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Have you ever stopped playing a game because you’ve had your fill of it?
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After finishing Act 1 recently, I dropped the game. I got my fill after that and I doubt I'll go back to it. Just wanted to see what the hype was about.
This is one of my resolutions for 2021 (I even made a thread about it). Playing games to enjoy them and stopping when I've had my fill, rather than feeling compelled to keep playing just because there are more tasks to complete.
This. I have played every AC game but the last one I finished must be AC 3. I really liked Odyssey but there is no way I will ever see the credits.
Doesn't help that it's hard for me to ignore side quests or collectibles. I always try to clear a map which usually turns into a slog. The only recent exception is HZD which I really love.
I'm the same way and I rarely will give a game another chance once I've dismissed it.
The illusion of being immersed into a world is what keeps me interested. The moment I feel like I'm just playing to trigger flags or boost my stats to unlock some content, and the game's world now feels empty or fake, is usually when I've had my fill.
Mario 3D All Stars. Finished the story mode for all three games don't see a reason to collect all 120 stars/shines
Plenty of times. I speculate that I've easily done this more times than I've actually beaten games.
I only rarely ever regret it. I tend to only regret it if the game feels way off from what I expected. If it's what I expected, but still wasn't enough to engage me to the very end, I think that's fine — I still feel like I got what I signed up for, ultimately, even if that didn't end up being the traditional "end-to-end" experience that most people use as their standard of satisfaction.
I only rarely ever regret it. I tend to only regret it if the game feels way off from what I expected. If it's what I expected, but still wasn't enough to engage me to the very end, I think that's fine — I still feel like I got what I signed up for, ultimately, even if that didn't end up being the traditional "end-to-end" experience that most people use as their standard of satisfaction.
I was very close to doing this. I read that it was an easy platinum so I just finished it. But yeah-after Act 1 I was burnt out.
Same. I bought it because of the hype and burnt out quick and sold it off.
I mean, it's not like you stopped before the credits rolled. Seeing the end sequence is usually when I put a game down too, I rarely have much interest in messing around with a game's other modes and collectibles etc after that. Unless it's a major RPG expansion, which makes me think it's probably a case of 'end credits=main story concluded, time to put it down and reflect' and 'expansion=a sidestep into a new miniseries' for me.
Theoretically, this is how I approach every game. In practice, I often will force myself to finish games if they are short (under 10 hours), and if they are longer it depends entirely on how story/single player focused the game is. However, I am really, really good at giving something a try, and even if I enjoy it a little and think I would play it more, the second I realize it isn't clicking or isn't for me, I just uninstall it and put it on a list of things to maybe come back to on the rainiest of rainy days (ie, hundreds of games deep in my backlog). I rarely play an open world game and give up on it - I either know I am going to like it 10 hours or whatever in and go all the way, or just stop and move on. The only recent exception to that is AC: Odyssey, which I played for maybe 50 hours and had to just stop. I had overdone it early on with sidequests and just didn't enjoy the basic loop enough to finish it, even though I was curious about the story.
Currently, I am kinda close to burning out on Ghost of Tsushima, after playing it very, very off and on since release - never really giving it enough time to make it the main thing I played, but also wasting way too much time on side stuff - I spent almost a full playthrough worth of time on the first area, and was incredibly burned out on it until a week ago when I finally got back into the main story stuff. There are a few character side missions left and then the third territory, but otherwise I forced myself to stop doing side content/? on the map as it was totally burning me out.
I love open world games - I would go so far as to say they are my favorite genre, even with very limited time - but if I don't learn to moderate/avoid/ease up on side content, especially early in those games, it is going to become progressively harder for me to play them.
Man I have so much to say about this topic I might come back for more tomorrow!
Currently, I am kinda close to burning out on Ghost of Tsushima, after playing it very, very off and on since release - never really giving it enough time to make it the main thing I played, but also wasting way too much time on side stuff - I spent almost a full playthrough worth of time on the first area, and was incredibly burned out on it until a week ago when I finally got back into the main story stuff. There are a few character side missions left and then the third territory, but otherwise I forced myself to stop doing side content/? on the map as it was totally burning me out.
I love open world games - I would go so far as to say they are my favorite genre, even with very limited time - but if I don't learn to moderate/avoid/ease up on side content, especially early in those games, it is going to become progressively harder for me to play them.
Man I have so much to say about this topic I might come back for more tomorrow!
All Mario Game.
No way I can have the skill or the time to improve my skill to get all the stars/moons/something
No way I can have the skill or the time to improve my skill to get all the stars/moons/something
- Skyrim (50 hours)
- AC Odyssey (74 hours)
I think that's a bit harsh. You won't have unlocked true driver combos (break, topple, launch and smash) and by extension fusion combos (driver combos combined with special attacks) by the end of the second chapter. You don't even get chain attacks until chapter three, either.
There's a lot of reasons to criticise Xenoblade 2 for sure, but I'm not sure rolling out it's mechanics too early is one of them. lol
If anything, it takes too long for everything to come together.
Yes, I learnt to do this as well. I would always feel like I had to finish a game once I started, but at one point I decided to just stop if I wasn't enjoying a game or I'd had enough, I would stop. I now do it without thinking about it if needed.
Recently I got around 40% through the new Paper Mario and thought that I'd seen enough of what the game had to offer, and whilst I did like it, I decided to call it a day and use my time elsewhere.
Recently I got around 40% through the new Paper Mario and thought that I'd seen enough of what the game had to offer, and whilst I did like it, I decided to call it a day and use my time elsewhere.
I finish 90% of games I start, I only quit when I'm really not having fun. One memorable case was the first Witcher game. There's a point where you have to return to a very unpleasant swamp and I just had it at that point. Recently I also stopped SW Squadrons because of heavy VR nausea and me also getting the gist of the game at about 3 missions in.
Just did this after 2 hours of Far Cry 5. Game was pretty boring and the open world formula basically made me give up immediately, was the first UbiSoft open world game I've played in a few years and just felt like going to bed instead.
Forza Horizon 4 recently. I did all the main events and side activities but stopped when I started the Lego DLC. It seemed like a great DLC but I had grown kind of tired of the game up until that point. Better to save the DLC for another date I thought.
Pretty much any open world game- I usually prefer linear games as they're snappy and to the point. If games meander too much I tend to get tired of it and put it down before the story is over.
That being said, currently playing Genshin impact and getting completely absorbed because of all the BOTW-style explorable stuff so I guess im not that consistent.
That being said, currently playing Genshin impact and getting completely absorbed because of all the BOTW-style explorable stuff so I guess im not that consistent.
Does getting sick of a game count as having my fill? Because I played a bunch of Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity and enjoyed it, but eventually found I grew sick of playing it, and I still had about half way to go.
Animal Crossing. New Horizons was my first and I loved it while it lasted, but once you have built everything there is to build in the island, o really don't see the point of keep playing to get the same pieces of dialogue with the animals every day. Of course you can keep working on your collection, but that is too slow paced for me to want to complete it (I mean, you'd have to keep playing for an entire year at the minimum).
Eh, mostly games like AC: New Horizons, few fighting games that I try when new season/character drops, GaaS games like Destiny 2 or multiplayer games like Overwatch/Apex Legends. I know what sort of story driven games I'll actually enjoy and I mostly finish those barring rare occasions (Witcher 3), rarely to 100% completion cus most is nonsencial boring padding.
What other reason is there to stop playing a game?
100% completion/Platinum?
Lol. I'm not that far gone.
100% completion/Platinum?
Lol. I'm not that far gone.