At what age did you grew out of your habit of playing many games for like couple of hours or so and then never...

At what age did you grew out of your habit of playing many games for like couple of hours or so and then never finishing them because you just got a new game and you lacked the attention span and and dedication to finish what you started.
And no i am not talking about giving up on bad games.
But outright not finishing a nearly done game because you just got a new one.
My example is that i never finished the original Infinity engine games other than Ice wind dale and Torment or the No one lives forever games.

My age was 22 after i got my PS2.
At that time i developed a habit of finishing what i start even thou i still had the habit of downloading every new game and hording them all.
I even finished the above mentioned games in the last 2 years i am 31 now.

Let's be real tho even the best games can be a chore if you're not in the right mood or something. I've flipped through like a dozen 10/10 game of the year titles bored out of my mind and ended up going back to an older game anyway never looking back.

21 here, and I still rarely finish what I play.

But videogames are also far from my favourite hobby, so it's mostly because there are other things I'd rather do.

A lot of games hit a very boring and tedious mark after the mid point.

This is especially true of the mechanics of the game just don't hold up well enough, or if the narrative just isn't that engaging.

There's a lot of games I don't finish, but the ones I do are the ones I can rightfully claim to be great games, not just OK or Good.

I've tried to finish the games I start since I was a kid. I've even finished many games I didn't enjoy just to 'complete' them. If anything, I've grown out of this mindset. And now when I encounter a game that I don't like, I actually quit it.

>9 out of 10 will not finish the game
That statistic is misleading. But its also just Sturgeon's Law in a new context. 9 out of 10 games are bad.

OPhere

To be fair i made up a rule ware i don't start any new games unless i finish the one i am plaything.
Worst case scenario if i am bored of the game play and just want to see the rest of the story il watch the last 20-10% on YouTube.
This however only happens whit games that dont have the most amazing game play but a decent story.
Such as some JRPGs or Western Open world game.

if i like what i play, i finish it and dont play anything else inbetween

those nine out of 10 people must be either casual console-friend normies or people that barely play games

I finish games that deserve to be finished.

That said, I do complete most games I buy. Save for PC games.

>Nine Out of 10
Why wouldn't they say "9 out of 10" or "Nine out of Ten"

29 I hardly finish games anymore unless they draw me in. Even if I am really enjoying the game I sometimes drop it for no reason. Hell I even do this with tv shows too

I think there is a rule in the English language ware you cant wright sentences or titles starting whit numbers unless its written in words.

I do that because i got easily bored with most games nowadays. It's probably what happens after you play to many games, your brain grows tired. Or it's just depression.

OP here as i stated.
If you stop playing a game because you don't like it its not the same.
I am talking about the habit of not finishing a game you actually enjoy.
I think many younger people have or haw had this problem not just me when i was young.

I don't think that's a thing you grow out of.

I don't finish most of the games I play because they don't hold my interest the whole way through. Some games are just fun for a while but not enough to finish them.

There's nothing wrong with that.

It was the exact opposite.

I always finished every single game I ever touched, I spent hundreds of hours on each title.

Then I realized it was truly retarded: it's not a fucking job, they aren't paying you, you can only be rewarded with your own satisfaction.
And sure, 100%ing a game can be satisfying, but it can also be 80 extra hours of useless boring grinding to get that one piece of cloth and unlock that last fucking achievement.

Last year I got a new PC and a library of 60+ games. I started playing each one of them. I'm slowly completing some of them, I already finished around 15 of them while I dropped others that just weren't good enough for my time.
And still, I don't give a shit about achievements, I'm pirating everything.

Now actually finish games that I don't fully enjoy if someone is paying me to do it.
Which actually happens a lot

Had this problem when I was on a multiplayer game kick. But then I realized that all online games have terrible matchmaking and are full of botters and hacks. I finally finished my entire backlog and only recently filled it back up with the GOG__ sale.

Oh and a shitload of HoI4.

i make myself finish them to get my moneys worth. i think i might be not okay in the head. i play alot of videogames

I stop games I "like" it's just I like them initially, but then they get boring sometime after the midpoint. When you've pretty much experienced all the game's got to offer, and can predict the ending, thus lose all motivation to play.

This doesn't make them bad games, or means that I dislike them, but there's usually no point in finishing them sometimes.

The games I truly consider good are the games where I'm so into them because the mechanics or story are so good (it's typically the mechanics that gotta hold it up), that by the time I reach the end, it kinda sneaks up on you.

Deus Ex HR is a good example of a game that gave me that experience. I was so into the game cause the levels were fun, but also cause the mysteries and conspiracy theories were engaging, that by the time I hit the end, it made me wish there was more. That's good game design, and the games I finish usually follow that pattern. TWEWY, Ghost Trick, most Zeldas except SS, Metroid series, etc...

Most games though don't, and I usually just lose all motivation to continue after a certain point. Fire Emblem, a lot of RPGs, etc... I can see where that 9/10 figure comes from, because if I do the math, I'd say I finish about 1/10 games yeah.

I've forced myself to finish games some times, just to reach the end, only to be somewhat unsatisfied since I got what I predicted.

I'll play whatever I want to play the most. If a game can thrill me enough to finish it, good job devs. I've put 120 hours into Fallout 4 but haven't finished it yet. In a couple of months I'll get an itch to play and finish it

>At what age did you grew out of your habit of playing many games for like couple of hours
Actually when I was a a child and a teenager I finished pretty much everything I played because I had the time. Now I only have the time to finish a couple games a year so I finish the stuff that grabs me the most and leave most stuff unfinished.

What? I never done that when I was a kid, finished everything

Now I can barely play an hour of a game before getting bored with it. Only games I finished in years are the Dark Souls

the opposite actually
after i bought a decent pc i started pirating and buying cheap steam games which i never finished. that has made me grow tired of most games.

i was happily enjoying the 3-4 games i received every year for my console before that

now that i have money i buy most aaa on lunch just to play an hour and never to touch it again

Depends on the game.

I can't be assed to finish my Warband game. All I got left is Nords and they control a little under half the map. But I just start thinking about the sieges and lose all interest.

When I was a kid I used to finish every game I played and then spend 100 of hours more replaying it, discover every sectet and so on. Playing for hours at a time.

Nowadays I mostly beat a game and then leave it be, I rarerly rush through games either, mostly I just play a couple hours then do something else

ITT:Oldfags who don't have time for Vidya anymore.
Isn't time to leave Sup Forums?

>underage b8 detected

There's also a guideline to not mix numbers written out in letters and ones written in numerals on the same sentence.

uh I always tried to beat the games I owned, except for a handful that were kinda shit.

I have so many games now, and I'm actively trying to beat everything I own. It's to the point where I really don't want to start a game unless I know I'm going to finish it, so a lot of like NES games are getting sidelined because they're quite difficult and I don't like resorting to walkthroughs

You can't, you're here forever

Are you me?

I never finished Red Dead Redemption. It's not because it was bad, but my attention span in high school wasn't that great. I fell for the Call of Duty meme (which brought me hundreds upon hundreds of hours of fun with friends, so I don't regret it too much), and as I get older I find myself having less time to play but somehow find more time to shit post on Sup Forums, so when new games come out I drop my current one to try it out, rinse and repeat. I do plan on going back to RDR since I bought the GOTY edition. I just hate having a job and gf. I wish I could go back to middle school and high school days where I would have so much free time.

the problem I've been running into the last few years is so many games don't really have an end point

I'm still used to games that are either multiplayer or you can beat them in an afternoon unless it's a jrpg/crpg

I finish some games, but others I don't see a point to finishing because the real fun is just in goofing off. That said even I made myself 100% RDR 6 years ago before I could use cheats.
also
>22+16 years
>still on Sup Forums
user, I...

>habit of playing many games for like couple of hours or so and then never finishing them
I never had that habit. I do however have the habit of buying lots of games, shoving them all into my backlog and then play an old game for the gazillionth time.

24, I haven't finished a single game in years.

I can count on a single hand the number of games I've played to 100%

I've finished the story in the vast majority of the others though
I'm not in the habit of wasting money

You're pretty underage if you think this is a matter of attention span

Not sure, I usually complete most games I get because I don't get a new game often and I see it more as a treat than something I have an unlimited supply of. Hence why I've completed drivel like Aquaman and excellent games like Etrian Odyssey, I usually only have one or two at a time.

When I was young I played everything to completion
Now I rarely do
The only games I've finished in the past 6 years have been

Dark Souls
Dark Souls 2
Dark Souls 3
Salt And Sanctuary
Gauntlet
Summon Night Swordcraft Story
MGS V
GTA V
Super Mario 3D World
Castlevania Order of Ecclesia
Various RPG Maker games

If I like the game I always finish them, even when I was a kid. I have beat MANY games. I am 29.

Define what you mean by finish.

I go through retro games alot these days because I never played them but I never replay them or try to 100% them. I believe that stuff is only used to drag the game length out. Sure I missed painted world and ash lake but I didn't miss much. Same with Valkyrie profile and the true ending.

only game i didn't "finish" as a kid was that one of the dude throwing his head to attack things
dynamic head was called?
anyway since ps3 generation i stopped finishing every pile of shit game i touch
i finished RDR and i regret it . fuck listening to you guys

>Nine out of Ten

Are we including mobile/browser gamers?

This is true. Most games have 75 - 80% acquisition rate on their first trophy, and it drops drastically by the third mandatory story related trophy.

Because this is gaming 'journalists" we're talking about here. They were literally too stupid to get into a respectable field for writing, so here they are.

>have the feeling of "OH MAN I need to finish some of my backlog because I have no real achievements in my life"
>go back and finish games like AC: Brotherhood and FFXIII-2
>not even remotely worth finishing them, get fucking angry
Then there's games like Catherine or Pikmin 2 where I only played them a few times and then didn't get hooked enough so I dropped them for quite a while, then came back and got really into them and loved them. I even have games like Witcher 3 where I pick it up and play for another 20+ hours then drop it again, just because the gameplay is so dull I can only handle so much but it just keeps fucking going. At this point I'll finish it just because I like it enough to do so and I want to play the DLC, but you should never feel obligated to finish a shitty game just to clear it from your backlog.

Around 26.

I can't play a game for more than an hour, and ultimately, I never finish them. My backlog is pretty disgusting right now.

How the fuck can you miss painted world? Are you retarded?

I still try to finish as many games as I can, unless I'm just not enjoying it or it has a ton of requirements to "finish". I have a backlog that I try to keep plugging away at. I'll still go back and play multiplayer games with no ending or older games I've already beat to mix it up, but I'm generally always working towards completing one game or another.

I think a reason a lot of people don't is gaming has become so popular plenty of people play it just for the social experience or talking points. They get hyped up about Skyrim or The Witcher 3 and run out to get it just because, but don't actually have the time, dedication, or interest to finish.

Recently actually, at 25. Most notably Dark Souls 3, I got to the Illthyllylt or whatever the fuck dungeon and quit, I just wasnt feeling it. Bought Dark Cloud remaster on PS4 and got past the 2nd village and just stopped, got Last of Us remaster and didnt finish it either, I keep going back to older games instead of finishing the new ones I buy. I wonder how long I can play the recently bought EDF 4.1 for before dropping it too, games are just a passtime to me now, it just feels so unimportant.

when I was 23 I stopped finishing games
I simply don't have the time anymore, and I have other interests now too

Not that user but you have to go back to a previously beaten area by exploring firelink enough to find the nest, get an item that doesn't exist anywhere else or for any other purpose, then take it to another optional area and use it. Drop your elitist attitude, the souls games are ambiguous for a reason.

It's not just attention span; a lot of games these days are created for casual people who only play the first 5-10 hours so they become incredibly dull later on. Resources are poured heavily into the earlier content people are more likely to see, is what I'm saying. And a lot of games with systems that look really deep and engaging reveal themselves to be boring and shallow as fuck in the later parts of the game, this happens so often to me now I try to relish the "honeymoon" part of any big game where I'm still deluding myself into thinking the game is huge and amazing before reality sinks in.

It's so weird seeing this many casuals on Sup Forums

I finish every game I start playing

I'm 27 and I still beat all my games

Just finished bloodborne last night

I solod that faggot kos the orphan at level 74

Hardest boss in the game

Reminds me, I havent finished Old Hunters either. Got to the church behind Ludwig and quit, Ludwig felt like the best fight youll be getting out of the games, all I hear about Kos is how "unfair" the fight is so I just never really hankered to do it.

Ever since I was a child I complete almost every game, at least in my collection every game has been completed. If it shit, then that is my punishment for buying a shit game and next time I just have to be more careful. The idea of not finishing a game, book, film is atrocious to me, because it keeps haunting me until I complete it. Also in my childhood my family wasn't rich, so if I got a game, I had to play it and complete it before I asked for another one, or I would feel bad for the fact that my parents spent their money on a game and I didn't even finish it.

Only a couple of years ago. I used to do begin a lot of games and then leave them incomplete. Back in 2011 or so I'm pretty sure I had every single game in my Steam library installed.
I decided to apply some kind of system that pushes me towards completing what I've already started instead of starting new games. It's a stupid system that I won't explain here because it's tailored to me specifically, also I don't apply it strictly (that would make playing video games into a chore rather than a pleasure), but it works. I've been picking up games that I had last played even in 2013 and completing them.

Another thing that helped was dropping the autistically obsessive wanting to 100% everything. Sometimes you just gotta let it go, reach the end credits, forget about the extras you missed and uninstall the game right that moment.

No I just don't follow a guide like your casual ass.

I finish and (and try to) 100% every game I play.
I guess not being one of those retards who buy a new game every week helps with that.

I am 22 and I have really been trying to getting into a single player game, but I just keep on going back to either TF2, playing SMITE with my friend or playing Paladins. The closest I have gotten so far is getting to the final episode with Kai in 100% Orange Juice.

This. I end up buying tons of new games, but I still prefer replaying the same shit from ten years ago.

>I've flipped through like a dozen 10/10 game of the year titles bored out of my mind

To be fair most of those games are AAA overhyped trash.

and what is the source of their statistics?

even if you look from steam achis its closer to 50% than 10

This is just a side effect of maturing and developing more refined tastes. Most of the games on the market don't interest me at all; some games I buy but get bored of less than halfway through. That's just because I've learned to recognize more quickly what I personally enjoy and what bores me. But I still have my games that I can play for hours on end. There's fewer of them than when I was a kid but I'm able to go much more in depth when I do find one.

The Witcher 3 was the latest one for me.

I just horde games and never play anything. Saves time just not money. Working out OK so far!

>finished RDR and i regret it
why? other than the shitty hunting challenges I loved completing that game.

Since I grew up and don't have a lot of free time as I had when younger.

This and the number of games avaliable for me to play now. Also, I don't feel that need to play games anymore, I don't know why. The last two games that revived that urge to play was Dark Souls and Dead Space. (Played both this year)

I never read up on it since I stumbled into having a ps4 but I do recall seeing people bitch about Ludwig

The whole dlc was really short

I spent more time fighting kos than the rest combined but I also think i was very under leveled

After that I killed the last two bosses in the game who are a cakewalk compared to kos

Uh, never did that?

The only games I didn't finish as a child were either too hard NES era or too shit for me to care.

>grew out of
>implying
I grew into it

Most games just lose my interest after like 10 hours

I play a game until I stop having fun, however long that may be.

I have a savefile from Persona 4 kicking around that if I remember correctly is at something around 100 hours and, to my knowledge, pretty close to the end of the game, but I have no intention of ever going back and finishing it because I lost interest and moved on.

Life's short and I'm not going to waste my time doing something I'm not enjoying or in some way benefiting from.

I beat damn near every game I start.

Always have and hopefully always will.

it was GTA with a fucking horse
>listen to this stupid woman who need no man
thats all i fucking remember from the game
then the ending i was supposed to care about?
i liked that song when entering that other continent . thats all i liked from the game , i was a chore after a chore

26 here. I've made it a point to finish games I buy now. The only one I have left on the shelf is Mario DS after buying it second hand. The controls were just too clunky. The rest of my small library I've done so.

It makes sense though as most people now struggle to maintain their attention on anything for a long period thanks to media and tech making things effortless. So young people are no longer used to things which require a certain amount of time and effort and just drop it.

Christ, this thread proves just how many casuals there really are on Sup Forums. You don't just stop reading a fucking book half way through, because that's not a book, and if you stop halfway through a game you haven't actually played the game.

I think I just liked the gunplay and gambling enough to keep me interested. That song was good though.

Leaving things unfinished is what weak and non-committal people do. This goes for all facets of life and it reflects in everything. People I know who start a lot of games and don't finish them are generally lazy people who complain about not getting anywhere in life.

dont worry kid, when you grow up you'll learn to say no and walk away when you like dont like something

I never realized I could tell if someone was black by how they wrote until now.

I agree, RDR was good but I'm always baffled by the reception it got. Every character except for maybe Bonnie and Ricketts was an insufferable cunt, and you spend 75% of the game bending over backwards for faggots like Seth and Dickens even though John is supposed to be some badass who won't hesitate to kill if you get in between him and his family. Then you had shit like the random events being the same four things just scattered throughout the wilderness.

I usually don't play games that you 'finish', but if i do it depends on how much the game captures me. Sometimes games slog on and I'll start playing something more fun instead, but most of the time i finish the story in games i play.

>Nine out 10
Why is it written like this?

Its literally the opposite for me. I grow tired of games and fail to complete them more often now than I did when I was younger. Games are just not as good as they used to be.

I guess around late middle school. Although in my defense, I didn't finish Sly Cooper because my big brother yanked my controller and end up playing it by himself

Or perhaps I simply value games, and would rather actually have experienced a few of them, as opposed to briefly brushing up against them as a time killer.

That's how you write numeric in a formal articles though. If it hits 2 digits, you use numbers

Isn't it after 12 that you usually write numbers with numbers tho? 'Nine out of ten' would have worked perfectly fine here.

>Nine out of 10
>not 9 out of 10 or nine out of ten

user, games are for entertainment, the moment you stop being entertained its not doing its job, its finished. Its nothing like reading a book or watching a movie, its like eating a meal or having a drink. When youve had enough you you dont keep eating because its infront of you, you push it asid and move on, otherwise you start to dislike the taste of what you were once enjoying because now you are forcing yourself to just get it in you because its presented to you, not because you want it.

Videogames are not like books or movies, they are made to be picked up and put down at any point, movies and books are not, its necassary to get their entertainment in one sitting or within an allotted time, you can drop a game today and pick it up a year later and it will still be entertaining from where you left of if its a good game.

I never finished any game

Its funny because I know alot of normies who have well paying jobs and play games for like an hour and never complete them. Youre talking shite user.

And that view point is why you're a casual.

i bet 10 tracks really well in metrics

The older I get, the less patience I have for mediocre games and I usually have something better to do with my time than finishing a game I'm not enjoying.

By that logic people would write 1000000 instead of million. up until 21 it is preferably to write them and after that just use numbers. Except hundred, thousand, etc.At the end of the day consistency is the key.

What are you doing to get paid for finishing games? Streams? QA tester?

>i dont like this movie/book/game/zone/party/company
>i'm going to do something i dont like for X amount of time
sounds like you dont value your time jack shit

In my experience that's something you grow into rather than out of. When I was a kid I'd get maybe one new game a month, so had nothing better to do than beat it, and largey enjoyed anything because I didn't have as much to judge it against. Now I'm an adult and can get a dozen games a fortnight so if something fails to engage me within the first couple hours I'll stick it on my backlog and try something else