Games you quit right at the end

[baconcow]

Two games I stopped playing shortly before the end. I believe both were due to University or some other distraction at the time.

Assassin's Creed II
Red Dead Redemption


I tried to go back into them much later but had forgotten some of the plot and didn't feel like restarting.

 

[Astral]

FFIV on GBA. I couldn't beat the final boss and just watched the ending on YouTube.

 

[serdarkny]

Doom Eternal, because I refuse to beat it on anything other than Ultra Nightmare. Someday I'll go back to it and beat it.

 

[Deleted member 48813]

I quit Majora's Mask close to the end twice and never actually finished it. First time was cause I was playing the original N64 one after OoT3D had came out and thought "hmm, they'll 100% announce a remake so I think I'll wait and play that instead". Then the remake came out and realized I prefer the original version better, so I stopped playing after the third dungeon lol.

 

[Gwarm]

I quit Final Fantasy 8 on the final dungeon on my first playthrough. I just really wasn't feeling the game at all, then the final dungeon locks out all of your abilities and it was annoying to me. I saw a friend beat the final boss and watched the ending, and just felt like I had no reason to play it anymore.

Turns out the last dungeon wasn't so bad and FF8 was a pretty good game. Some of us were too harsh on it back when it came out.

 

[Temascos]

Tomb Raider Underworld - The last level wouldn't even load properly for me, it would always freeze (PS3). I just watched the cutscenes afterwards but it's a shame, I rather enjoyed the game up to that point.

Persona 3 FES - At about the halfway point a cutscene would always freeze. I would replay it on a newer system but I want FES and it does not seem to be on any other platform.

 

[Slushimi]

SMT IV. Accidentally got the neutral route and was glad I did since it's considered the canon route.. Until I realized finishing the neutral route meant doing a shit ton of obscure side quests. Didn't bother to finish it

 

[Diarrhea Day-Lewis]

For me just two:

skyward sword: could not get the motion controls to work properly in the final battle with having to raise it straight up to the sky, after hours of the controls not being responsive I just watched the ending on YT.

Kingdom Hearts: last boss has like 6 super hard stages to it and I got maybe to the 4th stage after hours of failing. If you die once you repeat the whole battle, no matter what stage you were on. Even in HD version they didn't fix this. Enjoyed the game for what it was but gave up on this.

 

[megalowho]

Fallout 4. Wasn't into the endgame paths for each faction and also didn't want to lock myself out of others by committing. I know I'm right there if I wanted to see credits but I think I'm good.

 

[Sagroth]

Octopath Traveler. I ain't doing that gauntlet only to get wiped out by that final boss again simply because I didn't make my characters exactly how the boss requires them.

 

[super-famicom]

Grandia 2 for me. Made it to the very final dungeon but stopped for some reason.

Also, this thread is very similar:

Get To The End Game and Stop Because it's So good?

Was going back through a few games I left off at the end game, because I was enjoying them so much, but then they hit the backlog. This happen to any of you? Right now I'm at the end bosses of DQ11S and Links Awakening and Astral Chain. I just don't want them to end, but I put them off and...

www.resetera.com

 

[Kiro]

Final Fantasy 13. Got to the open world section and just gave up.

 

[Furisu]

I never finished Warioland: Shake It! because I was not able to beat the final boss. That boss was far more difficult than anything that had come before it. It has been four years since then and I doubt that I will plug in my Wii U again to finish what I started. Oh well.

 

[Metro Cow]

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze

The boss fights are too long and drawn out with no checkpoints and I just straight up didn't bother to beat the final boss.

 

[joefro]

Yoshi's Island
Brutal Legend
Avengers

Yoshi's Island and Brutal Legend...I couldn't beat the final encounters/bosses. Avenger's...I just got bored of it with one mission left.

 

[Opposable]

Got mid-way into the final dungeon of Ninokuni and realised I had no idea how combat in the game worked

 

[SpookySpice]

Played through BOTW twice and both times I stopped after getting all 4 beasts. All that's left is the final boss but I never want to leave things unfinished and there always seems to be a huge list of things to do in that game and then I eventually fall off.

I don't play Zelda for the story so I don't really care how it ends but I guess I should just do it for the sequel.

 

[Zera Bloodwinter]

Sekiro. Isshin was DESTROYING me. Took a year off the game then came back and beat him to finish the game.

 

[Putosaure]

Stopped playing Gravity Rush on Vita just before the final mission, because I didn't want it to end.

Finished it later on PS4, terrible ending. :D

 

[totowhoa]

Skyward Sword. Got to the last boss and thought "well this is stupid and not fun at all" and just never played it again

 

[DNAbro]

Sekiro lol

Got to the boss and said "i'm good"

 

[Opposable]

I also 'beat' DQ11 and then found there's another like 20 hours of post game and plot

 

[lt519]

Dragon Age: Origins, I got the final boss to like a sliver of health and died after a very long fight. Knew I could do it if I tried again, but never bothered because the fight was so annoying with the trebuchets.

 

[yogurt]

Super Meat Boy ... I got to the final boss (or one of the final bosses) and there was a stupidly long stretch of the fight with no checkpoint. After dying in later sections and having to re-do earlier stuff several times I quit, uninstalled, and have never played again.

I was tired of the game before that and was just trying to push through to some sort of ending, but eh. Not worth it if I'm not having fun.

 

[Boldy J. Washington]

I stopped playing GTAIV near the end of Ballad of Gay Tony because at that point I just got sick of the characters and Dan Houser's writing. Really wish I'd skipped TLAD, which was even worse.

 

[plagiarize]

The original God of War. Fuck the lack of checkpoints on that multipart final boss. I just watched the ending on Youtube or whatever.

 

[Not Spaceghost]

Star Wars Squadrons.
I had like 2 missions left in the campaign but every time i'd boot up to play it someone always wanted to play MP so I just never finished the campaign and then we stopped playing the game all together lmao.

 

[MrWindUpBird]

Sonic Unleashed. Eggmanland on PS3 was terrible and I wasn't going to restart that level, fuck it.

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It's terrible on the PS2 as well! I remember being on a big Sonic kick a few years back and was going through the games I missed and while I think the day sections in Unleashed are really good even on the PS2, Eggman Land was frustrating beyond compare.

 

[Ariesfirebomb]

Persona 5. I just got bored and fatigued by the time I got Haru and tried going for two more dungeons before quitting.

 

[Praetorpwj]

Legend of Grimrock 2 the true ending boss final form. Just absurd on any difficulty setting.

 

[AstronaughtE]

Final Fantasy numbers 7,8,10,13 are the ones that spring to mind.

Fallout 4 more recently. I think I've teased every side as long as I can, but I can't commit to choosing a side.

 

[Shard Shinjuku]

Prince of Persia: Sands of Time comes vividly to mind because taking away the Dagger of Time while making sense thematically introduced the very tedium the gameplay gimmick sought to eliminate, to the point where I just up and quit.

 

[BusterSword]

I quit FFXIII at least 3 times once you get to the open world part before the end.

 

[Transistor]

The only one I can think of is Star Ocean 2. When I was younger, I managed to get to the final boss but could never beat them, so I put the game down for a long time. One day my buddy accidentally overwrote my save when he forgot to swap my memory card for his. About a year after that I started the game from scratch and finished it.

 

[El Buga]

In Darksiders 2 I always stopped right at the final boss door. I don't know why, life happened and I just stopped playing, then lost the will to continue. This happened two times already

 

[Milennia]

Only game was FF 15 at launch, right at that awful last chapter I dropped it.
I know it's been updated now but fuck it was so bad.

 

[LordofPwn]

God of War 3. I just couldn't kill Zeus and at this point i'd basically have to start over cause that mechanical skill is long gone.

 

[Jmdajr]

Control was making me angry. Needed a break.
Pretty sure I have all powers and weapons.

 

[vermadas]

Final Fantasy VII - I got to Sephiroth but had a completionist itch to get the Knights of the Round summon. I never did get that gold chocobo...
Hollow Knight (true ending) - As much as I adored the game, it was a long journey to finally face off against The Radiance. I didn't have the endurance left to get through that battle.
Sekiro - I enjoyed Sekiro but the rhythm-game-like rock-paper-scissors style encounter design never resonated with me that much. Having to clear the first phase of the final boss every single attempt burned me out.

 

[Alecs27]

Sekiro.

Final boss is bullshit

 

[jelly]

That 2D Ubisoft game were you switch colours between red and blue. I've beaten many hard games in my time but this just pissed me off, wasn't a good game but I usually finish.

 

[MegaSackman]

Xenosaga Ep2, last boss was mathematically impossible for my level so I decided to leave it and watch the ending on YouTube.

Besides, I didn't like the game that much.

 

[HeartofWinds]

Dragon Quest IX, twice within the span of 6 years. Don't know what it is about that endgame, but I just fell off the game right at the end for some reason...

 

[pvin626]

Right at the end??
Sekiro...got one ending, but I couldn't beat Isshin.

 

[Elfgore]

Far Cry: Primal. I literally made it to like the second to last level then just stopped playing. I switched to a PS4 pro and didn't bother moving my hard drive data over, so the data got wiped.

Went back and was pretty salty when I learned I was like an hour away from beating it originally.

 

[touchfuzzy]

Just recently Persona 5 and FFVII Remake. Persona 5 I was in the actual last dungeon and looked up that I had some long ass boss gauntlet and battle against god to do and just lost the will to do it. Game should've ended when you beat the guy on the boat.

FFVII Remake I was in the last group of final bosses, a solo one where you had just Aerith and Barrett fighting some robot thing. I got about halfway through and it started using some shields or something and I could not for the life of me figure out how to do any more damage to it. Similar to Persona 5, it should've ended on an earlier boss fight (the cool Jenova Dream one) but just kept going and going...

 

[Kaydigi]

I quit Doom 2016 right as I was about to walk into Hell proper. I was wavering on it for a few hours before that moment but just conveniently reached the end of my tether as soon as Hell was about to begin. It's just a very shallow game.

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Almost did the same thing last week, I pushed through it though and finished it.

The maps are designed really well but the combat didn't do it for me.

 

[Atolm]

Control was making me angry. Needed a break.

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A Quantum Break?

 

[snakey2389]

I got to the end of Fallout 4 a few years ago, said I was gonna beat it the next day and I have never gone back to finish the last part of the game lol. I have no desire to either.

 

[SwampBastard]

Not sure how close I am to the actual end of the game, but I got worked by the Khan Maykr in Doom Eternal enough times that I am not planning on going back to it. I was kinda slogging through the game just to finish it prior to that point anyway, so no big loss.