Poll: Quiting a Game
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If it's bad? Although - among bad things - repetition/lack of variety usually does it first. See: Force Unleashed 2.
Extreme difficulty, I just have a certain threshold that once its passed I cant stomach it anymore. Other than that, not much, Sometimes in the case of RPG's it can be realizing some game element I missed before, like for example enemies scaling with your level in an RPG, or something else that is just too much of a system shock from what I had originally thought to keep playing.
Again though, the only solid one is ball crushing difficulty, since I either buy games or rent them from gamefly, either way I try to finish them before I send them back just for the closure.
Again though, the only solid one is ball crushing difficulty, since I either buy games or rent them from gamefly, either way I try to finish them before I send them back just for the closure.
Depends. I've gotten to the point with some games where I realize my addiction to it is killing my "life". Examples include World of Warcraft, Wurm Online, and Oblivion. Then there is when I get fed up with the player base in multiplayer. Examples include every FPS that has MP.
The only game i can think of was Far Cry 2... That that was only because of the shitty map system.
Everything else was perfectly fuctional (except the enemy AI but that can be forgiven) but every few feet of driving you had to stop, pull out the map and deduce exactly where you were going... It was more 70% map reading simulator 30% FPS
Everything else was perfectly fuctional (except the enemy AI but that can be forgiven) but every few feet of driving you had to stop, pull out the map and deduce exactly where you were going... It was more 70% map reading simulator 30% FPS
bad game. boring game. or in the case of Fallout:NV the bugs have gotten so bad, it's almost unplayable. today, i fired it up and there was no sound. so i finished talking to the NPC saved, quit and restarted. the i finished the quest thread i was on, which took about 5 minutes, went to fast travel to another location and it froze. turned it off and put it away. don't think i'll be playing it unless Obsidian happens to release a patch that actually does something to fix the game. oddly enough, i did have to download an update before i started up the game, but i think that was just a sony thing.
I quit a game when I get to a part where the game just keeps killing me off. In Beyond Good and Evil for instance, it was because of those stupid fucking instant-kill lasers later on. But I eventually finished it.
Or, because it's glitchy. See Ghostbusters on the PS2(biggest game buying mistake of my life) and Sonic 2006.
Or, because it's creepy, but not in the scary sense. Again, see Sonic 2006 for...yeah.
Or, because it's glitchy. See Ghostbusters on the PS2(biggest game buying mistake of my life) and Sonic 2006.
Or, because it's creepy, but not in the scary sense. Again, see Sonic 2006 for...yeah.
Difficulty used to be the sure way to get me to quit. When I was younger.
Maybe I've gotten really really good over the last 15 years or maybe games have just started holding your hand more, I've never quit a 3-d game out of frustration, certainly no game has ever inspired the sheer frustration rage that Battletoads did.
Nowadays though, bugs are WAY more prevalent.
That's the #1 reason I give up on a game, especially the nasty combination of bugs, a lack of a save-anywhere feature and long segments of repetition. There's only so many times I can take going through the same jumping puzzle before I want to air male the disk out the window.
Maybe I've gotten really really good over the last 15 years or maybe games have just started holding your hand more, I've never quit a 3-d game out of frustration, certainly no game has ever inspired the sheer frustration rage that Battletoads did.
Nowadays though, bugs are WAY more prevalent.
That's the #1 reason I give up on a game, especially the nasty combination of bugs, a lack of a save-anywhere feature and long segments of repetition. There's only so many times I can take going through the same jumping puzzle before I want to air male the disk out the window.
If I'm bored to death playing it or the game is so bad I can't finish it. I can ignore glitches but if they stop me from finishing the game then that game gets put back in its case and ignored, or it gets thrown unceremoniously in the trash bin.
How do you mean?
If you mean stop playing before I've completed it then there are a number of reasons, sometimes I get bored or frustrated with it, occasionaly I enjoy the game so much the thought of finishing it and thus having no more of it to play puts me off, now and then I can see where a plot point is going and I don't want to see it happen, like say I think a charecter I like is about to die or the plot looks like it's going to end with no small amount of stupidity*cough*Fallout 3*cough*, sometimes I can't get time to myself in orfer to play it or finally even if I love a game I may not continue it if the need to grind is too great.
If however yopu mean quiting an online match in progress then, it would take either a power cut, an immediate medical concren or a blatent case of rampant cheating.
If you mean stop playing before I've completed it then there are a number of reasons, sometimes I get bored or frustrated with it, occasionaly I enjoy the game so much the thought of finishing it and thus having no more of it to play puts me off, now and then I can see where a plot point is going and I don't want to see it happen, like say I think a charecter I like is about to die or the plot looks like it's going to end with no small amount of stupidity*cough*Fallout 3*cough*, sometimes I can't get time to myself in orfer to play it or finally even if I love a game I may not continue it if the need to grind is too great.
If however yopu mean quiting an online match in progress then, it would take either a power cut, an immediate medical concren or a blatent case of rampant cheating.
Insane difficulty to the point of needing to know the level beforehand to have any kind of chance, pure boredom, another game coming around and being better, the game being shit...
Yeah, I don't usualy stick at one game, and only that game, until it's done - I just play whatever I feel like playing at the time.
Yeah, I don't usualy stick at one game, and only that game, until it's done - I just play whatever I feel like playing at the time.
Lots of things can make me stop playing a game before I'm finished with it. I think the biggest one is attention span though.
I've got a bunch of games that I've started, gotten a ways into and then quit playing because something better came along. I still have saves so I can go back and pick them up whenever I get to it though.
The other thing that can take me out of a game is if my computer gets messed up partway into a game and I have to restore my backup image. Quite often I'll put a game aside because of that, it's why I never finished Half-Life 2.
I've got a bunch of games that I've started, gotten a ways into and then quit playing because something better came along. I still have saves so I can go back and pick them up whenever I get to it though.
The other thing that can take me out of a game is if my computer gets messed up partway into a game and I have to restore my backup image. Quite often I'll put a game aside because of that, it's why I never finished Half-Life 2.