Tell GR: Do You Finish Games?

I finish them much less than I'm proud to admit or feel I should.

I finish on average 8 out of every 10 games I play. Games I regret never finishing:

Fallout 3 ... Final Fantasy XII .... Beyond Good and Evil ... Majora's Mask ... Yakuza 4 .... Doom 3 ... Parasite Eve ... and I got 75% of the way through Jade Empire =(

For my PS3 Games (start from last to first)

RE: ORC - No
Skyrim - No
BF3 - No
Dark Souls - No
LA Noire - No
Red Dead Redemp - Yes
Red Dead Undead Nightmare - Yes
Zombie Island - Yes
BF: BC2 - Yes
Mass Effect 2 - No
Portal 2 - Yes
Heavy Rain - Yes
MGS4 - Yes (Multiple times....last maybe 5)
MGS HD Collection - No (None of them)
Bio Shock 2 - Yes
Bio Shock 1 - Yes
Gran Turismo - No
Ruse - No
GTA 4 Liberty City Stories - Yes (Both Gay Tony and Lost & Damned)
Limbo - Yes
Journey - Yes

So it looks like am pushing a lttle bit higher than a 50% completion ratio. Much of it depends on length of play, difficulty of play, then interest of play. Skyrim is a blast but takes forever to get anywhere (loading screens anyone?). I am not doing any side quests to power through the game. Mass Effect 2 looks great and is fun but feels too large.

It seems if a game easily frustrates me I dont finish it.

Whoops. Fallout 3 - No (I also hated this game due to loading screens and just grey everywhere)

oh god I forgot about both DEMONS AND DARK SOULS games.

had to stop playing out of pure frustration and self loathing. those games are bad for my health

I finish most of them. By finish that means story usually. Completing 100% of a games side quests and everything I've barely ever done. The only time I never finish a game is when it's shitty.

Ditto

Not spam I just didn't wanted to write the same thing :)

Just beating the game is a finisher I think. After all, you went from start to end like a book.


Off that note, the only games I never finished was Final Fantasy VIII (final area was confusing as ****), Donkey Kong Country Returns and Final Fantasy VI (too lazy)

Well, I watched the "end-credits roll" on Fallout: New Vegus but still have the DLC to finish. I played the Witcher 2 all the way through (just one time will replay again later). Skyrim is still loaded and waiting for DLC. Need to get Civ V expansion. So I have games that I have finished that I'm not finished with yet.

I finish almost all of my games except those select few that are so terrible I don't make it past the first few hours. The only games I can think of from this generation that I didn't finish were L.A. Noire (which I decided I hated after a couple hours) and BF3 singleplayer, but everyone else only got it for the multiplayer too. I think that fewer and fewer gamers, especially the younger ones, are finishing their games these days because of the sheer number of good titles that come out. That and the constant allure of playing and being part of "the next big thing" in gaming.

I finish...too quickly sometimes. Leaving the game unsatisfied.

Then how in the world did you get three kids?

The question is how he doesnt have more than 3 kids.

it depends. a game like Max Payne 3, Dead Space or Bioshock i'll finish when the credits roll, unless there is multiplayer, like max payne.
Red Dead REdemption is the only open world game where i kept playing until it felt liked i'd done absolutely everything. i would have kept playing Fallout 3 but didnt realise that the last main quest mission meant i couldn't play anymore, so i got pissed off and refused to go back to the last save and finish any uncompleted quests/look for more.

i remember playing games like Baldurs Gate, Neverwinter Nights (my personal favorite) and Icewind Dale till the end, then starting over with a new character.

i'll never get anywhere near the end of Skyrim. i've had it pretty much since release, but am only still lvl 22. i just dont have the time to invest in it.

and once i finish the GTA games i always just go back to them to wreak extreme amounts of havoc.

I'm starting to finish games a lot more often. I got really easily bored when I was younger, but now I find it a lot more satisfying to persevere and get back to an interesting part and then finish.

I consider finishing or beating a game to be finishing the main storyline. I generally finish all of my games. The only two games that I own and have actually gotten around to playing that I haven't finished are MGS4 and GTA4. Both for the same reason. The aging mechanics and lackluster storylines just didn't grab my interest.

Ive finished every game Ive owned except for Friday the 13th and Back to the Future from the old NES days.

I see someone's already made a quip about finishing too fast. I'll see myself out.

So rather than finish too fast you are going to pull out too soon?

I need to work on my timing and rhythm.

My definition of finishing a game: beating the story/single player mode. And of course there's a difference between finishing a game at the bare minimum and doing it 100% (all unlocks, side missions, etc.).

That said, yes, I finish nearly all of my games. I buy all of my games on sale, and they go into a small backlog. I pick a game from the backlog, play it start from finish, and then I'm usually done with it and trade it in. The more I enjoy a game, the closer I get to finishing it 100%. If I don't like the game, I'll stop after a few hours, put it in the trade pile, and move on to the next one... which is rare, I've done that to maybe 8 games this generation.

Yeah, what Crucial-Kenny said about the difference of finishing at bare-minimum. I play the game and end the campaign/story. I never actually "finished" some games, because I simply get bored with them. I tend to go back to them despite how horrible some are. I just simply end their story and campaign. Finishing a game to me is unlocking everything and %100 the game completely. I done that quite a few times. Being bored of a game is the main reason why I have a huge backlog. That and sometimes I can't finish a game, because a new game has come out and all my friends are playing it.

Yep I'm THAT guy. My buddy always gives me **** for it. It's not just vidya games either. It's epic novels. The last book I finished was "The Hobbit" about 2 weeks ago because I started forcing myself to do so. Prior to that it has been ages on finshing a book. Games I played almost all the way through and didn't finish:

FF7: Yep. I didn't finish it. Ashamed as I call myself an RPG fan.
Darksiders.
Xenoblade Saga (working on it)
Dark Souls (did finish Demons Souls, also finished Dragons Dogma)
Gears of War 2/3 never played 1
All the Halos (minus 3) and COD's, only got them for multiplayer
TES Oblivion - Spent over 200 hours and never finished campaign
TES Skyrim - Again, spent several hours non-campaign and leant the cd to buddy - cd was stolen ugh
TES Morrowind: I DID BEAT THIS OMG
All other TES - too old, could not focus/was old school difficult
Lots of other stuff too drunk off hard cider to list.

I seek to finish every game I buy, and am close to 95% of the games I've booted up. Finishing a game and having triumphed over my enemies or discovered the mystery gives me that sense of accomplishment. If I really enjoyed the game, I can get the same feeling from trophies (much more selective on trophy hunting). The only games I can recall not finishing is RAGE and Contra (NES).

That said, I also played quite a few MMOs. I am baffled to this day how this dichotomy works in my head.

I can finish a game as long as I remove the stack of unopened games from my immediate vision. Otherwise I constantly cycle through all the games that came out at the same time and were bought on pure impulse. When I do return to something, I find that I have forgotten what is going on and quit to move back down the stack. Curse you game designers and your release schedules.

I probably have finished about 30% of the games I've played. Unfortunately, Since I switched from N64 to PS2 there were so many games I played at a time that I left some behind. I never finished FF7 because I got bored with the graphics after a while, and right now I'm struggling with ending Fallout 3, AC: Brotherhood and then playing Revelations, Dark Souls, and completing trophies for Heavy Rain.

In the past, I used to be obsessed trying to get every Achievement/Trophy there was for games that seemed attainable and not overly-frustrating, but recently I've realized I missed playing games just for fun, with side quests/optional tasks as a diversion once I'm done with the main story/campaign. Really, it's the stories and characters that draw me into games; if those both are pretty lame, I usually move onto a different title. That, and I have WAY too many games on hand usually with never enough time to give them the attention they deserve. Hence, my campaign-finishing percentage is pretty high, while 100% completion is very low.