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.
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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! 😊
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 -_-;
Persona 5 for me, its one of those games where if you put it down for more than a few weeks its hard to jump back in because of all the characters and systems you gotta remember.
Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto Vice City. The missions are incredibly difficult.
And I never thought I'd finish Grand Theft Auto San Andreas until I finally figured out what I was doing wrong with Big Smokes Mission.
Pretty much every GTA game, unfortunately. I always get distracted. I bucked down and beat RDR2 last month, and it was amazing.
Also Cyberpunk.
I like Rocket League and I can't finish it cause it's just that pure and fun.
- No roaster balance changes required like other competitive game.
- High skill ceiling that just keep getting pushed beyond my imagination. And pros did all those in just 1 standard type of arena shape.
- There are still untapped ways to change the game play while they experiential with the limited time modes.(I like the smashbro, knockout mode a lot)
Zelda Twilight - there's a bit where you have a frog like monster that gives me trypophobia. I never was able get past that bit.
Heretic, Hexen, and Hexen II.
Factorio. Beautiful elegant game but hard af.
Omnifactory
Funnily enough I managed to sit down and finish Skyrim not too long ago, DLC included. What I have been struggling with is The Witcher 3. (Which a friend gifted me back in 2019)
In a lot of games i feel the need to do all the side content and never manage to finish the game proper before I end up really burnt out and bored.
It's pretty much like being a completionist but not enjoying it at all lol
I have 371 games in my Steam account, not including any GOG or Epic games. I have 1 game with all the achievements and my average completion rate is 25%. I would say I rarely "finish" a game. I just move on to the next one. And that's ok with me.
Shadows of Mordor. I've started the game a few times. Thought "oh yeah this is a game I could sink hours into". Then I get bored, turn the game off, and won't touch it for another year.
Divinity Original Sin Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle Yoshi's Crafted World Skyrim Ixion (I definitely wanna go back to this, though) Donkey Kong Country (all 3) Fallout: New Vegas Fallout 4 (at least, I don't THINK I got a credits roll) Space Chem
The long dark
Finally finished Pathfinder WOTR. Kept remaking characters and then finally played one all the way through. Took forever though.
This post making me think of all the games I should finish or at least put some playtime into.
Darktide, FrostPunk, Bayonetta 3, Bowsers Fury, Papers Please, Hell Let Loose
Neverwinter Nights 2
I have to restart Hollow Knight because I got stuck in an impossible area called the king's dream I think? I got fed up with the difficult challenge and could exit it so I quit
Factorio
Europa Universalis IV. Maybe my favorite game of all time. I have thousands of hours of playtime, but I’ve never actually finished a game. The last few decades don’t tend to be that much fun, so I’ve just never played them. I don’t think this is uncommon with Paradox games (I’ve also never finished a game of Crusader Kings, 2 or 3). Their games tend to be much more about the journey than the destination.
Summoner. Originally had it on ps2, now on steam. I pick it up every few years, but have never finished it.
Most of them I've only finished a handful of games, most I get to like 75% through the game then decide that's enough
Hollow Knight...need to put in the time to finish it at some point still.
More games than I would like to admit. But since I got a steam deck my backlog has actually been shrinking a bit!
There's an indie platformer called Unepic that's genuinely one of my favourite games, one of the few I've bought more than once to have it on all of my consoles and my PC, that I've started multiple times. There's one boss I get stuck on, every single time. Normally, I'll just sleep on it when I can't get past a boss (literally, to give my brain time to solidify that muscle memory I built up in my attempts that day, try it out yourself!), the next day my playthrough almost always goes a bit smoother. But not with this game, oooh boy, not at all with this game. I end up rage quitting, every single time
Played heaps of Warhammer and rarely reach the long victory condition. Ah well one day maybe I'll finish a full campaign!
Monster Hunter Iceborne and Rise. The problem is that I keep trying to get all the Hunting Horns! You can't get every weapon without going crazy. Love those games though.