How Many of the Games you Start do you finish?

**Zim** · 10-25-2011, 16:21

When I was a kid very few but for the past 15 years I've finishedmost games I've bought. Partly it's because I just don't buy a new game very often. Counting two games I've bought but haven't started yet (The Witcher and King Arthur:Collection) I'm probably around 80% or so for the last twelve months.

**Fragony** · 11-01-2011, 08:47

Got enough fingers to count the amount of games I actually finish. There are just too many excellent games, and they get cheap so fast. Last game I finished was Enslaved, such a wonderfull game. After 2 months it was already a budget title. How am I supposed to keep up.

**Major Robert Dump** · 11-01-2011, 09:43

I have a bad habit of not finishing, then deleting or losing game backup or changing PCs/laptops, then getting interested again but getting bored because "been there done that", or deciding that my save game is so old that I don't remember what was going on so I restart....

I've been trying to unite Caldara for 4+ years now.

Started FO3 a month ago, never got to finish it last time around, and before I think I restarted like 3 times, so for all intents this is my fourth playthrough never having finished.

**easytarget** · 11-03-2011, 03:23

Wonder if the completion rate for books correlates with gamers completion rate of games?!

**Centurion1** · 11-03-2011, 21:36

i have restartitis. its not boredom its just an innate desire to restart i enjoy the beginnings of games far more than the ends. i adore morrowind.... never beat it. have sunk hundreds of hours into total war never conquered the whole map or even won. mount and blade hundreds of hours in the last year. i have only beaten it like once before......

**johnhughthom** · 11-03-2011, 21:39

The main quest is probably the worst thing about Morrowind though, I remember the first time I played it I was something like 150 hours in before I remembered about that package I'd been given weeks before.

**Papewaio** · 11-03-2011, 22:02

I finish and sometimes read a good book again.

Some games I will finish, some I will replay to see alternate areas.

Strategy games CIV / TW I will often stop once I have an overwhelming advantage and the games become logistical management simulations.

Shooters I will play in micro MP sessions so TF2 suits my desires.

For similar reasons Dawn of War has bite size missions that suit my limited leisure time.

Most games are like restaurants, if they provide a good meal I'll be back. If not I'll go somewhere else for entertainment.

**Martok** · 11-04-2011, 07:19

Originally Posted by Centurion1

i have restartitis. its not boredom its just an innate desire to restart i enjoy the beginnings of games far more than the ends.

This is the case for me as well, particularly strategy games. I'm somewhat more likely to finish RPG's, since one is generally following some sort of storyline.