The Guilt of not finishing.

[Beggar]

I can only regret losing save file. For example American Truck Simulator. I had hundreds of hours, every garage was mine. I accidentally uninstalled the game with save files. That game is still getting DLC and other updates, it is bigger by half since then. Recently reinstalled and every minute I remember my former empire of truckers

 

[someone else]

 

[KK1001]

I thought the title was "The Guilt of Not Fishing" at first, and it was going to be some autistic rant about how he feels obliged to max out secondary, non-combat skills like fishing. Disappointed.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

i couldn't give fewer fucks, the game is to blame if it can't keep my attention high to the end, and that's quite something because often the leading feeling is "i invested already too much time on this shit, now i want to see where this is going".

 

[Beastro]

I'm debating whether or not to give up on Warcraft 2.
It's not really a fun game.

Is it one of those games where if you cheat to auto-win a map it robs your of the end cutscenes?

I've thought about replaying it if only for the storyline.

 

[Verylittlefishes]

If I am not finishing something (because it is fucking boring and no fucking way I will finish something time-consuming shit just for finishing after that abyssmal abomination called Deadfire) I still google the plot and ending, to finish the story internally. As a rule, the ending sucks and not worth reaching it (see: Thimbleweed Park, Control, Telling Lies).

 

[Curious_Tongue]

I didn't finish Planescape Torment.

I'm a compulsive restarter. I aim for the perfect playthrough, put in hundreds of hours, have multiple restarts and lose steam before the end of the game.

I never finished Fallout 2 - 4 for the same reason.

 

[Curious_Tongue]

What kind of faggot gets excited for new games?

 

[Verylittlefishes]

What kind of faggot gets excited for new games?

NEW GAMES WHERE???

 

[DalekFlay]

Honestly when I buy bullshit I don't actually like playing and then stop playing it I don't feel any guilt over dropping it, I feel guilt over buying it in the first place.

 

[Chaosdwarft]

It depends on what games. I feel most guilty when I can't finish a "Codex classic", either cause it bores me or I don't enjoy the mechanics. I do own plenty of games I bought because it seem fun or attractive on paper but turns out their execution was disappointing.

I also suffer form the same syndrome than Curious_Tongue , some games I feel the need to restart cause the game (or me) failed to inform me of certain options and information until mid game that would actually have impacted how I made my character.

 

[kaisergeddon]

I just can't tolerate games designed solely to occupy as much of the player's time as possible. As a general rule of thumb I try to avoid these kinds of games, but every now and then I get a hankering for a megagame, and if I end up playing one and it's especially bad, I have no guilt dropping it. So many are made to give you endless generic fetchquests, encyclopedias of inane flavor text, relentless itemization bloat, and little substance, and this is a huge issue with modern open world-rpg-survival-crafting-whatever game design. I'd rather have a shorter, concentrated experience than tons of fluff. That's not to say I don't like huge games, I love Grimoire for instance, but I need real meat on the bones of these things, a passion, not a mindless product resulting from the slavery of interns bolting endless nonsense on top a sprawling map to meet some publisher's quarterly release metric. I need real human thought involved, you know?

If I drop a game I basically do what Verylittlefishes said and google the ending, usually through a video or a written LP, and find closure for my effort spent. Time is your only currency. Spend it wisely

Spoiler

by shitposting on the Codex like me!

 

[Nifft Batuff]

I feel guilty to have finished some games, actually... for example Persona 5.

 

[Lemming42]

I've run out of patience for games that don't respect your time. This has in effect locked me out of the entire jRPG genre and the majority of open world games.

I'm debating whether or not to give up on Warcraft 2.
It's not really a fun game.

The singleplayer ends up sucking due to the naval combat. It's been a long time since I played it but I remember every other level was just a mad rush to build an oil rig and then methodically go through each and every one of the enemy's fifty billion shipyards, with them building a new one in the fog of war every time you took one out.

 

[Kabas]

I don't regret not finishing that much if the game was fun until it reached the point of not being fun anymore.

 

[Daze]

It's always better to stop before it becomes too annoying.
There are enough games anyway.

 

[Curious_Tongue]

Just keep going until you can go no more. Then watch the rest on youtube somewhere. It feels pretty much the same.
I've played Fallout 2. I've played Planescape Torment. Despite not technically finishing either of them.

 

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

Honestly when I buy bullshit I don't actually like playing and then stop playing it I don't feel any guilt over dropping it, I feel guilt over buying it in the first place.

It's another shitty thing about Steam and similar sites - back in the day you could just resell it, now tons of backlog games will haunt you forever.

 

[newtmonkey]

There's nothing wrong with not finishing games. If a game doesn't compel you to finish it, it's either a shitty game wasting your time, or it's a good game and you don't like playing games. A truly good game will bring a sense of childlike innocence and wonder back to your cold, black heart.

 

[Grauken]

I have had two kids since I made this thread.

Answering the question of what changes the nature of man (or drives them crazy, same thing)

 

[Daemongar]

I'm debating whether or not to give up on Warcraft 2.
It's not really a fun game.

I like Warcraft 2, but acknowledge that most maps are grinds to the objective. All the enemy units are positioned so you just can't run up and win the map. It's going to take you an hour. But, a lot of days I enjoy the slow grind of eventually destroying things. Moves a little slow for most games and shows its age a bit.

But it's a good game to relax and play. Eventually the game is kind enough to just mine gold and such and wait around for you to attack. Not certain if you'd even remember if you finished as all levels are either resource mining and attacking, or escort map.

 

[abnaxus]

I haven't finished a game since 1991.

 

[Kabas]

But it's a good game to relax and play. Eventually the game is kind enough to just mine gold and such and wait around for you to attack. Not certain if you'd even remember if you finished as all levels are either resource mining and attacking, or escort map.

There is something recreational about watching peons run around chopping wood and stuff.

 

[Daemongar]

But it's a good game to relax and play. Eventually the game is kind enough to just mine gold and such and wait around for you to attack. Not certain if you'd even remember if you finished as all levels are either resource mining and attacking, or escort map.

There is something recreational about watching peons run around chopping wood and stuff.

Yah, it kind of reminds me of why I play (some) games. I want to relax after a long week of horror. There are games I can relax to. Warcraft 2 is that game while Warcraft 3 wasn't. Starcraft is that game. Wizardry 7 is that game. Eh, the new Bard's Tale Trilogy is that game (at least for me, probably not so much for everyone else.)

 

[Xmantis]

I forgot to copy my save of FFIX (first playthru) when I reinstalled Windows. Oh well.