My track record for finishing games has had been pretty poor for the most part. I think a big reason for that was in the past I picked up and played a lot of RPG's and I would get to a certain point (usually around 35 hours) and then would get tired of playing. In rare cases, I even started over and played for an even longer time on my second time, and still quit. This happened with Xenoblade Chronicles X when I reached the 70 hour mark and stopped on my second time through. It seems I can't be a person who writes, "I'm at 100 hours now and I'm still going strong." That's just not me.
Which is fine. Instead, 2016 has been the 'Year of Shooters' for me, but not because of all the new releases. I've been in a money crunch situation this year, and because of this reality, I went diving into my backlog and started on a lot of shooters that I already owned. I wrote a few forum posts earlier this year about my decision to put a spending freeze on new/used games for close to 6 months and instead played Bioshock, Call of Duty 4, and Metro 2033. Those 3 games I did finish, and they are all awesome in their own way. I especially like the settings in each game, and how the settings add to the gameplay in different ways.
I bought 2 new games this year during the summer months: Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE and Monster Hunter Generations. I had a lot of fun with each title, but I didn't finish the story in Tokyo and MHG is not a game that I can keep playing for a long time. I wanted to when I started playing the games, but that didn't happen.
The conclusion that I've made is that I really enjoy shooters more now than I've had before. I've played 7 shooters recently and completed the campaigns in each: COD: Blops II, GOW3, MOH: Airborne, Dead Space, Stranglehold, Halo 3, and Red Dead Redemption. This basically means that when I start a new shooter, I try to finish the campaign, even if a level gives me a hard time 10-15 times in a row. I used to stop playing after a certain point, but now I plow through and want to see the story completed.
This answer is a tad long, but I wanted to answer the question by saying that I do feel compelled to finish every game I start, and the reason is because I found a genre that interests me and I want to keep playing different kinds of shooters. I don't mind playing first or third person, but the environments have to change in some way. After I played Dead Space, for example, I didn't want to play another space shooter right after. So I spread them out so I can enjoy the gunplay and the environments together, and that makes the experience pretty rad. Also, playing on a sound system that has dolby digital as an option really made Dead Space quite an amazing experience for me. I recommend playing games with dolby digital if you have the option.
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