Poll: Do you finish your games?

[sicnasty77]

Just read an interesting article on CNN http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gadgets/08/17/finishing.videogames.snow/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

So here is the question. Do you finish all of your games? If not what determines whether or not you finish that game.


Me personally I only finish a game if the story can keep me entertained that long, but that is just my personal opinion. So please share.

Edit: Only 1 in 10 will ever finish a game that seems like a pretty large portion of unfinished games if you ask me.

 

[theguitarhero6]

Well, ya the only things that keep me from finishing are damaged discs (used Lost Odyssey), eventual tedium/induced rage (Burnout Revenge) or just personal dislike of the game (Fallout New Vegas). So I guess I do for the games that allow me to and the ones that don't suck

 

[Radeonx]

I normally finish them, and the only reasons I don't are because of extreme boredom/unplayability.

 

[Hiname]

Up to today from the moment I started playing as a kid, I finished every game I started at least once.
Except one.

God damn you Plok. *shakes fist*

 

[Inkidu]

I typically finish them if at all possible. The level to which they're completed is a different matter.

 

[KiloFox]

i try to ALWAYS finish my games unless they're just BAD. and i don't JUST try to finish them, i try to 100% them. if i can... playing one game and i think it it literally IMPOSSIBLE to 100%...

EDIT: Read the article and i have to say http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/ ... i know that many gamers i know, (Myself included) DON'T want shorter games and more multiplayer. hell even Yahtzee of the Escapist's own Zero Punctuation says that games should be able to stand up on their single-player alone. and while i ENJOY multiplayer, i agree. multiplayer is JUST fine being on the same several games, because that's all it'll be played on anyway. CoD and Halo WILL take almost all the multiplayer crowd from other games. i LIKE long epic games that focus on story (never played Red Dead Redemption, never will, i hate both westerns AND i've never liked anything Rockstar has produced. just a matter of taste) i DON'T think shorter games are the answer.

 

[Catchy Slogan]

I usually try to finish them.

*sweeps Deadspace under the rug*

 

[Limecake]

I often lose interest in some games and sometimes things just don't work out time wise or I get invested in another game or something else that takes up all my time.

I thought 10% sounded too low but then when I considered that I never finished red dead redemption either I had to admit I kind of agree.

my main issue with the article is that it really picks a bad game to use as a benchmark, I beat gta IV in just under 30 hours for the achievement and I missed almost all of the extra content in the game (girlfriends, mini games, hidden stuff). This means I spent 30 hours on a game and I was rushing through it.

I did spend a lot of time playing red dead redemption though, I skinned my share of animals and shot many a hat off a criminal. The reason I never finished the final mission is because the storyline of john trying to exact revenge wasn't the reasons that were driving me, John's relationship with his family meant nothing to me I was in it for the old west shoot-outs and the cowboy atmosphere.

in comparison let's take another game of the year Bioshock. a game which can be completed in much less time. I'll bet that more people finished Bioshock than people finished oblivion (another game of the year I didn't finish).

but I've started books I've never finished also: The third dune book, the fifth harry potter, even atlas shrugged (made it about 80% through) I started all of these books with the best of intentions but it's hard to keep that commitment over a couple weeks of time.

 

[NotSoLoneWanderer]

I finish them unless it's an RPG grindfest but even then i go back to it in a few months

 

[FreakSheet]

Do I always finish? Most of the time. Do I 100%? Rarely, unless the game interests me enough.

 

[krazykidd]

I finish all my games, but that doesn't mean i don't have games i have not finished, i tend to buy more games than i can play , i currently have 25 unfinished/unplayed games in my library out of about 200 console games ( yes i am a console gamer ). But honestly though, it's my gamer pride that forces me to finish some of them. Some games i can't stand but i persevere through them , even if i find them boring. I hate the idea of losing to a game,not losing a game in multiplayer or what ever, i mean more that the actual game beat me made me quit and give up . So i do complete ( or intend to complete ) every game i have bought. This does NOT count if the game was a gift, because someone else giving me a bad game, doesn't make me care if i finish it or not.

 

[UltraDeth]

I finish mine a lot, the only I haven't (that I can remember now) is Kane and Lynch

 

[AngryMongoose]

Alot of games recently I've been getting to the last dungeon, postponing, then giving up. By the time I decide to complete them, I've forgotten how.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

I finish all my games, but do I go for 100% completion? No, not always, if I like the game a lot I will, but most of the time I will plow through a game and move on to the next one.

I have a lot of games that I need to start, and clear them out before the next batch of games come in Novemeber, God I'm going to be busy for a while...

 

[SamBargeron]

I try to finish every game I purchase, but I run into many obstacles. Sometimes life gets in the way, or I lose interest, and many times I find that I am simply lacking in the necessary skillz to complete the task. I have tried again and again and again and again and again and again and again to beat the archdemon at the end of Dragon Age, but I cannot. I have never been able to beat Dive Man in Mega Man 4 (I finished most of the other Mega Man games). I have yet to figure out where I am supposed to go in Ocarina of Time's fire dungeon.

I am also too much of a scaredy cat to finish my horror games: Fatal Frame, Fatal Frame 3, Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill 4, Silent Hill Homecoming, and... much to the surprise and humor of everyone in the room... Journeyman Project.

I don't care what you say. Journeyman Project is a scary and intense game. The Mars mission drives me insane with dread. More than any Resident Evil game or Doom 3 or other Action games that think they're horror.

Also, I still haven't beaten the original Super Mario Brothers... too many levels... I've gotten pretty far, but my NES was taken away recently.

 

[Sixcess]

I quit games all the time - usually because of a particularly annoying level. Return to Castle Wolfenstein languished on the back burner for 3 years due to the one and only stealth based mission in the game, and San Andreas died for me on my zillionth attempt at one of the offroad races before the second city. I just don't have the time, or the patience these days, to try a level over and over and over again until I beat it and the game starts being fun again.

However if the story is good or the rest of the gameplay is really good I will grit my teeth and get through it, so overall I'm probably about 50/50, though if I included games I'd given up on in the first couple of hours it's probably more like 80/20.

 

[Sizzle Montyjing]

Very good ones i finish.
INCEREDIBLY good ones i play again.
If i finish the second playthrough (of a long, full-length game mind you) then they are the second coming of christ.
(never actually done that yet.)

Oblivion and the Fallout's being exempt, because i sink A LOT of time into those, yet never finish them.

 

[Xariat]

no, a game is like a sandwich, you'll gladly take one, but you eat all of it after you find out its made of shit

 

[blaqknoise]

I usually finish games, but sometimes I don't. If I choose not to, then it's simply because I didn't enjoy the game that much and didn't want to keep playing it.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Interesting, typing this upside down and the damned scroll bar is zipping to the bottom whenever I type, fuck...

OT: Uh, I mostly finish them, if I find them fun, then I'll finish them, for sure. If I think they're really good, I'll play them repeatedly. The ones I don't finish are the ones I found boring, but one would assume that such is the case with most people.