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Posted by satchmo on Tue Jun 14th at 10:05pm 2005

I often feel guilty for all the games that I didn't get around to finish. But there are just some games that aren't good enough to keep my interest the entire way through, so I get bored and cannot garner enough motivation to finish them.

Do you always play your games to the bitter end, even when it sucks?




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Posted by ReNo on Tue Jun 14th at 10:11pm 2005

Well I'm more of a console gamer than a PC gamer so the installation issue isn't of much concern, but generally I do try and beat most of the games I buy. Often this will take me a long time as I buy new games that take my interest from another I've yet to complete, but I do normally get around to going back and finishing them off sooner or later.




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Posted by Orpheus on Tue Jun 14th at 10:14pm 2005

How about adding option #5 for people like me.

5) I have finished every game I had time to.

Up until HL1, I finished every game I ever installed.. I never finished one since, including HL1.





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Posted by gimpinthesink on Tue Jun 14th at 10:16pm 2005

Erm I carnt really click on any of them cos I can get bored with any game like Knights of the Old Republic 2 I love it but I havent toutched it in months cos I carn't be arsed to play it. Same goes for any game really although acoupple of games i have crought resently have had me so hucked that I had to finish them.


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Posted by Myrk- on Wed Jun 15th at 12:25am 2005

KOTOR2 sucked the balls... JK2 acadamy was far better!


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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Jun 15th at 12:43am 2005

? quoting gimpinthesink
Erm I carnt really click on any of them cos I can get bored with any game like Knights of the Old Republic 2 I love it but I havent toutched it in months cos I carn't be arsed to play it. Same goes for any game really although acoupple of games i have crought resently have had me so hucked that I had to finish them.

#5..





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Posted by Crono on Wed Jun 15th at 1:04am 2005

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KOTOR2 sucked the balls... JK2 acadamy was far better!


Thought JK3 was even better still.

Usually, if the game is good enough it'll stay installed long after I beat it (CoD, MoHAA, HL)


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by French Toast on Wed Jun 15th at 2:17am 2005

I only really finish the games I have a real reason to. I finished HL1 and HL2 without cheats because Im'm kind of obligated to. I often don't finish the campaigns for RTS games, and on most FPS' I'll get near the end then turn on cheats until I win.




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Posted by ReNo on Wed Jun 15th at 2:35am 2005

I don't think I've ever used cheats to complete a game before. Don't get me wrong - I've used a whole load of cheats in my time - but I always use them to muck about after completing the game. Cheats are something that have completely fallen by the way side for me - in the past I recall reading through cheat books that came with magazines to see if any of my games had cool things you could do, but recently the only cheats I know or have used are ones that are useful for level design such as noclip, invincibility, or all weapons in source. About the only non-development related cheat I know is the cheat for worms on the playstation, that lets you turn on banana bombs, sheep and what have you as default weapons <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">




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Posted by Campaignjunkie on Wed Jun 15th at 2:46am 2005

Only game I've purchased but never beaten are Homeworld and Homeworld Cataclysm. Last missions on both were crazy difficult. But otherwise, yeah, I tend to struggle through every game, just to get my money's worth.




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Wed Jun 15th at 3:00am 2005

I rented True Crime and it was okay for the first parts... so I kept playing. The second I started fighting a flying dragon and mystical chinese demon women, I said f**k this. I thought I was playing a GTA clone but instead they threw reality right out the window.




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Posted by French Toast on Wed Jun 15th at 3:14am 2005

Once I start having to pay for the games I may start to beat them. But I find that most games just start to wear off near the end. Except Republic Commando, that one was too short. But anyhoo, I find that once the novelrty wears off, unless it's really good, it just sort of dies. However, a game like The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind, I've played for years and never really "beat" it. I like games like that because of their endless playability gbecause they are so non-linear, and don't really have much of a set goal at all. You can go and do whatever.

Yeah. mhmm. Last game I didn't beat was Full Spectrum Warrior. Last game I beat was BattleFront, Tony Hawk's Underground and Republic Commando. I beat them all aroudn the same time.




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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Jun 15th at 5:30am 2005

? quoting Campaignjunkie
Only game I've purchased but never beaten are Homeworld and Homeworld Cataclysm. Last missions on both were crazy difficult. But otherwise, yeah, I tend to struggle through every game, just to get my money's worth.

LOL.. I have the first game mentioned here..

But a better poll would be, "How long is the longest time it took you to beat a game"

Took me over 1 year to beat "Starcon 2" The game actually stayed saved on my system that long before I finished it.. I had missed one lousy clue way back in the middle where the Mycon deep children were.. After I visited their homeworld, I never went back cause they were so anti-social I thought their silence was all they could give..

I however, did return and finished the game.. No cheats and in a single play... of over 1 year.





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Posted by $loth on Wed Jun 15th at 6:17am 2005

I think in my entir life i've beaten around 3 or 4 games.




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Posted by Crono on Wed Jun 15th at 6:51am 2005

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I think in my entir life i've beaten around 3 or 4 games.


Me, without cheating: about 44. Which is quite low taking that I have well over 150 Video Games occupying my home. (no time for those 30 sum-odd RPGs)


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by $loth on Wed Jun 15th at 6:56am 2005

Oh with cheating..... around 3 or 4.




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Posted by Jinx on Wed Jun 15th at 7:27am 2005

Half-Life 1 - didn't finish (Zen sucked ass)

Insaniquarium - finished (rox0red)

Alice - finished (bought a new video card just to play it)

DOOM 3 - didn't finish (whole game sucked ass)

DOOM Collector's Edition - finished all 3 (with jDOOM for mouselook & opengl)

Painkiller - finished (more like Doom than D3. plan to replay soon.)

Serious Sam I&II - finished (more like Doom than D3. also $15)

NOLF I&II - finished & replayed both multiple times

Sacred - finished & replayed. (story sucked, but gameplay was addictive)

Master of Orion II - finished & continue to replay. Have played 100's of times. Almost 10 years old.

Hard to judge some games; for example, I primarily bought UT2k4 for multiplayer, and had no intention of 'finishing' the 1player ladder.

UT2k3 - played some. pretty graphics.

UT2k4 - played a LOT. pretty graphics. Onslaught most addictive game since TFC for me, good mix of action and strategy.

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Posted by Captain P on Wed Jun 15th at 8:46am 2005

I finished about a 25 - 30 games, mainly shooters and strategies, as well as some adventure games. In most cases I'll try to finish a game, unless it's so worse that even the first 2 or 3 levels are already barely playable.
Sometimes I get bored with a game halfway though, and I never bother playing it again.

However, when a map editor is provided with a game, it'll keep me busy for a much longer time... <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif">



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Posted by keved on Wed Jun 15th at 8:56am 2005

? quoting Jinx
Alice - finished (bought a new video card just to play it)

Which reminds me...anyone ever buy a PC game but not even get around to installing it never mind playing or finishing it? I bought American McGee's Alice about 4 years ago but it just got forgotten at the bottom of a big pile of games. Pretty dumb to buy a game and not even play it once.





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Posted by Pegs on Wed Jun 15th at 11:00am 2005

Id probably say ive completed most of my games, SoF 2 etc etc, but i tend to play endless games now, something that has constant attention into graphics and gameplay.

I mainly completed things like SoF becuse it allways had my attention to playing it (heads coming off and all, truely is a funny game to play). HL i never completed because Xen was such a boring ass part, i think i ended up using console changemap, to the boss and just killed him in the end because xen was complete cre-hap.

Most RPG's seem to keep my attention though, things like Battle for middle earth and Lords of Everquest are good. Things likes Diablo 2 do boor me quickly, the constant click and hold, involves no skill and is repetive.

my fav RPG (offline) is a mix between IWD, and Morrowind. IWD was just a fantastic game lasted a long time but if it wernt for the fact i played it over lan with KoRn i think that would of got boring, Morrowind is more of a power abusing game. Takes a little wile to get any good, but once your around max skill it is kinda silly. Although using the editor was fun making your own houses to store uber expensive stuff in.

I now tend to spend my time on EQ2, a nearly endless and constant fun game to play, something that you very rarely get bored of. I admit ive had a couple of times were i got bored, but it doesnt take long to ge back on to it, shame that people think that a tenna a month is alot of money, i seem to be able to afford it and i dont evan work (and i dont get pocket money in that matter). its werth using money from christmas and Birthday on. its not a game where you can power abuse and kill anyone in site (its completeley non PvP). idea being that you CANNOT kill the hardest enamy solo, you HAVE to group to kill it.

Thats what makes it more fun, you actualy have to work together with people to get anywhere, soloing maybe good exp, but there is no way you can go and kill the uberest creature there. Capping the lvl to 50 is a good idea, stops people from constantly lvling, makes it fun, gives you more to do, and no there isnt just normal lvling, you get tradeskills (you can make usefull items and stuff x.X).


All realy depends on what kind of game you like, i prefer to play a game with nice graphics, good game play something I enjoy and stay active in. Half - Life 2 has lost me in intrest, completed it played Death match for a wile, but it seems the same thing over and over again, i probably wont bother playing it untill a few mods are released, untill then, it stayes where it is.




Yes, My spelling is still terrible!




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