My children's children's children. -Bill

The Game: Rogue Legacy

Why I never finished: The final boss. After about a dozen failed attempts, I just put my controller down and said I'd get it done tomorrow. Tomorrow became next week. That week became a month. And so here I am, with a list of unfinished games and a little pixelated knight staring contemptuously at me from the desktop of my computer.

Getting it done: Now, unlike some of the other games I'll need to slog through as this endeavor goes on, I actually really like this game. As the sharpest of you may have worked out, Rogue Legacy is a rogue-like game, in which you explore a randomly generated castle, fighting for you life and grabbing loot until you inevitably get killed. But fear not! For during their life of adventure, your character has fathered (or mothered... that really doesn't sound right...) an heir, who learns nothing from their parent's demise, but will happily take their belongings and savings to lead their own quest. This continues on, as you collect money and become more powerful, unlocking new classes of heroes and finding an assortment of powerups and items (all the while dealing with your progeny's shortsightedness, or irritable bowel syndrome, or hypochondria) until you have cleared the castle of its most feared denizens.

After playing this game for hours and loving it, I managed to finally drag my insufficiently skillful self to the final boss, which as I said earlier, proved a little more than I could handle. Coming back to the game though, I found this battle to be... annoyingly easy? With the right items equipped, I managed to get the boss done in about 4 tries, with most of my problems being with relearning how to control my little avatar of death.

That's not to say I wasn't satisfied with the ending of the game. The final boss, though easier than I remembered, was still a great boss to fight against, and the ending credits of the game - showing all the enemies I had killed, and all the children who had lost their lives in this meaningless and unending struggle - were really satisfying to watch.

So now I can cross off the first game on this list (which is already growing past the original 271 as I dig up old games I had forgotten) and set my sights to loftier goals... I never did get around to finishing Dark Souls...