Bad Gaming Habit

Okay so I have a bad habit that when I'm playing a game with a longer story line I usually get really far into the game and then i get to a boss or something that i can not seem to beat no matter what. I get so tired of playing the same part over and over again that i edventully stop playing the game for months on end before finally forcing myself to try it again. and lots of the time i find i beat the part very easily once i pick it back up. So this summer i devoted my gaming time to beating old games i have yet to beat. Does anyone else have this same problem as me? and if so share a list of games you have still never gotten around to beating

So far this summer I have beaten:

FFXIII

Assassins Creed 2

Valkyria Chronicles

BlazBlue

Bioshock 2

and Demon's Souls

I still have to beat:

Persona 4

Dead Space (I got the glitch on the 9th chapter thats why i never beat it)

Oblivion

Fallout 3

I hardly ever beat a game actually. Sigh...

AC2 had a hard final boss fight?clicketyclick

My bad habit is purchasing new games before I am finished what I have. I let this habit continue to a point of being unable to probably ever complete my collection of games even if I weeded out the "not worth it" games that are too terrible to try to finish, dating back to PS1 titles.. Game sales in newsletters to my work e-mail never seem to make this better. My other bad habit is letting my SO play the same games I am so that I lose interest faster if I have already seen him play the same parts.

Although, even with these issues and my crazy work schedule (I work in IT and therefore I am always "at work") I have still finished 4 PS3 titles and 2 360 titles this year.

I've cleaned up "InFamous", beat "F.E.A.R." a second time, finished "IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey" on 'Realistic', beat "Tomb Raider: Legend" finally, wow...

... guess I've done more than I thought!

:lol:

All i remeber beating is AC1 and 2, DMC4, BC2, MW2, Star wars force unlease, Oblivion and dragon age

I'd post my list of games to beat, but then I'd have to change my name and move to Antarctica out of embarrassment.hazelnutman

I honestly have beaten almost allof my games. Some quite a few times (like: mgs4, uncharted2, gow3, dmc4, dead space, heavenly sword, etc.) There are only a few I havent beaten, and I have round 40 games, give or take.

gta4 - i just dont like it and refuse to take the crappy trade in value on it.

Killzone2 - i suck at fps. im stuck on the balcony with that flying robot (i think its called an a-tak)

Bioshock - as stated above "i suck at fps" and am in no rush to get to this. its still in the shrinkwrap, has been for some time.

Spiderman: WoS - also still in the shrinkwrap, for like a year now. not sure why i dont tear into it. heard its good.

Burnout Paradise - can you beat it? just seems like alot to do.

Thats it. Every other game in my collection Ive beaten at least once.

I probably have at least 30-35 games in my backlog. I just keep buying games. It's a problem for me, but I've been better recently. Have been able to say no and bypass any purchases lately.

I used to have that same problem with my ps2 games. And almost always it was some 70% boss that was really easy compared to the next one. But on the ps3 i have completed every single game so far except the online only ones,Demon's Soul's but i'm still playing and Crash Bandicoot WARPED! (Srsly Crash is harder than Demon's Soul's :D)

i used to have this problem. Now, i just do not give up and see a game through before moving on to the the next. It also helps me if i do not actually own more than like 4 games at a time. Ive found that the more games I owned, the more likely I am to be distracted and not complete something.

Mostly Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 - I really liked that game, but halfway through I got addicted to racing games and never finished it. And then there's TimeShift - I got a ways into it, it was starting to get pretty fun, but then I got interested in Fallout 3 again. There are several games I played for an hour or three, like Star Wars The Force Unleashed, Bioshock, Tomb Raider Underworld, and some others. I'll get back to them some day.

Bioshock - as stated above "i suck at fps" and am in no rush to get to this. its still in the shrinkwrap, has been for some time.

newhighscore

I probably have at least 30-35 games in my backlog. I just keep buying games. It's a problem for me, but I've been better recently. Have been able to say no and bypass any purchases lately.

yokofox33

AC2 had a hard final boss fight?clicketyclick

haha no AC2 was extremely easy I just stoped playing it because i got into other games and i just got around to beating it this summer

I kind of have that habit.

I have 2 games i haven't finished. Not because they are particularly bad, because i have played worse, but i am just lazy.

Darksiders: I slashed my way through like 2 thirds of the game, and stopped playing for a while, when i tried to go back to it, i just couldn't get into it. Shame as well, i loved the game.

Prototype: I know alot of people slate it, but i thought it was great. Problem was, again, 3 quarters through and i got infamous, which i got obsessed with. Went to play prototype again, and the damn controls were kicking my butt! I gave up!

No excuse really, i should finish these bloody games

Between all my consoles (handhelds included) I probably have around 10-15 games i still need to finish...With all the great games comming out this fall, I seriously doubt I'll catch up on them anytime soon.

yea i find my self buying new games cuz i cant stay interested on one thing. but ive beat most of the games i have because i chase plats. im currently working on spec ops and its a **** on vet i even play with my brother and still get murked.

.... but yea im pretty addicted... more so to alcohol and substances but because of those feelings makes me more interested in games

There is only probley one game i will never beat and thats because i lose interst in it within a week. Fallout 3. i play it, i love it, and then it just loses my interst within a week and then i dont play it for like 9 months

I still haven't beaten FFX and FFXII. I might beat them someday when I come around to it.

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Bioshock - as stated above "i suck at fps" and am in no rush to get to this. its still in the shrinkwrap, has been for some time.

clicketyclick

Perhaps I shall. I have some time off work comin up and its hotter than camel hump outside, so ill probably be round the house. I know it is held in high-esteem and that it supposedly has a great story. If its really not all runnin and gunnin and has enough substance to combat my ADD, then I might enjoy it.

My bad habit is purchasing new games before I am finished what I have. I let this habit continue to a point of being unable to probably ever complete my collection of games even if I weeded out the "not worth it" games that are too terrible to try to finish, dating back to PS1 titles.. Game sales in newsletters to my work e-mail never seem to make this better. My other bad habit is letting my SO play the same games I am so that I lose interest faster if I have already seen him play the same parts.

Although, even with these issues and my crazy work schedule (I work in IT and therefore I am always "at work") I have still finished 4 PS3 titles and 2 360 titles this year.

oakie86

I'm not too bad a sinner for unfinished games. Let's see, there's DMC 4; My interest waned around halfway and I'm not sitting through Capcom's lamentable 25 minute installation again in order to finish it. I was 3/4 of the way through Valkyria Chronicles then stopped, maybe I'll go back to it in preparation for VC II. I haven't touched FF XIII in 6 weeks, I'll return to it when I'm done with RDR. My progress on Demon's Souls is currently in limbo since I had to buy a new PS3 recently and the save is copy protected (*shakes fist*). I will return to that also.

Nah, I'm the perfect gamer, I complete all games I have before getting new games. However, for some reason I hardly ever finish games that I didn't personally buy myself. Friends will sometimes lend me games, I'll try it and then never play it again. Midnight: club LA, Dragon Quest VIII, Wipeout HD (from PS+) and Motorstorm (PS3 fat bundle). Only thing I managed to finish was MGS4 but I guess thats because I had recently played all the previous ones.

Ugh stupid quick reply...

The list goes on!!

Motorstorm: Pacific Rift

PoP (every time I started playing, I felt this strange urge to sleep)

NFS: Shift (took me 3 racing games to realise I dun rly like race games XD, except Mario Kart, cuz that's just pure awesomeness pressed on a disk)

Resident Evil 5 (waiting for someone to co-op it with)

Soul Calibur IV

The Orange Box

Wow, this list is longer than I thought... :S

So... when is Maffia II coming out??

My bad habit is purchasing new games before I am finished what I have. I let this habit continue to a point of being unable to probably ever complete my collection of games even if I weeded out the "not worth it" games that are too terrible to try to finish

oakie86

HaHa. I have the SAME exact problem. I'm getting better though.

I kind of have the same problem as you. For me, it's more that the story line is really long and I just get tired of playing it. For example, Dragon Age and Fallout. Both are great games, but I just get so overwhelmed with playing such a long game that I decide to put it down and pick up a new one.

Dropped Borderlands, Grand Theft Auto 4 on the PC cos i lost all my saved games....

Well as far as all the PS3 games i got, I've beaten 100% Now if I got back all the way to the NES and SNES days, well there are few hundred I still need to beat.

Usually I leave games because I don't like them (anymore), but that rarely has to do with a specific part of the game. One I remember would be Tales of Symphonia (or however it's spelled), the bosses are way over the top overpowered and I got bored of the gameplay while powerleveling ^^

As far as my gaming habits go, I tend to always have a backlog. It is never too out of control though. I buy games in spurts unless it is a highly anticipated release in which I pre-order it and play it through as soon as I get it regadless of whatever I am playing at the time. That occurs only like three to four times per year though.

The rest of the time I buy 3-4 games at a time when they have hit the $20-$30 pile. When I get down to maybe one or two games left to play, I ususally buy some more. My definition of beating the game is going through the story and then picking up the trophies/achievments that are reasonable. I do not go out of my way for fetch quests or nonsense most of the time.

I didnt beat gow 2,

i absolutley hate that game. gow was so much better

I still need to finish BioShock 2, God of War 1, 2 and 3, and like 10 PSN games...

Since I recently got the YLOD unsuspectingly I have lost all my game saves so now I will have to start over. But a bad habit of mine is purchasing a new game before I am finished playing the other games in my collection.

I hardly ever beat a game actually. Sigh...

dunl12496

You and me, both... oh well.