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[Parsely]

I've played nearly every Final Fantasy game and I've only ever finished FF1.

[nenjin]

This is pretty much me of the past and now.

I think it started because as a kid, I often watched my brother playing games instead of playing them myself. So when I'd go back to play all these games personally, I'd get halfway through, realize I'd seen it all already and give up.

Later on, I think it's related to a sort of melancholy. I got real sad when I finally finished reading the LotR (the fairly depressing ending doesn't help!), and since then it's seemed to be a trend. The stronger I like something the less willing I am to take it to its conclusion.

Otherwise, most games I play generally can't keep my interest all the way until the end. They got into plot or storymode and start to become unfun.

[Levi]

I'm good at finishing games.  I'm at work, so I can't check at the moment, but I know I've finished at least 40 games this year.

If you use steam, I find its handy to organize things with categories like this:

Queue    <--- Things you haven't finished.
Finished  <--- Things you have finished (You can also keep track by year by making a Finished2014, Finished2015, etc categories.
Terrible   <-- Things you didn't finish, but have no desire to keep playing.

Then you start getting the itch to fill up your finished categories. 

I can rationalize buying so many games during the steam sales by just looking at how many games I have finished now.  I figure if my finished category is bigger than my queue, I'm still okay.   

[coolio678]

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?

Magicka is the only game that I have completed recently, and that's only because I was playing with some other people. I find that sandbox games in particular keep me from finishing. In Skyrim, what's the point of questing if I'm not gearing up to defeat Alduin. In Just Cause 2, why do I need to keep blowing crap up if I'm not trying to cause enough mayhem to unlock the next mission?
Actually, thinking on it some more, I have completed one sandbox game, and that was Saints Row 3. The open world isn't horribly exciting, so the missions are the best things going for it. I even decided to create a new character and replay the story, which I'm nearly done with again.

[Graknorke]

Antichamber is this for me.
I got to a point and just kind of gave up on trying to solve the puzzles any more. Sometimes I'll open it up and have a poke around where my routes end but ultimately I've completely lost the mental momentum to solve those puzzles.

[Rez]

I have this problem quite frequently.  I think it's a combination of fluff slowing down and crunch becoming stable or predictable.  In other words, I tend to drop games when the story slows down and/or when I've gotten decent at it.  I've definitely started and 'won' more RTS comp-stomps than I've finished.  I need to set a goal and finish all the classic RPG's I've played half-through multiple times.  I'm not sure I've finished Chrono Trigger or Seiken Densetsu 3, yet.

The last game I finished was DS2.  It stayed difficult, even if half most all of the difficulty at the end game was Aldia and Vendrick loloneshotting me.  It's a shame From is so incompetent at post release patching.  I digress.

Lots of the games I have in my library don't really have 'finished' conditions. 

[Lyeos]

Whoo boy, yes.

Much as I hail it as my favorite game of all time, I never finished Tales of Phantasia because I lost my save after about 70+ hours of work. Don't feel like trudging through the dungeons and doing all the side quests again.

Cartridge on FFV got corrupted in the final dungeon.

Never felt motivated enough to finish New Vegas or Fallout 2.

Gave up on Metro 2033 because fuck those Amoebas!

Got bored with slogging through Disgaea.

Old computer could never handle Spore past the creature stage.

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.

This pretty much sums up ever strategy game I've ever played. Ever.

[Rez]

In Skyrim, what's the point of questing if I'm not gearing up to defeat Alduin. In Just Cause 2, why do I need to keep blowing crap up if I'm not trying to cause enough mayhem to unlock the next mission?

Well, in Oblivion, you did the side-quests, because they were way more interesting than the main one.  Every time I played Oblivion, I finished the Thieves Guild quest... never got further than meeting Martin at the Blades Fortress.

In Just Cause 2, BECAUSE EXPLOSIONS ARE COOL!  And that's not snarky, that's just the sort of game JC2 is.  That's more obvious if you played JC.

[TripJack]

never had this problem, if a game is shit ill usually quit long before getting close to the end and if a game is quality of course im going to finish it

[Parsely]

I finished JC2 main campaign and made it to about 85% total game completion just running around blowing everything up.

[Neyvn]

Final Fantasy... Every Final Fantasy ever except Nine. I have never finished one, always getting close enough to that of the last boss or so...
I can't help but stop. With FFIX I finished it then never could play it again...

[Delta Foxtrot]

I too stop playing too often at some point between halfway through and the end. It's just... I don't even know. Maybe I have too many games? I've got a huge backlog, there's always something new, shiny and interesting when I'm getting just a little too used to whatever I'm playing currently. When I was younger I had a lot less games, it was easy to keep playing whatever I had available at the time. But now? It's just so easy to pick up something else that looks interesting when you're even a little bit bored.

I'm trying to fix this. I've been somewhat able at mentally "blocking" some of my games. I force myself to either finish or abandon games, rather than just leave them hanging. Then I can move on. I just finished Arkham Asylum, so I guess it's working. Now I just need to go back to Half-Life 2 I enjoyed up until few weeks ago. Then there's... And after that...

Too much good stuff

[itisnotlogical]

I never finished Deus Ex because it's just too bloody long. I got about 3/4 through, lost my save file, and realized how much work I'd have to do just to get back to that point. I get tempted to play but I don't even want to finish the first level because I've seen it so many times with every combination of endings.

I never beat Warcraft 3 because the last mission is hard as balls. I'm no good at "survive until X minutes have passed" type missions. I beat the hell out of The Frozen Throne though, I loved that expansion.

I never finished Diablo because I was about to finish it, when I quicksaved in the middle of a bad situation. No portals, no potions, cornered by a ton of high-level demons, when I muscle-memory'd the quicksave key. I got close enough for my satisfaction, I don't feel like doing it over again just for the final battles and ending cutscene.

I never finished Diablo II because it's just a bloody boring slog, and around the 3rd area I realize that I've done something horribly wrong while building my character and made myself way too weak to make it through.

I never finished Conflict Vietnam because it's terrible, and also there's a mission I'm pretty sure is bugged. No matter how many times or where you shoot a certain tank with the LAW, it will never die.

I never finished either of the original Fallouts because I have a bad habit of ragequitting, then forgetting what I was doing when I ragequit and having to start over again.

There's also a ton of games that I finished only once and haven't touched in several years; typically these are Final Fantasy or strategy games.

[starscream]

i don't play a game to the point of finishing, then stop.  if i got that far, i generally like the game enough to finish it.
but there is a large number of games that i play about half way and lose interest.  it usually happens when playing the game becomes more of a chore than fun.  then i just go on youtube to see someone play the ending just so i can get closure and finally uninstall it.

[Levi]

i don't play a game to the point of finishing, then stop.  if i got that far, i generally like the game enough to finish it.
but there is a large number of games that i play about half way and lose interest.  it usually happens when playing the game becomes more of a chore than fun.  then i just go on youtube to see someone play the ending just so i can get closure and finally uninstall it.

Heh, I've done that too.  Or when there is a game breaking bug at the end, youtube to the rescue.