When do you quit on a game?

Josey Wales

The thread about what have you been playing this month got me back to playing some Crysis 2. I think I started it back in April and I thought I was close to the end. I just checked an FAQ there and I am only about half way through. I was really enjoying the game at the start, as you learn the characters powers. But at the point I'm at now the enemies are all bullet sponges. I'm constantly running out of bullets and having to stealth my way through. Problem is I've never been a fan of stealth in games.

I was considering putting the disc back on the shelf and trying something new. Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts maybe. This got me thinking about how I normally choose to give up on a game. Personally I finish most games that I start. One big game I remember not finishing is GTA IV. I'd put hours and hours into it but a lot of that was on side missions. I eventually reached a point where I was bored by it and it got replaced by something new. I know I rarely finish racing games like NFS: Hot Pursuit because the difficulty at the end can get too tough. This is the same reason I recently put Rayman Origins away, the difficulty spikes were getting frustrating.

When do you give up on a game? Do you stop when you get bored or it stops being fun? Or are you the type of person that must see every game through to the end?

calex71

I have to be honest and admit I put more time into some games than they deserve just to see them through. That said it's not just games as I'm the same with a movie or tv series. Much as I love achievements as is well known in these parts I will never go back to one of those games for those though .

DjFlin

I'm sorry to see Rayman: Origins claimed you. I spent hours making sure it didnt beat me. Finished every level of that game. Now I'm an old man...

SeantheMan

This year alone I've quit on
-L.A Noire (dunno why, was really enjoying it)
-STALKER (for about the 3rd time, only tried it again cause boarsies on here rave about it)
-Medal of Honor
-Deadspace
-The Witcher
and they're just some , only listed them because they are all critically acclaimed (well maybe not MOH)

I think it's mostly because I don't get instant gratification, and if I only have an hour or 2, I'd rather put it into a multiplayer game.
That and my games list is always larger than what I can dedicate time too, especially with the STEAM sales etc

gizmo

I've only ever given up on three games that I can remember, two that I've actually bought.

The Chaos Engine (SNES): Rented this one when I was a kid and it was just too hard to finish in the required time. Thinking about it again now makes me want to go back and finish it so I can get it off this list.

Unreal 2: I didn't play this until quite a bit after launch and as far as I can remember, I played it after something rather special. Because of this, I just couldn't get into it, sure it was pretty but it was just so bland gameplay wise. May give it another whack some time.

Deus Ex 2: This game annoyed the **** out of me. One of the few examples of a game which really really suffered from being released on consoles too. It just wasn't a patch on the original at all and while it may have been alright on its own merits, as the second entry in the series I just couldn't continue with it.

SeantheMan

Surely you've not completed every game you've ever started ?

briany

Almost quit on PES 2012 master league there but swallowed my pride and dropped down from top player to professional instead.

I'll quit a game when the amount of interest is exceeded by the amount of challenge. A tough challenge is fine, great even, but not when you're not that excited to see what's next or you know what's next; namely more of the same but harder.

I'll also quit a game if I think it's shít.

gizmo

SeantheMan wrote: »

Surely you've not completed every game you've ever started ?

Yup. I just don't get bored of games when I get stuck into them and the ones I can't get into are generally ones I've weeded out with the help of demos. I also believe that nearly every game (within reason) has something positive about it so I'll always see it through to the end.

I'm also a bit stubborn when it comes to stuff like this which also ensures I'll hardly ever start a new game while I'm in the middle of something else and most certainly never quit a game because it's too hard...at least nowadays anyway.

Stuck Cone

The Original Command and Conquer, the only one in the series

pablomakaveli

I usually quit out of boredom which isnt helped by having a massive backlog as i just end up picking out another game to play and forget about the one i had given up on.

I actually had to force myself to sit down and start completing games at one point because i just had loads of half completed games.

Kirby

This list is probably very long. Just going by the ones off the top of my head.

I never finished LA Noire. I was enjoying it somewhat but it's big flaw of conversations all being three way "guesses" just kept irking me. You select "lie" because something the suspect said sounded fishy and the main character started losing his **** and accusing the old lady of the JFK assasination. It was ridiculous.

I love investigation type games and there was alot to like about LA Noire but the bottom line is, if half your game is conversation based, it needs to be more nuanced than a 3 option system. There needs to be ebb and flow.

I'm a huge zelda fan but I actually quit Twilight princess right before the last boss. I didn't so much quit it.....I just took a break for a new game and then never went back.

The Witcher 2 was another one. I was enjoying it. I had just beat that epic massive squid boss thing so I wasn't that far into it. I was told a patch was a few weeks away that fixed the combat (it was an unresponsive mess at the time) and decided to wait. Never went back. Predictable enough.

Bioshock 2. This one is.....hard to explain. The original Bioshock was one of my favourite games. I thinks it's brilliant. I was looking forward to the sequel quite alot. But it's made by a different crowd and you can tell. An hour in and I was......bored . It just doesn't grab you at all. There is no "I chose......Rapture!" moment. I'm guessing that Bioshock Infinite will be what I'm looking for as it looks like it's being made by more talented people.

zero19

I couldn't finish Final Fantasy 13, it was just so boring!

Josey Wales

briany wrote: »

Almost quit on PES 2012 master league there but swallowed my pride and dropped down from top player to professional instead.

I know exactly what you mean with PES 2012. I've always played PES on Top Player but the AI just feels cheap on that setting now. Far too many frustrating matches.

CastorTroy

For me it's usually if I can't beat a boss after about the 50th try or so and it just stops being enjoyable, especially if have to replay the entire or part of a level each time rather than going straight to the boss

balkieb2002

Was actually just thinking about this the other night as I went through my installed games list and uninstalled some games I had started but never finished.

The reason that they were uninstalled was I had felt something had been missing and I just didn't feel the urge to finish them e.g. too generic, crazy difficulty levels etc.
The other reason I normally quit on a game is I had got distracted from playing and then found it too hard to get back into them usually a story based game (RPG).

Actually bring me back to the Games you have but not yet finished thread from a while back and why they are unfinished!

noodler

Couldn't finish FF13.

Didn't do much at all in Oblivion bar DB missions.

Also stopped played FF4 about 1/4 way in.

I think thats all in recent times.

Agricola

Boredom or difficulty.
On the rare occasions I buy a game that I don't like at least to some degree, (I spend too much time reading online to buy shít games!) I normally just cut my losses early on. Life is too short to be wasting your gaming time on something you are actually not enjoying. The fact that Im not interested in achievements goes hand in hand with this.
As for difficulty, there are rare gems, the latest being Batman: AC, which are so good that I will stick with the curve, beat it and then move up to the higher difficulties for a replay. This would be once in a blue moon though. For most games, if I hit a wall and find that its overly "gamey" and requires me to learn systems and become a finger contortionist to progress, I'll drop it like a hot spud. I really only play games for the experiences, immersion and atmosphere. Driving myself demented replaying sections over n over does nothing for me.

tonydude

Usually id get through any game, if its good id finish it faster , if its bad it'd take more time. The killer for me though is if i get distracted from a game by work or other activities i find it hard to get back into so i just leave it. Games which have fallen into that category are Skyrim, last Ass Creed, Dead island, and Uncharted on Vita

Reekwind

It used to be rare that I'd not finish a game but that's changed somewhat. Maybe it's Steam and the number of games available or maybe it's me and time. Either way I'll stop playing when I reach that 'Why am I doing this?' point

Which is one reason why I don't play MMOs: that question tends to quick in as soon as someone asks me to collect ten ferret skins or whatever

Kinski

I view it as more a question of when the game quits on me.

Browning2010

I was playing skyrim flat out for a few months absolutely loving it, then my xbox got rrod and I was without a console for around 2 months and since then Ive never been able to get back into it for some reason. I bought oblivion there a few weeks ago and I'm loving that.

I hope to play loads of game and try and forget about skyrim then eventually maybe around next Christmas I'll be mad to play skyrim again(hopefully).

Icaras

Kirby wrote: »

Bioshock 2. This one is.....hard to explain. The original Bioshock was one of my favourite games. I thinks it's brilliant. I was looking forward to the sequel quite alot. But it's made by a different crowd and you can tell. An hour in and I was......bored . It just doesn't grab you at all. There is no "I chose......Rapture!" moment. I'm guessing that Bioshock Infinite will be what I'm looking for as it looks like it's being made by more talented people.

I was like this with bioshock2 too, especially didn't like the look of the drill - thought it looked too cartoony, but I stuck with it and it does become great, its completely different to the first one with the tactical fights and the story does get better.

Back on topic I normally quit playing when I get bored of a game. Id play skyrim for hours but got bored of GTA5 about half way through, loved prototype 2 which is kind of in the same vein.
Also hated the single player campaign on MW3 and battlefeild3 - no fun at all, do this, run here, shoot this with that.

Josey Wales

Icaras wrote: »

Also hated the single player campaign on MW3 and battlefeild3 - no fun at all, do this, run here, shoot this with that.

I'm the same with most FPS games. I generally just buy the for the multiplayer. I've finished the single player campaign in Black Ops but haven't gotten past the first two levels on any of the other COD games.

SeantheMan

Icaras wrote: »

Back on topic I normally quit playing when I get bored of a game. Id play skyrim for hours but got bored of GTA5 about half way through,

I had high hopes for GTA5 , I quit GTA4 though, his stupid cousin drove me insane

penev10

I'll normally quit for a combination of factors. If the story interests me I'll stick through boring game mechanics or irritating difficulty spikes. If the gameplay is good I'll pretty much play through regardless of the plot. It's usually somewhere in between the two though where I lose interest.

Mr.Saturn

I'll echo something that's been touted already a bit, nonsensical difficulty spikes. Generally those around the very early stages of the game, I like tastes of what's to come, but when it goes latter-half DKCR within the first 10 minutes, it tends to be a sign of a short game with heavy barrier to entry. Pretty standard for a lot of the bigger 8-bit names onwards, for starters, but they invited you in a good bit before they made you go find religion.

That being said, a lot of games are designed with that in mind, where you get sloshed by a particularly challenge, just to come back powered up later, but I'm referencing more along the lines of beat'em-ups and whatnot. Marvel Superheroes: War of the Gems (SNES) comes to mind immediately.

SeantheMan

In earlier console such as NES/Genesis/SNES etc, they had to make the difficulty such that it would be harder than usual, as there was no save feature, and people would complete the too easily otherwise.
And usually they were short enough, to be able to complete within a few hours (obviously there were exceptions , I think Zelda, FF etc may have had save features)
But in general, they made them more difficult to expand their playability.

It's rare these days you find a game that is just ridiculously hard for the sake of it, as most would have a "difficulty option"
Ninja Gaiden though...that game would drive you insane

Mr.Saturn

Yeah, I kinda referenced that in my post, but I stand by my point, there's a a lot of difference between prolonging a good game, and a bad one just taking the mick.

Blazer

Skyrim was my big one this year as well as MW3 single player.

Skyrim- after a while of levelling up I just got bored of all the whole thing, restarted and changed to a mage and got bored with that...eventually gave it up completely and uninstalled it..

MW3- Where to start, from the shít graphics to the same crap over and over again I gave up completely on it, uninstalled it and went back to COD4

BizzyC

normally distraction....

I still haven't finished batman ac. I was about half way when skyrim came out. After skrym, i couldn't face picking it up again cause i've forgotten so much of it.

Big Knox

I have a very short attention span with games!! The sad truth is I finish less games than I complete. I don't think I've ever quit a game due to difficulty, (apart from maybe Super Meat Boy which I couldn't do with a keyboard) but unless a singleplayer game really pulls me in and grabs me I usually go back to playing something with competitive multiplayer fairly quick.

I have a decent circle of friends who I play different games with and there is always someone on our vent channel so anytime I'm on the PS3 or playing an RPG on the PC I get that urge to jump on vent and see what's going on. It's something that annoys me and I've tried to stop but it always gets me.

Some recent game I've quit but really should have finished;

Batman Arkham City - Just didn't do it for me like Asylum did
Max Payne 3 - Will come back and finish it
Rayma Origins
Skyrim - So boring after the initial wow factor
Fallout 3 + NV
Mass Effect 2
Crysis 2 - Got bored again half way through
Resistance 2 + 3 - Meh
Darksiders - Only started recently, want to finish it before the 2nd comes out
Red Dead Redemption - Got to Bear country and Quit
GTA IV
L.A Noire
Heavy Rain - would have finished it but friend took it and I never got it back
Infamous 2
Resident Evil 5
Bioshock 2
Kingdoms of Amalur - Good combat, very generic everything else
2 of the Assasin Creed games cant even remember which
and pretty much everything I've bought in steam sales over the past 3 years.

That is seriously depressing when listed out and I know there's more I can't think of right now.

Eggy Baby!

I got Dragon Age: Origins recently and I found it very, very boring. Usually I have good patience for long games, but.....combat sucked, story was cut and paste fantasy, levelling was boring, graphics sucked, dialogue was bad etc. The only redeeming feature for me was the variety of enemies (but it didn't really matter because all you did was bludgeon them to death) and some characters (Sten particularly) were very interesting.

I basically just stopped during Orzammar and uninstalled it off my hard drive. I got it because I heard the rave reviews and well, it's Bioware. But it felt like all the boring rubbish bits of Mass Effect 1 put together in a huge heap, including the boring side quests.

Had some good moments, admittedly, like when you have to make the decision in Redcliffe Castle regarding the Arl's son.

Another game I gave up on was Homefront.

After I bought it used and realised I needed to fork out 800MS points to pay for online, I thought that would be it. But then I saw a game composed of all the crappy bits of COD and BF put together. And that sprint! The walk is faster than the sprint lol

Mikeyt086

I am actually shocking for not completing games. Any new big game that comes out which I might like, I'll get it, play the first few levels and think its actually great, then I just fizzle out and go back to playing FIFA or whatever, suddenly I havent played the game in months and I'm not arsed getting back into the story. Then a new game comes out and I trade the old one in because I never play it. It's a vicious cycle.

Some recent games as examples:

Batman Arkham City - Played about an hour of it before neglecting it totally.
Max Payne 3 - I'm currently stuck at a really tough part in the second act and am reluctant to go back, although I reckon I'll finish it eventually.
Skyrim - Got a decent chunk in and it consumed alot of mine time around Xmas, now I don't play it as I would need to sit down for hours and I can't bring myself to do that.
Fallout NV - Realised how big a committment the game is and backed off in the early stages, still have it though so might try complete it sometime.
Crysis 2 - Got bored very quickly.
Red Dead Redemption - Completed! Absolutely loved that game, although I did take a bit of a break in the middle.
GTA IV - Just about to get to the 3rd island for going on 4 years now :pac: I am determined to finish it one day.
L.A Noire - Got a good bit into it then got bored.
COD MW3 - Competed after a big break in the middle of the campaign.
Battlefield 3 - I think i'm near the end of it, might finish the campaign soon.
SSX - Got red up around the 5th stage/mountain, absolutely loved it initially.
Saints Row 3 - Got bored early on, thought it was crap compared to 1 & 2.

Headshot

serious sam 3 playing it on serious difficulty and then trying to destroy that huge ship while al qaeda tries to kill me

Its so infuriating

Mister Jingles

Never. Years ago on PS2 when I was younger I probably did but on PS3 I've completed every game I've played, some more then once as well.

Unlike a lot of people, especially cod players I buy games for there campaign/story mode therefore I tend to complete them instead of going straight to multi-player.

If I was to pick a game I got board of very quickly it would be Gran Turismo 5.

But if I remember right I've completed :

GTA San Andreas - at least 3 times (favorite ps2 game)
GTA IV - 3 times as well, currently half way through my 4th although I doubt I'll finish it.
LA Noire - twice.
Mafia 2 - 3 times.
COD 4 - Lost count
COD WAW - Lost count as well

The rest of the current gen console COD games I've finished twice. One game I did come very close to quitting on was GTA Lost and Damned, mainly because it was ****e.

mufcboy1999

Im similar to mikey086 , I start off with intentions of completing it and then after a week or so go back to playing online. I think my problem is I hate playing against the computer and if it's not online against real people I lose interest fast.

I usually quit out during games when I'm bored and just play it for the sake of it , not really being in the mood for it. Also if I come up against someone with lag in the likes of FIFA , il quit straight away even if it messes up my record and I get a loss. Lag is one thing I can't stand, many a pad and phone broke over the years:D

wnolan1992

I don't think I've actually ever finished an NES or SNES game. I've played the sh** out of a lot of games on those consoles, but I always tend to get bored and move away.

PS1 was different. I started finishing more games, but still gave up on quite a few. The one that stands out is Abe's Oddysee, which I regretfully sold to Gamestop for a measly euro a good few years back.

PS2, finished almost everything. Think the only one of note I gave up on was the GTA:LCS port, which I hated with a passion.

On 360 now, my list of "given up" games is pretty short:
- Dragon Age: Origins: I've gotten to the final fight with the Dragon, but couldn't win. It's been over a year since I quit, and have no buring desire to return.
- Alan Wake: This one is weird. I don't know why I stopped, I think it was just the game came out at a bad time and I moved on and never returned... I will finish this some day... just not in the immediate future.
- Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit: A terrible excuse for a game that I think I literally played for a half hour before putting it back in its case and banishing it to the DVD rack forever more.
- Saints Row: The Third: Got about 10 hours fun out of this, but then got bored and stuck and irritated and just gave up. No burning desire to return any time soon.

Kirby

Eggy Baby! wrote: »

I got Dragon Age: Origins recently and I found it very, very boring. Usually I have good patience for long games, but.....combat sucked, story was cut and paste fantasy, levelling was boring, graphics sucked, dialogue was bad etc. The only redeeming feature for me was the variety of enemies (but it didn't really matter because all you did was bludgeon them to death) and some characters (Sten particularly) were very interesting. l

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Whole gamut of emotions while reading your post. I just don't get some people

Eggy Baby!

Whole gamut of emotions while reading your post. I just don't get some people

Strangely enough, I was as surprised as you were that I hated the game. All the conditions for a great game were present- Bioware, fantasy, character-driven experience, customisation, RPG elements...but I hated it.

drunkglitch

Either when I complete it, becomes too hard or It is wasting too much of my precious time.

paulc98

Mario bros 3 got stuck on one of the worlds and never went back to it. When ever I look at the cartridge i feel like it's laughing at me and shames me into playing it for awhile, but I still can't finish it. Still way better than the modern 2d Mario though.

LuckyFinigan

Oblivion is a game I could never properly get into. I bought it when i came out and I found once I got to a certain point I lost interest. I gave it another chance recently and the same thing happened. I think its the repetitive oblivion gate segments that ruin it for me. I also find the map very dull compared to Morrowind and Skyrim.

Fallout New Vegas is another one. Loved Fallout 3 so was really looking forward to this. I enjoyed the first half of the game(despite the bugs) but once I got to the stage where you have to

decide what faction you want to ally with

I kind of lost interest

I bought Space Marine for a fiver yesterday and its grand for the first hour or so, but then gets ridiculously difficult with the amount of enemies. I'm still early on in the game but if the whole game is as uneven as this I don't think Ill last long.

I don't get all the hate for Bioshock 2, I personally enjoyed it. It wasn't a patch on the original but was still enjoyable enough.

Q_Ball

I quit when it stops being fun essentially

saiint

dragon age - just couldnt get into it was a good game though just not addicting

black ops - bought it played every cod story mode to date, and this one game ended up getting rid of in about 20 mins of playing the story, just pure utter crap

assassins creed 1 - ****e, was great at 1st because it was my first ps3 game, loved it, amazing graphics, until next games came out, then bam i released it was repeated missions after repeated missions,
number two was great

need for speed underground for the original xbox - absolutly loved it to bits, got stuck on the 4th last race, just couldnt win it ha

theirs loads more but cant remember half of them ha

Delightfully Pessimistic

I'd say this can account for 60% of my Xbox 360 collection. I get bored of games very quickly.

Ape X

I can quit on a game for a huge variety of reasons, but most of the time they boil down to simply having reached the point where it's no longer fun for me to continue playing. I know - that sounds bleeding obvious! But sometimes it's not necessarily the game's fault...

For example, I've quit games a couple of times so that I could play them through properly after upgrading the PC, so that I can do the graphics justice or whatever, only for something else to distract me later on. Occasionally I just get a pain in the backside dealing with the types of online players certain games attract. And sometimes I just find a game to be too hard. Or rather, that I'm too sucky at it! Getting old, you see - my co-ordination and patience are on the wane!

Dr Gradus

It's interesting to see the majority of people get games and never get through them! I would be at the other end of the spectrum I think.

If it's a game I'm enjoying, I will set myself particular targets in terms of the difficulty, whether that be getting through games like Halo and Gears of War on their hardest difficulty setting or sticking with Skyrim until I had pretty much discovered all there was to discover.

Quite enjoy going back to games like Rainbow six Vegas and the old ghost recons and tackling the terrorist hunt modes on their most unforgiving setting too.

So I guess I don't quit on a game until I'm happy I've really got through it. The Assassins Creed series in particular I played to death.

That said, if it's a bad game I'm not gonna put up with it, but I tend not to just buy a game without researching it a little beforehand. Crysis 2 is the only game in my collection I can think of that I left part of the way through, it never quite grabbed my attention. But i still wouldn't want to leave it unfinished!

Josey Wales

I started this thread because I was thinking of giving up on Crysis 2 because it had become a bit of a slog. I stuck with it and actually found some enjoyment in the later levels as I got some cool upgrades to the nanosuit. I finished the game tonight but is it just me or is that game's story incomprehensible? I don't have a clue what went on in that game. I thought they might clear some things up in the end but I'm more confused now.

Won't be playing Crysis 3.

dreamers75

When it becomes boring and repetitive.

Charlie19

dreamers75 wrote: »

When it becomes boring and repetitive.

Sorry, What?