Weekend Open Forum: How often do you beat games?

Always finish what you start.
If it's bad game then I consider it pennance for being foolish/gullible in buying the game in the first place.
If it's an open-ended game/freeplay scenario (i.e. GTA, STALKER+mods) then the "end" of the storyline just means putting hard cash into a pool and competing against both the game and your friends -such as collecting every in-game available item, first to X number of kills, X amount of player cash etc. First one there (in elapsed game time) emails the others a copy of the save game- and we ante up for the next set of milestones.

i have beaten every game that i have bought.why not? games arent cheap and i have to save for them.
i like to get the whole experience.i played crysis 3 times. it was fun

I beat pretty much every game I get. I don't buy games often and if I do, I'm d@/n\n sure going to get my money out of it.

For my feslf I only buy games that Im really into playing nad that mean that every game I buy it is because im going to finish it.

Plus in my country it´s to expensive to buy games so I have to order it by internet ( if I want to have the CD), or buy it by Steam (but I only have 2 moth with my Steam account, Just for DarkSiders..... and I havent Finish it yet, for the Lack Of Time desease.)

I usually don't move to a different game until I have beaten the current one I'm on. So usually a new game every week or so.

I unfortunetly win games, left, right and center. In fact I was having a discussion with a co-worker about how quality is now affecting the length of a game. In Call of Duty, I believe the campaign is around 5 hours. Same goes for Halo. I enjoy playing games, but for a challenge, I've now gone too MMORPG games, as there is no ending.

if its a good game then i'll beat it for sure i beated every game i like so far

Dragon Age was the last game I finished, It was awesome!! although the last battle took me around 45 minutes, and a lot of health potions!!

For me, I try to finish a game if I have it. If it's a good game, like God of War, I will finish it several times : )

However I wont force myself to finish a game that I don't feel compelled to play. First and foremost, the story has to be riveting. If I don't care what happens to the characters, I most likely wont waste my time.

However, if the story is worth while I will usually finish the game. For example, the original Mafia game. I have played the first three quarters of that game at least 5 times. Due to stupid things like viruses and corrupted kernls I have had to reformat my computer a few times. Each time I will plug Mafia back into the machine and try to finish it before the next pain in the arse I have with my computer rears it's ugly, lumpy head.

Games, games, games....so many games. I began playing games (and not finishing them) with ColecoVision.

I don’t finish some games because they stop entertaining me. They become boring, irrelevant in terms of story/plot, or frankly they become too laborious and repetitive. Games that I do finish (and occasionally play through again) remain compelling, challenging, fresh and conquerable. A game has those desireable qualities when it is original, graphically well presented, bug free and has adequate depth and scope (meaning it’s big, diverse and takes more than 10 hours to complete).

I find little appeal in the multi-player aspect of games - I always get beat so where’s the fun in that!

I usually play my games to completion. I did finished ME2, however I never finished (or bought) Mass Effect 1. Exceptions include MW2 and Black Ops, online is never finished.

Played and beat every instance of the Armored Core series... on all systems. (PSX,2,3, PSP) Anyone with me on that one?! Hah, doubt it.

:haha:....hmmmmm, that seems to be when my golf game began declining as well

Are you suggesting the skills required for golf are similar to those of playing video games? Because the last/only time I was at a driving range, I tree'd the driver. (And not on purpose).

Oh not at all, I merely meant that the number of tee times severely declined.
How do you "tree" a driver?

I scored a couple of billion at Atari "Defender" one night, although the game never technically ends. At some point you just have to walk away from banality, lest ye be consumed by it. (A "couple billion" is possibly an exaggeration. Forgive me, it was soooo very long ago). That said, I was sorely disappointed when the "Atari" game pack for the PC didn't include it.

It's quite simple actually. You take a full back swing on the next, "destined to become a worm burner" ball, with sweaty hands, while enduring a meth crash........:rolleyes:, and "follow through"....!
Quite a task actually, keeping one eye on the ball's "flight", with the other on the driver's......:haha: :wave:

I normally make it most of the way through a game, get to a part I can't beat and set it down, then a month or two later I come back and finish.
Although recently when I bought Portal I played it through in a few days (not that it took me a few days to finish, I just savored it in little bits).

Portal was such a short game, but I can't wait for Portal 2!

here is a list of the games i have on steam that i have finished.

Assassin's Creed I, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, BioShock I, Crysis, Crysis Warhead, Dead Space, Dragon Age: Origins, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, F.E.A.R., Fallout 3, GTA4, Half Life, Half-Life: Blue Shift, Half-Life: Opposing Force, Half Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Mafia, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Portal, Red Faction

Here is the list of PS1 games that i have finished.

FF7, FF8, FF9, MGS1, GT1, GT2

Here is the list of PS2 games that i have finished.

FF10, FF12, MGS2, MGS3, GT3, GT4, GTA3, GTA:VC, GTA:S, Red Faction

..oh that.:haha:
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