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

[TaborMallory]

I tried getting into Condemned, after hearing all the hype. I decided, "Why the hell not. I've been looking for a good horror game anyways."
Big mistake.

The game wasn't even close to scary. It had clumsy controls. It had cringe-worthy voice acting.
Above all, it was a waste of $5. I could have gone to subway and ordered a foot-long meatball marinara, dammit.

I played the game for 20 minutes, constantly telling myself that it's going to get better. I finally made it to a glitch that required a reset. I also realized that, in fact, Condemned will never make it to my Acceptable Games list.

 

[PureChaos]

i'd probably soldier on to complete it. i don't like leaving a game unfinished unless i have to, i.e i don't know what to do next and i refuse to use a guide.

 

[Khazoth]

I rented Velvet Assassin, played through the tutorial and the first half of the first mission and said fuck it and went back to Saints Row 2.

Make me a good Stealth Game damn it! Preferably something involving parkour and sniper rifles.

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

I have to complete it. For my.....HONOR!!!!!

 

[scnj]

I don't see the point in finishing a game that I don't find fun.

 

[goatzilla8463]

The games I buy generally aren't crap.

 

[high_castle]

I'm big on completion, so I try to finish even the games I don't enjoy as much as I thought I would. I also have this naive hope that maybe, just maybe, the game will get better.

 

[Legion]

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).

(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)

Well you see, you can't slate a game and then give yourself immunity to criticism by saying "but this wasn't the point of my thread". If you say something like that then people are free to comment on it regardless of whether it was the original point, because you chose to include it in the post in the first place.

In reply to your "main" point, I have never bought a game I disliked enough to stop playing. I always finish them unless I found them too hard; although that hasn't happened to me since the Tomb Raider games on the PS1.

 

[mikecoulter]

When I get bored I leave it for a few months

 

[Ultress]

I'll try to play as far as I can in any game but in bad games i'll stop after a part that is bullshit and makes me relize this game sucks. Example Enchated Arms, the boss with a 95% damage nullifer that can't be dispelled with moves that are off the charts. I called bull shit and went and played a better JRPG.

 

[IamQ]

If I find a game to be too repetetive or just stuck at that one cockblock level, I usually stop playing the game for some months and then bring it back out and play it some more.

 

[messy]

Normally I try and complete games and if i get a new one i try to complete the last one before i start playing the new one ( i did the recently with Golden Sun 2 just before i got fable 2) The only game i currently own i havent complete is GTA IV which i just found boring after awhile. normally if a games hard i keep playing because i hate the idea of being beaten.

 

[Sixties Spidey]

As long as I can tolerate it and put up with all it's bullshit, I'll finish it

If a game doesn't grip me within the first 5 minutes of gameplay, it's a pile of shit, and I don't care about it.

 

[Mezrev]

I used to finish every game no matter how crap it was when I was younger, but nowdays it's more rare that I finish a game than that I don't.

 

[Chalkius]

I usually won't buy a game without trying it first, whether that be through a demo, or if someone I know has the game. If a game did turn out bad though despite that, I would probably just play through it to see what happens.

 

[Offworlder_v1legacy]

I generaly finish a game, but if is really, really, really bad, I'll leave it, or if it is too hard.

 

[SultanP]

I stop playing games if they become boring, are rediculously challenging (ie. having to use one unit to kill fifty units similar to your own), or sometimes just because i can't be bothered playing it.
I bough Warhammer 40k 2 and played it. somehow i couldn't be bothered to keep playing though, even though i wanted to see more of the story, and i seemed to be perfectly capable of handling the challenges.

 

[Dalisclock]

I try, but some games I haven't finished. Most of the Time because I hit a point where it gets too difficult or frustrating and stop to go onto something else until I feel like getting back it.

And of course, some games I just lose interest in, because there's not enough to really make me want to finish up.

Right now I'm playing Prince of Persia: Warrior Within and I'm debating on wether to give up. I'm getting rather sick of losing to the Empress over and over again and while I like the gameplay, there's not much story to speak of and the atmosphere and characters are pretty bland. Somewhere between the Sands of Time and Warrior within, the Prince traded in his personality for.....anger. Lots of Anger. Aside from the one cutscene where he finds out about the island of time, he seems to have forgotten that there are other emotions then generic rage. And I really don't care.

 

[MiserableOldGit]

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).

(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)

Well you see, you can't slate a game and then give yourself immunity to criticism by saying "but this wasn't the point of my thread". If you say something like that then people are free to comment on it regardless of whether it was the original point, because you chose to include it in the post in the first place.

In reply to your "main" point, I have never bought a game I disliked enough to stop playing. I always finish them unless I found them too hard; although that hasn't happened to me since the Tomb Raider games on the PS1.

So what your saying is I can't cite an example of what I'm talking about and request the example itself not become the main thrust of the thread. That's ridiculous- if I wanted to ask what people think of Dead Space I'd put;what do you think of dead space? The point of the example was to show how myself and a friend had different responses to finding ourselves playing a game we didn't get on with, the request that people not go on about it was borne of experience on previous forums.