Poll: What point do you stop playing

[Dr Namgge]

Assuming you don't get stuck and break all your controllers throwing them at your TV in sheer frustration after just how mind numbingly hard that one boss is, and multiplayer aside, what point do you stop playing a game and go to another? At what point do you stop playing a game generally? Are you compelled to 100% everything, or does it get traded in almost immediately? I know everyone will have some games they go back to for nostalgia, and that some games compel you more to finish it fully than others, but on average, how much time do you invest in the game?

When I was younger I would strive to 100% everything. Even if it took me months (or years in .some cases), I had to find everything, beat every boss, do everything available. Mostly because I didn't have a lot of money, and it was months between new games, hence the only thing to do was to go for 100% and keep playing even once that's done. Nowadays, most games I'll get an ending for, but getting 100% requires a genuinely great game that I don't want to stop playing. These are the games I'll still play after 100%, for the sheer hell of it, but mostly I tend to get about three quarters done. Story finished, but not get 100%, just due to a lack of time.

 

[Sneaklemming]

Yeh, my rental copy of counterstrike is overdue I think... still waiting for credits

 

[Flishiz]

As detailed as the answers are, none of them resonate perfectly with me. I'm not exactly the "Try but never reach 100%", but I guess it could be said just the same, because I either finish the game completely and keep replaying it (Mass Effect), or I just binge on the game until I can't stand the sight of even the genre or its subgenres (Fallout 3).

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

I'll stop playing a game when I get bored.
Like prototype. I've played it maybe 2-3 times, for a few minutes each time, since I originally got bored of it. Some games I will keep going back to.

 

[Bendebec]

I always try for 100%, but I've only done it twice (Uncharted 2 and Fallout 3) but I voted for play again because I often replay some games long after I've bought the newest release

 

[happysock]

Generally when the rental period is up I generally finish main game storylines with in the week then if I liked it I go out and buy it, which is what I shall be doing with borderlands

 

[mikecoulter]

I barely complete games. I either get stuck or just forget about the game. That said, I think I'll be completing Uncharted + Uncharted 2.

 

[Murlin]

I stop playing when I feel like doing so...depends entirely on the game itself

 

[rokkolpo]

if it,s a good game.

it aint over till i said so.

 

[Kajt]

I quit playing when I get bored of the game. Which is usually after I've completed the campaign and tried the online mode.

 

[Mirroga]

I stop playing a game for 2 things:

- When I did 100% platinum / achievements + creating the perfect save files for future replayability
- When it's already way past nighttime and there's still classes tomorrow or when my brother just wants to play

 

[dweomermaster]

Usually I give up when I get so badly stuck I just can't get any further... it's happened only a few times and usually at a big end-of-game boss fight I just can't beat... it makes me sad

 

[Sonicron]

Eh, many of the games I play nowadays are rentals, seeing how I'm not made of money and most of them aren't worth more than 10-20 Euros in my opinion anyway (game is crap / just not my cup of tea / fun, but only for one playthrough). I suppose I could get more out of some games if I were an achievement whore, but I'm not, so I don't.
Still, if I rent a game and find it to be really, really good, I WILL buy it, and I WILL replay it over and over, always looking for stuff I might have missed on the previous run, or maybe just for the heck of it because it's THAT good (Sands of Time, for example).

 

[Mr.Black]

I got a PS3 just over a month or so ago. I bought Uncharted and Ratchet & Clank. Two games that have zero replay value. I finished them both within a week and returned them and swapped them for Killzone 2 and MGS4. I finished Killzone and didn't like the multiplayer so I returned it (I kept MGS4) and got Brutal Legend, which wasn't that good, so I just finished the story and returned it for Uncharted 2, which actually fucking rocks and the multiplayer is a ton of fun so I decided to keep the game.

I bought Assassin's Creed 1 yesterday, I'll finish it and return it because I just want to finish the first game before the second comes out.

Basically, it depends on the game. Games that are multiplayer focused and have co-op abilities really interest me and have a higher replay value than a single player game that gives you no reason to play again unless you want to get 100% completion by collecting the coins or whatever they ask you to do.

 

[high_castle]

See, my answer to this depends on whether I liked the game or not. I've reached the point where I have too much going on in my life to waste my time even finishing a bad game. So if a game gets me to the point where I start thinking, "I'm not having fun, and it's been so long that I don't even remember what fun feels like anymore," then the disc comes out and the game goes back to Gamestop. But if it's a game I truly enjoyed...well, hell I'm still playing Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights on my laptop, and Mass Effect has practically lived in my 360 since mid-summer. If I had fun with something, I usually find I can replay it practically indefinitely. Otherwise, I don't waste my time. And as for 100%...I try to do all the missions and such, but whether those actually net you achievements is questionable these days. ME is the only game I have 100% completion on because all of their achievements rewarded you in the game. It gave me an incentive to do them. Most games, though...what do I care about my gamerscore? It has no value, and thus I'm not going to waste hours of my life looking for flags in Assassin's Creed.

 

[Daedalus1942]

Unless it's a genuinely godawful game (I couldn't finish Soldier of Fortune: Payback) I'll usually strive for 100%. Currently addicted to 358/2 days. Can't put that down.

 

[KiLl_RoY]

It depends on the game
I`ve beign playing warcraft 3 for.. 8 years now

 

[Vrex360]

It's a phenomenon with me, for a while I am hooked on it and refuse to play anything else but then randomly I lose interest and start playing something else, I'll give you an example... late 2008 (I mean Christmas) I finally got Gears of War 2 and played it for months, then I got Dead Space for my birthday and I got hooked on that for some solid time as well, then finally I got Saint's row 2 and was playing that solidly for a long time, then I got Fallout 3 and away went Saint's row 2 now at the end of the long track is Halo 3: ODST which I have been playing for some time and I look forward to seeing what replaces that.
I still love all those games its just that when something new comes along I get hooked on it.

 

[Casual Shinji]

If I like the game I'll suck it dry.

 

[Ultress]

I usually keep a same queue of games I haven't beaten and jump around when one bores or frustrates me.