Poll: Do you finish your games?
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Yes, I do. I can't start playing a new game unless I finished the previous one. If I do start playing a new game, it better be so short that I can finish it quickly and move back to the old game. Leaving a game unfinished eats away at me, like a constantly dripping sink.
I always finish... Unless I'm REALLY not enjoying myself.
Most recently I put almost 30 hours into the original Dungeon Siege (After playing DS3)... Honestly, I was tired of playing it by about 20 hours... too damn repetitive.
..But by about 30 hours, I just couldn't take it anymore, I just wasn't having fun and had to stop. Wish I stopped sooner, but I felt compelled to finish.
Most recently I put almost 30 hours into the original Dungeon Siege (After playing DS3)... Honestly, I was tired of playing it by about 20 hours... too damn repetitive.
..But by about 30 hours, I just couldn't take it anymore, I just wasn't having fun and had to stop. Wish I stopped sooner, but I felt compelled to finish.
I don't finish most of my games unless they're shooters (which are shorter and thus I'm done with them when I'm still playing most games). It's not that the games I buy are bad, it's just that I buy too many games. Whenever I stop playing one for whatever reason, I get caught up in my backlog when I play games again.
From memory, my current list of owned yet not played/finished games (first 5 were bought on Steam summer sale):
Fable 3
Deus Ex
Neverwinter Nights 2 (gamestopping bug for the win!)
Magicka
War for Cybertron
LA Noire
Bulletstorm
Darksiders
Dark Messiah VII
To make the problem worse, I also keep going back to Dwarf Fortress, Morrowind, and various Medieval 2: Total War mods. I also plan on installing some mods for Mount and Blade once I get a new computer. Yay gaming backlog!
From memory, my current list of owned yet not played/finished games (first 5 were bought on Steam summer sale):
Fable 3
Deus Ex
Neverwinter Nights 2 (gamestopping bug for the win!)
Magicka
War for Cybertron
LA Noire
Bulletstorm
Darksiders
Dark Messiah VII
To make the problem worse, I also keep going back to Dwarf Fortress, Morrowind, and various Medieval 2: Total War mods. I also plan on installing some mods for Mount and Blade once I get a new computer. Yay gaming backlog!
If the game is shitty, I'll give it up in disgust.
If the game becomes absurdly hard (Frozen synapse >_<), I'll keep trying to finish it, but usually swear off the game for a while due to excessive rage.
Games like I wanna be the Guy I pick up once, then never play again. I'm awesome, but not god-tier awesome.
If the game becomes absurdly hard (Frozen synapse >_<), I'll keep trying to finish it, but usually swear off the game for a while due to excessive rage.
Games like I wanna be the Guy I pick up once, then never play again. I'm awesome, but not god-tier awesome.
Not even close. I've still got unfinished Sega Genesis games, unfinished N-64 games, dozens of unfinished PS2 games, and I think the majority of my PS3 games are unfinished as well.
Sometimes it's because the game is annoyingly hard, sometimes because the game has frustrating controls, and sometimes I just lose interest.
Hell, I played Final Fantasy XI for like 7 years and I hardly beat any content in it at all. Like 4 of the 12 different mission lines.
Sometimes it's because the game is annoyingly hard, sometimes because the game has frustrating controls, and sometimes I just lose interest.
Hell, I played Final Fantasy XI for like 7 years and I hardly beat any content in it at all. Like 4 of the 12 different mission lines.
I try to finish my games. You have now made me want to play oblivion again. I haven't finished it yet.
I also want to finish dragon age: origins, mass effect 1 and Arcanum (I like playing old crpgs from time to time).
Basically it depends on the genre how quickly i'll finish a game.
Platformer: I will NEVER give up on them. I don't think there's a single platformer I own that I haven't played to the end, and there are few that I haven't gotten 100% on.
Action/Adventure: I usually go for the end. I will not go for everything though.
Racing: This is also hit and miss. I usually don't go for the end because most career modes don't have an end. Some of them do though and I go for the endings on those at times.
RPG: This is basically my weakspot. Sometimes the game just gets boring, or I suffer a crash or fall victim to not abiding the "save early, save often" rule.
RTS: There is no way in hell I could ever finish a story mode for that. It's just too hard for me, my brain just doesn't work right for RTS games. The only RTS I have (half) finished is warcraft 3 (the only reason I say half is because I never finished the expansion, frozen throne).
I also want to finish dragon age: origins, mass effect 1 and Arcanum (I like playing old crpgs from time to time).
Basically it depends on the genre how quickly i'll finish a game.
Platformer: I will NEVER give up on them. I don't think there's a single platformer I own that I haven't played to the end, and there are few that I haven't gotten 100% on.
Action/Adventure: I usually go for the end. I will not go for everything though.
Racing: This is also hit and miss. I usually don't go for the end because most career modes don't have an end. Some of them do though and I go for the endings on those at times.
RPG: This is basically my weakspot. Sometimes the game just gets boring, or I suffer a crash or fall victim to not abiding the "save early, save often" rule.
RTS: There is no way in hell I could ever finish a story mode for that. It's just too hard for me, my brain just doesn't work right for RTS games. The only RTS I have (half) finished is warcraft 3 (the only reason I say half is because I never finished the expansion, frozen throne).
Of course. I always finish the story before going on to anything else. Waste of money otherwise. Well unless the game is so mind numbing boring then I won't bother with it. So 99.9% of the time I do finish games.
I rarely finish my games, I always get to the final boss where almost everything is tied up and don't feel like beating the final boss. Especially if I had a friend playing the same game so they'll beat and I'll just watch the ending. Or if I buy a lot of games at once I get gamer ADD and try to play all and finish none.
Only Yes or No answers? Bah... Then No. I don't finish 100% of my games, in fact i don't think many people do. Most people have probably answered "yes" if they finish most of them.
Anyway, i usually only abandon the bad ones, currently i'm slowly trying to work my way through a massive backlog of games.
That report is bull anyway, only 10% of players on Raptr finished RDR's final mission? That might be because the damn thing was hidden.
Anyway, i usually only abandon the bad ones, currently i'm slowly trying to work my way through a massive backlog of games.
That report is bull anyway, only 10% of players on Raptr finished RDR's final mission? That might be because the damn thing was hidden.
Almost all of them. Sometimes a game will just come along that annoys me too much, or I just never get around to it. But that hardly ever happens.
I finish about 97% of all games I play. A game has to be bad, irredeemably bad to make me toss it. Seems like a waste of money to buy a game and then not finish it, so I always give it my best.
I have a couple of dozen games lying on the shelf, and I've finished maybe 8 or 9 of them. I keep playing so far through, then either trade them or just go and buy the next thing to take my fancy. Between that and real life, I never finish a lot of games.
I've promised myself I'm going to try and finish as many of them as I can by the end of the year though, assuming I don't do my usual autumn spending spree and add even more to the library...
I've promised myself I'm going to try and finish as many of them as I can by the end of the year though, assuming I don't do my usual autumn spending spree and add even more to the library...