Nine out of 10 will not finish the game they are playing
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As I get older I'm starting to feel the same way, If I pay $65 for a game I will finish even if I didn't like the overall experience. I guess that also plays into the fact that I often put more research into the games I buy now so I make sure to only purchase games that I know are worth the money.Sparrow said:
If anything I end up finishing the games I own too fast. With how short most games are today I just don't see how you couldn't finish the game at all unless it was a genuinely terrible experience. I have about 30 games on my hard drive and I think I have played through all of them more then twice so I really can't relate to that article at all.
I don't finish games that often actually, strangely enough I have, to date, finished starcraft and brood war several times aswells as halflife along with a few other games.
I grow bored of games rather quickly, so either they introduce new points into the game or they are overall fun to play like Fallout 3 and NV, sadly that means I have a f'ton of games in my steam library and in GoG that I never actually have played yet, but every time those damn sales or deals come up, I always think "you will play them later, that deal is to good".
So yeah I think its safe to say that I don't finish a lot of games but have many half played games, funny enough I tend to finish really really shitty games like Mafia 2 or Warhammer 40 k just to see if the developer really rip off their customers without any shame.
I grow bored of games rather quickly, so either they introduce new points into the game or they are overall fun to play like Fallout 3 and NV, sadly that means I have a f'ton of games in my steam library and in GoG that I never actually have played yet, but every time those damn sales or deals come up, I always think "you will play them later, that deal is to good".
So yeah I think its safe to say that I don't finish a lot of games but have many half played games, funny enough I tend to finish really really shitty games like Mafia 2 or Warhammer 40 k just to see if the developer really rip off their customers without any shame.
I've beaten every game I have. If I ever quit, it might be out of rage, but I got back to it like a week later.
Based on this thread, it doesn't seem like 9 out of 10 will not finish their game.
Well actually I went back to check and this seems pretty debatable.
Based on this thread, it doesn't seem like 9 out of 10 will not finish their game.
Well actually I went back to check and this seems pretty debatable.
I have to agree with the article on this one, somehow I just dont truly finish all my games, often some are left behind unfinished. and if by "Finished" they mean its 100% completion, then I might as well register 98% of my games.
They only games that I never finished are Twilight Princess and Oblivion. Twilight Princess because of that damn Shadow temple with the float hands and Oblivion be cause it sucked.
I remember shaking at that part. It's not especially hard and the hands don't even attack you but invincible unstoppable enemies scare the ever loving shit out of me.shameduser said:
Ditto, here, with the exception of Dead Space 1, Dragon Age 1, and Werewolf(back in the NES days). Dead space was a victim of the Sony Trophy system; turns out I don't own the save I created right outside of the end boss's door. Dragon Age 1 ... well, I'm not even going to try to compensate for the AI suicide system. Werewolf's off by one pixel platforming gets old when you run through your stock of thirty guys on the same part at the very end and you can't continue.FirstPersonWinner said:
I endeavor to beat every game I own. There are exceptions like Metroid Prime 2 and Super Mario Galaxy because of difficulty. Some games will get put aside, sometimes for months or a year, due to distractions (typically from other games) or a loss of interest. But I eventually go back to them...this is particularly the case with Steam publisher sales, those games will sit on the shelf until slow gaming periods during the year or until I really feel like playing that particular genre of game.
Yes, lets blame the gamers again. We the devs aren't at fault for making boring story lines, backed by half assed game play mechanics that get boring after a few hours and provide no variance. Not its the gamers because they all have A.D.H.D, have the attention span of ... ooh shiney.
As I have said before in regards to threads about stuff like this. My mind is VERY active, No I don't have a disorder I am just constantly looking at things and analyzing them. For example, last night whilst watching an anime called Tengen Toppa Gurren Lanngen I ended up inventing my own version of warhammer fantasy tabletop with hero sheets and everything in my head because bits got too slow to keep my interest.
Same goes for games, I played roughly 10-15 hours of the story in Screed Brohood having 100% the other stories (fuck finding the flags) before I got bored as I felt like I was playing 2 again. Very little changed.
FF13 held me for roughly 15 hours too, ain't gotten bored of it, I just don't play my xbox as much as I once did. Dead Rising 2 became really grindy really fast meaning I couldn't finish it in 1 play through but instead have to restart every 2nd day in game because I met some uber powerful enemy or came to the "get the bike on the train bit and fail 70 times" and raged at it.
Red Dead started dragging once I got into Mexico and felt a lot like GTA on a horse, EA MMA got boring as it just did, Oblivion became too "What do I do next? oh well that seems boring," Dragon Age 2 I got to the deep roads bit 2 days after having bought it on pre-release online then didnt touch it for 8 months, played the deep roads and again haven't touched it since.
But yeah the other 30 odd games I own I have 100% finished. so fuck you Kotaku!
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Also adding that I completed Reach on Legendary (which took roughly 4 days hardcore playing as I am not a halo player by nature) and Smack ops on Veteran (which took roughly 4 days of ARGH ACTIVISION FUCKING SUCK! rage) and Gears 1 and 2 on Hardcore.
Also, Played about 60% of FO:NV story and lost interest as well, became too boring.
As I have said before in regards to threads about stuff like this. My mind is VERY active, No I don't have a disorder I am just constantly looking at things and analyzing them. For example, last night whilst watching an anime called Tengen Toppa Gurren Lanngen I ended up inventing my own version of warhammer fantasy tabletop with hero sheets and everything in my head because bits got too slow to keep my interest.
Same goes for games, I played roughly 10-15 hours of the story in Screed Brohood having 100% the other stories (fuck finding the flags) before I got bored as I felt like I was playing 2 again. Very little changed.
FF13 held me for roughly 15 hours too, ain't gotten bored of it, I just don't play my xbox as much as I once did. Dead Rising 2 became really grindy really fast meaning I couldn't finish it in 1 play through but instead have to restart every 2nd day in game because I met some uber powerful enemy or came to the "get the bike on the train bit and fail 70 times" and raged at it.
Red Dead started dragging once I got into Mexico and felt a lot like GTA on a horse, EA MMA got boring as it just did, Oblivion became too "What do I do next? oh well that seems boring," Dragon Age 2 I got to the deep roads bit 2 days after having bought it on pre-release online then didnt touch it for 8 months, played the deep roads and again haven't touched it since.
But yeah the other 30 odd games I own I have 100% finished. so fuck you Kotaku!
EDIT:
Also adding that I completed Reach on Legendary (which took roughly 4 days hardcore playing as I am not a halo player by nature) and Smack ops on Veteran (which took roughly 4 days of ARGH ACTIVISION FUCKING SUCK! rage) and Gears 1 and 2 on Hardcore.
Also, Played about 60% of FO:NV story and lost interest as well, became too boring.
It's Kotaku. Since when you are supposed to take anything they write seriously ?
Sure people don't finish games, it's nothing new, but quoting Red Dead Redemption as an example is silly. Games like that are just not really made for "finishing", you play them to fool around in the sandbox. I haven't played recent GTA/GTA-alikes but back in times of GTA/GTA2 i never even bothered with missions, i enjoyed collecting cars or just spreading mayhem.
I do finish games that have clearly established plot however, because if the plot is interesting i will want to see how it ends. Simple as that. Just like one reads a book to the end. Distractions have nothing to do with it because you don't need to finish the whole game in 1 sitting. I'll play for few days, take a break, go back to it, etc. It's supposed to be fun times, not work times.
Sure people don't finish games, it's nothing new, but quoting Red Dead Redemption as an example is silly. Games like that are just not really made for "finishing", you play them to fool around in the sandbox. I haven't played recent GTA/GTA-alikes but back in times of GTA/GTA2 i never even bothered with missions, i enjoyed collecting cars or just spreading mayhem.
I do finish games that have clearly established plot however, because if the plot is interesting i will want to see how it ends. Simple as that. Just like one reads a book to the end. Distractions have nothing to do with it because you don't need to finish the whole game in 1 sitting. I'll play for few days, take a break, go back to it, etc. It's supposed to be fun times, not work times.
I game-hop a lot. Although as I get older I actually have the opposite effect. I own lots of games and beat very few. But I have beaten more games from this generation than I did in previous generations of games.
I'm too obsessive to let a game be unfinished. Some old Ps2 games I couldn't beat still nag at the back of my brain. The only reason I will not finish a game is if a level is so obtusely designed that I can't work out how to beat it (I'm looking at you 'Dr Muto' and your ridiculously annoying water world).
The reason I normally finish games is because I love story and normally have to know how it ends, even if it sucks. I recently played Braid and it was destroying my brain, but I kept playing because I heard that the ending was amazing. I played through and I did love the ending.
I just have to know hw something ends and I normally enjoy it.
Oh yeah and OT I realy recommend finishing Portal 2. The ending literally made me go Oh My God. I loved it and you might as well.
The reason I normally finish games is because I love story and normally have to know how it ends, even if it sucks. I recently played Braid and it was destroying my brain, but I kept playing because I heard that the ending was amazing. I played through and I did love the ending.
I just have to know hw something ends and I normally enjoy it.
Oh yeah and OT I realy recommend finishing Portal 2. The ending literally made me go Oh My God. I loved it and you might as well.
I hope no more developers use this as excuse to make games shorter honestly. ?Oh gamers don't finish 90% of games, we have to make them all shorter to accommodate their short attention spans!...of course we will still charge the same.?
Of course it is, it's called DEMON SOULS? Who did you think made it, the Munchkin Men?FirstPersonWinner said: