Most People Don't Finish Games

[MasterSmithFandango]

Your avatar makes me realize something. I finished Sengoku Rance 4 times within the span of a couple of months. The story is whatever (fun, but it's nothing super special), but the gameplay was wonderful (and relatively balanced throughout).

 

[Terpsichore]

Pretty much every game i attempt to play lasts me for a couple of hours max and i rarely consider trying again.

Of course the decline in quality is a big factor but so is the fact that our standards rise with years, to the point where nothing is fun anymore.

 

[Leonard DeVir]

I remember reading an interview with the Half Life devs a long time ago. I guess everybody remembers the awful Xen levels at the end? In the interview, they admitted that they had time constraints, so they didnt flesh out the endgame as much as the rest - because most people will never reach the endgame anyway. Seems its not a modern phenomena.

 

[coaster]

I almost always finish games because I am OCD about it. If not, the game will taunt me whenever I see the box..."U FAILED LOL..."

Very occasionally I will defy the taunts and smash the game and box into pieces to teach it a lesson. Those few games remain unfinished because I have killed them.

 

[Gord]

No guys, teh reason is that gamez are to compilcated, so people's brians hurt and ten they stop playin after creating they're character.

Anyway thats what Bioware told me and they must know!

 

[20 Eyes]

it's all because of crazy Steam/GOG/Gamersgate sales

This is my problem. Usually when I'm half-way through a game, I'll download the next one I want to play so it's ready when the time comes. Once it's downloaded, I often stop playing the first game and move on to the new one. I have way too many Steam games.

 

[Renegen]

I remember reading an interview with the Half Life devs a long time ago. I guess everybody remembers the awful Xen levels at the end? In the interview, they admitted that they had time constraints, so they didnt flesh out the endgame as much as the rest - because most people will never reach the endgame anyway. Seems its not a modern phenomena.

I never finished Half Life. I died in a tough battle in some Xen level and never went back. But it didn't keep me from playing Half Life and its mods more than any other game I've ever played in my life. Does that mean that I would've preferred if the Half Life SP was half the length? no.

People don't finish games, fine, but if devs use this as an excuse to cut the length of games in half, I won't touch them.

 

[MetalCraze]

I prefer endless games.