Several.
I'm not a hardcore gamer, and I prefer good story and a flowing game, than brutal difficulty or getting achievements and things. I also have MANY other things I enjoy than playing games, so if a game puts me off at some point, I am unlikely to go back to it.
Of the GTA series, I've only ever finished Lost and Damned. Really- I get hung up on some stupid mission and I'm just not going to replay something a dozen times to move the story on. RDR got dropped for the same reason. I'm all for some difficulty, but after rolling a cart over for the umpteenth time in some stupid race- no story on earth is worth that frustration. There is a million other things to do than play a game I'm not enjoying.
That may seem fickle but I'm almost 40 and like the outdoors more than staring at my tv. So for me, games either grab me and I love em, or they don't and I drop em. I mostly play sports games that I sink time and effort into, and there is really no 'finishing' those beyond careers and such. I normally skip a year between sports games. So I'll play NHL 10 last year and this year, then get NHL 12, while I had Madden 09 and just bought 11.
I will say that Mass Effect and Fallout are games that I have finished multiple times each, and those require a huge amount of time to complete.
If a middle age guy can be a 'fan boy' of anything then it's Total War on the PC, where I have many unfinished campaigns (started another, got bored with the faction, etc) and have only touched on Napoleon so far.
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