I beat a game like once every two years. Finishing games is for chumps

Me too, I usually do not fini

I tend to pick games with a narrative (RPGs and action-adventures) and because of that I've more motivation to actually finish them. I hate it when I find a good game, then lose somewhat interest or get distracted and then I had the break for too long I might as well restart once I get motivation to begin again. This happened recently, I began playing Arx Fatalis at the end of the summer then I stopped in september I think and I didn't play any until in january when I was thinking about it but I gave up. It really pisses me off, now I'm going to wait at least a year or two and then replay and that time I'll avoid this situation. That said, I finish games I don't particarly enjoy too. Just yesterday I finished Butcher Bay and to be honest, except for the few good stealth situations and some conversations the game bored me to death.

Bottom line, I play too many games and I really should hold a higher standard of what I choose to play.. :(

I'm actually not very good at games, so often times i'll get to a hard part, and that'll be that. gotta move on.

This is one reason I gravitate adventure games. Usually they are a bit more self-contained compared to more open-ended games like RPGs. I mean I love all sorts of games, but I think it's easier for me to commit to finishing when I know the game won't take me 30-40 hours (or longer!).

If the enjoyment for you isn't in the completion, then who cares. Take what you enjoy, and call it done.

Some people are completionists, and want that closure. Some aren't.

Same here. I've finished a lot more games as an adult.. But still, my completion rate is better when a lot younger. Then games cost like awful lot and I didn't have money. So if I had like 2 games in 5 years. I was bound to finish them. =)

I usually finish games if I don't hate them and I will probably hate some of those many many games which has been bought in sales. But I try to pick good ones. ^^

Lot's of games where I play an hour and then never end up playing it again. Often it's not even that I hate it, it's just that other things come up, and I bought it in a sale for $5, so it's hardly the end of the world if I don't get much use out of it, maybe I'll come back to it, or maybe I won't ... on the other hand, what some people are describing in this thread, where they play hour upon hour of a game and then drop it, is extremely rare for me. The last time it happened was, oh ... over a year ago, anyway, with some crappy Xbox 360 JRPG, can't think of its name.

(Aside from the one JRPG I just mentioned, when it does happen, it's basically always with adventure games; I hate using walkthoughs, because the puzzles are the game, if you're looking up the solutions then what. exactly, are you contributing? But I also hate spending hours bashing my head against the crappy puzzle design that's endemic to the genre. So I'll often get to a point where I'd either have to cheat or spend hours using every stupid item in my inventory on every damn item on the screen, and I'm like, "To hell with this." But I've just started avoiding the genre entirely, now.)

This isn't a principle, though. That is to say, even though I almost never abandon a game near the end, if you want to, it's your game and your free time--do what you like.

Yeah.. That's the thing. If I buy a 50 euro game.. I better finish it or I will burn in hell. Mainly because it was so expensive that I had to steal bread from a blind man to get it and think about not finishing it then.. =P

just moments ago I've finished Missing Link (I've already finished the main Deus Ex game about four months ago) and yes, I really had to force myself to do it...

I also didn't enjoy it that much as it was just separate -> stun, disable turrets, separate -> stun (I simply CAN'T kill anyone! and I can't let them roam freely either!)

but now as I'm done and I've uninstalled it all, I feel good :)

I just realized reading this thread that I've never actually finished a single GTA game. Everyone I've ever played I get to the very last mission at which point the game ceases to be fun so I stop.

I finish games as a matter of principle. If they're awful, or just really hard, I use a walkthrough to get it over with as soon as possible. But unfinished games on my hard drive itch like sore wounds.

I'm exactly the same.

in some country's if you don't finish your games, you have to leave the country covered in tar and feathers.