These "Games Not Beaten" threads make me feel way better about not finishing some of the best games I've ever played. I'm pretty shocked to read some of the games others never finished, but then I think about my own list and instantly want to go back and try to finish them, but I just know that I'll either get bored or too distracted with life.
Probably my biggest disapointments with not finishing a game or series is the unfortunate mistake I made with .hack//Outbreak on PS2. I had just gotten the last part of that disc, and was thrilled to finally get to pop in my fresh copy of 'Quarantine' I managed to grab out of Wal-Mart's bargin bin (Super lucky find and only $15). I had just started living with my mother, and had a little brother who liked playing video games as well. I always kept my games out of reach, and put the memory card in the current game I was playing... except for this one time. I had just gotten home from school when I heard somebody in my room playing on my PS2. Why he decided to do this, I'll never know, because he had his own PS2 and hated the games I played. Confusion aside, I walked into the room to see him (trying) to play .hack//. After kicking him out of my room I frantically rebooted and started digging though my memory card looking for my saved games.
There was one save left... ONE out of all the games I had played over the past year. It was from the first part of the series, .hack//Infection. I had invested way too much time in exploring everything I could in that game just to start over like that.
I stll have all those games, and have been meaning to go back and play them again, now that I'm done sulking over the lost data. It only took, what, nearly ten years?
Aside from my tragic story, there are still a slew of other games I started, loved, but never finsihed.
Earthbound/Mother 2 - I've restarted this series a countless number of times. Never got passed the last stage "Cave of the Past" before the last boss battle. Even had the strategy guide.
Final Fantasy Whatever - I think I've played just about every game in the series. I've only beaten Tactics and Final Fantasy X-2 (I'm one of the few that actually liked that game).
Pokemon - "Beat" all of them up to Ruby. "Caught'em all" and finished the last fight of each game up until that point. Lost my game carts in Hurricane Katrina, and never picked up another.
Super Godzilla - After years of getting stuck at Biolante as a kid, I picked up the game again in my teens and played to the end. Bagan is impossible to defeat...