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The problem with Skyrim is how you define "beaten". Is it finishing the main questline? Finishing the civil war? Finishing literally every possible quest, sidequest, and general activity until all that's left are the infinitely repeating ones? Completing every Achievement/Trophy?

I've spent hundreds of hours on Skyrim across like 15 different characters, mainly because I dislike how the game handles plot (ie, I find it kind of stupid that you're simultaneously the Dragonborn, the head of the Companions, the Archmage of the College, the Guildmaster of the Thieves, and the Listener of the Dark Brotherhood, along with whatever other minor titles you acquire). So I basically make different characters to do different things (I've got a "main" character who tends to do the Alduin/Civil War stuff, a separate Companion, a magic-based Archmage, a Stealth-based Thief, and an "evil" Dark Brotherhood character), and most of them wind up at least somewhere around level 50 by the time I finish their main questline and a few other general quests (and for all of them other than the one doing the Alduin quest, I play the entire game without Shouts, because I avoid triggering the dragon/vampire attacks via that quest).

I've actually done this three times (I perfected Achievements on the 360, then did it again on the PS4, and am currently playing again on the PS4 to get all the Trophies again on a sub-account). So I've got about a dozen different characters with something like a hundred hours each, none of whom have technically even started the main quest, let alone finished it. And three each that have done the main quest, civil war, and DLCs but never did the various faction quests.

But on the flip-side, I have completed every Achievement (twice, going on three times once I finish Dawnguard on my current playthrough) and "completed" the game (just spread across multiple characters). So once could easily argue I DID "beat" it.

If Skyrim's off the table, I've near-perfected Borderlands 2 twice (once on 360, once on PS4), and in both cases the only thing keeping me from completion is beating Terramorphous, so that's arguably "unbeaten", but I have finished the main storyline and most other sidequests and DLC multiple times, so that might not count either. Again, depends on how we're defining "beaten".

Beyond that, it might be Dishonored: Death of the Outsider. I'd started a run in that where I was trying to go for a perfect run (to get all the trophies first time through), which would have required no detection no kills, and I was doing well, but I got bored halfway through and just sort of stopped and never got back to it. I probably didn't put a TON of time into it (it's a short game and I only played the first half or so), but I finish nearly every game I put time into, so I don't really HAVE a ton of unfinished games, with tons of hours invested (I'm more likely to just buy and never play a game - one I start, I tend to finish).

As for online multiplayer games with no real "end" state, I've sunk a ton of hours into GTA Online, with a bit less in Elder Scrolls Online, but in general I dislike online multiplayer and MMOs in general, so I don't have a ton of games outside of those two.
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