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Does anyone else sometimes "force" themselves to play certain video games?

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RedZaraki

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I can't describe exactly why I do this sometimes. Maybe it's a sense of completion, or the feeling that I "should" enjoy the game, if I give it more time. But from time to time I will buy and play a game I'm not jumping out of my seat for, purely out of hype or hope.

And then I'll play that game to completion, sometimes whether I enjoy it or not. These are the games where you're relieved once you're finally done with them.

Does anyone else do this? I can't think of any recent examples, but it definitely happened with the end of SMT4 for me.
 
I know I did this with FFXIII, I tried it for 6 hours the day it came out then I didn't touch it for like a year or two and for some reason I picked it back up and I forced myself to play through it, maybe when I heard FFXIII-2 was announced.
 
I feel this way about any game that I pay full price for. If I don't at least beat it, then I feel that I've wasted my money (which I mean, technically I guess I have).

An example I can think of would be Shantae. After hearing so many good things about that series, I bought a few of the games all at once. Big mistake. I didn't enjoy a single thing about them but forced myself to beat them all.

Not my cup of tea, but didn't want that purchase to go to waste.
 
When i was younger , yes. Now that i am older, i won't waste too much of my time if the game is not to my liking . Life is short man.

Lights and Waves said:
I feel this way about any game that I pay full price for. If I don't at least beat it, then I feel that I've wasted my money (which I mean, technically I guess I have).

Any example I can think of would be Shantae. After hearing so many good things about that series, I bought a few of the games all at once. Big mistake. I didn't enjoy a single thing about them, but forced myself to beat them all.

Not my cup of tea, but didn't want that purchase to go to waste.
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I used to think like that too, but your just wasted more money and time by playing something that you don't like. I usually give it a good try but i rather do something more worthwhile instead.
 
It happens a lot when I'm currently addicted to one particular multiplayer game, like Dota or something. You feel like you should be playing other games too, and you do WANT to play other games, but once you start playing them it's just boring and you inevitably drift back to whatever your current addiction is at the time.
 
Yes, only to try to justify the purchase of the game itself, however, I end up selling them to the store and getting back at least 70% of the original game value...

I usually get the feeling of "this game is just not good for me and won't enjoy playing it" around 5 hours into the game

This happened to me with Dragon Quest heroes, now, in all honesty, I went into the game not knowing what to expect and well... I discovered it wasn't for me
 
To an extent. The main reason why is because I play fighting games and sometimes playing the "relevant" games is necessary if you want consistent competition. Other than that, you could develop a love for the game or always come away feeling frustrated by the experience.
 
Yes, from time to time this happens as I will not like every game I pay for. I decided a while back that if I come across this situation I should trade it in and cut my losses because I am too old and have way too little time to play something I am not enjoying.
 
Sometimes I lose interest in a game before I reach a finale, but I feel like I am so close might as well finish it quickly, even though I don't really want to.
 
No.

I beat some games i wasn't enjoying but i was courious about how they ended.

A game i don't enjoy over a long period of time gets dropped.


Edit: i do have to "force" myself to actually finish games sometimes, even games i enjoy. I have a bad habit of getting to the last dungeon/level and dropping the game for no reason in particular.
 
I did that with Metroid Other M. Force myself to get the 100% even with the fact that its actually easy and short
 
I force myself to finish games sometimes, simply because I feel like I've wasted money if I quit half way through.
 
There's tons of shitposting on here for pretty much every game so I'm sure you're not alone. Not that I'm accusing you of anything, but you can't go a day without someone talking shit about a game they despised yet completed "hoping" it would get better and "hoping" they were going to see what all the hype was about. Cuz you know, those last 2 hours are totally going to make up for the first 15 that sucked.

Honestly, I assume these people only finish games they hate to deflect any attack against their shitposting. "I actually finished the whole thing. It's shit."
 
Once i forced myself to play zelda ... and it ruined every zelda for me .... also forcing myself in completing everything of a game ruins for a replayable oppurtunity for me ..
 
Multi-Players and Shooters. I really like single player 3rd person games.

Roaming or Lotting + Spotify is magic!

-Infamous Second Son - My favorite.
-Uncharted
-TLOU
-Gravity Rush
-Shadow of Mordor
-Horizon Zero Dawn - My new favorite (No Spotify but the in game music is A+!).

Played Destiny and loved it. The Division not so much. Wildlands I may wait. Destiny 2 I can't wait.
 
If I have enough free time (e.g when on holidays) and have paid full price yes, otherwise my time is precious and if I'm not having fun it'll surely be forgotten
 
I mean with certain older games, for me, there can be a slight hill to overcome before the fun really starts to take on momentum and carry me through the game.

I experienced this with Resident Evil 1 & 2 most recently. The start of the first game was really, really fucking hard since I hadn't touched it since 1996.... I would argue it was not "fun." But I persisted until things started to internally make sense and then the game became enjoyable enough to finish without any conscious effort.

Can be the same thing with books too. The Sound and the Fury was like this.
 
Mostly pokemon games. The stories are meh sometimes but they lock certain breeding abilities, pokemon, and moves until you beat the game.
 
Sometimes its good to force yourself to play past the first few hours of a game. It can take a while to click, get past all the easy beginner stuff, e.t.c.
 
I had this with Watch Dogs 2. I paid full price for it because it had everything I like about open world games and more, plus the reviews were great. But I just couldn't get into it, I still don't know why, it just felt "off" to me.

I forced myself to keep going for about 5 hours but still ended up selling it as I knew I'd never play it again.
 
Forced myself to play through Uncharted 1 for far too long . Finally gave up and traded in the collection and feel like a weight has been lifted. I get that I'm missing out on an allegedly great rest of the series, but I'll probably live.

I actually had to kind of force my way through TLoU as well after being stuck somewhere for awhile. I'm glad I did though. Great game.
 
I do this sometimes for GAF's darlings because I keep looking for the reason people on here love game X so much. I want to finish these games in case they get good at the end, and if they don't I can truthfully claim that I finished the game when I tell people it's actually mediocre at best. Case in point: Tearaway for Vita.

Also, I have a real problem leaving things half-finished in general. It bugs me.
 
I "force" myself to push forward to a certain level of tolerance. If the game doesn't get better or turn things around, eventually I give up and move onto a new game.

Most recent example is Gravity Rush 2. I loved the first one when it came out on Vita years ago and was thrilled that it had a sequel, but that sequel was extremely boring. Hours of running around and talking to NPCs and flying around the same way I did on Vita years ago led to me falling asleep in my chair every time I played the game. After a few weeks of trying to push further and inevitably falling asleep, I just stopped and started playing something else, and I was much happier for it.
 
clay_ghost said:
When i was younger , yes. Now that i am older, i won't waste too much of my time if the game is not to my liking . Life is short man.



I used to think like that too, but your just wasted more money and time by playing something that you don't like. I usually give it a good try but i rather do something more worthwhile instead.
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That's a fair point. I guess it's a weird mix of buyer's remorse/guilt.
 
RedZaraki said:
I can't describe exactly why I do this sometimes. Maybe it's a sense of completion, or the feeling that I "should" enjoy the game, if I give it more time. But from time to time I will buy and play a game I'm not jumping out of my seat for, purely out of hype or hope.

And then I'll play that game to completion, sometimes whether I enjoy it or not. These are the games where you're relieved once you're finally done with them.

Does anyone else do this? I can't think of any recent examples, but it definitely happened with the end of SMT4 for me.
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I have had a hard time dropping games before I 100% them and getting less time and while the games also got bigger it seems I found myself in your position. About a year ago I said fuck it and stopped caring for looking if there were anything missable in games. Screw does 100 of question marks if they are not on my way to the next objective.

Ever since that playing games have been so much more fun and relaxing to me at least.

I still take my time with games I really like (got the platinum in horizon) but never force myself to it anymore.

I dont know if you might have the same problem but try figuring out what bother you and stop you from enjoying games and say fuck it.
 
Did this a lot throughout the past year. Cut down my gaming purchases to 1 game per month this year and haven't had a problem so far. Enjoyed my 3 games (FFXV, RE7 and Horizon) thoroughly this year. If it stays this way for the rest of 2017 I'll keep it this way in the future.
 
Not any more. I wasted time trying to play games hyped on here that didn't seem like my cup of tea, finish games I wasn't digging since I paid for them (especially if bought digitally) etc. in the past.

I decided life is too short and there are too many great games I want to play to bother forcing myself to play games that aren't hyping me on their own or to finish things I'm not loving.
 
Every once in a while, yes. Normally I do it if there's a broad positive opinion about a game while I may not be feeling it right away. On rare occasions I play games solely for achievements, like I did just recently for Senran Kagura.
 
I did that for about 2-3 years last gen in an effort to "expand my horizons" and try new things since this was the first gen I had a lot of free capital to pretty buy whatever games I wanted. Worst 2-3 year block in my entire gaming life. Won't ever do it again.
 
I did with Tearaway on Vita. Everyone said it was amazing. So I played it through and really didn't like it. But at least I gave it a fair shot.

Ever since then, no - I haven't and won't.
 
I had a blog a few years ago where I tried to beat every game I owned. That was a big mistake as I was bashing my head against the wall with games that clearly weren't good enough for me to see through to the end when I bought them.

Specific examples I remember:

- Donkey Kong Country. HATED that game - it all felt too random and unforgiving.
- Kingdom Hearts 2. Nonsense story, unlikable characters, garbage "otherworld" unlikable characters, fully unenjoyable.
 
I used to so I would feel like I got the right amount of "value" out of it. Now I'm just more careful which games I buy.

Nothing worse than slogging through a game to put you off gaming.
 
I've done it with SMTIV, was able to beat it, but man it became a chore because I didn't enjoy it as much as I'd hoped. I still have Apocalypse, so far it's better but I stopped playing. Hopefully, I'll get back to it.

There is also FFXV. I was forcing myself to play it after like chapter 3. However, I was only able to get to chapter 8? before I just stopped. Haven't been interested in beating it since then.
 
Ordinaryundone said:
It happens a lot when I'm currently addicted to one particular multiplayer game, like Dota or something. You feel like you should be playing other games too, and you do WANT to play other games, but once you start playing them it's just boring and you inevitably drift back to whatever your current addiction is at the time.
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Yup came in to say this. But for me it's more I will force myself to play the game after playing overwatch for a while. I usually have a great time and okay that again, but I always start with overwatch. That's why my backlog is so damn big for the first time in forever.
 
If I ever reach a point I am 'forcing' myself to play anything I quickly drop the game since I am no longer having fun. That is saying a lot since I usually like to 100% games. Perfect example being the final ultimate weapon upgrades in FFXIII. I couldn't be bothered to farm the cash for that crap. It bored me to tears.
 
Yes - virtual reality.

It's quite a setup (I use a SubPac with it), and takes up a lot of space so I usually keep it packed away in my closet. However, when I do break it out I always have a GREAT time.
 
Last time I tried this was with FF XIII, I ended up giving up when the game opened up, it was gritting my teeth trying to enjoy a mainline final fantasy (haven't enjoyed myself since X) but as soon as I could steer the game I realized the ride wasn't fun at all, the experience was manageable on autopilot.

Life is short, you could get the money back but that time investment is permanent. Buying a game you don't find fun is a mistake, so forgive yourself, I am trying to use my game time wisely.
 
Only if I'm really close to the end, or at least I feel like I'm close (exception being The Witness recently because fuck it man I ain't that smart). I did this with Darksiders 1 recently because I wanted to see how the story ended because I remember a bunch of people getting hyped at the end.

It's rare that I'll get that far into a game and then force myself to finish it though. Usually if I don't start off liking the game I won't finish it.
 
Not anymore. Final Fantasy X broke me of that. I was about 2 hours from the end of the game when I realized I hated most of the time I'd spent with it. It was an epiphany and from that point on I've stopped playing games if I'm not enjoying them.

That being said, I do force myself to go through the first 5 hours of almost any long game. I've gone through enough games that start off slowly to know sometimes you got to suck it up during a lot of repetitive tutorials and plot and character introductions to get to a point where the real meat of the game is.
 
A friend convinced me to get For honor and even put $20 towards it.
I don't really like the game outside of the combat itself when I'm not randomly disconnected from the server. I also hate it's always online for no real reason for the single player.

I haven't regretted buying a game in a long time. I feel like I justified ubisoft coming out with more crappy games like this one (always online, hella microtransactions).

I force myself to play to not feel like I didn't completely waste my money.

Avoid for honor, the bushido blade like fighting isn't worth it.
 
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