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  • jmarcguy
    MVP
    • Dec 2009
    • 1322

    #136
    Re: I have a confession to make: I don't finish games..

    I know this is blasphemy but I didn't finish more than 20% of GTA IV. Beautiful game but the camera made me nauseous. I can't deal with any game where the camera moves around a lot. Obviously, first person games are out. Now that I think of it, I didn't finish 3 for the same reason. Just got too sick. Lol!!


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    • mestevo
      Gooney Goo Goo
      • Apr 2010
      • 19556

      #137
      Re: I have a confession to make: I don't finish games..

      I didn't even get to the third main guy in GTA 5.

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      • timmg
        MVP
        • Jun 2003
        • 1384

        #138
        Re: I have a confession to make: I don't finish games..

        Hell i hv ps3/xbox 360 games that i haven't finish, but games dont have a expiration date on them, they dont spoil....maybe one day(prolly not) ill tackle my backlog

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        • Caulfield
          Hall Of Fame
          • Apr 2011
          • 10986

          #139
          Re: I have a confession to make: I don't finish games..

          I have a confession to make: sometimes I buy a game and then never play it.
          bioshock 2, tomb raider underworld, red dead redemption et al, I promise I will get around to you. eventually.
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          • countryboy
            Growing pains
            • Sep 2003
            • 52847

            #140
            Re: I have a confession to make: I don't finish games..

            Originally posted by Caulfield
            I have a confession to make: sometimes I buy a game and then never play it.

            bioshock 2, tomb raider underworld, red dead redemption et al, I promise I will get around to you. eventually.

            Welcome to the club lol

            I guarantee you I have at least 20 games still in the shrink wrap.


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            • sportdan30
              MVP
              • Feb 2003
              • 2012

              #141
              Re: I have a confession to make: I don't finish games..

              Just read through this entire thread. I've decided I'm going to focus on completing one game at a time, with a mix of play now sports and racing games mixed in.

              I found the following website (howlongtobeat.com) when I was looking up how long does it take to beat Horizon Zero Dawn. I think I'll use this as a guide the next time I consider purchasing a game. If the game is over 25 hours long, I'll skip it (the lone exception being RDR 2). As an example, I thought very seriously of buying AC Origins, but I know for a fact I'll never finish it. Even at a discounted price of $30.
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              • ckarlic
                So Real!!
                • May 2003
                • 4999

                #142
                I have a confession to make: I don't finish games..

                I found the key for me to reduce my backlog is to not play all the sports games. The only sports game I bought this year was the show. I’ll buy the show next year again but I found that I have a lot more time to enjoy other great games I own by skipping on sports games.


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                • Smallville102001
                  All Star
                  • Mar 2015
                  • 6542

                  #143
                  Re: I have a confession to make: I don't finish games..

                  Originally posted by ckarlic
                  I found the key for me to reduce my backlog is to not play all the sports games. The only sports game I bought this year was the show. I’ll buy the show next year again but I found that I have a lot more time to enjoy other great games I own by skipping on sports games.


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                  That is part of why I don't play sports games like I used to and well also sports games have gotten worse. But yeah sports games take up so much time. My biggest problem is that I am a sports nut so a lot of my free time is just trying to catch up on sports I had to record and being 28 with a job I cant stand and going to collage I don't have a lot of free time between work, school and home work in the first place.

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                  • DJ
                    Hall Of Fame
                    • Apr 2003
                    • 17756

                    #144
                    Re: I have a confession to make: I don't finish games..

                    Some 15 months later, I finally finished Tomb Raider. I really enjoyed the game (played the definitive version on PS4) and am excited about diving into Rise of the Tomb Raider, which I just picked up for $20. Hoping to finish that one before 2019.

                    With a little over a month to go, I'm feeling pretty good about the games I've finished in 2017:

                    -The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild (main story, close to 100 shrines and 50 side quests)
                    -Mario + Rabbids
                    -Tomb Raider
                    -Lego City Undercover
                    -Uncharted 4

                    Hoping to complete Super Mario Odyssey and Horizon Zero Dawn by the end of the year.
                    Currently Playing:
                    MLB The Show 25 (PS5)

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                    • RockinDaMike
                      All Star
                      • Feb 2003
                      • 9092

                      #145
                      Re: I have a confession to make: I don't finish games..

                      I think you’ll love ROTTR . I actually went through it 3 times and haven’t done that since GTA 5. Gorgeous game too


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                      • countryboy
                        Growing pains
                        • Sep 2003
                        • 52847

                        #146
                        Re: I have a confession to make: I don't finish games..

                        Going to try and finish COD WWII this week.

                        Then work on finishing South Park Fractured But Whole.

                        After that, not sure what I will move into. So many games still needing completion.

                        I thought that I would do better at finishing games as I've stopped buying sports games outside of MLB The Show, but so far it hasn't worked as I thought...
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                        • 8iron
                          Rookie
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 314

                          #147
                          Re: I have a confession to make: I don't finish games..

                          The last game I finished was Firewatch. Before that was...I don’t know. Battlefield 3 campaign? I often don’t even finish a Civ game.

                          This past fall I bought NHL and NBA Live, F1, Destiny 2 and COD and I got Fallout 4 for Christmas. Oh and the Steam sales always lure me in. So my recent backlog is huge never mind full backlog (Diablo 3, zero dawn...it goes on).

                          I would like to finish the Destiny 2 story mode, I am paused at the same spot with all three classes. And I’m hoping that Fallout 4 has the kind of elaborate side quests that Skyrim had where if I finish a couple it feels like finishing a less involved full game. But Monster Hunter World looks intriguing. I may trade in COD for that...


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                          • bry422
                            Rookie
                            • Oct 2008
                            • 133

                            #148
                            Re: I have a confession to make: I don't finish games..

                            My problem is starting games I know I'm not going to see the end of... Witcher 3 and others like it.

                            Yeah, I'd love to try AC Origins, for example, but it's just not going to happen. I have to get more selective because open-world/side quest games just don't work for me. I really wish I had the time, but I don't. Maybe in another life where I was 16 right now and not 43, and I could come home from school each day and put 3-4 hours in every day/night.

                            My sweet spot is the "10-15 hour single-player campaign" games. As someone mentioned earlier, I started using the site "HowLongToBeat" to determine just how long it will take for me to finish a game. 75 hours? No, I'll have to pass.

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                            • pietasterp
                              All Star
                              • Feb 2004
                              • 6248

                              #149
                              Re: I have a confession to make: I don't finish games..

                              Originally posted by bry422
                              My sweet spot is the "10-15 hour single-player campaign" games. As someone mentioned earlier, I started using the site "HowLongToBeat" to determine just how long it will take for me to finish a game. 75 hours? No, I'll have to pass.
                              You took this thought straight out of my brain. I also have recently started looking at that site (and using the outside/longest number) to figure out whether it was worth starting certain games or not.

                              I have also come to appreciate the shorter single player campaigns. They used to seem flimsy to me (when I had more time to sit around playing f'n games all evening), but now that I have more limited time, I have to say I appreciate a tight, exciting, action-packed 15 hours rather than a flabby, fetch-quest-filled 50 hour grind.

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                              • RockinDaMike
                                All Star
                                • Feb 2003
                                • 9092

                                #150
                                Re: I have a confession to make: I don't finish games..

                                Yeah i agree, those long hour games are just not fitting with me anymore.

                                I finished Sleeping Dogs, CoD WW2, Injustice 2 story and those pretty short. Sleeping Dogs took awhile but I loved that game.

                                Witcher 3 is great but i got a bit overwhelmed with it and haven't gotten back to it.
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