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

[Space Spoons]

If I paid full-price for a game, I usually try to finish, regardless of quality. This is basically a holdover from being raised to understand the value of one's dollar and the importance of following through on one's commitments. If I try to put away a game unfinished I paid 60 smackers for, it'll bug me all night that I didn't get my money's worth.

 

[DracheLehre]

I usually do finish games once I begin... that way I can develop a more accurate opinion on it.

However if it borders on absolute crap... OUT THE CONSOLE IT GOES!

 

[irishstormtrooper]

Usually I'll play a game in its entirety, but with crap like Lost Planet, I just decided to let it collect dust.

 

[squid5580]

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.

That was the only JRPG that has ever beat me. I got to the final bosses and couldn't do it. And there was no incentive to go to the casino for hours to get to the level I needed to be (especially since Ididn't use a guide so Ididn't know I had the wrong things levelled.

It really depends on a few things. If it is bad, short and easy I will more likely go for it. Achievements are a good incentive for that. It is when there is still hours left and the sheer boredom has already brought me to tears that I will give it up.

 

[A random person]

I stopped playing Final Fantasy VI with the Fanatics Tower. It's a great game, but it went downhill. I also stopped playing Fallout 3, not because of the game, but because it tends to glitch and break my computer.

 

[New Troll]

I generally don't play games I don't like because I don't play to win so much as play to have fun.

The only real exception to this was World of WarCraft which I played long after it started sucking. I just loved the game so much that I kept playing it, hoping it would one day turn back to good. Never did.

 

[Random Argument Man]

I never finished Doom 3. I was getting tired of the "Hey! I'm a monster who needs a shotgun bullet in his brain".

 

[traceur_]

I can't leave a game unfinished, that reminds me I need to go finish Prince of Persia.

 

[achilleas.k]

I belong in the camp with the people who compulsively have to finish a game they started. I can only remember one time where I dropped a game without finishing it: Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. When I encountered the first bug that prevented me from completing a secondary objective, and later while researching its known issues I found that there are occasional bugs that prevent you from completing even more objectives, I dropped it and sold the game on eBay.
That being said, I can also probably cite one or two times that I left games installed without touching them for a month or two just because I hit a spot that was boring and didn't make me wanting to go back to the game for a while. That's the curse of playing a lot of games during the same period. As soon as you hit a slow spot, you spend your gaming time on the more interesting ones. But even in those cases, at some point in the future I will go back to the game and finish it because I'm too curious about how they end the stories. I'm very story driven when I play. It's like watching a movie or reading a book. Even if it's bad, I get this weird compulsion that makes me NEED to know where it goes and how it ends.

 

[Xorghul]

I've never finished a game the first I played it. They all fail to keep me interested long enough.
Although I usually come back a year or two later and finish it.
Or three.
Or four.
Unless I forget the game.

 

[alen456645]

I find that I try really hard to like a game but if it is too shitty to bear then i wont play it.

 

[Slash Dementia]

I stop playing when I see that it's a really bad game. I see no point in it. If the controls are bad and the game has a good story, I just look up the story because I hate playing games with broken controls.

 

[NoDamnNames]

If i pay full price for them I USUALLY try to muddle through them. Dead space was an exception for me as well. it was sooooo dreadfully boring I quit and sold it. sadly i paid upwards of $40 for it.

Surprisingly I snagged a copy of Clive barkers Jericho in a best buy bin for $8.99 and it inst half bad considering how badly it was crucified and how poorly it was received. Albeit its a bit outdated and can be repetitive, I found it much more entertaining than the "sensation" that was deadspace.

Games I bought and couldn't finish because of inexcusable boredom/game play recently were:

Deadspace
Jak 3
Turok
Assassins creed
Socom 3
Little big planet

 

[Zombie_Fish]

I always try to but sometimes don't get anywhere near finishing.

 

[Triple AD]

Can't answer that because I usually buy good games I enjoy

 

[theSovietConnection]

I've enjoyed pretty much every game I own, so yes I at least try to play through to the finish for them all. However, I will play even a bad game through to completion if the story is interesting enough.

 

[ParkourMcGhee]

The crap shooter games are usually incredibly easy to finish, barring the new generation of difficult crap games which appear to be made for that sole purpose (R6 Vegas). Even so they're doable.

Most other games even strategies can be finished on the easiest difficulty.

If all else fails though, a boring game in the end isn't really worth anything and there is no point in playing it so there isn't any shame to just go "fuck it", and put down your controller or exit to windows.

 

[HDID]

I rarely finish games anymore. Don't have the time and I just stop caring about it after so long. Very few of the game I buy are bad, but blegh...

 

[Gunn01]

If its a rental and it's crap I just bring it back. I usually give games a chance though so I play them until know if they are bad or not. With games that I buy that's usually not a problem because I only buy games that I have played before and enjoyed. The exception to this would be bargain bin games i'll buy those without playing them first and if they suck i don't play them again. NFL tour and Facebreaker would be such examples. Bought them for $10 they suck and now they just sit on the shelf.