Obviously there are many games that I never played and never will, because they are simply not my cup of tea, even if they are good games in someone else's eyes / in their respective categories.
But there are indeed games that I, in principle, would like to finish, but never did. Let's see... Out of what was mentioned:
DosFreak wrote:Starcraft (Still have the saved games from 2000)
Heh. I think I only started playing it sometime in 2008. I am still in the middle of the Brood War Terran campaign somewhere...
dosquest wrote:I think the main reason why I have never completed Doom or Doom II is to do with how many WAD (or custom maps) exist. I guess I want to play with the custom maps instead of the vanilla ones. I will play though 32 maps made by someone else but I get bored after map six of a stock Doom/Doom II WAD.
Well, if the goal is to finish at least once all maps ever produced, then I think most players would find it physically impossible. It should not be the goal.
The original maps definitely pale in comparison to some of the newer content out there. What can you expect? They are 20+ years old, and like in any art, people's skills in DOOM mapmaking have been gradually evolving to the point of making amazing things that no one even dreamed were possible within the limitations of the engine, when it first came out.
I did force myself to play through all the original IWADs. I think at some point I stopped in the middle of Plutonia for like 12-13 years, but eventually I got back to it and finished it.
JayCeeBee64 wrote:Electroman (a snooze fest)
That it is. Dreadfully slow pace, awkward controls, and every little thing kills you and drops you back to the last checkpoint. I still don't believe I actually finished the whole game once. Will never do it again.
JayCeeBee64 wrote:Alien Carnage (aka Halloween Harry, too repetitive and hard at times)
Finished that one too. I recall it having some annoying bugs with graphics/sound that impaired the gameplay. Never touched it since. Duke Nukem II is so much more fun.
JayCeeBee64 wrote:Jazz Jackrabbit 2 (funny, I finished the first one several times, but this one evades me *_*)
Same thing. I think I found it hard to identify with the characters, with them being so small, and the levels looking so huge in comparison.
JayCeeBee64 wrote:Hexen: Beyond Heretic (somehow I can't get motivated enough to get past the first portal)
Back when I was a kid with loads of free time, I actually did play this one through, but I couldn't be bothered, so I did it on the lowest skill level, and with a walkthrough, to avoid struggling for hours solving the puzzles. Despite the atmosphere, I didn't feel at the end it was worth it.
Now to add a couple of my own:
It also took me a long time to finish the original Bioshock, which is a very over-rated, repetitive game. Most of the time you spend "hacking" pipe puzzles and fighting the same stupid enemies with the same stupid one-liners.
But the game that takes the crown for me is the first Assassin's Creed. I loved the Prince of Persia trilogy of the early 21st century, and was told that it is in some ways similar. Well, graphics and engine-wise it may be, but the game itself... Ugh. Take the repetitiveness of Bioshock and multiply by clumsy controls and abysmally slow pace (even navigating the menus takes ages!). I really gave it what I felt was a fair shot, but in the end it became the first game in a long long time that I simply stopped playing in the middle and erased from my hard drive.