Do You Stop Playing When You Reach a Level Cap?

[Vausch]

The Skinner Box doesn't seem to work on a game for me once a level cap has been reached, and I lose all desire to keep playing if the game is single player. For games like Fallout 3/NV I usually just go into the control panel and reduce my level, or I create a new character.

Does reaching the level cap ruin the game for you or can you keep playing?

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

As long as there are still ways to get better such as finding epic new weapons or quest-given perks nah...but once I do get all of those too then yes...but by that time i've done everything there is to be done in the game anyways thus my stopping could also be blamed on simply beating the game 100%.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

I re-roll or restart.

To the annoyance of my friends.

 

[babinro]

For the most part, yes. A fully leveled character will change at a pace far too slow for the amount of time investment required.

Games like Oblivion, Fallout, KOTOR, Dragon Age, Diablo, Torchlight, Borderlands etc all lose a lot of their gameplay fun when the build has been established.

 

[Alfador_VII]

I often grind to the level cap before completing the main plot of a game, but if there wasn't any more stuff to do I'd probably stop.

Of course I also play World of Warcraft, which to a very real extent only STARTS when you hit the level cap

 

[mateyk3]

I can keep playing even afterwards, but once i finish all the quests and go to one random location I usually stop.

 

[DustyDrB]

I play until I get sick of it. Most of the time, I don't hit the level cap. Though I was just a couple thousand points (not that much, really) away from a level 60 Shepard in one playthrough of Mass Effect my last time. It's so cruel, they made it impossible to get to 60 in one go with a character. I did every single mission, found every artifact, only killed a very few enemies in the Mako (never a Thresher, a Turret, or a higher class geth).

I have a level 45 character in New Vegas right now and it's pretty ridiculous. I have all but three skills at 100 (Melee, Unarmed, and Explosives. My first two characters used those skills, though). I'll definitely be taking advantage of the level 30 cap trait in future playthroughs.

Whenever I play Oblivion anymore, I don't get very far with a character. I try to keep them as a specialist and not a jack-of-all-trades. When I get sick of playing it, I strip my character and try to take out everyone in a city with my fists until they kill me. Then I leave the game alone until my fatigue of it wears off.

 

[TheShogun]

Do MMOs count? Because I've still played capped characters on Guild Wars for hundreds of hours.