Nine out of 10 will not finish the game they are playing

[Zulnam]

Why is it nine out of 10 and not nine out of ten or 9 out of 10? I don't like this.

Brilliant observation! Apparently, 9 out of ten kotaku reviewers cannot decide if they will use words or digits when writing numbers.

Also, no. I don't have attention disorder, I just get bored. Meh.

 

[goldendriger]

The only game i havnt finished playing is Cross Edge, because that thing is a monster. Post-Game on Hard? Im like level 350 and getting my ass kicked, i need to level up by about 110 levels to stand a chance, its just the grind which has made me put it off

 

[Section Crow]

i finish at least 95% of every game i play

even if i hate the game, i get my money's worth from the games i buy

 

[honestdiscussioner]

I'm pretty sure I've beaten almost everything I own. Maybe not "Fight Night" but that was because I bought it for exhibition matches. You could argue I didn't finish Fallout 3 or New Vegas because I didn't do every last side quest, but I finished the main quest, so I think that counts.

I really doubt only 10% of new games a finished. I think it's more like 90%.

 

[ppsh41]

Why is it nine out of 10 and not nine out of ten or 9 out of 10? I don't like this.

I was tired and didn't realize it until the morning

I finish most of my games. Still, I have a backlog of 36 unfinished games waiting for me. I like to keep a record of them and order them for priority.

Some games I just don't understand why I quit them. Games like Okami and Ico. I loved them, but just haven't finished them

That is dedication

I'm playing Diablo 2 on Hell, I'm not sure I can be bothered finishing it. What does it mean?!

I generally tend to finish my games, mostly because I buy games for their story. But the games I haven't finished include:

Banjo Kazooie
Every GTA ever
Darksiders

Yeah GTA has nothing to offer in the story department

 

[aprildog18]

The only game I don't finish 9 out of 10 times is Monopoly.
Wait...I think it is talking about video games.
I've beaten all the games I have except for Kameo

EDIT:
and I don't finish games that's like...find all the goodies to get 100% (like Just Cause 2) but Just Cause 2 is the only game that I have that has it.

 

[ppsh41]

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!

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.

I feel this way too if I get bored of something, what is the point of my playing it. My repeat playthrough's of fallout 3 pretty much turned into oblivion for you, as in i knew what i was doing next and just wasn't interested. My mind operates the same as yours. I need to over analyze everything then I realize the only reason I played X game was for Y reason, and having accomplished that reason, I have 0 Motivation to continue. Basically if I feel a game has nothing new to offer I won't continue to play it.

 

[Tommeh Brownleh]

I usually finish my games. The one's I haven't I'm working on.

 

[Pappeska]

I don't really like to leave games unfinished. Even if I don't really enjoy it that much, I tend to persevere and try to finish it. There are some games that I've stopped playing without finishing, but they are rare.

This is probably because I'm a completionist. This is made much harder in the current generation because of achievements; there is a record that I haven't finished something, that just mocks me every time I see it. So I feel compelled to finish games.

This. But sometimes I take a break from gaming all together and focus on something else, then I get back to the games.

If I get bored of a game, I tend to play something else for a while, then come back to the game to give it another go. I've done that a few times and when I came back to the first game, I found that I actually did like it after all.

Exactly. The same game for maybe 30+ hours can become tedious.

 

[DustyDrB]

I finish 9 out of every 10 games I play. The ones I don't finish just suck. Hell, sometimes I even finish a game I think sucks. Like Fable 2. I just kept on waiting for it to feel like the first game. And then it was over. I also finished Fallout 3's main story, though I hated the game (didn't do any side quests, though).

 

[Pappeska]

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.?

Or simply put more content in the sidequests-not-related-to-story-line what so ever category. And make them hard to fin too, so no one will complain about being too many sidequests, too little rewards for doing said sidequest etc.

 

[genericusername64]

The escapist might have a higher ratio of people that finish over half the games they play, because, you know its a gaming website. However I don't think A casual will put 25 hours into a campaign

 

[MrJoyless]

If 100% completion is finishing then no I dont finish games, but every game ive played but two ive finished, and thats because Far Cry 2 and Ghost Recon 2 were unplayable *read graphics or gameplay so bad i couldnt stand to play them*

 

[DuelLadyS]

My fiance doesn't finish many games... becuase he doesn't want the game to be 'over'. Basically, he gets up to the final boss, every possible side mission complete, and stops due to some weird mental block that if he keeps going , it's 'done'. I've pointed out that if you stop playing, it's still 'done' and you don't get the satisfaction of knowing what happened, but I don't think it helped any. Actually, the whole idea of expansions is what really helped- it's OK to beat the game, you can download more later.

As for me... I spread myself too thin over too many games. They get finished, but it can take years.

 

[zerobudgetgamer]

<spoiler=The only games I have never finished - and which haunt me to this day - are>

1. Radiant Historia - the daunting task of collecting over 150 characters practically required reading a step-by-step walkthrough for the better part of gameplay, which burns me out on a game in an unbelievable fashion (I read a step-by-step walkthrough for FFIX and, after beating it, I sold it, one of the WORST decisions of my life, but you see just how badly it can burn me out)

2. Summoner - The graphics are bad, the gameplay is horrendous(ly boring) at times, and although I'm interested in the story, I've never been able to push myself through the slow combat and even slower leveling to see things through.

3. Dragon Age: Origins - pretty much Summoner's problems minus the graphics. I love the story, the world of Ferelden is intriguing, but the combat is boring, the leveling system is arduous (since I've never been able to find a reliable grind spot, so I have to rely on Console to get a quick boost) and there's nothing to do outside of the actual story. Every sidequest is just something reminiscent of WoW: Read five paragraphs of text, then utterly ignore it as you go to this highlighted area, kill X/All Enemies, Collect Shining Item, Talk to Only Person within twenty miles present, then return for a couple gold.

Outside of these three, I have finished every game I have ever played. And that library includes various SNES, N64, PS1/2, PC and DS titles, most of them 20-50 hour RPGs in fact; enough that this is barely even 3% of my total games played. Personally, I think the article is spot on, as disgustingly sad as that may be. Too many people are finding entertainment in short bursts, buying multiple games for cheap at various (Steam) sales, and fewer people are appreciating the time and effort that developers put into the entire story. The CNN Link from Kotaku mentions the vast cost of making even just a 16-20 hour game. It's a staggering amount, and if not for the fact that so many metrics are showing a vast lack of appreciation for the singleplayer, that amount shouldn't/wouldn't be wasted.

Wow 9 out of 10 people I guess thats the reason they destroyed the dragon age franchise because some people " didnt finish the first" so they dumbed it down so drooling mongoloids could beat it without actually applying any lateral thinking.
If this is the kind of studies that bioware bases its game development on then count me out on ever buying a bioware game again.
I remember them stating one of the grand reasons for the dumbing down of dragon age 2 was because some people did not complete dragon age origons... this just makes me sick.

You realize it was the exact same mentality that caused the slow-yet-painful downfall of WoW? Metrics began popping up showing that only a small percentage - I think somewhere between 2-5% - of the playerbase had actually gotten to see Illidan during BC. God forbid they break that number down to figure out just how much of the playerbase actually raided, much less raided hard enough to get to BT, but NO, they decide to make Wrath of the ***** Queen, and make bad decision after bad decision to this very day. It sickens me that the world of gaming is becoming like this, where 30-50 hour epics are being washed away by the tide of easy, bite-sized, "serve you your win on a silver platter" games to entertain the "every-man". Even when I have a full-on career, a family, and all the other responsibilities this article claims is "distracting" modern gamers, I still plan to find at least 20-30 hours every week to devote to gaming, by any means necessary.

 

[Gibboniser]

Finish as in 100%, or the main story? I finish the main story in near enough all games, 100% ... I think I only did that on Spyro 2, you get the super fireball as your regular attack.

 

[RollForInitiative]

Look ma, I'm a statistic!

According to my backloggery [http://www.backloggery.com/carelevelzero] account, I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 130+ unfinished games.

I'm a busy man. I need to stay versed in design and development so I tend to buy more than I have time to play. I'm slowly working my way through with the intention of finishing the majority.

 

[Mallefunction]

I usually get stuck and then put the game down...then forget it for over a year before I try again and get stuck at another part. Rinse, repeat.

I am a completionist, but I also hate looking at FAQs for stuff that is vital to moving the story along. FAQs for side missions that don't have anything to do with finishing the game? SURE! Otherwise I feel like I cheated.

 

[Magicman10893]

I have finished practically every game I own. Sometimes I will go for a second playthrough and not finish, but I've played the game before so it counts. I played Mass Effect 1 and 2 like 6 times over, some playthroughs going back to back, and after that I get a little bored because I feel like I beat the hell out of it, no pun intended.

Out of my (current gen) games, I've beaten 24 out of 35 games. Out of the 11 games that I haven't beaten yet, I am extremely close to the end of about 3 (plan on continuing playing them, btw), haven't played 2 of them yet, and just started playing 3 of them. Only 3 games I have that I started playing and then just stopped. Borderlands, because I have no one to play with and I don't want to put up with jackasses online, inFamous, because I just got distracted and Divinity 2 because I got trapped in a dungeon that is way to high of a level for me to finish and I can't escape and my last save before that was a good chunk of the plot and a large distance away so I lost interest.