Let's admit it - Most of us never finish our games.

I never finished BioShock 2.

I never finished The Witcher.

I never finished Red Dead Redemption.

I never finished Crysis.

The list goes on. I daresay the only games I have completed recently are Dragon Age 2 and Crysis 2.

The problem is two-fold. Some of us only have so much time to play video games - we may have families, and we may have fulltime jobs that occupy most of our time. On the other hand, some games have such terrible pacing (I'm looking at you, Witcher) that it's often a pain to go ahead and finish them.

Games are getting shorter - and it's not a bad thing. Content that doesn't necessarily entertain can be cut. Not all games have to forty hours long.

I am still in college - and hence, I have at least twenty hours to dedicate to gaming per week - but I often only get 5-10 hours in per week at most if I am not playing a new release. I daresay I will have even less free time when I join the workforce.

I wouldnt say never finish (for me) but i can certainly say a majority of them is on hold for a very long time before i eventually go back to them. :P

Guess I'm in the minority then.

I finish all of my games, unless it is Mario 64, still havent beaten the game :P

I finish all the games I buy with the exception of a few.

Due to time mostly.

Guess I'm in the minority then.

Renegade_Fury

me too.

I've been doing a better job of finishing my games lately, but I still leave a lot unfinished.

I don't think it'd be possible for me to finish all of my games, while still having time to do things like sleep or socialise.

Still, I do aim to finish as many as possible (only to buy tons more thanks to online sales).

Lets not say that. I finish all my games thank you very much

i only buy games when they go down in price. And usually finish them one at a time. The only games i havn't finished are SC2, Far Cry on the PC - never will finish cos I thought it started gettin lame, half-life on pc - again once i saw that giant spider thing, i just though, no thanks. I also have not finished modnationracers, that's about it.

i did a poll about this a few weeks ago

http://uk.gamespot.com/forums/topic/28492475/do-you-finish-every-game-you-start

75% of people NO to do you finish every game you start

i dont have enogh time between working and school to finish them all. maybe this summer...

I finish all the games I get, but then I also don't buy five or six games a year like some people do. Hickamie14

i tend to finish most of mines, i've bought nearly 30 games since i got a 360 in december and still keep buying but slowly im crawling through my backlog :P

i have a ton of games i've never finished but a lot of them i've never intended to really play let alone finish

some of them i've gotten so close to the end before just giving up.. I've been at the final boss fight in Dead Space 2 since it came out.. haven't really played it since I tried to beat it a couple times though

other times I'll beat a game like 5-10 years after I get it. Recently I finally beat Vagrant Story, FF VI, FF IV, FF III. My wife and I just beat NSMBWii after only completing the first world when it came out.

This is pretty much why I avoid open world games. Though I did finally get around to beating GTA IV. Kind of made some progress in Chinatown wars recently too. Oh and I made some decent progress in Miles Edgeworth recently.. im seriously like 10-30mins from beating it and I'm just taking forever to get around to it. I think I beat MnL:PiT recently after giving up half way through it.. I think I beat BIS before it.

This reminds me.. I need to finish GoldenSun DS already... not really that close to beating it but i still invested a good amount of time into it. I play way too many games though at the same time I really don't... When I do though I binge.. dang gotta beat Vanquish...

I haven't finished R.U.S.E., and that's the only game (recently) that I haven't finished. Still stuck on the last level, lol.

Or, for that matter, MGS4 (Nope, haven't finished it. I think I'm still in the middle of the game, in the snowy level)

I breeze through most non rpgs easily even on the hardest setting.

Games are getting shorter - and it's not a bad thing. Content that doesn't necessarily entertain can be cut. Not all games have to forty hours long.

I am still in college - and hence, I have at least twenty hours to dedicate to gaming per week - but I often only get 5-10 hours in per week at most if I am not playing a new release. I daresay I will have even less free time when I join the workforce.

The_Capitalist

Long games can be easily experienced in short playtroughs at a time, until completed, and last far longer having a more fleshed out experience which is a far more worthwile one, for people and their money. It'll be a much more memorable experience, if it's longer. If you enjoy the game, ofcourse. Look at it like this, it's as if your enjoying one of your favorite TV series.

It took me roughly 2 months to finish Xenogears, it's a 60-70 hours long game, and i played it 30min.-1 hour hour a day, due to very limited time.

I honestly don't get this association, long games and little free time. It's not like you can't play the game 20 - 30 minutes, save, and continue later after a couple of days, then again playing 20 - 30 minutes, then again play later.

What's the problem here?

Unless a game is really bad, or does never end, I DO finish all the games I set out to play.

I actually try to and most of the time I do finsh my games, but thats because I really dont buy many in the first place. Sure those cheap steam deals are tempting but then I think, would I actually like the game even if it was on sale for 5$? or am I just buying it for the sake of owning another game on my steam?

I would say I finish 90% of mine. It is only when I buy a cheap game and take the gamble that I sometimes don't finish it. right now that applies to Bioshock, STALKER, Witcher, and some more I think. I plan on beating the Witcher so I can be ready for 2 though. That said, I just beat Darksiders and Mass Effect and am now going on to Mass Effect 2. I generally stick with a game and if it keeps me entertained I beat it.

This is pretty much the first gen where I'd have to include myself as leaving too many games incomplete but that's because it seems this gen, there are just so many must have games and not enough time in the year to play them all.

Speak for yourself. Only two games I never finished were Okami and Beyond good and evil. Everything else I've ever purchased I finished. Bread_or_Decide

Yeah Okami for me too. Do you agree that the game holds your hand too much and just kind of lingers on without going anywhere? IDK I think it is overrated. Darksiders is a better Zelda ripoff IMO :P.

[QUOTE="Bread_or_Decide"]Speak for yourself. Only two games I never finished were Okami and Beyond good and evil. Everything else I've ever purchased I finished. NaveedLife

Yeah Okami for me too. Do you agree that the game holds your hand too much and just kind of lingers on without going anywhere? IDK I think it is overrated. Darksiders is a better Zelda ripoff IMO :P.

I always finish them because I don't buy an overwhelming amount of games to drown myself with every year -- I tried to do that last year and about 8 games never got opened and I went and got my money back for them.

I haven't finished a lot of the games I have bought, but It's my plan to beat them, I don't feel happy at all having unfinished games, unfinished experiences.

It was much easier for me to finish my console games because I would only buy 1 or 2 a month. Plenty of time to finish them before I jumed onto a new game.

On PC, that is a different story. Every darn day there is a huge sale on soo many amazing games. Yes, I try to Ignore some deal but most of them are SUPER HARD to PASS by. So Instead of 1 or 2 games on month on consoles; I'm buying like 20 - 30 games a month on PC.

Funny thing is though; I'm still spending around the same amount money I did when I bought 1 or 2 games on consoles.
PC Gaming is so cheap =D

So....I'm going to say from what I am hearing on this trend.

Console-only gamers tend to finish their games up because there games are more expensive and are less?

PC Gamers have to stand all those 75% Off, 80% Off Deals, so they tend to get way more games, and as such not finish them, due to time.

I never really finished games before this gen, but I do finish the better games I play. Poor games, or long games, I will usually just stop playing due to boredom.

Recently I tried out Transformers: War for Cybertron and found it quite poopish, so I doubt I'll be finishing that. I also stopped playing AC: B and sold it 'cause it just got boring.

I finished Singularity because it wasn't too long and the action stayed fresh for the most part. Kinda ugly, but the game was fun.

I finish all the games I get, but then I also don't buy five or six games a year like some people do. Hickamie14

I'll admit to that, but I have finished at least 80% of my titles.