Do you beat the games that you don't like?

Why would you finish a game that you don't like? Unless you're a reviewer, i find it nonsensical to go through a game that i'm having a bad experience with. Don't get me wrong, obviously you gotta give the game a chance to grow on you ....but i've seen ppl that have put hundreds of hours into a game ending up like "that's a shitty game" , well if it's shitty then why in the hell did you keep on playing it? Actually, this is evident in Steam user reviews.

Btw, with the assumption that you thought the game would be great but it turned out abysmal.

I beat witcher 3 not once but twice.

No way. I pick and choose what I play with great care, and in the rare instances where I've totally misjudged a game I'm playing and hate it, I'll move on to something else. I give those games a few hours of gameplay in the hopes they get better or change drastically, but they usually don't and I know if I like something relatively fast.

The best thing about ps+ or gwg is the ability to try something you'd otherwise never even consider. There's great joy in both discovering something you love, and marking something off with a big X of disapproval and a no thank you!

There's way too much to play to get bogged down with games that don't value my time... I may get some shit for this, but even when I'm playing the Witcher 3, (a game I've been slowly picking away at since like February.) after a half hour of walking, setting up my loot, fast traveling, loading screens, long conversations and maybe a trip on a horse out to another cut scene and a 30 second fight, I do question Wtf Im doing...

I'm not trying to say the Witcher is bad either... I like it in durrations when I'm in the mood, but forget shitty games. If it doesn't groove for me it doesn't last long.

It's incredibly rare that I do, but yes, sometimes.

Usually when it happens it's because there is some new industry darling that gamers and critics alike are raving about. I'll feel compelled to try and understand what all the hype is about. Then I end up realizing that a lot of people just have shit taste or are easily amused by bells and whistles.

Edit: Oh you won't see me putting hundreds of hours into a game I don't like, that's just fucking stupid. I might put in a dozen hours, tops.

I used to but not anymore. There are too many good games to waste time trying to plow through ones i hate.

That's exactly what i'm talking about :D , WHY? , atleast there are some good aspects about the game that hook you so you do like it...why you say you don't? :D i just don't get it.

Same here.

The Witcher 3 is my second fav game after ME2 but i can totally get why it would bother you, i'm absolutely alright with all the conversations and being on a horse....them scenery! But yeah it's a matter of preference.

Btw, you can do Contracts if you seek more fights, you're absolutely free in its world....if you get bored by all the story missions, you can go for some boss fights and blow off some steam.

If you beat a game twice then you like it bro.

not necessarily. i spent waaaaay more time that id ever like to admit on destiny. i didn't like the game but the shooting felt nice and it was something to play while listening to podcasts and music last year when i had nothing to play.

Well, yeah that makes sense.

That's the thing i don't get ... ppl putting over 50 hours into game and claiming they don't like it is just absurd to me.

Yeah, i have a huge backlog and i'm trying to go through the games that i know i'm gonna love'em.

Well, you liked the shooting at least.

But still, two play throughs of something as lengthy as TW3? I mean, it's not like the game has satisfying mechanics, you'd have to be invested in things outside of the moment to moment gameplay.

I just can't see myself trudging through a game of that scale TWICE if I didn't like it.

I will beat games that I don't really think are that great, but I have to be getting some amount of enjoyment out of it.

@mjorh: it's not so much that the Witchers flow bothers me, more than that I've generally not enjoyed the much slower pace of bigger open world rpgs and the constant management that goes into them lately.

The older I get, the more responsibility I carry in life, the less time I have to game changes my perspective on what I can tolerate and what I cannot. The Witcher isn't a good game, it's a freakin amazing game of which I'll judge further rpg's on... Including Andromeda. The difference is where I once played Knights of the Old Republic as a post graduate with no major responsibilities outside of work, I had hundreds of hours of free time to play with the perfect crystal combinations and develop my crews into an unstoppable war machine. In 2016 with 2 kids 3 different sports teams, work (though now I'm on summer vacation), a lawn that needs mowing, bills that need paying... Etc, having two hours to game and playing the Witcher is a different experience...

It isn't uncommon after an hour to say, well, I completed two quests, set up my inventory with my new finds and sat through 30 minutes of cut scenes, dialog and fast travel loading screens, but I only engaged in combat twice. Sometimes after a session I realize I never actually fought anyone at all, just furthered a bunch of narrative.

This is a game I have a high opinion of too! Point is, even great games have to hold water in my gaming life at this point. Bad games don't stand a chance.

Yes - partly to get moneys worth, partly to find some redeeming quality.

The two games I've been playing lately are Daggerfall and Final Fantasy 8.

Daggerfall is a bug ridden mess that needs cheats to be finished and Final Fantasy 8 has a button awesome that kills everything in the game with one hit, making all the upgrades, secrets and pretty much the spammy combat itself pointless.

Also the protagonist (Squall) is a complete ****. I guess he's suppose to come across as a badass enigma Japanese girls can fantasize about taming, but he comes across as an arsehole.

I used to. There were barely any games that I couldn't finish but now, I don't finish games that I don't like but I always give these games a second chance.

Ive finished some "crappy games" in the past but generally no , i wont even bother.

I do, I like having a complete opinion about what I'm playing. Only on the occasion of a game really sucking like Kick and Fennick do I quit it altogether.

@Blabadon: kick and fennick was really bad. That control scheme was such shit.

I don't even have time to beat all of the games that I do like, so I'm definitely not going to waste my time on games that I don't like. If I'm not having fun with a game within 1 hour, I stop playing it.

Not often, no. The time investment required makes this almost a no brainer question. I have little time as it is why waste it on a game I don't like?

Have I put up with bad mechanics because I enjoyed other aspects of a game? Yes. I'll push through lame sections to reach the end game if I feel there's value in the whole experience.

But one I start a game I feel mostly compelled to finish it. So I rarely start games I'm not likely to enjoy.

Generally, I do. I like to play games just to see what they are about and scrutinise where they are poorly designed. But this is something I can do because most of the games I play are around 5-15 hours long, nothing huge.

Well I managed to beat Persona 4... somehow. I gave up on the game 3 times before... so the playthrough lasted roughly 1-2 years.

Once I got past the Sleep inducing Social Linking sections, the game immediately became more enjoyable. Or at least, more tolerable.

Then I got pressured into getting P4G. Dropped that game immediately after the first dungoen, 2 weeks of social linking? **** that, goes and plays something actually enjoyable.

Nope, i stop play games that i dont like or/and find boring. Few examples; Xenoblade chronicles X Wiiu, Xenoblade Wii, Watch Dogs, Mafia 2

These days I often don't finish the games I like, sadly.

Actually, this is a fault with the translation IMO. Having played it in Japanese I can tell you that Squall is supposed to come across as a straight man to the bungling ineptitude that surrounds him. The writing achieves this by having Squall outwardly compliant with the scenarios he's placed in, but inwardly he's making the same jabs the player would in his position.

In essence, he's the tsukkomi to the game's cast of unwitting boke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manzai#Boke_and_tsukkomi

@mjorh: he's trolling he loves the witcher 3 really and rates it his favourite game of all time.

No. Once I realize I don't like I quit. Too many games not enough time. Sometime I don't even finish games I like :o

Nope. Life's too short. I don't like it, oh well. Trade it back in.

You two must have a lot in common.

Well, i don't have a family but i can relate, it's tough to manage work with gaming especially if you're a freelancer. i miss the good ol' times ...where i used to ran outta games to play :D

Is that so? :D I've seen him bashing TW3 in other threads as well

Why ?

@mjorh:

Older gamer with less time and just less enthusiasm for gaming these dayzzz.

" SP runs away crying" :P

:D i can understand the less time but try to keep your enthusiasm ! Or stay away for a while until you're thirsty enough :P

Right on fellow gamer, will do. :)

Goldeneye: Rogue Agent on DS. Compared to the console version (which still wasn't great the more I look at it, but I still enjoyed it), that game is basically an Arnold Schwarzenegger/Sylvester Stallone shootout (being that it was too damn easy, not that I dislike Arnold/Sly movies in anyway) under a James Bond villain skin.

@mjorh: he seems to bashed well recoved games a lot.

Mass effect and grand theft auto series to name a few.

Absolutely not. Life is too short to waste time playing video games that I don't enjoy.

@ghosts4ever: and all the shit you talk about it...

Anyway, I don't. For example the Witcher 3, I feel like it's clunky as **** and the weird camera moves. I got it on sale on the one thinking I'd never get a rig again and that it didn't matter...well I did get one in the end and I still have to finish the first one. Maybe that will happen since I wanna give the series a chance.

Yeah, his hatred for Bioshock Infinite is incredible :D

only if I paid full price on it.

Almost universally no. I hardly ever finish games I do like. I hardly ever play games that have an actual ending (in the classical story-driven sense).

There are tons of games that I started playing and stopped because I didn't like them....FF XIII-2, FFXII, Heavy Rain, Assassins Creed, just to name a few.

@mjorh: I agree. Sometimes you get a lemon and cut your losses is what I do. I bought Homefront when it came out because a close friend really wanted me to co op with him. It's a weak game, period. I never finished it but we had some fun playing it a bit.

I used to call out someone on this board for saying Destiny is a shit game but they admitted to putting 500 hours into it because there was nothing else to play. I think that's insane because there is a thing called reading or movies or going outside when there is "nothing" to play. And backlog of games for me that are from previous gens

I beat FO4 , I thought I could fix it with mods , .... I was dead wrong

True that

The same happened to me when i bought Sniper Elite 3 to co-op with my friend and man the game sucked so much that even with my friend it wasn't enjoyable at all, so i stopped playing after like 4-5 hours.

I used to back when I felt that I needed to get my money's worth. I'd expect that a game would possibly get better by the end or something. That changed when I played Jak 2 in the HD collection. This game was praised as being a classic and so good with only a couple problems, so I pressed on expecting there to be some moment of enlightenment I hadn't seen yet, but it was the worst game I have played to completion and it changed my entire view on what is worth my time and what isn't.

Now, if I'm not having fun with something I'll shelve and sell pretty quickly I'll give something anywhere from 2-5 hours, depending on the mood and how much I expect the game to possibly change, and if I'm still not enjoying it I'll drop it. I have way too many other obligations that I'm better spending my time with than a game that I'm not having fun with.

I got the platinum in The Order 1886. The only reason I finished the game was for the trophy.

@mjorh:

If I bought it, then fudge it. I might as well finish it cuz either way, I'm not getting a refund any time soon. I've actually learned to like most games I impulsively buy so it's worked out in the end more often than not.

I'll finish games that I can't get refunds more and I spent a decent amount of money on if they aren't so good. Or, at least I'll try to finish them. But, games like Far Cry 2, which I spent 50 dollars on, I put like 6 hours into it, quit and never looked back. What an awful game.

Nope, Bethesda games have taught me to trust my gut and not even try.