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Posted: Jun 13 2011 01:26 pm

Hi guys. I haven't posted on Sydlexia for a long time but I am returning!

I love videogames and I have played many from Super Mario Bros to Dragon Age Origins to Mortal Kombat. Throughout all of this I have realized one thing. I am unable to finish any game. Out of the about 100 games I own I think I've beaten...5? It's pretty horrible, and I keep telling myself I need to get on it. And it's not like I give up on the first level, it's like I am on the last level/dungeon/boss and I just...stop. Anyone else share this problem? If you don't please give me advice on how to fix it haha.

Joined: Aug 04 2009 Posts: 2515

Yup, i do this.

I buy a game and play about 5 minutes of it and then stop lol.

There is no cure lol.

Posted: Jun 13 2011 02:05 pm

I do this sometimes also, play through a good chunk of the game and then stop. I will attribute it to one of two things. One, just plain bored of the game. I mean, some games take 40+ hours to beat even without exploring/fucking around time. After a while, it just may become the same old shit and you get sick of it. Two, you really enjoy the game and don't want it to end, I'd say a lot of people beat a game then don't come back to it much or ever even. If you really enjoy it and this is the case for you, then you may not want it to end and therefor delay the process.

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

Are there any games that you want to finish that you currently own?

Posted: Jun 13 2011 03:22 pm

GPFontaine wrote:

Are there any games that you want to finish that you currently own?

Well, Fallout 3 and Dragon Age are two. Fallout 3 is most likely because I like fucking around and I'm so lost and way to into the game for my level.

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

Here's an idea...give me your games and I'll beat them for you.

Posted: Jun 13 2011 08:24 pm

or play less open ended games...

Joined: Mar 18 2010 Location: Tuonela Posts: 299

I do this. I've recently tried to follow a rule, where I have to beat one owned for each new game I want to buy.

Posted: Jun 14 2011 10:19 am

i do this quite a bit.

duke nukem is probably the last game i'll buy for a while, so now i have to catch up on all those old games i still have laying around.

after i catch up w/my reading of course.

fuck, ill never catch up

Posted: Jun 16 2011 07:01 am

Shit I've got a STACK of 360 games I haven't made a dent in, I swore to dominate ALL of Mortal Kombat and fucked off to do something outside around halfway through that 300 Challenges Tower. Sad

Posted: Jun 16 2011 07:30 am

Final Fantasy XII and Final Fantasy X-2 were games that I got to the end and just didn't care to finish. With X-2, I was literally about to face the last boss but just didn't give a shit.

A game I've tried to start 4 times but never get anywhere is Shadow of the Colossus. Everyone says it's an amazing game and I'm sure it is but every time I start playing it, I damn near fall asleep. It goes like this: I'll kill the first one, wonder around and do jack shit, get sleepy, try again next year.

Joined: Feb 16 2010 Location: Texas Posts: 329

Speaking of Final Fantasy, I'm at the end of XIII (as in, walk down the hall, boom last boss), but I don't feel like fighting him for 45 mins just to have him cast death and kill the person I'm playing as. It's also because I don't give two shits about the story.

Posted: Jun 16 2011 10:09 am

Blackout wrote:

Shit I've got a STACK of 360 games I haven't made a dent in, I swore to dominate ALL of Mortal Kombat and fucked off to do something outside around halfway through that 300 Challenges Tower. Sad

HAH

same shit happened to me. im like at challenge 100-something

and now i have DNF to worry about.

Posted: Jun 17 2011 04:46 am

I'm still trying to make a dent in Red Dead and the extra GTA Episodes and Fallout New Vegas. Sad

Posted: Jun 17 2011 11:44 pm

I do sometimes, like with Zelda WW when it comes time to collect the triforce peices or beating Wily's castles in Megeman games.

Joined: May 29 2010 Posts: 168

The only time I don't finish a game is when I don't like it, or I come across a point that I don't like. Except for the first red Faction. That one I quit because I learned the hard way that there was no autosave after 8+ hours of continuous play.

Posted: Jun 18 2011 10:57 am

sidewaydriver wrote:

Final Fantasy XII and Final Fantasy X-2 were games that I got to the end and just didn't care to finish. With X-2, I was literally about to face the last boss but just didn't give a shit.

A game I've tried to start 4 times but never get anywhere is Shadow of the Colossus. Everyone says it's an amazing game and I'm sure it is but every time I start playing it, I damn near fall asleep. It goes like this: I'll kill the first one, wonder around and do jack shit, get sleepy, try again next year.

Go play more. Right now. Now now now.

Posted: Jun 18 2011 05:58 pm

I'm the same way. I am horrible at finishing games I start.
I've played Mortal Kombat 9 for maybe 3 hours and did maybe 10 challenge floors
I've played Dead Rising 2 for about 5 minutes
I'm about halfway through Final Fantasy 1, 3 and 5
I'm at the beginning of Final Fantasy 8, 9, 10 and 13

It usually just happens when a new game comes out, so I decided to hold out on getting Duke Nukem Forever and AM's Alice 2 until I beat a few more games.

Posted: Jun 19 2011 10:06 pm

Well, I am actually moving forward with Fallout 3, finally.

Gallery 2 · Posted: Jun 20 2011 01:38 pm

I used to do that with Nintendo games, usually out of sheer frustration for being freakin' hard. (To this day, I've never beaten any Mega Man game on the NES).

However, from the SNES and so forth, I've beaten every single game that I've owned or rented because for some reason you get a particular rush from beating a relentless game (anyone who has beaten Contra 3 on hard without cheating will know what I mean).

That being said, the only game that I haven't beaten was Dementium on the DS, and it was just because the game got tedious for a FPS horror game; I should give it a second chance... Or just play the second game.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

I do this with really open ended RPG's. I never finished Morrowind or Oblivion, mostly because by the time they were out I was already out of high school and didn't have time for that shit anymore. I did beat Daggerfall as a youngster though.

Posted: Jun 23 2011 06:14 am

Yeah I never beat Morrowind or Oblivion either, I just leveled up as a thief / sharpshooter / caster custom class until I could rob everyone blind. Anyone else remember robbing that first town you're dropped off in blind? I stole everything not nailed down and sold it all to that asshole elf that ran the general store / inn.

Speaking of games never beat, I sometimes look at my stack of 360 and regular Xbox and Wii and GC games and wonder how much they'll be worth if I hang on to them and take care of them for 30 years or so...

Posted: Jun 23 2011 10:51 am

I think we're all guilty of this in varying degrees, actually. I have plenty of games I'd play for a while and never finish.

Joined: Apr 09 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3112

I'm like this with old JRPG's. I think I've hit "new game" on Chrono Trigger and FF6 about 20 times each and only beat both of them somewhat recently.

Posted: Jun 23 2011 03:13 pm

i havent beat GTA III, GTA VC, & GTA SA. and i havent even started GTA IV.

not that i cant beat them, but my game would always freeze up near the end. everytime i got to the final 2-3 missions, and try to load my game, it would just get stuck on the NOW LOADING screen.