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So yeah, I was looking at mine (basically my entire shelf in my desk, and I've got quite a few that I just never seem to get going on. Wanted to know whats in yours and if anyone has any recommendations as to what is the finest game on my shelf at the moment.
Sins of a Solar Empire: I'm an avid Galactic Civilizations 2 player, and keep wanting to get started on this one, but I just never feel like I have the time to really play.
Oblivion: Wore Morrowind out, and Daggerfall and Arena for that matter (stealing Daedric weapons at night was too easy in daggerfall lol) but again I never seem to get going in the game. I've got a save at the exit of the tunnels. just kind of like running around outside and looking at the pretty engine do it's thing
Medieval 2: Yet another one that just sort of sits on the HDD never have gotten into a Total war game, wanted to try this one.
***WARNING GAMING BLASPHEMY INCOMING***
Half Life 2 Never seemed to grab me, to slow of a pace in first bit of it, I know it's supposedly the internal combustion engine, sliced bread and space flight all in one but I just can't seem to get started with it (see a trend developing)
Starcraft - I like RTS games, but I just dont see the big deal with it all. That and the campaign is murderously hard (in comparison with other RTS titles)
Warlords Battlecry 3 - Loved 2 but 3 just lost the wonderful, do what you want campaign style, and just tried to do too much. I assume that one day I'll just make a demon summoner and power through the campaign but right now I just can't bring myself to.
anyone else's pile gotten big lately....
System Shock 2 - I played this for maybe an hour before I gave up on it. I need to rectify this. Since, however, I pirated it, I will not be playing it until it comes out on GOG or something similar, at which point I'll buy it and make myself play it a bit more.
Deus Ex - I just haven't touched this one. Eventually I'll get around to it.
Thief: Deadly Shadows - Like with System Shock 2, I pirated this, played it for an hour or two, and gave up. At some point, I'll probably buy it on Steam and play through it, but not right now.
Baldur's Gate - This I happen to own legitimately.* I just couldn't play it, though. Why?
1) The resolution was too low.
2) You can only move the screen by putting the mouse at the edge of the screen. As the resolution was too low, this happened far too often.
3) While you can also move the screen with the arrows on the numpad, I'm on a laptop, which kinda rules out that option. And though I do have an external numpad, Baldur's Gate doesn't seem to recognize it as such, so it's useless for this.
4) I don't have Tales of the Sword Coast and, as such, cannot use the resolution hack to fix the resolution being too low.
In my defense, though, I started playing through Baldur's Gate 2, which I also own legitimately, after I gave up on the first, and I have every intention of finishing it.
*While the rest of this post gives the impression that I pirate everything, I actually purchase most games. It seems otherwise here because I will often pirate games that don't have demos (and sometimes even games that do) to determine if I like them, at which point I usually either delete or purchase them. I can directly attribute my purchasing of Half-Life 2 (and subsequently everything that came after it) to my initial pirating of the game.
Starcraft Brood War. I didn't finish this until 2007, so while it wasn't a game I'd totally failed to finish, it took me a real long time.
Saint's Row. I've had this game for years and I'm like 85% though. Just can't bring myself to put it in the drive and finish it.
Silent Hill 1, 3, 4.
Something kept happening to the discs for 3 and 4, I gave 1 away because I didn't know what it was and it looked lame.
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elyscape: Baldur's Gate - This I happen to own legitimately.* I just couldn't play it, though. Why?
1) The resolution was too low.
2) You can only move the screen by putting the mouse at the edge of the screen. As the resolution was too low, this happened far too often.
3) While you can also move the screen with the arrows on the numpad, I'm on a laptop, which kinda rules out that option. And though I do have an external numpad, Baldur's Gate doesn't seem to recognize it as such, so it's useless for this.
4) I don't have Tales of the Sword Coast and, as such, cannot use the resolution hack to fix the resolution being too low.
In my defense, though, I started playing through Baldur's Gate 2, which I also own legitimately, after I gave up on the first, and I have every intention of finishing it.

You may want to look at BG1 Tutu or Baldur's Gate Trilogy. They're designed to play Baldur's Gate 1 in the BG2 engine.
Karl
Baldur's Gate - I tried the demo of this earlier this year and I'm afraid that I've been spoiled with games that speak to you and do not rely on you doing all that old fashioned stuff like reading!
System Shock 2 - I just never got into it. Keep on meaning to have another go though
Medieval 2 TW Expansion - Currently playing as the Apaches’. I'm one territory away from victory but am fed up of having to fight multiple battles every turn against a seemingly endless tide of native Americans. I swat them aside with ease but have to fight the battles manually as the auto resolve never works, thus I never manage to get any closer to that last city. I’m stuck around central America and so have limited routes open to me. I'll get around to finishing this one day.
Thief: Deadly Shadows - I got this free with a sound card. Unlike the original thief it did not capture my attention and its been sitting on the shelf ever since.
Sins of a Solar Empire - Until Stardock made patches Impulse only I played this quite a bit. Since they no longer support offline gamers I just lost interest in it. Pity as its a good game
Fallout - After a few hours the turn based combat annoyed me so much that I've shelved the game.
Morrowind – I’ve got a save game from 2005. Unfortunately the journal system is so crap that I no longer have a clue where anything is, what I should be doing or where I should go. Might just abandon the main quest and the first expansion and concentrate on the last expansion as I have not started that yet. Does anyone know of any mods that improve the journal so that I know what I’m doing and where I should be going? (The names of characters and places mean nothing to me now as its been over 3 years since I played the game)
On another note I got Starcraft for the first time last month and have played nothing else since!
Heh, almost everything? I play a lot of the beginning of games, then move on. Only rarely do I find stuff that I want to play all the way through. I guess I'm a casual gamer...
Favorites that I haven't finished, though:
Total Annihilation: Actually, I have finished the regular campaigns. I just need to work on the Core Contingency ones. I only recently finished these though, if that shows you how enduring of a game it is.
Descent 1, 2, 3: 1 & 2 because I got them all at once with the Levels of the World pack. There's a billion levels in there, so why worry about finishing one game? 3 because either the game or the computer kept crashing and after reloading everything my savegame didn't work anymore. I made it to the 7th or 8th level a few times over though.
Rise of Nations: Haven't conquered the world yet.
Empire Earth: Who needs campaigns when the AI is this good in skirmish mode?
Sometimes a game is huge fun, but as it advances it gets much tougher. With sometimes long stretches between plays, I lose the skill to play that I learned on the earlier levels, so sometimes it's worth it just to forget it and start again.
One that I put firmly into my 'will never finish' pile today: Persona 1 on the PS1.
The game doesn't explain the game mechanics at all, and it's so badly translated. The most frustrating thing though, is that six hours into the game, it says something like "you should go to the factory now do you want to take this guy with you?"... naturally, I said yes, because who wouldn't?
I just found out that the character is permanant, and prevents you from taking any other characters into your party. I hate JRPGs that pull that kind of nonsense with a passion. You can't just ditch him afterwards, and it's never implied that it's some kind of all-important game-changing decision, it's just like "go to the factory with him? Yes/No".
Grghrgh. So many hours wasted just to lead to a game-ruining moment.
Games on my shelf that I haven't finished yet:
Crysis: I have gotten about halfway through it, but that's as far as I've gotten. It's a gorgeous game, but I can't seem to find the motivation to finish it.
The Witcher: Again, a beautiful game and well worth the time, but I can't seem to get the willpower to finish it. I think the problem is when I switched over to Vista I didn't back up my saved games, so I had to start from scratch and I'd made decent progress.
NWN 2: I want to play through as a class other than the fighter, but other classes seem inept at combat in comparison.
Lol, I have just under 100 xbox games plus about 20 pc games, and I think I've completed about 30 of them and I haven't even played half of my games yet. :D
Over the years... Too many to count. A much shorter list would be games I did finish. lol
FPS - I usually finish, except for Halo, I just don't get the hype.
RTS - rarely do I actually play the single player, I'll just play maps by myself against the computer.
RPG - I think Pool of Radience, the original, is the only one I've finished. I like em, but never seem to finish.
Turn-based strategy - I finish, and usually go back to again and again.
MMO - I have won them all, there is no need for anyone to continue playing...
The Thief series. Got them all, fantastic games, but haven't finished a single one...
Baldur's gate 2. I really have to play this one again and to go to the end this time !
The HoMM campaigns. Great, but it was a little boring to watch the IA obvisouly cheat... ;)
Oh dear....where to begin....
Okay, games I haven't completed YET:
Fallout 3
Mass Effect
Spore (getting to the centre of the universe)
Civ4:Col (still yet to finish my first game :S)
Crysis Warhead
Uplink (not sure if that has an ending....oh well)
Titan Quest: Gold
Gitants: Citizan Kabuto
Games I'm not likly to complete any time soon:
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl
Oblivion
Medieval II: Total War
Rome: Total War (+ Barbarian Invasion)
Star Wars: Empire at War
Stronghold 2
The Ship Single Player
Phew...glad I got that off my chest...man I need to cancel my social life.
A lot of the games I get right to the final or penultimate level and then give up because of a massive difficulty spike. Like Sacrifice. Bloody Marduk.
I only got about halfway through System Shock 2, because I had a pirated copy (hey, it was out of print) running on a OS the game wasn't designed for and it could go for at most half an hour without crashing. Really breaks the immersion.
*Opens steam* Shall i get started?
Bioshock
Fallout
Fallout 2
Psychonauts
Shadowground Survivor
Deus Ex
Deus Ex : Invisible War
Final Fantasy VIII
Looking over this myself makes me feel shameful :( Not finished Fallout, or Bioshock (or Psychonauts one of the most underrated games ever). Damn I need to play single player more.......