Why Can't I Finish A Game? Part Deux

In some previous blog light years before this one...or maybe it was a forum post...I mentioned that I'm terrible at beating games.  It's not that I CAN'T beat them.  It's that I get sidetracked far too easily.  With League of Legends coming into my life and filling that post-WoW-addiction void, it seemed like there wouldn't be much console time for me.  Of course, I'm on my third playthrough of Dead Space 2 now (Zealot, going for Hardcore after that)...and I also had no problem playing through the entirety of Enslaved once.  It makes me think "what are all these other games doing wrong?"  For those interested, here's a list of the games in my drawer right now that I have yet to actually beat: 

• Halo: Reach
• Call of Duty: Black Ops
• Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
• Fallout New Vegas
• Final Fantasy XIII
• Singularity
• Crackdown 2
• Dirt 2
• Split/Second
• Just Cause 2
• Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
• Metro 2033
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II

1. Cut it out with the fucking long burn start-offs!!!  Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow are the two biggest troublemakers in this category, as the beginnings of the game seem like they take FOR-EH-VER to get going.  By the time they do, I'm already a bit bored with the mechanics at hand and just want the single player to finally be over.
2. Quit having such compelling and excellent goddamn multiplayer modes!!!  Did you know that it's actually not difficult to find multiplayer matches Singularity?  Yes, you read that right:  SINGULARITY!  The majority of these games all have multiplayer components, and those multiplayer components are kinda fucking awesome.  If you keep making these incredibly deep multiplayer experience where I feel like a thoroughbred badass, how the fuck am I EVER going to finish the single player?
3. Make your games a bit less convoluted and a lot more interesting!!!  Crackdown 2 has been in my 360, but it was nowhere near as gripping as the original Crackdown for me, and Metro 2033 just isn't grabbing me like I had hoped it would.  Hell, Just Cause 2 is a game where I just wanna blow shit up, not go through some dumb fucking story.  Seriously, make things a bit simpler in terms of story and scope, and I might be more interested.
4. Make a better game!!!  Force Unleashed II, you are so short...and yet I cannot even be bothered to finish you.  Seriously, what a fucking disappointment.
5. You're a fucking RPG!!!  Final Fantasy XIII, Fallout New Vegas...just...goddamn, there's too much shit to even THINK about doing.

In some previous blog light years before this one...or maybe it was a forum post...I mentioned that I'm terrible at beating games.  It's not that I CAN'T beat them.  It's that I get sidetracked far too easily.  With League of Legends coming into my life and filling that post-WoW-addiction void, it seemed like there wouldn't be much console time for me.  Of course, I'm on my third playthrough of Dead Space 2 now (Zealot, going for Hardcore after that)...and I also had no problem playing through the entirety of Enslaved once.  It makes me think "what are all these other games doing wrong?"  For those interested, here's a list of the games in my drawer right now that I have yet to actually beat: 

• Halo: Reach
• Call of Duty: Black Ops
• Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
• Fallout New Vegas
• Final Fantasy XIII
• Singularity
• Crackdown 2
• Dirt 2
• Split/Second
• Just Cause 2
• Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
• Metro 2033
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II

1. Cut it out with the fucking long burn start-offs!!!  Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow are the two biggest troublemakers in this category, as the beginnings of the game seem like they take FOR-EH-VER to get going.  By the time they do, I'm already a bit bored with the mechanics at hand and just want the single player to finally be over.
2. Quit having such compelling and excellent goddamn multiplayer modes!!!  Did you know that it's actually not difficult to find multiplayer matches Singularity?  Yes, you read that right:  SINGULARITY!  The majority of these games all have multiplayer components, and those multiplayer components are kinda fucking awesome.  If you keep making these incredibly deep multiplayer experience where I feel like a thoroughbred badass, how the fuck am I EVER going to finish the single player?
3. Make your games a bit less convoluted and a lot more interesting!!!  Crackdown 2 has been in my 360, but it was nowhere near as gripping as the original Crackdown for me, and Metro 2033 just isn't grabbing me like I had hoped it would.  Hell, Just Cause 2 is a game where I just wanna blow shit up, not go through some dumb fucking story.  Seriously, make things a bit simpler in terms of story and scope, and I might be more interested.
4. Make a better game!!!  Force Unleashed II, you are so short...and yet I cannot even be bothered to finish you.  Seriously, what a fucking disappointment.
5. You're a fucking RPG!!!  Final Fantasy XIII, Fallout New Vegas...just...goddamn, there's too much shit to even THINK about doing.

I completely agree with #1. Games nowadays just take too long to get going. Mostly because of tutorials, which should be an option. 

1. Cut it out with the fucking long burn start-offs!!!  Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow are the two biggest troublemakers in this category, as the beginnings of the game seem like they take FOR-EH-VER to get going.  By the time they do, I'm already a bit bored with the mechanics at hand and just want the single player to finally be over

 
 

Can't agree more with #1. AC2 and AC:B both felt like it took hours upon hours just to get going and for the game to stop holding my hand. Which is something I really appreciate in Dead Space 2-it's maybe two minutes before you're let loose and you just go, and maybe ten minutes after that pretty much all tutorial and equipment-introductions are done. It was very refreshing.

I have problems when finishing games when it comes to Bosses. I'm still on the final boss in Batman: Arkham Asylum and Darksiders. I keep thinking, what's the payoff? I don't like end bosses very much. Some end bosses are easier for me than others, but some are hard fought. 
 
I can do this. I can do it.

Make a better game!!!

" I have problems when finishing games when it comes to Bosses. I'm still on the final boss in Batman: Arkham Asylum and Darksiders. I keep thinking, what's the payoff? I don't like end bosses very much. Some end bosses are easier for me than others, but some are hard fought.   I can do this. I can do it. "

i have many games in my back-log. InFamous, God of War 1, 2, Plants vs Zombies, a bunch of PSN games, etc.
I also agree with #1.

The only ones you really should beat are  Singularity  and AC:brotherhood.
The rest rest are pretty unfulfilling actually.

I am bad about this, too. In fact, I have Castlevania from GameFly and haven't played it since October! My worst habit is starting a game, not playing for long time, and then starting it over. I've done this twice now with Final Fantasy XII, and I might be doing it with Final Fantasy XIII. There are just so many games! I want to play the new releases when they come out, but it just creates a larger backlog of unfinished games. I think I will make a list of games I've started that I need to beat before getting into anything else.  
 
Edit: Buuuut I need to play Bulletstorm and Killzone 3 when they come out! Hopefully I can beat a few games by the time they're released later this month...

" I am bad about this, too. In fact, I have Castlevania from GameFly and haven't played it since October! My worst habit is starting a game, not playing for long time, and then starting it over. I've done this twice now with Final Fantasy XII, and I might be doing it with Final Fantasy XIII. There are just so many games! I want to play the new releases when they come out, but it just creates a larger backlog of unfinished games. I think I will make a list of games I've started that I need to beat before getting into anything else.  "

Steam says I've spent 19 hours in Just Cause, but I've only completed like 3-4 story missions.  Random mayhem is more fun.

I don't have a problem with the beginning of most of my games, it's the middle where I start to lose interest. Red Dead Redemption and Limbo especially. 
 
Also, ACB's multiplayer is way too awesome for it's own good.

An easy solution is to get less money...I mean damn you bought hella games recently. Wish I could afford to. Being able to only afford 1 game every 2-3 months or so means that you can only pick the best games and stick with them no matter what. It's not a suffering thing; if you don't have options I find it's much easier to finish a game.

I like that you not only use exclamation points once, but THRICE! It clearly depicted your rage in a way that one exclamation point never could. 
 
As for myself, I don't buy games very often, so I play and beat them all. Slowly and surely at times, but it happens eventually.

The AC games do take way too long to get going, especially in the sequels. There should be more skipable tutorials in games.

The moment you start making yourself finish a game, that's when they're no longer fun. Games aren't supposed to be a chore.

They don't entertain you up to the finish because you don't find these games particularly appealing. That's ALL . 

i have a crapload of games that i never got to beat. i still haven't beaten the first assassins creed. it just stays on my shelf for no reason. there are other games that i haven't beat.

" I completely agree with #1. Games nowadays just take too long to get going. Mostly because of tutorials, which should be an option.  "

Man, I don't know, maybe buy fewer games, and only buy good ones.  There's some garbage on that list for sure.  Trade them in and get 1 or 2 good games that are worth your time.  You don't have to play everything that comes out.  Pick out games that have something special in them or that have a setting or story or game mode that really appeals to you.  I guess in general just play less crap.

1. Cut it out with the fucking long burn start-offs!!!  Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow are the two biggest troublemakers in this category, as the beginnings of the game seem like they take FOR-EH-VER to get going.  By the time they do, I'm already a bit bored with the mechanics at hand and just want the single player to finally be over.

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1. Cut it out with the fucking long burn start-offs!!!  Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow are the two biggest troublemakers in this category, as the beginnings of the game seem like they take FOR-EH-VER to get going.  By the time they do, I'm already a bit bored with the mechanics at hand and just want the single player to finally be over

 
 

 This. This. Fucking this. "

" i have a crapload of games that i never got to beat. i still haven't beaten the first assassins creed. it just stays on my shelf for no reason. there are other games that i haven't beat. "

I have never completed a Rockstar game, ever. In these games in particular there is always an annoying repetitive factor that bores me too much to make me want to see the end credits.

I can't bring myself to put back in Dead Space 2 and beat it. 
 
So there's that...

" @Bananstativ: I've beaten Red Dead Redemption, Red Dead Revolver, and the first three GTA games.  Beyond that, I don't really have any ambition to beat the others. "

" @jakob187 said:

" @Bananstativ: I've beaten Red Dead Redemption, Red Dead Revolver, and the first three GTA games.  Beyond that, I don't really have any ambition to beat the others. "

When you say first three, do you mean 1, 2 and 3? or 3, Vice City, SA? If you really beat 1 and 2 and not the others, I'd be prepared to call you crazy. "

Well I have a similar problem as of late but at least games aren't putting you to sleep. Like me. 
 
I use Gamefly for games that are considered mediocre or buy old games cheap. Anyway, both Epic Mickey and Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions literally put me to sleep. I would play an hour and then get sleepy. So I'd have to take a nap. I guess my point is, I really hate boring repetitive games. 

" @JJWeatherman said:

" @jakob187 said:

" @Bananstativ: I've beaten Red Dead Redemption, Red Dead Revolver, and the first three GTA games.  Beyond that, I don't really have any ambition to beat the others. "

When you say first three, do you mean 1, 2 and 3? or 3, Vice City, SA? If you really beat 1 and 2 and not the others, I'd be prepared to call you crazy. "

I mean the first three GTA games.  I hated Vice City with a passion and never wanted to finish it, San Andreas just had too much of an open world that I got lost in and never got around to actually beating it, and my love for GTA IV quickly wore off the more that I realized how clunky and shitty that game really is.  "