10 Video Games You Can Never Finish

5. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Traps Players In A Death Loop

Anyone who's ever played a Bethesda game shouldn't be surprised to see one on this list - they of course ship every single game they've ever made rife with bugs and jank that players often have to fix themselves.

This proved particularly troublesome in Skyrim's quest "The Break of Dawn", which concludes with the player being held in the air above a mountain by Meridia.

In ideal conditions, the player is eventually brought gently back down to terra firma, but a common glitch causes the player to simply fall out of the sky and die on impact.

The game-breaking kicker is that Skyrim autosaves at the beginning of this sequence, effectively trapping affected players in a loop of chatting with Meridia and being turned into a crater.

PC players were at least able to avert the glitch by activating God mode, and others reported success by ditching some of their inventory in order to lessen their weight, but sadly this didn't work for everyone.

And while most Bethesda vets were surely smart enough to have at least three saves on rotation, for those unlucky enough to save in just a single slot on consoles, they were forced to start the entire game from the beginning.