Who here does / does not complete games ?

Not finished a game for around 2-3yrs now, not bought a new game in that time either. Still playing Arma 2, not the campaign, never really played that. Instead playing a running military/political type game with around 30 odd friends, we originally started it over a decade ago, just keeps rolling on..

If it doesn’t have an ‘Editor’ built in the game I probably wouldn’t play it. Maybe getting too old..

Will buy A3 but not for the campaign, just for the ‘Editor’ and new mods/islands that will be made by many people, our group included..

Edit: I lie, I bought 'Iron Front', still we all make mistakes, oh and of course the A2 addon's Arrowhead etc..
 
I complete a fair share of games relative to the amount of time spent gaming, probably because aside from Quakeworld (and occasional L4D) I don't play any multiplayer. For the past 8 years or so I've been keeping a list in notepad of all the games I've completed (note I'm talking just main 'campaign' no 100% nonsense), the one regret is I didn't use a spreadsheet instead and put dates against them.

Essentially what happened was 1998-2003 I was very heavily into QW and basically played hardly any singleplayer, I think I completed half a dozen SP games in the space of 5 years. I then decided to make a concerted effort to play more SP because I know that I was missing out.

List below if anyone cares (first bunch of games aren't in order as I didn't start the list straight away... also listing Football Manager is a bit of a joke!):
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Doom 3
Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil
Halflife 2
Painkiller
Painkiller: Battle out of Hell
Call of Duty
Call of Duty: United Offensive
Dawn of War
Dawn of War: Winter Assault
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault - Spearhead
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault - Breakthrough
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault
Halo
Mashed
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
Star Wars Jedi Knight III: Jedi Academy
Far Cry
Halflife
Deus Ex
Deus Ex: The Invisible War
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Need for Speed: Underground
Need for Speed: Underground 2
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
Driv3r
Brothers in Arms: The Road to Hill 30
Max Payne 2
Star Wars: Republic Commando
Tribes Vengeance
Chronicles of Riddick: The Escape From Butcher Bay
No One Lives Forever 2
F.E.A.R.
Quake 4
Serious Sam 2
Call of Duty 2
Red Faction 2
Mafia
Fahrenheit
Need for Speed: Porsche 2000
Starwars: Battlefront II
Area 51
Freespace 2
Need for Speed: Most Wanted
Star Trek: Elite Force 2
Pariah
Command and Conquer: Renegade
MotoGP URT 3
Sin Episodes: Emergence
Halflife 2: Episode 1
Prey
Red Faction
GTI Racing
Need for Speed: Carbon
F.E.A.R. Extraction Point
FlatOut 2
Darkstar One
Chaser
Test Drive Unlimited
Freelancer
Crashday
Colin McRae: DiRT
Football Manager 2007
Halflife: Episode 2
Unreal 2: The Awakening
Football Manager 2005
Championship Manager 4
Medal of Honor: Airborne
Bioshock
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Need for Speed: Pro Street
Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights
Portal
Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
Command and Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force
Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War: Soulstorm
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown
Soldier of Fortune: Payback
Race Driver: GRID
Crysis
Crysis WARHEAD
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
Far Cry 2
Call of Duty: World at War
Driver: Parallel Lines
Need for Speed: Undercover
Grand Theft Auto 4
Dawn of War 2
Conflict Freespace: The Great War
Conflict Freespace: The Silent Threat
Wheelman
Fallout 3
Fallout 3: The Pitt
Fallout 3: Operation Anchorage
Fallout 3: Broken Steel
Fallout 3: Point Lookout
Fallout 3: Mothership Zeta
Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
Need for Speed: Shift
Wolfenstein
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Battlefield Bad Company 2
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter
Batman Arkham Asylum
Frontlines Fuel of War
Conflict Denied Ops
Just Cause
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter
Project Snowblind
Borderlands
Borderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx
Classic Car Racing
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
F.E.A.R. 2: Reborn
Colin Mcrae DIRT 2
Fallout New Vegas
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Medal of Honor
Battlestrike: Battle for Stalingrad
Delta Force Xtreme 2
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
Torchlight
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days
Rogue Trooper
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2010
Metro 2033
Test Drive Unlimited 2
Crysis 2
Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed
Mass Effect
Mass Effect 2
Dragon Age: Origins
Dragon Age: Awakening
Dragon Age 2
Dragon Age 2: Legacy
Duke Nukem Forever
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Dirt 3
The Witcher Enhanced Edition
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Driver: San Francisco
Bioshock 2
Portal 2
The Club
Hard Reset
Bulletstorm
Operation Flashpoint: Red River
Aliens vs Predator
Condemned: Criminal Origins
Infernal
Need for Speed: The Run
Mass Effect 3
Serious Sam 3: BFE
Assassin's Creed Director's Cut
Assassin's Creed 2
 
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Depends on the game; sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. I have saves in about 20 games atm across all platforms. I can leave a game for months, come back to it and complete it or blaze my way though a game in the first few sittings. I haven't totally quit a game due to difficulty in many years but Trials HD and the dark world mode in Super Meat Boy are both candidates for changing that.

I find a good way of preventing getting bored but playing lots of different games is to keep to as few in the same genre as possible. So if I complete Far Cry, I can start Crysis etc.

Sometimes it's better to just quit though, started playing Blue Toad Murder Files recently but just couldn't stomach sitting through the whole game. Kudps to anyone who manages it!
 
i do this all the time, las game i completed was spec ops, the line.
i just dont seem to have the patience for games anymore, i always get that seen it done it before feeling.
Im struggling through the latest Max Painfull, whos great idea was it to, at the end of every gunfight, make some bloke pop out just as you thought it was safe to come out of hiding ,id like to strangle the B******!!!
A game should be a joy to play, not a test of nerves.
 
completed every game i have that I've played and can be completed, other wise it's like watching a film and stopping 30 mins from the end.

Although, I've not played a game in 4 months :(
 
I complete about one in every 10-15 games :(.

I have actually got games I bought but haven't played longer than 10 minutes :(.
 
I never complete games. Tbh, i mostly play online fps. cod, bfbc2, bf3 etc. I play a wee bit of single player and then just go online. I cant find a game that holds my attention for long enough in single player.
 
I think the developers are aware of this. Wasn't it Deus X that actually gave you an achievement for watching the end credits?!
 
Over the years it seems I complete less and less even though the length of games seems to be shortening, I just find a lot of games to be less gripping nowadays, their are rare exceptions but they have to be something special to hold my attention.
 
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Over the years it seems I complete less and less even though the length of games seems to be shortening, I just find a lot of games to be less gripping nowadays, their are rare exceptions but they have to be something special to hold my attention.
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Thats because a lot of the bigger releases are recycled BF/COD MW clones or they subscribe to that ethos. IE an awful lot of bling but very little substance.

Essentially the SP element on such titles are just a complimentary few levels that they have to stick in to justify the £40 price tag. I completed MW2 in like 5 hrs. Yawn. Havent bothered with MW 3 or BF3 etc etc.

The indy scene is where its at in gaming in my opinion. The big hitters just take the **** out of gamers by releasing poor quality and often broken titles.

Whatever happened to releasing a game that works 'out of the box'? :rolleyes:

As for completing games I complete all of the ones I play, eventually. My problem is multiplayer. I spend far too much time on Quake 3! :p

At the minute I am part way through deadspace 2, just started splinter cell conviction and I am also part way through borderlands :)

But mostly I play Quake 3, and I just last night started to play Tribes Ascend and I can see myself spending a fair amount of time on that :)

Buff
 
When I was younger I was known as the guy who got a game completed it that day then sold it the next. I always completed my games, now I have over 170 games on steam and I can count on 1 hand the games I've completed on it. It all changed for me since I started playing MMOs and Multiplayer, now I just turn a game on generally and just go straight in to the multiplayer.
 
I usually do complete every game. But lately I have been getting too bored continue playing some. e.g

Alice in wonderland
GTA IV
Skyrim although I will go back to it at some point, just became over whelmed by the sheer amount of things to do. Hadn't even started the main story but had spent over a 100 hours on it!
La noire which I think I'll go back to at some point.
Borderlands just seemed to be the same thing over and over.
Bioshock 2 just didn't feel any where near as good as 1.

I very rarely complete fps games, I only really buy them for their multi player aspect.
 
all depends on the game, if there is enough to hold my attention i'll play all the way through, however if not i'll play till i get bored, then "maybe" come back to it at a later date and finish it.
almost never 100% a game, just dont have the time and patience.
GTAIV is a prime example of a game i got bored of, on more than one occasion, i start playing with full intention of playing through, but get bored and leave it, its got a **** poor story line in my opinion.
 
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I hardly ever complete games these days. For example, I have put around 400 hours into all the total war games, but I have never completed a campaign.

The last two games I completed were the Kane & Lynch series, which I did within 3 days.
 
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