What was the last game you finished?

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With the steam sales just comming to an end, I had a look through my list of 112 games and realised I have only played a few all the way through (Mass Effect 2, Dawn of War 2, Half Life 2 Portal 1).
I like having lot's of games to chop and change between depending on what I fancy playing, but very rarely do I play a game all the way through to the end.
When I was a boy who just had 5-6 games on the Sega Master System and then a similar amount of games on the Megadrive, I would make sure that I completed all my games even if I didn't really like it.
Maybe it was because they cost more? Like £25 in 1992 for Road Rash 2 etc.
 
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That is a good question since I hate single-player games. It would most likely be MW2, it was terrible, much preferred CoD4's one.

Probably Borderlands after that. As you said I rarely finish games either, Metro 2033 was my last single-player game and I actually enjoyed it but never got to finishing it as I had to reformat.
 
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Actually had partly avoided it until now because of the time investment (whoda thunk, complaining that a game has too much content to play).

Chances are the rest of my year will be ruined freetime-wise since I'm going to go on a path of DA2, Witcher1, Witcher2 before the end. Which should line me up nicely for Skyrim...

Generally speaking, I do play games through to completion, though I do take a hiatus from some of the longer ones from time to time (like car racing games with leagues/championships that go on and on, I'll binge those for a couple of weekends then put them away again for a while). Shorter games, your typical FPS length ones, are an end-to-end play through once bought and so I don't leave those unfinished.

I don't binge buy games, sale or no sale, so I guess I would have a different dilemma if I had bought dozens or more without first completing the ones I already had outstanding.

Early-mid 90's I was in computer retail and bought tons of games @ trade and discounted prices, it was fairly obscene, and I had many more unfinished games back then.
 
Mass Effect 2 was the last game I finished, it certainly isn't the most modern game I've finished though. A while back I looked through the games I complete and at least 30% of them are more than a year old typically.

Regarding the point about games costing more, I think it is likely due to the cost being a higher proportion of your disposable income. In 1992 you would have been only 16 so presumably not rolling in cash and able to buy whatever games you what whenever you want them.

Also another factor to bear in mind is that the ease of acquisition is much higher these days. 20 years ago, buying a game generally meant going to a shop. Researching a game meant reading a magazine or speaking to people in person. Nowadays, you can just be sat on your arse and with a few mouse clicks you've learnt everything there is to know about game X and have it winging it's way down to you via digital distribution. You can find the best price quickly and then order online and have it posted to you as well.

A good question to ask yourself is, out of all the games you have bought in Steam sales, how many of those do you think you would have bought it if it meant say, a bus trip into town, a tour of Woolworths, WH Smith, Game, EB etc to find the best price, then back home again?
 
My last PC game was Duke Nukem Forever.

After that I looked at my Xbox 360 and thought 'why not?'.

During this week I completed Gears of War 1 then Alan Wake and then Gears of War 2. I have to say the Xbox exclusives are very very good I really enjoyed playing them. It is quite annoying that you have to play on hard to unlock the insane difficulty which I wanted to play but I guess hardcore will do for me now.

Next game I am going to play is vanilla Fallout 3 GOTY on my PC. I modded it yesterday but found out it disabled GFWL and I wanted to get the achievements :p
 
Shogun 2, but only because I'm writing a review of it and zoomed through as fast as possible on easy :D My main game is still only half way through.

Before that: Dragon Age: Origins.
 
I completed red alert 3, didn't really enjoy myself as its not a brilliant game but didn't want to feel like it was a waste of money.

I blitzed the campaign none of the missions presented a challenge, and I consider myself poor at strategy games. So I still feel like I wasted my money because it was so easy. Utterly useless game.

Before that I completed and enjoyed every moment of Mass Effect. Before that COD 4, before that Half Life 2.

I'm quite bad at getting my moneys worth out of sp games :D
 
I notice when I used to only play games on console I would try and complete pretty much every game that I enjoyed.

On PC I play more for the multiplayer aspect, I think because I didnt have online multiplayer on the consoles (my last being a gamecube) so its a sub conscious desire to play online as much as possible to fill a gap.
 
HangTime said:
A good question to ask yourself is, out of all the games you have bought in Steam sales, how many of those do you think you would have bought it if it meant say, a bus trip into town, a tour of Woolworths, WH Smith, Game, EB etc to find the best price, then back home again?
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Thats a good point, I just looked through my games list (and I won't list them) but I came up with the figure of 19 games. Most of them are AAA games that would have been surrounded by hype and I would have been waiting for the release date.
 
The DLC 'Reborn' for FEAR 2. I've completed it quite a long time ago but I really couldn't recall much of it, if any, at all. It was a bit like playing a new game again, albeit a short one.
 
Eames said:
Hangtime clearly does all his shopping online, dont think Electronics Boutique has existed for many years now.
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It did 20 years ago, which is what I was comparing it to in my post, but not included in the quote. I was making a comparison with what the OP would have had to do 20 years ago, hence the mention of other defunct stores such as Woolworths too :)
 
Oh haha.

I still do some game shopping "in town" so your scenario didn't seem unusual to me. I suppose I'm part of a dying breed.
 
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