Do you finish all your games?

silvine

Autumn is nearly here which means games season starts again. I'm still struggling to play last year's top titles never mind making room for Fallout 3, The Force Unleashed, GOW 2 etc.

With so many games out there on a range of formats, how many games do people here have on the go? And of those games how many are destined to remain unfinished or, worse, unplayed?

thelordofcheese

I'm compelled to finish every game i ever start, i just can't let something go unfinished, i don't know what it is. I've only ever quit on two games.
One was Neverwinter Nights because it was boring and awful and boring.
The other was Black and White 2 because it was so bad it made me rage.

I've played some awful drek as a result, i cleared billy hatcher and the giant egg, Halo CE, Soilder of fortune II , Prince of persia: Warrior Within, Both sonic adventure games Sonic R and Sonic 3D...

I think i might need help.

FreeOSCAR

I try my best to but some games are just so ****e that I wouldnt even bother. Blue Dragon, Dark Messiah, Ninja Gaiden 2, Silent Hill Origins are notable mentions

Sabre0001

Went through a huge phase of not finishing games...And haven't started some other greats! Don't even know why!!!

My list (have to go back / start):
Half:Life 2 & Episodes
FEAR & expansions
Prince of Persia (last 1 or 2)

Haven't even looked at others such as Prey, Bioshock, The Orange Box, Crysis

Though my system also struggles at times so that has also put me off

R0ot

Only game I've never completed to the end is Dead Rising, replayed it many times, just never completed the full story. :pac:

Azza

I have alot of games but at best only finish about half of them.

Couple of games I got really close to finishing but never did.

Resident Evil PS1 . Spent the whole day playing the game trying to beat it without a memory card. I even beat tyrant but before I could "get to the chopper" I had to turn it off.

Half Life 1 and Halo Combat Evolved I got 95% through but I lost my Halo save file and got bored of the Xen levels at the end of Half Life.

Holsten

Depends... most games I do, but some I'd just get stuck at one point and kind of forget about it.

Final Fantasy 8 comes to mind... I've been meaning to finish that for nearly 9 years.

kaimera

umm...crysis/prey/swat4/mass.effect come to mind in the last few months that have been started and remain unfinished

corblimey

I'm in the middle of a project to finish off as many games as I can. Just finished Crackdown on the 360 (!) and will probably hit Dead Rising next. I've got about a dozen top games that I want to finish across all consoles, so it should save me buying any more top titles for a while.

Seifer

I finish the vast majority of the games I get.
If I find I'm not into a game I'll usually make an effort to re-try it but sometimes the love just isn't there.

Dyr

Im a hoor for not finishing games, on my current list of "must get back to it at some stage":

Oblivion, The Witcher (barely started), stalker: (meh, too repetitive), rainbow six vegas (wont run anymore )

L31mr0d

depends... I mean if we are defining "finished" as 100%, then no I don't care for all the artwork or unlockables in most games. Finishing the single player campaign once on medium is finishing to me, anything more than that is mere polishing.

But I'll usually always complete the single player campaign, regardless of how crap the game is. Quite a few games have pulled out a really solid last act so I will always see a game to its end regardless of how crap the first few levels are.

Examples would be:

Infernal - great last few levels and an excellent end boss
Blacksite Area 51 - Had some high points throughout the game
Turning Point: Fall of Liberty - Great last act aboard the zeppelin

R0ot

L31mr0d wrote: »

Finishing the single player campaign once on medium is finishing to me, anything more than that is mere polishing.

You sir, disgust me! Play it on Hard or not at all. That's one thing I hate about some games though, they force you to play lesser difficulties to unlock the harder ones! Irritating! :pac:

mcgovern

I think they only game on my 360 I haven't finished is BF: Modern Combat, because the last level was just so frustrating and badly designed.
Not a bad ratio though out of ~40 games.

Kiith

L31mr0d wrote: »

depends... I mean if we are defining "finished" as 100%

No, finishing is completing the main campaign, imo. With that in mind, if i start a game, i almost always finish it. There are some notable exceptions, like Twilight Princess, Two Thrones, and Oblivion (never cleared the main story, just most of the side-quests).

noodler

Yet to finish ff6, San Andreas, Bully (didn't get into it)

Genghiz Cohen

thelordofcheese wrote: »

The other was Black and White 2 because it was so bad it made me rage.

FreeOSCAR wrote: »

Dark Messiah

Sabre0001 wrote: »

Half:Life 2 & Episodes
FEAR & expansions
Prince of Persia (last 1 or 2)

Sirs, you disgust me.
Now GTFO of my intarnets!


Never finished Oblivion, FFXI - FFX and a few others, but only because of time not because of lack of happy times.

thelordofcheese

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

The other was Black and White 2 because it was so bad it made me rage.

Sirs, you disgust me.
Now GTFO of my intarnets!

Literally nobody liked Black and White 2, nobody. It's a physical impossibility. You are a paradox and I refuse to believe you are real.

Genghiz Cohen

thelordofcheese wrote: »

Literally nobody liked Black and White 2, nobody. It's a physical impossibility. You are a paradox and I refuse to believe you are real.

B&W2 took the genius of B&W1, then gave you more control, more options and kick ass battles.

RobertFoster

I try my best to finish games, but some just fall by the wayside. If a game does something I don't like (scare the bejaysus out of me, frustrating controls, long slog from last save to last boss etc.), or if something newer and shinier comes along, I can put it down with the intention of coming back to it, but never make it.

Looking at the pile under my TV, they include: MGS3, Okami (PS2), God of War, ZOE2, Oddworld: Strangers Wrath, Guitar Hero, Metroid (Wii), Excite Truck...

Other games I just give up on for various reasons, usually when I'm close to the end too. (Paper Mario TYD, Psi Ops...)

With the advent of achievements, I find I'm going further to finish games, and my definition of "finished" has moved from completing the story, to getting 1000 points... though I've given up on whoring for multiplayer and boring achievements.

thelordofcheese

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

B&W2 took the genius of B&W1, then ignored it, gave you more sliders to control your creature thereby robbing it of any kind of personality, making it a mindless automaton as opposed to a unique piece of A-Life with some of the best emergent behaviour ever seen in a game, less options, a retarded system whereby as a GOD you had purchase your spells from mythical bullShit vendor of godly distruction and battles where you just throw wave after wave of your own men at them until you creature either won or lost it's battle and.....Ohhh jesus i am a paradox! *poof*

see, told you.

Sephiroth_dude

Ive so many unfinished games,it aint even funny :-/ I really really have to get my act together.

Genghiz Cohen

thelordofcheese wrote: »

see, told you.

Well if you want to go into so much depth with a game that's fine, but I played it and had a lot of fun, nothing you have mentioned as con ever struck me as one.

"whereby as a GOD you had purchase your spells from mythical bullshit"

You can't say that the game would have been fun if you had Megablasts and other nasties from the get go, lots of games have that sort of thing.

Sephiroth_dude

Im actually gonna post a list of the games i've yet to finish and play,one of the games is fear,great game,but very scary :-/,I only play it every couple of months,and ive had nearly 2yrs .

silvine

That's probably the best way to play Fear. It gets boring and repititive towards the end. Achievement points have added a lot to the way I play games. Even WOW is bringing them in.

In GTA for example, I used to normally skip a lot of the stupid challenges, and some side missions, once I'd completed the main story. With GTAIV I played on to get points for flying under all he bridges, flipping my car four times, blowing up ten vehicles in one minute etc etc. Similarily, Geometry Wars 2 uses the achievements system very well to get gamers to try a range of challenges that would normally seeem pointless eg Wax-On/Wax-Off or Smile.

The result? Games have more longevity which makes it even harder to truly complete a game and move on!

Maximilian

I usually finish games, although I might take a break for a few months in some cases such with Stalker and Mass Effect. Only one I can think of that I haven't finished and probably won't is Oblivion & NWN2.

FreeOSCAR

silvine wrote: »

That's probably the best way to play Fear. It gets boring and repititive towards the end. Achievement points have added a lot to the way I play games. Even WOW is bringing them in.

In GTA for example, I used to normally skip a lot of the stupid challenges, and some side missions, once I'd completed the main story. With GTAIV I played on to get points for flying under all he bridges, flipping my car four times, blowing up ten vehicles in one minute etc etc. Similarily, Geometry Wars 2 uses the achievements system very well to get gamers to try a range of challenges that would normally seeem pointless eg Wax-On/Wax-Off or Smile.

The result? Games have more longevity which makes it even harder to truly complete a game and move on!

Definitely agree but there comes a point were it becomes ridiculous. Stuff like get X amount of Kills Online and collection achievements and non stackable difficulty ones are just plain stupid and annoying.


IMO The only games that have got the achievement system correct are

The Orange Box (Mainly because of the Gnome one)
COD4 (No online ones means no boosting or no whining, just great fun)
Crackdown (Really creative and fun to achieve)
Oblivion (Quite fun to do the sidequests that you might not have looked at)
Burnout Paradise (Really fun)

The Offenders for me are
Mass Effect (Stupid horrible achievements) Loved the game though.
Gears of War (All these stupid online ones in ranked matches)
DMC4/Ninja Gaiden 2 (Multiple Playthrough crap ones)
Assassins Creed (Collecting pointless flags)
GTAIV (Some of them were really good and others were ****e)

Mr. K

GTAIV really was a mixed bag, the silly stunt achievements were great though. GoW was poor, I'll never get those online achievements! Ninja Gaiden's ones for playing through using one weapon are clever, but overly laborious.

silvine

Who can forget the Gears of War 'Seriously' achievement: Killl 10,000 people online.

Who are they kidding?

I liked the 'I can't quit you Dom' acievement though!

FreeOSCAR

silvine wrote: »

Who can forget the Gears of War 'Seriously' achievement: Killl 10,000 people online.

Who are they kidding?

I liked the 'I can't quit you Dom' acievement though!

Added to the fact that there was no party play in Ranked matches so you had to be loner (for the most part) if you wanted them achievements. I rememeber playing a few and I would get screamed at and sent abusive messages for picking up the Sniper Rifle. All that just because some lil a-hole wanted kills with X weapon?

CiDeRmAn

Regarding the op, It's easier to think of those I have finished, just completed MGS4, although that'd more accurately be, I finished "watching" MGS4.
My current crop of games in play make it seem unlikely I'm going to finish many more soon, Mass Effect, unopened copy of Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and so on.

RobertFoster

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

My current crop of games in play make it seem unlikely I'm going to finish many more soon, Mass Effect...

I've clocked up about 32 hours on that since last week and I'm starting to get dizzy After 40+ hours of Twilight Princess, I'm now thinking it was a mistake to play 2 RPGs back to back! I'll have to get some small/short games to balance them out once I finish Mass Effect.

djkeogh

I finish most games first time round. Recently games I've struggled with were Paper Mario and Bully on the Wii.

Dipped back into Dead Rising after leaving it in frustration a good while back. Back into it in a big way now and loving every Zombie killing minute of it.

BigEejit

I have several games that will never get finished because the games became so boring or the game makers went over the top with making some sadistic levels that I couldnt be arsed playing over and over until I got it. I dont let them clutter up my pc either and uninstall and give the games to my neice (she is still playing Oblivion on and off)

I also have several games that I play years after their sell by date, all rts's.

Bolgey

these are the games that i still have to finish and am determined to finish

Sonic Heroes
Donkey Konga
Luigi’s Mansion
Call Of Duty: Finest Hour
Ghost Recon 2
Metroid Prime
Sonic Adventure DX
Starfox Adventures
Splinter Cell
Super Mario Sunshine
LOZ Four Swords Adventure
Socom
LOTR Twin Towers
Grand Theft Auto 3
Final Fantasy XII
Full Spectrum Warrior
Tom Clancy G.R.A.W.
Rainbow Six Lockdown
Grand Theft Auto Vice City
Gran Turismo 4
LOZ Phantom Hourglass
New Super Mario Bros
Age of Empire Age Of Kings
Age of Empires 2
C & C Red Alert 2 (including Expansion pack)
Farcry
Medal Of Honor European Assault (including both expansion packs)
Ghost Recon
LOTR The Battle For Middle Earth
The Sims 1 (including Bustin‘ Out), 2
Halo
Civilization 4, plus expansions
Morrowind
Tycoon City New York
Medieval Total War, plus expansions
Rome Total War, plus expansions
AOE 3 Warchiefs
Rise Of Nations, Rise Of Legends
Star Wars: KOTOR
Star Wars: Empire At War
Star Wars: JedI Knight 2

Mr. K

That's an impressive list! One game that I've been itching to get back to is Twilight Princess, the only Zelda game I haven't finished quickly. I'm really close to the end too!

Sabre0001

Bolgey wrote: »

these are the games that i still have to finish and am determined to finish

The Sims 1 (including Bustin‘ Out), 2

I hope this isn't a PC list....If it is, how do you plan to finish the games quoted / at what point do you determine them to be finished?!

Bolgey

Mr. K wrote: »

That's an impressive list! One game that I've been itching to get back to is Twilight Princess, the only Zelda game I haven't finished quickly. I'm really close to the end too!

its funny that you should say that because i only completed that game yesterday, i completed that over a year and 4 months:D

Bolgey

Sabre0001 wrote: »

I hope this isn't a PC list....If it is, how do you plan to finish the games quoted / at what point do you determine them to be finished?!

about fifteen of the games are pc games, sims 2 and bustin out are on console, so, im sure they finish somewhere, dunno, bout the first sims though, cuz i got it for pc and never really played it:(