Finishing a Game

Do you always finish your games? What makes you want to or not want to finish your games?

If I finish Yume Nikki, Mado dies

No.

The level of interest in the story, the level of immersion, and the level of the game's ability to make me suspend my disbelief (which I feel is directly tied to both story and immersion).

I've quit just as many games as I have never really started because the game just didn't do "it" for me.

I always try to, mostly because I want to see everything a game has to offer before I decide what I think of it. The only times I don't finish a game are if I get bored of it or if I get stuck on a bit and take a break meaning to go back to it, but forget to. Neither of those happen very much, though.

i try to finish everything. even though some games are a bitch. i don't mind looking up guides if i conclude the level design is shit, like half life 1. i've learned not to quit games or put them in the backlog just because i'm a little frustrated with them. i think this is primarily why people have these insurmountable backlogs: they get to a point where the game seems too hard, start something easier, buy things on steam sales, repeat.

When I feel like I've seen everything the game has to offer.

Or when there is some giant skill wall that is akin to trying to climb a skyscraper using only your tongue and jesus christ I believe in getting gud but I can't be bothered to invest the literally weeks of time it would take me holy shit.

Depends on what "finishing" a game even means. Seeing the endgame credits? Completing it on the highest difficulty? 100%ing it? Hard to even say what constitutes a 100% completion outside of games like Metroid that quantify your completion on the end game screen, maybe you could go by achievements.

Like what qualifies as finishing Dustforce? Going by the only achievement about 1 in 300 people do it, but it's just for completing what used to be the last stage in the game, and going by the true last stage in the game only about 100 people worldwide have done it.

i try to.

some games just become too predictable and boring so i just quit, like legend of dragoon, i stopped midway through disc 4.

I don't stop playing a game until i finish it, that's probably why i have played so few games.

Too many games. I cant finish them all. I really only finish the ones i really like. so far ive finished just about every megaten game i can play minus smt2

No, usually I drop a game when I get too bored.

I'm old school, I finish every game I play.

Not being an ADHD nigger and doing my research before buying/pirating helps.

0.3% is actually higher than I would expect for that. I still haven't gotten around to doing it. I got to the point where I could almost do it then they patched it to make it harder and I gave up.

I rarely finish games, I guess I completed a single playthrough in only 5% of them, and very rarely multiple ones.
Reasons not to finish a game are bugs, railroading, AI cheating, repetition and boredom. Due to the vast amount of games one can pirate, there's not much tying me to a game I don't like anymore. It's not like I have to justify having spent 50 bucks on it. When it can't captivate me anymore I try something else, and perhaps I'll feel line continuing it in a few months.
The primary reason to keep playing a game for me is a vast amount of options and believable consequences thereof.

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I stop playing a game when the mechanics wear out and I don't hve fun playing it anymore

Most games are shallow now a days so I can't even finish them because their mechanics and gameplay have run thin

which is surprising considering how short games are now

I don't try to play every game that comes out, so if I like a game, I finish it.

This. A true hallmark of casuals is to not finish games they like.

I only stop playing a game if it's absolute garbage, which doesn't take long for me to suss out, or if I just feel like I've gotten everything I wanted out of it. I recall playing some middling quality fps with an irritating final boss a while back. I just stopped there, I'd already enjoyed the better bits, so it's not like I cared enough to actually go through something sucky just to get to the end.

no, I hate video games

Really? A lot of games I ended up liking made bad first impressions

What I've finished so far in 2016, in random order

Underrail
Tales of Maj'Eyal (normal/adventure)
Way of the Samurai 4 (light of hope easy)
Shadowrun Hong Kong
No Man's Sky
Legend of Grimrock
Legend of Grimrock 2
Leap of Fate
Titan Quest Anniversery
Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2
Hyper Light Drifter
Dragon's Dogma
The Dwarves

I started and need to finish

Ys Oath in Felghana
Lightning Returns
Tales of the Abyss
Hyperdevotion Noire

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At least one "ending". I had to see that trainwreck to the "end"

very rare, mostly because I find the game very unsatisfying and often done better before. last game I completed was probably risen

I gotta admire your "commitment".

kill yourself

Under RAIL

Learn to read faggot

I'm just getting your goat

i dont. sometimes if im enjoying it too much i wont finish it because i dont want it to be over, it seems to happen more often when the game invokes some kind of emotional sentiment with me.
on the opposite side of the spectrum why would i keep playing a shitty game?

If I hang on to a game instead of returning it and getting a full refund, I usually finish at least 75% of them. The few games I keep yet never finish are RPGs that take a shitload of time and I get burnt out on playing them.

The most common reason for me not to finish a game, other than deciding it's just not worth playing at all (there's a big distinction between trash and stuff that goes back into the backlog), is that I get distracted by ANOTHER game that I'm generally more interested in. It's very hard to go back, especially when a lot of time has passed since the last time playing.

I consider finishing a game to be when the credits play. I finish like 80% of games I play, and go beyond that will a small amount of them. Usually when I have to force myself to play something is when I stop, since at that point it isn't that fun anymore. With music games, or things that don't have a true ending, I just stop when I feel content with my skill level.

Is it boring? Unfinished. Fun, finished.

I finish most of the games I buy EVENTUALLY.
It can take a while though, I have a tendency to drop in and out of games at random. For instance I managed to make it through the first area of Shantae before stopping for 2 years, then picked it up again and 100%ed it over the course of 2 days. I also have a tendency to stop right before the last area/boss and sit there.

I finish games if I feel like finishing them.

If I don't feel like finishing a game I just put it on a hiatus until I feel like it or delete it if I feel like its a waste of time.

this kills the /agdg/

If a game controls like ass, I won't finish it. This is the only reason why I'll never finish a game.
If a game runs like ass on my PC I put it in a list of mine of games I should revisit when I get around to making a new PC
If a game doesn't seem to be going anywhere or is flatout boring I uninstall it and then come back to it after a while, repeat until I get into it.

Short attention span is a bitch.

Probably like 90% of games. Sometimes I get bored, other times angry and rage quit, sometimes technical issues like having to go back a few hours to an older save.

I finish most games to the credits. Rarely truly sink my teeth into a game, getting all endings, 100%, hard/very hard, NG+ etc.

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Even Red Comrades and Treasure of the Rudras?

I finish the vast majority of the games that I start. Most of the time I don't is if the game is extremely heavy on the filler and otherwise boring or just outright broken. Rarely I'll dump a game if it's just fucking intolerable e.g. GW2.

I doubt you played with an autistic literal Hitler user.

I used to, but years ago when I stupidly bought a bunch of games on impulse (Steam, GOG, bundles etc.) I decided I would just give games between 3-5 hours to grip me, otherwise I drop them. No sense in wasting my time as well as my money.

That's not a terrible rule but some games, particularly older ones, can take a long time to get going. 5 hours would see you to that, 3 not always.

oh ye of little faith…

There's two possibilities in which you could fairly claim to be playing with a literal Hitler:
1. The man's (sur)name was literally Hitler; possible but it's not too common and many families changed it post-WW2.
2. The man you were playing with led a National Socialist party, fought in WW1, invaded Poland and caused a World War etc etc (i.e. he was a 'literal Hitler' in the sense of his actions rather than his name).

If you meant you were playing with an autistic neo-Nazi then don't use the word literally. This is what autism looks like.

oh ye of much autism…

dang it, I knew I should've gone with this pic instead