Nine out of 10 will not finish the game they are playing
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If I'm not enjoying a game within an hour something is wrong.
If I'm not enjoying a game within three hours I take a break and try again and if all else fails I sell it.
Games are a hobby, if you don't like it you shouldn't force yourself to play it.
I'd say the statistic that 9/10 people will not finish is true in the case of Steam. Prior to using Steam I finished every single game I had and enjoyed every moment of it. Then when I joined Steam I'd often stop playing a game to start a new one I'd bought for a dollar or two during a sale. It's kind of annoying so I've decided excluding games I'm monstrously excited for (DOTA2, D3, ACR, HotS and maybe Skyrim)I won't be buying anymore until I've completed most of the games on my Steam account.
It gets ridiculous, every sale I might buy up to ten games for no more than $40.00 and possibly finish one.
If I'm not enjoying a game within three hours I take a break and try again and if all else fails I sell it.
Games are a hobby, if you don't like it you shouldn't force yourself to play it.
I'd say the statistic that 9/10 people will not finish is true in the case of Steam. Prior to using Steam I finished every single game I had and enjoyed every moment of it. Then when I joined Steam I'd often stop playing a game to start a new one I'd bought for a dollar or two during a sale. It's kind of annoying so I've decided excluding games I'm monstrously excited for (DOTA2, D3, ACR, HotS and maybe Skyrim)I won't be buying anymore until I've completed most of the games on my Steam account.
It gets ridiculous, every sale I might buy up to ten games for no more than $40.00 and possibly finish one.
I stop playing games when they stop being fun, period. Games I haven't finished include FC2 (80% driving around Africa looking for diamonds, 20% fun shootey gameplay.), Darksiders (I've played plenty of zelda already, don't need just a gorier version), and Batman: AA (I just got bored, mainly because often I couldn't see clearly where I had to go and couldn't be bothered searching all the walls for the little security gate thing I had to disable).
Most of them I go back to every once in a while, determined to finish them, then realise why I stopped playing and get bored.
Whether I grind for achievements/trophies depends on if I enjoyed the game enough. If I liked the game then I feel obliged to do everything so I can be done with it.
Most of them I go back to every once in a while, determined to finish them, then realise why I stopped playing and get bored.
Whether I grind for achievements/trophies depends on if I enjoyed the game enough. If I liked the game then I feel obliged to do everything so I can be done with it.
I finished everything except Oblivion and Assassins Creed Brotherhood. I finished everything in Oblivion except for a few non questline caves/dungeons/forts, because I'd been past so many I couldn't tell which ones I'd been through or which ones I'd only found.
Brotherhood simply had too much crap to do, shop quests (fetch rare items), borgia towers, flags, feathers, da vinci machines, guild quests, guild challenges, assassin training, viewpoints. To top it off, even the missions had a small mission inside it, like do this in under eight minutes and so on, missionception I guess. In the end I did main quest, towers, machines, guild challenges, viewpoints and training, and left the stupid full synchronisation behind.
Otherwise I like to finish games properly, the alternative is like buying a book and only using it as a paperweight, only less useful.
Brotherhood simply had too much crap to do, shop quests (fetch rare items), borgia towers, flags, feathers, da vinci machines, guild quests, guild challenges, assassin training, viewpoints. To top it off, even the missions had a small mission inside it, like do this in under eight minutes and so on, missionception I guess. In the end I did main quest, towers, machines, guild challenges, viewpoints and training, and left the stupid full synchronisation behind.
Otherwise I like to finish games properly, the alternative is like buying a book and only using it as a paperweight, only less useful.
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...teebeeohh said:
I don't think that's an accurate simile. Using a book for a paperweight would be more like getting a game for everything but what it was made for (story, gameplay, etc.) but that's just semantics.MrRetroSpectacles said:
Personally, I've never bothered with 100% completion in any game. Don't get me wrong, I've for example spent hours playing Just Cause 2 even after I'd finished the main story (though it was hardly worth it) but I barely spent any of that extra time running around after silly crates and completing boring repetitive missions to reach 100%. I spent it grappling guards to aircraft and crashing them into cliffs.
I tend to start games over a lot, so I never get to the end. The exception is if I have a very good reason not to reset the game, as I had with Pokemon Black (it was called Victini.) Otherwise, I just keep starting and starting and starting over and never getting any further than about 3/4 of the way through.
The article cites a gamers age as a factor in this and i can see that. I have a lot of responsibilities and things that need doing. I try to finish all my games, but sometimes I have to forget about one for awhile, then I go back and realize i should just start from the beginning again. That's discouraging and sets me back. Sometimes by then I'm more into playing something else and the first one sits longer. This has been going on with Bioshock. I'm trying to finish it now though.
I finish nearly all my games but not as much as I used to as commitments to girlfriend and school means I have less free time so some games that are alright I might not finish for a while, like dead rising 2. It was pretty good but I have yet to finish it whereas my previous policies I would've finished it in like a week. I've had it for a few months now.
Ye basically this, i think i got 110 games roughly?Keepeas said:
i know i have completed less than half and the only game i did 100% was borderlands, which they then released DLC for which i havnt gottem due to not having broadband for 18 months i dont think iv bought more than 3 games in that time but still if i dont like a game i rarely get past the first 30 mins, hence why ff13 will never be finished, neither will most of my games, some of the worst offenders have been sold, others i keep to remeind me not to stray near sequels.
I've finished a lot of games and 95% of the time I hate sitting through the ending. 99% of the time I don't play for the story and I certainly don't play for the credits.
I can barely sit through the two frames of a Street Fighter ending. During the ending of one of my favourite games, 'Shadow of the Colossus' I left the room because I was tired and needed to go to bed. But it just kept going. I still haven't actually seen the full ending. But it doesn't matter. I still love the game.
Maybe it's games causing me to have no attention span? Maybe I'm attracted to games because I have no attention span? Maybe it's 'all about the journey' and not the ending? All I know is I can't stand most game endings. Even some of the best are boring.
The best ending I ever sat through was Another World (Out of the World). Short and to the point, and it had something to add to the story rather then sum it up in a slow boring way like most games do.
I would say most game designers are not great storytellers. And even the best storytellers have trouble with endings. Why play the disappointing ending when you can quit at the peak of your enjoyment and never have your experience of the game tainted. I do the same thing with my meals. I eat a bite of my favourite thing last and then that's it. I want no more. Go out on a high I say. Quit before the end.
I can barely sit through the two frames of a Street Fighter ending. During the ending of one of my favourite games, 'Shadow of the Colossus' I left the room because I was tired and needed to go to bed. But it just kept going. I still haven't actually seen the full ending. But it doesn't matter. I still love the game.
Maybe it's games causing me to have no attention span? Maybe I'm attracted to games because I have no attention span? Maybe it's 'all about the journey' and not the ending? All I know is I can't stand most game endings. Even some of the best are boring.
The best ending I ever sat through was Another World (Out of the World). Short and to the point, and it had something to add to the story rather then sum it up in a slow boring way like most games do.
I would say most game designers are not great storytellers. And even the best storytellers have trouble with endings. Why play the disappointing ending when you can quit at the peak of your enjoyment and never have your experience of the game tainted. I do the same thing with my meals. I eat a bite of my favourite thing last and then that's it. I want no more. Go out on a high I say. Quit before the end.
I have something (haven't read the article yet) that I think it's pretty unique among my friends, maybe someone, somewhere shares my weird weakness. But when I have invested a lot of hours into a game. Got to know the characters, their quirks and their goals and I get attached to them... I just can't finish the game. I will eventually, but it's like, I really can't bring myself to finish something and knowing it's the end of something... (It happened to me in books e.g. Harry Potter series and with manga as well in the case of Love Hina)ppsh41 said:
I can eventually finish it, but I feel somewhat heartbroken at the end...
I just get too attached T-TEdit: But since I'm also a trophy-ho I tend to complete them regardless of my personal feelings so there.
I can't blame the OP for not finishing Half Life. The final level of that game is notoriously crap and gives centre stage to the terrible platforming that wasn't very good anywhere else in the game either.
My current 'main' game is Saints Row 2. I wouldn't be at all surprised if I don't finish it - given the game's fondness for annoying timed missions and the general choppiness on the pc - I already dropped the difficulty to casual and that's never a good sign.
My current 'main' game is Saints Row 2. I wouldn't be at all surprised if I don't finish it - given the game's fondness for annoying timed missions and the general choppiness on the pc - I already dropped the difficulty to casual and that's never a good sign.