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Am I the only one who finish every single game he buys?

I don't finish all the games I buy and I don't even try to 100% most of them. Most of the time I either play a game to the "end" of the campaign/story or play until I am satisfied with the game or no longer want to play it. Then there are games like Nintendogs or Animal Crossing or Tetris that can be played forever.
 
Nekofrog said:
I don't understand how someone has enough time to play that many games to total completion like the OP.

Anyone care to clue me in?
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44 games in 4 years is 11 games a year. Assuming an average completion length of 25 hours, that's 45 minutes a day -- or three 45-minute sessions during the week and one three-hour session on the weekend.

I'm sure plenty of people don't want to prioritize that many hours for gaming, but anyone with no kids who isn't in some crazy timesink job should be capable of it if they want to.
 
i know a guy with kids and he has probably finished 100+ games this gen, most of them twice. 160k achievements.


i finished around 8 or 9 out of the 150 something games i bought/received this gen.
 
OP freaked me out a bit, I have a similiar system and call it "The List" too...

It has helped in my quest to finish every game I buy but, I seem to buy more than I finish so it will be a never ending quest.
 
I don't have the time to put that much into gaming like I used to. An hour here or there and if I have no plans on the weekend. 8 hour gaming session until my ps3 broke, but that is for another story.
 
I used to make sure I got 1000gs from every game I played where possible. This led to me getting a gamerscore of 60,000 in about a year and a half as I bought my 360 on launch day. Since then I have slowed down and don't nail the cheevs. I put on about 20,000 more in the last couple of years.
 
I never really worry about this. Probably has to do with the fact that my platform of choice has been PC since I was a wee lad...and the whole concept of "finishing" a game has always been somewhat foreign to games native to the platform. If you never finished Quake 2's campaign, but you put 100 hours into the multiplayer, did you "finish" it? Does completing a Civilization campaign once count as "finishing" it? How do you finish the Sims? Has a person who completed Starcraft II's single player campaign but never set foot in the multiplayer finished it, even though he's really missing a significant chunk of the experience?
 
I aim to finish every game I purchase eventually. Last December I played through FF13 and it created a huge backlog for me - Peace Walker, AC:Brotherhood, L.A. Noire, Castlevania, COD. I only recently caught up now, and I bought a few games in between that and finished those too. Now, I have a backlog of 20 + Gamecube games, 10 + SNES games and 10 + 64 games, but I won't complete them. I just like playing those every now and then.
 
I play almost every game I purchase until I see the credits roll. However, there are some that are so incredible I feel compelled to 100% (or at least come close), and others where I find I just can't get into it and I'll stop instead of wasting more time.

Edit: I find that by actually completing games before purchasing a new one, I end up spending a lot less on the hobby. Not only because I play less, but because I end up buying games months after they release.
 
I don't complete that many games, but I don't keep the ones I complete nor do I keep the ones that I know I'm not going to complete.

What is the point of keeping all those games you've completed? Most of them don't even have an ongoing multiplayer.
 
I don't, at least. Gaming isn't work and fortunately nobody forces me to finish games. If the gameplay doesn't compel me to go on and the game outstays it welcome (no skill required, endless repetition etc.), I quit and play something else. I also mostly stopped buying retail games at launch (only three this year: Catherine back in February, The Witcher 2 and Xenoblade) and wait for substantial price drops, which, combined with the weak pound, doesn't make it feel like I wasted money either.
 
I don't finish all the games I buy, I do finish most of the games on the consoles, but the ones I don't finish were mostly shitty games and I don't want to force myself to play through the rest of them, I'm not angry video game nerd.

I do make better purchases now though.

Edit: fixed my answer, I don't know the answer to if you're the only one that plays through all the games he buys.
 
I bought over 50 games this year. I finished 28 games so far this year. So basically: no. It's all Steam's fault.

Kuro Madoushi said:
Answer to question: No

Me, personally? I find it hard to finish anything nowadays. Last I finished was Catherine, and I might finish Bastion soon.

But my list of "to finish" is LONG! Deus ex is coming out, Tropico 4 is coming out, dead island is coming out, devil survivor overclocked is coming out. No way in hell am I finishing the games I need to.
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Er... why are there games on your "to finish" list that you consider bad? Why would you ever want to play them again?
 
I cannot claim to finish every game I buy since I have a bunch waiting to be played and who knows if I will ever get to them. I do however finish every game that I start playing.
 
DidntKnowJack said:
I don't know why people stress about finishing games so much. If you're having fun, keep playing. If not, fuck it. Move on.

edit: Though I shouldn't talk. I used to be someone who stressed a bit about this kind of thing. Then one day I just sold off my huge backlog, and that was that.
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Were is that avatar from, :lol

Anyway, i only finish the games that grabs me from the first start. If i did not complete it in the same week i bought it, it will go on the stack age-ing like fine wine.
 
DidntKnowJack said:
I don't know why people stress about finishing games so much. If you're having fun, keep playing. If not, fuck it. Move on.
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This is definitely my philosophy. I don't care about finishing games so long as I'm having fun is the most important.
 
I probably have more games that I've never even started than I've completed.

I just don't understand how people find the time to complete so many. I do enjoy games and play them when I get a chance, have a supportive girlfriend who whilst not a fan herself, will happily sit next to me while I play games (and sometimes help out, or play against me on FIFA etc) but actually finding the time to complete hundreds of games? What the?

I'm tempted by Xenoblade Chronicles right now, but even assuming I can get 6 hours in a week, it's going to take over 2 months just to complete a single game.

And if it's even slightly boring, crap, whatever, why should I waste my time on it?

Really cannot see how people have the time to complete every single game they buy, let alone why they'd want to.
 
I used to be like you although, I tend to get bored with games, as I have them for free or cheap. When I used to pay a lot for them, I had to finish them. Not anymore.
 
You have an awesome collection there (besides silent hill homecoming, but i cant blame you, i also bought hoping that it would be as awesome as the silent hill games before).
 
Considering I've never finished any 3D Zelda ever (I've played ALL of them, but for some reason, I stop playing after finishing the main dungeons and getting to the last quest(s)), yes, you are the only one! :p
 
I challenge the OP to rethink if he really, truly finished every game he bought. Every PSN/Xbla game? Every PC game? Every iPhone game? Really?
 
Gustav said:
I challenge the OP to rethink if he really, truly finished every game he bought. Every PSN/Xbla game? Every PC game? Every iPhone game? Really?
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Well I don't buy games on PC... but yes I finish every console game I buy and every downloadable game I buy too with story mode ( not arcade mode ) :)

Ganondorfo said:
You have an awesome collection there (besides silent hill homecoming, but i cant blame you, i also bought hoping that it would be as awesome as the silent hill games before).
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I liked Homecoming... loved the improved combat and the story with all it twists, actually I might replay it now since I have nothing to play or trophies to collect till the release of Resistance 3.
 
I finish pretty much everything I buy. Try to max out as many achievements as I can (though I don't care about trophies, go figure. Can only manage one grinding system at a time).

There's only a couple exceptions EVER. That's Crisis Core and Killzone 2. CC is just garbage, story and gameplay-wise and Killzone 2 is so generic that I've started it twice and can't bother to make it past 50 minutes of playtime.
 
The Praiseworthy said:
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Dem NA spines

on topic, I never finished the majority o my games but decided I would this gen. Recently it hasn't been the case
 
_Alkaline_ said:
If you buy less games, you're more compelled to complete them. Simple logic.
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That, plus the term "finish" is kinda irrelevant in this day and age. Just because you reached the ending cutscene doesn't mean you got anywhere near the full experience the game offers. Side quests, multiple playthroughs, multiplayer, trying to get a high score, achievements. . .
 
i do not finish nearly as many games as i buy. i have a library of over 1,000 games and ive probably finished (as in seen the end, i have hardly ever "completed" a game) 200 or fewer.
 
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