Tuesday

Do you actually “finish” games?

Filed under Consoles, Gaming in general, PC

I tend to start games, and never “finish” them. I put that in quotes because the term may mean different things in different circumstances but I’m basically talking about completing the main point of any given game.  Maybe it’s the main storyline in Call of Duty 4, or playing through all the available campaign levels as in the Xbox360’s Rocket Riot. You know, that sort of finish. Sure there may be more game to play, but you can say you’ve finished when you’ve at least accomplished the main core of whatever the game is all about. Take GTA4 for instance. Yes I still play, yes there is a ton of things left to do as far as running around causing mayhem and yes there are even expansion packs and whatnot available. All that said, I consider it “finished” in the sense that I completed the main storyline (with Niko) that shipped with the original game. I “finished” GTA4. I’m awesome like that.

Despite said awesomeness, and as mentioned above this “finishing” thing is rather rare with me. If I like a game at the beginning I’ll have every intent on properly getting through it. I figure I’ll play it at every opportunity and wrap that sucker up in no time, but then as time goes on my interest level lags and the next thing I know it’s just taking up space on the hard drive or in the Xbox360 stack o’ games (now you understand where this blog name/idea came from).

The typical cycle is as follows: Continue…