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(CNN) Obvious Why you still haven't finished any of the video games you started in 2010   (cnn.com) divider line 386
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2011-08-17 10:50:05 AM
I can vouch for this, I still have unopened Dreamcast games.
 
2011-08-17 10:58:02 AM
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.
 
2011-08-17 10:59:28 AM
I think the last game I finished was the first Halo.
 
2011-08-17 11:05:44 AM
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.
 
2011-08-17 11:06:34 AM
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.
 
2011-08-17 11:07:33 AM
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.
 
2011-08-17 11:13:23 AM
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.
 
2011-08-17 11:18:52 AM
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.
 
2011-08-17 11:18:57 AM
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.
 
2011-08-17 11:19:36 AM
I'm looking at you, Elder Scrolls: Oblivion.
 
2011-08-17 11:19:54 AM
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.
 
2011-08-17 11:23:25 AM
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.
 
2011-08-17 11:28:27 AM
Did you enjoy that?

*lighting cigarette*

I game.

To completion? Wait a minute, you TOTALLY FAKED that last mission!
 
2011-08-17 11:31:55 AM
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.
 
2011-08-17 11:36:01 AM
I was in the middle of Arkham Asylum in March and then one day didn't play it, and then it turned to a week, and then a month, and then months... I haven't touched my XBox 360 since then and I really have no idea why.

My wife got me a 3DS for my birthday in late July, and I've been playing Ghost Recon on it, but that's the only game I've played since March.
 
2011-08-17 11:37:36 AM
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.

The Red Dead Denouement was a bit ... odd.
 
2011-08-17 11:43:44 AM
Frankly I hate FPSs (probably because I have lousy reflexes), but usually I finish the RPGs I buy...I love the BioWare series.
 
2011-08-17 11:45:55 AM
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.
 
2011-08-17 11:46:55 AM
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.
 
2011-08-17 11:47:28 AM
I liked the ending of RDR. You knew he had to die and they had to make a way that you could keep playing if you wanted to.
 
2011-08-17 11:48:04 AM
I finish most games I start as long as they are good. The problem is there are far too many games out now that are complete crap.
 
2011-08-17 11:52:19 AM
There are a number of RPGs left unfinished on my shelves (Blue Dragon, Dragon Age 2, Dungeon Siege 3) but for the most part I finish them, and then run them again a time or two.

Currently I'm playing Torchlight for the umteenth time!
 
2011-08-17 11:52:30 AM
I finish most games. I also play about 1 game a year. And they are often SNES RPGs that I never go to play as a kid.
 
2011-08-17 11:52:42 AM
Still working on Bioshock and Fallout 3.

But in my defense I was halfway through both of them and my computer decided to take a shiat.
 
2011-08-17 11:55:40 AM
Blues_X: I'm looking at you, Elder Scrolls: Oblivion.

Damnit if that ain't true.

/just reinstalled it to try again
//from the beginning, of course
///doomed
 
2011-08-17 11:56:27 AM
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)
 
2011-08-17 11:56:35 AM
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? Similarly, what's the breakdown by game type? The article mentioned a few specific games, but what about the broader division between 'games billed as primarily (or completely) single player' (i.e. a zelda game) and 'games which are primarily multi player focused' (i.e. many of the recent console shooters). Is it that 'people don't finish games nowadays', or is is 'a lot of games nowadays aren't meant to be finished' - i.e. is the 'shorter game' phenomenon a cause or an effect? I think they have an interesting topic there, but I'd like to see a lot more rigorous analysis before I accept their conclusion.
 
2011-08-17 11:56:46 AM
soopey: Still working on Bioshock and Fallout 3.

But in my defense I was halfway through both of them and my computer decided to take a shiat.


Would you kindly finish Bioshock?
 
2011-08-17 11:56:49 AM
I finished Rygar for the Wii. I think that's the only one.
 
2011-08-17 11:56:57 AM
Why don't I finish some games?

Simple: because they don't hold my interest. This is a serious flaw: even if the game gets better later on, people won't know about it because they'll stop playing before then. This is the problem I had with, for example, FFXII: I would probably really enjoy it if I could stand to play long enough to be able to use Gambits, but before that point it just doesn't hold my interest. FFXIII seems to have similar problems, turned up to 11.

Bottom line: The gameplay is poor. Storytelling can grab people at the beginning and end of a game, and even at some local climax points within the story. But if the game isn't fun to play between those points, none of that will matter, because people will lose interest. Storytelling simply cannot make a bad game good.
 
2011-08-17 11:57:35 AM
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.
 
2011-08-17 11:57:40 AM
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.
 
2011-08-17 11:58:39 AM
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.
 
2011-08-17 11:59:23 AM
Funny how "they're derivative, repetitive and a total waste of time ie, boring" doesn't appear.
 
2011-08-17 12:00:07 PM
I still haven't finished Silent Hill 2, but it's mostly because I'm scared too.
 
2011-08-17 12:00:23 PM
Blues_X: I'm looking at you, Elder Scrolls: Oblivion.

The problem there is that you're so goddamn uber by then that it just seems pointless. I'm the guildmaster of every guild, the most deadly assassin in the world. I own houses in every major town, and I could get bored and slaughter an entire city full of people without breaking a sweat, and now I have to do some bullshiat quest? Why? Oh, I have to find the rightful heir of the throne? fark that. Thrones mine now, biatch.

(I suppose it had a decent ending, but the game cinematics were buggy, so it looked like shiat.)
 
2011-08-17 12:00:53 PM
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.
 
2011-08-17 12:01:05 PM
Last game I finished was Fallout 3 - including all the DLC stuff. I think I was one or two missions from the end of Red Dead Redemption.
 
2011-08-17 12:02:52 PM
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.
 
2011-08-17 12:03:41 PM
theguyinthe$4000suit: Last game I finished was Fallout 3 - including all the DLC stuff. I think I was one or two missions from the end of Red Dead Redemption.

I made it through 1 playthrough of FO3 and FO:NV, but after that I get bogged down trying to DO everything, and can't ever finish the game. Also, by the time you have a couple of bits of DLC, the increased level cap turns you into an unstoppable murder machine, so there is no challenge left.
 
2011-08-17 12:04:21 PM
The problem is that most games are simply clones now. How many FPS's do we have that on the same premise as Call of Duty or Medal of Honor (with minor gameplay tweaks)? How many of those actually have an interesting story line? Now how many of those have a level system that is essentially the same for each level, just a differen't surrounding (Go here, shoot these guys, go here, shoot these guys, ect)? Last 2 games I finished? Portal 2 and Portal. Take a guess as to why those games held my interest.

The industry needs more original ideas. I think the HUGE amount of Minecraft clones on XBLA proves that by itself.
 
2011-08-17 12:04:47 PM
Maybe it would help if developers wouldn't make games artifically hard to make up for the fact that they have 10 hours of actual content. If they average gamer is 37, they just don't have the reflexes anymore for twitch gaming.

Looking at you Sonic Unleashed.
 
2011-08-17 12:05:07 PM
Reasons not to finish a game:

1. Game is terrible and/or boring.
2. Game is too repetitive.
3. Game becomes too difficult as you progress.
4. Game glitches and prevents you from finishing.
5. Game allows you to collect all the most powerful items and skills before the end.
6. Game's story and/or characters are terrible so you don't care what the outcome is.
7. Better game is released before you're finished with the current one you're playing.
 
2011-08-17 12:05:17 PM
A few just couldn't hook me like I thought they would, or I got sidetracked by other new releases, or older games I bought used.

Trying to finish up Old world blues, so I can move onto Deus Ex human Revolution after PAX is complete. Should hold me over till batman comes out in October, then the twin releases of Skyrim and Uncharted 3 in November.
 
2011-08-17 12:05:36 PM
I'm probably going to get shellacked when I say this, but I have two major critically acclaimed games that have me right at the end at my current save point, but have not finished. The first I started way back in college... Yes, Ocarina of Time, my original start. The second is Dragon Quest 8. I am sure most people have played through both of those countless times. For me, it's just finding the time to sit down and play for a couple of hours. Maybe it's an ADD thing. Entirely possible.
 
2011-08-17 12:06:30 PM
scottydoesntknow: 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.

Yes it was pretty much just a movie where you determine the outcome. I liked making them all die.
 
2011-08-17 12:07:29 PM
Blues_X: I'm looking at you, Elder Scrolls: Oblivion.

I just picked it up again with the goal of finish it and Shivering Islands before Skyrim comes out. I forgot how maddeningly buggy the game is.
 
2011-08-17 12:07:37 PM

Maybe if these guys:

media.giantbomb.com


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.
 
2011-08-17 12:07:51 PM
I've finished every game I own....but then again, I don't own that many games.

Hell, I've only played three in the last year... but all three of those games I've beaten like a drunken redneck beats his wife. Those three games?

Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Marvel Ultimate Alliance. Three games that I can sink time into and sit down for the quests, or just pop in and kill stuff. Can't wait for Skyrim.
 
2011-08-17 12:08:37 PM
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.
 
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