Fancy Clown
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The only new game I've finished this year has been Resident Evil 7. I just don't have the time or patience to complete like 50 hour long open open world games, which is what the other games I've bought this year are.
Yeah, no. I finish games. Most of the games I play are story driven, why on earth would I stop playing it? Thats like saying I stop reading a novel half way in. Talk about a waste of time.
Now, before we begin, I want to say that this doesn't apply to every game. Some games are absolutely worth finishing.
I find that a lot of the time the conversation around a game puts a lot of emphasis on finishing it. I don't think this is necessarily the best way to think about a game. For me, I play a game as long as I enjoy it, then I drop it. If that point is before the end of the game, so be it. I don't mind.
There are a few reasons why this is applicable. A lot of games stop introducing new ideas and mechanics or challenges throughout their course. After a while, they become rather rote. Applying the same mechanics to a different variant of the same situation. Sometimes the mechanics are fun enough in themselves to keep going, but many times I find that once a game stops introducing new elements, it stops being interesting. It just becomes a chore, a waste of time, and I could be playing something else instead. I'm not obsessed with maximizing the value I get out of a purchase, I care more about maximizing the enjoyment I get within the time I spend in the game. There are enough games out there that I don't have to commit to finishing one game.
Another minor reason is that most game stories are pretty average and not worth following to the end. If a game has compelling characters and a story, that can take me through even if the mechanics are repetitive. Conversely, interesting and developing mechanics can take me through a slog of a story. But if both of those are uninteresting, I just can't do it. And I feel no obligation to.
How do you feel about the need to complete a game? Are you driven by the desire, or do you have another viewpoint?
Games aren't about learning new mechanics, though. They're about mastering them. In some of the most satisfying games you can learn all the mechanics in a couple of minutes, the fun is in getting good enough at using them to complete all the challenges.
Games aren't about learning new mechanics, though. They're about mastering them. In some of the most satisfying games you can learn all the mechanics in a couple of minutes, the fun is in getting good enough at using them to complete all the challenges.
I don't complete games that I stop having fun in.
My time is worth too much to do something I don't enjoy in it.
Games aren't about learning new mechanics, though. They're about mastering them. In some of the most satisfying games you can learn all the mechanics in a couple of minutes, the fun is in getting good enough at using them to complete all the challenges.
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Same. Playing an unenjoyable game is a total waste of time.I don't complete games that I stop having fun in.
My time is worth too much to do something I don't enjoy in it.
Misread the title as fishing, Don't you dare talk shit about Sega Bass Fishing!
I finish my games.
Did the same lolMisread the title as fishing, Don't you dare talk shit about Sega Bass Fishing!
There are so many damn games, I really became a lot happier when I realized that I don't need to play everything.
I gave myself a little rule where I have to finish a game to buy a new one, but I just bought Horizon because of the sale and will def get Crash next week.
I def try to finish the games Im having fun with but I def will check out on something average because there is way too much out there to play mediocre games.