I have a number of video games I just haven't ever fully finished.
Games to Finish
Ultima IV - I never did finish this game, although I played it a lot back in the day (well, co-played it with my cousin R~). I got stuck finding the stones in the dungeons this last playthrough. So I located my savegame tonight and restored it to my current PC. I will get this one done. I do really want to check this one off - it's just such a special concept of a game.
Darklands - I've slain dragons and disrupted cults, but I haven't followed through on the full devil-worshipping cult thing. I need to gear up a little and just track down the witch's meetings and get to it before I completely forget what any of my cryptic game notes mean. Ultima has some of the same issue - I need to really sit down and look outside of the game to see what I've done in the game. No automap, no game logs, no quest lists - it's just a lot of bookkeeping and it makes it hard to pick a game up months or years later and get right back to it.
Fantasy General - I was doing well until a) I hit a very tough mission and b) I went on a visit to my family abroad. That was sufficient to derail my play; I need to get back to this and finish it up.
Numera - This one I haven't even started. I backed the Kickstarter, and it was so late that by the time it arrived I didn't want to invest time in a game. So I waited for a major patch; one came, but I still waited. I haven't even fired it up once. I should do that - I sank $15 into this, I should get some fun out of it.
X-Com: Apocalypse - Another game I was playing until a trip to Japan, and then I set it aside and didn't come back to it. I've won it before, back in the day, but I was enjoying my replay through it.
Sam & Max Hit the Road - Have it, haven't played it. I would like to, as I'm a fan of Sam & Max.
I have a bunch of games GOG gave me for free (Steam, not so much), that I may play at some time: Neverwinter Nights Diamond, Ultima: Savage Lands, Akalabeth. We'll see.
Games to Not Bother With
Bard's Tale II / III - As much as I love Bard's Tale, II and III frustrate me. I just can't work up any enthusiasm to finish either of them.
Wasteland II - I finished this a couple of times, but my last play through just ended with a whimper when I got tired of it. I think I'm done here. Wasteland itself, the original, never held any interest for me.
Dungeon Keeper - I think I've had my fun here. It's repetitive after a few missions.
I have some others, but not ones I've spent any time on. And I'm really hurting for time now - but when I'm overwhelmed with work, I often find 10-15 minutes here and there to play video games to get a mental break from work. So maybe questing after Avatarhood might do, or blowing up the city to save it in X-Com.
"Numera" ⇒ "Numenera"?
ReplyDeleteYeah. You can see how enthused I am by the prospect of getting to play.
DeleteWow, you are a seriously old school video gamer.
ReplyDeleteI dust off MoM, MoO, MoO2, X-Com Apoc, and Jagged Alliance 2 every few years and play all the way through myself. Nothing quite like those old classics.
Well, I'm older still than these games, generally.
DeleteI have MoM installed and play it occasionally. I don't usually play until victory because once it's a forgone conclusion I don't really enjoy it as much. I think I played enough MoO and MoO2 that I don't miss them - Civ and Civ II, same thing. I think I'm done there. MoM just has so many possibilities I never got to try out.
I never got into Jagged Alliance. I tried, but I just couldn't get a handle on why I didn't like it to get past that.
I should probably track down Wizardry and play that - I won that game a few times, but it never got old. Nothing like a steep, steep learning curve and high fatality rates but with great rewards to draw me back in.