Have you ever done this with games...

[About To Crash]

It really happened to me with Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy. I really wanted to like the game, because I've always found even the slightest bit of Egyptian mythology interesting. However, there was none to be had, which was a shame, but the game could've been good without it. It just wasn't. I really did enjoy the sections playing as the Mummy. It was inventive mechanic, but it very quickly seemed to run out of ideas, and the section playing as Sphinx is yawn-inducing platforming that controlled fairly badly at times. The further along I got, the more I realized that I was playing an entirely mediocre game.
Strangely, I think that mediocre games are the worst kind. The reason I find is that most of the bad games I play are bad because they tried something new and it didn't work, and games that are great tried something new that did work. A good game can also be a game that succeeds in improving upon the past incarnations of the game's mechanics.
Also, truly bad games are memorable in that they are frustratingly awful. At the same time, a good game is a memorable experience too. But a mediocre game just fades away, and as a developer, you should be most ashamed of that. A game that leaves no impression on its audience and slips quietly away to die the most pitiful death T.S. Elliot said we all will.

 

[Gigaguy64]

Happens a lot, mostly when I die after not saving for about 5 hours.

i feel your pain.
on topic: yes, i do it to.

It's like losing a arm....nearly

just without all the blood, unless your still holding the controler/ds/gba.
then there might be blood.

 

[GyroCaptain]

Yep.
I haven't played any games at all in a week or so.

Possibly because I know it won't satisfy me - I am waiting for new releases, and I always get so excited that the games I already have feel dull.

I also have this problem, especially when my newest game was bought months upon months prior, which is often the case with me.

Damn you, Brutal Legend and Dragon Age for making me want to play HAWX and the rest of them less...

I have in addition to this a mortal fear of playing games that sets in when I have work to do, the sense that if I start a game I'm going to fireball out of my classes. It's not a feel-good thing, that.

 

[Flour]

I play something for a random amount of time and quit. If it was fun I will play it a bit more or else I might not play it for months.

Ironically, I have spent more time on Nethack the last few days(about 9 hours in 3 days) than I have on Arkham Asylum and Wolfenstein combined since their PC release.

 

[lostclause]

I've given up games for the moment due to exams, but before that I was like you say you are. Now I wished I'd played more then since I can't now.

 

[Pegghead]

Happens to me all the time. mind you I think it's just the way most recent games are being made, it's gotta be a delicate mix. If their isn't much variety in games you keep it short therefore sweet, if their is lots of variety you keep it long therefore lovely. Too many games lately are becoming both samey and long.

 

[Beartrucci]

Exited? Lies.

OT: Yeah - I went through loads of Original Xbox Games, I didnt even play 10% of them. Pre-owned 4 for £20 kinda meant i monstered a load of games.

I said excited.
It's even in your quote.
I DO NOT MAKE MISTAKES

...But seriously, I want Alpha Protocol to be good so much.

I think he made a spelling mistake and was implying that you never get excited.

 

[paiged]

I give up on a lot of games, but I refuse to get rid of them so I have a bunch of unfinished games sitting here making me feel bad all the time. Then every once in a while I go "maybe I'll work on ____" and five minutes into it, I remember why I stop playing and it gets shelved again.

 

[DJDarque]

I tend to do that alot with RPGs. I get to a point where all I can really do is level to prepare for the final boss, then just never really do it. Ones I can think of off the top of my head would be FFVIII, FFIV, FFVII. I bought Heavenly Sword when it first came out and I still haven't finished that game.

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

I Beat Wolfenstein and never went back to it

The original or the new one? if the new one then yes I havent played it after the first time either. except when I was playing around with pumpkinheads.

 

[Plinglebob]

I tend to do that alot with RPGs. I get to a point where all I can really do is level to prepare for the final boss, then just never really do it. Ones I can think of off the top of my head would be FFVIII, FFIV, FFVII. I bought Heavenly Sword when it first came out and I still haven't finished that game.

I did this with all the FF games except 10. With that one I finally completed it about a year after starting.

I have the habit of being really into a game for a few days, losing interest and not going back. Got a collection of over 100 games across multiple systems and only completed about 10 of them.

 

[Jon Etheridge]

Rarely. I don't buy that many games anymore so the ones I do pick up I usually play the hell out of. I;m actually playing through Arkham Asylum for the third time right now.