Only "20% of Players" Will See Hitman: Absolution's Final Level

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.

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.

Since when was hitman marketed as an action game?

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+.

at least not in 2+ was supposed to come before the rifle statement

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.

I still play Blood Money...

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.

maybe we need to find out WHY people have no motivation to finish.

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?

Skyrim, Civilization, etc. all have endings. You just have the option to keep playing them after the main storyline or objectives are completed.

Just don't think this is finished.

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.

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.

"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.