We all do it.
Buy a game, excited to see what it has to offer. Bury ourselves in the first hours, having a great time, admiring the story, the new and interesting mechanics, or sometimes even just the nostalgic place in our brains that a game managed to tweak.
Then you have to go back to work on Monday. Your wife (or girlfriend, or boyfriend, or hell, Mom) needs you to head out somewhere on Tuesday night, then there's a basketball game on Wednesday. Friday, you're heading to a movie, or to the bar. Saturday, you head out of town to go golfing or get caught up in cleaning or yardwork.
Or, most insidiously, that new game you've been excited for since three E3s ago finally hits shelves, and that last big thing falls by the wayside.
This is a role call for all of the neglected software sitting around my game shelves right now, or piled next to the TV, deliberately placed in my line of sight to make me feel sorry for it and pop it back in.
I'll finish all of these. Someday.
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[COMPLETED 6/12: Holy shit what an ending. Holy. Shit.] Easy. I'm 20 minutes from the end. Should be the first one off this list. ... Unless I crack open my Rockstar Pass-provided DLC. Which I probably will.
[COMPLETED 7/03: Ohgodtheeyeballthing.] Fantastic game. Currently on chapter 8. Progress swallowed by jumping back into borrowed copy of Red Dead I needed to burn through after seeing it collect dust for 6 months.
[COMPLETED 9/18: FINALLY. MZ was OK, but my weariness for Fallout gameplay doesn't bode well for my ever even starting New Vegas.] Technically finished the main campaign, but the GOTY edition - and my decision to play them in reverse order of quality ("worst" to first) means that I've still got Point Lookout and Mothership Zeta to finish.
[COMPLETED 9/17: Quite a good little game. Fun mechanics, ridiculous and kind of endearing characters.] Bought used in April to get in on a coupon that was about to expire ($30 total). Turned it on to see if the idiot who sold it back with the online pass certificate in the box had activated it or not. He had. Did not actually start the game. Wife has played about 2/3 of the campaign, loves it, tells me I really need to play it. "It's on the list..."
Straight up had so much fun with this game - for the two weeks after I bought it late February of last year. Grown-up Zelda set in the apocalypse?!? That opening level busting through screaming humans and upending buildings!?! Amazing! I stopped after the first dungeon.
Like Darksiders, a game I was hugely looking forward to and enjoyed greatly. Then I got stuck on the fire tower. No progress since July of last year.
Currently about 1/3 of the way through, playing co-op with the missus.
A 'bargain' at $40 in post-Christmas sales.
It's now June September, the game costs $40 $30 regular, and my copy is still in the plastic.
Bought used for $10. Last summer. Disc has yet to visit the inside of my PS3.
Another used purchase made to capitalize on bargains. Still sealed with Gamestop's big, clear, 'remove this and we know you've played it' sticker.