be tempted to go through the third game, which, to be honest, isn't bad but deeply flawed.

I understand this completely, although I don't mind playing through these despite their uneventful payoff. I don't care much of how a game ends, rather the journey it takes you to reach that ending is what matters to me most. So I'm hankering to get in on them when I can spare the time to do so. Just have other series that I'd like to hop into first that aren't as big or bombastic like say The Room, Prince of Persia, Resistance, among others.

And I also got into the series thanks to Super Paper Mario, which I considered my favorite Nintendo game until Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey came out.

Understandable, I quite enjoyed my time with Super Mario Odyssey. Breath of the Wild, I have played snippets, but I haven't played it from start to finish just yet. There's a lot of meat on this one, but I'm gonna be very happy when I get the chance to do so. I still have a soft spot for Super Paper Mario, it's one of those games that I really enjoyed & have fun looking back at it.

 

[Guilty of Being]

My whole backlog...

Probably the Witcher series, though.

 

[Adnor]

I've...

I've had Dishonored 2 installed since launch...

I'm still two missions to finish it.

I really, really like what I've played but I'm too lazy.

To take it out of my shame list, finally finished Dishonored 2.

 

[uraizen]

Probably... Danganronpa V3? I did a marathon for the other two, but I haven't touched this one yet.

 

[Le Pertti]

I've never even tried planescape torment. Considering crpgs are one of my favorite genres one would think I at least would have tried it. Some day I do intend to try the remaster, but you all know how it goes with backlogs.