How Many of the Games you Start do you finish?

**easytarget** · 10-23-2011, 19:34

The question pretty much says it all. Games are never easier than today with digital distribution to pick up, but how many hold your attention long enough for you to finish them?

**Veho Nex** · 10-23-2011, 20:00

Originally Posted by easytarget

The question pretty much says it all. Games are never easier than today with digital distribution to pick up, but how many hold your attention long enough for you to finish them?

I play through about 2/3, if it holds my interest to the ending credits then it was probably a good game.

**Kekvit Irae** · 10-23-2011, 21:04

I try to get as much enjoyment out of a game I pay for before stopping. This usually means at least completing it once, even the horrid ones like Duke Nukem Forever.

**easytarget** · 10-23-2011, 22:42

Agreed, I try and complete them, and probably succeed about 2/3's of the time for the most part. It helps being picky up front about what you buy, but I will admit when steam has a sale I can occasionally break down and try stuff I might not have otherwise because the cost vs risk reaches a point of being irresistible.

**johnhughthom** · 10-23-2011, 22:59

For me, how many games that I have started and completed is well under 25%. If I don't enjoy a game I stop playing it, I rarely soldier on, unless I'm enjoying the story. I found Mafia 2 horrible gameplay wise but managed to complete it as I wanted to find out what happened.

You mentioned Steam sales, in terms of how many games I have bought and completed, I don't want to think about it. I have 121 Steam games, on a quick scan I have completed 12, I haven't even played most of them. A lot of games I play can't necessarily be completed though, like the game I play most, Football Manager. Other games I've played a lot of, like the Total War games and Mount and Blade, become tediously easy once you reach a certain stage and you know you've won, the actual completing it is a chore rather than fun.

**CountArach** · 10-23-2011, 23:31

Probably about half. The biggest downside of working in a games store is that I've ended up with a whole stack of 'must play' games that I just can't seem to make a dent in. For example, I only finished Assassin's Creed II less than a week ago, and I'm finall almost done with Brotherhood. I had bought both of those games when I got my PS3 9 months ago...

**Samurai Waki** · 10-23-2011, 23:31

I excel at not finishing games.

**easytarget** · 10-24-2011, 00:14

Originally Posted by johnhughthom

For me, how many games that I have started and completed is well under 25%. If I don't enjoy a game I stop playing it, I rarely soldier on, unless I'm enjoying the story. I found Mafia 2 horrible gameplay wise but managed to complete it as I wanted to find out what happened.

I definitely agree with the sentiment that it should not feel like work, and I've definitely stopped games that started feeling like that, all too often it's due to a lack of proper content editing, the seeming goal of the creator to stick in repetitive content just to make the claim there's 50 hours worth of play time, when in reality it was 25.