Why most people don't finish video games

[SKG_Scintill]

The only game I bought and didn't complete was American McGee's Alice 2, and that's because there's a massive bug preventing me from advancing -.-

[flashpantss]

If I get a Console game, I plan to play it all the way through, and do achievements and challenges. Sad not everyone plays all the way through, even if the game is bad.

[Arch0wl]

Originally Posted by OneHandNow

nubs

yep, nubs.

[xXOpkillerXx]

Meh, I have every FFXIII achievement, I'm not one of these pathetic people haha.

[Sephiroth28]

I pretty much 100% every game I play. I like to experience everything a game has to offer. I don't think I have ever played a game and then just stopped playing it.

[supermousie]

Originally Posted by xXOpkillerXx

Meh, I have every FFXIII achievement, I'm not one of these pathetic people haha.

I couldn't finish Titan's trials. :/
But I did get the Gamerpic of Lightning. ^^

[xXOpkillerXx]

Originally Posted by supermousie

I couldn't finish Titan's trials. :/
But I did get the Gamerpic of Lightning. ^^

Hardest one is to get every object/weapon in the game and all their upgrades. Took me 130 hours to get 100%. :3

[supermousie]

Originally Posted by xXOpkillerXx

Hardest one is to get every object/weapon in the game and all their upgrades. Took me 130 hours to get 100%. :3

Yeah, the achievements you really have to go out of your way for are the worst. Though it does give you a sense of accomplishment.

While on the topic (sorta(not really)) of FFXIII, I'd like to mention I was stuck on Barthandelus in Oerba for 2 months. @_@

[welsh_girl]

Guy who wrote artical makes sense. For me, it's because of ****ing CoD, and being able to play it with friends.

**** CoD, it's the problem for everything.

[ddr_f4n]

Originally Posted by welsh_girl

Guy who wrote artical makes sense. For me, it's because of ****ing CoD, and being able to play it with friends.

**** CoD, it's the problem for everything.

"Oh Campaign? That thing gives you bad habits for online"

[icontrolyourworld]

anyone that spends $30 on a game and doesn't complete it is a noob and needs to give me all their games

anyone that buys football games needs to die

anyone that plays shorter games in place of longer games is still spending time playing games and needs to get their head out of their vagina and actually play some good games

anyone that plays multiplayer games ONLY either has never played a good single player game, or has beaten all their single player games and has nothing else to do and needs money to buy more. But typically I think it's the never played a good single player game part.

[x_lambourghini_x]

Originally Posted by MrGiggles

I don't finish games I don't like playing, otherwise I usually play to completion and occasionally 100%.

Maybe this helps explain why most recent titles have maybe 6-8 hours of actual playtime before you beat them.

This is about the same for me. Some games that really annoy me I'll just end up ragequitting and everything else I can beat pretty decently (wouldn't necessarily
go for the 100% because that takes up too much of my time).

[Crashfan3]

Originally Posted by yo man im awesome

This is really depressing... Especially since I can't stand multiplayer of most games... The farthest I tend to go with multiplayer is playing with people on the same console.

Yeah, this. Only a select few games have an interesting multiplayer that's worth putting more than 3 hours into. I mean, really does anyone still play Medal of Honor MP?

Developers are more and more frequently putting all the effort into multiplayer thinking their game will be the one that will replace Call of Duty or World of Warcraft. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred that's not true, and if the single player is no good, the end result is a shitty game that fades into obscurity three months after its initial release.

[Izzy]

Whenever I have children that want to play video games I am going to make them play a certain number of classic games from previous console generations before they can play modern games.

[Sephiroth28]

Originally Posted by icontrolyourworld

anyone that spends $30 on a game and doesn't complete it is a noob and needs to give me all their games

Rofl. This.

[MalReynolds]

Originally Posted by Jousway

here you have this FREE LAND JOURNALIST or w/e he is saying I dont know what, but basicly the thing is the games these days are just plain shit like I dont care if I need to spend 6 whole days on completing games aslong as the game is fun and not ****ing repeating like for example he used red dead redemption, the so called game of 2010 or w/e guess what I also played it and it when like this
first 3 hours: hey this is quite fun
after 3 first hourse: WHY THE SAME BORING SHIT OVER AND OVER AND OVER.
so I never finished it, and besides you have anoying bugs EVERY WERE that piss you the **** off like these so called "main stream" games usally have 70% more bugs that indie games.
if people would actually work on quality games with quality gameplay and not be lazy like **** with the same gameplay over and over and over and over which is donkey ball sucking boring I would be interested in so called "main stream".
till then **** so called "main stream" I'm going back to indie games

What.

[andy-o24]

PS3, my main console, has the trophy system, so you get platinums for 100%-ing games. I think my brother and I together collectively have 20 (upper-teens without a doubt). So, I enjoy completing a game.

In fact, I pulled out my PS2 and put in Kingdom Hearts during the last week of summer vacation just to play a IMO high quality game (or at least fun). Took 25 hours to beat the whole thing. I skipped full trinities and full dalmatians, but everything else I did.

Then I put in Kingdom Hearts 2. A game that I apparently beat but had very little recollection of it. Spent 40+ hours on it (a lot was cinematics). Had the same feel as KH1 so it wasn't a burden to play. As far as I know, there was nothing I missed. I level capped, fully synthesized, Pooh booked, etc.

When I play CoD or other games with both campaigns and multiplayer support, I almost always play the campaign first. Being a trophy whore, however, I figure, the online might die, so let's get those trophies first 'cause I'll always have the campaign.

Only game I can think of that I own and didn't finish fully was FF8 because the final disk got scratched to bits. Glitched during the final boss battles, too.

tl;dr Finish your games, or at least try the campaign. Waste of money IMO otherwise.

-o24

[Sephiroth28]

My friend and I pretty much share an Xbox Live account and play on it all the time. We shoot for as many achievements as we can and always aim for 100%. We just broke 50k gamerscore last week.

[~kitty~]

I don't know about you guys, but I started not liking the newer Final Fantasy games after FFX. I've played II, V, VII, VIII, IX, and X. I played a little of XII but I didn't really enjoy it. I almost completed most of the titles but never could finish because the PS2 I had wasn't backwards compatible and the PS1 wasn't working properly anymore. I wanted to finish VII, VIII and IX which I got to the very last hour of game play on both but couldn't due to this issue. It's too late for me now, though. :P Until I get a steady source of income, at least.

[supermousie]

Originally Posted by ~kitty~

I don't know about you guys, but I started not liking the newer Final Fantasy games after FFX. I've played II, V, VII, VIII, IX, and X. I played a little of XII but I didn't really enjoy it. I almost completed most of the titles but never could finish because the PS2 I had wasn't backwards compatible and the PS1 wasn't working properly anymore. I wanted to finish VII, VIII and IX which I got to the very last hour of game play on both but couldn't due to this issue. It's too late for me now, though. :P Until I get a steady source of income, at least.

FFXIII-2 is supposed to be "better" but better than what, I don't know... Anyway, FF games of late have been pretty linear, so hopefully XIV will rectify that.

I thought you could find a good PS1 on eBay for under $30? Mine still works; maybe I'll let you borrow it. :P