Less Than 30% of Gamers Ever Finished GTA4

[oppp7]

How could you not finish Halo 3? It takes like 2 hours on easy mode...

 

[Pendragon9]

Are you kidding me? yeesh, I guess attention spans are at an all time low.

 

[zimtheawesome]

I tried liking GTA4 but i just cant, its so boring. Even if you want to just go through the campaign you always have people calling and its just a huge annoyance.

 

[Lyri]

If there was a movie in theaters that had half of the people walking out before the end, it'd be called a dismal failure. What is the failing here with games, and how can developers move to correct it?

I don't think it's failing of the video game industry here, I think it's the fact that they're out-doing their own products within themselves.
Online Multiplayer is taking gaming by storm right now, with all the new inovations being thrown into the mix too, nobody cares about the story but about fraggin' that dude who's totally a dick on XBL.

To Summerize.
Multiplayer more funzies, fraggin' mouthbreathers.

 

[bodyklok]

I couldn't bring myself to carry on playing, it was just to painful for me. But each to their won I guess, and, as others have said, the best part was dicking about online rather than doing the story mode.

 

[ThirdPrize]

Thing is with these long games you get bored with them just as you get any good at them. I completed GTA4 but only by playbing it in 3 chunks. Each several months apart while I did the same with a couple of other games. It was well over a year from start to end. It's like I am going to finish Lost Oddysey but only when I have psyched myself up to play through those last few bosses/levels.

 

[Woodsey]

How could anyone bring themselves to finish Fable 2? I'd rather cut off my own penis.*



*Note that this is not applicable by law, in any form.

 

[ThirdPrize]

If there was a movie in theaters that had half of the people walking out before the end, it'd be called a dismal failure. What is the failing here with games, and how can developers move to correct it?

I don't think it's failing of the video game industry here, I think it's the fact that they're out-doing their own products within themselves.
Online Multiplayer is taking gaming by storm right now, with all the new inovations being thrown into the mix too, nobody cares about the story but about fraggin' that dude who's totally a dick on XBL.

To Summerize.
Multiplayer more funzies, fraggin' mouthbreathers.

GOW2, Halo 3, GTA 4 and Modern Warfare. Same game (deathmatch or capture the flags, etc) but set on separate planets and with different character models. Each to their own.

 

[Midniqht]

This news is hard for me to understand, because I make it a point to "finish" each game I play. That doesn't mean get every achievement - it means beating the single player campaign/career, whatever it may be. I play through everything at least once all the way through when I can.
It's rare that I'll stop a game and never go back to finish - the only one I can think of that I didn't bother with was Chromehounds, because it pissed me off.

 

[Rect Pola]

We're surprised by this?

I blame people trying to play a variety at once. In the hands of older gamers with obligations eating away former gaming hours (assuredly the ones who by such M rated games), games have a better chance of getting finished when you sit down and focus your ass on one and only one during the nuggets of time you do have.

 

[Kajaho]

I tried, but then I discovered Saints Row 2 thanks to Yhatzee.
and I have never looked back.

 

[Fiannaz]

Tried it didnt like it and same as above i discovered Saints row 2 wich was alot more fast paced and more wacky fun and no really stupid tutorials

 

[Zaksav91]

I finished GTA IV twice, I actually thought the story to be very engaging. The first time I spared everyone that I could. But the second time playing it I executed everyone I could (like stepping on the fingers, dropping a dude to his fate) it was great.

 

[BIGB0SS]

its because GTA IV is a long game
and I beat GTA IV

 

[FoolKiller]

Is it really a good thing that half of the people who ever bought a game like Fable II actually finished it?

Who said anything about buying? That is the problem with statistics: Figures lie. Even though there are demos of several games, it usually isn't that good to warrant an honest opinion of whether or not you like the game. So a person then goes to rent the game and plays it for a day and may never play it again because they didn't like it.

 

[kingofpain97]

I've finished almost every one of the games I own, but I've also never gotten a 100% completion in terms of achievements. Some achievements just take too much time that I would rather spend on playing other games. That's just my two cents though.

 

[ThisWasAWaste]

I can proudly say that I've finished just about every game I own, some more than once (my record for playthroughs would have to be with either half-life or deus ex, somewhere above 5). Not to mention my 1000 gamer score on L4D...ok I did mention it (haven't had a chance to play crash course yet, so thats 100% for the original game).

I can say that I did not finish fable though. I was mostly enjoying it, until I came across a glitch that struck my character animation less, arms stretched out in a Jesus-esque pose. It just really really annoyed me and with the stupid one save system I could not load an older save (with any game that permits I'll usually have about 20 saves at any one given time to avoid this type of thing). I looked online for help but nothing worked so I stopped playing it. Now it appears they've fixed the glitch, but I really can't get back into, so it will remain unfinished.

 

[Lyri]

GOW2, Halo 3, GTA 4 and Modern Warfare. Same game (deathmatch or capture the flags, etc) but set on separate planets and with different character models. Each to their own.

Can't argue against the classics in all fairness.