How often are you completing games?

[Deleted member 420614]

About 2-5 games a month at this rate I should be finished with my back log in about 5-9 years.

BIggest issue is I beat 2-5 games a month and get 1-3 new games per month almost. They need to quit releasing new epic titles.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

I just play beaten parasite eve 2 yesterday day so a week worth of playing.

I'm quite strict when it comes to finishing games THERE IS NO DISTRACTIONS And nothing that stops me from finishing a game i already picked up it's a must i SHOULD get to the end i have to finish the journey i cant leave half way through it's either me or the game

 

[Faust03]

I beat 6 games last year, and I beat 3 this year

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

There are lots of games I havent beaten yet on both 2024 and 2025

 

[Raziya The Seeker]

My trend for playing games these days go like this: hyperfixate for up to a week -> dwindle down and play other stuff too, alongside it -> get bored or burned out, don't play for weeks to months -> come back, buckle down and either finish it or make serious progress.

Rinse and repeat till I either beat the main story or campaign (and any completionist stuff I wanna do), quit temporarily and probably delete my file, or drop the game 100%. My game-completing is probably like my book-completing: maybe one or two a year? And it depends on the game and its length, really.

If I had to guess from my Games I've Played text document, chronicling every game I remember playing? I think I've beaten maybe 25~30% of games I've ever played. And maybe 10~15% are games I never wanna play again, while 30% are games that I don't feel I need to beat, or can't (arcade games, et cetera).

 

[carb0n0x]

My 100% completionist autism used to be really bad, I'd pick short games just so I could check my made up list of cleared games, it got even worse when they invented cheevos and trophies. Thankfully nowadays it's far easier for me to drop a game and I don't even care about trophies anymore. That said, sometimes I still get withdrawal and think about picking up that one game just to "tick the 100% box" but it usually goes away 2-3 days later

 

[nobitakun]

Always. It's a curse, well an OCD. I usually don't choose what game to start, it's random or by other people, then I have to finish it and complete it 100% (or all the things I can possibly know if it's a very rare and obscure game). I can't play any other game from that platform, but I can play another game from another platform meanwhile if I get too crazy lol.

I don't consider achivements as 100%, even if they are native for the game, because I can or can't agree of what they request or consider what is a feat. My 100% is standard from old school, level up to the max, get all skills, all possible items, all sidequests, etc.

Also, if the game requires to be too skilled for going through I use cheats, because I don't like games that put you into a learning curve, that's a waste of time for me. I don't feel proud of beating something high difficulty, because I only count how much time I wasted doing something when I could have being doing something else, or playing another game.

With this approach, I have beaten 10-15 games a year (mostly PS1 games, because that's the generation I'm in right now).

 

[King Koopa's iconKing Koopa]

I make my best effort to finish a game and sometimes to 100% a game but if I'm not enjoying the game anymore I will move on to a different one.

 

[SpectreOverflow]

It's rare for me to do so. ADHD go brrrr.

 

[jiyuuboyetsvi]

i have a horrible time completing games
i call it ArkSyndrome. i either get distracted by something else into a game im having fun with,
OR im super invested into whatever game im playing at the time, but then end up stopping and not coming back to finish it at the VERY END of the game (latest example, Metaphor Re Fantazio)

 

[Deleted member 13897]

Also, if the game requires to be too skilled for going through I use cheats, because I don't like games that put you into a learning curve, that's a waste of time for me. I don't feel proud of beating something high difficulty, because I only count how much time I wasted doing something when I could have being doing something else, or playing another game.

Huh—that’s an interesting perspective I don’t usually hear, but I can’t say I disagree. It’s sometimes more fun to enjoy ease of access, shave a few hours down and use that time on something else.

 

[nobitakun]

Huh—that’s an interesting perspective I don’t usually hear, but I can’t say I disagree. It’s sometimes more fun to enjoy ease of access, shave a few hours down and use that time on something else.

Actually I don't like cheats, but it's about saving time while enjoying playing it by myself. That's why I tend to use cheats only to make things easier, not something to break the game completely.

Also, when I finish the game, as I have to complete everything 100%, if I have to grind dozens of hours to reach max level I also use cheats to enhance experience gained after battles and things like these. I forbid myself from using cheats to get things I couldn't get by investing infinite time.

 

[legsrjust4show]

I'm the worst with finishing games when alone. I have maybe played a bit of everything, but often times I'll do the first few hours or even just a level and then not return to it.

I tend to go "well, it's been awhile since I played so I might as well restart" since I forgot a lot of the technique or strategy or everything happening in the plot up to that point. I've done this with RPGs I've sunk like 40 hours into even.

The silliest thing is that I tend to do this even with short games. I haven't even finished Super Castlevania IV and I think it's one of the best ones! I'll get like far into it and then get a Game Over and go "I'll try again tomorrow" and save state and then tomorrow turns into more like Next Year.

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

All the games I'm interested in, I try to finish.

I'd also avoid emitting an opinion on a game I didn't finish. Last game I completed for example, Phantasmagoria. It's not very good as a whole, but the ending is glorious.

 

[WesternYokai]

I finish between 30-40 games a year. Some I do 100%, others I just watch the end and that's it.

But I don't count how many I drop. I believe if I didn't drop anything, this number could reach 50-60 games.

 

[Antilocal123]

Probably never since I don't touch them.

 

[Esidemoken]

Always complete the main story or base mode, completing everything 100% depends on the game.

 

[Ne0Griever]

Not enough this days, feel most games are made to not be completed don't you think?

 

[Emerald Flowsion]

All of them minus sports games and most racing games.

 

[meimei]

I used to be a pick it up, play only that, complete it and move on kind of guy (did that a lot on PS4 when I got back into some console titles like RDR2). Now that I have this huge library of games on my emulator, I’m trying out a lot of new things and honestly…it feels like I don’t beat many of them. But I’m still having a lot of fun. I have titles I’ve been taking my time to beat bc I’m trying to complete them on Retroachievements and have to be more comprehensive. I also pick up a lot of games just to check out the pixel art for a while before eventually deleting them bc I can’t read anything in it lol.

How often do you complete the games you pick up? What is “complete” to you? Do you play a lot of things at once, or focus on less at a time?

never. need a gun to my head

 

[Yousef]

never. need a gun to my head

Maybe I can help? (In a kind and gentle way)

 

[meimei]

Maybe I can help? (In a kind and gentle way)

YEEEEEA three bullets inside and you pull the trigger everytime i say i need a break

 

[Deleted member 13897]

never. need a gun to my head

Maybe I can help? (Puts a gun to your head)

 

[Yousef]

YEEEEEA three bullets inside and you pull the trigger everytime i say i need a break

A break? Like on a car? It’s pretty demanding to ask me to ride a car to pull the breaks every time you want to game, but I’ll do my best!

 

[meimei]

A break? Like on a car? It’s pretty demanding to ask me to ride a car to pull the breaks every time you want to game, but I’ll do my best!

i got outweirded by one sentence. even made me thougth i used the wrong word. wow. now i must pull a harakiri to save my honour.