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JHenckes

Unfortunately, I also have this common habit. When I try to analyze myself, I see as if there's a barrier when I go 2/3 days without playing (often for work or study reasons).

It's as if my mind thinks that all those mechanics I learned would have to be practiced again, and that's one of the reasons I stop playing out of the blue.

So, when I stop to analyze, I think that the busy routine of work and study together with a different view of games, make me have a very weak threshold m persist in the game until the end, I've been trying to improve, but your topic is something very interesting to discuss, congratulations!

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Amoni P

I didn't finish Breath of the Wild because I had gotten everything out of it that I wanted. I didn't need to finish to feel like I had completed the game. I did all the quests, got all the machines, figured out all the puzzles I wanted to solve, and then I found I had exhausted everything I wanted to do. There was just no reason for me to do the final boss. It wouldn't have been fun, why torture myself to do it?

I play games for as long as I'm having fun. Sometimes the thought of finishing the game doesn't feel fun because you know it's over. If you don't finish the game, leave at 80-90% then who knows how many countless hours more you could spend in that world just soaking up everything you love about that game? If you finish the game, there's a finality to it. You might be able to start again with New Game+ type of thing or perhaps just continue from the last save before the final checkpoint, but it's not the same.

And sometimes I think I set down games because I had fun for a bit but then hit a friction point that I wasn't ready to solve and then just never picked it up again. To be clear, friction points aren't bad things, they keep the game from being so easy you don't enjoy it. That said, sometimes a friction point can be a problem you know you could solve but you're just not in the right headspace to do it. So you set down the game and do other things, forget all about it, and then it's six months later and you don't remember all the controls or how to utilize the mechanics effectively; now it's damn near impossible to pick it up from the place you left off so you have to either start again or give up on finishing.

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Sturmer
Amoni P

There was just no reason for me to do the final boss.

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Horror and Cats

I put over 300 hours into The Witcher 3 and was maybe 10 hours away from the endgame. I was OBSESSED with getting the map totally cleared and after a while I just stopped. Never ended up beating it lol

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Sturmer
Horror and Cats

I feel ya... maybe it's some sort of burnout?

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Horror and Cats
Sturmer

Yeah I’m pretty sure I just got tired. Should have just gone for the endgame instead of sticking with the self imposed completion requirement

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SIRCAM

Blue Protocol was so close to get launched...and suddenly this 😔

https://www.playblueprotocol.com/en-us/news/articles/the-future-of-blue-protocol

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Kraken

While i csn quickly switch games, so i have quite a few that i still havr not finished all of these are generally games i started and not even got to the halfway point. If im too close to the end then i have to finish it that day or atleast the next. I literally cannot not finish a game if im near the end it torments me not knowing what the ending is lol. The only thing i dont do is achievement hunt, as to me theres too many games with pointless achievements that just drags out playtime for little to no real reward that i just cant be bothered. One example is batman arkham series, great game but the only boss i never did was the bloody riddler. I just couldnt be bothered hunting down everyone of his riddle quests just to fight him, for me it just dragged something out with not that much payoff.

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Juuni

The one that comes to mind to me (even though I did eventually go back) was Last of Us Part 1.

Got to a point that I just could not get past for some reason, hours of trying, just couldn't break the deadlock I was in. Went to play something else for a bit ....

3 years i think went by. You know what I should try to see if I can finish this.

Did that part in one shot, what felt less than an hour later, the credits rolled.

Like .... what?!

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Sav

It's Tears of the Kingdom for me atm. I want to complete it but I just don't want it to end. I will probably play and beat the final boss one day.

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Sturmer
Sav

Right... Koroks mwa-ha-ha-ha, still not quite sure who is the main villain of the series, them or Ganondorf!

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Sav
Sturmer

Oh definitely the Koroks and why do they keep on loosing their friends in really dangerous places?

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Philip

Might be some subconscious thought process about what it means to be 'done' with something you love. Perhaps you will mourn it?

Maybe leaving it unfinished places it in a state of suspended animation so it will never die for you.

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Paul

I tend to do this alot 😅

I jump between hobbies all the time and this includes games. The last one I played for a while was Dragons Dogma 2 but havnt gone back to it in months.

Im currently obsessed with Kenshi which has no storyline to complete so we'l see how long I play this for lol.

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Lanah Tyra

Kind of me and FF7 Rebirth. I'm only on Chapter 4 and taking my time with it because I want to enjoy it, do everything on every map. I played the OG FF7 so I know what is going to happen or have ideas what direction they may go if they decided to change something, so I'm playing small bits at a time and just really enjoying it because the game is a masterpiece.

Often when games get to a point I stop doing sidequests and just focus on the story because I want to do what's going to happen and then get back to it later. That was the case with FFXV... and I regret progressing with the game past a point without finishing stuff on each map. Yes there is a way to go back and complete stuff after, or there is the NG+, but the last couple of chapters broke me so much that it just feels so sad to go back to the happier maps at the beginning. So if there was a game I could erase from my memory and play it again, that would be it. And this time I would treasure every bit when it comes and not rush the story.

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CMDR Henckes

There is a lot of great games that I dropped but normally before the middle of the game, I think the main exemple is the moment I dropped Red Dead Redemption 2, but the main reason is that it was crashing a lot and I couldn't fix it probably at this time without doubt it is fixe and maybe I play it again, just no need to organize my time to fit the game in my routine.

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Sturmer
CMDR Henckes

Oh ya, RDR2! I started a campaign, like the first 2-3 hours, it was so epic! then switched to online, and after about 40h dropped the game... I think the game is still great hehe

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JHenckes
CMDR Henckes

RDR2 gets a lot of flack for its slow pace, but it makes up for it in so many ways with a very rich gameplay. I hope that one day you'll be able to fix the problem and play again!

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