Do you have any games that you like but you never finished for any reason? Which game is it? Doesn’t matter how many times you play and replay it you just never get to see the credits roll. I think Skyrim gonna be a quite common answer xD
Almost every game I have played in the past few years. Between personal life and a shit attention span it’s harder to finish games I enjoy before jumping to the next one.
I’m in the same boat. I’ve started taking a stance of only getting new games whenever I finish the ones that I’ve already started… Didn’t work so well because I just keep procrastinating playing those games. I think my problem is more about being unmotivated and depression than actually lack of time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
RDR2. I like every game design philosophy this game stands for. I love how slower-paced and contemplative, how tactile with everything it is. I just can’t summon the excitement to go through the story.
Yeah, the same thing happened to me. I was taking my pace but it took me so long to get anything done that eventually it just fizzled out for me. I don’t think I made it half way through the story and at this point I don’t think I can go back and play it because it seems like such a chore.
Homeworld 1. Childhood favourite space rts but wasn’t good enough to finish it. Since progress and troops carry between levels, a screw-up early can really hurt down the line. The narration, the sound design, it was so compelling. I have the remaster, but always want to start a fresh run and try it all again. Never made it to the end without losing steam.
The outer worlds by obsidian
Felt like a spiritual successor to fallout: new vegas, loved the story. I’ve puttens of hours into it over multiple run throughs, I just can’t seem to stick with it to the end. Worst part is I have no idea how close I’ve got. Was I an hour away from beating it? 10 hours? I think I’ll go download it again honestly
I did finish this game and I was disappointed with the length (which is a good thing). But also i remember feeling that it was pretty obvious that the end game was coming up soon. So maybe you weren’t close.
“Between 13 (story) and 26 (story + sides)” hours, apparently. I find howlongtobeat handy for deciding what I’m going to clear up next in my backlog, see whether I’ve the time.
Red Dead Redemption 2
… most of them, embarrassingly. I buy games when they’re on steep sale, but rarely actually gst to the end of them (Hollow Knight was the last one I completed, as I recall).
Bravely Default, Xenogears, Final Fantasy 5, Final Fantasy 9, Final Fantasy 10, Final Fantasy 11, Final Fantasy 12, Zelda ALTTP, Zelda MM, Harvest Moon A Wonderful Life, Xenoblade 1, Xenoblade 3…
I set a rule with myself. I’ll play games while I’m having fun and then stop when there’s something else. I don’t really care to beat games, I’ll play them to enjoy them! 😊
- Juno ( @Juno@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
Tha k you! Yes exactly. I hear the word “grind” and I’m like “wtf why ? I already do that at work? I play to have fun!!!”
Death Stranding started playing it twice, played throught almost the whole story but never finished it.
lol I have never finished a game
Darkest Dungeon, in my case. Love the vibe, love the gameplay, realise that I’ll be doing basically the same thing for the next 60 hours if I want to beat it, lose interest.
…you’re supposed to finish them?
I’m with you, haha. I have an average of 15-20 hrs in me per game. Obviously sometimes more, sometimes less.
Tons. Sometimes I don’t get bored of the game, per se, just the genre, and start playing something totally different.
An absolute ton. I have a bad habit of saving just outside the final boss/dungeon/encounter/sequence and never going back to finish it.
Most recently, I’ve done this with Yakuza: Like a Dragon. I think it’s still installed because “I swear I’ll load it and finish it soon”. But, as examples, I did this as a child with Breath of Fire 2 and as a teenager with FF7.
I think there’s something about realizing I have to break off of the main story to do all the side content I want to experience that leads to a kind of weird play paralysis. Once I’m that deep into the game, the magic of the world has worn off and I just want to see how the story ends, but I feel like if I don’t step back and do everything else there is to do, I’m “missing out”. So I procrastinate, just a little bit, and then something new and shiny catches my eye.
Skyrim … Yes I played over 200 hours but never finished the main quest. I always start a new game.
Right now, the big one weighing on my mind is Satisfactory. I’ve gotten to the point that it’s more likely that they finish developing the game than that I finish developing nuclear power in it -_-;