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[Neonivek]

I am just wondering who here has an issue with finishing games.

Specifically you will get far in the game... and right before the last few moments (or a bit before that) you just can't keep playing.

There is actually a large list of games I own where I actually played right up to the last boss, last dungeon, or last chapter and never won.

Edit: My brain turned on and realized many people might look at this topic thinking this is some sort of weird game... so I changed the title.

[Fikes]

I fall into this category. I fall into it so bad some times I force myself to finish games just to break the chain.

Notables on the list are Rainbow 6, Dishonored, Thief, several of the Command and conquers, Fallout 1 and 2, and Magicka. It isn't even a loss of interest most of the time... I am not sure what it is. Maybe it is that idea that once you beat it you don't have it to look forward to anymore?

[Neonivek]

Yeah... it is like as if you beat the game... it is just... over.

[NullForceOmega]

I have a similar problem with certain games, FF8 springs to mind immediately.  I spent hundreds of hours in-game, doing everything I could.  Then I hit the final boss, pushed through four stages of the final battle, got beat, quit and never came back.  4x games also, slog through the whole game, get my unstoppable fleet rolling, then just quit, because it's not worth the next n hours just to actually clean house.  For me it's sort of an 'I already proved I could get here and fight it out, I have no motive to continue.'  It doesn't happen to me with every game, but it kind of bothers me when I get there, and then don't have any interest in seeing it through to the end.

[Darkmere]

Yeah... it is like as if you beat the game... it is just... over.

I kinda get the idea, but in rebuttal I offer this article:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/04/21/135508305/the-sad-beautiful-fact-that-were-all-going-to-miss-almost-everything

The sheer volume of everything out there means there's something out there RIGHT NOW that you'd enjoy but you don't know about it yet. I propose that finding that new thing is a better use of time than worrying about finishing something you already enjoy. There's plenty, PLENTY more out there.

[Farce]

Yeah... it is like as if you beat the game... it is just... over.

I have a problem with this, yeah.  I'm specifically thinking of an anime, but it's kinda the same with games, too.

I know got to the last dungeon in Breath of Fire 4, but didn't finish it.  I think I had a 3rd party memory card, and it crapped out, so I lost my save.  That was really aggravating.

On a similar note, I wouldn't say I got near the end, but I've had to restart Final Fantasy Tactics probably nearly ten times due to save-file-loss problems and the like.  Never did finish it, though I got further and further every time.

[Hanzoku]

I tend to have this problem in strategy games, not so much RPGs. Generally speaking, in most strategy games, by the time you're in the end-game, you're such an overpowering presence that there's absolutely no challenge left. The only purpose of slogging through the last few hours is to autoplay battle after battle as your massed armies smash your increasingly disorganized and shrinking opponents to pieces, since the AI generally lacks the intelligence or the ability to just surrender to you.

Even in games like Shogun 2, by the time the great war rolls around, I control 60% of the map. It draws out the endgame, but there's no meaningful struggle remaining.

[Neonivek]

I think Hanzoku the exception is when the games use a single overpowering super unit...

Majesty 2 and Warcraft 3 I never EVER wanted to finish because it was just made of "not fun"

[Mech#4]

Sometimes. The last one I remember not completing though I made it a fair way through was "The Witcher 1" (Or maybe I got half way). I got tired with every decision being either bad, wrong or negative in some way. Not angry tired but rather frustrated, any-good-is-going-to-be-warped-to-bad tired.

I haven't finished the "Dragonborn" dlc for Skyrim because I like leaving the potential. I also haven't finished "Neverwinter Nights 2" but that's more because it gets rather buggy towards the end.

Ah, I believe I'm just before the last few boss fights in "Dragon Quest IX" and I haven't played that in a while. The difficulty ramps up in the last few moments meaning I'll probably have to do high level item crafting/hunting.

I am currently playing through "Age of Empires 1" because I've never finished all the missions. We'll see how far I get with that.

I've finished Warcraft III but I don't think without cheats. Some of the missions are fiddly or really difficult on the highest difficulty. That human mission where you have to hold out against undead attacks comes to mind.

[Vendayn]

Wait...are you saying games have an end?

I must be playing the wrong ones

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[Flying Carcass]

I've been trying to finish Final Fantasy 13 for a few years, but it's just such a slog. Every once in awhile I'll get it into my head that "I'm going to push through and finish FF 13 this weekend" and make some progress, but I'm completely disinterested in the characters and story so whenever I come to a boss I have a hard time beating I just put it away and forget the game for awhile. I'm close to the end (I've checked gamefaqs), but whenever I think about putting the disk back in I'm just "bleh".

[el Indio]

Metal Gear on the NES.  I got right up to the end and couldn't figure out how to get the giant robot, or whatever I was supposed to fight, to appear.  This will likely haunt me for the rest of my life.

[debvon]

I think it's common amongst people who've played a lot of games. My friend and I both have the same "issue". We play a lot of co-op games together but have only ever finished one or two, and when we're playing single player games we rarely finish them. Then again when there are so many games dividing your attention, and if you've got other things going on in your life that demand attention and time, who has time to finish any one game unless it's special?

[Darvi]

VIP, reporting for duty.

[sebcool]

I am horrible at not finishing games. Especially if they're open-world or 4x's. I end up spending a lot of time on it, forget about it for a time, and then when I finally remember to play it, I end up starting a new game.

The amount of open-world/4x games I've finished can be counted on one hand. (Fallout 3, Endless Legend, Civ 5, can't remember any more)

I think it's common amongst people who've played a lot of games. My friend and I both have the same "issue". We play a lot of co-op games together but have only ever finished one or two, and when we're playing single player games we rarely finish them. Then again when there are so many games dividing your attention, and if you've got other things going on in your life that demand attention and time, who has time to finish any one game unless it's special?

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