What is your biggest reason for not finishing a game.

[MarxonSR1]

When the game isn't interesting enough and repeats the same factors ad infinitum with no redeeming features, such as good graphics or the satisfaction that you can clobber thousands of enemies without breaking a sweat. Also where I feel no characteristic sense of victory of having defeated thousands of enemies.
For example when you have to fight though and endless reoccurring band of enemies, if this process is not suitably violent or destructive I'll easily get bored.
Also with many games for me the attraction is the storyline but if I feel this has not been suitably developed or well based.
But usually I continue on with most games as I feel I have let myself down if I don't complete it.

 

[sokka14]

i'll not finish a game at 2 points.

the first point is about 30 mins to 2 hours in when i realise the game is, quite simply, shite.

the second point is just before the end when i'm faced with a boss (sometimes the final one, but not always) that requires too much time and/or effort to beat.

 

[HentMas]

unimaginative story and game issues like "kill 10 of these" all done "kill 20 of the same"

 

[Ghost1800]

I will describe it after I have shown it to you.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v646/Ghost1800/Bloodsucker-STALKER.jpg

This.

An invisible-ninja-tentacle-monster that wants nothing more then to leap at you and suck your organs out through your straw like esophagus. I cannot bring myself to go into any underground layer where one of these guys (and his pals) may be lurking around. Which is a shame, I absolutely love Stalker, but I am absolutely terrified of fighting anything that has the sole desire to feast on my still living flesh (it's amazing I got through Dead Space)... it being able to cloak at will doesn't help. I would gladly take on the entire Russian army and their spetsnaz troops then fight one of these.

*flees in terror*

 

[Moraki]

playing multiy player n 4getting the sotry after getting a new game

 

[Andalusa]

Um, I get bored?

 

[ffxfriek]

If something is horribly frustrating, sometimes I'll put it down and forget to come back to it. Also, if a game has really bad gameplay, and I just can't bare the thought of slogging through it, then I won't play it. When gaming feels like work, it's not worth it anymore.

what you said is the perfect example

 

[Lazzi]

when it starts to lose its spark.

 

[deadly.by.design]

Gamer ADD. I play for a while and then fail to follow through. Happens on consoles (and retro games) more than the PC, for some reason.

 

[Darkblaven]

My frustation with Molitov (Is that how its spelled?) in Facebreaker knows no end!!!

 

[hamster67]

If a game gets frustratingly hard, like dynasty warriors gundam 2 atm, having to kill 1000 enemies in 20 mins isn't too bad but asking you to kill 3-5 characters in the process is manic. Games which are do-able but just require to much time and energy.

 

[The_Deleted]

playing multiy player n 4getting the sotry after getting a new game

What?

I just have too many damned games. The second a game gets just the wrong side of frustrating it gets passed over for something else, always under the pretence I'll get back to it. By then, ofcourse, I gotten a whole lot more games.

 

[Outamyhead]

Lack of time between work, spending time with the wife, and online racing, I get enough time to get a descent setup for the weekend, and that's about it.

 

[DM.]

Homeworld. The controls on that made me want to stab a baby in the face.

And I regularly play a Wii.

 

[neuromasser]

Lack of interest / time / nerves / will / tollerance

 

[zerzxes]

i finished all the games i wish i didn't.....

 

[Devildoc]

Too many reasons, most of em already covered in this thread.

But the main reason for me is definitely 'loss of interest' (or less poetically: not giving a damn anymore). In my opinion, if it's not a hardware problem it always ends with not giving a damn anymore.

Repetitive? It means you've played long enough to notice a pattern..which killed your initial enthusiasm and 'made you not give a damn.' Too hard? You tried countless of times but now you don't give a damn anymore (can't try and fail forever, where's teh fun in that). Got new games? Means your enthusiasm for new stuff makes you not give a damn (at least for a while) about the old stuff. And so on.

I wouldn't say a new game makes me "not give a damn" about the old game, it's just I want to try this new game out too. I usually don't complete the new one either. It's gamer ADD. Basically we know we'll come back to these games but like to try other things out. Frankly I enjoy playing multiple games all at the same time as it keeps things from getting boring or stale, there's no compulsion to stick to 1 game until it's done I just play it bit by bit as I fancy. Frankly I think gaming companies bank on gamers like me who are a bit ADD about games. I buy new games when they come out, rather than waiting until I complete some 60+ hour rpg over a few weeks THEN go buy the game.

 

[curtmack]

Ignoring the obvious reasons like "It turned out to be a terrible game" and "Stupidly frustrating segment made me lose interest," I'd have to say the biggest reason I stop playing a game is when the story or gameplay suddenly turns to mush and doesn't seem to be getting any better, commonly known as "Xen Syndrome" after the endgame of the original Half-Life.

 

[forever saturday]

A. I get stuck.

B. Its really hard. Not hard like "this is kinda challenging but I think I can beat it" hard, more like "I'm going to have an aneurysm" hard.

C. Its not fun.

D. Its buggy or has some other technical problem.

E. I rented it and don't feel like buying it.

F. I have an attack of ADD and decide to play something else.

G. I get a corrupted save file and don't want to go through all that again.