When Is A Game Finished?

[irani_che]

when the campaign is finished, and i am bored of side quests

 

[Batou667]

But what about multiplayer? I suppose then, the game is only finished when I've completed the singleplayer campaign on hardest difficulty, got 100% of the achievements AND when I'm bored of multiplayer. For certain games that could amount to several years.

(Still playing Halo 3 multiplayer...)

 

[Alexias_Sandar]

When I stop playing it anymore.

 

[Wolfhowl the shadow lurker]

in a game like oblivion your never really done but in a game like gears o war when everthing apart from you is dead then your done

 

[Yopaz]

Its finished when you stop having fun. For some games thats when you finish the campaign, others its after you 100% it, some it goes on even longer than that...and then some its 15 minutes in when you get buyers remorse and return it to the shop.

This is so true. I have finished everything I care about finishing in Saints Row 2 and I am still having fun playing it. Thus I'm not finished.

 

[salthors]

The game is finished when i can't find any new interesting things about it.

 

[IamSofaKingRaw]

When there is nothing else worth doing

 

[Broken Orange]

When I no longer have fun with it. Usually this is when I beat the Campaign, but some games can surpass the campaign with replayability or multiplayer. Sometimes, the game is over with a terrible quicktime event, a game breaking bug, or I'm unsure what to do.

 

[Halo Fanboy]

NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

+1

 

[Zeema]

when you feel happy that you have beaten the game enough

i try to do as much as possible

 

[The_Deleted]

When the story is done or when I've had enough. Whichever kicks in first.

 

[Miles_Vorkosigan]

personally campaign is enough, but some achievments are fun e.g. Littlest Rocket Man from HL2 ep.2

 

[James Mann]

Dependant on the game. I considered portal 1 complete when i finished the single player campaign. Achievements are fun but not particularly important in most cases. A game like fallout 3 on the other hand i have yet to consider complete because it offers many different ways of playing and when i start again i don't particularly consider it replaying until i run out of variations of play style. Games with multiplayer options, mainly fps games tend to be continuously playable in the mulitplayer mode so the game never really seems finished until the playable value of the multiplayer dissapears, which tends to take a very long time.

 

[ResonanceGames]

Well, the OP is a false dilemma. A game is over for me when I've ceased to get satisfaction from it. I never beat New Vegas -- not because it's a bad game, but because I got my fill before the end credits rolled. Nothing wrong with that, especially when it's a huge game like that.

If I get bored before the end of something like Duke Nukem Forever (which I did) then we have a problem.

If a game is compelling enough that I want to keep playing in order to get some achievements (Human Revolution) then great.

 

[putowtin]

depends on the game, some games will be replayed until the end of days,
some games can be thrown in the bin after an hour.
Generally I try to at least get to the credits (even with games I've found boring/a chore)