Less Than 30% of Gamers Ever Finished GTA4

[JdaS]

I always play through the story mode before anything else. That said, GTA IV has a very nice story.

 

[Heathrow]

The only GTA game (from the 3D generation) that I've finished is Vice City, the rest of them just bored me after a while.

 

[Angryman101]

In the case of GTA4, this doesn't surprise me at all.

I reached a stage where all the missions available to me were difficult - I had at least 10 failed attempts at each one. Retrying after dying involved a tedious drive across town, with a detour to buy weapons, before getting to the action.

Alongside this, was the alternative of mucking around in the sandbox, or, ultimately, playing a different game. It's a real shame because I'd like to know how the story played out. Just not enough to keep at it.

I bet I'm not alone. Many of the people who played the game will have been *much* less dedicated a gamer than I am.

This is exactly how I felt. It's not that people don't have shorter attention spans, its that they just lack the dedication and emotional involvement with the story to weather these points in the game where it feels like the world and physics themselves are literally fighting against you. Fuck, I hated car chase missions.
For example, I got to about 42% or so in GTA 4 before getting so pissed off at the missions where you had to blow up another car while driving yourself that I quit and never looked back until now. After purchasing Mass Effect, I pretty much holed myself up in my room for a week or two (the memories are a blur) until I got pretty much 100% completion, and that game is at LEAST as long or longer than GTA 4.
And you can't compare a medium in which you watch a story unfold over a period of 2 hours, like a movie, to a medium where you spend as much as 40 hours trying to tie all of the loose ends of the main story, like GTA 4.

 

[Treefingers]

Well i didnt finish GTA 4 because i got bored.

 

[Jon Etheridge]

I for one enjoyed GTA4 and I've played through the story twice. Granted it does feel like a step backwards in terms of things you can do (Darts and bowling? Really?) but the game is a major step forward in the graphics and physics department. Hopefully they will take all of the new elements and combine them with the excellent detail of the world to get back to the GTA: San Andreas formula. I want my fucking jetpack back!!!

 

[whaleswiththumbs]

Less Than 30% of Gamers Ever Finished GTA4

68% of gamers use the disc as a coaster now
1% Are reveiwers who already have alot of disc-coasters
the last 1% are the cool kids who think that it's a stupid game and refuse to buy crap. And most of them have probably played it somewhere else atleast once.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

That's it? Wow, some people are either shite at games or get bored easily. If it's the former, then they haven't contended with Nintendo Hard [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NintendoHard].

If it's the latter then you annoy me you attention span-deficient ingrate.

 

[MrGFunk]

I think it says more about the quality of the game. I stopped playing GTA because I found it boring and the friends' mechanic irritated me.
I then went on to play Burnout Paradise for 250 hours.

Good games get finished. Simple. Let's list the people who played Fallout 3 to the end. Uncharted to the end.

I'd say it's a correlation of game quality and completions.

 

[Captain Pancake]

I can see why some people may not have enjoyed GTA4 to the level of not having the drive to finish it, but I personally thought the story was very well developed, and although I never really cared for niko himself, many of the characters became quite a welcome feature as I progressed.

And yes, I am one of those 30% who finished it.

 

[VanityGirl]

Most people did not finish GTA4 because it was terrible.
I finish most games I play, unless the game is terrible, then I will not complete it

 

[GamingAwesome1]

I think it says more about the quality of the game. I stopped playing GTA because I found it boring and the friends' mechanic irritated me.
I then went on to play Burnout Paradise for 250 hours.

Good games get finished. Simple. Let's list the people who played Fallout 3 to the end. Uncharted to the end.

I'd say it's a correlation of game quality and completions.

My opinion expressed before I could.

I have always hated GTA IV and seeing this makes me all the happier. Also Fable 2 did get boring halfway through, it's definitely not because of difficulty because you cannot get a game over at all. Meaning that anyone can finish it given that there's no penalty for death whatsoever.

I seriously doubt that 75% of people finished Halo 3 and COD 4. Hell I have a friend who plays these games non-stop, never shuts up about how "great" they are and yet hasn't touched the single player campaign.

 

[300lb. Samoan]

GTA4 was pants compared to all the others my favourite had to be GTA: Vice city

Pants? It was pants?

Is this new lingo? Because I like it.

I was playing HL2EP1 today, compared to the rest of the series it's just pants.

eh maybe not so much, it'll take some getting used to

OT: I can understand not wanting to beat GTAIV, it's stupid boring. But I haven't bought it. If I buy a game and really enjoy it, I make a point of beating it.

Something else to consider with these numbers, tho, is rentals. How many people get a popular game from Gamefly or Blockbuster and only have a weekend to toy with it?

 

[MrSnugglesworth]

The only game I've never finished is GTA4.



It just got so boring. Driving off buildings/cliffs is only so fun.


But then I found Saints Row 2.


I beat it once, but I turned cheats on, got pretty far, then turned them off but didn't want to go back so no achievements...

 

[CyberAkuma]

I finished GTA4 once Rockstar made a bloody PC patch worth giving a damn about that results in a decent framerate to the unholy mess that game was on the PC.

 

[RanD00M]

In its defence most people just play GTA games to dick about.

That is the cornerstone of the entire series.Until GTA4 came around and tried to make it serious.

 

[TPiddy]

Yeah, I don't think this is an accurate portrayal of most gamers. I think there are a lot of factors here, like rentals, what other games came out at the time, a lot of the missing achievements require gargantuan effort, etc....

Take Guitar Hero III for instance... if you're not good at the game (like me), then you won't get a lot of the achievements for it. Basing these stats off of achievements is not a very good idea.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

I probably play and finish GTA4 if it; Wasn't 15 shades of brown, the cars handled better than bricks of depleted uranium and you didn't have to take your friends out every 10 seconds.

 

[shaboinkin]

i never finished gta4 cause i didnt like it. Simple as that. In fact, the only gta game i finished was Vice City

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I suddenly feel a little violated ... I don't mind submitting to a survey but at least give me some fair warning!

Geeze ... Anyway ... I was one of the 30% that beat the campaign on GTA4 so yeah: go me. I somehow managed to miss the one where you blow up 10 cars in 10 seconds even though I know I've done that a dozen times over ... whereas they GAVE me the, 'flip-over-3-times-in-a-single-crash' award when I barely lurched to the side after being side-swiped by an old lady...

 

[Lamppenkeyboard]

I am part of the 70%, although I intend to finish it.

Alright.

First, I might have kept playing if that guy Dwayne had more missions that didn't involve driving him out to dinner.

Second, I got pissed off with one particular mission where you pull up to kill a guy (I mean, you go around the corner and he is wide open) but the cutscene has him running to his car, getting in, and speeding off with Niko not even raising a finger. Then the next mission that the exact same thing happened, I got a bit more frustrated. The cold blooded killer Niko Bellic can't just run a person over, or shoot him when he is in the middle of the street?

Third, I don't remember a single checkpoint in the game, nor a plane, nor a parachute. They just ring 15 more bucks out of you with the latest DLC to get those.