Top 10 Games I Never Finished

I've been gaming since I was 8, so thats 20 years of dedicated gaming. Along the way I've come across some big games that I just never finished. Wether the game was too difficult or just too time consuming I've just never finished it. Here are my top 10 games that I never finished, but wish I had (or could).

10. Oblivion (360)

I have spent 60+ hours traveling the landscape of Cyrodiil and I have gotten pretty far in the main quest line. However, I made the mistake of starting a second character before finishing the first and the second character sucks, so I don't want to play anymore. I still have Oblivion and visit it from time to time chipping away at that main quest line, but the drive and enjoyment isn't there anymore.

9. Dragon Warrior III (NES)

Oh man, back when I first got this game (1991) it was friggin' huge! Being a fan since the first Dragon Warrior, I poured hours and hours into it and tried with all my might. However, thanks to running from monsters early in the game, I'd get pwnd by all the late game monsters and just couldn't hang. I hung up the sword when Dragon Warrior IV hit the shelves (I destroyed DW IV though!).

8. Syphon Filter (PS)

I got my PS right after the release of Metal Gear: Solid. My friend and I destroyed it over a three day weekend, seeing more of the continue screen then we would like. I remember picking up Syphon Filter shortly after because it was being touted as a high-octane Metal Gear type game. While the begining to mid levels are fun and well paced, the last few levels are a bitch! Warehouse 76 gave me nightmares for weeks. I held on to Syphon Filter for the 3 years I had my PS and played it every now and then but I just couldn't get past the friggin Silo Tunnels...

7. FF VIII (PS)

I have completed every Final Fantasty released in the US with the exception of the MMOs and FF VIII. Oh my god was I ever pissed at this game. Since the original I have been a huge fan of Final Fantasy. I consider FF VIII to be the steaming pile of the series. The game was so bad in my opinion that I barely got past the first 2 hours of gameplay, then the car came in and i said 'eF this!!!'. I had to drag out the SNES and purge myself with a new game of FF II... Oh and the 'Gunblade' can go screw!

6. Commando (NES)

This only makes the list because it is the very first game that I ever owned. I even had it before I got the console (6 months later... Thanks dad!!!!) Commando was just a mean game. Even with all the power ups and unlimited grenades I could only make it past a few levels. I ritualisticaly burned it when my first NES bit the dust.

5. Cobra Command (NES)

Another mean game and it wasn't even that great of a game. I wasted too much of my childhood trying to beat this game. Its friggin' impossible! Homing missles, bullets flying everywhere, flying underground its just too much at once. That and you have to rescue all the POWs. The control response on the chopper is what doomed me the most, a slight mistap on the controller and I would slam into the roof of the cave... And flying into a battleship?!?! FTW?!?!?

4. Secret of Mana (SNES)

Awesome game, I love it. But damn does it get hard when you get towards the end!!! My problem with it when I first got to play it was I could only rent it 3 days at a time. So what usually happened was I would rent it then someone else would get it after me and wipe/screw up my save. When I did get it consecutively I couldn't get past the Pure Land no matter how high my levels were. I played it again last year on emulation (I got the cart in a bargain bin back in the PS days shortly before my SNES bit it, still got the cart though) and again made it all the way to the Pure Land, but this time my HDD crashed and everything was lost... Damn!

3. Blaster Master (NES)

This is the game that never ends. It just goes on and on my friends! Screw that damn Crab!!! I think I only beat that bastard twice and after I did I would die by some stupid vehicle world monster by mistake. Sunsoft games are the pits, but some how I got into some testing program with them (dad?) and they would send me free copies of their games(along with a survey) weeks before their public release. Batman, Fester's Quest, Freedom Force, and of course Blaster Master. I wonder what they thought when they got a letter from a ten year old telling them that all their games suck...

2. Castlevania (NES)

Damn this list has a ton of NES games on it... Drac was a worthy adversary and I believe that Castlevania got me started on the whole controller tossing habit. After beating Drac in his first form, only to be greeted with his second form, I tossed the controller clear across the room (you should see my old Xbox controller from all the Halo 2 matches). Getting to Drac is hard enough, but that second form is just too much to overcome. I gave up because it was too hard and frustrating getting that far just to get my ass kicked...

1. Einhander (PS)

My white whale.... What an awesome game. This game is easily in my top three favorites of all times. I never minded the challenge of the game and I would play it to death at times. I just wasn't skillful enough to get past the later levels, but man I wish I could have gone to the end, just to say that I did. I mean isn't that why most of us beat games? Just to say that we did it? This game would be phenominal on XBLA.

Well there is my list. I'm sure you have some of your own that have been haunting you over the years. Care to share?