I finished Red Dead, It was kind of a let down. And you had to play as the kid after that and he's a farking prick.

I think the last game I finished was the first Halo.

I wanted to finish a lot of my games, but for some reason, a lot of my games turn out unplayable on my PC (crash with red artifacts all over the screen). I think my video card had a seizure.

This problem also prevented me from finishing GTA4 after I invested quite a chunk of time into it.

The other games I don't finish generally consists of me buying a game, playing it once, realizing it sucks, and never putting it back on ever again.

I hate that I don't finish most of my games, but I get bored. They still gnaw at me though, and I can never bear to take them off my hard drive. So my computer is full of tons of games that I've forgotten how to play, staring at me all the time, guilting me.

Seth'n'Spectrum: FTFA: "Gamers may say they like playing epic single-player games. But when push comes to shove, what they really want is online multiplayer."

No, now STFU and get me my Skyrim.

But on topic, it's true I haven't finished FNV because I simply haven't had enough time. I think one point worth mentioning in the shorter versus longer game debate is that you don't actually have to finish a longer game to enjoy the hell out of it. Especially sandbox games, where "finishing" the main quest is often really not the point.

I tend to get so caught up in side quests that I'd massively overpower the final boss. At that point why bother.

Barbigazi: I finished Red Dead, It was kind of a let down. And you had to play as the kid after that and he's a farking prick.

True dat.

/I just cruise around and see how high my bounty can get before being hunted down by a posse.

I'm looking at you, Elder Scrolls: Oblivion.

The Onanist: Barbigazi: I finished Red Dead, It was kind of a let down. And you had to play as the kid after that and he's a farking prick.

True dat.

/I just cruise around and see how high my bounty can get before being hunted down by a posse.

After you kill a bear with a hunting knife the rest seems meaningless.

I guess I'm an aberration then. More than that, with RPGs, I tend to replay to see different outcomes. Mass Effect. Fallout 3. Fallout: New Vegas. The Fable games. Try different strategies in Halo: Reach or ODST or the Bioshock games. Heck, I still pull out Killzone and play through that.

Then again, I don't buy or rent a lot of games, so the ones I do bring home, I want some value for. I get a game, I want one that is going to keep me entertained and challenged for a while. If a game sucks to the point of me not wanting to play it all the way through, then it goes back to the store. The ones on the shelf? Those I'll go through time and time again.

Did you enjoy that?

*lighting cigarette*

I game.

To completion? Wait a minute, you TOTALLY FAKED that last mission!

Still trying to finish off God of War 3. Finished the last two. However this time around a I two small kids in the house so it's slow going.

Frankly I hate FPSs (probably because I have lousy reflexes), but usually I finish the RPGs I buy...I love the BioWare series.

Last game I finished was the most recent Professor Layton game. Wow, do I love that series.

Last console game I finished was the first Portal.

I now have a month-old baby. I basically won't be finishing any games at all for the next eighteen years or so.

Lord Dimwit: I now have a month-old baby. I basically won't be finishing any games at all for the next eighteen years or so.

Congrats. Think of the kid as a very expensive Tamagatchi.

Barbigazi: I finished Red Dead, It was kind of a let down. And you had to play as the kid after that and he's a farking prick.

He watched as his father was gunned down by the group swearing to free him, and his mother die of loneliness just a couple years later. He's jaded. It's a very downer ending because it basically means that everything Marston did to prevent his kid following in his criminal footsteps was for nothing (the kid 'murdered' a retired FBI agent, he would hang immediately).

The only games that I've purchased that I never finished were Turok (what a waste of money), Transformers (multiplayer was fun, but the story was so boring and scenery sucked), and Dead Rising (I HATE actual timed games where you actually lose objectives).

I would count the Battlefield Series, but those were never about the single-player experience (BC2 was close, but I just gave up after a tedious mission).

Mass Effect 2 I've played through at least 4 times (want a slew of different endings so I have a bunch of different ways to play ME3) and my girlfriend is currently working through it with her female Shepherd (she's a renegade and LOVES IT).

Played Dragon Age: Origins at least 3 times. Made it through Dragon Age 2, tried to start a new game, and was bored within an hour. The game is not an RPG, it's a story and you're just along for the ride.

MuonNeutrino: The question that comes to mind reading that article, is 'of the people who didn't finish, how much of the game did they play before stopping?' I have a feeling that if you take out the people who played the first hour or so, said 'I don't like this game' or 'this game sucks', and turned it off, it'd be significantly different - i.e. what's the percentage of not finishing among people who actually enjoyed the game?

I still haven't finished Mass Effect 2 or New Vegas and I love those games. But I have much to do.

HoFChaos: I read a report a few months back about how "Heavy Rain" for the PS3 had the highest rate of completion, at 72%.

Here it is: Link (new window)

I played Heavy Rain for about an hour, said "Screw it, I'm not playing a game completely made up of quick time events" and threw it back in the ottoman.

HoFChaos: I read a report a few months back about how "Heavy Rain" for the PS3 had the highest rate of completion, at 72%.

Here it is: Link (new window)

Isn't that just a long QTE game? I heard there was very little as far as gameplay mechanics. It was like a choose your own adventure, except you only get a limited time to choose and you better pay attention.

Seth'n'Spectrum: FTFA: "Gamers may say they like playing epic single-player games. But when push comes to shove, what they really want is online multiplayer."

No, now STFU and get me my Skyrim.

But on topic, it's true I haven't finished FNV because I simply haven't had enough time. I think one point worth mentioning in the shorter versus longer game debate is that you don't actually have to finish a longer game to enjoy the hell out of it. Especially sandbox games, where "finishing" the main quest is often really not the point.

yeah, you don't want to finish the game because it's fun to run around and kill things. I never finish these types of games until the character is maxed out. then it's sort of a let down, because the main plot is never that interesting. yet, i still love the game... it's just sad to read the end; i always have a slow down period just before a game is about to end.

/ i think the real problem is boring plots. multiplayer is one problem leading to lame stories, the other is the absolute requirement that something be sandbox. some nonlinear is great, but some direction does help a well written story.
// i personally like a mix of the two styles. you start in a small area, but can do it sandbox. once you've accomplished some threshold event, a new area opens up, and so on, while you can return to the previous areas. that way, the sandbox is not overwhelming and boring
/// of the games that I like, I have beaten them multiple times. of those that I dislike, i quit. not finishing a game means it stinks, it doesn't mean anything else.

Maybe if these guys:

would stop having cheap sale prices on games, I'd be able to actually finish the backlog of games I have in my library.

/Did finish Borderlands, and all DLC, though.

I only recently managed to complete Planescape: Torment. In doing so, I have completed my entire backlog of games from the year 1999, and I may now move on to games released in the year 2000.