How long do you play a game before ditching it?

[Hobo Elf]

It used to take me as long as it took to learn the mechanics to know if a game is shit or not, but these days with so many copy paste mechanics and little to no originality floating around, it's easy to determine if something suck s almost immediately.

 

[Talby]

What's a videogame

 

[Freddie]

I don't find myself in any of those options. Some games I replay on harder difficulties, sometimes get back to hunt an achievement, some games I spent few hours, then less hours but then keep coming back, play 5 to 40 minutes a day or week, then forget them for a while again.

RPG's even they are timesinks are typically exception though, I put lot of hours in the Witcher 1, Shadowrun games, Wasterland 2, completed all those games. I like remembering what happened, where I was coming, where I was going to go etc. so I don't usually take long breaks, like weeks, but try to finish them pretty fast.

Edit: Sometimes I make a bad purchase or game style or something just isn't my cup of tea. I usually ditch them in 1 hour or less.

 

[eXalted]

1. Read a review.
2. Watch 2 minutes of let's plays.
3. See how long it takes to beat the game.
4. Decide if the game is good.
5. If yes, I play and beat the game.

I play only one game at a time and that helps A LOT.

 

[Hando]

Since around 2005, 99.99999999999999% of games have been mind-numbing shit so I don't play them much anymore but when I do I usually lose interest after several 3-4 hour sessions.

 

[Valky]

Depends on the game.
If it's something that very clearly is shit once I've come to the realization after playing it a bit, I won't feel any regret or responsibility to finish the game and will drop it and uninstall. If it's a good game that I like, I will always strive to finish a full playthrough and never give it up until then. If it's a good game, RPG or strategy, and/or becomes one of my favorite games, I will probably replay it multiple times in addition to cataloging and backing it up on my external hard drive of all of my favorite video games that I have painstakingly collected in order to never lose and also have due to my disgust for the internet and multiplayer, so that I will always have my video games with me and not be beholden to kike DRM.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

The only two games in recent memory that I have ditched forever have been irredeemable piles of shit like Fallout 4 and Mass Effect Andromeda (the latter I didn't buy, but I played the trial).

I will always try to play a game through to the end before giving a verdict, but there's plenty of games that bore me or don't interest me enough to keep playing, and I just drift away from them. My Steam backlog is full of them.

I hope some day to go through them. I do whittle them down occasionally. I'm not buying any new games now so I guess the backlog is only going to decrease.