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Fallout 3 for me.
CBA to complete games?
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I always try to complete games. This year i've finished mirrors edge, fear2 and i'm currently on the last level of deadspace.
It certainly takes effort, especially if i haven't played the game for months, but as soon as i remember the controls to the game, i remember how awesome it is and usually finish it soon after. I think the last game i finished in one day was HL2
It certainly takes effort, especially if i haven't played the game for months, but as soon as i remember the controls to the game, i remember how awesome it is and usually finish it soon after. I think the last game i finished in one day was HL2
This is a normal thing for me lol...
The last game I completed was Wanted: Weapons Of Fate. And that was back in April. Completed in about 5hrs or so.
I've played HAWX and never finished it, Bioshock, Fallout 3 (which I just don't like anymore bores me right off). Hell even gave Res Evil 5 a go but after 5min lost interest. Same with Far Cry 2 and Prototype (the latter I will play again as it is a good game I feel).
Currently I am playing NFS: Shift and Batman Arkham Asylum. I am taking my time with Batman as I want to enjoy it properly and not rush through it like many people do. I know I will complete it.
There are so many other games I can list that I haven't completed but no point really lol.
The last game I completed was Wanted: Weapons Of Fate. And that was back in April. Completed in about 5hrs or so.
I've played HAWX and never finished it, Bioshock, Fallout 3 (which I just don't like anymore bores me right off). Hell even gave Res Evil 5 a go but after 5min lost interest. Same with Far Cry 2 and Prototype (the latter I will play again as it is a good game I feel).
Currently I am playing NFS: Shift and Batman Arkham Asylum. I am taking my time with Batman as I want to enjoy it properly and not rush through it like many people do. I know I will complete it.
There are so many other games I can list that I haven't completed but no point really lol.
1 day!
I try and avoid conflicting games. When I was getting towards the end of Far Cry 2, I held off starting FEAR 2 because I knew if I started another FPS I would never go back to FC2. My main downfall is storylines. I'm not too good at bothering to follow them. I can enjoy and finish a game but not know half of the characters names after. But I am the same with films. I used to rarely finish games but I actually finish quite a few these days.
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I do normally finish games, even ones I'm not enjoying that much, like Fear 2 which I powered through though it sucked.
Risen was well worth finishing but some other games of late I just couldn't be remotely bothered with, a couple because I got some ssd's so a new windows install and felt entirely no need to reinstall the games Prototype, Ghost busters(two/three levels in and I was done). I know there were 3-4 other games I was part way through when I reinstalled, can't even remember what they were without the boxes infront of me.
Also started lots of games on my brothers ps3 that I never bother finishing, mostly FPS types, he just grabbed Killzone 2 for his birthday, it seems good enough for a console FPS but being a PC gamer, I just can't be bothered to deal with the slow ass console FPS's with crap aiming.
Risen was well worth finishing but some other games of late I just couldn't be remotely bothered with, a couple because I got some ssd's so a new windows install and felt entirely no need to reinstall the games Prototype, Ghost busters(two/three levels in and I was done). I know there were 3-4 other games I was part way through when I reinstalled, can't even remember what they were without the boxes infront of me.
Also started lots of games on my brothers ps3 that I never bother finishing, mostly FPS types, he just grabbed Killzone 2 for his birthday, it seems good enough for a console FPS but being a PC gamer, I just can't be bothered to deal with the slow ass console FPS's with crap aiming.
There are very few games I buy that I actually finish... Normally get bored after a few hours and just give up on them... It has to be a damn fine game to keep me entertained, not just a repetitive fps type game where you have seen everything it has to offer by the end of level 1...
I don't seem to finish many games. The last game I finished was Assassin's Creed. I sort of finished Rome: Total War (met long campaign criteria) recently but I did start playing it in 2005! Before that, I think the last things I finished were Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines and KotOR1.
Generally in single player games it's stories that grab me - not gameplay. Most games are rubbish stories to be honest.
Generally in single player games it's stories that grab me - not gameplay. Most games are rubbish stories to be honest.
I have a different weirdness to add to this:
Has anyone got a problem with constantly restarting games? I'll play for maybe 3-4 hours then the tiniest thing will **** me off or i'll suddenly just get bored and turn it off.
The last games I really got into and stuck with until completion were Uncharted 2, Batman AA and Fallout 3. I'd say I've only finished 50% of my entire games collection at a maximum. Funny thing is, I'll have played the first few levels of it so many times I'm pre-empting all the enemies, doing things perfectly without hesitation haha. Then I never get to see the later sections.
Has anyone got a problem with constantly restarting games? I'll play for maybe 3-4 hours then the tiniest thing will **** me off or i'll suddenly just get bored and turn it off.
The last games I really got into and stuck with until completion were Uncharted 2, Batman AA and Fallout 3. I'd say I've only finished 50% of my entire games collection at a maximum. Funny thing is, I'll have played the first few levels of it so many times I'm pre-empting all the enemies, doing things perfectly without hesitation haha. Then I never get to see the later sections.
Glad it isn't just me that does this.
I don't think I ever bothered finishing games until I played the COD games on the 360 and I managed to complete them all. Last game I completed was Call Of Juarez which I did find a bit of a chore. Last game I didn't finish was Batman AA on the PS3. Got so far in and just got bored and so traded it in at the weekend.
I'm currently playing F.E.A.R. on the pc (got myself a Titan Pyro a few weeks back and so discovering pc games again) which I'm determined to finish and I've also got Settlers 2 Anniversary Edition on the go aswell (used to love them games). After I've played them I've got Anno 1404 and I saw Ghost Recon (which I gave up on on the 360) for a fiver so though wha the hell, I'll try it on the pc.
I don't think I ever bothered finishing games until I played the COD games on the 360 and I managed to complete them all. Last game I completed was Call Of Juarez which I did find a bit of a chore. Last game I didn't finish was Batman AA on the PS3. Got so far in and just got bored and so traded it in at the weekend.
I'm currently playing F.E.A.R. on the pc (got myself a Titan Pyro a few weeks back and so discovering pc games again) which I'm determined to finish and I've also got Settlers 2 Anniversary Edition on the go aswell (used to love them games). After I've played them I've got Anno 1404 and I saw Ghost Recon (which I gave up on on the 360) for a fiver so though wha the hell, I'll try it on the pc.
I had this feeling for a few years around 1999 to late 2003, basically due to being semi-addicted to an online game. However I then made a conscious decision to put more effort in to starting SP games and giving them more than just 15mins. The problem is that I'd got so used to the 'quick fix' of familiar multiplayer that anything slightly out of the ordinary that wasn't complete pick-up-and-play didn't get much of a look in. If it didn't hook me straight away, it was discarded.
There are good and bad points to my new policy. I keep a little record of the games I've completed (as in, beaten the main story mode, not 100% completion) and it's now reached about 100 titles. Over the past 6 years I've given a chance to and been enthralled by games like Deus Ex, KOTOR, CoD, Far Cry etc some of which I had overlooked when released. But equally I've grinded through some fairly generic games that really weren't worth the effort - stuff like Pariah, Area 51, MoH: Airborne, Mashed, Rainbox 6 Lockdown etc. These are not exactly legendary games and will not live long in the memory.
I don't fall into the same trap as Uriel though, it is very rare I restart a game without finishing it. I horde my savegames and have plenty that are well over 5 years old waiting for me to go back to them (case in point being GTA3 which I went back to at the start of the year after a 6.5 year break, I was near the end of the second island).
There are good and bad points to my new policy. I keep a little record of the games I've completed (as in, beaten the main story mode, not 100% completion) and it's now reached about 100 titles. Over the past 6 years I've given a chance to and been enthralled by games like Deus Ex, KOTOR, CoD, Far Cry etc some of which I had overlooked when released. But equally I've grinded through some fairly generic games that really weren't worth the effort - stuff like Pariah, Area 51, MoH: Airborne, Mashed, Rainbox 6 Lockdown etc. These are not exactly legendary games and will not live long in the memory.
I don't fall into the same trap as Uriel though, it is very rare I restart a game without finishing it. I horde my savegames and have plenty that are well over 5 years old waiting for me to go back to them (case in point being GTA3 which I went back to at the start of the year after a 6.5 year break, I was near the end of the second island).
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I finished World of Warcraft. The end prize is getting your life back.
There's a lesson for us all right there.
There's a lesson for us all right there.
