@@jasonjoseph6497 Exactly! 😄 Pam is NO joke! As a matter of fact, doesn't the word savage basically mean "something or someone that.........'can not be tamed'?"😮 So as nice as Pam is, she's letting people know from the JUMP that she's a savage! I love it!😄
@@ChoppaBoy lol, I'm more mad at myself for not playing further. There is so much to explore in Vanilla Skyrim, yet I got obsessed with playing as The Predator -- shooting off shoulder cannons at dragons and using Resident Evil's Spencer Mansion as a base.
The older I’ve gotten, the harder it’s been for me to finish games. I have a pretty long list of games that I’d like to finish some day, and an even longer one of games that I’ll never go back to finish :-( I like trying a bunch of different games though, so I don’t mind too much. The ones that really grab me I do tend to finish.
Yeah, as an adult, if you want to finish a game, you gotta sacrifice playing a large variety of games if you wanna beat one. Theres just less time. I do make that sacrifice though for some games. It took me 6 months to beat zelda twilight princess and several months to beat gta 4
As a child there were so many less games than now. Now the game market is saturated, so it is hard enough to choose a game to play, let alone finish it. Its much easier to concentrate on a game and finish it if there are not so many games overall
I actually beat it last night for the first time. I think it's a freaking masterpiece as somebody who's a big fan of Alien and Aliens, and even if you're somebody who isn't a fan it's just an amazing game on its own.
The first half of the game was the best part, anyways. The second half felt incredibly padded and I only pushed through so that I could say I finished it. If not for me being a huge Alien fan, I would have given up because it got frustratingly tedious in the second half. First half though? A-MAZING.
I was 16 when SotN came out, I bought it, got the bad ending, thought it was really short, and shelved it for 10 years, had no idea the inverted castle even existed until I learned about it on the internet
Wha...?!?! My jaw literally fell to the floor when you mentioned Chrono Trigger. That is literally my favorite game of all-time and it's actually a relatively short game too (35-40 hours if you do everything). I honestly can't find a single flaw in CT but then again, it's a game I grew up with so the nostalgia is a powerful force too. And CV:SOTN?! That game is also one of the greatest game I have ever played. My roommate and I played that game to DEATH in college. The Castlevania series is amazing but CV:SOTN is easily the best one IMO. Thanks for sharing in any case!
I can understand getting lost in Symphony of the Night. It happened to me the first couple of times I played it, but in a way, I enjoyed getting lost. It felt like true exploration to me. I know you mentioned that you don't particularly like handhelds, but I would recommend Castlevania: Circle of the Moon and Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow on the GameBoy Advance. They're a bit more straightforward in their map layout so it's tougher to get lost. Excellent video, and keep up the great work!
I'd also recommend playing them on PC with an emulator and controller (any kind). full screen is super pixelated, but I don't think that will bother a retro gamer.
This video was such a heart breaker for me. Other than #1, I adore every single one of those games. Chrono Trigger is my favorite JRPG, Symphony Of The Night is one of my all time favorites (also you don't like Castlevania 1? That's like the best NES game ever), Oblivion is one of my top 10 games (so much better than Skyrim), and yeah, Uncharted 2 as far as gameplay goes isn't complex, but I love its simplicity, and I think it has a much better story than Tomb Raider (which is the main reason I played it). Great video, but dang... still, to each their own, of course.
I never finished any Elder Scrolls, Witcher or Persona game just because the amount of games is overwhelming and when I read that a game lasts more than 100 hours I prefer to play another thing instead
I'm pretty sure all hardcore video game collectors have an overwhelming majority of games in their collection that they never finished... And a handful they never even played (I'm guilty of this). I guess here's my top 5 Nostalgic games I never finished: 1. Kingdom Hearts PS2: Replayed the game like 12 times in my childhood..... NEVER got past Tarzan's world. 2. Nightmare Before Christmas PS2: Couldn't figure out where to find the Hanging men and was too scared to play it as a kid. 3. Tomb Raider: Last Revelation PS1: This was the first video game I've ever played and never got past the tutorial when I was a kid... As I kept getting Lara Croft wet in the water on purpose and my Mom immediately ejected the disc and snapped it right in front of me (I was 5 years old). 4. Walace & Grommit: Project Zoo PS2: I couldn't figure out how to get out of the dark lava mine. 5. Giant Battles: Dragons DS: .....This is a repetitive touch turn base RPG and a shitty one at that. You get to play as 4 different elemental Dragons.... They all play exactly the same and all 4 of these dragons have the exact same levels and missions. You need to beat the game 4 times as all 4 dragons to get the good ending....... I only beat the game once and got halfway through as a different dragon until I realize I was just replaying the same missions, but with a different colored Dragon.
Like Ernesto, Alien Isolation is the only game I can honestly say I have never finished. The game just got too stressful for me to continue. Which is actually a testament to how great the game actually is!
Still today uncharted 2 remains a great game. The level of detail naughty dog do put into their games is absolutely outstanding. I played all the tomb raider games, but with uncharted, there isn't 5 seconds without a new encounter, a new fighting sequence, a new puzzle, a new slice of the story... meanwhile, in tomb raider, we can spend a bunch of time walking in some empty area, for 5+ minutes. In uncharted one, I still remember the day I've bought it, after the plane crash sequence, we landed on an green, beautiful, ultra detailed island , and the game played that cgi sequence. And suddenly, I touch my dualshock3 controller, and realize i was able to control Drake, with that insane 3d scene moving in real time. I was shocked! The train sequence was just ONE of the hundreds of wow moments. The nepal village was much better. The reason why the train sequence was so hyped, it was because that entire moving train, with all the stuff going on at the same time, was just revolutionary. I dont understand why the stealth sequence in uncharted was so hard, and made you quit the game. All you had to do, was bringing the difficulty down a notch , even for only 4 or 5 minutes, and it was fine. Or taking 2 minutes to watch a youtube tutorial... I've done it with so many games, it shouldn't be a problem. The reality was, I think, you weren't really enjoying playing the game, and wanted to stop, and that stealth sequence just came at the right moment ;) Also, the latest tomb raider games became super grindy... i remember spending dozens of hours, just to farm a special outfit. Lol., regarding skyrim... I bought skyrim on the psn, for 50 bucks, because I wanted to spend tons of hours exploring the world (like mass effect, fallout4, etc), i downloaded it, installed it on my ps4 pro, all the graphics, textures, 3d objects, characters, everything looked so ugly, so blurred, so compressed, like a ps1 or n64 game, that it almost made my eyes bleed. No way I wound be playing it for over 300 hours... ! After playing around 3 hours, and having my eyes burn, I uninstalled that sucker, and will never go back. Unless bethesda releases some kind of photorealistic textures pack and update for Skyrim ps5, my 50 bucks are definitely lost.
Wow, your Chrono Trigger experience is exactly like mine. I'm still interested to this day.. I just don't finish it. Yet I kept buying different versions
Thanks for this, Pam! Morrowind was a game i didn’t want to end-eye opening for me and often ran like ole the mine was just about to collapse on my first pc! The strain that old pentium 2 was under, floaty combat and loading screens couldn’t put me off the rich immersion that i had never experienced in console gaming. That said, i have started every Gothic game on pc-and all of the metro games on console game despite liking them never stuck with them...and yet even now, I will more probably start up yet another new final fantasy run before thinking of them!
The Uncharted games were ruined for me the same way. I had played the Tomb Raider reboot first and, after that, Uncharted just paled in comparison. Man, my backlog of unfinished games is ridiculous. It's part of the reason I've decided not to buy into the next console generation. Seriously, I've got enough unfinished games sitting around, that I'll never finish them all before I die. :P
That's crazy, I had the same experience. A few years ago a buddy of mine gave me all of his old Xbox 360 games so I dusted off my 360 and played the Tomb Raider reboot and loved it. While I was playing it, I picked up the Uncharted Trilogy for PS4 for like $5 USD. Some time shortly after finishing Tomb Raider I started on Uncharted, and I thought it was really weak. The shooting didn't feel good, the story was not good, and everything about it felt like a big step down. I gave up on it right after the big (and stupid) twist is revealed, which I had seen coming since the beginning of the game. I have a friend who insists that Uncharted 2 and 3 are much better, must-play games, and maybe I will try them someday, but I'm not all that interested after playing the first one.
that situation is so funny because it's like they've come full circle in ripping each other off. . Uncharted 1 felt HEAVILY similar and inspired by Tomb Raider Legend, which I held against it, but ultimately gave it a chance and liked it. then I played some of 3 and liked it even more, but when I played the Tomb Raider reboot I was like "jesus christ this is good but they completely neutered everything that separated TR from Uncharted and it's just a shameless Uncharted clone now with none of the original heart and soul" . I have never played a game that I agreed so much with the gameplay of but vehemently disagreed with its direction/story. stopped like 50-70% into it but that was more from completionphobia.
ReCore was such a great game that nobody played, but that final dungeon sure was.. something. I never did go back after they added the tank bot patch! CrossCode is my current unfinished curse. Amazing game, but the puzzles are super intense and I eventually burned out about 2/3 of the way through. One of these days!
One game I can think of not being able to finish is Star Wars Rogue Leader on the GameCube. It is such a fun and challenging game, and it's hard not to fall in love with flying X-Wings and ships around, imitating the scenes from the films. Yet, for some reason, I can't finish Mission 9. I look at walkthrus and YT videos, still can't do it. It is, indeed, a trap. One time, I'll finish it with any medal necessary, or maybe discover Rogue Squadron on N64 instead. Shame about Chrono Trigger. It is one of the greatest games I've ever played. To each their own - someone I recommended the game to couldn't necessarily tolerate the graphics [hmm].
It's so true about Uncharted. They haven't aged well. Naughty Dog are as overrated as it gets. But Sony keep pushing their risible agenda with their fake overbearing scores. Tomb Raider curb stomps Uncharted. In spite of what those frauds IGN and Eurogamer say. Well said Pam.
I admit my eyebrows raised a bit at the first game you named... but it's totally understandable; that one was from the era where JRPG players were expected to purchase a strategy guide right along with the latest big game. Plus, that one had multiple endings, with small variations among the major plot points depending on your actions throughout the game. Anyway, great list! It's really nice hearing you talk about your own experiences with games the way you did in the video. All your work is fantastic, of course; vids like this one just feel a little more candid. ^.^
Fair. I have trouble finishing games for those reasons too. If you didn't get into the JRPG world early enough, I totally get why the older games would be harder to finish. There are many older RPGs that are rated to be really good that I just can't bring myself to go back to and finish and I happen to love JRPGs.
I bought Castlevania: Symphony of the Night when it first came out and loved it. I still have the PS1 version, I have it on PS3 and even have it on my computer. I typically play it at least once a year and beat it. It is still one of my favorite games. I hope you go back and play it and enjoy it. Love your videos. Hope you have a good Thanksgiving.
In my case, some games were "reasonably finished" but not totally finished. A lot of MMOs have endless content, but as long as you finished the main quest, reached a high enough level, and gained enough achievements, you can reasonably say to yourself you finished it. Then there are games with no finish line at all, such as card games, sports games, pinball games, etc., which you can play forever. If you have put enough hours into such a game, you can say you have "finished" it.
Ermahgerd Pam. I get how you might not be into Chrono Trigger but that is one of my all time faves. Especially the DS version with the Akira Toriyama animated cut scenes.
I got about 40-50% through Recore and just got sick of it; the world was too big and empty. It simply became more work than fun. Sad, since the controls were tight and I too loved the double jump and dash gameplay.
It was the exact same reasons for Chrono Trigger for me and Recore I think after around 2 years it had an update that I dont remember if it reduced the amount of cores and/or the final gate was removed. It was known that the game asked X amount of cores to go to the final stage and even more cores to enter the final floor, but it had a fix in some way that I mentioned, alongside a new world.
one weakness of Chrono Trigger (and i'm saying this as someone who first played it around the time it came out and loves it) is that there isn't a lot of conflict between the party members, so they can feel kind of flat.
I totally agree with you on Recore’s endgame, and even with the definitive edition, that’s still there. It would have been better to just gate the whole thing or just don’t do it at all. I had to grind a bit to get into the last area because I hadn’t been collecting them the whole time, and I saw a walkthrough that said I should get to a certain # for this exact reason. I can’t imagine how it would have felt to have that be a surprise midway through the final stretch.
Okami. Loved the first half of the game. SPOILERS - after defeating the story's villain, the game was like "Oh that's great. BTW, that was just the start of the story." But as far as I was concerned, the story as built up had resolved and it was already a good 15-20 hours in for me, which is a pretty good length for an action-adventure as far as I'm concerned. Apparently I only actually made it halfway through the game, but I just really didn't need the second half.
Chrono Trigger was a game that I missed when it first came out, due to being Australia, but I have played and beaten it a few times. I agree with your assessment of the characters. When I replayed the game a few years ago for a review, I felt like the protagonists weren't as fleshed out as I'd have liked them to be. I put this down to the fact that you could put anyone in your party, and then the others stayed at the End of Time. As such, there wasn't any opportunity for strong character development as the party members with you were just given little variations on dialogue and never really interacted directly with each other. Hah. I played Uncharted 2 for my channel as well, and I almost gave up because of a certain section right at the end which I couldn't seem to do before Nate automatically died. Eventually I did it, and produced the review. There have been a lot of games that I haven't finished playing, though. It's one of the main reasons I decided to start reviewing games, as it motivates me to actually complete them. Among reviewers I watch, you and Lady Pelvic were a great influence on my decision to start reviewing games, myself.
Final Fantasy.....all of them. I've started multiple FF games, in particular 6 and 7 multiple times, but after so long just gave up. I've beaten Chrono Trigger multiple times, I've beaten Earthbound multiple times. I've beaten other RPGs; I'm just not that into FF.
I thought I would never hear anyone mention that game Recore. It is one of those games no one ever seems to talk about anywhere! I too am guilty of never finishing it.
lol I was reading something else and I legit don't remember most of what you said, but then I heard "So the next game I haven"t finished is Oblivion" and it whipped me back to your video so fast it hurt XD I get it though. What made it hard for me to finish it were the crashes. I love this game, but at some point playing was more annoying than anything else because I kept saving all the freaking time and reloading the game. Fortunately the community patches helped a lot. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, listening about all this games took me back :)
You should do another video for the hardest games ever played.... For me Ninja Gaiden 3 on nes takes the cake! i really don't know how I was able to finish that game back in the days...the satisfaction was just too much! The fact that there were only 5 continues available made it the biggest challenge ever for me...and guess, I didn't used a single one!
Thanks for the mention. I only touched on Chrono Trigger a little bit. Castlevania SOTN is a game you have to dedicate yourself to. I'm big about games that lack direction. I got pretty far in SOTN and flipped the castle but I some how deleted the file. lol "Bullet spongy" that term cracked me up. One of the main reasons I'm not into shooters. I've beat all the Uncharted games except the one on the PS Vita. (the controls and many other things) That's another genre I am not a big fan of is stealth games. I will probably never complete a Metal Solid game for that reason or Hitman or Deux title. Recore is one of those titles for me that I put in about 75% of the work. I would come home ready to knock out another section. I like the way you explained it. it was a bad decision made with not letting you progress without a certain amount of orbs. On top of things the game didn't make it easy to obtain those orbs. Much like you I tapped out.
I hear you on 'Chrono Trigger'. I played it as a child. Loved it. Finished it. Years later I've tried to go back and do it over all the way through, but make it a couple of hours in, stop, and can't bring myself to continue from a save I pick up at a later time. Wonderful game though which is why it's so sought after (read: high-priced) and beloved. *insert 'Ain't nobody got time for that' meme* I did finish it ages ago, however. My game that fits this video though is 'Tales of Phantasia'. Beautiful game that I would have loved as a child with all the free time in the world to do JRPGs, but a proper english version wasn't localized. There are many versions now and, like 'Chrono Trigger', I've started up several playthroughs of the PS1 (100% fan translation patch; which I hear is best version) version over the years, but just never *insert Shia LeBeauf 'Just do it' meme* completed it.
Not even gonna lie. I'm going to check out your 'Bloodstained' review now that I've heard you mention 'Symphony of the Night' here and see if you mention it. It would be tough to play one without mentioning the other.
What!? You never finished Chrono Trigger!!??.. such an awesome game too! It is long tho.. like most Squaresoft games of the time. It's actually one of my favorite of all time. I like your glass. Is that wine? ;) Castlevania Symphony of the Night famous lines, "you steal men's souls.. what is a man but a miserable pile of secrets.. have at you!" LOL Oblivion?.. I haven't even finished Morrowind yet. Those Elder Scrolls games are REALLY long with all the sidequests and whatnot. I don't blame you for not finishing that. I've only played Oblivion for a few hours. A similar game was Dragon Age. Great game.. I tried playing through at least 3 times but WAY.. TOO.. LOONNNGGG LOL. Thanks for sharing. Always nice watching you. And yes, your eyeshadow looks cool B)
I played Chrono Trigger after Chrono Cross because a friend bought me the ps1 port. I thought the original superior to its sequel even though the sequel was on a current console when I played it.
While Chrono Trigger is probably the game I enjoyed the most of my life. I understand why people could not get into it now. Most of what made it good was because it was new, the characters, the combat right in place, combos, a more "action" in the turn base-ish combat, excellent music, side quest. A lot of things that nowadays have been improved or used a lot in recent games to the point is not special anymore. Yet for 11 yo me, it was the best thing ever created.
I loved that Elder Scrolls story :) Totally rational. I would have never beaten Chrono Trigger without an FAQ walkthrough. The game I'm most embarrassed to have never finished is Super Mario World, followed by Metroid Prime
I never beat Super Mario Odyssey nor Breath of the WIld Zelda yet, and I bought them both at launch. But just because I love them so much I am savoring them, setting them aside while I work on my massive backlog for extended periods, then jumping back in aghain and again. Itr is like, they are so good, but they never end. I am finally on Bowser level of mario and I still have 2 divine beasts to beat in Zelda. Love them both, easily 10/10 games.
I played Recore for the first time about three months ago, got all the way to the final boss and had to quit after going 20 for 20 with the game glitching during the fight to where none of the buttons on my controller worked. That was the glitchiest game I’ve ever played, and I’m sure it already had tons of patches before I picked it up.
Drinking wine to prep for the comment section? Good choice. love the video. :) I think Chrono Trigger, Castlevania SotN, and Uncharted 2 are all "products of their time", where newer games improved on their innovations. I'm sorry a bug killed your run of Elder Scrolls. Sadly bugs are a bethesda legacy at this point. Mods have fixed what should never have been broken, but that responsibility should never be on the player.
Pam, you will really miss something if you never finish Crono Trigger. To me, it is the best JRPG i have ever played. I loved the characters and story so much! :)
I had the same experience as you with Chrono Trigger, lol. If I had played it as a kid, probably would've loved it. As an adult, it's like, been there done that. I did finish it, but found that I had to grind a lot to be able to beat the final boss, which was annoying.
I have the same frustration with progression halt in games. I'll let a game throw me curves all day,but I gotta be able to keep going forward. I need that sense of momentum.
I do like your eyeshadow look. Games I've never finished: Resident Evil 8 (I got to the very last part but quit because I felt it had become a whole another game and made absolutely no sense and did not respect the player at all), Alien ... Isolation? or something (the robot section got me so frustrated I just quit). I had never finished Tomb Raider 3 until the remasters was released, before I could not see well enough on the screen because of the dark PS1 version! :D
Hi pretty Pam!! How are you? Love your makeup and principally your beautiful smile ;-) About your experience with CastleVania: Symphony of the Night, I got a similar experience with CastleVania II: Simon's Quest. The fact that you get lost and, at the same time, must find the way to get where you want (in your case the Save Points, in my case the towns and the Save Points on them) turns out so frustrating that you don't want to turn back to the game anymore. Since the first times I played it and get lost in the game, didn't touch it again in several years until I got a magazine where there was a quick guide for finishing it. Then I discovered that with some clues of where to go, the challenge turns out more fair and more enjoyable. But pitifully even when I finished it, lost part of the feeling of doing it because the game had not the proper tools for being enjoyable by itself. Nowadays, still play CastleVania 1, 3 and 4, but 2 almost never, even when I could try to get the best endings. It's because the bad experience I think.
@@Cannotbetamed1 Yes, indeed it is when you play it the first times. If you wish to try it, I recommend you to get the instruction booklet and the map(s) that came with the game, or a magazine with a guide as I did, for enjoy it from the very beginning. Kisses ;¬* ;¬* ;¬*
Ah, Oblivion. That was one of my faves from the 360 generation. Great world to explore and fun customizable combat. Also one of the best DLCs I have ever played in The Shivering Isles. You can get the Game of the Year edition with all DLC (except horse armor, lolz) on Xbox for dirt cheap. Plus it now has FPS boost and looks and plays fantastic on Xbox One or Series X. The Uncharteds, I think you hit the nail on the head. Pretty much had to be there. I loved 1 and 2 when they were new, never played 3 new, and fell off 3 pretty quick when I finally tried it in the Nathan Drake Collection years later. Might have to try Recore...
I finished the first 3 and loved them at the time. Also Castlevania is my fav series ever! Still as I'm getting older, I find myself having less and less patience with games. My latest addition of a genre I don't have the patience/time for anymore is open world games...So I'll never finish Ghost of Thushima, God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn...an RPG in an open world I'll consider. Thank you for the video!!
wooo your opinion on Uncharted is mine as well. I played Tomb Raider reboot first and then tried to get into Uncharted and just found it, frustrating and unremarkable. i did actually finish the 2nd game and i guess by the end i had some affection for it but the journey was rocky and the first game is pants at this point lol. Personally never finished Chrono Trigger not because i didnt enjoy it but because i made the mistake of trying to fight the final boss in the wrong time period and i was just not strong enough yet. SOTN is so great, can't remember why i dropped that myself. But i feel you on it being easy to get lost, one of those games that definitely benefits from being played with a walkthrough.
I've only played Castlevania Symphony of the night once, but I think it would be great to try to finish that game. I also recommend most of the Castlevanias and a goo game to start is Castlevania 2 Simon's Quest - I amost finished it, it just needs guidance, since in the game sadly there aren't many clues given when they ar most needed. It was once of the first games I played on NES, and some of my favorite soundtrack! Nice RUclips channel shoutouts, I'll check 'em out! :D
The Forest. I just have no motivation to crawl around in gross caves when I could be in the gorgeous above ground setting. Hasn't stopped me playing for 300+ hours.
5 & 6 - Final Fantasy 6 & 7. I'm counting them together. I never finished either of them and not for a lack of trying. I probably started each of them on 4 or 5 different occasions. I love to the story in both of them, but the gameplay bores me to tears. 4. Horizon Zero Dawn - I wanted to like this, but I just couldn't care about Aloy or the people around her, other than maybe the old dude who raised her. I also didn't like the fact that I didn't have a lock-on system for melee fighting and could only swing around wildly. 3. Super Metroid - I got lost, stuck, and frustrated. Then I lost interest. This game is on my to-do list. 2. Dark Souls. I got to the bottom of Blight Town, on my way to fight Queelag, but got distracted by something and never got back to it. I moved on to Bloodborne though. That game is my jam. 1. Fallout 4. I put a couple hundred hours into the game and just stopped. I kept getting similar vibes to Skyrim, where the world is as vast as it is shallow, and it made me angry. I think Preston and the rest of the assholes in Sanctuary finally pushed me over the edge. None of what I did mattered. It was all pointless and stupid. After looking up the story beats I skipped on RUclips, I'm actually pretty glad I quit. Fallout 4's Boston can fuck right off. Bonus Entry - I couldn't finish Planescape Torment. That game is a painfully slow slog. Everyone is so tortured and I can only take so much self-flagellation when it's not my own.
Fallout 4 was disappointing. It seemed alright at first but Preston and the constant repetitive quests he had for you got so old. I did end up just making a beeline for the end after a while.
I love the idea of chillin in front of the camera and drinking, what I'm assuming is Sangria, and just casually talking away. If I had a channel I'd be doing thing with a pint on my hand. Coincidently I'm semi drunk watching this video. But in regards to your selection I've never finished Oblivion either. I got vampired and it took all the fun out of it for me. Never played Uncharted or Recored. The first two I have finished. Symphony of the Night is a 2D open world game. You'll know where to go by checking where you haven't explored on your map. Getting a hold of the Masamune or Muramasa also makes life easier. And your first and only mistake with Chronotrigger was playing it on a handheld. I don't know what Nintendo was thinking. It's a very popular game for a reason. And the further you get into it the better it gets. And yes, I do love the eye shadow. I can't quite think who you remind me of though. Maybe Lydia from the 90s Beetlejuice cartoon but not quite sure.
i tend to have a short attention span so..... i would say i don't finish about 90% or better of games i play. sometimes i will come back to play games later, but it is a regular thing for me to pick up a game for a few weeks at a time and then decide i want to play a different type of game. it all depends on my mood. sometimes i want to play survival games, sometimes rpgs, fighting with battle mechs, first person shooters, puzzles, and almost any other game genre i know of. my short attention span has caused me to sample a rather amazing variety of games. my Steam account has around 300 games in it and my wish list has another 300 that i sometimes browse when nothing in my library seems right. Oblivion is one of the few i have beaten and i really enjoyed all of the different plot lines including the main story. i liked Morrowind a lot but i never beat it partly because following and completing quests was not simple (although i kind of liked and respected how the game did ZERO hand holding), but mostly because of the endless swarms of cliff racers that brought travel down to a slow crawl. i wish they would do an updated version of Morrowind with better graphics, and a lot fewer cliff racers, but keep everything else exactly the same.
SOTN is one of those games where you either love it or you don't. A lot like Super Metroid. Myself personally I own both the Ps1 and Saturn versions. I'm on the love it side but it's not for everyone. Chrono Trigger is one I replayed earlier this year after almost 20 years. I still enjoyed it, but I realized it didn't grab me like it used to. It's not because it's old because I played Final Fantasy 3/6 not long ago and 100 percent into that same as when it was released but Chrono Trigger didn't do it for me the same way and I found myself getting lost and forgetting where I was and needed to go after not playing for a week at times so I completely understand your frustration with it.
Disagree, I think it is one of the most straightforward metroidvanias out there and with the level up system you can cheese the game easily by leveling up
And I played the game for the first time around 3 years ago, it is not "nostalgic memories". The only thing I can kinda agree is the inverted castle requirements, but they are nowhere near other games like Valkyrie Profile (not the same genre, but awful in this regard)
Great video. Symphony Of The Night is one I rushed through back when it was current. I basically took the shortest path to dracula just to beat it. Recently I did a full run completing it and it was cool to see the rest of the game. Same thing for me with handhelds. I barely use the switch portable mode. I would much rather see nintendo make the machine more powerful next time and drop the portability. The concept is great though and could see it being good for other uses. My real intro to JRPGs was Final Fantasy 3 and Dark Wizard for sega cd. Initially I thought they looked very boring but my friend was always playing them and I eventually I tried them out. Ended up loving those types of games. These days I cant get into games like Chrono Trigger since I have no patience for story shown through texts. I dont even like watching cutscenes most of the time and want to get straight to gameplay. I am still heavily into turn based strategy games like the older Fire Emblems or Military Madness. Those games cut out most of the story though.
@@Cannotbetamed1 Great strategy games with almost no story. Military Madness/Nectaris is another great turn based strategy series thats all action. Valkyria Chronicles have a unique battle sysem and skippable story scenes too. All great games if you dont have patience for alot of story.
I totally agree with you on getting lost in games. It’s the most infuriating and boring thing that generally stops my interest dead in its tracks.Crazy though that you say all of the things about uncharted 2 that I would say about tomb raider. Maybe it is because I just had to be there when the game was “fresh”, but playing it years later was the most boring and long trek ever. I love adventure platform games though, so I initially committed to platinuming the game and still haven’t finished.
I also gave up on oblivion. Spent over 200 hours doing side content, finally started the MQL got to the 3rd or so mission and burnt myself out 😔 never even played skyrim either...
Honestly it does. Uncharted has so much horrible combat you may as well just put it on the easiest mode to try and skip the pain of it. Plus Nathan isn't a likeable character so I don't even want him to reach his goals.
There's no need to feel guilt or remorse for not 'completing' story-driven games. Chances are, there's something in the story that just doesn't motivate the player to continue. I reflected on story-driven games that did get me to the conclusion and what I discovered was: sometimes the characters' back story was so compelling, I just had to know, "What happens next?". Sometimes I marveled at how the each of the characters changed; how the characters grew stronger against bigger threats. Sometimes, searching for secrets within the environment brought me to the end of the story. The story-driven games where I lost interest were the ones that didn't present any surprises, or interesting challenges or didn't change the characters in a way that allowed the player to progress. I don't mind restarting games, at all, especially if I missed an important detail b/c I enjoy the challenge but I don't play story-driven games that feel as if at work; I read a lot of gamer's comments that describe their gaming sessions as if they're clocking in at work, "I put in over X hours and..." Who counts their hours???
Pillars Of Eternity. I started a new campaign like 10 times, every time thinking "I swear, this is the one I finish. At least the main story" But every time I had a break from the game for a few days or weeks, I couldn't get back into it. To much stuff to remember. What I did and where I was going, where and who are the characters I've interacted with, the insane amount of character stats and spells, and so on. The game is so immersive, I love it. That's why I don't give up on it. Maybe its time for New Campaign Nr. 11. And will finish it this time, I swear.
I don't blame ya for not finishing C:SotN. I was aimless like that at times with it, but more so with Bloodstained: RotN. I never got why the spell commands in SotN, weren't learned from attaining some kind of scrolls. Instead of accidentally stumbling upon them from random button pressing.
I rage-quit the game "Yakuza: Dead Souls" very close to the end. I took on a side-quest in which you had to go down 30 subterranean levels, each level stuffed wall-to-wall with zombies without many health items, and you cannot save at any point. I got down to the 30th level after hours of grinding through this insanity and was one-hit killed by the final boss despite having full health. That royally pissed me off.
I really love Chrono Trigger and I've beaten it a few times. However, a game I almost beat but never finished was Ninja Gaiden 2: The Dark Sword of Chaos. I made it to the final boss and everything but it was so hard I had to quit. That was for NES.
I started but have yet to finish Uncharted 2 as well but having beat TLOU2 now I really wanna go back to some older Naughty Dog titles. As for getting lost on a game the worst offender that I never finished was Windwaker. I started it in college and would play a bit, get tied up with studying for a few days, come back and find I was in the middle of the ocean with no idea where to go! If that does get ported over to the Switch maybe I'll give it another shot though :p
Your Uncharted 2 description fits all Naughty Dog games, mediocre at best. And by the way I gave up at the exact same stealth level, difference is I love stealth in the games.
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@@jasonjoseph6497 Exactly! 😄 Pam is NO joke! As a matter of fact, doesn't the word savage basically mean "something or someone that.........'can not be tamed'?"😮 So as nice as Pam is, she's letting people know from the JUMP that she's a savage! I love it!😄
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@@donmiles4581 Tryhard.
I never finished Skyrim because I couldn't stop adding mods to it.
sort of same issue.
Start game>get bored>add mods>save game broken>Repeat
Why must you attack me with this comment?
@@ChoppaBoy lol, I'm more mad at myself for not playing further. There is so much to explore in Vanilla Skyrim, yet I got obsessed with playing as The Predator -- shooting off shoulder cannons at dragons and using Resident Evil's Spencer Mansion as a base.
I never finished Skyrim... ever.
Macho Dragons or Swearing Mudcrabs?
The older I’ve gotten, the harder it’s been for me to finish games. I have a pretty long list of games that I’d like to finish some day, and an even longer one of games that I’ll never go back to finish :-( I like trying a bunch of different games though, so I don’t mind too much. The ones that really grab me I do tend to finish.
Same here. I get a ton of games, I like trying them out, but rarely do I like one enough to actually finish it.
Yeah, as an adult, if you want to finish a game, you gotta sacrifice playing a large variety of games if you wanna beat one. Theres just less time. I do make that sacrifice though for some games. It took me 6 months to beat zelda twilight princess and several months to beat gta 4
As a child there were so many less games than now. Now the game market is saturated, so it is hard enough to choose a game to play, let alone finish it. Its much easier to concentrate on a game and finish it if there are not so many games overall
Yeah I look at the 1000+ games in my steam library and know i have "completed" less than 1% of them, but fun library
@davidbielsa5188 not to mention the size of games now compared to the 8-bit and 16-bit era.
Never finished Ninja Gaiden and I know that I don't need to explain the reason. 🌑
Are you avoiding possible copyright strikes, is that why you didn't add any gameplay footage? 🤔😥
It sucks having to tippy toe through creativity.
Part 1 was the hardest. Part 2 and 3 were easier.
@Ben DC4L I think hes talking about the xbox remake.
No, I just didn't add gameplay footage. It's generally music that causes copyright issues.
Alien: Isolation.
I'm too chicken to finish it.
I actually beat it last night for the first time. I think it's a freaking masterpiece as somebody who's a big fan of Alien and Aliens, and even if you're somebody who isn't a fan it's just an amazing game on its own.
I just had to take a really long time, because I only played it during daylight
I'm too chicken to start.
The first half of the game was the best part, anyways. The second half felt incredibly padded and I only pushed through so that I could say I finished it. If not for me being a huge Alien fan, I would have given up because it got frustratingly tedious in the second half. First half though? A-MAZING.
@Nonya Biznes If you_do_play, I highly recommend Nightmare difficulty setting. Trust me.
I was 16 when SotN came out, I bought it, got the bad ending, thought it was really short, and shelved it for 10 years, had no idea the inverted castle even existed until I learned about it on the internet
Also, to get the True Ending, You have to explore the areas in both the Normal castle and The Inverted Castle.
Chrono Trigger, Symphony of the Night, two of the best games of the 90's.
That it's like saying two of the best circle in hell :D
Played both amd liked both however liked more Xenogears than Crono Trigger. :D
@@GhostFS I liked Xenogears, but the use of the Gears was vague, and the biggest flaw was the second half was unfinished and just text walls.
@@hepwo91222 True. There was a lot of wasted potential. Could have bene much better.
Two of the best games of all time.
Ever, not just the 90s
Wha...?!?! My jaw literally fell to the floor when you mentioned Chrono Trigger. That is literally my favorite game of all-time and it's actually a relatively short game too (35-40 hours if you do everything). I honestly can't find a single flaw in CT but then again, it's a game I grew up with so the nostalgia is a powerful force too. And CV:SOTN?! That game is also one of the greatest game I have ever played. My roommate and I played that game to DEATH in college. The Castlevania series is amazing but CV:SOTN is easily the best one IMO. Thanks for sharing in any case!
I can understand getting lost in Symphony of the Night. It happened to me the first couple of times I played it, but in a way, I enjoyed getting lost. It felt like true exploration to me. I know you mentioned that you don't particularly like handhelds, but I would recommend Castlevania: Circle of the Moon and Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow on the GameBoy Advance. They're a bit more straightforward in their map layout so it's tougher to get lost. Excellent video, and keep up the great work!
Thanks
I'd also recommend playing them on PC with an emulator and controller (any kind). full screen is super pixelated, but I don't think that will bother a retro gamer.
This video was such a heart breaker for me. Other than #1, I adore every single one of those games. Chrono Trigger is my favorite JRPG, Symphony Of The Night is one of my all time favorites (also you don't like Castlevania 1? That's like the best NES game ever), Oblivion is one of my top 10 games (so much better than Skyrim), and yeah, Uncharted 2 as far as gameplay goes isn't complex, but I love its simplicity, and I think it has a much better story than Tomb Raider (which is the main reason I played it).
Great video, but dang... still, to each their own, of course.
I never finished any Elder Scrolls, Witcher or Persona game just because the amount of games is overwhelming and when I read that a game lasts more than 100 hours I prefer to play another thing instead
They can be a struggle to get through. Some games are just too long.
I'm pretty sure all hardcore video game collectors have an overwhelming majority of games in their collection that they never finished... And a handful they never even played (I'm guilty of this).
I guess here's my top 5 Nostalgic games I never finished:
1. Kingdom Hearts PS2: Replayed the game like 12 times in my childhood..... NEVER got past Tarzan's world.
2. Nightmare Before Christmas PS2:
Couldn't figure out where to find the Hanging men and was too scared to play it as a kid.
3. Tomb Raider: Last Revelation PS1: This was the first video game I've ever played and never got past the tutorial when I was a kid... As I kept getting Lara Croft wet in the water on purpose and my Mom immediately ejected the disc and snapped it right in front of me (I was 5 years old).
4. Walace & Grommit: Project Zoo PS2: I couldn't figure out how to get out of the dark lava mine.
5. Giant Battles: Dragons DS: .....This is a repetitive touch turn base RPG and a shitty one at that. You get to play as 4 different elemental Dragons.... They all play exactly the same and all 4 of these dragons have the exact same levels and missions. You need to beat the game 4 times as all 4 dragons to get the good ending....... I only beat the game once and got halfway through as a different dragon until I realize I was just replaying the same missions, but with a different colored Dragon.
Oh man. How do you not finish Kingdom Hearts?
Like Ernesto, Alien Isolation is the only game I can honestly say I have never finished. The game just got too stressful for me to continue. Which is actually a testament to how great the game actually is!
Still today uncharted 2 remains a great game. The level of detail naughty dog do put into their games is absolutely outstanding. I played all the tomb raider games, but with uncharted, there isn't 5 seconds without a new encounter, a new fighting sequence, a new puzzle, a new slice of the story... meanwhile, in tomb raider, we can spend a bunch of time walking in some empty area, for 5+ minutes.
In uncharted one, I still remember the day I've bought it, after the plane crash sequence, we landed on an green, beautiful, ultra detailed island , and the game played that cgi sequence. And suddenly, I touch my dualshock3 controller, and realize i was able to control Drake, with that insane 3d scene moving in real time. I was shocked!
The train sequence was just ONE of the hundreds of wow moments. The nepal village was much better.
The reason why the train sequence was so hyped, it was because that entire moving train, with all the stuff going on at the same time, was just revolutionary.
I dont understand why the stealth sequence in uncharted was so hard, and made you quit the game.
All you had to do, was bringing the difficulty down a notch , even for only 4 or 5 minutes, and it was fine. Or taking 2 minutes to watch a youtube tutorial...
I've done it with so many games, it shouldn't be a problem. The reality was, I think, you weren't really enjoying playing the game, and wanted to stop, and that stealth sequence just came at the right moment ;)
Also, the latest tomb raider games became super grindy... i remember spending dozens of hours, just to farm a special outfit.
Lol., regarding skyrim... I bought skyrim on the psn, for 50 bucks, because I wanted to spend tons of hours exploring the world (like mass effect, fallout4, etc), i downloaded it, installed it on my ps4 pro, all the graphics, textures, 3d objects, characters, everything looked so ugly, so blurred, so compressed, like a ps1 or n64 game, that it almost made my eyes bleed. No way I wound be playing it for over 300 hours... ! After playing around 3 hours, and having my eyes burn, I uninstalled that sucker, and will never go back.
Unless bethesda releases some kind of photorealistic textures pack and update for Skyrim ps5, my 50 bucks are definitely lost.
Cool video Pam, I also never finished Crono Trigger or Oblivion! 🙆♀️
Wow, your Chrono Trigger experience is exactly like mine. I'm still interested to this day.. I just don't finish it. Yet I kept buying different versions
I imagined a floating glass of wine, but then I saw you lift your hand and it wasn't there.
Thanks for this, Pam! Morrowind was a game i didn’t want to end-eye opening for me and often ran like ole the mine was just about to collapse on my first pc! The strain that old pentium 2 was under, floaty combat and loading screens couldn’t put me off the rich immersion that i had never experienced in console gaming. That said, i have started every Gothic game on pc-and all of the metro games on console game despite liking them never stuck with them...and yet even now, I will more probably start up yet another new final fantasy run before thinking of them!
I never tried the Gothic games, I’ve always been interested
The Uncharted games were ruined for me the same way. I had played the Tomb Raider reboot first and, after that, Uncharted just paled in comparison. Man, my backlog of unfinished games is ridiculous. It's part of the reason I've decided not to buy into the next console generation. Seriously, I've got enough unfinished games sitting around, that I'll never finish them all before I die. :P
That's crazy, I had the same experience. A few years ago a buddy of mine gave me all of his old Xbox 360 games so I dusted off my 360 and played the Tomb Raider reboot and loved it. While I was playing it, I picked up the Uncharted Trilogy for PS4 for like $5 USD. Some time shortly after finishing Tomb Raider I started on Uncharted, and I thought it was really weak. The shooting didn't feel good, the story was not good, and everything about it felt like a big step down. I gave up on it right after the big (and stupid) twist is revealed, which I had seen coming since the beginning of the game. I have a friend who insists that Uncharted 2 and 3 are much better, must-play games, and maybe I will try them someday, but I'm not all that interested after playing the first one.
that situation is so funny because it's like they've come full circle in ripping each other off.
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Uncharted 1 felt HEAVILY similar and inspired by Tomb Raider Legend, which I held against it, but ultimately gave it a chance and liked it. then I played some of 3 and liked it even more, but when I played the Tomb Raider reboot I was like "jesus christ this is good but they completely neutered everything that separated TR from Uncharted and it's just a shameless Uncharted clone now with none of the original heart and soul"
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I have never played a game that I agreed so much with the gameplay of but vehemently disagreed with its direction/story. stopped like 50-70% into it but that was more from completionphobia.
ReCore was such a great game that nobody played, but that final dungeon sure was.. something. I never did go back after they added the tank bot patch!
CrossCode is my current unfinished curse. Amazing game, but the puzzles are super intense and I eventually burned out about 2/3 of the way through. One of these days!
CrossCode was just added to GamePass, I was planning to try it out at some point.
One game I can think of not being able to finish is Star Wars Rogue Leader on the GameCube. It is such a fun and challenging game, and it's hard not to fall in love with flying X-Wings and ships around, imitating the scenes from the films. Yet, for some reason, I can't finish Mission 9. I look at walkthrus and YT videos, still can't do it. It is, indeed, a trap. One time, I'll finish it with any medal necessary, or maybe discover Rogue Squadron on N64 instead.
Shame about Chrono Trigger. It is one of the greatest games I've ever played. To each their own - someone I recommended the game to couldn't necessarily tolerate the graphics [hmm].
I remember Star Wars: Rogue Leader on Gamecube being VERY difficult. :) ...and the game looked so good, at the time.
The first one on N64 is waaaaay worse.
The Battle at Endor level in Rogue Leader was really impressive for its time.
It's so true about Uncharted. They haven't aged well.
Naughty Dog are as overrated as it gets. But Sony keep pushing their risible agenda with their fake overbearing scores.
Tomb Raider curb stomps Uncharted. In spite of what those frauds IGN and Eurogamer say.
Well said Pam.
I admit my eyebrows raised a bit at the first game you named... but it's totally understandable; that one was from the era where JRPG players were expected to purchase a strategy guide right along with the latest big game. Plus, that one had multiple endings, with small variations among the major plot points depending on your actions throughout the game.
Anyway, great list! It's really nice hearing you talk about your own experiences with games the way you did in the video. All your work is fantastic, of course; vids like this one just feel a little more candid. ^.^
Glad you enjoyed it
Fair. I have trouble finishing games for those reasons too. If you didn't get into the JRPG world early enough, I totally get why the older games would be harder to finish. There are many older RPGs that are rated to be really good that I just can't bring myself to go back to and finish and I happen to love JRPGs.
I just spotted Lands of Lore on your shelf, I haven't seen that game in ages.
It's such a good game, I was working on a review but got distracted by other things
Symphony of the Night took me years I had to go back several times to finish everything.
That reminds me, I need to finish Castlevania SOTN. Lol. Great video, by the way.
Thanks
Is that a boxed Leisure Suit Larry? Niiice.
I bought Castlevania: Symphony of the Night when it first came out and loved it. I still have the PS1 version, I have it on PS3 and even have it on my computer. I typically play it at least once a year and beat it. It is still one of my favorite games. I hope you go back and play it and enjoy it. Love your videos. Hope you have a good Thanksgiving.
My Thanksgiving was in October, but I will try to have a good Thursday.
In my case, some games were "reasonably finished" but not totally finished. A lot of MMOs have endless content, but as long as you finished the main quest, reached a high enough level, and gained enough achievements, you can reasonably say to yourself you finished it. Then there are games with no finish line at all, such as card games, sports games, pinball games, etc., which you can play forever. If you have put enough hours into such a game, you can say you have "finished" it.
I consider any game finished when I’ve completed the main gameplay loop. Complete a game of pinball or football or cards? Finished!
Ermahgerd Pam. I get how you might not be into Chrono Trigger but that is one of my all time faves. Especially the DS version with the Akira Toriyama animated cut scenes.
I got about 40-50% through Recore and just got sick of it; the world was too big and empty. It simply became more work than fun. Sad, since the controls were tight and I too loved the double jump and dash gameplay.
It was the exact same reasons for Chrono Trigger for me and Recore I think after around 2 years it had an update that I dont remember if it reduced the amount of cores and/or the final gate was removed. It was known that the game asked X amount of cores to go to the final stage and even more cores to enter the final floor, but it had a fix in some way that I mentioned, alongside a new world.
one weakness of Chrono Trigger (and i'm saying this as someone who first played it around the time it came out and loves it) is that there isn't a lot of conflict between the party members, so they can feel kind of flat.
I totally agree with you on Recore’s endgame, and even with the definitive edition, that’s still there. It would have been better to just gate the whole thing or just don’t do it at all. I had to grind a bit to get into the last area because I hadn’t been collecting them the whole time, and I saw a walkthrough that said I should get to a certain # for this exact reason. I can’t imagine how it would have felt to have that be a surprise midway through the final stretch.
I can’t say for sure if the end is worth it or not, maybe check a playthrough for the story aspects??
I agree, even one gate at the entrance to the dungeon would have been better than continuing to gate for each level.
Okami. Loved the first half of the game. SPOILERS - after defeating the story's villain, the game was like "Oh that's great. BTW, that was just the start of the story." But as far as I was concerned, the story as built up had resolved and it was already a good 15-20 hours in for me, which is a pretty good length for an action-adventure as far as I'm concerned. Apparently I only actually made it halfway through the game, but I just really didn't need the second half.
I’ve heard that Okami is excessively long and that’s sort of kept me away.
@@Cannotbetamed1 it's not extremely, but it's longer than it should have been.
Chrono Trigger was a game that I missed when it first came out, due to being Australia, but I have played and beaten it a few times. I agree with your assessment of the characters. When I replayed the game a few years ago for a review, I felt like the protagonists weren't as fleshed out as I'd have liked them to be. I put this down to the fact that you could put anyone in your party, and then the others stayed at the End of Time. As such, there wasn't any opportunity for strong character development as the party members with you were just given little variations on dialogue and never really interacted directly with each other. Hah.
I played Uncharted 2 for my channel as well, and I almost gave up because of a certain section right at the end which I couldn't seem to do before Nate automatically died. Eventually I did it, and produced the review.
There have been a lot of games that I haven't finished playing, though. It's one of the main reasons I decided to start reviewing games, as it motivates me to actually complete them. Among reviewers I watch, you and Lady Pelvic were a great influence on my decision to start reviewing games, myself.
I just checked out your channel. I liked your video on Downfall. I will watch more.
@@Cannotbetamed1 Thanks so much!
Chrono Trigger is my all time favorite game. Incredible story and music..wish I had held onto my SNES copy. I have the DS version now
Final Fantasy.....all of them. I've started multiple FF games, in particular 6 and 7 multiple times, but after so long just gave up.
I've beaten Chrono Trigger multiple times, I've beaten Earthbound multiple times. I've beaten other RPGs; I'm just not that into FF.
I always for some reason quit jrpgs at the last boss and had to finish them years later.
Me too regarding FF7. I assembled my whole team outside the last boss's realm, but I lost interest and never went in.
Same! Something about FF turns me off
I would recommend trying 9, it's one of the most underappreciated and probably the best of the series.
Love you pam... Not in a creepy stalker way... but more in a "You are just an awesome person" kinda way... Please keep posting. :)
I thought I would never hear anyone mention that game Recore. It is one of those games no one ever seems to talk about anywhere! I too am guilty of never finishing it.
Great video Pam!
Thanks
symphony!? oh - you def gotta revisit that.
Why did you get lost in Symphony of the Night? The game provides a fairly clear and concise map to guide you.
lol I was reading something else and I legit don't remember most of what you said, but then I heard "So the next game I haven"t finished is Oblivion" and it whipped me back to your video so fast it hurt XD
I get it though. What made it hard for me to finish it were the crashes. I love this game, but at some point playing was more annoying than anything else because I kept saving all the freaking time and reloading the game. Fortunately the community patches helped a lot.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, listening about all this games took me back :)
No problem :)
You should do another video for the hardest games ever played.... For me Ninja Gaiden 3 on nes takes the cake! i really don't know how I was able to finish that game back in the days...the satisfaction was just too much! The fact that there were only 5 continues available made it the biggest challenge ever for me...and guess, I didn't used a single one!
Most really hard games (like Ninja Gaiden) I just turn off after about 30 seconds.
@@Cannotbetamed1 whyyyy that's the real challenge!
Thanks for the mention. I only touched on Chrono Trigger a little bit. Castlevania SOTN is a game you have to dedicate yourself to. I'm big about games that lack direction. I got pretty far in SOTN and flipped the castle but I some how deleted the file. lol "Bullet spongy" that term cracked me up. One of the main reasons I'm not into shooters. I've beat all the Uncharted games except the one on the PS Vita. (the controls and many other things)
That's another genre I am not a big fan of is stealth games. I will probably never complete a Metal Solid game for that reason or Hitman or Deux title. Recore is one of those titles for me that I put in about 75% of the work. I would come home ready to knock out another section. I like the way you explained it. it was a bad decision made with not letting you progress without a certain amount of orbs. On top of things the game didn't make it easy to obtain those orbs. Much like you I tapped out.
I’ve never been a stealth fan, I was unable to get into Hitman as well. The one game I liked steak thing around was Wolfenstein The New Order.
@@Cannotbetamed1 I enjoyed and completed New Order along with New Blood.
I hear you on 'Chrono Trigger'. I played it as a child. Loved it. Finished it. Years later I've tried to go back and do it over all the way through, but make it a couple of hours in, stop, and can't bring myself to continue from a save I pick up at a later time. Wonderful game though which is why it's so sought after (read: high-priced) and beloved. *insert 'Ain't nobody got time for that' meme* I did finish it ages ago, however. My game that fits this video though is 'Tales of Phantasia'. Beautiful game that I would have loved as a child with all the free time in the world to do JRPGs, but a proper english version wasn't localized. There are many versions now and, like 'Chrono Trigger', I've started up several playthroughs of the PS1 (100% fan translation patch; which I hear is best version) version over the years, but just never *insert Shia LeBeauf 'Just do it' meme* completed it.
Not even gonna lie. I'm going to check out your 'Bloodstained' review now that I've heard you mention 'Symphony of the Night' here and see if you mention it. It would be tough to play one without mentioning the other.
The main question is did you finish that big glass of wine! Lol
What!? You never finished Chrono Trigger!!??.. such an awesome game too! It is long tho.. like most Squaresoft games of the time. It's actually one of my favorite of all time. I like your glass. Is that wine? ;) Castlevania Symphony of the Night famous lines, "you steal men's souls.. what is a man but a miserable pile of secrets.. have at you!" LOL
Oblivion?.. I haven't even finished Morrowind yet. Those Elder Scrolls games are REALLY long with all the sidequests and whatnot. I don't blame you for not finishing that. I've only played Oblivion for a few hours. A similar game was Dragon Age. Great game.. I tried playing through at least 3 times but WAY.. TOO.. LOONNNGGG LOL. Thanks for sharing. Always nice watching you. And yes, your eyeshadow looks cool B)
I played Chrono Trigger after Chrono Cross because a friend bought me the ps1 port. I thought the original superior to its sequel even though the sequel was on a current console when I played it.
While Chrono Trigger is probably the game I enjoyed the most of my life. I understand why people could not get into it now. Most of what made it good was because it was new, the characters, the combat right in place, combos, a more "action" in the turn base-ish combat, excellent music, side quest. A lot of things that nowadays have been improved or used a lot in recent games to the point is not special anymore.
Yet for 11 yo me, it was the best thing ever created.
Except Cross isn't a sequel.
I loved that Elder Scrolls story :) Totally rational. I would have never beaten Chrono Trigger without an FAQ walkthrough. The game I'm most embarrassed to have never finished is Super Mario World, followed by Metroid Prime
The other problem of only playing Chrono Trigger while travelling was that I couldn't look up walkthroughs while on plane.
Metroid Prime is wonderful, specially the last boss
I never beat Super Mario Odyssey nor Breath of the WIld Zelda yet, and I bought them both at launch. But just because I love them so much I am savoring them, setting them aside while I work on my massive backlog for extended periods, then jumping back in aghain and again. Itr is like, they are so good, but they never end. I am finally on Bowser level of mario and I still have 2 divine beasts to beat in Zelda. Love them both, easily 10/10 games.
I played Recore for the first time about three months ago, got all the way to the final boss and had to quit after going 20 for 20 with the game glitching during the fight to where none of the buttons on my controller worked. That was the glitchiest game I’ve ever played, and I’m sure it already had tons of patches before I picked it up.
Oh no, that sucks. I don’t remember many bugs when I played.
Drinking wine to prep for the comment section? Good choice. love the video. :)
I think Chrono Trigger, Castlevania SotN, and Uncharted 2 are all "products of their time", where newer games improved on their innovations.
I'm sorry a bug killed your run of Elder Scrolls. Sadly bugs are a bethesda legacy at this point. Mods have fixed what should never have been broken, but that responsibility should never be on the player.
I’m generally pretty tolerant of bugs and smaller glitches, but crashing just sucks.
Most of the Legacy of Kain games I never finished though I love the story in them.
Pam, you will really miss something if you never finish Crono Trigger. To me, it is the best JRPG i have ever played. I loved the characters and story so much! :)
The beginning is good but it falls apart in the middle.
@@winterburden are you kidding it gets better and better the entire freaking game
@@StewNWT No. There are reasons why Pam never finished it.
I had the same experience as you with Chrono Trigger, lol. If I had played it as a kid, probably would've loved it. As an adult, it's like, been there done that. I did finish it, but found that I had to grind a lot to be able to beat the final boss, which was annoying.
I have the same frustration with progression halt in games. I'll let a game throw me curves all day,but I gotta be able to keep going forward. I need that sense of momentum.
Or at least to not go backwards
I do like your eyeshadow look. Games I've never finished: Resident Evil 8 (I got to the very last part but quit because I felt it had become a whole another game and made absolutely no sense and did not respect the player at all), Alien ... Isolation? or something (the robot section got me so frustrated I just quit). I had never finished Tomb Raider 3 until the remasters was released, before I could not see well enough on the screen because of the dark PS1 version! :D
Hi pretty Pam!! How are you? Love your makeup and principally your beautiful smile ;-)
About your experience with CastleVania: Symphony of the Night, I got a similar experience with CastleVania II: Simon's Quest. The fact that you get lost and, at the same time, must find the way to get where you want (in your case the Save Points, in my case the towns and the Save Points on them) turns out so frustrating that you don't want to turn back to the game anymore.
Since the first times I played it and get lost in the game, didn't touch it again in several years until I got a magazine where there was a quick guide for finishing it. Then I discovered that with some clues of where to go, the challenge turns out more fair and more enjoyable. But pitifully even when I finished it, lost part of the feeling of doing it because the game had not the proper tools for being enjoyable by itself. Nowadays, still play CastleVania 1, 3 and 4, but 2 almost never, even when I could try to get the best endings. It's because the bad experience I think.
Simons Quest does sound a bit confusing
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Yes, indeed it is when you play it the first times. If you wish to try it, I recommend you to get the instruction booklet and the map(s) that came with the game, or a magazine with a guide as I did, for enjoy it from the very beginning.
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8:17 Thank you !! Been preaching this since forever. 😁 The newer Tomb Raider Games are the perfect evolution of the franchise.
Ah, Oblivion. That was one of my faves from the 360 generation. Great world to explore and fun customizable combat. Also one of the best DLCs I have ever played in The Shivering Isles. You can get the Game of the Year edition with all DLC (except horse armor, lolz) on Xbox for dirt cheap. Plus it now has FPS boost and looks and plays fantastic on Xbox One or Series X. The Uncharteds, I think you hit the nail on the head. Pretty much had to be there. I loved 1 and 2 when they were new, never played 3 new, and fell off 3 pretty quick when I finally tried it in the Nathan Drake Collection years later. Might have to try Recore...
NICE Planescape Torment boxed. You can borrow my SOTN, try again! It’s a masterpiece! Bad voice acting included XD
I have my own copy now, just still haven't finished it.
My entire STEAM library.
I finished the first 3 and loved them at the time. Also Castlevania is my fav series ever! Still as I'm getting older, I find myself having less and less patience with games. My latest addition of a genre I don't have the patience/time for anymore is open world games...So I'll never finish Ghost of Thushima, God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn...an RPG in an open world I'll consider. Thank you for the video!!
wooo your opinion on Uncharted is mine as well. I played Tomb Raider reboot first and then tried to get into Uncharted and just found it, frustrating and unremarkable. i did actually finish the 2nd game and i guess by the end i had some affection for it but the journey was rocky and the first game is pants at this point lol. Personally never finished Chrono Trigger not because i didnt enjoy it but because i made the mistake of trying to fight the final boss in the wrong time period and i was just not strong enough yet. SOTN is so great, can't remember why i dropped that myself. But i feel you on it being easy to get lost, one of those games that definitely benefits from being played with a walkthrough.
I also tried to fight the final boss before I should have but didn’t know where else to go first.
That eyeshadow is pretty hypnotic...
The only way I played Chrono Trigger was multi-player at a friend's house. Finished it that way, eventually I'll finish it on my own.
I've just noticed that Leisure Suit Larry box on the background, what are your opinions on those games?
She mentions in one of the last 2019 videos ;)
I've only played Castlevania Symphony of the night once, but I think it would be great to try to finish that game. I also recommend most of the Castlevanias and a goo game to start is Castlevania 2 Simon's Quest - I amost finished it, it just needs guidance, since in the game sadly there aren't many clues given when they ar most needed. It was once of the first games I played on NES, and some of my favorite soundtrack! Nice RUclips channel shoutouts, I'll check 'em out! :D
The Forest. I just have no motivation to crawl around in gross caves when I could be in the gorgeous above ground setting. Hasn't stopped me playing for 300+ hours.
5 & 6 - Final Fantasy 6 & 7. I'm counting them together. I never finished either of them and not for a lack of trying. I probably started each of them on 4 or 5 different occasions. I love to the story in both of them, but the gameplay bores me to tears.
4. Horizon Zero Dawn - I wanted to like this, but I just couldn't care about Aloy or the people around her, other than maybe the old dude who raised her. I also didn't like the fact that I didn't have a lock-on system for melee fighting and could only swing around wildly.
3. Super Metroid - I got lost, stuck, and frustrated. Then I lost interest. This game is on my to-do list.
2. Dark Souls. I got to the bottom of Blight Town, on my way to fight Queelag, but got distracted by something and never got back to it. I moved on to Bloodborne though. That game is my jam.
1. Fallout 4. I put a couple hundred hours into the game and just stopped. I kept getting similar vibes to Skyrim, where the world is as vast as it is shallow, and it made me angry. I think Preston and the rest of the assholes in Sanctuary finally pushed me over the edge. None of what I did mattered. It was all pointless and stupid. After looking up the story beats I skipped on RUclips, I'm actually pretty glad I quit. Fallout 4's Boston can fuck right off.
Bonus Entry - I couldn't finish Planescape Torment. That game is a painfully slow slog. Everyone is so tortured and I can only take so much self-flagellation when it's not my own.
Fallout 4 was disappointing. It seemed alright at first but Preston and the constant repetitive quests he had for you got so old. I did end up just making a beeline for the end after a while.
It's so difficult for me to really get into a game these days. My attention span is just extremely picky with what games I seriously want to play.
I love the idea of chillin in front of the camera and drinking, what I'm assuming is Sangria, and just casually talking away. If I had a channel I'd be doing thing with a pint on my hand. Coincidently I'm semi drunk watching this video.
But in regards to your selection I've never finished Oblivion either. I got vampired and it took all the fun out of it for me.
Never played Uncharted or Recored.
The first two I have finished. Symphony of the Night is a 2D open world game. You'll know where to go by checking where you haven't explored on your map. Getting a hold of the Masamune or Muramasa also makes life easier.
And your first and only mistake with Chronotrigger was playing it on a handheld. I don't know what Nintendo was thinking. It's a very popular game for a reason. And the further you get into it the better it gets.
And yes, I do love the eye shadow. I can't quite think who you remind me of though. Maybe Lydia from the 90s Beetlejuice cartoon but not quite sure.
I always think a drink while filming is a good idea but then I usually just hold it and forget to drink it.
There's no denying it though. It still looks classy.
i tend to have a short attention span so..... i would say i don't finish about 90% or better of games i play. sometimes i will come back to play games later, but it is a regular thing for me to pick up a game for a few weeks at a time and then decide i want to play a different type of game. it all depends on my mood. sometimes i want to play survival games, sometimes rpgs, fighting with battle mechs, first person shooters, puzzles, and almost any other game genre i know of. my short attention span has caused me to sample a rather amazing variety of games. my Steam account has around 300 games in it and my wish list has another 300 that i sometimes browse when nothing in my library seems right.
Oblivion is one of the few i have beaten and i really enjoyed all of the different plot lines including the main story. i liked Morrowind a lot but i never beat it partly because following and completing quests was not simple (although i kind of liked and respected how the game did ZERO hand holding), but mostly because of the endless swarms of cliff racers that brought travel down to a slow crawl. i wish they would do an updated version of Morrowind with better graphics, and a lot fewer cliff racers, but keep everything else exactly the same.
That Oblivion bug was on PS as well. I think that was the point when I quit playing, too.
Just Subbed, Great Channel CBT...I like your take on things!
Hey thanks, and welcome!
SOTN is one of those games where you either love it or you don't. A lot like Super Metroid. Myself personally I own both the Ps1 and Saturn versions. I'm on the love it side but it's not for everyone. Chrono Trigger is one I replayed earlier this year after almost 20 years. I still enjoyed it, but I realized it didn't grab me like it used to. It's not because it's old because I played Final Fantasy 3/6 not long ago and 100 percent into that same as when it was released but Chrono Trigger didn't do it for me the same way and I found myself getting lost and forgetting where I was and needed to go after not playing for a week at times so I completely understand your frustration with it.
Road Rash (PS1), it just becomes completely impossible after a certain point but the replay value is great somehow.
It's not that hard I've beaten it on ps1
@@paleocat6354 You're a better Rasher than I, it IS that hard. After level 3
Symphony of the Night is one of those games where you HAVE to consult a walkthough just to figure out where to go and what to do, to finish the game.
Disagree, I think it is one of the most straightforward metroidvanias out there and with the level up system you can cheese the game easily by leveling up
And I played the game for the first time around 3 years ago, it is not "nostalgic memories". The only thing I can kinda agree is the inverted castle requirements, but they are nowhere near other games like Valkyrie Profile (not the same genre, but awful in this regard)
Great video. Symphony Of The Night is one I rushed through back when it was current. I basically took the shortest path to dracula just to beat it. Recently I did a full run completing it and it was cool to see the rest of the game.
Same thing for me with handhelds. I barely use the switch portable mode. I would much rather see nintendo make the machine more powerful next time and drop the portability. The concept is great though and could see it being good for other uses. My real intro to JRPGs was Final Fantasy 3 and Dark Wizard for sega cd. Initially I thought they looked very boring but my friend was always playing them and I eventually I tried them out. Ended up loving those types of games. These days I cant get into games like Chrono Trigger since I have no patience for story shown through texts. I dont even like watching cutscenes most of the time and want to get straight to gameplay. I am still heavily into turn based strategy games like the older Fire Emblems or Military Madness. Those games cut out most of the story though.
I’d really like to play the older Fire Emblems.
@@Cannotbetamed1 Great strategy games with almost no story. Military Madness/Nectaris is another great turn based strategy series thats all action. Valkyria Chronicles have a unique battle sysem and skippable story scenes too. All great games if you dont have patience for alot of story.
I put 200 hours into Oblivion and I never finished it.
I totally agree with you on getting lost in games. It’s the most infuriating and boring thing that generally stops my interest dead in its tracks.Crazy though that you say all of the things about uncharted 2 that I would say about tomb raider. Maybe it is because I just had to be there when the game was “fresh”, but playing it years later was the most boring and long trek ever. I love adventure platform games though, so I initially committed to platinuming the game and still haven’t finished.
I was on the final boss of Shadow of the Colossus but was selling my PS3 to my cousin so I never finished it. 😥
Oh no :(
@@Cannotbetamed1 It's okay, I'm done crying.
I also gave up on oblivion. Spent over 200 hours doing side content, finally started the MQL got to the 3rd or so mission and burnt myself out 😔 never even played skyrim either...
"Tomb Raider does everything Uncharted 2 does, but just it better."
Those be fightn words.
Play the 2013 one, just to see lol
@@hitbox524 Ha, I actually really enjoyed the 2013 one. I just think some people will be upset with the statement (not me).
KlassicKent yeah, it’s cool that the new Lara is smoking AND doesn’t look like a sex doll.
@@hitbox524 Hah, yeah, it's nice they made her more like a real person.
Honestly it does. Uncharted has so much horrible combat you may as well just put it on the easiest mode to try and skip the pain of it. Plus Nathan isn't a likeable character so I don't even want him to reach his goals.
I never finished Arkham Knight, because I found out Batman dies unless you solve 100% of everything including the riddler stuff.
100% agree on ReCore. That's the exact spot where i stopped too.
It's such a bad design decision they made there. I would have really liked the game if it hadn't done that.
There's no need to feel guilt or remorse for not 'completing' story-driven games. Chances are, there's something in the story that just doesn't motivate the player to continue. I reflected on story-driven games that did get me to the conclusion and what I discovered was: sometimes the characters' back story was so compelling, I just had to know, "What happens next?". Sometimes I marveled at how the each of the characters changed; how the characters grew stronger against bigger threats. Sometimes, searching for secrets within the environment brought me to the end of the story. The story-driven games where I lost interest were the ones that didn't present any surprises, or interesting challenges or didn't change the characters in a way that allowed the player to progress. I don't mind restarting games, at all, especially if I missed an important detail b/c I enjoy the challenge but I don't play story-driven games that feel as if at work; I read a lot of gamer's comments that describe their gaming sessions as if they're clocking in at work, "I put in over X hours and..." Who counts their hours???
I don’t feel guilt or remorse.
@@Cannotbetamed1 As you should not. :)
Cosmetic DLC? That is such a brilliant name for that kind of channel 🙂.
Thanks!
Same for me Castlevania Symphony of Night I didn't finish it either...Loved and still love Castlevania IV, great sound track too
Pillars Of Eternity. I started a new campaign like 10 times, every time thinking "I swear, this is the one I finish. At least the main story" But every time I had a break from the game for a few days or weeks, I couldn't get back into it. To much stuff to remember. What I did and where I was going, where and who are the characters I've interacted with, the insane amount of character stats and spells, and so on. The game is so immersive, I love it. That's why I don't give up on it. Maybe its time for New Campaign Nr. 11. And will finish it this time, I swear.
There is a lot going on in that game. I really liked it when I first played it, but it was definitely surpassed by its sequel.
I felt the same way about Divinity OS 2.
I don't blame ya for not finishing C:SotN. I was aimless like that at times with it, but more so with Bloodstained: RotN. I never got why the spell commands in SotN, weren't learned from attaining some kind of scrolls. Instead of accidentally stumbling upon them from random button pressing.
I don’t like when abilities are hidden from players
I rage-quit the game "Yakuza: Dead Souls" very close to the end. I took on a side-quest in which you had to go down 30 subterranean levels, each level stuffed wall-to-wall with zombies without many health items, and you cannot save at any point. I got down to the 30th level after hours of grinding through this insanity and was one-hit killed by the final boss despite having full health. That royally pissed me off.
Oh, yuck
Never finished Beyond good and evil, nor Zelda Ocarina of Time.
I really love Chrono Trigger and I've beaten it a few times. However, a game I almost beat but never finished was Ninja Gaiden 2: The Dark Sword of Chaos. I made it to the final boss and everything but it was so hard I had to quit. That was for NES.
Still trying to get to the other side of the map in Daggerfall.
I started but have yet to finish Uncharted 2 as well but having beat TLOU2 now I really wanna go back to some older Naughty Dog titles. As for getting lost on a game the worst offender that I never finished was Windwaker. I started it in college and would play a bit, get tied up with studying for a few days, come back and find I was in the middle of the ocean with no idea where to go! If that does get ported over to the Switch maybe I'll give it another shot though :p
Starting up and being in the middle of the ocean sounds incredibly disorienting.
Cannot be Tamed Oh yeah, it’s bad enough not remembering where to go on land but an endless ocean? Yikes 😂
Your Uncharted 2 description fits all Naughty Dog games, mediocre at best. And by the way I gave up at the exact same stealth level, difference is I love stealth in the games.