Do you always finish a game, or admit the crap ones are crap and leave em?

[MiserableOldGit]

My friend got hold of dead space recently, and after going through the first half of the game, I promised myself that if I was asked to walk down another spooky bloody corridor blasting limbs off another 'terrifying' enemy plundered from H R Geigers off-cuts in order to find a key/press a button I'd turn it off. This duly happened, and not even the promise of another zero G section prevented me turning it off and playing a game made by people with ideas of their own beyond 'lets make a deathly game.Raaaa" (I'd bet money the entire team have lip peircings, funny coloured dreads and lived in their mums basement till the age of thirty).
Meanwhile my friend doggedly went through the whole thing, though to hear him talk about it, you'd think he was finishing decorating a really big room his missus had nagged him about for months.
Do you finish a game regardless, or make good with your legs over open ground if it turns out to be crap?..
(yes yes, loads of people thought Dead Space was amazing-please spare me, this isnt a question about that frankensteins monster of other peoples sci-fi)

 

[neuromasser]

I rarely turn it off and put the game aside when something bothersome occurs, I tolerate as much as I can, so if I see that there's more work/pain than fun, I make that some kind of final playthrough. I don't remember going back on any of the games that I found irritating.

I said "I" so many times - I must really be egocentric

 

[Abedeus]

I don't play games I find boring/bad. Because that's a normal thing to do - you don't like it, you don't play it. Simple.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

Ehh, depends on why it's bad.
If it's hard, I will play until completion just to spite it.
If it's boring, I'll stop playing.

 

[TyTyofChaos]

I have a ridiculous compulsion to finish games no matter what.
Even if its terrible i still must finish it =[

 

[rockingnic]

I won't beat any game that's below mediocre. But I probably never play games that are barely over mediocre more than once through.

 

[MiserableOldGit]

I don't play games I find boring/bad. Because that's a normal thing to do - you don't like it, you don't play it. Simple.

Er, right. And how, pray tell, do you form an opinion of your own if you dont play it for yourself? And if youve payed for a game do you perservere or cut your losses?
('normal' people can make bad choices too, you know...) Thats the point of the question-do you perservere or switch off. Still, you got to try to look jolly big and clever with your response, and thats what's important at the end of the day, well done well done...

 

[Biek]

Though I thought Dead Space was a good game overall, the asteroid shooting bit pissed me off bad enough to leave the game unplayed for months.

 

[ffxfriek]

i admit the crap is crap and leave them.

 

[SharPhoe]

I do finish a bad game if I can still manage to make my own fun while doing so (cracking jokes about every little thing, using any obvious glitches to my advantage, etc.) or if I promised someone I would finish (Like I did with The Da Vinci Code game). Other than that, I'll end up leaving it alone.

 

[Ben Legend]

i'll play any game and complete it, so long as it isn't extreme crap
e.g. barbie games, or call of duty...
I jest on the latter

 

[fenrizz]

Depends.
If a mission is relatively hard i keep at it, but if it takes forever to get back to the hard part of the particular mission I just leave the game to collect dust (I'm looking at you GTA4!).

 

[paiged]

If I bought it, I'll play through it anyway, and try to find its redeeming qualities (some bad games do have good points after all).
If I traded it or was just borrowing it from somewhere, probably not.

Although lately I don't even finish the games I do like, so I guess my previous statements don't mean much.

 

[-Seraph-]

I will play a sizable chunk of the game before making a decent enough judgment. Even with some of the crappiest games I've played I have at least gotten half way through them before I stop and just say "fuck this". If half the game has mostly sucked, there is no reason to play the rest. Bad controls and gameplay can only be tolerated for so long before I just up and find something FUN to play.

 

[Trivun]

I always try and complete my games, but if one's bad then I reserve judgement until the end, then leave it on my shelf for a year before finally selling it for pennies to Game.

 

[Shadowlolz]

I finish them just to see the end of the story like i did with manhunt 2.boy that was mistake

 

[karkashan]

A game doesn't necessarily have to be bad for me to stop playing it for a while. Sometimes I just get stuck, or I'm afraid no matter what I do I'm going to die, or another game catches my attention. (I remember when I was younger I didn't finish Metroid Prime for a hella long time cause I had problems with Reaper Vines and that Poison ...whatever stuff that looks like grass. Now though, I usually try and play through it once or twice a year. Go 100 percent scans and Items. Guess I just got more confidence now.)

But if it's really bad, I tend to just stop playing as soon as I possibly can. (I hate it though, when a game sucks but has a story that I want to see through to the end.)

 

[Stevanchez]

I've never stopped playing a game because it was to challenging, I like videogames that challenge me because I think they are more fun.
But I have stopped playing a game because I disliked it and I didn't think it was worth the time.

 

[Abedeus]

I don't play games I find boring/bad. Because that's a normal thing to do - you don't like it, you don't play it. Simple.

Er, right. And how, pray tell, do you form an opinion of your own if you dont play it for yourself? And if youve payed for a game do you perservere or cut your losses?
('normal' people can make bad choices too, you know...) Thats the point of the question-do you perservere or switch off. Still, you got to try to look jolly big and clever with your response, and thats what's important at the end of the day, well done well done...

I think you said "do you always FINISH a game". This implies that I have started playing it.

Examples? Beyond Good and Evil, as much as I liked it, I couldn't get past the last stealth sequence in the game when I was a kid. That, and because my CD screwed up and I couldn't bear to hear the scrambled dialogues... Thank God for Steam weekend deals, when they are normal.

Or Bioshock. Bought it for 5 euro and didn't like it. After the first boss I stopped playing very fast.

 

[The_Deleted]

I started Enchanted Arms last night. I turned it off 45 minutes later. I have waaay too many games to be bothered playing shite.