#OxygenNotIncluded, I've got 1500 hours in it and I still haven't gotten to oil, let alone launched a rocket.
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Probably Minecraft. I've never legit beaten the Enderdragon.
This is a very common tale, but I find it super understandable.
The anecdote: Me and two friends played Minecraft kinda blind after ignoring it since early beta over the span of a month and made a bunch of cool little project, typical stuff. We had fun both together and aside from each other, from making lighthouses, kelp jungles, bamboo minecart courses and reaching sunken ruins using nothing but a corridor of 400 doors (we didn't know about milk), to torturing villagers in ways that would make Tears of the Kingdom link proud.
When we finally decided to focus and beat the dragon, we took hours, HOURS, to grind ender eyes. We took another hour to find the portal and we had two too little eyes then due to them popping along the way. We took several more hours dragging chicken and digging straight lines near fissures just to make some sort of automated arrow farm and what we felt was 'enough' ammo, only for a friend to tell us we wasted it not instead making a mob spawner. All of it just to go fight one of the most absurdly unfun bosses we had the displeasure of facing in any video game and that still took us several respawns as we tried to bullshit the tower step by climbing them with blocks. We then tried it again with slightly more preparedness and knowledge and the boss was a joke, it provided no challenge and was down in two minutes.
it was like we weren't playing the same game. So much grinding. So little game feel. The only part of Minecraft that didn't feel like Minecraft, was the actual progression.
Does EVE online count? 1k+ hours, only dipped my toes into null sec a few times. Mostly spent in low sec blowing up expensive things.
I loved that game pre family, will never have time to go back to any game in that way until retirement. I also low key miss Dust 514.
Yeeees... I wish something more came out of Dust 414, such a neat idea.
- X-COM: UFO Defense: My current run of this I'm finally in the end game. Been playing on and off for about 15 years now and this recent playthrough is the furthest I've ever gotten.
- Factorio: Well this one no longer counts because I did 'beat' it just a few days ago. I've had a thousand hours in the last 6.5 years of playtime and only got around to launching a rocket earlier this week.
- Morrowind: This one is also historical but in high school I played this one a LOT before even starting the main quest. I was just so captured by the world (still am, play it to this day). It took me hundreds of hours over several playthroughs before I finally had a run where I was like 'okay fine I'll do the main quest'.
- Baldur's Gate: I actually have a lot of regret over this one but I'm working to remedy it now. When I was younger I played this for an obsessive amount of time, I got a character up to the final battle, but I couldn't pull it off. Then I went to college, the game was forgotten about, and I'm only in the last couple years firing up another run to hopefully complete it. I'd estimate with past and current time about 300hr of playtime.
- Terraria (kinda): I've definitely defeated the final boss in Terraria, back when that was Wall of Flesh. And I've defeated more 'final' bosses since then. The most current final boss, Moon Lord, remains undefeated though.
Similar with Terraria. Defeated the 1.1 hardmode bosses and maybe 2 from later patches. Just didn't have the energy to bother with the new ones.
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Bit on the weaker side, but I've sunk over 100 hours into Factorio and not once have I launched the rocket. I'm something of a perfectionist myself, which makes it tough to not want to start over.
Problem is, when I start over I've got a huge wall to climb to get back to where I was.
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Hollow Knight, I have over 200 hours and am yet to ever beat the Watcher Knights.
These suckers are so hard when doing them for the first time! Did you know you can destroy one of them before the fight? Makes it a bit easier.
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I bounced off that game a good 5 times until it absolutely hooked me and became one of my favorites. God that atmosphere and ambiance is amazing.
Steam tells me I've played ~100 hours of Monster Hunter World and I didn't even finish the story of that.
Rimworld. The game has an end, but it really isn't worth getting to. The journey is the best part.
Only gotten the archo ending once. Never ever have gotten either the ship or royalty endings. Almost 3k hours in.
About 1000 hours in Skyrim and have not gotten past the 10th or so main quest
Terraria. I am like 100 hours in and I don't even know where all that time went. Also Factorio. That game had me waking up after late night sessions being like "who built all this?" :P
Edit: Oh and also Subnautica. Love subnautica, but after I got the cyclops and did some exploring I felt satisfied and haven't looked back. And Satisfactory, very fun. Got the little dune buggy and was just like "Welp, I'm gonna go play something else!"
I had to stop playing factorio, biggest time sink I've ever seen, I swear I'd look up from the screen and a week past before I noticed
Factorio legitimately puts me into a factory building fugue state where I'm questioning whether or not someone hacked my computer last night and put a bunch of solar panels on my base O_O
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Another World. Since it was released I keep coming back to it. Next time I'll finish it!
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Skyrim, hands down. I own that game... Let's see, 360, PS3, PC, PC Special Edition, 4 times. I own that game 4 times and have been playing it on and off (more on than off) since it came out. Never even gotten halfway through the main questline.
I have 1400 hours of play time on my Steam copy of Skyrim LE alone. If I add my hours on Xbox 360 and Skyrim SE to that, I've played over 2000 hours total. In those 2000 hours, I've completed the main quest line several times, as well as the quest lines for the Companions, College of Winterhold, Thieves Guild, Dark Brotherhood, Dawnguard and Dragonborn. I've also unlocked every Steam achievement for good measure.
So, believe me when I say: Skyrim is never finished. Not with the modding community that game has. There is always more, and it will likely stay that way until Elder Scrolls VI comes out, but we'll all be dead by then.
GTA San Andreas. I had multiple runs, one of them even got to Las Venturas, but never managed to finish the game.
Witcher 3, Oblivion and Skyrim. I always get caught up doing the sidequests. And I don't even play around with mods (yet).
I have kids and am middle aged, so I can only do main quests in the limited free time I have. It has its pluses and minuses, but I miss that period between 15 and 22 when I could dedicate all my weekends and evenings to gaming
Yeah, I miss that period too. But I'm a completionist, so even without having the time on weekends and evenings, I still go out exploring the map and doing sidequests. That's why I don't finish those games...
Thinking about it, I rarely finish games, even when I love them.
- ALttP
- Final Fantasy VIII
- GTA: SA
- GTA VI
- RDR2
- Skyrim
- BOTW
Probably Age of Empires 2. Played countless hours of multiplayer but never finished the single player campaigns.
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Rimworld and Skyrim.
Skyrim, same reason as everyone, I've finished most guilds though (yeah, not you, Companions).
Rimworld I just can't be arsed to work towards any of the endings, playing thematic colonies with mods is where it's at for me.
Maybe Hoi4? I've never gotten to 1948 after 2000 hours.
Dota 2
Chrono Trigger
You've never beaten it? In what sense, like never seen the ending or haven't seen any of the 21 endings?
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I’ve got around 1000hrs combined in the Big Ant cricket games (Don Bradman, Ashes, Cricket 19, etc) and I know they can’t strictly be completed I have almost no trophies from any of them. I just fucking love batting for days and days.
Portal2, It took me 2 years to finish this game. It just gives me motion sickness every time I play portal2.
Sonic 1. I got it as a kid when it came out, and still go back and play it occasionally. But I've never played through the whole game in a sitting.
I have for sonic 2 and 3 many times, though. For some reason never 1.
Honourable mention: skyrim
Dangerous Dave is a classic as well, though I never gave it a good effort. Looks like you can play it in-browser on archive.org. What a world.
Minecraft i beat the ender dragon plenty of times sure but a lot of my world i just get sidetracked with doing something else instead oh and hyper light drifter ive started playthroughs plenty of times but always leave them off around the first boss for whatever reason
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Football Manager, but then again you can't really complete it can you
I think I have 50+ hours in Dark Souls III, and never went past the Abyss Watchers. Either I get frustrated and quit for months, or I have a technical issue and my save is lost. Then I start a new save, rinse and repeat.
I also have 200 hours in Binding of Isaac, still play it regularly, but will probably never truly finish it. I'd be happy to reach the final final boss at least once, but the last DLC is really hard.
There are other games I never finished after many hours of course, but those are more open-world/free-roam games, so I don't really count them.
For me it was also Skyrim. I've done so many side quests, explored so many regions, never got anything done. Tried three times to get back into it, then gave up on it.
I have been playing NetHack for more than 10 years, and never ascended. Still a fantastic game.
Ask BotW for me..!! Haven’t played it in far FAR too long.. also need to get back to Metroid Dread but that’s another matter..
I've been trying to beat XCom 2 for years but I always end up ragequitting when I lose three guys who miss multiple 90% shots in a row, while behind high cover.
I think most new games have a modified "perceived chance to hit" that makes an XCom 90 a 70 or something.
Xcom actually fudges the hit chances in the players favor unless you play on highest difficulty. Then it is just true values.
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Classic roguelikes. Been playing Nethack for about 20 years, Crawl (DCSS) about 10 and Brogue more recently. Have yet to ascend in any of them.
I've played every historical Total War game up to Attila, and I've only ever beaten the campaign on Shogun 2 and it's DLC Fall of the Samurai. I always get tired of the faction I'm using and restart as another one in the early-mid campaign of the other games.
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