Have you ever been unable to finish a game that you liked?

I have.The game was Paper Mario(64 version) the game was mildly difficult when all of a sudden Huff n Puff(one of the bosses) kept whupping my ass.I tried like 7 times and I couldnt beat him, so eventually I put the copy away,forgot about it and eventually sold my Nintendo 64(really bad decision).

Paper Mario was an amazing game too, probably one of the best I've played.

2 games spring to mind

Quo Vadis on the Commodore 64. Ridiculously big and difficult with now save option (like all 64 games). I played it for months but still not able to get close to finishing it.

Doom 2 on the PC. The minotaur boss at the end of one of the levels that had the rocket launcher hand. grrr!!!!

It's easy to say you'll finish a game you like nowadays because games today are barely a challenge - with quicksaves and 'easy' hardness options.

you guys obviously never played quo vadis. 3 lives. no extra men. ridiculously hard enemies and fire pits. Hair trigger/pixel precise jumping. no save game, and an area to explore/clear sooo big it takes many hours per game. Why did I like this game????????

Day of Reckoning 2. That mission where you are in a 4 Way Cage Match is probably one of the hardest missions in any game I have played, or maybe even made. I quit for a year, than played it again, beat the mission and about 6 hours later I beat the career mode. Somehow I enjoyed that game even though I don't really like wrestling.

I remember when I was playing the wind waker. I liked the traditional zelda stuff in it, but all the sailing was dull and boring. Then when I got near the end and it told me I had to do a bunch more sailing around just to find all the pieces of the triforce. That just irritated me, felt more like a chore than something fun. It was about 2 years before I actually went back and finished it.UT_Wrestler

Same, except my Gamecube broke so I never finished it.

MotorStorm with it's rubber-banding, ridiculous AI and lack of fresh tracks.

My comments all refer to beating a game as merely getting through its story-mode and in no way mean 100% completion:

Ikaruga is probably the only game that I like that I can't beat. I am either physically incapable or unwilling to put the time/effort into it.... either way, beyond my skills. The same can probably be said for expert on Guitar Hero. I will only try something so many times before I quit. There's a lot of games out there that I own/want to play. I'm not going to waste time on the same segment in 1 game over and over to the neglect of these others.

Now, some games don't get finished because I move on while playing them. For instance, this past Christmas was a killer. Out of all the great games that came out and that I wanted to/did play, the only one that suffered was Mario Galaxy (which is a shocker considering the number I bought). Now that it's been a while, I have a hard time going back to it. I guess games have an unplayed time threshold for me. I focus too much on the "latest and greatest", so sue me.

Most of them when I was a kid. I've still never completed OoT (I'll just lose interest for no reason, even though the game is obviously fantastic).

Nowadays I will finsh a game, apart from Dead Rising due to my lack of HDTV. I've also solemnly sworn never to touch the "easy" option for any game not guitar hero related (dyspraxia FTL).

Final Fantasy VIII, X, X-2 and XII. Wow why the hell haven't I finished them!? Okay VIII had super impossible last boss. In X you can't leave the last place so I never went there, hmm maybe I should. X-2 doesn't belong in this topic because it wasn't that great. I didn't have much time when XII came out in EU, maybe I should finish it now.Gimli87

You don't need to finish X-2 anyways the game sucked and the ending sucked. Total let down. You'd be wasting your time

Yeah,a lot.I couldn´t make a jump in the last Area of Valkyre Profile (PS1)...man,I´m still angry about that...

SMG, and Okami come to mind.

Three games come to mind, I think.

In Onimusha, the Water Trap (right at the the beginning of the damned game) had me so confused I tried everything, Even combos I knew wouldn't work. Then in Syphon Filter : The Omega Strain, During the final mission, I kept on dieing becuase of those nasty "Chance" troopers with those H11s. Threw the CD out the window. Oh, I don't get me started on the Max Payne IMPASSIBLE dream sequence.

Planescape Torment.

I was almost done with the game, there was a few maps left to do. But there was a glitch in my game for some reason. I never replay it, nor retry it, nor try to figure out a patch. I just put it on the side. Considering I finish ID & ID2 a few times, ToEE as well...and BGs numerous times...it is safe to say that this glitch seriously hinder my interest toward the game in itself. Still have a fun game and a blast, just never wish to even bother to retry it.

There was prolly something that they didn't test properly and that went by their play tester. I remember it was a map filled with the 3 colors fiends mostly and it was outdoor, but hardly remember more.

EDIT: I check the walkthrought and the "item" to proceed forward wasn't spawned for some reason, althought I have done everything to be ready...since a few walkthroughts all confirm I should have found something to allow me to proceed and it was just not there, I didn't bother and quit it. (I check the walkthroughts when I seriously think I should give up on a game, no matter how early or late this stage comes)

I make it a point to finish every game I start, unless it's really unenjoyable. The only game I can think of that I liked and couldn't finish was Impossible Creatures for PC. Reason being... I sucked.

There was a game I beat once and never beat again despite many attempts. Coincidentally, your game is the spiritual sequel to my game.