Why do you give up or not complete video games?

[beddo]

I usually stop playing a game when something better comes along. For example, I stopped playing Far Cry 2 when Fable 2 and Fallout 3 came out.

Fable 2 is not as good as the first one in my opinion. It' kept the really annoying inventory controls. You can no longer assign items to the D-pad. It just seems like it's been hampered to make it better for 'casual' players.

Why they didn't migrate to an open world structure is beyond me.

 

[Darth Marsden]

I've quit games because they're broken and I can't pass a certain point. Like in Star Fox Adventures.

You never finished Starfox Adventures? Oh dear. That's probably the easiest game I own. Tut tut.

I generally never finish games because I get bored with them or it's just a bad game. Turok Evolution was a good one that I wouldn't have finished, if not for the fact that I'm forcing myself to go through the series. *Sigh*

And I actually finished Call of Juarez. Very much enjoyed it, though I do see your point with the character switching. Could get a little iffy at times.

 

[beddo]

I never finished Goblins Quest 3 because it bugged out on the penultimate level.

I looked on wikipedia to find out who had attained the licence rights for it and asked them for a new copy. Remember, EULAs rarely have time restrictions on them so by my calculations you are indefinitely entitled to any game you purchased. They said that they didn't have any more copies

 

[mintsauce]

I couldn't care any less if "Cole rocks" or not.
And yes I've seen many basketball and American football players like him. How does that help with the stereotype deal? It doesn't.
The fact that Cole Train has to act like the stereotypical black athlete is just annoying, make him an intellectual next time ;o.

Hell yeah, baby. Everyone wants to see The Cole Train play!

[under fire] Yeah! Wooo! Bring it on, sucka! This is my kinda shit!

Shit yeah, baby we got the hook-up! They given us a big-ass dinner!

(I actually thought to myself oh lawd whilst reading this last one)

Just give him the fried chicken and be dealt with it already.

It's like the heavy weapons guy just has to be the dumb guy, or the sniper the tough silent bastard.
Mix it up a little for gods sake...

So what you're basically saying is that stereotypical black athletes annoy you?

 

[Kermi]

I kind of like to cruise through a game, I'm not someone who feels the need to beat the hardest difficulty. i'm in it more for fun and story.
When a game's difficulty outweighs the amount of fun I'm having or my interest in the story, I stop.

 

[Kovash86]

Several things can get me to stop playing a game, bad controls, lame story, boring game play, and the game stone-walling me. I have quit a game before for having made it to the last boss, on sheer luck, and not having the right gun to kill said boss, I had to reset the system and go back to the very beginning, since this was a Megaman game that meant I had to defeat all 8 bosses after going through some of the most difficult stages ever constructed, because Capcom wants to punish their players for playing their games. Then again I was like 9 at the time so it may have just been my overall lack of coordination which led the lat stages of Megaman 3 to such epic difficulty.

I'm not saying they should hand you whatever you need before the last boss, but at least make it so the gun which you will use the most will have some degree of usefulness, be it giving you access to the weapon needed for the boss or it still being effective against said final boss.

 

[Jaebird]

Grand Theft Auto 4. Just because it takes way too long to complete the story. And it had too many errand missions (side-missions not included).

Mass Effect. I didn't go far into that, due to the annoyance of having to pick dialogue and sit thru cutscenes that are the average cutscene runtime multiplied by three. (Mass Effect = Cutscenes x 3 (if you're dense))

 

[Nazulu]

I usually stop in the middle of a game because I get bored or I find it tedious, and sometimes I find a game annoying like Twilight Princess, I got sick of switching to elf to dog in combat over and over again for certain bad guys.

I got to level 60 in WOW and around that time they just released the expansion so you could get to 70, I found it tedious and decided to stop!

Then in Brawl through the adventure mode I just got plain bored after 2 hours into it, I felt so tired and it was only 2pm! Also I didn't like the gameplay on this new installment and lost interest altogether.

 

[Gotham Soul]

What I want to know is how a thread about not completing video games turned into the discussion of the ancestry of football/rugby and its related sports.

Anyway, for my response:

I kind of like to cruise through a game, I'm not someone who feels the need to beat the hardest difficulty. i'm in it more for fun and story.
When a game's difficulty outweighs the amount of fun I'm having or my interest in the story, I stop.

Pretty much that, especially since I play a lot of action RPGs (Fallout, Mass Effect, etc)

 

[mintsauce]

No, and stop putting words in my mouth. Stereotypes annoy me.
I think I was clear enough, sorry you didn't get it.

My mistake - I get what you're saying. But still, I find it quite strange that stereotypes annoy you that much. They're not that hard to live with.

 

[gomerkyle9]

American football was created after the original football, so why are you trying to make yours the "official" football? And it's soccer. Also American football is a cheap rip-off of Rugby. See? I can make snarky remarks about your sports too.

[/offtopic]

Soccer has to make way for better sports, like the Brits had to make way for their superior: America. It does nothing but hurt you when you try to get in the way of progress. Soccer is kicking a round ball around for a long time... there is nothing compelling about it and is the sport that needs the least equipment and has the fewest rules, and it is therefor easy for poorer countries to participate.

Yes, Football has an ancestrial connection to rugby, but it's like comparing old black and white tv's with today's High Def TVs. Ours is better, because WE are better. I know it's not polite to say, and I certainly respect your right to play such games and throw rocks at each other and all that good fun, but maybe when you've discovered fire you can figure out how to play a game that takes physical skill and a mental capacity greater than a pickle.

Wow! You make it sound like you are speaking for all of America, you opinionated buffoon!

Man... Please don't judge all Americans based on this idiot. Some people take the free speech thing to their head and get carried away.

 

[S_K]

Well that depends on what you mean by 'complete'. If we're talking finishing a game to the point you see some kind of ending, a game would have to have some kind of big flaw or be too tedious with no incentive to continue for me to not finish it.

In my case for example I personally think the original Rayman was too hard for kids and too tedious for adults but that's my personal opinion. Another good example is kid chameleon, what they don't tell you is that the order of levels is a maze in itself not just the levels themselves, so you could be plowing through a bunch of levels you don't even need to be doing or god forbid at times even going in circles! Another infamous example is the original ninja gaiden, sure you have infinite continues, but you reach a point in the game where you HAVE TO hold onto powerups for dear life to have a hope in hell to beat the boss, which begins to border near impossible once you have died and lost everything you were carrying. It's things like this that just make you start asking yourself "why am I still playing this?"

But if by complete a game however you mean 100% finished that's a whole different story. There are some games that are masterfully constructed on the main story, but become more like religious devotion when you try to get into the 100% territory.

Best example I can think of but is not exactly a perfect game is the dynasty warriors series, to unlock everything in those games you have to make sure the battles happen pretty much exactly how they do in the novel the games are based on. Typically most games arn't as extreme as that, but what they generally ask out of the player usually is little or no margin for error when playing at all. Now unless they find a way to make it all seem less serious that's not exactly the definition of fun, which is one of the main purposes of videogames is it not? If a game fails at that surely that has to be one of the biggest turnoffs for a player.

EDIT:

Soccer has to make way for better sports, like the Brits had to make way for their superior: America. It does nothing but hurt you when you try to get in the way of progress. Soccer is kicking a round ball around for a long time... there is nothing compelling about it and is the sport that needs the least equipment and has the fewest rules, and it is therefor easy for poorer countries to participate.

Yes, Football has an ancestrial connection to rugby, but it's like comparing old black and white tv's with today's High Def TVs. Ours is better, because WE are better. I know it's not polite to say, and I certainly respect your right to play such games and throw rocks at each other and all that good fun, but maybe when you've discovered fire you can figure out how to play a game that takes physical skill and a mental capacity greater than a pickle.

Wow you need to take a shower because I can smell your elitist biggotry all the way from here, the only thing I'll agree on is 'soccer' is overrated especially the england soccer team, but 'football' is better? I think you'll find most of the world disagrees with you, your opinion isn't more valid automatically just because you're from the USA, and don't bring politics into a discussion like a fag which has nothing to do with it beyond your ego, it's a flamewar waiting to happen.

 

[WickedSkin]

Oh, and by the way... there is only one football... AMERICAN FOOTBALL.

Stop trying to make a distinction... you can call yours soccar. Sorry, but boring sports have to make concessions to the sports that can actually hold the interest of people who arn't trying to forget that they're starving...

American football was created after the original football, so why are you trying to make yours the "official" football? And it's soccer. Also American football is a cheap rip-off of Rugby. See? I can make snarky remarks about your sports too.

[/offtopic]

I'm with you on that one. American Football is just a pansie version of rugby.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

Usually I give up a game if its just too long, too much of a slogg. Games now a days are given a lot of bad press for being too short, but a lot of the longer games I've played just out stay their welcome.

One exception to this was Half-Life 2. It started off as nothing special, got really good once you got the gravity gun, then turned into a slogg near the end. I carried on playing because I was told it was the best FPS ever and was determinded to like. In the end I did...sort of. But I only started loving it when I played the episodes, especially 2. Now I can't wait for the next one.

 

[scnj]

I don't see how American football can be called football when they spend the majority of the game with the ball in their hands. It's false advertising.

As for not finishing games, if the story and world doesn't drag me in (if the game lacks immersion) I probably won't bother seeing it to it's conclusion.