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WHAT ARE YOUR GAME COMPLETION HABITS?
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CloseSo I was reading an article on Kotaku a little while ago that surveyed a few people on their usual game completion habits and if they finish them or not. A surprising amount of people have really low retention when it comes to games; they rarely finish them, and some people reported not getting past the first few hours?
I grew up pretty poor, and that probably influenced my gaming habits; growing up video games were a big time luxury, and it would be a massive waste to scrape up the cash to buy one and not finish it. This mindset continued even as my family came into more money and better fortunes and I started working for my own. As an adult I'm pretty financially comfortable, but I can't really justify myself smacking down 60 bucks for a game and just leaving it there. Even now, I fall squarely into what's usually three outcomes;
-If the game is totally straight up garbage, I generally won't finish it. This is rare, usually because I tend to have pretty good judgement on what I like and don't like, so I don't usually surprise myself with buying shitty games.
-I'll get to the end, but won't beat it if it has a bunch of sidequests to finish. Sometimes I get overwhelmed with 'somuchtodoitis' and just get paralyzed and not finish the game off. I have gotten much better at it though; if the game is something I enjoy, I'll either pace myself through the quests or at least eventually finish it it all, or beat it, replay it, and do it that way.
-A game has a slow start and I'll come back to it after a while. I dislike the rationale of 'it takes too long to get fun so I quit forever'. This logic holds water for a while, but if everyone quit something just because it wasn't SUPER FUN from day one nobody would really enjoy anything. However if I'm really pressed for time (a reality as an adult, especially being in the military) this actually can come to fruition. But only for a while, I always give the game a chance to judge it for being worth finishing or not.
And then there are the games that I just straight up finish without any complications. If I really like a game, I'll replay it as well. This isn't limited to any one genre, I've replayed everything from Max Payne to FFVII many times.
What are YOUR game completion habits?
I grew up pretty poor, and that probably influenced my gaming habits; growing up video games were a big time luxury, and it would be a massive waste to scrape up the cash to buy one and not finish it. This mindset continued even as my family came into more money and better fortunes and I started working for my own. As an adult I'm pretty financially comfortable, but I can't really justify myself smacking down 60 bucks for a game and just leaving it there. Even now, I fall squarely into what's usually three outcomes;
-If the game is totally straight up garbage, I generally won't finish it. This is rare, usually because I tend to have pretty good judgement on what I like and don't like, so I don't usually surprise myself with buying shitty games.
-I'll get to the end, but won't beat it if it has a bunch of sidequests to finish. Sometimes I get overwhelmed with 'somuchtodoitis' and just get paralyzed and not finish the game off. I have gotten much better at it though; if the game is something I enjoy, I'll either pace myself through the quests or at least eventually finish it it all, or beat it, replay it, and do it that way.
-A game has a slow start and I'll come back to it after a while. I dislike the rationale of 'it takes too long to get fun so I quit forever'. This logic holds water for a while, but if everyone quit something just because it wasn't SUPER FUN from day one nobody would really enjoy anything. However if I'm really pressed for time (a reality as an adult, especially being in the military) this actually can come to fruition. But only for a while, I always give the game a chance to judge it for being worth finishing or not.
And then there are the games that I just straight up finish without any complications. If I really like a game, I'll replay it as well. This isn't limited to any one genre, I've replayed everything from Max Payne to FFVII many times.
What are YOUR game completion habits?
Dyhalto
7536
For me it's more of Game Starting habits. I won't start a game unless I have an available length of time to really sit down and focus on it, like a week off or something. I also like to do all the side quests, collect all the widgets, max out all the levels, beat all the bosses, just so I can have that sense of total completion.
I don't even remember the last game I stopped playing before finishing.
Also, shoutout to Max Payne 8D
I don't even remember the last game I stopped playing before finishing.
Also, shoutout to Max Payne 8D
I play as long as the game is fun, engaging, or otherwise still captures my interest. I used to do obsessive post-game stuff with the power of gameFAQs and strategy guides but after collecting all of the treasure maps in Disgaea 2 and losing that save due to a 3rd party memory card... well that shifted my attitude significantly to my current one. Nowadays I have the money and games have become extremely available for low prices but far less time so thank god I don't feel compulsed to grind out the optimal TurtlesPerHour anymore. I just wanna have a good experience and I'd rather write off a bad game as a poor purchase than try to reach the end just to say I beat it.
That's just within the context of the game though. Back when FF13 came out I beat it and sampled the postgame despite it being horrible drudgery and awful so I could take part in a then-active discussion on the game (it was still new then). I still play some Diablo 3 because some of my friends still do and I'll rush to the end game so I can actually play with them because it's fun to shoot the shit with them despite Diablo 3 being... Diablo 3.
That's just within the context of the game though. Back when FF13 came out I beat it and sampled the postgame despite it being horrible drudgery and awful so I could take part in a then-active discussion on the game (it was still new then). I still play some Diablo 3 because some of my friends still do and I'll rush to the end game so I can actually play with them because it's fun to shoot the shit with them despite Diablo 3 being... Diablo 3.
The thing is... I don't plunk down $60 for games. I buy 5 games at a time in 80% sales packs on GOG.com for like $12. Or games in bargain bins at Wal-Mart for $10~$20. When a game costs less than my lunch, I tend not to have that much investment in it.
Back when I was a kid, yeah, we could only afford to buy like 5 games per system and played the SHIT out of them, but nowadays I rarely do that. I don't seem to have time to sit down and game. (I still poop though, and as it turns out the games that I tend to complete these days are games that are playable on my DS or phone - go figure). The other time I game is later in the evening whilst trying to coax a 10 month old to sleep on my chest/arms. So for those I play PC games that be played with only 1 hand (currently I am replaying Baldur's Gate)
Back when I was a kid, yeah, we could only afford to buy like 5 games per system and played the SHIT out of them, but nowadays I rarely do that. I don't seem to have time to sit down and game. (I still poop though, and as it turns out the games that I tend to complete these days are games that are playable on my DS or phone - go figure). The other time I game is later in the evening whilst trying to coax a 10 month old to sleep on my chest/arms. So for those I play PC games that be played with only 1 hand (currently I am replaying Baldur's Gate)
Milennin
2060
I finish most of the games that I buy, but sometimes I buy a game that I end up not really caring for and don't feel like finishing it. Or when I buy 2 or 3 games at once (like at a sale), and I only play one, and kind of forget about the other 2.
0range00
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I think people buy games to their personal storage thinking they'll some rainy day play through their backlog of games.
I know i sorta did this on Ps2-era. I bought many games even though i had not finished the ones i already had. A couple of years ago i had nowhere to store my games, dvd's and cd's, so i ended up selling most of them without ever really commiting much time on them. Wasted euros.
Now because of this, i only buy about 3 games a year these days. No dvd's (i only rent). But cd's are my weakness, i gotta have em :3
Also, i've noticed that more games i got to play, the less interested i really am of them. Always swapping to the next one when feeling even slightly bored.
I know i sorta did this on Ps2-era. I bought many games even though i had not finished the ones i already had. A couple of years ago i had nowhere to store my games, dvd's and cd's, so i ended up selling most of them without ever really commiting much time on them. Wasted euros.
Now because of this, i only buy about 3 games a year these days. No dvd's (i only rent). But cd's are my weakness, i gotta have em :3
Also, i've noticed that more games i got to play, the less interested i really am of them. Always swapping to the next one when feeling even slightly bored.
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
Most of the games I play are indie games, and cost $10 or less (and are often free), which I suspect factors into how long I play them. I guess let me look at the last two years of games I played (as far as I can remember) and how much I paid for them:
Games beaten with 100% completion:
Games "beaten," but I didn't do everything:
Games I haven't beaten, but am still working on:
Games abandoned:
Games I bought and then was forced to abandon because they wouldn't run correctly:
...Hmm, the only clear trend I can see is that the only commercial game I 100%ed was Zelda. All the free games I 100%ed were sorely lacking in optional extras, so that's no surprise, and has more to do with the games themselves than my playing habits.
I actually got really close to 100%ing Arkham City, I did everything in the story mode including every riddler puzzle, I just didn't get gold medals on all the challenges because they are impossible.
The abandoned games weren't all abandoned because I didn't like them. Several were abandoned just because I felt like I'd experienced everything the game had to offer. And a couple were abandoned because I was just not good enough to get any further (so I didn't beat them, but they beat me).
Games beaten with 100% completion:
- Treasure Adventure Game (free)
- On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode 3 (free)
- Zelda: Skyward Sword ($68)
- Wine & Roses (free)
- Diablocide (free)
- I'm Scared of Girls (free)
- The LCPANES Terminal (free)
- Very Retrovaille (free)
- Candy Box! (free)
- Angry Birds (free)
- Angry Birds Space (free)
- On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode 3 (free)
- Zelda: Skyward Sword ($68)
- Wine & Roses (free)
- Diablocide (free)
- I'm Scared of Girls (free)
- The LCPANES Terminal (free)
- Very Retrovaille (free)
- Candy Box! (free)
- Angry Birds (free)
- Angry Birds Space (free)
Games "beaten," but I didn't do everything:
- Batman: Arkham City ($50)
- X-Com: Enemy Unknown ($60)
- Dragon Age 2 ($50)
- Recettear ($4)
- Binding of Isaac ($2)
- Diablo 3 ($60)
- X-Com: Enemy Unknown ($60)
- Dragon Age 2 ($50)
- Recettear ($4)
- Binding of Isaac ($2)
- Diablo 3 ($60)
Games I haven't beaten, but am still working on:
- Sam & Max ($20)
- On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode 4 ($5)
- World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria ($110)
- Battleloot Adventures (free)
- Draw Something (free)
- On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode 4 ($5)
- World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria ($110)
- Battleloot Adventures (free)
- Draw Something (free)
Games abandoned:
- League of Legends (free)
- Etrian Odyssey 3 (free)
- The Witcher ($15)
- Persona 2 (free)
- Halo Reach (free)
- L.A. Noire ($25)
- Final Fantasy 13-2 ($60)
- Bioshock ($15)
- Visions & Voices (free)
- I Miss the Sunrise (free)
- Within a Deep Forest (free)
- Angry Birds Star Wars (free)
- Etrian Odyssey 3 (free)
- The Witcher ($15)
- Persona 2 (free)
- Halo Reach (free)
- L.A. Noire ($25)
- Final Fantasy 13-2 ($60)
- Bioshock ($15)
- Visions & Voices (free)
- I Miss the Sunrise (free)
- Within a Deep Forest (free)
- Angry Birds Star Wars (free)
Games I bought and then was forced to abandon because they wouldn't run correctly:
- The Witcher 2 ($30)
- Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes ($5)
- Last Story ($50)
- Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes ($5)
- Last Story ($50)
...Hmm, the only clear trend I can see is that the only commercial game I 100%ed was Zelda. All the free games I 100%ed were sorely lacking in optional extras, so that's no surprise, and has more to do with the games themselves than my playing habits.
I actually got really close to 100%ing Arkham City, I did everything in the story mode including every riddler puzzle, I just didn't get gold medals on all the challenges because they are impossible.
The abandoned games weren't all abandoned because I didn't like them. Several were abandoned just because I felt like I'd experienced everything the game had to offer. And a couple were abandoned because I was just not good enough to get any further (so I didn't beat them, but they beat me).
Xenomic
1752
Oh boy....shall I really list what I've done? I guess I shall. Maybe it'll give insights as to how I complete games eh? Welp, here goes!
===Dreamcast===
Marvel Vs Capcom 2 (100%)
Power Stone 2 (100%)
TOTAL=2
===DS===
Final Fantasy III
Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time (Normal Mode)
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates
Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift
TOTAL=6
===Game Boy Advance===
Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls (FFI & FFII) (100%)
Final Fantasy IV Advance
Final Fantasy V Advance (100%)
Final Fantasy VI Advance (100%)
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (100%)
TOTAL=6
===Gamecube===
Sonic Adventures 2
Super Smash Bros. Melee (100%)
TOTAL=2
===N64===
Super Mario 64 (100%)
Super Smash Bros. (100%)
TOTAL=2
===NES===
Bad Dudes
Bucky O'Hare
Duck Tales
Duck Tales 2
Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy II
Final Fantasy III
Megaman
Megaman 2
Megaman 3
Megaman 4
Megaman 5
Megaman 6
Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. 3
Tales Spin
TOTAL=15
===PC===
MegaMari
Touhou 6: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
Touhou 7: Perfect Cherry Blossom
Touhou 8: Imperishable Night
Touhou 9.5: Shoot the Bullet (100%)
Touhou 10: Mountain of Faith
Touhou 10.5: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
Touhou 12.3: Hisoutensoku
Touhou 12.5: Double Spoilers
Touhou 13: Ten Desires
TOTAL=10
===Playstation===
Beast Wars: Transmetals (100%)
Destrega
Die Hard Trilogy (100%)
Digimon: Digital Card Battle
Digimon Rumble Arena (100%)
Digimon World (100%)
Digimon World 2
Digimon World 3
Evil Zone (100%)
Final Fantasy Origins (FFI & II) (100%)
Final Fantasy Chronicles (FFIV & Chrono Trigger) (100%)
Final Fantasy Anthologies (FFV & FFVI) (100%)
Final Fantasy VII (100%)
Final Fantasy VIII (100%)
Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy Tactics (100%)
Metal Gear Solid
Rampage World Tour
Spyro (120%)
Street Fighter Alpha 3 (100%)
Twisted Metal 2 (100%)
Valkyrie Profile (100%)
Yugioh: Forbidden Memories
TOTAL=26
===Playstation 2===
Capcom Fighting Evolution (100%)
Capcom Vs SNK 2 (100%)
Dead or Alive 2
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2 (100%)
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy X-2 (100%)
Final Fantasy XII
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core
Kingdom Hearts (100%)
Kingdom Hearts 2 (100%)
Resident Evil 4 (100%)
Soul Calibur II (100%)
Soul Calibur III (100%)
Street Fighter Anniversary Collection (SFII & SFIII: 3S) (100%)
Street Fighter EX3 (100%)
The King of Fighters 2000 (100%)
The King of Fighters 2001 (100%)
The King of Fighters 2002 (100%)
The King of Fighters 2003 (100%)
The King of Fighters 2006
The King of Fighters XI (100%)
The King of Fighters: Maximum Impact (100%)
Yugioh: The Duelist of the Roses
TOTAL=24
===Playstation 3===
Soul Calibur V
TOTAL=1
===SNES===
Aladdin
American Gladiators
Batman Forever
Battletoads & Double Dragon
Contra III
Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong Country 2
Final Fantasy II (100%)
Final Fantasy V (100%)
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest (100%)
Final Fight
Final Fight 2
Final Fight 3
Gradius III
Home Alone
Home Alone 2
Hook
Jurassic Park 2
Justice League Task Force
Mario Is Missing!
Mario Paint
Mario's Time Machine
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - The Movie
Spawn
Spiderman
Stargate
Street Fighter II Turbo
Sunset Riders
Super Mario All-Stars (All 4 games) (100%)
*Super Mario Bros.
*Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels
*Super Mario Bros. 2
*Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario Kart (100%)
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (100%)
Super Mario World (100%)
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (100%)
Super Ninja Boys (100%)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time (100%)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tournament Fighters (100%)
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (100%)
The Lion King
The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse
Tom & Jerry
X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
TOTAL=45
===Wii===
New Super Mario Brothers (100%)
Super Mario Galaxy (100%)
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (100%)
Super Paper Mario
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (100%)
Tatsunoko Vs Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
TOTAL=7
===XBox===
Marvel Vs Capcom 2 (100%)
SvC Chaos
TOTAL=2
===XBox 360===
Soul Calibur IV
TOTAL=1
GRAND TOTAL (Singles)=138
GRAND TOTAL (Combined)=149
So yeah, that's how many I've gone through. For the most part, I try to 100% the games I play, though not always is that the case (I couldn't stomach it for FFXII for instance, because Yiazmat is overkill, and I didn't like FFXII: RW at all but still finished it). There's really no games that I just outright quit playing at all, save for some maybe like Super Ghouls N' Ghosts because I never tried to go back to them, but they're so far and few in-between. Though SOME games would've been better off never played (Yugioh: Forbidden Memories for one. That game I could only beat by actually using a Gameshark. Yes, it's the ONLY game I've ever cheated to beat really, mostly because that game is ridiculously hard and stupid)...
So take that as you will about my completion habits, I suppose? ^^;;
===Dreamcast===
Marvel Vs Capcom 2 (100%)
Power Stone 2 (100%)
TOTAL=2
===DS===
Final Fantasy III
Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time (Normal Mode)
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates
Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift
TOTAL=6
===Game Boy Advance===
Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls (FFI & FFII) (100%)
Final Fantasy IV Advance
Final Fantasy V Advance (100%)
Final Fantasy VI Advance (100%)
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (100%)
TOTAL=6
===Gamecube===
Sonic Adventures 2
Super Smash Bros. Melee (100%)
TOTAL=2
===N64===
Super Mario 64 (100%)
Super Smash Bros. (100%)
TOTAL=2
===NES===
Bad Dudes
Bucky O'Hare
Duck Tales
Duck Tales 2
Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy II
Final Fantasy III
Megaman
Megaman 2
Megaman 3
Megaman 4
Megaman 5
Megaman 6
Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. 3
Tales Spin
TOTAL=15
===PC===
MegaMari
Touhou 6: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
Touhou 7: Perfect Cherry Blossom
Touhou 8: Imperishable Night
Touhou 9.5: Shoot the Bullet (100%)
Touhou 10: Mountain of Faith
Touhou 10.5: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
Touhou 12.3: Hisoutensoku
Touhou 12.5: Double Spoilers
Touhou 13: Ten Desires
TOTAL=10
===Playstation===
Beast Wars: Transmetals (100%)
Destrega
Die Hard Trilogy (100%)
Digimon: Digital Card Battle
Digimon Rumble Arena (100%)
Digimon World (100%)
Digimon World 2
Digimon World 3
Evil Zone (100%)
Final Fantasy Origins (FFI & II) (100%)
Final Fantasy Chronicles (FFIV & Chrono Trigger) (100%)
Final Fantasy Anthologies (FFV & FFVI) (100%)
Final Fantasy VII (100%)
Final Fantasy VIII (100%)
Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy Tactics (100%)
Metal Gear Solid
Rampage World Tour
Spyro (120%)
Street Fighter Alpha 3 (100%)
Twisted Metal 2 (100%)
Valkyrie Profile (100%)
Yugioh: Forbidden Memories
TOTAL=26
===Playstation 2===
Capcom Fighting Evolution (100%)
Capcom Vs SNK 2 (100%)
Dead or Alive 2
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2 (100%)
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy X-2 (100%)
Final Fantasy XII
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core
Kingdom Hearts (100%)
Kingdom Hearts 2 (100%)
Resident Evil 4 (100%)
Soul Calibur II (100%)
Soul Calibur III (100%)
Street Fighter Anniversary Collection (SFII & SFIII: 3S) (100%)
Street Fighter EX3 (100%)
The King of Fighters 2000 (100%)
The King of Fighters 2001 (100%)
The King of Fighters 2002 (100%)
The King of Fighters 2003 (100%)
The King of Fighters 2006
The King of Fighters XI (100%)
The King of Fighters: Maximum Impact (100%)
Yugioh: The Duelist of the Roses
TOTAL=24
===Playstation 3===
Soul Calibur V
TOTAL=1
===SNES===
Aladdin
American Gladiators
Batman Forever
Battletoads & Double Dragon
Contra III
Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong Country 2
Final Fantasy II (100%)
Final Fantasy V (100%)
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest (100%)
Final Fight
Final Fight 2
Final Fight 3
Gradius III
Home Alone
Home Alone 2
Hook
Jurassic Park 2
Justice League Task Force
Mario Is Missing!
Mario Paint
Mario's Time Machine
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - The Movie
Spawn
Spiderman
Stargate
Street Fighter II Turbo
Sunset Riders
Super Mario All-Stars (All 4 games) (100%)
*Super Mario Bros.
*Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels
*Super Mario Bros. 2
*Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario Kart (100%)
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (100%)
Super Mario World (100%)
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (100%)
Super Ninja Boys (100%)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time (100%)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tournament Fighters (100%)
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (100%)
The Lion King
The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse
Tom & Jerry
X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
TOTAL=45
===Wii===
New Super Mario Brothers (100%)
Super Mario Galaxy (100%)
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (100%)
Super Paper Mario
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (100%)
Tatsunoko Vs Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
TOTAL=7
===XBox===
Marvel Vs Capcom 2 (100%)
SvC Chaos
TOTAL=2
===XBox 360===
Soul Calibur IV
TOTAL=1
GRAND TOTAL (Singles)=138
GRAND TOTAL (Combined)=149
So yeah, that's how many I've gone through. For the most part, I try to 100% the games I play, though not always is that the case (I couldn't stomach it for FFXII for instance, because Yiazmat is overkill, and I didn't like FFXII: RW at all but still finished it). There's really no games that I just outright quit playing at all, save for some maybe like Super Ghouls N' Ghosts because I never tried to go back to them, but they're so far and few in-between. Though SOME games would've been better off never played (Yugioh: Forbidden Memories for one. That game I could only beat by actually using a Gameshark. Yes, it's the ONLY game I've ever cheated to beat really, mostly because that game is ridiculously hard and stupid)...
So take that as you will about my completion habits, I suppose? ^^;;
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
Man don't paste down a list of every game you've ever played. Not only are 90% of those not relevant to your current habits because you played then ten years ago, but you didn't even address how many of them you've beaten, which was the actual question.
Xenomic
1752
That's actually the list of every game I've beaten yo. And I've played/replayed most of them not that long ago either so...
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
Well, it's still not super helpful because I have no idea how many games you haven't beaten. Three? Thirty? Three hundred?
Also, I call bullshit, how the hell do you beat Mario Paint?
Also, I call bullshit, how the hell do you beat Mario Paint?
Xenomic
1752
You don't really, unless you count the "Fly Game" thingie. I guess that's what I was thinking of when I put that on there. ^^;;
The only games that I can even think of never beating is Super Ghouls N' Ghosts really. Right now, Touhou 12 I haven't beaten (granted, I could easily beat it, but doing so without using any continues is another thing entirely), and...that's all I can think of that I haven't beaten at all. Every other game I've ever played I've beaten so...^^;;
EDIT - To make an amendment to this list, I do recall never beating Fester's Quest and that one Snake, Rattle, Roll game or whatever it was called for the NES. And Paperboy. So yeah, there are some that I never beaten as a kid...I may have to make amendments to that at a later date. >_>
The only games that I can even think of never beating is Super Ghouls N' Ghosts really. Right now, Touhou 12 I haven't beaten (granted, I could easily beat it, but doing so without using any continues is another thing entirely), and...that's all I can think of that I haven't beaten at all. Every other game I've ever played I've beaten so...^^;;
EDIT - To make an amendment to this list, I do recall never beating Fester's Quest and that one Snake, Rattle, Roll game or whatever it was called for the NES. And Paperboy. So yeah, there are some that I never beaten as a kid...I may have to make amendments to that at a later date. >_>
Racheal
7238
I'm worse than I used to be for sure, but I still have a relatively high completion rate. I'd say I beat 95% of the games I pay over $20 for, though I could care less about "Platinuming" them or anything like that. Some of those goals are just not fun, so why do something you're supposed to be doing for fun that's just not? I only buy full-priced games maybe three times a year now though.
Games I buy at a whim just because they're cheap though? Those are probably about 50/50.
Games I buy at a whim just because they're cheap though? Those are probably about 50/50.
Shinan
4314
I have loads of unbeaten games in my library. I also have loads of unplayed games in my library.
However sometimes I tend to set aside some time for a certain games with the intention of beating it. I don't always succeed but more often than not I do. For example I played through the first two Assassin's Creed games fairly recently (that is earlier this year) and I played those almost exclusively for quite a while. Human Revolution was a similar game and there are numerous others. There's also some games that I feel are such daunting tasks that I have a hard time every starting them. The Witcher and Witcher 2 are example of games like that. I did play an act and a half of the first Witcher and enjoyed it but abandoned and have to return to it eventually.
Abandoning games tend to happen fairly frequently too. Usually something comes up and when I return to a game I no longer can remember what I was supposed to be doing. Fallout New Vegas in an example of this. In steam stats I've spent 159 hours playing that game but not yet gotten to the end. And I've tried twice. The most recent attempt fell when I changed computers. Even though I did copy the save file I never got into the game on my new computer... So... Sometimes also (like New Vegas) games are just too long to be finished and are easily abandoned. I'm thinking of GTA4, which is a game I've tried to finish a couple of times but haven't yet. I did however finish the GTA3 games in the "sit down and play it for a while" mode.
Bioshock I've abandoned twice due to technically issues, so that can also happen. In this case the technically issue was a crash and the latest autosave was about three hours back which is incredibly annoying. Games insist on checkpoint and immortality but don't combine those things with autosaves?
Most of the time though I tend to finish games once I've gotten far enough into them. Sometimes I just "try" a game I have. See how it plays so that I know what to expect when I actually sit down to play it. Sometimes that try becomes a playthrough (Bastion and Deadlight were games that did that to me).
Of course I do live in the delusion that some day I'll finish most of the games. But until I do I keep playing games that have no end point and ignoring all the games that actually can be finished.
I mean I've played about 10 games of Civ5 to completion in the last three months and 40 hours of Crusader Kings 2 (which is also game I've technically never finished but spent a lot of time with). I've also spent time with multiplayer titles and just random puzzle games. I guess there's something to be said about games that you can just jump into and then out of. Or short games like FTL.
But here are games that I have on steam that I've started but not finished and the hours listed on steam (which are not entirely correct because some of the games I've played offline). These are games that I've enjoyed when I've played them and I hope to finish them.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent (1.5 hours)
Bioshock (12 hours)
Company of Heroes (3 hours)
Dangerous High School Girls In Trouble (3 hours)
Dawn of War 2 Retribution (2 hours)
Fallout New Vegas (159 hours)
Frozen Synapse (32 hours) (A lot of this has been in multiplayer. But one day I'll finish the campaign!)
Grand Theft Auto 4 (49 hours)
Greed Crop (4 hours)
Men of War (6 hours)
Mount & Blade Warband (77 hours)
Psychonauts (2 hours)
STALKER Call of Pripyat (2 hours)
Tropico 3 (24 hours)
The Witcher (12 hours)
To contrast it here's the list of games I have on steam that I have finished:
Assassin's Creed 2 (30 hours)
Bastion (13 hours)
Dawn of War (55 hours, including all expansions and some online play)
Deadlight (3 hours)
Defense Grid (17 hours)
Deus Ex Human Revolution (41 hours, including the DLC)
Half-Life 2 (there's no time on these. Must have been so long ago)
Limbo (2 hours)
Mirror's Edge (7 hours)
Portal (no time on this one either)
Portal 2 (18 hours)
Resident Evil 5 (15 hours)
Space Marine (10 hours)
STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl (22 hours)
Sniper: Ghost Warrior (6 hours)
Spec Ops: The Line (6 hours)
The Walking Dead (11 hours)
Looking at that I have to admit that I thought that I never finished games. That was the image I had of myself. But those lists are fairly equal. Of course the list of unstarted games is larger still so in reality it seems I finish about half the games I start out playing but there is a barrier of entry to starting a game.
Also lots of the unfinished games are strategy games that either take a very long time to play or have clear mission structures that allows for picking up the game at nearly any time. And a lot of the finished games are rather short (under 10 hours) action games. These are probably the easiest games to finish.
I guess this said something about my completion habits.
However sometimes I tend to set aside some time for a certain games with the intention of beating it. I don't always succeed but more often than not I do. For example I played through the first two Assassin's Creed games fairly recently (that is earlier this year) and I played those almost exclusively for quite a while. Human Revolution was a similar game and there are numerous others. There's also some games that I feel are such daunting tasks that I have a hard time every starting them. The Witcher and Witcher 2 are example of games like that. I did play an act and a half of the first Witcher and enjoyed it but abandoned and have to return to it eventually.
Abandoning games tend to happen fairly frequently too. Usually something comes up and when I return to a game I no longer can remember what I was supposed to be doing. Fallout New Vegas in an example of this. In steam stats I've spent 159 hours playing that game but not yet gotten to the end. And I've tried twice. The most recent attempt fell when I changed computers. Even though I did copy the save file I never got into the game on my new computer... So... Sometimes also (like New Vegas) games are just too long to be finished and are easily abandoned. I'm thinking of GTA4, which is a game I've tried to finish a couple of times but haven't yet. I did however finish the GTA3 games in the "sit down and play it for a while" mode.
Bioshock I've abandoned twice due to technically issues, so that can also happen. In this case the technically issue was a crash and the latest autosave was about three hours back which is incredibly annoying. Games insist on checkpoint and immortality but don't combine those things with autosaves?
Most of the time though I tend to finish games once I've gotten far enough into them. Sometimes I just "try" a game I have. See how it plays so that I know what to expect when I actually sit down to play it. Sometimes that try becomes a playthrough (Bastion and Deadlight were games that did that to me).
Of course I do live in the delusion that some day I'll finish most of the games. But until I do I keep playing games that have no end point and ignoring all the games that actually can be finished.
I mean I've played about 10 games of Civ5 to completion in the last three months and 40 hours of Crusader Kings 2 (which is also game I've technically never finished but spent a lot of time with). I've also spent time with multiplayer titles and just random puzzle games. I guess there's something to be said about games that you can just jump into and then out of. Or short games like FTL.
But here are games that I have on steam that I've started but not finished and the hours listed on steam (which are not entirely correct because some of the games I've played offline). These are games that I've enjoyed when I've played them and I hope to finish them.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent (1.5 hours)
Bioshock (12 hours)
Company of Heroes (3 hours)
Dangerous High School Girls In Trouble (3 hours)
Dawn of War 2 Retribution (2 hours)
Fallout New Vegas (159 hours)
Frozen Synapse (32 hours) (A lot of this has been in multiplayer. But one day I'll finish the campaign!)
Grand Theft Auto 4 (49 hours)
Greed Crop (4 hours)
Men of War (6 hours)
Mount & Blade Warband (77 hours)
Psychonauts (2 hours)
STALKER Call of Pripyat (2 hours)
Tropico 3 (24 hours)
The Witcher (12 hours)
To contrast it here's the list of games I have on steam that I have finished:
Assassin's Creed 2 (30 hours)
Bastion (13 hours)
Dawn of War (55 hours, including all expansions and some online play)
Deadlight (3 hours)
Defense Grid (17 hours)
Deus Ex Human Revolution (41 hours, including the DLC)
Half-Life 2 (there's no time on these. Must have been so long ago)
Limbo (2 hours)
Mirror's Edge (7 hours)
Portal (no time on this one either)
Portal 2 (18 hours)
Resident Evil 5 (15 hours)
Space Marine (10 hours)
STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl (22 hours)
Sniper: Ghost Warrior (6 hours)
Spec Ops: The Line (6 hours)
The Walking Dead (11 hours)
Looking at that I have to admit that I thought that I never finished games. That was the image I had of myself. But those lists are fairly equal. Of course the list of unstarted games is larger still so in reality it seems I finish about half the games I start out playing but there is a barrier of entry to starting a game.
Also lots of the unfinished games are strategy games that either take a very long time to play or have clear mission structures that allows for picking up the game at nearly any time. And a lot of the finished games are rather short (under 10 hours) action games. These are probably the easiest games to finish.
I guess this said something about my completion habits.
Dyhalto
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author=LockeZYou beat the big fly, then draw a triumphant mural and compose a victory song.
Also, I call bullshit, how the hell do you beat Mario Paint?
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
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author=Dyhaltoauthor=LockeZYou beat the big fly, then draw a triumphant mural and compose a victory song.
Also, I call bullshit, how the hell do you beat Mario Paint?
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Acceptable.
Company of Heroes 2. So good. One of the best RTSes I've played in a while. If anyone wants to play a match, give me a shout!
^...wrong thread, Happy. :<
I generally don't play games to 100% completion (exceptions being, erm, linear games like the AA series), mainly because there's too many games I want to play and too little time to play them all.
Unfortunately this leads to my gaming experience feeling a bit rushed, but IMO it's better than spending a couple hundred hours on a single game just for bragging rights or some strange type of masochism.
As for unfinished games, I've cut back on the number of Steam games I buy so these days I have more of a 0.75:1 ratio in terms of finished:unfinished games.
I generally don't play games to 100% completion (exceptions being, erm, linear games like the AA series), mainly because there's too many games I want to play and too little time to play them all.
Unfortunately this leads to my gaming experience feeling a bit rushed, but IMO it's better than spending a couple hundred hours on a single game just for bragging rights or some strange type of masochism.
As for unfinished games, I've cut back on the number of Steam games I buy so these days I have more of a 0.75:1 ratio in terms of finished:unfinished games.
author=LockeZauthor=Dyhalto...author=LockeZYou beat the big fly, then draw a triumphant mural and compose a victory song.
Also, I call bullshit, how the hell do you beat Mario Paint?
Acceptable.
It's only acceptable if you manage to beat it, like, a hundred times to get all the stickers. Otherwise, you haven't beaten shit, son!
