by Andrew on Wed Sep 14, 2016 6:31 pm
I've recently gone back and completed some unfinished business in NBA 2K12, clearing the NBA's Greatest games that I didn't get around to finishing back in the day. I'm currently doing the same thing with the Jordan Challenge in NBA 2K11. It's something to do while I wait for NBA 2K17, and also something to write about for my weekly Wayback Wednesday feature.
However, it got me thinking about finishing video games, and going back to finish games I've never been able to complete. There's always that sense of satisfaction, especially when you finally finish a game you've had for years. Anyway, since most of us play games apart from basketball titles - although I suppose since I've mentioned them, they'd also count for this topic - I thought I'd throw a couple of questions out there, as part of my initiative to jumpstart some more discussion around these parts.
What was the first game you finished?
What are some of the games you never finished, but want to?
I have a feeling that the first game I finished was probably Defender of the Crown for NES, or possibly Return to Zork. If you count using cheats, which you really shouldn't of course, Doom 2 would be one of the first as well. Return to Zork was also an official hint book job, while Defender of the Crown relied on a couple of hints from one of those "How to win at Nintendo" books. When it comes to games I finished by myself, aside from discussing strategies with friends of course, that'd probably be Donkey Kong Country 2.
As far as games I've never finished and want to...definitely a few of the GTA games. I was close to finishing Vice City, but I ended up losing the save. I'm probably about two third of the way through San Andreas, still very early on in Vice City Stories (I really don't like the empire building stuff in that one), and not very far through IV or V. They've all been situations where I've gotten stuck, frustrated, put the games aside, and then ended up picking up other games and seldom gone back to for some time. And then in some cases, gotten stuck again.