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Why don't people finish console games?
- Thread starter Robotron Jon
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I usually finish games I start - exceptions for a few RPG's that I lost interest for as a kid on the NES and SNES- The only RPG's I've ever beaten were Final Fantasy 7, Wild Arms, and Brave Fencer Musashi. If you count Zelda as an RPG I've beaten all of those with the exception of Ocarina and all the handhelds and bullshit. lol
I'm an online whore for Gears of War and Modern Warfare, for a few months after they are released - then I'm done.
When GoW3 comes out I'll be on it like crack for a while, then I'll wear it out.
I'm an online whore for Gears of War and Modern Warfare, for a few months after they are released - then I'm done.
When GoW3 comes out I'll be on it like crack for a while, then I'll wear it out.
Holy... I haven't thought about Brave Fencer Musashi in years. I remember my wife, then girlfriend, playing through that. I don't recall much about the story line, but still remember the Minkus.
sohchx
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I finish every game I play along with trying to earn all achievements. The achievements are what give me the initiative to keep playing. I love seeing my gamerscore get higher every week lol
Les Manley
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For me, it isn't so much about the games getting boring, but more of a lack of time and then a new game comes out I really want to play and I buy that game, then the vicious cycle continues. Some very good games actually make it near impossible to put down the controller and I do end up finishing them. My other problem is that I like to accomplish everything I can in games, so it takes much longer than just completing the main quest for instance.
Oh come on, you have a lot to go for the number of games you've played
But I'm the same way - I try to get as many achievements as I can, but I don't stress about trying to get them all. I am pissed about not playing the multiplayer in AC3 very much since I 100%'d AC and AC2...one of these days I need to get the rest of those...
gutsman004
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These findings don't surprise me. It makes sense considering the sheer number of good games out there. Too many games,not enough time. So instead of playing through a few,most players just sample as many as they can.
sohchx
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Oh come on, you have a lot to go for the number of games you've played
But I'm the same way - I try to get as many achievements as I can, but I don't stress about trying to get them all. I am pissed about not playing the multiplayer in AC3 very much since I 100%'d AC and AC2...one of these days I need to get the rest of those...
Yeah but see the thing is I have so many played games because I have had Gamefly for 2 yrs. I get a game take a week or two to finish it and move on to the next one. If it is game that I feel I really can get most of the achievements on after I finish it I go buy a copy later when the price goes down and then finish it up. The ones you see that are unfinished are ones that I have not bought yet,or just haven't had time to get back to yet. Example: I just finished Bulletstorm but haven't gotten the rest of the achievements. I have had the game two weeks now and will be sending it back today. In a couple months the game will be $15-20 and I will pick it up then. I keep a GF game for two weeks max in order to assure that I get at least 2 games from them a month.
Compute
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I tend to beat games that I can play in 30-60 minute blocks. It was easy to put down Bioshock and do laundry or whatever. Other games you have to hit a "save" point and that just sucks. GTA series works great for this. If I feel like shooting a thing, I can go do it. But if I want to do a mission, there's time for that as well.
sohchx
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GTA Team deathmatch FTW!!!
sk8ersublime
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You need to beat ocarina! And the handheld games are pretty solid too!
I don't have this problem lol, the only console games I play anymore are Zelda and NHL on xbox.
I think a lot of it for me is too many fucking buttons for these newer games, I can never figure out what I need to press to do what. And games like gears of war, the graphics are fantastic but so good that I can never see where the hell I am getting shot from, so I turned it off and traded it in....
I am a sucker for any game in the half life/portal series...only on PC thought. FPS on console FTL.
Alky
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I didnt read anything anyone posted but all I have to say is multiplayer.
I might play a few other games but in the end multiplayer is where its at for me. I need to feel the satisfaction of destroying my enemies and watch my w/l ratio skyrocket.
I did however think that Infamous 1 and 2 were both just the right length to keep me interested and not spend too much time on. These games are the only 2 I have played through in years.
I still havent finished the black ops single player.
I might play a few other games but in the end multiplayer is where its at for me. I need to feel the satisfaction of destroying my enemies and watch my w/l ratio skyrocket.
I did however think that Infamous 1 and 2 were both just the right length to keep me interested and not spend too much time on. These games are the only 2 I have played through in years.
I still havent finished the black ops single player.
I can't put the kind of continuous time in to a game to finish it. I might play a game for while, then put it down for a month or two before picking it up again, by which time I've completely forgotten whatever narrative it has.
When I originally played Myst (the original version. On a Mac) I got stuck somewhere, got sidetracked and never got back to it. N years later I got the PC version, went a ways more (I remembered SOME stuff), same thing happened. Last year I picked up the DS version and determined to play it all the way through - it still took me like 4 months (and more than one bit of on-line help) to get enough time to do it, even though I already understood half of the puzzles and I was taking notes.
I don't buy such games at all any more - if it's got a big over-arching story line I simply leave it on the shelf. I find time occasionally to play with Big Bang Mini (awesome game on the DS by the way) or my arcades.
(by the way, on the DS version of Myst: JUST DON'T. The graphics are fine for the platform, but the puzzles were designed for a different input method. I had to go find on-line help because I thought I didn't understand puzzles where in fact I understood perfectly, I just was having a damned near impossible time setting whatever control to the right value).
RareHero
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For me it starts with time & attention span. I can't sit there playing a game for hours and hours....there's just other shit I gotta do. So that being the case, if a game is relatively long and complex - if I come back to it a month or two later, I'll completely forget where I left off, what I'm supposed to do, where to go....so - I just say "fuck it" and never finish it. This is why I never finished Metroid Prime 2...or Shadow of the Colossus (I'm gonna try again on that one w/ the HD remake). The only games I think I finished over the past few years are Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2, New Super Mario Bros., Scott Pilgrim, Bioshock, and Spider-Man: Web of Shadows.
I just usually end up playing "short burst of fun" games like Pac-Man CE, Rez HD, Katamari, etc.
I just usually end up playing "short burst of fun" games like Pac-Man CE, Rez HD, Katamari, etc.
RareHero
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This is where my "generation" of gaming completely veers off from the current mainstream. I want to play a "creators vision"...with well designed obstacles and challenges, with memorable characters, artwork, and music.
To me, multiplayer consists of "virtual laser tag", "never-ending pointless quests", and "fighting snobbery" ...I just have no interest in that.
I'll occasionally play some fighters online for the hell of it...but I just can't get into the fucking minutiae of fighters anymore....I'm just never going to know how to do something down to the animation frame....nor do I want to.
I despise the multiplayer culture for the most part and I also prefer single player games with well crafted stories and experiences.
I like playing games like Team Fortress 2 multiplayer and that's about it.
weirdozmedia
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These days multiplayer can be a lot more varied, there was what, 16 different multiplayer modes in Grand Theft Auto(?), ranging from deathmatch & team carjack, to various forms of co-op and rescue/defend the hostage type stuff. Call of Duty Nazi Zombies is one of the best all around experiences right now imo, the gameplay is addictive in a Pacman type of way (each round there's more zombies and they're faster), has story elements, a lot of strategic obstacles (which doors to open and leave closed, which guns to keep and upgrade, which traps to set, etc), inventive gameplay like a zero gravity moon on the new one, original music and so on you might expect from a platformer, except your teammates are real people. I'll admit though that the rounds can run anywhere from 10 minutes to hours.
Alky
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I got some guys that made it to level 37 on the newest map Shangri-La and it took them a little over 10 hours.
I dont know how they do it.
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