Games you ALMOST beat but finally gave up on.

[tony_good]

Only 2 come to mind for me.

Snake's Revenge for NES ( My friend wanted it back. I wonder, was the last boss invincible? If I had more time, I might have done it.)

and

GTA London 1969.

I think that whole bloody game had you do it all for nothing. It tells you to kill the Crisp brothers then leads you to an arrow where there is nothing. If there was a way to complete that, it sure as hell fooled me, and I tried several times, always the same result.

Anybody beat those, or are they truly impossible?

[sleepycal]

Midnight Club 2 PS2 - the difficulty level of the entire game is pretty high, but the last few stages are insane. Has a normally calm guy like myself ready to throw the controller, so I put it down.

Miracle Warriors SMS - back in the day, before online FAQs, etc.
I never solved the last puzzle to find the last area. Whatever the hero's name "was twice as tall as a man". How embarassingly simple it seems now.

[squidblatt]

Karateka. I ran instead of walked up to the girl you were trying to save, so she kicked me and I died. Stupidest trick ever. I stopped playing, and only learned many years later what you were supposed to do. It still makes no sense.

A lot of those older games had nonsensical puzzles that didn't fit any context provided for the player. Like that note in the witch's cottage in King's Quest that said "Sometimes it is better to think backwards" and referred to a puzzle in a completely unrelated setting that itself offered no clue as to why one might want to think "backwards" with regards to it. There are so many others, but I don't want to go further off topic.

[Maddrox]

prince of persia 1- Got through 50% of the game, and then got to a part where you gotta walk all around walls in like 10 secs to get somewhere. Bah to hard.

[vulcanjedi]

Hmm

For the past 12 years I have played Zelda lttp up to the final dungeon and just seemed to stop playing.
Twice with two different SNES carts and now most recently with the GBA.

Strange because I played the original gameboy one all the way through.

I wonder what the psychological barrier is here...

VJ

[Kim Possible]

(NES)Fester's Quest- I can always get to the final boss, but if you die you have to go ALL the way back to the original starting point of the game and walk ALL the way back to the boss. Snore. I have never beat it and never tried after the initial death.

(SNES) Super Star Wars. That freakin' Death Star is just too hard to get through. I'm still trying in theory, but I've pretty much given up hope.


(PC) Might and Magic VII- I just got bored.

[Sylentwulf]

Luigi's mansion (stupid last boss)
Star Ocean on the PS1 - don't remember why on this one, think it just started to get too long, or I got sidetracked on something....

[Quintracker]

Viewtiful Joe. I just couldn't seem to get the timing right on one of the last bosses. :/

[goats]

mario and luigi superstar saga, I can never get the last boss

[Jorpho]

Pokemon Yellow - I think I made it to the final fight with Gary once. I'd like to finish the game someday, but I'd want to start over now that the true trick to catching any Pokemon has been found.

[maxlords]

Viewtiful Joe - GOt to the anti-Joe and never could beat him

Star Ocean: The 2nd Story - Got almost all the way through the game and realized I couldn't beat it because I didn't have a full party....failed to find a BUNCH of characters.

Castlevania: Circle of the Moon - got to Dracula and he was RIDICULOUS...gave up rather than bothering to build levels

Albert Odyssey - Got to the final 4 bosses and then lost my save! Doh!

Dragon Force - Got to the VERY end where I'm chasing the last character around and lost my save.

Phantasy Star IV - Got to the final boss and flat out could NOT beat him...wasn't high enough level and didn't want to wander around building up.

Those are the ones I can think of....

Edit:

The Thing (PS2) - Got almost all the way to the end and ran out of ammo. Sucked.

Silent Hill (PSX) - Got to the end section and failed to do an important thing so I could only get the bad ending.

[Damon Plus]

Illusion of Gaia- Last Dungeon, but I forgot about the game
Link to the past- Same as above

[Querjek]

Final Fantasy VI--I just sort of forgot to finish it.

[imanerd0011]

Castlevania- I can always get to the last level, but then there is the room where you are inside and the eagles are dropping egors all over the place. I always either die, or lose so much life that there is no point to continue.

[FantasiaWHT]

The first Shadow Hearts

Just got really really really bored with it at the end..... the boss fights were all just the same thing over and over and they were made "difficult" just by the fact that the boss has a few trillion hp. Just figured I knew what was going to happen anyway, so why bother.

[Cmosfm]

I've got a BAD problem beating final bosses on RPG's, I wing up giving up.

Final Fantasy VII - Quit at the cave you go in to fight sephiroth, that one screen where you enter the cave at still haunts my memories.

Final Fantasy VIII - Can't remember where I quit

Final Fantasy X - Battle with Sin.

[tuxedojoe]

Romancing Saga 3 - I got about 30% into the game and just quit.
Final Fantasy X - Quit right before Sin
Zelda: Wind Waker - Damn, this game was just terrible. I quit after about 6 hours.
Skies of Arcadia - Got up to the final boss on DC, quit, and started again later. I quit again. Then, I tried playing it on the GC, and I never finished it.

[crazyjackcsa]

Shining the Holy Ark, last boss battle. Recently it's been Metroid Prime. I can't get past the omega pirate. I'm not really sure how far through the game that is, but I can't do it.

[Garry Silljo]

Golgo 13 Top Secret Episode. Can always get to the end and never take down that brain thing.

[MegaDrive20XX]

PSX:

Mega Man 8, I couldn't get past the first area of Wily's castle

Mega Man X4 I could never finish the game with Zero

Final Fantasy Origins, started playing 1, barely touched the 2nd..and then put it aside

NES:

Blaster Master, always got the final level, but never could get out that stupid spikey pitted area

Fester's Quest, nope, never finished it, fun but a pain at times

SMS:

Shinobi, I can't even get past the 3rd Boss

GameBoy:

CastleVania Adventure, I can't get passed level 3 when the spikes keep coming closer and closer from under you

Genesis:

Rocket Knight Adventues, stopped playing it when I arrived at the final stage and I have never been able to get back to it since.