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Author:  pcernie [ Sat Aug 27, 2011 8:05 pm ]
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http://www.gamesradar.com/most-players- ... ish-games/

There's all sorts of reasons for that to my mind:

Some games (GTA 4 especially) have some of the stupidest missions/have a wild guess what the dev was thinking sections these days.

You know you'll have to devote a lot more time to the experience these days.

Actually getting peace to enjoy the experience.

You sometimes feel that if you haven't played a game for a few days that it'll be tough to get 'back into'. Strange, but there you go.

Changing discs when you know you'll almost certainly want a quick FPS blast later is a right pain.

Some games aren't worth finishing or should just plain never have been released, like PS3 CoD: BO (Yeah, it stunk!)

There's a lot more distractions around now than there used to be :oops:
Author:  cloaked_wolf [ Sat Aug 27, 2011 8:19 pm ]
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There's a lot of games I've bought but never finished. For the PS3:

- the Simpsons game - it was a bit crap
- Conan - very crap
- GTA4 - crap; these games made me frustrated enough to stop playing them and hence they're unfinished.

- Heavy Rain: excellent but I got distracted with real life.
- Red Dead Redemption: even better than Heavy Rain. Had a week off work in which I played it regularly but once I returned to work, I stopped playing.
- Assassin's Creed II: seemed okay but again real life interfered. With these three games, I enjoyed them but either time limitations or work issues meant I stopped playing them and when I did go back on the PS3, it was to play COD.

MW2, BLOPS - didn't do the single player version, just played online.
Author:  rustybucket [ Sat Aug 27, 2011 8:54 pm ]
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I've said it before many times and I'll say it again: Far Cry

The levels without aliens = superb
The levels with aliens = complete ar*e-gravy
Author:  tombolt [ Sat Aug 27, 2011 9:24 pm ]
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Now I'm older, I don't have the time or the patience when a game gets a bit hard. Once work, household chores and spending time with the baby are done with, I've got a couple of hours on a weekend to spare, I'm not going to spend those two hours going over and over the same part in a game just to finish it. Three goes at a level, then it's back on the shelf never to be played again.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Sat Aug 27, 2011 9:25 pm ]
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I do not finish most games. Some are too difficult for me to work out. I do not mind long games as long as I can achieve a win at the end. I played Legends of Dragoon for weeks on one game and finished it several times. Though I would like the ability to stop and restart without much effort. I have restarted playing Star Wars Empire at War and have cheated with automatic resolution for planetary battles and it still takes four hours to play.
Author:  jonbwfc [ Sat Aug 27, 2011 11:28 pm ]
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Amnesia10 wrote:
I do not finish most games.

Quite so. It would be much, much quicker for me to list the games I've finished than those I haven't. And that's 'finished' as in 'got to see the end of' not 'seen all the secret bits and alternative ending and what have you'. I don't think I've 100%ed (e.g. got a platinum trophy for on PS3) any game for about... 20 years.

Too time poor.

Jon
Author:  Paul1965 [ Sun Aug 28, 2011 12:04 am ]
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tombolt wrote:
Now I'm older, I don't have the time or the patience when a game gets a bit hard. Once work, household chores and spending time with the baby are done with, I've got a couple of hours on a weekend to spare, I'm not going to spend those two hours going over and over the same part in a game just to finish it. Three goes at a level, then it's back on the shelf never to be played again.


I'm very similar. The days are gone when I could take my time over, say, Halo. I bought Quake 4 and Doom 3 for the stunning graphics years ago and haven't finished either of them. Both got repetitive.
Author:  rustybucket [ Sun Aug 28, 2011 12:09 am ]
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A quick count reveals I've completed more than 40 games in the last 2 years

I bought precisely none of them
Author:  veato [ Sun Aug 28, 2011 6:13 am ]
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For me it's mainly:

1) A lot of my games taken far longer to finish now than when I was a kid e.g. Sonic 2 Vs Fallout New Vegas
2) I have too many games. I can start one but the next time I boot a console I might play something different. Repeat five times and I haven't played that first game for months.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Sun Aug 28, 2011 1:06 pm ]
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Paul1965 wrote:
tombolt wrote:
Now I'm older, I don't have the time or the patience when a game gets a bit hard. Once work, household chores and spending time with the baby are done with, I've got a couple of hours on a weekend to spare, I'm not going to spend those two hours going over and over the same part in a game just to finish it. Three goes at a level, then it's back on the shelf never to be played again.


I'm very similar. The days are gone when I could take my time over, say, Halo. I bought Quake 4 and Doom 3 for the stunning graphics years ago and haven't finished either of them. Both got repetitive.

Yes they need to be more fun and easier for us oldies to complete. :oops:
Author:  cloaked_wolf [ Sun Aug 28, 2011 1:27 pm ]
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What I really think would help is not having to load a disc every time I want to play something. On the PC, I used to create an ISO that I could mount on a virtual drive OR download a no-cd crack.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Sun Aug 28, 2011 1:41 pm ]
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cloaked_wolf wrote:
What I really think would help is not having to load a disc every time I want to play something. On the PC, I used to create an ISO that I could mount on a virtual drive OR download a no-cd crack.

Well now that Apple have games on the App store it makes discs irrelevant. In fact it is my preference for games now. No discs required, though it does mean big downloads when there is an update.


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Author:  l3v1ck [ Sun Aug 28, 2011 4:03 pm ]
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The only time I don't finish games is if they're way too hard to finish. Commandos: Behind enemy lines being an excellent example of a game being way too hard.
Author:  pcernie [ Sun Aug 28, 2011 7:19 pm ]
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cloaked_wolf wrote:
What I really think would help is not having to load a disc every time I want to play something. On the PC, I used to create an ISO that I could mount on a virtual drive OR download a no-cd crack.


It sounds like the height of laziness, but there's something very annoying about changing discs in this day and age :?
Author:  cloaked_wolf [ Sun Aug 28, 2011 7:39 pm ]
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TBH it's more the faff of having to find the disc, which isn't always in the right case and sometimes not even in a case.

As a teen, I might've easily spent more time playing games and if I swapped discs, I'd probably play the new game for a good few hours. Now I'm lucky if I have an hour to spare.
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