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

[00slash00]

Assassins Creed 2, I'm probably 70% done, but Stabbing people in the face just got old. I didnt even understand the story, (not that I tried to) so I really just didn't care about it.

i agree with you 100% on this. im probably at around the same place but i cant keep the story straight. i mean i have the general idea of the plot but i cant keep all the characters straight and theres just not enough motivating me to keep playing, so it will remain on my self for god knows how long.

generally the only time i dont finish a game is if its really bad. im playing drakengard right now and probably wont finish it because GOOD GOD DOES THIS GAME SUCK! im playing it for the story because its supposed to be a prequel to nier, but i would probably have wy more fun just watching a playthrough of it on youtube

 

[otakon17]

I've beaten everything I own. (Except Demon's Souls because that game is a product of Satan)

I only don't finish rental games if I just get bored of them.

You pansy, even I beat Demon's Souls. Once. [small]Then I never touched it again, because it is the product of Satan.[/small]

Other than that, I actually have a couple of games on backlog. I'll beat them someday.

 

[thepyrethatburns]

For me, this is Reason #1 why I'm quitting gaming after this generation.

Out of the games that I own, I believe that I have finished 25-30% of them. using Final Fantasy as an example,

I own:

1, 2, 4, Mystic Quest, 5, 6, 7, Tactics, 8, 9, X, XII, Dirge of Cerebrus, XIII, Dissidia, Dissidia: Duodecim

I have finished:

1, 4, Mystic Quest, Dissidia (for the most part)

I have often said that I can skip a gaming generation and still have new experiences just by playing all through my old games and actually finishing them (In the cases of games like Rogue Galaxy and the Resident Evils, that includes beating the extras and/or tricking out everything that is fun to trick out.). So I started a few years ago but, because I've been keeping up with the new games, I haven't made much headway. Started in the Rs and just recently got to the S games with Sacrifice. (Technically, I haven't finished all of Mercenaries Reunion or tricking out the weapons in RE5 gold so I still have that to go.)

This doesn't count rentals because I tend to be broad in what I let into my GF queue and a lot of it isn't stuff that I want to beat. In fact, the only time I really beat rentals is when the game is good enough to beat but not good enough for me to own it.

 

[-Dragmire-]

I'd like to be one of the people saying "I beat all my games" but unfortunately my play style tends to have me 'put them on the back burner'. New games I will play excessively and before I finish, I burn out(usually the entire genre for while). When I finally get back to it, I've forgotten what I was supposed to do/where I was and restart, beginning the cycle anew. I have a shit ton of games to play so there's always new(new to me, some are quite a bit dated) games to fall back on if I burn out on my current genre of choice.

 

[ppsh41]

I'd like to be one of the people saying "I beat all my games" but unfortunately my play style tends to have me 'put them on the back burner'. New games I will play excessively and before I finish, I burn out(usually the entire genre for while). When I finally get back to it, I've forgotten what I was supposed to do/where I was and restart, beginning the cycle anew. I have a shit ton of games to play so there's always new(new to me, some are quite a bit dated) games to fall back on if I burn out on my current genre of choice.

Yeah I feel that same way, I go through cycles and I have no problem picking up an old game. I always say ill come back to it. In a few weeks I end up forgetting about it.

 

[funguy2121]

i am with you on this, i never finished pop two thrones because the boss fight against the glowing floating something sucked ass and i did not expect the game to surprise me in the story department. I also sometimes don't finish games because while i don't buy used games i am big into renting them and if something stops me from finishing it in the time i planned for that i will not try again unless the game is really awesome in which case i will buy it.

This is really bad. I've played all the way through this game 3 times and I'm trying to figure out what the "glowing floating thing" is. Do you mean the El Mariach- the Majaraja?

that guy, you fight him on some kind of platform and sorta kinda have to run up pillars and cut of his wings but mouse/keyboard controls really sucked and i didn't have a controller

Oh, you mean the final boss? You quit a game after hours and hours because he final boss was difficult? It's worth it when you finally kick his ass, shitty controls be damned. Trust me...can't wait to get the trilogy in HD for my PS3...

that was the final boss? after all that i didn't even get to fight my evil half?

If you don't find the all of the health upgrades, you get a really cool sequence where you "overcome" him after fighting the Maja-whatever. If you do get all of the health upgrades, you fight the Dark Prince instead. I've never pulled it off.

 

[YonderTunic]

Let's see here, off the top of my head I've never beaten Banjo-Kazooie, Glover, Halo 3, Little Big Planet, Final Fantasy III and Fallout 3. I tend to beat the majority of games I own, and when I don't is simply because of lack of interest, or in FF3's case, because I simply couldn't. That game is hard man >.>

I feel it's worth adding that I dont have a very large budget for gaming, generally only getting like five games per year, so I tend to re-play the heck out of everything I own in order to really get my money's worth. That and I tend to have an issue with restarting an entire game just so I can make a single change to how I play it.

 

[Fishehh]

The only Games I own that I did not finish are: Fallout:NV (PC won't launch it D Mafia 2 (Just got bored after the Prison) Black Ops (Got to the SR-71 Blackbird and just said "Oh, FUCK off!") And WoW, because you can't finish it.

 

[asam92]

In most cases (at least in the last year or so) I have finished all the games I started, however that is because they have all been worthy of finishing, alot of them have the platinum trophy on too. I have had the the luck of not playing any game I haven't liked this year.
But during the PS2 era, I had a ridiculous amount of games where I probably only finished 3 out of 10 games, included in my not finished list is Shadow of the Collusus and Ico, of which many tell me is something that I really need to do, prolly just wait for the HD collection and play and finish then, at least that way I will get trophies too

 

[PureChaos]

there is only 1 game i never finished, Legend of Zelda II but that was because i wasn't that keen on the game. i may not 100% all my games but i certainly get through the main story

 

[Scizophrenic Llama]

I've beaten all games I get. Although with the acquisition of a new computer and Steam at the time of the summer sale, I've got a massive backlog now. Need to get to work on that.

I don't get 100% completion though, never have strived for 1000g or platinum trophies.

 

[Asuka Soryu]

I won't finish a game if I:
A. Dislike the game itself
B. Grow bored
C. Lose interest
D. The game fraks up and deleates my entire save file

 

[Matt Dellar]

Games I haven't finished and reasons:

Oblivion: Story? What story? I just wanna mod this thing and screw around with side-missions.

Angry Birds: *Yawns* Oh, it's a pretty decent time killer, I'll give it that. I played it in the hospital yesterday, waiting for some genius to get paid to tell me my ankle wasn't broken.

Bioshock: The story was taking too long. I love it, but there was such a lack of tension that I couldn't continue it.

Just Cause 2: Since I got my PS3, I haven't spent as much time on a game as I did on this one. I just don't think the story is worth the effort of going to the start location and pressing triangle when I've got stuff to blow up, government vehicles to hookshot off cliffs, buildings to fly into, and civilians to drag behind my plane or car.

Dragon Age: If I wanted to read a few novels' worth of text, I'd read a few novels. I genuinely wanted to like this game, but I just couldn't pull it off.

Final Fantasy 7 and 10: Like DA, I really wanted to like these games, as they consistently get the "best game ever" praise. I didn't get what all the fuss was about. I couldn't identify with any of the characters, their voice acting (in 10) was worse than what you see on the Disney channel, and the stories, while possibly good, didn't keep me playing long enough to see if they were actually decent or not.

Pokemon games: Beat the story modes, realized about around Ruby/Sapphire that you needed a crap load of Nintendo's other products to complete your Pokedex and that the entire franchise was made so that you'd buy more Nintendo stuff. That didn't stop Gold version from eating up 500 hours of my life, though.

Ocarina of Time: Couldn't figure out how to advance the plot, had no Internet access to check a walkthrough, quit.

 

[MAUSZX]

What are your views? Do you finish Games? What makes you finish games? When do you quit? What games haven't you finished?

People always say: That guy is an achievement whore. In my case is not, but I'm Kinda an acomplishment whore, is that even a thing? I don't know but you get me right.

Look, I have A LOT OF GAMES, because i bought them at good deals, let's say I have 40 games for 360 and 15 for the PS3 (i don't know really if i have that many) without counting the arcade games of course.

So the PS3 is in my hometown which i just go 2 days a month, to visit parents and friends. So I just can really play it on vacations. The problem is I don't really like to cut the progress and after maybe 5 months continue, unless I don't really care for the story or the game is not that hard to understand the controls and everything(like oblivion or a JRPG).

In the town where i study, well i have my 360, but then again I study and I have a Standard TV, which is ok, but since when i go to my hometown and see the difference between a Normal TV and a HDTV you just can't continue playing all those great graphical games, so i rent some games and play them, because the majority of the games I have I want to play them in a HDTV which I will buy soon.
So my point is If the game is very long and in vacation I know I will not finished the game, i rather wait.

What makes me finish games, well I just said it I want to finish everything... sooner or later. I just finished the first FEAR on hard mode, it was pretty hard, but I couldn't stop. Oh and It may be weird but if I'm playing a FPS game... let's say FEAR I dont want to play any other FPS until I finished the other one.

What games i haven't Finished? well the question is What games i Haven't even started?

On the PS3 i haven't finished 3D Dot Game Heroes, Borderlands and Need For Speed Undercover, but the NFS game i just got bored.

On the 360... Last Remnant

 

[RadiusXd]

I beat, well probably half to 3/4 of the games I play. Some older ones I haven't due to extreme difficulty or not having the correct hook ups(though having the systems and games still).

I also keep a list of every game I can remember beating without using cheats. Okay a few I did, but largely those were STILL insanely hard and in the case of xenogears miang fight, broken cpu cheating bullshit so I still count it.

Current count is at....(checks) 294.

thats awsome!

OT: its kind of hard to "finish" dwarf fortress.

 

[blankedboy]

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

Th...
That is a damn good point.
You have distracted me from the matter at hand.

 

[robert01]

Most of the games that I don't finish I either ended up finding the extremely boring, or too buggy to continue playing. Other than that I usually finish what I start. It must have been another slow day at Kotaku for them to cite CNN as a reliable news source for gaming.

EDIT: In writing you should use a constant way of using numbers. It should be either 9 out of 10 or nine out of ten.

 

[Thedayrecker]

I usually leave RTS games (Total War games for instance) unfinished, but that's cause I have ADD

 

[ks1234]

I used religiously beat every game I own... now... ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
I don't know if i'm just not as interested in gaming as I used to be or if games just suck now or what but I rarely beat games anymore, the only time I beat them is when they are fucking badass (hell, I wont even beat a 'good' game anymore) I think the last game I actually beat was ME 1/2.

EDIT: I lied, I beat Splinter Cell: Convinction too

 

[DefinitelyPsychotic]

Well, there is only one game in my collection that I really had to force myself to finish, and it was Killzone 3.

As soon as I got to the space station near the end, I was like "meh, maybe I'll finish this some other time." I was just so sick of the repetitive gameplay, and the only reason that I did finish it was for the Gold trophy that you get for beating the game.