*use ninjapass for games *
i work in a specil way , i try games all the time .
if i found one i like i finish it , if im not in the mood to play it i save it up in the list and maybe somtime finish it .
since i can put 70 % of my time to my precious games i dont see leaving games and playing them laters as a problem .

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Zelda is the best one I can remember.

I'm about to walk into that temple for the last time to take on the final boss. Such a strange spot to suddenly be over a game.

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FFIII,
i really want to finish it, find out the rest of the story,
but it just feels so poorly executed, it bugs me
(even if it IS very old on the inside haha)

and SOHELPMEGOD i WILL finish shiren dammit! XD
i've put too much blood sweat and tears into that game to never finally see the golden condor lol!!

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I stopped playing Zelda a while ago, and i may just restart it sometime soon instead of remembering where i was. I'm also not playing Insecticide right now, but i should.

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This is my situation: http://backloggery.com/main.php?user=sabrecat

But starting this thing up has inspired me to start working on the backlog. New personal rule: only buy one new game for every two I finish!

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Phoenix Wright (blasphemy, I know). I got through the our main cases, but was pretty sick of all the reading, and re-reading, and pointing, and clicking, and most of the characters by the end of it. I'm about halfway through the last case, and even thinking about starting it up again makes my blood boil. I'll probably end up giving it away to somebody.

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Zelda PH is that game.

I love that game. The new gameplay mechanics is not the problem. I love the characters and ship stuff. I love treasure finding aspect of it. It is just those damn repeat trips to the Temple of the Ocean King. WTF!!! It is making me go thru the same place to find stuff and it is getting on my nerves. Oh yeah and he is one thing Zelda needs: sneak missions. Great that is wonderful. I've never played Link to the Past or Ocarina of Time and said, this would be more fun with sneaking missions. Oh yeah and escort missions. As if we need more of that in Zelda. It was like Nintendo was keeping me from loving this game. Oh well, I'll sit it out until I feel the need to pick up again or i'll sell it.

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Unlike most gamers, I loved the Temple in Phantom Hourglass. It provided a much-needed rush in that game. Finding new, faster ways to travel into the depths of the temple was truly exhilarating.

I have tons of games in the unfinished pile, several of which have sequels coming soon. I need to finish Shiren the Wanderer, Etrian Odyssey and Lunar Knights. I'm currently working on The World Ends With You. I don't think I'm going to worry about finishing FFIII or Izuna because I think FFIV will be better than III and Izuna 2 will most likely surpass Izuna.

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I loved PH. Once I discovered I could shoot the knights to get rid of them, those Temple visits became a relative breeze.

I've traded/sold most of the stuff I never finished. Just two days ago I finally got back to finishing the campaign in Advance Wars: Days of Ruin. I guess Picross could count, but I never considered that a game that needed to be finished to enjoy...I just do a couple puzzles whenever I get the urge.

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I think, for me, Advance Wars: Dual Strike is the one which I'll never finish, although I want to. It's just that I'm not into strategies(although I love RPGs, which for me, can be quite similar in pace), and after all those reviews, comments and screenshots about it being so good and "something else" , I thought I'll give it a try. It really seemed different, and although it's not a conventional strategy game, it still takes a lot of time(to finish a stage), and it also started to get (for me) very hard from the middle.

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Zelda, FFIII, Contact, and Phoenix Wright. I got a bad habit of playing new games for about a month or so straight, then I get bored and start something new. I just pulled FF III out yesterday and realised I am about 70-80% of the way through. Hopefully I will finish it before going back to TWEWY

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For those who are tired of the Ocean Temple in Zelda, stick it out and eventually you'll get a sword that can kill the phantoms. Then it becomes oh so satisfying.

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I haven't picked up Pokemon in a while because I'm almost ready to fight the Elite Four, but I need to find some way to teach one of my Pokemon Earthquake before I go ahead and do it.

I just finished the Phoenix Wright trilogy, so now I'm playing Contact; it's cute so far, we'll see how it goes!

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I've got more than a few.

Etrian Odyssey, Shiren, Trauma Center: Under the Knife, Professor Layton, Honeycomb Beat, Hotel Dusk...

I've been better about it lately, though—Honeycomb is halfway there, recently finished Picross, Layton is at three-quarters, and I'm currently blazing through Touch Detective 2.5 during lunch breaks. Whew!

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I actually liked the Ocean temple. It was annoying at parts, but I liked going back and getting shortcuts with new items. I even redid the beginning part to get a better time to the place where you teleport. Plus, as others have said, killing the phantoms becomes really satisfying. I thought the hardest part was at the end where you have to fight some phantoms, but I even kinda liked that, I felt like it was a test of my skill and whether I could take the last boss. The fight is epic, although I thought the boss itself was a bit of a let-down.

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There are quite a few DS games to choose from. The ones that bother me, though, are Drawn to Life and Puzzle Quest. The second Phoenix Wright game is also unfinished, but I only like to play that game when I have a long-ish period of uninterrupted gaming time.

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Fir DS, just Pac-n-Roll and Battles of Prince of Persia. Oh, and Puzzle Quest.

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I, actually have NO backlog. When I get a new game, I just devour it of every nook and cranny until there is nothing left to find.

As for Phantom Hourglass, that game was especially tasty. I just couldn't put it down. I tried, but couldn't.

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