Sup everybody? I was thinking about this earlier and decided to post here since all my examples are older games. Apologies if this breaks a rule that I'm unaware of. I couldn't find a relevant flair. Anyway, I was wondering if other people have stories about games they intended to beat but were unable to because of an outside issue. I'll give a few examples.
I never finished the original God of War. I rented a copy maybe 2 or 3 years after it came out and was having a great time with it, full intended to play the entire thing in the 5 days I rented it for but the game would freeze when I got to this one particular cutscene probably halfway through. A year or so later, I bought a used copy and still had my memory card save so I was able to pick back up where I left off, but ran into another cutscene with the same problem.
The same thing happened with Rogue Galaxy for the PS2. I had bought a used copy and got very far into the game, was close to the end when I encountered a cutscene that would freeze the game. I was able to eventually beat it though when I played on an emulator a few years ago. Great game!
Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal was another. I was several hours in, I believe at some sort of arena stage when my PS2 just completely died. That was the last game I ever played on an actual PS2 and I've still never finished it. I plan to fix that soon.
More recently, I was playing through Metroid Dread and Luigi's Mansion 3 at the same time basically. I had made it to the top floor in Luigi's Mansion when I turned it off for the night. Played Metroid Dread the next day and literally made it to the final boss fight but kept getting killed so I decided to turn it off and try again tomorrow. Tomorrow came and my Switch decided that it didn't want to live anymore. I could not turn it on no matter what I tried. It was more expensive to repair it than it was to buy a new one secondhand but by the time I replaced it, I had been inactive for too long and Nintendo had deleted my cloud saves. I've still never finished either of those games. Maybe one day.
It's one of the most frustrating feelings. Those are all some of the best games I've ever played but my memories of these games is clouded by the fact that hardware fuckery prevented me from finishing them. Do y'all have any similar stories?