Do you play games partway through and then just stop?

[AmberClad]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
what part was that? i don't remember anything like that in ToB.

I only vaguely remember the battle, but it's where you fight Sendai. IIRC, you're in a circular room with a bunch of stone statues, and one by one they come to life. The last one is going to be the real Sendai.

I remember doing something really cheesy in this battle. My main character was an epic-level mage, so I think I threw Energy Blades at her to bypass her protections.

Edit: Found a pic with a cut scene showing the room where you eventually fight her.

 

[A Casual Fitz]

Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555
barf. HL2 was great when I played it the first time... It's extremely boring and stupid the second/bajillionth time around.

:-/

I can understand boring, but stupid? The game has such a great story...all stories are watered down with repetition but HL2 is undeniably good.

 

[RallyMaster]

I don't think I've finished a single player game since uh....Star Wars Battlefront II. I've purchased several games after that but never played through any of them because multiplayer is just somehow more challenging?

 

[fatpat268]

Originally posted by: Gothgar

Originally posted by: coldmeat
If I do stop it's because the game pissed me off somehow.

Fallout 3 because my character couldn't aim and missed pretty much every shot.
NFS Most Wanted because the police chase requirements got ridiculous.
GRID because it got less fun the further you got.
I'm sure there's lots others, just my memory is bad.

HL2 was a great game and still is. I don't know why you people have never finished it. I just played it through again the other day.

seriously... I can still go through and play the whole thing, awesome game.


I am thinking maybe it is people who missed HL2 when it first came out and only recently tried it, I can see how playing a 5+ year old game might seem kinda boring.

HL2 is the only game in existence that gives me this huge headache whenever I play it.

There's something about it that I just don't like. Can't stand it, and I've tried playing through it so many times but lose interest maybe 75% of the way through it.

Tried playing Episode 1 for the hell of it a few days ago, figuring I just needed new scenery after playing HL2 so many times, but nope, I still get that annoying headache. Weird.

Shame, because I absolutely loved HL1.

 

[Via]

It's been a while, but as far I as I remember there's a room that has all of these statues around you in a circle. They come to life and fight you multiple times.

I lost that battle like 20 times before I gave up.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: A Casual Fitz

Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555
barf. HL2 was great when I played it the first time... It's extremely boring and stupid the second/bajillionth time around.

:-/

I can understand boring, but stupid? The game has such a great story...all stories are watered down with repetition but HL2 is undeniably good.

if people are denying that it is good, then it can't be undeniably good...

 

[nageov3t]

if I can make it through the first couple hours of a game, I will generally make it through to the end, baring anything like obscenely difficult or stupid that might pop up and turn me off of the game.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: AmberClad

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
what part was that? i don't remember anything like that in ToB.

I only vaguely remember the battle, but it's where you fight Sendai. IIRC, you're in a circular room with a bunch of stone statues, and one by one they come to life. The last one is going to be the real Sendai.

I remember doing something really cheesy in this battle. My main character was an epic-level mage, so I think I threw Energy Blades at her to bypass her protections.

Edit: Found a pic with a cut scene showing the room where you eventually fight her.

ah yeah, sedna, i think. that fight is pretty hard, and apparently there's a mod to make it even harder

 

[Scoobyd00]

I usually force myself through a game if for nothing else to justify the expense of buying it
But there is a couple that even for the money I just couldn?t make it.

Deus Ex 2, total and complete P.O.S. First Dues ex was the game of the year for a reason, it was that good. The second should have won the same amount of awards in the pile of crap category

Far Cry 2. Get mission to kill somebody. Drive for 20 minutes trying to avoid CONSTANTLY respawning incredibly stupid AI that have wall hack and aimbot enabled.Shoot target. Drive for 20 minutes trying to avoid CONSTANTLY respawning incredibly stupid AI that have wall hack and aimbot enabled to report that you killed the target. Repeat 50 times

 

[frozentundra123456]

Are you talking about KOTOR 1 or KOTOR 2??. Both games are fairly easy if you build up a strong character and choose and level up your party correctly. If you are talking about KOTOR 1 when you land on the unknown planet, yes that is difficult but not impossible.

 

[frozentundra123456]

I bought HL2 on steam recently for 9.95. I too have mixed feelings about it. The boating and driving sequences and continuous puzzles do get annoying after a while, and the game seems repetitive and too long. I havent really gotten into the story either, maybe I missed it by not playing the first game. I am trying to finish it just because there are no other games that I particularly want to play now.

I prefer shorter and more intense games like COD4 I guess.

 

[frozentundra123456]

I really try to finish all the games that I buy. Sometimes I will quit if the game gets too difficult, especially if it has a checkpoint save system that forces you to replay parts of the same level over and over again. What really annoys me is a game that is frustratingly difficult even on "easy" difficulty.
I guess there are two types of gamers basically. My grandson (12 yrs) doesnt feel compelled to finish a game at all. He just plays until he is bored or the game gets too hard. (although at most games he is better than I am)
On the other hand I like a more linear approach and want to finish the game in a relatively short amount of time. I guess that is why I refuse to play MMOs. They seem to be just a series of endless quests and levelling up with no real purpose.

 

[Chriscross3234]

I'm not sure if it's an age thing... not sure whether you call 20 younger or older, but yes, I do find myself stopping in the middle of games. It mostly has to do with not enough time to game and multiplayer games that are a lot easier to get into. Recently, there are three games that I'm kinda pissed at myself at not finishing them; The Witcher, Mass Effect, and Fallout 3. It's the same story for all three of them, I usually get really into it during the beginning/middle of the game and then I have something big coming up in RL that pretty much halts any time for playing. After that big thing is over, I try to get back into the game, but I feel like I have forgotten what has gone on in the game and I feel inclined to start over, but once I do start over I'm like "Goddammit, I don't wanna have to go through all this again" and then I get pissed and don't even touch the game for a year.

Now that it's summer, my goal is to finish these three games + whatever I haven't finish/started. So far I've been playing Mass Effect again and I keep telling myself "Why did I stop playing this game, it's a great game!". I really hope I can finish these damn games.

 

[Zenoth]

It happens to me in almost every real-time-strategy games whenever there's a single-player campaign, except for a few select titles (including the Command & Conquer series due to the cinematic scenes), since they're mostly just a bunch of skirmishes against the A.I, mostly 1 Vs 1's, sometimes with boring escort missions (I usually hate escort missions, and that includes all platforms, all game genres, there's a few exceptions I can think of, as always, but I'm speaking generally).

With first-person-shooters, the game needs to be very, very bad for me to stop somewhere and never come back. I can think of a few by heart, but that genre is generally satisfying all the way through, it's in fact the one game genre in which I finish perhaps 95% of the games I buy, and it's perhaps ironic in a sense, because the FPS genre has the reputation to have most of the worst game stories in existence (which I wouldn't even try to deny). With adventure games I almost always complete them, once again that genre for me is generally satisfying all the way through, even if I am not necessarily intrigued nor immersed or interested at all by the story, I often still complete them.

I would say without trying to search on my own gaming history just by knowing myself enough that I complete a good 80% of the games I play, the other 20% or so are either ignored, taking dust on my desk and uninstalled from my HDD, or are returned, and in some cases are freely given to some of my friends (when it's retail), simply because I thought they were too boring to even consider looking at the retail box, but those craptacular games are quite rare for me.

The last few titles I do remember not completing due to boredom and complete lost of interest are:

- Far Cry 2
- Titan Quest: Immortal Throne
- Tomb Raider: Underworld
- Grand Theft Auto IV
- Empire: Total War (which I bought four days ago, but the A.I both in battle and campaign map is horrible at best, so I stick to the multi-player, which I do like quite a lot)

And some rare others I know I'm forgetting.

 

[Wheezer]

Far Cry 2...I did not even get halfway through it sucked so bad.

 

[Build it Myself]

This is something I was thinking about recently because I used to finish games, now I can barely get started in them...I tried to figure out if it was because new games suck or if I'm just getting older (though only 25)...here was my conclusion...

New games I finished recently: Crysis and Bioshock

Both were pretty great games for different reasons...Bioshock was orignal and a big scary while Crysis had such great graphical characteristics that I felt immersed in the game.

Games I haven't finished and will probably never play again:

Empire: Total War (The biggest letdown I've ever had in a game)
Dead Space (scary as hell but a little boring after a while)
FarCry 2 (I wish I could punch the guy at IGN who reviewed this crappy game)
Gears of War: Repetitive and boring
Half-life 2: I don't know what people see in this game but it's nothing to write home about (up to scene 2 or 3...whenever I stopped)
Tarr Chronicles: Ok, this game was another FarCry lie...bought it cause of the reviews and uninstalled it 3 missions later...it's now a paperweight
X-Men Origins: This sounded cool, the regen of health and all that...1hr later when you were "upgrading" the character, I realized that the game had shown me it's all already
Battlestations Midway: There's nothing to say, just a huge dissapointment
Secret Weapons over Normandy: I might play this again someday, but I stopped after 3 missions, I was expecting more from the developer of Tie Fighter
Call of Duty 4: Suck, suck, suck...the most redundant boring respawning firefights I've ever had in a game
Brothers in Arms HH: I almost finished this, I even reinstalled to try and complete the ending, but at the end I just got bored, the story was good, but the gameplay was meeah...
Oblivion: Ok, I really tried to get into this game, I spent hours with mods trying to fix the leveling, etc. to "fix" the crappy game that was boxed up and shipped...it felt like one big litterbox, not a sandbox...with the exception of FarCry I've never been so bored wandering in a game before.
Fallout 3: I beat this by mistake which gave me a bit of a suprise because I was bored and trying to keep my interest by following the storyline, so I don't feel it's really been "completed" because I wasn't even trying nor paying attention...a fault on the developers side IMO

Anyway, the list could go on but then I'd probably get depressed about how much money I've wasted...here's the thing; as an experiment I dug through my CD's and installed the following:

Tie Fighter
X-Wing Alliance
Dark Forces
Bridge Commander
X3: Reunion

Conclusion? With the exception of X3: Reunion which never ends in theory, I played all these games through beginning to end even though I knew the storylines and plots in every situation...I think therefore modern games just don't have the allure...I'm playing Fable II now because someone on the forums recommended it and I'm having a blast even though it's an older game, same goes for Vampire: Masquerade which so far has also kept me interested.

Game developers need to get their crap together because this is the reason people pirate...I spend 100's on games that I never play and never want to...people get sick of crap like this. If you offered me a copy of Tie Figher today for $30 and I didn't have my copy still...I'd buy it in a heartbeat...if you offered me a copy of FarCry 2 or Oblivion for $5 today...I'd turn you down without a second thought, games today just don't have the inherent quality they used to.

 

[pontifex]

i've noticed that i tend to play games that are quick to start, easy to accomplish something quickly, and quick to save/quit. Lately I haven't had a whole lot of time to game and I think that is why I don't finish some games. I used to love RPGs but now when I play one, I just find myself skipping all the dialog just to get to the missions. Unless the story is really good, I tend not to care about it.

 

[Qbah]

Same here, these days I just like a quick pew-pew. And I skip the dialogue, unless it's spoken and I heard it like twice at most. Skip-skip -> check objectives and follow the arrow - seems I am too easy to please

Now back in the days... that was a long time ago and probably not true

 

[thujone]

Originally posted by: Chriscross3234
I'm not sure if it's an age thing... not sure whether you call 20 younger or older, but yes, I do find myself stopping in the middle of games. It mostly has to do with not enough time to game and multiplayer games that are a lot easier to get into. Recently, there are three games that I'm kinda pissed at myself at not finishing them; The Witcher, Mass Effect, and Fallout 3. It's the same story for all three of them, I usually get really into it during the beginning/middle of the game and then I have something big coming up in RL that pretty much halts any time for playing. After that big thing is over, I try to get back into the game, but I feel like I have forgotten what has gone on in the game and I feel inclined to start over, but once I do start over I'm like "Goddammit, I don't wanna have to go through all this again" and then I get pissed and don't even touch the game for a year.

Now that it's summer, my goal is to finish these three games + whatever I haven't finish/started. So far I've been playing Mass Effect again and I keep telling myself "Why did I stop playing this game, it's a great game!". I really hope I can finish these damn games.

this is my situation exactly to a t.


already restarted fallout 3 as an evil character this time. and going to reinstall mass effect and resurrect Commander German Shepherd just as soon as i get my video card back from RMA.


still haven't played the witcher at all yet. definitely on my list though.

 

[Edge1]

Struggling a bit with this lately. Games not finished:

Oblivion (understandably)
Warhammer 40kOW (original)
DiRT
GRID
Bioshock
Witcher - I seriously intend to finish this though


I actually installed and am playing some UT99 for simple semi-brainless frag fest pleasure. I think its helping actually.

I did complete M2TW (the entire map) recently.

I just have to commit myself mentally to immersing myself in games again.

I will play Empire TW eventually (I preordered the special forces edition:roll.

 

[dorky82]

bioshock - only first 10 min. didnt like what i see in the game.
wow - got used to japanese rpgs couldnt handle ugly character models
final fantasy 12 - didnt like game play(new battle mode)
fallout 3- did beat the game in couple days but did not go through all extras. I had nothing to play in Iraq except this so had to beat the game.
devil may cry - got stuck in some boss so gave up

 

[Malladine]

Once I reach the stage in a game where I feel like I can predict how it's gonna go, I almost always lose interest. Like in Knights of Honour for example...I'm nearly #1 in power vs many other countries in Europe, winning seems like a forgone conclusion so...meh, time to move on or start another campaign.

 

[randalee]

Never finished Half Life. Nor have I finished Half Life 2.

Mass Effect -- Frustrating with the lockups/problems in the PC version. Got bored after going to the FIRST freaking planet. When I realized there were literally dozens of planets I needed to go to, I thought it not worth the effort. Uninstalled.

Got through Guild Wars, Prophecies campaign -- but it took me 3 years. I would take year-long breaks, then have a few months of insane play time.

I've gone back and started playing old classics. I can still never get enough Tribes - Renegades mod. The new Tribes franchises didn't do it for me. It never felt the same as old Tribes.

I LOVED Portal. I've played that through quite a few times, and still get a kick out of it every time.

 

[AmberClad]

I'm starting to feel a lot less bad about the Half-Life 2 thing. For the longest time, I figured I must have been some kind of gaming deviant, and the only person on Earth who can't be bothered to finish HL2 :laugh:.

 

[racolvin]

I do this mostly with console games. I get stuck, either with a boss or a puzzle or something that I'm either too stupid or too uncoordinated to pull of whatever move I need to pull off to get it done - so I get pissed and turn it off. If I'm playing a PC game like that there's usually a workaround or a cheat that I can use temporarily to get me past that obstacle but in consoles that's harder to come by.