I'm notorious for not finishing games =/

I'm pretty notorious for not finishing games, and I just realized I have a whole 12 games that I need to finish, 2 of them are just expansions but I clearly need to hold off on buying any new games.
 
*reaches hand out trying to grasp uncharted 2 and MW2* @_@
 
anyone else have this same problem? 
 
 

• Company Of Heroes
• Company Of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
• Doom 3
• Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil
• The Witcher
• Zeno Clash
• Mass Effect
• Oblivion (I realize that finishing this game is probably a relative thing  lol)
• Crysis Warhead
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear sky
• Grand Theft Auto 4

not so much anymore, but there was a time.

maybe list these unfinished games so we may perhaps give you a reason why some of them are better left unfinished.

i often dont complete games either. sometimes they just drag out the stuff for way to long (looking at the gta series in particular)
 
i dont undertsand why you stopped playing crysis warhead though that game is brilliant+pretty short

I usually try to limit myself to one or two games at a time. Trucking through them becomes much easier that way, and you get to enjoy the stories more instead of jumping around to other games and getting plot points confused with each other.

Well I used to have that problem with my Gamecube games, but now I pretty much only buy a new game every two months or so. Gives me plenty of time to finish it (probably multiple times). 
 
I would suggest you play them one at a time, and play a game of the same genre afterwards (although your list is mostly FPS and RPG anyway) so that you'll already be used to the controls and combat. Don't worry about switching games if it becomes too dull though. Games are all about fun!

Sadly I used to buy a game on sale play it for 30 min. get mad and never look at it again

" @mhkjtha:  I think I'm about half way through warhead, I tend not to play games straight through I alternate between games. I plan on coming back to warhead very soon just in the mood for an RPG at the moment. "

Ya I am so bad about that.  It's not like I quit because they go too difficult, most I just quit because I get bored of it or some other new game comes in.  For example, the Fire Emblem for ds which I can't remember the subtitle of, I have not beat.  I am like 1 or 2 missions from the end and I just stopped playing because the game was not giving me the challenge I loved in the earlier missions.

I can definitely relate.  I'm horrible at this.  I just recently gave up midway on both Beyond Good & Evil and Mirror's Edge.. and I also have to finish Call of Duty 4 before Modern Warfare 2 comes out so that I'm all caught up with all the cool cats.  I just recently played through Titan Quest with a friend but gave up like 12 hours in after realizing there was all of Egypt to go through!!  It's hard to be a gamer.. oy vay!    

im guilty of not finishing the game when im very close to the ending.  i think its a mental block because usually when i beat a game i never go back to it; unless its super awesome.  subconsciously im probably like dude if you finish the last mission of this great game youll never go back to it so why dont you just play another game and comeback to this one later.  also i buy a ton of games too

i do that way too much... here is my list:
KH : played after KH2 and gameplay is not as good
GTA 4 (don't plan to either)
Halo 3 (might... but probably won't)
Chrono trigger(basically 2-3 hours from the end)
FF7: Dunno why
FF10: Dunno Why
Fallout 3: Got bored
MK shaolin monks : Game is a coop game for me and need to call my friend to come finish it with me
HL2 + episodes : Dunno why
Hitman Bloodmoney : lack of interest
L4D : I has a scare of scary games?
MH:FU : Steeeeeeeep learning cure that i don't have time to tend to + need to get my friend to come play
Crush : going through it
Patapon 2  : going through it
Advanced wars dual strike : play it intermittently
 
And all the while i plan on getting MW2 and AC 2 by the end of the year :( 
 
Mostly  i think i just buy some games for the concept and the world and if the gameplay is good enough i'll stick it to the end

My list of shame is so long it's, well, shameful.  I have lots of games I've only played somewhat through.  That's why when a game comes along that really holds my attention (like Borderlands right now) I am very pleased with the experience.  I'm not going to bother to list everything I've left incomplete, but needless to say, it would be extensive.  But, I am okay with that.  I don't feel pressured any more to have to complete a game.  If I get a solid 10-20 hours out of the game, it's worth the price of admission. 
 
Honestly, I am more disturbed by the games I've bought and never played than the ones I've left unfinished.

You should finish Zeno Clash. The game is only like 5 hours long at most and the ending is "HOLYFUCKOMGWHAT" inducing.

Not really, no. My problem is that I'll usually get into a game, and then get distracted by a bunch of other games and forget about the first. Seiken Densetsu 3, Okami, Final Fantasy Tactics, Vagrant Story, there are probably others.

not anymore, but there i was a time where i would just play games and just never play them again. today i appreciate what i have  
 
though, i never finished GTA IV. story just got stale for me. 

I make it a point to beat most of my games.

Oh man. My list is much longer. In fact it's so much longer that I refuse to type it out. I need a simple way to list the contents of my TO FINISH folder.
 
And then there's my WON'T FINISH folder which is full of games I'm not even going to fool myself about, yet somehow can't bring myself to delete.
 
The problems you seem to have with GTA4 have been fixed in TLAD and BOGT, except for the sluggishness inherent to the animations in the game. I wholly recommend EFLC, but it's better as DLC for GTA4 since you get to keep the GTA4 soundtrack which was removed from EFLC for licensing issues. And you don't need to have played GTA4 to follow the episodes, albeit it certainly helps fill in the other sides of what's happening. I beat GTA4 twice and got 1/3 of the way in a good number of times -- after that it gets old. EFLC stays fresh throughout.

" @Milkman:  I'm at the part where I'm in a flashback to go meet and kill motherfather is that near the end? "

I'm even worse than that. Just looking through my steam games list there are 30 games I have yet to complete. And that's before you take into account any of my 360 games, Wii games and non-steam PC games (which is a lot).

I can understand how some people don't really finish RPG games but Company of Heroes should be easy to pick up since you could always finish off were you left without worrying about story or equipment. You should really finish off Company of Heroes though. I think it's one of the most interesting strategy games in recent times.

Im pretty bad at this myself.
But thats because i buy tons of games i deep down dont like. Like the new Red Faction for example.
 
Seriously though Jman522...chain yourself the the computer and send me the key...i will mail it back when you finish The Witcher XD

" @EVO:  if u happen to have Doom 3 on pc, they have a co-op mod if u ever happen to wanna finish it through co-op^^ "

• at night
• with the lights off
• with headphones on
• stoned

I used to have that problem really bad, but Xbox 360's achievements have taught me more completionist discipline.  Still, if I buy a game and it doesn't really appeal to me I won't play through it very fast, if at all.

I generally never finish any rpg's, but that's more or less because I don't have the time and sometimes the patience to grind through those games anymore.  I remember like 8-10 years ago where I could play rpg's for nearly 40 hours and never have it feel like that.  But other then that, I'm pretty good at finishing most games that only really require 10-15 hours to get through.

And I thought I was the only not having finished GTA 4.

There are a lot of games I have neglected to finish to, but I found out it was probably for a reason since most of the time I go back to games I usually just play them for 10 minutes and get bored.

The only two that you really need to finish on that list are Mass Effect and GTA IV.

Yeah, I have loads of unbeaten games.

I haven't completed 85% of all the games I've ever owned. 
 
I still haven't completed Pac Man and The Sims 1 yet. Damn games just keep going.

So am I, but the one game I still yet to finish is Clear Sky... The ending is impossible.

I rarely finish games either.

i'm on the same boat man. i have a lot of games that i haven't finished. i have a lot of them also and i plan on getting modern warfare 2. so far the newest games that i have bought were need for speed: shift, forza 3, borderlands and modern warfare 2. i've been trying to not spend so much money. 
 
my list of unfinished games

• cod: waw
• little big planet
• gran turosimo: pro league
• metal gear solid 4 
• gta 4
• banjo kazzoie: nuts and bolts
• bioshock
• mass effect
• kameo (idk if i'm going to finish)
  
• crysis
• orange box
• world of goo
• unreal tournament 3 (learned this game is crap on 360)
  

• Bioshock (great game overall)
• MGS4 (for the story even though I think its alil bit to watered down for the mainstream)
• COD:WAW (COD campaigns are always alot of fun)
• Orange Box ( simply one of the best bundles ever, I played half life 2, ep 1, and ep 2 and it was amazing^^)

I'm having that problem with Dead space right know but everything else, I beat once. I did that more though 5 years ago when I just play them a couple of times and never beat them because I sucked at every game I played around that time. 

I've played complete days- not 24 hours -, but that are the exception and not the rule.
 
About games left unfinished, the more pressing ones are:
 
- Jade Empire (i'm taking my time with it)
- Castlevania. Circle Of The Moon
- Assassin's Creed (though i'll get the new director's cut next week as i was playing with a copy from a friend of mine, so i'll hold off till then)
- Batman: Arkham Asylum
- Parasite Eve
 
But my complete list includes:
 
- Half Life 1 and Orange Box
- Persona 3 
- Persona 4
- Resident Evil 5
- Final Fantasy X
- Final Fantasy XII
- Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
- Fatal Frame 3
- Condemned: Criminal Origins  
- Parasite Eve 2
- Hotel Dusk: Room 215 
- Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria

I don't play also all that much, generally one hour two tops, so it's kind of hard finishing games also.

I have one idiotic friend who pre-orders games plays them for a week or so and then sells them