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An important note: This has less to do with difficulty than it does with general player behavior.

The director for Hitman: Absolution, Tore Blystad, has told OPM the following:
20 per cent of the players will see the last level of the game. It’s horrible to know. It makes the people working on it really, really sad.

We are using metrics a lot more now than we did, for good and for bad. The general player will probably never even finish the game, which is very sad. Or they might only play through it once, but the game is built for the people who want to go back through every single level and get all the stuff out of it. It’s built to last, rather than be a one-off experience.
I can see how people can complain about how games have become too easy and that making games difficult are a detriment to players finishing it. That is a valid argument, though most of the issues with difficulty have been solved by giving players the choices between various settings.

There are many other reasons why people don't finish games, like getting bored or distracted, being distracted by other games on their queue, and thinking about the time investment involved and concluding that it's just not worth the effort.

I usually finish all of my games (about 60-70% of them), or I just don't start them in the first place. What about you?

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  • sandineyes
    sandineyes

    Joined: May 2008
    Posted: Jun 26th, 2012 at 2:17 pm
    I beat Hitman: Blood Money because it was a great game: the missions were mostly very engaging, and although I had a lot of difficulty getting through it back in the day, it was never frustrating because there was always something else I could try. Although now with the leather wearing, kung-fu nuns, I'm not sure what to expect with this next game.
    But yeah, I finish most of my games, but I have no qualms about giving up when I'm no longer having fun.
  • StringerBell86
    StringerBell86

    Joined: Mar 2012
    Posted: Jun 26th, 2012 at 2:17 pm
    My theory about this particular situation:

    *The "Hitman" series is marketed as a bloody, violent action franchise (with a "sexy-looking" movie adaptation as well)
    -- Parts of the game can be very, very SLOW and require the patience of a chess-player, which probably turns the average gamer off after playing for 3 or 4 hours
    -- Forgive the analogy but, if you order pizza and you get salad, you're gonna be disappointed

    Don't get me wrong I loved Hitman: Blood Money. But it does not have an action-packed pacing like other espionage games like Splinter Cell, Metal Gear or Siphon Filter.

    I believe it is a marketing issue, not a game difficulty/quality issue.
  • warmaster670
    warmaster670

    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Jun 27th, 2012 at 2:16 am
    Since when was hitman marketed as an action game?
  • warmaster670
    warmaster670

    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Jun 27th, 2012 at 2:17 am
    And on another note, theres nothing stopping people from playing it in an action way, I went though many levels in bloodmoney with my super pimp assault rifle just murdering people., at least not in 2+.
  • warmaster670
    warmaster670

    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Jun 27th, 2012 at 2:17 am
    at least not in 2+ was supposed to come before the rifle statement
  • shandog137
    shandog137

    Joined: Mar 2007
    Posted: Jun 26th, 2012 at 2:26 pm
    I finish most of my games. I would say I am in the 60-70 percent for those games I have that are able to be finished. I have a lot of racing and fighting games but I really don't count those as games to be finished. I am currently trying to decide when I want to complete the last few missions of Dragon's Dogma as I am level 46 and at the final battle. I just put so much time into it I hate to see it come to an end but more than likely won't be playing that again. Fun as hell. Just such a huge time investment.
  • ballabert
    ballabert

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Jun 26th, 2012 at 2:46 pm
    I still play Blood Money...
  • LawnGnome
    LawnGnome

    Joined: Apr 2007
    Posted: Jun 26th, 2012 at 2:52 pm
    Maybe it's an old-school gamer thing, but I've always felt that finishing a game is part of the whole point of playing it. I've probably finished 99% of the games I've played, the remaining 1% being abandoned in the first few hours of horrible gameplay. I'm shocked by the number of younger gamers I talk to who rarely finish the games that they even love. It's a disturbing trend that must be broken.
  • wildmario
    wildmario

    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Jun 26th, 2012 at 3:49 pm
    maybe we need to find out WHY people have no motivation to finish.
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Jun 26th, 2012 at 3:53 pm
    Well, I'm not at 99%, but I finish almost every game I start and even replay some of my favorites 2 or 3 times. Yet what is finish a game? Any of the Civilization games you can play forever, winning and losing, and not "finish" it. What about Skyrim, and other open world games, what does it mean to finish one of them? Does the Gnome know?
  • LawnGnome
    LawnGnome

    Joined: Apr 2007
    Posted: Jun 26th, 2012 at 4:03 pm
    Skyrim, Civilization, etc. all have endings. You just have the option to keep playing them after the main storyline or objectives are completed.
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Jun 26th, 2012 at 5:48 pm
    Just don't think this is finished.
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow

    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Jun 26th, 2012 at 3:49 pm
    I have finished almost 100% of the games I've played. I don't understand why anyone would not finish a game unless they realized they didn't like it.
  • elmoreoocyte
    elmoreoocyte

    Joined: Apr 2012
    Posted: Jun 26th, 2012 at 5:06 pm
    I have a rather large selection of games from Atari to present. I would say I have finished half of them, maybe. Quite possibly I've finished less than half. I have gotten even worse about just getting bored now that I'm an adult.

    I loved Batman: AA, but got to some point and put it down for a week instead of my usual playtime. Never finished it (My 360 RRoD'd but I still probably wouldn't have) although I think of it fondly and have thought a couple of times "Man! I should have finished that it was fun!). Then there are games like Borderlands that I loved just as much and for some reason managed to get almost all the way through a 2nd time on game +.

    I think as I got older it has more to do with whats going on at home/work/school/etc than the games themselves because I've barely ever pre-ordered, I never resale, and I typically only buy what I'm sure I'll like.
  • shandog137
    shandog137

    Joined: Mar 2007
    Posted: Jun 27th, 2012 at 8:54 am
    "I think as I got older it has more to do with whats going on at home/work/school/etc than the games themselves because I've barely ever pre-ordered, I never resale, and I typically only buy what I'm sure I'll like."
    Agreed.

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