Edit: Nooo! This should be the title:
Games you almost finished but didn't due to boredom/frustration/acts of god


Commandos : Behind Enemy Lines
Back in the good old days of win 95 lan parties with coaxial cables, it was one hell of a struggle to set up a working lan. Thankfully there would usually be one person in the group that knew more than anyone else and spearheaded all efforts to get the lan working. Unfortunately on one such occasion that involved reinstalling windows on my pc without asking me beforehand what I would like to have backed up. End result? Lost my Commandos saves. I was on the 19th level, of 20 >:(


Jagged Alliance 2 (1.13)
I haven't yet given up on it (I think), but I can't seem to scrape together the courage to defeat the final town (with the rich people) I've 'liberated' . It's going to be yet another long ass battle against at least 80 enemy soldiers, and then it's onto the capital itself.

Swat 4
I tried, and tried, and tried, ... , and tried. I can't beat the final airport level. That control tower is impossible! The game needs grenade launchers, and/or bazookas :P

It's not too late. Send a chat message to Judas and ask him to change the thread's title:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_galaxy_beta_2/post3639

I would it was a serious thread, but I don't want to trouble him with such a stupid problem. Besides, now I find it kind of funny :)

Lol, i was wondering what was this thread about. I made a similar one a while back but it wasn't popular so besides the Shinobi example i would add Ys Origin, i was passing the game with a 3rd character and after fighting 30~1h with the final boss it went for the third transformation, i was already pissed with the game due to the difficulty but i was not expecting what happened next... the damn game crashes... NOPE, screw that, not going to fight the 1 & 2 phase of that boss, went straight to youtube to see the ending.

OK. Your choice.

Anyway, as far as the thread is concerned:

Final Fantasy 8
Reached the final dungeon, found it a pain in the ass, didn't touch the game for a long time afterwards, the save was deleted in a way I can't remember and haven't touched the game ever since then (about 15 years ago). Oh, it happened to you too, huh? One workaround about the final boss fight is to disable movie playback and just watch the ending on youtube. I did find out about this after having beaten the boss 5 times, though lol.

Oh yes, I completely forgot. I see I even posted in it. I have considered something like Ys Origin in the past, but after Silver it seems that I'm not a huge fan of the genre. Though I'm not really sure Silver is that good of a game to begin with. Ys Origin does remind me a bit of it, and it does look better. But crashing in the middle of a difficult boss fight? No thanks :P

From what I read in the Steam forums while looking for a fix, yes it is a common problem and, no they didn't fix it. In general, Ys Origin was a highly-problematic game and crashed a lot of times for me. Which surprises me quite a bit, as the other two games in the series that used the same engine (Oath in Felghana and Ark of Napishtim) were completely crash-free.

It happened to me, too. I'm not sure how I got past it. I didn't deactivate the movies...I think I just kept trying and eventually it worked. But it's certainly a common bug. I'm surprised they haven't fixed it yet.

I got most of the way through Gears of War before realizing I just didn't care enough to see the end. I still don't know how it ends.

I've never beaten Syndicate. I played it through to the final mission and then kept dying over and over, so I quit. That was years ago, though, so I guess I'm about due to give it another shot and see if I've gotten any smarter.

Dungeon Siege 1. Such a boring, tedious slog that it took me nearly a decade to muster the willpower to finish it.

I see that playing jrpgs on pc it's like playing russian roulette.

Beyond the Beyond, on the Playstation

That game was pretty bad all around. Uninteresting story and characters, brutally grindy, dull combat, irritating encounter rate. But it came out at a time when there weren't a heck of a lot of JRPGs on the console (it may even have been the first one released in America?), and I was younger and had more free time then I do now, so I fought my way through to the penultimate dungeon, a hideous multi-floor thing filled with invisible pits that send you tumbling down to previous floors. It was unbelievably frustrating, and ended with me giving up in the second-to-last dungeon.

I actually like Beyond the Beyond and have played through it several times. The Sand Caves are too tough though.

It was the first PS1 RPG.

Albion
I think I ran out of ammo or something like that, in the ultimate or penultimate boss battle, and I was neither able to stock up on supplies at that stage, nor to beat the battle without ammo. (That was back in the days.)

Septerra Core
I got very far, but at some point I had to make my way through a dungeon to reach a boss, and I would get into an annoying random battle almost every step I took, or in almost every room I entered, and it was really tedious, frustrating and boring, so I stopped playing. (That was a long time ago, too.)

Aquaria *Mild Spoiler*
I played through it until the final boss battle (and up to that point I loved it), but I couldn't be bothered to do several boss battles in a row without checkpoints, especially not if they require you to experiment and find out the pattern of each boss and the correct method to defeat him first.

Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death
Another game I enjoyed and almost played through only to abandon it at the last boss fight. Just one boss and his pattern is easy to discern and not that difficult to react to, but he's a sponge and it seems to takes ages to reduce his hitpoints. I just dont have the patience for it. Booooring.

Half-Life
I abandoned it somewhen after Surface Tension, since it had become quite a chore to play. Limited resources, somewhat awkward platforming and puzzling, traps, traps, snipers and traps, leading to a lot of frustration, save scumming and looking up walkthroughs, and I heard that the worst levels were still ahead. And I decided not to hold off my playthrough of Half-Life 2 any longer, just to slog through a game I realized I had stopped enjoying.

Knights of the Chalice
I like the game mechanics and graphics a lot, but I don't care for the design decision to continuously lock in the party in dungeons with next to no resting opportunities and no chance to get back out until you defeat the final boss, with me constantly fearing that all the other encounters will wear my party down too much to be able to succeed (especially after being burned by games like Albion). And then I entered one of these one-way-dungeons that seemed to be manageable in the beginning, played for an hour or so, only to realize that there's an important boss battle at the end of it that was much too tough for my current level; and while that boss battle is optional, it's also a pretty siginficant one, and I learned that you can't ever enter that dungeon again, once you've left it. I've put lots of hours into the game, but it ended up being more stress than fun.

So, I guess I don't react well to long boss battles, restricted resources and tedious repetition.

I've played through Septerra Core a few times and its big problem is that late game dungeons are large mazes and not all that interesting. It seems like the devs started to run out of money and needed to finish up the game as fast as they could. The ending is lame too.