Does it make you feel bad?

Not even like ones that you can tell suck by playing for five minutes. Ones that you enjoy, or can see yourself enjoying. My gaming backlog has somehow increased like 500% this past year and I've always been good at finishing what I start, but with the increased volume of games to play, I've begun to see games occasionally fall through the cracks. Ones that I enjoy, but realize it'll take lots of time/commitment to beat them/get good at them, or they offer long term gratification as opposed to something instantaneous. Either way, I tell myself "oh, I'll get back to them when I have the free time", but that feels like out of self assurance.

I've been playing a game called Descent on Steam (it's basically DOOM in a spaceship), and while I am having fun with it, I just see how many levels there are, what level I'm on, and how many times I've already died for stupid reasons and realize it'd probably take me a while to actually beat the game. I'm much more hesitant to not finish a game than I am to not finish a TV series because most video games have some clear point where you pay money in order to own/pay them, whereas with TV most shows are part of a larger payment of something like cable or Netflix, and watching TV has a much more concrete time commitment.

Do you guys not feel bad because most games you get are cheap? Do you figure if you really wanted to finish a game, you would do so? Any notable games you haven't finished?

I rarely buy video games to be quite honest. My most recent buy was probably pokemon Y.

Yeah I feel so guilty when I don't finish a game, especially when I have no reason to not finish it. I don't really care about games that I'm not that into or are just plain evil, but if I'm really into it, then I feel like I'm just missing out on cool stuff. But the guilt mostly comes from the fact that I feel like I'm wasting money by not properly enjoying my games. My family grew up pretty poor, so I feel like I'm just wasting money if I don't put my games to good use.

I rarely buy new games specifically because I know that I'm very unlikely to play them for more than two hours.

Never, because I always finish games I like.

It used to, but then I learned my lesson: get video games that are easy to 100% complete.

I've had this issue more and more recently as (1) I've had the money to buy lots of games and (2) I no longer have the time to play games much. Quite often I'll start a game and think to myself: "This is cool, but I feel like I've played something like this before and is 10-20 hours playing this game really an effective use of my time? Won't most of those 10-20 hours be repeating the same action or at least some kind of mild tedium that is inevitable in most games? Wouldn't I get more enjoyment from a 2 hour movie? Or a 30 minute TV show?" The biggest problem I have is the guilt experienced from playing video games. Two hours into a play session and I start to get this overwhelming feeling that I should be doing something better with my life. Like socialising with my friends. Or improving my software development skills. Or reading a book. Or some kind of self development. Or exercise.

I know there's nothing wrong with playing games and they still do bring me joy occasionally (To The Moon made me cry like a baby last month), but I frequently get this compulsion to stop playing and do something more productive with my time. Often, I compare myself to the more successful people that I'll be competing with who'll be bettering themselves rather than playing video games. Then another part of me thinks: "What's the point in life if you never stop and take the time to enjoy yourself?"

I think the key is getting the most out of your leisure time and for me right now, that does not come from lengthy games like RPGs where I need to consistently commit time to the game. Instead, I prefer to play the occasional round of COD or Rise of Nations to avoid the "lack of productivity" guilt. The only exceptions to this rule are games that I already know I'll love like Dark Souls 2. Put 50 hours into that bad boy in the space of a week. Besides that, I'm just not willing to risk new story-based games of any length. There's got to be about 20 of those lying around in my Steam and Origin accounts with about 1-2 hours played due to me overestimating the amount of time I had to play all of them. Sad reality of growing up, I suppose. I wish there were more than 24 hours in a day...

I started the ancient Tomb Raider game, the one from 1996, a while ago. It's pretty fun, albeit difficult as s***, but I got stuck on this one puzzle a month ago and I haven't played it since. I feel super guilty because I like to finish all my video games.

The last actual videogame I had bought and had the time to play was GTA III, and that was YEARZ AGO. since then, my videogames arsenal was literally nonexistent, I have no time for anything Y_Y

here, now I have a week long vacation, and in it I have to find myself a thesis subject and study to a test. and what am I doing? I open my GTASA(downloaded.. not bought) and play for an hour just to get back studying

but hey, GTAIII and GTASA are both 100% completed.

Officially dropped Red Faction Guerrilla today. With other games I've stopped playing/didn't finish, I normally drift away from and lose interest gradually until something more interesting catches my eye and I stop playing the previous game entirely.

With this game I just had an "okay I'm done" moment, quit the game, ejected the disc, put it in its case, and said good riddance. I didn't think it was possible to make an open world sandbox game this lame and soulless, but Red Faction Guerrilla completely managed to.

I think my adoration for Just Cause 2 slightly spoiled the experience for me (as in Just Cause 2 does literally everything better), but I still think I wouldn't have enjoyed Red Faction without that perspective. It wants you to think so dearly that it's another typical do whatever you want sandbox game like Just Cause 2, the GTAs, and Skyrim, but very little of the environment is actually explorable, and it looks as if they hired the monochrome-obsessed people who designed Borderlands 1 because it's brown red brown red as far as the eye can see (I understand that later in the game like Borderlands, they introduce snowy environment, but there's no way I'm dragging myself through for that). Basically the gimmick in the game is that you can destroy everything and anything with your almighty hammer, and that's the most enjoyable part by far. But that's not enough to make a game. Bringing down buildings one swing at a time does get old eventually, and it draws too much attention. Then the next question would be "can I hit people with this hammer"? Yes, but you don't want to. It's funny to knock the enemies off their feet with it if you manage to run all the way up to them (this game has infinite sprinting) as they riddle you with well-aimed machine guns (this is not easy). You can also kill non hostile NPCs and standard "villagers" with it, but don't expect to get very far in the campaign that way because you're penalized for killing innocents. For a game that sells itself on destructibility, it has some of the sturdiest cars to ever exist. Even when your vehicle is three seconds from blowing up, it has maybe a cracked windshield and a little smoke coming out of the hood. This is opposed to Just Cause 2 where it often felt like you were driving a durable piece of tin foil.

Besides the initial storyline having enough cliches, flat characters, and bad writing to kill a horse, the missions are totally unengaging too. Fetch quests, escort missions, kill/destroy X objectives, all with the bare minimum amount of personality. You can complain that Just Cause 2's story could fall over with a gentle breeze, but it was weird, hilarious, and interesting. Despite how stupidly simple most missions sound, you will be dying left and right even on normal and easy difficulties. The most enemies have lots of health, good armor, and excellent aiming, none of which you seem to have for some reason. You can upgrade weapons as you progress, but the combat system seems flawed from the get go. Difficult gameplay can be fun and motivating, but there's absolutely nothing rewarding about it in this game. There's no sense of accomplishment. It's like "oh hey, the enemies decided not to brutally murder me 3 minutes into the mission this time" not "I have honed my skills to better overcome the challenges the game has presented me with".

I wasn't enjoying myself at all and saw no reason to continue. I bought the game used for $5 so I ain't even mad, well I'm mad at the game, but not mad that I got ripped off.

goddammit people, stop having time to play games!