Holy shit 20k views. I don't know what to say 😂. Thank you everyone for wasting your time listening to me yapping. This means a lot to me! This is the first video that so many people have seriously engaged and it's been a blast reading your comments. I have been motivated to make videos even though no one would watch them just because I love making them. But to see that some people find enjoyment in them is overwhelming. I am already working on the next one and I'm slow AF, so please subscribe to see it when it comes out. Thank you again for the kind words. And enjoy the amazing releases of games that we are blessed to have lately!
Man the quality of this video is in par with multi-millions subs channels. No surprise for me it's now at 50k view. Keep producing this quality of content and viewers will come.
Hey man , this video made me realize that games like MGSV and FFXV were warning us that the future for gaming will be dull , those games were a goodbye kiss to what will come next , dull ugly money grabs , btw nioh 1 and 2 I had the exact same feeling as you
After watching it i would say that one of my personal reasons was, the never existing perfect gaming atmosphere .I wanted to play a game in perfect gaming conditions (late at the night alone ,not having any worries ,any chores to do ,good headphones, etc) .In the contrary i put so many requirements for the perfect atmosphere that in the end I couldn't play because there was something that didn't tick some box . Perfect gaming conditions doesn't exist all of the time and it is wrong to pursue them cause you lose the whole fun in gaming.
This happens with me and horror games. Absolutely love them at 3am, alone in the dark, stoned. But now I'm in my mid 30s and have 1 night a week I can stay up late. Got Dead Space remake in the sale the other month. Got all excited to play it one night, got about 2 hours in and the game crashed, then I fell asleep lol.
This is so true! As children we just had the perfect conditions all the time. Or maybe our perception of what's considred 'perfect conditions' shifted. Or maybe it's more about the headspace... which environment and conditions can't fix. Stress, tiredness, impatience above all...
For me the issue stems more from the fact that accessibility to games has changed drastically. we have access to thousands of games right on our consoles or PC, you get an overwhelming feeling of choice that you may struggle to hold focus on one singular game, there’s always access to something new at any point now. Sometimes i’ll turn my PS5 on and sit on the menu and turn it off after a few mins unable to simply decide what i wanna play. It’s easier to commit to a game as a kid cause you had more time and only played what your parents bought you.
Choice is a bad thing sometimes. The same happens to me almost everyday. But the genie is out of the box, we need to find a way to work with how things are, no way to turn back to simpler times.
I still remember the instant I decided trophy/achievement hunting wasn't going to work. I opened up God of War 3, saw "Make a 1,000 hit combo" under achievements, and noped the hell out. Smartest decision I ever made.
The main causes of the inability to finish video games comes to the following: 1. You spend too much and buy too many games and you acquire a backlog that needs to be played while you constantly expand it; 2. Wasting time with multiplayer games that are the worst type of video games; 3. Too many distractions keeping you from doing your video game related career (be it remunerated or not).
I noticed when I deleted all my social medias I enjoyed games again because I was tempted by unnecessary distractions and doom scrolling. Just live and enjoy the present moment
The only people who think multiplayer games are the worst type of video games are the ones with no friends. Go talk to people. They’re called multiplayer for a reason. It’s fun when you play them WITH people. Coming from someone who’s catalogue is made up of more single player games than multiplayer games.
@@dylanhumphrey2479 Real life is funnier than any multiplayer will ever be. Video games are best experienced alone. They are the worst because they don’t involve nowhere as 30% of the craft needed to make a decent single-player game that isn’t over in 6 hours.
I have trouble finishing games. Even if they are good I often get bored with them before I reach the ending. And what really gets me is playing other games then almost forgetting about the control layout in the previous unfinished game. That makes me not want to go back in again and finish it because it almost feels like learning the game all over again.
That is so true for people that like playing a variaty of games. I felt like that recently when I went back to play god of war for the valhalla DLC. So this would be another reason why I avoid playing DLCs
Worse thing is putting down the controller in an unbeaten boss fight. You go back later and you have forgotten what buttons do what and just keep dying lol. Then you go 'F**k it' and move on.
This I my problem too. As a kid, it worked out to switch between a bunch of games on the nes, since the controls were easy to remember. Nowadays the controls can be insanely advanced and getting back into a game can take a lot of time.
I don't have too much time for gaming, but I always finish a game I start, and I don't play anything else in the meantime. I pick my games carefully, I watch several reviews before starting it, and even if it still disappoints - I don't quit it. I just give it a bad rating in my list of games I've completed in that year. However, I never do achievements, these are just pure grind and I don't have time for that nor is it fun for me. All that matters is a good gameplay and a nice story.
This is usually how I play games now and I've grown to really enjoy them. I don't have the countless hours to get good at FPS games, so sitting down for 2-3 hours to play a beautiful crafted story line game, it feels nice. If the achievements are outside of the main story line, I never get them 🤷♂. Doesn't mean I don't go out of my way for side quests though, depending on the game you play they can be really funny 😆
I’m M39 and I literally can’t stop playing a game until there’s nothing left to do. I put the final mission off for as long as possible because I enjoy it so much I don’t want it to be over. I love gaming. I haven’t always been this way though. I’ve always gamed but not like this. I spent most of my youth entering skateboard and snowboard competitions. When I go a bit older (early 30s) I spent all my free time hiking the Appalachian Trail and traveling. But it been within the last 4 or 5 years that I became completely obsessed with gaming. When I’m not gaming I’m watching gaming videos. At work I think about gaming and the second I get home I get to hear that sweet sweet beep from the PS5. I love gaming and I would never leave a game unfinished.
Only games I hardly ever complete are open world. Even if you skip the side quests/missions, playing the same game for over 30 hours just to be at 50% completion, is very challenging. Another game is going to peak your interest along the way.
Obesessive acquring Trophy/Achievements is indeed a trait that was kinda not healthy, at least for me. Back in the day when I literally wanting to get all the trophies of every game I own is like an accomplishment (after getting the platinum of course), but as the time progressing and adulting and less time to play games, it becomes a chore. So, if you feel achieving all the trophies of any game you play is a chore, I suggest you to re-think and just try to enjoy the game, because it will most likely damage your love for gaming. But if you still enjoy it then continue what you are doing. Happy gaming guys.
You open a valid point for discussion. Why pay for a full game when you only play so little in one. Why can't we pay for the mileage we done in a game instead of the full package deal. Fact is for me, most games I never get past the third or fourth level. One example is that at this point things get repetitive and your mind probably gets a good idea about what to expect on later stages. Same old garbage but vs bigger bosses. So you go play something else.
As an adult now the problem always is that when I am gaming, there is some work i can always be doing instead, or if its late i should be getting sleep hours instead. 😂 doesnt help that i prefer fighting games which wouldn’t count as resting time for the mind either
Chasing a platinum for me is often just a way to express how much I loved the game. It honestly wasn’t that fun getting the Ghost of Tsushima platinum but I loved the game so much and it was so beautiful, I’m still glad I did it. Then there are platinums that I chase to help myself fully explore and understand a game. I finished Bloodborne years ago but there were so many things I skipped or simply scrapped by with. Sitting down and challenging myself to understand and complete the Chalice Dungeons, all with a nice shiny platinum at the end to help motivate me, was an incredibly fulfilling experience.
Personally i don't care about trophies, i have atleast 600hours in bloodborne and even attempted speed runs, still don't have the platinum neither did i looked up which trophies are actually missing lol on the other hand i know people who buy games just for a easy platinum trophy.
Exactly how I feel. Getting the platinum for me is just an expression of how much I love a game. I only will platinum a game I genuinely enjoy. I don’t feel any incentive to play a game just to get an easy platinum. I don’t want people to think I enjoyed that game if it’s actually bad/uninteresting. Edit: If a games platinum is too ridiculous, no mater how much I enjoy a game, I will not risk my enjoyment of a game just to get said platinum. It is all about fun at the end of the day. There are tons of games worth playing, but not trophy hunting for. Most games fall into the former category.
I think for me, Its because I came from the genesis of gaming when a game was a game. You beat it however you could, and it was over. If it had replay value, that was its own reward. Like movies. You see a lot of movies. But you only go back and re-watch the classics. These days, the only things that are easy to platinum are Marvel Lego games, because it's simply just collecting, and the Spider Man games. Everything else is just too time consuming. It doesn't work for normal working adults who have responsibilities looming 24/7.
I noticed a lot of people commenting about open world games being their number one type of games that they don’t feel the urge or even the desire to keep playing, and I can relate to that sentiment. Recently I dropped BOTW after about 10 hours, the game didn’t really clicked with me and for some reason started feeling repetitive and pointless. I also don’t remember the last open world game that I finished. Right now I am enjoying the heck out of Chrono Trigger for the NDS and it’s probably due to the great story and progression. The game gives you clear objectives and a healthy balance of challenges along the way.
I'm in my mid 40s. As I get older I find gaming more and more enjoyable. I am more relaxed than before. Games are easier to navigate and finish. I can appreciate the skill and effort it took to make them. If life is going well then I love gaming. The only time I didn't enjoy gaming was a two year period of depression in my mid 30s. Thanks for the thoughtful video.
I’ve noticed I don’t play newer games for as long as older games. I blame it on Open World games, the market is so saturated with them I can’t be asked to spend time looking at all the content cause I have to dig through 25 hours of uninteresting gameplay just for maybe an hour of meaningful gameplay experience. I can’t asked to experience a game if a majority of the play time is me running around fighting the same enemies, I’m the same looking areas, doing the same thing I’ve been doing for hours, it just feels so lack luster, completely devoid of anything meaningful. I’ve also learned of the game play is too good the story sucks, while if the story is really good the gameplay is good or extremely boring.
Open world isn't the problem, it's the Ubisoft-ification of open world's. And difficulty in gauging the right size for the content available, and narrative value it may add. Mad Max as an example, pretty empty and desolate world, it's a big map with sparse activities. But, it's also Mad Max, a post apocalypse taking place in Australia (kinda isn't, kinda is. Depends how far out to sea you consider to be Australia.) where you spend most of your time driving. It works narratively and since you also always have a car, it works gameplay wise. Semi-open is arguably better because it's easier to make it fit the gameplay and narrative, as opposed to trying to bend those to justify the open world. But a semi-open GTA:SA wouldn't work, and a semi-open Half Life wouldn't work, and they're two of the greatest games ever made. I don't know off the top of my head if there's a semi-open world game that could be considered one of the best games ever, so kinda defeating myself here, but I'm likely forgetting a bunch of possible examples. Probably have to actually define semi-open first, like if it's with or without a loading screen between areas then they'll come to mind.
I had that experience that you described with BOTW. Currently playing Chrono Trigger for NDS and I am almost at the end of it with just about 20 hours of gameplay.
This was a very thought provoking video and I was scared to watch it as it touched on parts of my life that I had difficulties dealing with. If I can provide any takeaways, it's this: Mostly people play video games because they are trying to latch on to their protected childhood, or prevent themselves from potential emotional trauma. When I let go of my anger, fear and insecurities, I started enjoying video games again. This is me at age 35. So if you stop treating video games as placeholders for your issues, this whole video becomes kinda pointless. Because if you can control what you do rather than the things you do controlling you, you will truly begin to appreciate video games for the works of art they are. The key is in finding that balance. Sorry if I sounded preachy and all the best to anyone reading this comment.
Games are too long. People have jobs. Stuff they have to do. We just don’t have hundreds of hours to spare any more, and if you don’t play for a week or so you’d better hope there’s a good quest log or you have no idea where you were or what you were supposed to be doing.
And the quests/story doesn't work if its pieced together by scraps you have to remember months later. Better games deliver tangible moments with conclusions that satisfy in every play session. I'm not going to sit down and go after a single quest, if it means 10 play sessions to get there.
Hey I have been playing The Witcher 3 for 10 years now. Still have not gotten past the barons mutant child. I end up wandering off to do some other side quest then leave again. I also forget which parts I played already lol.
I can't tell you the number of times of restarted Skyrim or Fallout because I've forgotten what I've done, what I collected, etc. I have so many games I haven't finished 😩
I disagree if anything games are getting shorter(not even getting to 30 hours)i bought dark souls 3 goty edition and the game is so disappointing and short that i feel like i wasted my Money. If you want shorter games Linear experiences are still available from God of war to sekiro just avoid jrpgs,mmos and live service games
I find what works best for me is to play different style games. For example I finished Marvel’s Spider-Man. The first one from 2018. I could play Miles Morales and then Spider-Man 2. But I KNOW I’ll get burned out on those games because they’re all exactly the same. So what I’m going to do is play Metro Exodus. Since the game is totally different and the mechanics are different, it helps me not get burned out. I also play a game to finish the story. That’s it. I will not collect everything if it’s not fun. In fact I’ve dropped a couple games that required me to grind collectibles. Assassins Creed being one of those games. I just move on.
Nah, I'm a trucker who is only home 1 day a week. But I still 100% my games pretty quickly. Admittedly though these modern games are a bit stressful to complete due to all of this online nonsense.
I often don't go back to games, and quit games for that matter, when I feel like I have had all the mechanics taught to me. Or at least feel I have not learned a new mechanic in a long time. I feel it's hard for me to want to keep playing another 20+ hours if I got all the mechanics and know what the gameplay loop is like, like I can just fill in the rest of the game in my head and be satisfied putting it down.
Too many games release at same time so the fomo feeling kicking in and ur just moving on. And also open world fatigue. In my head while Im playing ”Just get to the point!”. I think Why it was easier to get stuck in a game before was because of the simplicity. There is a reason Why games like warzone, Apex and fortnite are stil most played today, because its sticking to its point. And mostly because of social media effect we dont have the same patience anymore
I’m too much of a completionist and so many games now want to be 100+ hours rpg / open worlds. These games just take me months or even years to finish while my backlog just keeps growing. I’m just glad I quit caring about trophies/achievements a long time ago.
Honestly surprised you're so small! I was watching your video and I was just thinking that it deserves so much more than what the algorithm is giving it currently. Keep up the hard work! You're getting places!
Well I don't post too often as you might have noticed. Algorithm hates that. Also I used to edit in my shitty ass laptops that made my life a living hell when it came to editing. And to be fair I have waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much room for impromenent.
There are too many games, and I have limited time. Baldur's Gate 3 is a good recent example. I played the game for two weeks straights trying to reach the end, but it dragged on and on. After a point I realized I needed to go back into the world to interact with people, date and exercise, and focus more on work and my personal projects, like the science fantasy novel I'm writing. While I would have loved to have finished Baldur's Gate other games pulled my attention, but if my schedule barely game me time to play those games, the reality of finishing Baldur's Gate is slim.
I quit playing Tales of Vesperia 20 hours in, came back and finished the game 2 years later. Some others, like MegaMan X Command Mission or Tactics Ogre Reborn, haven't been as lucky. I don't care about trophies/achievements, and I consider besting the game as getting to the ending credits, on standard/default difficulty if possible. I have beaten over 800 games of varying degrees of length, genre, and difficulty. Doesn't matter to anyone else but me. Dragon Quest Heroes 2, a game I love and one of the few I played through twice, has a trophy that relies on obtaining all monster coins, obtained at random by beating the monster that matches the coin, but some coins just never dropped, so I quit. I was at a maxed out level & could destroy all in my path at that point. If the game feels like a chore, then it is not worth playing anymore. I do play to have fun.
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in terms of the contents i usually 100% a game before moving on to another game (maybe except skyrim coz i think i spent more times trying different mods than actually finishing it lol), achievements/trophy doesnt really matter for me especially if they dont even lead to additional contents which means its just a waste of time.. my only problem is when theres new games that i really anticipated that i cant immediatedly jump into coz i'm still working to 100% a game and sometimes i find it difficult to avoid spoilers..
Unfortunately it happens to me plenty of the time.. it took me 2 years to finish Blasphemous but after finally completing it i ended up loving it & wondering how it takes me so long to finish these great games..good insight video man.
@@Zherdi_Dangaj what a honor lol 😆 but foreal I hope you end up liking it as much as I did after finally completing it. I'm currently playing through the sequel 👍
I used to grind games for 100% trophies back in 2008 to 2014 on PS3 I remember spending a whole summer grinding FarCry 2 and Crysis 2 every day, it was when I got my PS4 I stopped caring about this and just play a game till I've had enough and no more silly grinding like 10,000 multiplayer kills.
Your ff16 story kinda reminds me how I'm sitting with bloodborne I'm missing 1 singular trophy in bloodborne is it the challace dungeons one nope slogged through them its the one for killing the moon presence because I botched getting an umbilical cord third by killing someone early and if I want that final trophy I'll have to play through the whole game again and I can't really get myself to do it and its been sitting like that for 3 years according to my trophy dates
you are right im 1 achievement away from finishing elden ring achievements. and its sad but i loved the game finished it 3 times and missed the "evil" ending. and while i love the game i can't get myself to play it again for more than half an hour:(
Dissapointment or burnout are the big reason when I don't finish a game. Redfall quickly turned out a joke. I picked it up dirtcheap and it still wasn't worth my effort. (unlike some hated games I played a ton. I'm one of 3 people in the world that love Anthem) Elden Ring on the other hand i got 3/4rd of the way in and burned out due to slow progress. Nioh 2 I enjoyed but the slow grind/struggle ended up with me reinstalling Dragon's Dogma and playing that again. Some of Ubisoft's collectathon's i need to play in 2 or 3 sittings with many many months in between sometimes to finish.
I often come back and finish a game later especially long games. That doesn't mean I come back for every game. I have a lot of unfinished games. This is a downside of gamepass as I can't start a game on gamepass and come back later as there is a good chance it will no longer be on gamepass. One of the best things about the Steam Deck is going back to finish games I started years ago and play on the go.
I'm 37 and although I still have the same urge to game as I always have, for some reason I am barely finishing any games. I ended up finishing Super Mario Wonder, but even games like Tears of the Kingdom, which I loved, I still haven't finished.
If you stop playing a game and don't have the urge to come back, it's because the game sucks. People like you just don't like to admit it to anyone, let alone to themselves.
The best part is that you don't have to finish every game you play. If the game doesn't click with you just move on to one that does. Life is too short to assume we have enough time to beat every game out there. Only play games that you truly enjoy and can fully get into.
Before I watch this, I'm going to say it's because I watch TH-cam while playing games and don't fully immerse myself in games anymore. So my engagement drops along with the joy of playing the game. I then don't feel like playing the game again and move on to the next one. Repeat.
It's also a time investment thing. I find myself with less and less free time, and if a game hasn't hooked me in an hour or two, I'd rather pick something else up.
So this way you don't fully enjoy the game and you don't fully enjoy the youtube video. That sounds like the worst of both worlds. But to be fair I like to hear to a podcast when playing Grand tourismo 7 or when I do pointless sidequests for the trophies, so it's not like I'm always immersing my self to the game as well.
i do this too but i’ve been trying to stop lately like i just played through all of resident evil 2 remake recently without watching youtube while playing and it actually was so amazing
It's more about life's other challenges as you get older. In our youth we were carefree. Especially if our parents took care of our needs and wants. Once you hit reality and have a job to hold down, a GF, a wife and kids, a mortgage to repay etc. They take up all your free time and you get disillusioned with life. Things are not as shiny and magical anymore.
Ive put almost 500 hours into bg3. That game is fucking amazing. Nearly 6/7 play throughs and still finding things i didnt know about or were unaware of. Honour mode was great, so many games are so easy and brain dead nowadays.
I'm looking for a "quiet" period in my life to start bg3, I fully understand that I would need to fully dedicate myself to it, so I'm looking for the perfect opportunity. Last time I thought like this, it took me years to actually get around playing the game in question. Let's hope this time it will not be the same.
I usually always beat a game before moving on the next one. I started focusing on getting all trophies for games but last year so many came out that I got a little overwhelmed lol
The most replayable game of all time in my opinion is Dead Space 2. Literally i have done like atleast 10 NG+ runs on ONE save before my game pass expired.
Honestly my ability to not finish games comes from the fact I am trying out a new genre. I have been a HUGE FPS player (Old School and New School COD, CS:GO and CS2, Apex, Fortnite, R6) and now I'm getting into more story-like campaign games like Dark Souls, God of War, The Callisto Protocol, and the Spider-Man series to name a few.
i am a game completionist and i particulary like the yakuza series i remember the day i bought yakuza 0 out of curiosity and the after i finished it i was like man that was good why not get the platinum and then spent one year getting it because i was like yeah today i will get more throphies and then backed out because i wasnt having fun but there was a strange drive so i had to keep going now i have platinums on the majority of the yakuza games and watching this video made me realise that i dont need to push myself to get the throphy i just need to enjoy
The main reason I drop games is because life get's in the way and I can't continue playing due to time constraints. Which is also the reason I don't continue later. You forget mechanics, nuances in the story etc. So you have to start over again and play stuff you've already played again. Which sucks when you only have such limited time to play at all. It's a simple reason really, but the bane of my existence.
Having too many games or its too frustrating for me but there are some games that you have the urge to play over and over again so you delete a game that you're also interested in too make space for that one game
I like 100%ing games because it's my brain's way of setting a game on its way after my time with it. If it's a grind, It becomes my podcast game. But I play a lot of games, and sometimes I don't 100%. No particular reason. Gaming is fun for me. And even a bad game can be a fun puzzle to pull apart to 100%. I don't like using a guide if it can be helped. That does add a lot of time to my gameplay.
We don't finish our games because there's mainly a wide choice... A lot of games are released every month or even every week, and sometimes we're interested in several games at once, which creates a problem in terms of knowing where to start and what to do.... it's not that simple. Another important factor: You need a lot of time to be able to play and invest yourself in a game because, yes, even if a game seems to please you, you need to get into the game and enjoy what you're doing.... if the pleasure of playing a particular game isn't there, then you decide not to play any more, because personally I hate forcing myself to play or finish a game if I don't like it... I've given up on a lot of games like that without ever coming back to them (with the exception of a minority of games that I ended up finishing).
I've never been a gamer per se. I got a PS5 about 6 months into its release and a Plus subscription. Most of the games that came in the bundle I never played or completed. I did have an Xbox One before that and always have had a PC. But I could never get excited enough to complete whatever was on any of them (Doom 2016, RIse of the Tomb Raider, DMC5. All which came free with a GPU upgrade). For some reason when the pandemic hit it meant I was more involved with contacting my family. My bother got a PS5 and we fell into some online cooperative gaming. Discovered Ghost of Tsushima Legends expansion. Having never played the single player game we put hundreds of hours into it. Grabbing as many trophies as we could. But when it came to the raids part of the expansion we both lost interest. My brother especially hated that we had to join up with other players and the raids were cryptic in how they were meant to be played (like the blind jumps where another played had to try and explain the color coding for each jump. That was simply ridiculous). We quit after that and the pandemic lockdowns were lifted. Since then I have played a few other single player titles to completion. Some I even got platinums for (Ratched and Rift Apart, Rise and Shadow of the Tomb Raider). I then went back and played the single player campaign of Ghost of Tsushima. I played through on easy mode because I just wanted a chill experience and absorb the story and atmosphere. Just because you play on easy mode does not mean you are 'lame'. We play games for fun. Not always for 'the challenge'. I got the platinum but not all the collectibles. I realized a lot of costumes are still unlocked in Legends mode because of this. I am considering playing it again on New Game+ on regular difficulty as I enjoyed the game so much. It really is a work of art and how they got it running at 60 fps is beyond me. Anyhow wall of text besides. Sometimes like life in general gaming is about the journey. Not the end result. It's all subjective and meaningless whereby the only meaning is the one you apply to it. Just do whatever makes it worthwhile to you and don't allow others to judge. P.S. I still never got the platinum on Jedia Fallen Order or Jedi Survivor despite loving those games to bits. Some things are not worth chasing when the ride comes to an end. Get off the fairground ride and move on.
I felt almost all of this, in 2023. I've never bought so many many AAA games in a single year, and I've never been so disappointed. For me, the best experience was actually Hogwarts. But I never felt like a Hogwarts student. I was just an adventurer who sometimes slept in the dorm. The achievements were the big problem, here. There was just no point in finishing them all. Then there's everyone's beloved BG3. I got about 2/3 of the way through, but happily dropped it, when Starfield came out. Starfield never seemed to capture the Bethesda magic. I played a long time but never had much fun. Cities Skylines 2 was fine, but it will take a while before my preferred build themes drop. Fortunately, I can pick up Skyrim, or New Vegas, or even Vampire, the Masquerade, and always have a good time. I wish I could tell developers what makes those games fun and so many others not ... but I just don't know.
My main thing when continuing to play more and more games Is to set up multiple games for myself to fully complete and obtain the platinum, most recent ones I got we're Arkham Asylum and City. I have about 116 Platinums In total and a lot of them we're a pain to complete but felt worth it. Outlast 2 was probably the hardest platinum through out my journey of hunting trophies.
Good video. Recommended just as I went to my bed to rot after looking at my installed games like Cyberpunk and Metro that are about 75% completed for about 25 minutes and not playing any of them.
I also find myself staring at my installed Cyberpunk and then deciding to turn it off after a short short time . I'm not even THAT far . Weird too bc I bought the game IMMEDIATELY after finishing the demo straight through ... yet I haven't progressed a whole ton past that :/
You wanna free advise from person who beat close to 460 games ? Well here it is HAVE 1-2 games installed only ! Mark my words you beat the game you'll start When you have 100s games installed even 5 or more you cannot concentrate on 1
I think the problem for my case is how daunting games are anymore to finish, sure I love a game like Rdr2, but to fully complete it and achieve the staues of bragging rights to the voices in my head, I have to dump all my attention and time into a game that I don't have time for nearly as much as when I was a kid, plus thats just 1 game out of 200, and half of all thoughs games are fuckin 20 to 30 hours long with side content that can make that even longer depending on you as a player, as much as I want to complete these games, I just don't have the time nor the care to anymore, I enjoy them while I can, and hey even try to at least finish the main campaigns and stuff at the very least
I also played yakuza kiwami and loved it , then couple months later i tried 0 and the first couple hours it just didn't click ... so i dropped the game & returned to it few weeks later & man the story got so good i couldn't put the controller down , it was ridiculous !! Waaay better than kiwami , i am so glad i gave it a shot , & now few months after finishing 0 i am playing through kiwami 2 .
*I try to only play one game at a time...and only play another when its of a different genre. an RPG, a sports game and a fighting game usually 👍 playing 2 or 3 games of the same genre conflicts too much with my muscle memory, gets me feeling overwhelmed and i probably won't finish any of them 😂 also having boring drawn out missions is a sure fire way to get me to not finish your game 👍 I buy games to have fun, not to be bored 😬 reason why ive never beat a GTA game* 🕵
That's a good approach. Whenever I try to start another game from the same genre I end up replacing the first one with the new one. I am fully aware of it and every time I act surprised
If I don't return to a game, it's because I don't like it. If I did, it's because I did like it and want to finish it. Just went back and beat Furi the other day. It's a great game and I wanted to beat it since I had stopped due to one of the bosses not gelling with me. But I dug in and finally beat them and finished the main story.
I say the thing for me is i just want fun or stupid action in an instance, feeling like im too busy for 50+ hour storys. I love the rgg games, but im not really excited for 8 barely halway on lost judgment and haven't even started gaiden, This is one of my all-time favorites. I swear i have only been touching the same 4 Samurai Warriors 4 games and the same situation with nioh. The only reason I kept pushing with nioh was because it had the same characters from samurai warriors but the same frustrations and tiredness.
The other day I actually finished FF 16+dlc.. When I came across this video I was going crazy trying to figure out what to tackle next.. Do I go to something completely new or try to finish one of the other games I have a lot of hours in.. It feels so overwhelming looking at the backlog part of me just wants to give up & go to sleep😂
I can relate immensely to the Final Fantasy 16 platinum pain. I wanted to get it but it just felt too much for me. But recently i was going to platinum Spiderman 2, which was an easy one. But one of my trophies (The Hang Ten trophy) decided to bug and now im here without a platinum trophy. I never had the motivation to get one and the one time i decided to and actually had it within my grasp it just bugs. Its devastating
I have a habit of getting the Platinum for the first game in a series and then giving up on the sequels. Maybe someday I'll finish them but there is usually something I don't want to do like how some of the Kingdom Hearts games demand a perfect score in some random mini game that I don't want to play to start with 😂
00:02 Understanding why games remain unfinished 02:30 Struggling to finish Yakuza games due to lack of captivation 04:18 Initial intrigue led to disappointment in game mechanics. 06:09 Overcoming challenges and completing games despite flaws 08:20 Struggling with completing games due to trophy hunting and burnout. 10:25 Struggles of finishing games due to saturation 12:18 Different motivations affect how games are finished 14:20 Understanding subjective factors affecting game completion
I was doing a full playthrough of Yakuza series and got stuck on Yakuza 3 in 2021, now when Infinite Wealth is around the corner I started continuing my save and now have got thru past the difficult parts and played thru all the previous games and now I'm ready for the newest game xd What got me back into Yakuza games was the realization that there is tons of abilities in the game that people overlook 90% of the time and I want to master the game and basically finish every single enemy in a new way.
Assassins Creed: Relevations was my first platinum and it was really easy compared to any AC game before that. it took me a week and I think Relevations was only good because it was so short and a good warmup for the AC3 where the series should've ended.
I wish my AC platinum trophy absession would end with revelations as well. Thanfully I haven't touched the latest entries. I need a solid break from the series (as do most) as well as the developers do.
I think in Final Fantasy XVI you just didn't quite hit the area/marker for the location you're missing? I unlocked it no issue (had to hunt for the last 1 or 2 Areas though myself, ones I had just overlooked/hadn't actually reached) I got everything besides the "FF Difficulty" Trophy, those are actually the type that I usually skip/leave as the 1 Trophy barring me from the Plat. cause I ain't got time for that shit 😅
I love Ghost of Tsuma and it's the only game I've ever platinumed. I put 100 hrs into it. I was so excited to play the DLC but it pissed me off that they force you to replay the entire first part of the story. Which to this day I haven't. I tried going back to the game a few weeks ago and I've completely forgotten how to play it and have zero desire to go through it again.
@@Zherdi_Dangaj 3 classes x 5 difficulty settings x 78 missions. A mission can easily last more than one hour and on highest difficulty a mistake is usually fatal. No checkpoints, no in-mission saves. Add a few more hours for weapon and armor farming. By the way, there are hundreds of weapons for each class, so some hours spent on weapon testing. And there is also the secret difficulty setting "impossible", which I almost didn't play. Έγραψα στα Αγγλικά για να τα διαβάσουν και όσοι δεν ξέρουν Ελληνικά.
I had a weird phase when before buying a new game, I looked the trophies up and only bought it, if platinum "seemed doable". Of course I have a lot of games where I never achieved Platinum and eventually dropped that "criteria". xD But yeah, when I can, I still try to achieve platinum. 40 y/o and single, so lot's of time to play after work. ;_;
I've been grinding games since I was a kid on PS1, starting with Spyro and Crash Bandicoot. That said, I do have way more fun playing a game without trophy hunting. Did my first play though of AWII getting all the collectibles and it was a slog, doing NG+ is a blast just going through. I have the platinum for Bloodborne, Sekiro, ER, but have no intention of getting it for any DS game cause it's just too much of a grind for me. I tried Nioh and could not get into it. I put 50ish hours into the Witcher 3 and stopped, just couldn't get into it. Maybe I'll pick up again after I play through TLOU Part 2. Ugh, too many games to play man. It's hard when you're an adult with a career and a relationship.
It will come around, don't worry. You still don't have kids so there's always a window. Look, it makes it even more special when you never get the time to do it and finally an opportunity reveals itself. It can be as simple as you being sick and taking a day off and your partner is somewhere else. Perfect opportunity to get lost in a game. Days like that can be magical, even though they sound dull to most people.
I like finishing them I only got into platinums recently like 2 years ago not sure why but I like it I think it’s to not feel the burden next time I feel a Spider-Man game or something but if I feel to saturated I try and do a story game while I platinum other games I have like 2-3 platinums waiting but last 2-3 trophies just reading the road map takes like 2 hour videos so while I try and do that I also try and play a story game cause if not I would go insane just playing last if us multiplayer until week 6 to be reset again Thanks for the video tho maybe I needed to hear this
Personally I dont finish long games. I actually dislike them a lot. Even the ones I like. The only time I completed a long game was Final Fantasy remake but it was 2020 and we were in lockdown. I still haven't finished either God of War games. I play them until the end but it's taken so long I get bored. The perfect gameplay time for me is at max 20 hours. I enjoy quality over quantity. For example Spider-Man games are perfect. I never worry about 100% completing them. I have a blast while playing the main story with a few side missions to gain attributes. In the end it's the perfect length. Same with Ratchet and Clank rift apart. You can finish that game in 11-13 hours and it was a blast the whole way through. But these longer games, though fun can really be a chore to complete and it gets stale/boring.
I usually beat the games main story, but actually "finishing" or "completing" a game is too hard. Most games expect you to go above and beyond to finish them
Third scenario for me with EVERY souls like game. I tried Dark Souls numerous times and always end up rage quitting. Tried Dark Souls 2 & 3 too. Same issue. I simply do not have the patience or skill to deal with that particular style. (I am bad at dodging mainly). I deem it a very toxic relationship for myself, for I avoid them for the sake of my health. The games are great, it is not their fault. Just not a good fit for me.
I finished witcher 3 two times, proudly gave up FF13 (the story is shit), i'm currently finishing Darksiders genesis. I got no problem finishing games i enjoy. VERY IMPORTANT DETAIL: i couldn't give a shit for achievements also i have 4.5k hours in vermintide 2.
Your issue seems to be not starting new games! Stay tuned for the next video(I'm kidding) But at least you don't care about trophies or achievements. Caring about these shitty digital rewards feels like smoking for gamers. Consider yourself saved 💪
@@Zherdi_Dangaj Exactly do you think these achievements will be displayed on your grave? When was the last time you cared about the game achievements of others? do you think they care about yours? Gamer vermintide two is amazing!
I played games since the ps1 came out I enjoyed those games, no trophies they were just simple rpg, I think trophy achievement ruin the enjoyment of the game itself, now I just focus on the game itself.
I find myself ditching a game when I'm stuck on a ridiculous level or chapter. Bioshock Infinite pissed me off several times with unbalanced spikes in difficulty and Booker moving like a turtle. And second, just losing interest in a game, modern games have bad pacing, and a chapter in a modern game can drag on forever another reason why I lose interest.
I had an experience like you mentioned with The Witcher 3. I tried playing it like 3 or 4 times and could not get into it. I would get to the bloody baron and give up. Then when COVID-19 caused the U.S to lockdown I picked it up and could not put it down and now I'm a huge Witcher fan.
It's a curious thing. A friend of mine stopped at around the same point (baron part) 3 times and fell off. He decided after some time to try one last time and this time...fell in love. Witcher is an example that keeps coming up from people
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Holy shit 20k views. I don't know what to say 😂. Thank you everyone for wasting your time listening to me yapping. This means a lot to me!
This is the first video that so many people have seriously engaged and it's been a blast reading your comments. I have been motivated to make videos even though no one would watch them just because I love making them. But to see that some people find enjoyment in them is overwhelming.
I am already working on the next one and I'm slow AF, so please subscribe to see it when it comes out.
Thank you again for the kind words. And enjoy the amazing releases of games that we are blessed to have lately!
To moar Plat's 🍷xD but seriously tho, it was a really nice video to listen to.
Man the quality of this video is in par with multi-millions subs channels. No surprise for me it's now at 50k view. Keep producing this quality of content and viewers will come.
Hey man , this video made me realize that games like MGSV and FFXV were warning us that the future for gaming will be dull , those games were a goodbye kiss to what will come next , dull ugly money grabs , btw nioh 1 and 2 I had the exact same feeling as you
I'll finish this video later
Here we go again
Man I do the same thing all the time
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Same
After watching it i would say that one of my personal reasons was, the never existing perfect gaming atmosphere .I wanted to play a game in perfect gaming conditions (late at the night alone ,not having any worries ,any chores to do ,good headphones, etc) .In the contrary i put so many requirements for the perfect atmosphere that in the end I couldn't play because there was something that didn't tick some box . Perfect gaming conditions doesn't exist all of the time and it is wrong to pursue them cause you lose the whole fun in gaming.
This. This is exactly how I feel.
That could be easily applied to all things in life. Stop looking for perfection and enjoy things. Great comment ❤
This happens with me and horror games. Absolutely love them at 3am, alone in the dark, stoned. But now I'm in my mid 30s and have 1 night a week I can stay up late.
Got Dead Space remake in the sale the other month. Got all excited to play it one night, got about 2 hours in and the game crashed, then I fell asleep lol.
@@GangsterFrankensteinComputerLol rip :D
This is so true! As children we just had the perfect conditions all the time.
Or maybe our perception of what's considred 'perfect conditions' shifted.
Or maybe it's more about the headspace... which environment and conditions can't fix. Stress, tiredness, impatience above all...
For me the issue stems more from the fact that accessibility to games has changed drastically. we have access to thousands of games right on our consoles or PC, you get an overwhelming feeling of choice that you may struggle to hold focus on one singular game, there’s always access to something new at any point now. Sometimes i’ll turn my PS5 on and sit on the menu and turn it off after a few mins unable to simply decide what i wanna play. It’s easier to commit to a game as a kid cause you had more time and only played what your parents bought you.
Choice is a bad thing sometimes. The same happens to me almost everyday. But the genie is out of the box, we need to find a way to work with how things are, no way to turn back to simpler times.
I still remember the instant I decided trophy/achievement hunting wasn't going to work. I opened up God of War 3, saw "Make a 1,000 hit combo" under achievements, and noped the hell out. Smartest decision I ever made.
That trophy is super easy I promise
There is a place to do it and all you have to do is keep hitting the attack button.
Easy trophy you just dogshit
I did that one on accident it’s an easy trophy
Try it again brother, the gods of war do not lie. I got the platinum trophy on PS4.
The main causes of the inability to finish video games comes to the following: 1. You spend too much and buy too many games and you acquire a backlog that needs to be played while you constantly expand it; 2. Wasting time with multiplayer games that are the worst type of video games; 3. Too many distractions keeping you from doing your video game related career (be it remunerated or not).
I noticed when I deleted all my social medias I enjoyed games again because I was tempted by unnecessary distractions and doom scrolling. Just live and enjoy the present moment
The only people who think multiplayer games are the worst type of video games are the ones with no friends. Go talk to people. They’re called multiplayer for a reason. It’s fun when you play them WITH people. Coming from someone who’s catalogue is made up of more single player games than multiplayer games.
Agree
@@dylanhumphrey2479 Real life is funnier than any multiplayer will ever be. Video games are best experienced alone. They are the worst because they don’t involve nowhere as 30% of the craft needed to make a decent single-player game that isn’t over in 6 hours.
@@cezarstefanseghjucan you 100% have no friends to play games with and it shows 😂
I have trouble finishing games. Even if they are good I often get bored with them before I reach the ending. And what really gets me is playing other games then almost forgetting about the control layout in the previous unfinished game. That makes me not want to go back in again and finish it because it almost feels like learning the game all over again.
That is so true for people that like playing a variaty of games. I felt like that recently when I went back to play god of war for the valhalla DLC. So this would be another reason why I avoid playing DLCs
Worse thing is putting down the controller in an unbeaten boss fight. You go back later and you have forgotten what buttons do what and just keep dying lol. Then you go 'F**k it' and move on.
@@MopantsuWait, you don't come back the next morning and beat it first try?
This I my problem too. As a kid, it worked out to switch between a bunch of games on the nes, since the controls were easy to remember. Nowadays the controls can be insanely advanced and getting back into a game can take a lot of time.
This is me, exactly!!
I don't have too much time for gaming, but I always finish a game I start, and I don't play anything else in the meantime. I pick my games carefully, I watch several reviews before starting it, and even if it still disappoints - I don't quit it. I just give it a bad rating in my list of games I've completed in that year. However, I never do achievements, these are just pure grind and I don't have time for that nor is it fun for me. All that matters is a good gameplay and a nice story.
This is usually how I play games now and I've grown to really enjoy them. I don't have the countless hours to get good at FPS games, so sitting down for 2-3 hours to play a beautiful crafted story line game, it feels nice. If the achievements are outside of the main story line, I never get them 🤷♂. Doesn't mean I don't go out of my way for side quests though, depending on the game you play they can be really funny 😆
I’m M39 and I literally can’t stop playing a game until there’s nothing left to do. I put the final mission off for as long as possible because I enjoy it so much I don’t want it to be over. I love gaming. I haven’t always been this way though. I’ve always gamed but not like this. I spent most of my youth entering skateboard and snowboard competitions. When I go a bit older (early 30s) I spent all my free time hiking the Appalachian Trail and traveling. But it been within the last 4 or 5 years that I became completely obsessed with gaming. When I’m not gaming I’m watching gaming videos. At work I think about gaming and the second I get home I get to hear that sweet sweet beep from the PS5. I love gaming and I would never leave a game unfinished.
Only games I hardly ever complete are open world. Even if you skip the side quests/missions, playing the same game for over 30 hours just to be at 50% completion, is very challenging. Another game is going to peak your interest along the way.
If it’s good as GTA V, then it’s not challenging, I replayed it so many times
@@HugoElcabezasin my whole life i only beat gta 5 once qnd have it bought on all platforms possible xD
Obesessive acquring Trophy/Achievements is indeed a trait that was kinda not healthy, at least for me.
Back in the day when I literally wanting to get all the trophies of every game I own is like an accomplishment (after getting the platinum of course), but as the time progressing and adulting and less time to play games, it becomes a chore.
So, if you feel achieving all the trophies of any game you play is a chore, I suggest you to re-think and just try to enjoy the game, because it will most likely damage your love for gaming.
But if you still enjoy it then continue what you are doing.
Happy gaming guys.
It is the only thing keeping me into video games. The completionist mindset is the greatest reward to this task.
You open a valid point for discussion. Why pay for a full game when you only play so little in one. Why can't we pay for the mileage we done in a game instead of the full package deal. Fact is for me, most games I never get past the third or fourth level. One example is that at this point things get repetitive and your mind probably gets a good idea about what to expect on later stages. Same old garbage but vs bigger bosses. So you go play something else.
As an adult now the problem always is that when I am gaming, there is some work i can always be doing instead, or if its late i should be getting sleep hours instead. 😂 doesnt help that i prefer fighting games which wouldn’t count as resting time for the mind either
Chasing a platinum for me is often just a way to express how much I loved the game. It honestly wasn’t that fun getting the Ghost of Tsushima platinum but I loved the game so much and it was so beautiful, I’m still glad I did it.
Then there are platinums that I chase to help myself fully explore and understand a game. I finished Bloodborne years ago but there were so many things I skipped or simply scrapped by with. Sitting down and challenging myself to understand and complete the Chalice Dungeons, all with a nice shiny platinum at the end to help motivate me, was an incredibly fulfilling experience.
Same here, that is the bright side of chasing trophies. But as you know there's also a dark, dark side.
Personally i don't care about trophies, i have atleast 600hours in bloodborne and even attempted speed runs, still don't have the platinum neither did i looked up which trophies are actually missing lol on the other hand i know people who buy games just for a easy platinum trophy.
Exactly how I feel. Getting the platinum for me is just an expression of how much I love a game. I only will platinum a game I genuinely enjoy. I don’t feel any incentive to play a game just to get an easy platinum. I don’t want people to think I enjoyed that game if it’s actually bad/uninteresting.
Edit: If a games platinum is too ridiculous, no mater how much I enjoy a game, I will not risk my enjoyment of a game just to get said platinum. It is all about fun at the end of the day. There are tons of games worth playing, but not trophy hunting for. Most games fall into the former category.
Exactly i ONLY get the plat of games that i loved ,i currently have 14 from Spiderman to Dynasty warriors
I think for me, Its because I came from the genesis of gaming when a game was a game. You beat it however you could, and it was over. If it had replay value, that was its own reward. Like movies. You see a lot of movies. But you only go back and re-watch the classics.
These days, the only things that are easy to platinum are Marvel Lego games, because it's simply just collecting, and the Spider Man games.
Everything else is just too time consuming. It doesn't work for normal working adults who have responsibilities looming 24/7.
I noticed a lot of people commenting about open world games being their number one type of games that they don’t feel the urge or even the desire to keep playing, and I can relate to that sentiment. Recently I dropped BOTW after about 10 hours, the game didn’t really clicked with me and for some reason started feeling repetitive and pointless. I also don’t remember the last open world game that I finished. Right now I am enjoying the heck out of Chrono Trigger for the NDS and it’s probably due to the great story and progression. The game gives you clear objectives and a healthy balance of challenges along the way.
It’s ok to say “BOTW is booooooriiiing af”, like shockingly boring
I'm in my mid 40s. As I get older I find gaming more and more enjoyable. I am more relaxed than before. Games are easier to navigate and finish. I can appreciate the skill and effort it took to make them. If life is going well then I love gaming. The only time I didn't enjoy gaming was a two year period of depression in my mid 30s. Thanks for the thoughtful video.
I’ve noticed I don’t play newer games for as long as older games. I blame it on Open World games, the market is so saturated with them I can’t be asked to spend time looking at all the content cause I have to dig through 25 hours of uninteresting gameplay just for maybe an hour of meaningful gameplay experience. I can’t asked to experience a game if a majority of the play time is me running around fighting the same enemies, I’m the same looking areas, doing the same thing I’ve been doing for hours, it just feels so lack luster, completely devoid of anything meaningful.
I’ve also learned of the game play is too good the story sucks, while if the story is really good the gameplay is good or extremely boring.
Sounds like life.
Open world isn't the problem, it's the Ubisoft-ification of open world's. And difficulty in gauging the right size for the content available, and narrative value it may add.
Mad Max as an example, pretty empty and desolate world, it's a big map with sparse activities. But, it's also Mad Max, a post apocalypse taking place in Australia (kinda isn't, kinda is. Depends how far out to sea you consider to be Australia.) where you spend most of your time driving. It works narratively and since you also always have a car, it works gameplay wise.
Semi-open is arguably better because it's easier to make it fit the gameplay and narrative, as opposed to trying to bend those to justify the open world. But a semi-open GTA:SA wouldn't work, and a semi-open Half Life wouldn't work, and they're two of the greatest games ever made. I don't know off the top of my head if there's a semi-open world game that could be considered one of the best games ever, so kinda defeating myself here, but I'm likely forgetting a bunch of possible examples. Probably have to actually define semi-open first, like if it's with or without a loading screen between areas then they'll come to mind.
I had that experience that you described with BOTW. Currently playing Chrono Trigger for NDS and I am almost at the end of it with just about 20 hours of gameplay.
i remember ac odessy, most of my play time was travelling to the next damn mission
This was a very thought provoking video and I was scared to watch it as it touched on parts of my life that I had difficulties dealing with. If I can provide any takeaways, it's this:
Mostly people play video games because they are trying to latch on to their protected childhood, or prevent themselves from potential emotional trauma. When I let go of my anger, fear and insecurities, I started enjoying video games again. This is me at age 35. So if you stop treating video games as placeholders for your issues, this whole video becomes kinda pointless. Because if you can control what you do rather than the things you do controlling you, you will truly begin to appreciate video games for the works of art they are. The key is in finding that balance. Sorry if I sounded preachy and all the best to anyone reading this comment.
Games are too long. People have jobs. Stuff they have to do. We just don’t have hundreds of hours to spare any more, and if you don’t play for a week or so you’d better hope there’s a good quest log or you have no idea where you were or what you were supposed to be doing.
And the quests/story doesn't work if its pieced together by scraps you have to remember months later.
Better games deliver tangible moments with conclusions that satisfy in every play session. I'm not going to sit down and go after a single quest, if it means 10 play sessions to get there.
Linear short story driven games seems to be answer for me. And occasionally a game I can get lost for in
Hey I have been playing The Witcher 3 for 10 years now. Still have not gotten past the barons mutant child. I end up wandering off to do some other side quest then leave again. I also forget which parts I played already lol.
I can't tell you the number of times of restarted Skyrim or Fallout because I've forgotten what I've done, what I collected, etc.
I have so many games I haven't finished 😩
I disagree if anything games are getting shorter(not even getting to 30 hours)i bought dark souls 3 goty edition and the game is so disappointing and short that i feel like i wasted my Money.
If you want shorter games Linear experiences are still available from God of war to sekiro just avoid jrpgs,mmos and live service games
I find what works best for me is to play different style games.
For example I finished Marvel’s Spider-Man. The first one from 2018.
I could play Miles Morales and then Spider-Man 2. But I KNOW I’ll get burned out on those games because they’re all exactly the same. So what I’m going to do is play Metro Exodus. Since the game is totally different and the mechanics are different, it helps me not get burned out.
I also play a game to finish the story. That’s it. I will not collect everything if it’s not fun. In fact I’ve dropped a couple games that required me to grind collectibles. Assassins Creed being one of those games. I just move on.
Nah, I'm a trucker who is only home 1 day a week. But I still 100% my games pretty quickly. Admittedly though these modern games are a bit stressful to complete due to all of this online nonsense.
No one on the internet actually plays video games
Oh boy! That new game ive been waiting for years finally came out!
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*starts 500th run through Skyrim*
I find this relatable except for me it would be resident evil 4 (2005) instead of skyrim
I often don't go back to games, and quit games for that matter, when I feel like I have had all the mechanics taught to me. Or at least feel I have not learned a new mechanic in a long time. I feel it's hard for me to want to keep playing another 20+ hours if I got all the mechanics and know what the gameplay loop is like, like I can just fill in the rest of the game in my head and be satisfied putting it down.
Too many games release at same time so the fomo feeling kicking in and ur just moving on. And also open world fatigue. In my head while Im playing ”Just get to the point!”. I think Why it was easier to get stuck in a game before was because of the simplicity.
There is a reason Why games like warzone, Apex and fortnite are stil most played today, because its sticking to its point. And mostly because of social media effect we dont have the same patience anymore
Happened to me with the Witcher 3, bought it at release, played it for few hours and left it on the side for a year, finished it 6 times afterwards
I’m too much of a completionist and so many games now want to be 100+ hours rpg / open worlds. These games just take me months or even years to finish while my backlog just keeps growing. I’m just glad I quit caring about trophies/achievements a long time ago.
Honestly surprised you're so small! I was watching your video and I was just thinking that it deserves so much more than what the algorithm is giving it currently. Keep up the hard work! You're getting places!
Well I don't post too often as you might have noticed. Algorithm hates that. Also I used to edit in my shitty ass laptops that made my life a living hell when it came to editing. And to be fair I have waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much room for impromenent.
There are too many games, and I have limited time. Baldur's Gate 3 is a good recent example. I played the game for two weeks straights trying to reach the end, but it dragged on and on. After a point I realized I needed to go back into the world to interact with people, date and exercise, and focus more on work and my personal projects, like the science fantasy novel I'm writing. While I would have loved to have finished Baldur's Gate other games pulled my attention, but if my schedule barely game me time to play those games, the reality of finishing Baldur's Gate is slim.
I quit playing Tales of Vesperia 20 hours in, came back and finished the game 2 years later. Some others, like MegaMan X Command Mission or Tactics Ogre Reborn, haven't been as lucky.
I don't care about trophies/achievements, and I consider besting the game as getting to the ending credits, on standard/default difficulty if possible. I have beaten over 800 games of varying degrees of length, genre, and difficulty. Doesn't matter to anyone else but me. Dragon Quest Heroes 2, a game I love and one of the few I played through twice, has a trophy that relies on obtaining all monster coins, obtained at random by beating the monster that matches the coin, but some coins just never dropped, so I quit. I was at a maxed out level & could destroy all in my path at that point.
If the game feels like a chore, then it is not worth playing anymore. I do play to have fun.
bruh this video is fire man, i love it. you really have a interesting POV and a good delivery in this video too! u deserve a lot of subscriber! and you just earn one! keep up the good work!
in terms of the contents i usually 100% a game before moving on to another game (maybe except skyrim coz i think i spent more times trying different mods than actually finishing it lol), achievements/trophy doesnt really matter for me especially if they dont even lead to additional contents which means its just a waste of time.. my only problem is when theres new games that i really anticipated that i cant immediatedly jump into coz i'm still working to 100% a game and sometimes i find it difficult to avoid spoilers..
Unfortunately it happens to me plenty of the time.. it took me 2 years to finish Blasphemous but after finally completing it i ended up loving it & wondering how it takes me so long to finish these great games..good insight video man.
I was thinking of playing blasphemous, I might use your comment as the excuse to actually do it!
@@Zherdi_Dangaj what a honor lol 😆 but foreal I hope you end up liking it as much as I did after finally completing it. I'm currently playing through the sequel 👍
@@Zherdi_Dangaj its an awesome game, hope you play it!
Let’s go for 1000 followers and 100.000 views 🎉🎉🎉
I used to grind games for 100% trophies back in 2008 to 2014 on PS3 I remember spending a whole summer grinding FarCry 2 and Crysis 2 every day, it was when I got my PS4 I stopped caring about this and just play a game till I've had enough and no more silly grinding like 10,000 multiplayer kills.
You escaped!
That’s some real stuff
4th scenario is the most relatable. I'm only 7 hours in AC Mirage and I just wanna sell/swap the game instead of achieving it's platinum trophy.
Excellent video! Keep it up!
Your ff16 story kinda reminds me how I'm sitting with bloodborne I'm missing 1 singular trophy in bloodborne is it the challace dungeons one nope slogged through them its the one for killing the moon presence because I botched getting an umbilical cord third by killing someone early and if I want that final trophy I'll have to play through the whole game again and I can't really get myself to do it and its been sitting like that for 3 years according to my trophy dates
This is like old games versus new games.
Old games i go back to, new games go uninstall.
Well this video has been in my "watch later" playlist for two months now, guess ill try watching it now!
you are right im 1 achievement away from finishing elden ring achievements. and its sad but i loved the game finished it 3 times and missed the "evil" ending. and while i love the game i can't get myself to play it again for more than half an hour:(
Dissapointment or burnout are the big reason when I don't finish a game.
Redfall quickly turned out a joke. I picked it up dirtcheap and it still wasn't worth my effort. (unlike some hated games I played a ton. I'm one of 3 people in the world that love Anthem)
Elden Ring on the other hand i got 3/4rd of the way in and burned out due to slow progress.
Nioh 2 I enjoyed but the slow grind/struggle ended up with me reinstalling Dragon's Dogma and playing that again.
Some of Ubisoft's collectathon's i need to play in 2 or 3 sittings with many many months in between sometimes to finish.
I often come back and finish a game later especially long games. That doesn't mean I come back for every game. I have a lot of unfinished games.
This is a downside of gamepass as I can't start a game on gamepass and come back later as there is a good chance it will no longer be on gamepass.
One of the best things about the Steam Deck is going back to finish games I started years ago and play on the go.
I'm 37 and although I still have the same urge to game as I always have, for some reason I am barely finishing any games. I ended up finishing Super Mario Wonder, but even games like Tears of the Kingdom, which I loved, I still haven't finished.
If you stop playing a game and don't have the urge to come back, it's because the game sucks. People like you just don't like to admit it to anyone, let alone to themselves.
The best part is that you don't have to finish every game you play. If the game doesn't click with you just move on to one that does. Life is too short to assume we have enough time to beat every game out there. Only play games that you truly enjoy and can fully get into.
Before I watch this, I'm going to say it's because I watch TH-cam while playing games and don't fully immerse myself in games anymore. So my engagement drops along with the joy of playing the game. I then don't feel like playing the game again and move on to the next one. Repeat.
It's also a time investment thing. I find myself with less and less free time, and if a game hasn't hooked me in an hour or two, I'd rather pick something else up.
So this way you don't fully enjoy the game and you don't fully enjoy the youtube video. That sounds like the worst of both worlds. But to be fair I like to hear to a podcast when playing Grand tourismo 7 or when I do pointless sidequests for the trophies, so it's not like I'm always immersing my self to the game as well.
i do this too but i’ve been trying to stop lately like i just played through all of resident evil 2 remake recently without watching youtube while playing and it actually was so amazing
It's more about life's other challenges as you get older. In our youth we were carefree. Especially if our parents took care of our needs and wants. Once you hit reality and have a job to hold down, a GF, a wife and kids, a mortgage to repay etc. They take up all your free time and you get disillusioned with life. Things are not as shiny and magical anymore.
Ive put almost 500 hours into bg3. That game is fucking amazing. Nearly 6/7 play throughs and still finding things i didnt know about or were unaware of. Honour mode was great, so many games are so easy and brain dead nowadays.
I'm looking for a "quiet" period in my life to start bg3, I fully understand that I would need to fully dedicate myself to it, so I'm looking for the perfect opportunity.
Last time I thought like this, it took me years to actually get around playing the game in question. Let's hope this time it will not be the same.
I usually always beat a game before moving on the next one. I started focusing on getting all trophies for games but last year so many came out that I got a little overwhelmed lol
Last year was trash for gaming.
The most replayable game of all time in my opinion is Dead Space 2. Literally i have done like atleast 10 NG+ runs on ONE save before my game pass expired.
Dead Space 2 is a certified classic, one of the best action horrors of all time
A moment of silence for games he played that hid the true ending in DLC.
This is a good video I just get bored fast but I force myself to beat games I get bored with.
Honestly my ability to not finish games comes from the fact I am trying out a new genre. I have been a HUGE FPS player (Old School and New School COD, CS:GO and CS2, Apex, Fortnite, R6) and now I'm getting into more story-like campaign games like Dark Souls, God of War, The Callisto Protocol, and the Spider-Man series to name a few.
i am a game completionist and i particulary like the yakuza series i remember the day i bought yakuza 0 out of curiosity and the after i finished it i was like man that was good why not get the platinum and then spent one year getting it because i was like yeah today i will get more throphies and then backed out because i wasnt having fun but there was a strange drive so i had to keep going now i have platinums on the majority of the yakuza games and watching this video made me realise that i dont need to push myself to get the throphy i just need to enjoy
The main reason I drop games is because life get's in the way and I can't continue playing due to time constraints.
Which is also the reason I don't continue later.
You forget mechanics, nuances in the story etc.
So you have to start over again and play stuff you've already played again.
Which sucks when you only have such limited time to play at all.
It's a simple reason really, but the bane of my existence.
Having too many games or its too frustrating for me but there are some games that you have the urge to play over and over again so you delete a game that you're also interested in too make space for that one game
I like 100%ing games because it's my brain's way of setting a game on its way after my time with it. If it's a grind, It becomes my podcast game. But I play a lot of games, and sometimes I don't 100%. No particular reason. Gaming is fun for me. And even a bad game can be a fun puzzle to pull apart to 100%. I don't like using a guide if it can be helped. That does add a lot of time to my gameplay.
I'm still playing Skyrim.
We don't finish our games because there's mainly a wide choice...
A lot of games are released every month or even every week, and sometimes we're interested in several games at once, which creates a problem in terms of knowing where to start and what to do.... it's not that simple.
Another important factor:
You need a lot of time to be able to play and invest yourself in a game because, yes, even if a game seems to please you, you need to get into the game and enjoy what you're doing.... if the pleasure of playing a particular game isn't there, then you decide not to play any more, because personally I hate forcing myself to play or finish a game if I don't like it...
I've given up on a lot of games like that without ever coming back to them (with the exception of a minority of games that I ended up finishing).
I've never been a gamer per se. I got a PS5 about 6 months into its release and a Plus subscription. Most of the games that came in the bundle I never played or completed. I did have an Xbox One before that and always have had a PC. But I could never get excited enough to complete whatever was on any of them (Doom 2016, RIse of the Tomb Raider, DMC5. All which came free with a GPU upgrade). For some reason when the pandemic hit it meant I was more involved with contacting my family. My bother got a PS5 and we fell into some online cooperative gaming. Discovered Ghost of Tsushima Legends expansion. Having never played the single player game we put hundreds of hours into it. Grabbing as many trophies as we could. But when it came to the raids part of the expansion we both lost interest. My brother especially hated that we had to join up with other players and the raids were cryptic in how they were meant to be played (like the blind jumps where another played had to try and explain the color coding for each jump. That was simply ridiculous). We quit after that and the pandemic lockdowns were lifted.
Since then I have played a few other single player titles to completion. Some I even got platinums for (Ratched and Rift Apart, Rise and Shadow of the Tomb Raider). I then went back and played the single player campaign of Ghost of Tsushima. I played through on easy mode because I just wanted a chill experience and absorb the story and atmosphere. Just because you play on easy mode does not mean you are 'lame'. We play games for fun. Not always for 'the challenge'. I got the platinum but not all the collectibles. I realized a lot of costumes are still unlocked in Legends mode because of this. I am considering playing it again on New Game+ on regular difficulty as I enjoyed the game so much. It really is a work of art and how they got it running at 60 fps is beyond me.
Anyhow wall of text besides. Sometimes like life in general gaming is about the journey. Not the end result. It's all subjective and meaningless whereby the only meaning is the one you apply to it. Just do whatever makes it worthwhile to you and don't allow others to judge.
P.S. I still never got the platinum on Jedia Fallen Order or Jedi Survivor despite loving those games to bits. Some things are not worth chasing when the ride comes to an end. Get off the fairground ride and move on.
Well said 💪
I felt almost all of this, in 2023. I've never bought so many many AAA games in a single year, and I've never been so disappointed. For me, the best experience was actually Hogwarts. But I never felt like a Hogwarts student. I was just an adventurer who sometimes slept in the dorm. The achievements were the big problem, here. There was just no point in finishing them all. Then there's everyone's beloved BG3. I got about 2/3 of the way through, but happily dropped it, when Starfield came out. Starfield never seemed to capture the Bethesda magic. I played a long time but never had much fun. Cities Skylines 2 was fine, but it will take a while before my preferred build themes drop. Fortunately, I can pick up Skyrim, or New Vegas, or even Vampire, the Masquerade, and always have a good time. I wish I could tell developers what makes those games fun and so many others not ... but I just don't know.
My main thing when continuing to play more and more games Is to set up multiple games for myself to fully complete and obtain the platinum, most recent ones I got we're Arkham Asylum and City.
I have about 116 Platinums In total and a lot of them we're a pain to complete but felt worth it.
Outlast 2 was probably the hardest platinum through out my journey of hunting trophies.
Good video. Recommended just as I went to my bed to rot after looking at my installed games like Cyberpunk and Metro that are about 75% completed for about 25 minutes and not playing any of them.
I also find myself staring at my installed Cyberpunk and then deciding to turn it off after a short short time . I'm not even THAT far . Weird too bc I bought the game IMMEDIATELY after finishing the demo straight through ... yet I haven't progressed a whole ton past that :/
You wanna free advise from person who beat close to 460 games ? Well here it is
HAVE 1-2 games installed only !
Mark my words you beat the game you'll start
When you have 100s games installed even 5 or more you cannot concentrate on 1
I think the problem for my case is how daunting games are anymore to finish, sure I love a game like Rdr2, but to fully complete it and achieve the staues of bragging rights to the voices in my head, I have to dump all my attention and time into a game that I don't have time for nearly as much as when I was a kid, plus thats just 1 game out of 200, and half of all thoughs games are fuckin 20 to 30 hours long with side content that can make that even longer depending on you as a player, as much as I want to complete these games, I just don't have the time nor the care to anymore, I enjoy them while I can, and hey even try to at least finish the main campaigns and stuff at the very least
I also played yakuza kiwami and loved it , then couple months later i tried 0 and the first couple hours it just didn't click ... so i dropped the game & returned to it few weeks later & man the story got so good i couldn't put the controller down , it was ridiculous !! Waaay better than kiwami , i am so glad i gave it a shot , & now few months after finishing 0 i am playing through kiwami 2 .
Ok, so you're saying I need to give it another go as well then. Noted!
0 >>>>>> Kiwami 1
*I try to only play one game at a time...and only play another when its of a different genre. an RPG, a sports game and a fighting game usually 👍 playing 2 or 3 games of the same genre conflicts too much with my muscle memory, gets me feeling overwhelmed and i probably won't finish any of them 😂 also having boring drawn out missions is a sure fire way to get me to not finish your game 👍 I buy games to have fun, not to be bored 😬 reason why ive never beat a GTA game* 🕵
That's a good approach. Whenever I try to start another game from the same genre I end up replacing the first one with the new one. I am fully aware of it and every time I act surprised
If I don't return to a game, it's because I don't like it. If I did, it's because I did like it and want to finish it.
Just went back and beat Furi the other day. It's a great game and I wanted to beat it since I had stopped due to one of the bosses not gelling with me. But I dug in and finally beat them and finished the main story.
I say the thing for me is i just want fun or stupid action in an instance, feeling like im too busy for 50+ hour storys. I love the rgg games, but im not really excited for 8 barely halway on lost judgment and haven't even started gaiden, This is one of my all-time favorites. I swear i have only been touching the same 4 Samurai Warriors 4 games and the same situation with nioh. The only reason I kept pushing with nioh was because it had the same characters from samurai warriors but the same frustrations and tiredness.
The other day I actually finished FF 16+dlc.. When I came across this video I was going crazy trying to figure out what to tackle next.. Do I go to something completely new or try to finish one of the other games I have a lot of hours in.. It feels so overwhelming looking at the backlog part of me just wants to give up & go to sleep😂
I can relate immensely to the Final Fantasy 16 platinum pain. I wanted to get it but it just felt too much for me. But recently i was going to platinum Spiderman 2, which was an easy one. But one of my trophies (The Hang Ten trophy) decided to bug and now im here without a platinum trophy. I never had the motivation to get one and the one time i decided to and actually had it within my grasp it just bugs. Its devastating
I have a habit of getting the Platinum for the first game in a series and then giving up on the sequels. Maybe someday I'll finish them but there is usually something I don't want to do like how some of the Kingdom Hearts games demand a perfect score in some random mini game that I don't want to play to start with 😂
Honestly I am still trying to beat both Skyrim and fallout 3. But I also just bought persona 3 reload and I have no idea if I will finish that game .
00:02 Understanding why games remain unfinished
02:30 Struggling to finish Yakuza games due to lack of captivation
04:18 Initial intrigue led to disappointment in game mechanics.
06:09 Overcoming challenges and completing games despite flaws
08:20 Struggling with completing games due to trophy hunting and burnout.
10:25 Struggles of finishing games due to saturation
12:18 Different motivations affect how games are finished
14:20 Understanding subjective factors affecting game completion
Speak for yourself, I finish every game I buy & don’t start another till I’m finished otherwise it was a waste of $70 bucks
I was doing a full playthrough of Yakuza series and got stuck on Yakuza 3 in 2021, now when Infinite Wealth is around the corner I started continuing my save and now have got thru past the difficult parts and played thru all the previous games and now I'm ready for the newest game xd What got me back into Yakuza games was the realization that there is tons of abilities in the game that people overlook 90% of the time and I want to master the game and basically finish every single enemy in a new way.
Assassins Creed: Relevations was my first platinum and it was really easy compared to any AC game before that. it took me a week and I think Relevations was only good because it was so short and a good warmup for the AC3 where the series should've ended.
I wish my AC platinum trophy absession would end with revelations as well. Thanfully I haven't touched the latest entries. I need a solid break from the series (as do most) as well as the developers do.
@@Zherdi_Dangaj I stopped at 3 since the story ended there since Juno enslaved humanity
Got me thinking…
🙏🙏🙏
I think in Final Fantasy XVI you just didn't quite hit the area/marker for the location you're missing? I unlocked it no issue (had to hunt for the last 1 or 2 Areas though myself, ones I had just overlooked/hadn't actually reached)
I got everything besides the "FF Difficulty" Trophy, those are actually the type that I usually skip/leave as the 1 Trophy barring me from the Plat. cause I ain't got time for that shit 😅
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I've finished plenty of games, but I rarely 100% them. Achievements mean nothing to me if they don't unlock something that makes the game more fun.
I love Ghost of Tsuma and it's the only game I've ever platinumed. I put 100 hrs into it.
I was so excited to play the DLC but it pissed me off that they force you to replay the entire first part of the story. Which to this day I haven't.
I tried going back to the game a few weeks ago and I've completely forgotten how to play it and have zero desire to go through it again.
After 600 hours, I got the platinum in Earth Defense Force 2. I was discovering new tactics all the time. This game was a good challenge.
600 ώρες? Τι σκατα μετράει και όταν είναι το παιχνίδι σε παύση?
@@Zherdi_Dangaj
3 classes x 5 difficulty settings x 78 missions. A mission can easily last more than one hour and on highest difficulty a mistake is usually fatal. No checkpoints, no in-mission saves. Add a few more hours for weapon and armor farming. By the way, there are hundreds of weapons for each class, so some hours spent on weapon testing. And there is also the secret difficulty setting "impossible", which I almost didn't play.
Έγραψα στα Αγγλικά για να τα διαβάσουν και όσοι δεν ξέρουν Ελληνικά.
@@Zherdi_Dangaj Ελληνας εισαι ;
I had a weird phase when before buying a new game, I looked the trophies up and only bought it, if platinum "seemed doable". Of course I have a lot of games where I never achieved Platinum and eventually dropped that "criteria". xD But yeah, when I can, I still try to achieve platinum. 40 y/o and single, so lot's of time to play after work. ;_;
I've been grinding games since I was a kid on PS1, starting with Spyro and Crash Bandicoot. That said, I do have way more fun playing a game without trophy hunting. Did my first play though of AWII getting all the collectibles and it was a slog, doing NG+ is a blast just going through. I have the platinum for Bloodborne, Sekiro, ER, but have no intention of getting it for any DS game cause it's just too much of a grind for me. I tried Nioh and could not get into it. I put 50ish hours into the Witcher 3 and stopped, just couldn't get into it. Maybe I'll pick up again after I play through TLOU Part 2. Ugh, too many games to play man. It's hard when you're an adult with a career and a relationship.
It will come around, don't worry. You still don't have kids so there's always a window.
Look, it makes it even more special when you never get the time to do it and finally an opportunity reveals itself. It can be as simple as you being sick and taking a day off and your partner is somewhere else. Perfect opportunity to get lost in a game. Days like that can be magical, even though they sound dull to most people.
I like finishing them I only got into platinums recently like 2 years ago not sure why but I like it I think it’s to not feel the burden next time I feel a Spider-Man game or something but if I feel to saturated I try and do a story game while I platinum other games I have like 2-3 platinums waiting but last 2-3 trophies just reading the road map takes like 2 hour videos so while I try and do that I also try and play a story game cause if not I would go insane just playing last if us multiplayer until week 6 to be reset again
Thanks for the video tho maybe I needed to hear this
I take breaks in-between gaming sessions. I think thats ideal especially if you are trophy hunting or stuck on a certain level or boss fight...
Personally I dont finish long games. I actually dislike them a lot. Even the ones I like. The only time I completed a long game was Final Fantasy remake but it was 2020 and we were in lockdown. I still haven't finished either God of War games. I play them until the end but it's taken so long I get bored. The perfect gameplay time for me is at max 20 hours. I enjoy quality over quantity. For example Spider-Man games are perfect. I never worry about 100% completing them. I have a blast while playing the main story with a few side missions to gain attributes. In the end it's the perfect length. Same with Ratchet and Clank rift apart. You can finish that game in 11-13 hours and it was a blast the whole way through. But these longer games, though fun can really be a chore to complete and it gets stale/boring.
Good stuff bro 🙏🙏
I usually beat the games main story, but actually "finishing" or "completing" a game is too hard. Most games expect you to go above and beyond to finish them
Third scenario for me with EVERY souls like game. I tried Dark Souls numerous times and always end up rage quitting. Tried Dark Souls 2 & 3 too. Same issue. I simply do not have the patience or skill to deal with that particular style. (I am bad at dodging mainly). I deem it a very toxic relationship for myself, for I avoid them for the sake of my health. The games are great, it is not their fault. Just not a good fit for me.
I finished witcher 3 two times, proudly gave up FF13 (the story is shit), i'm currently finishing Darksiders genesis.
I got no problem finishing games i enjoy.
VERY IMPORTANT DETAIL: i couldn't give a shit for achievements also i have 4.5k hours in vermintide 2.
Your issue seems to be not starting new games! Stay tuned for the next video(I'm kidding)
But at least you don't care about trophies or achievements. Caring about these shitty digital rewards feels like smoking for gamers. Consider yourself saved 💪
@@Zherdi_Dangaj Exactly do you think these achievements will be displayed on your grave? When was the last time you cared about the game achievements of others? do you think they care about yours?
Gamer vermintide two is amazing!
So Good!
I played games since the ps1 came out I enjoyed those games, no trophies they were just simple rpg, I think trophy achievement ruin the enjoyment of the game itself, now I just focus on the game itself.
Great video. I'd love to see a video on why we get invested in a game we couldn't enjoy ar first. It's pronounced call of Ca-thoo-loo by the way.
I find myself ditching a game when I'm stuck on a ridiculous level or chapter. Bioshock Infinite pissed me off several times with unbalanced spikes in difficulty and Booker moving like a turtle. And second, just losing interest in a game, modern games have bad pacing, and a chapter in a modern game can drag on forever another reason why I lose interest.
The last game I even tried to get a platinum on was Super Mario World. No time for this shit, finishing the main story is often too much work already.
I had an experience like you mentioned with The Witcher 3. I tried playing it like 3 or 4 times and could not get into it. I would get to the bloody baron and give up. Then when COVID-19 caused the U.S to lockdown I picked it up and could not put it down and now I'm a huge Witcher fan.
It's a curious thing. A friend of mine stopped at around the same point (baron part) 3 times and fell off. He decided after some time to try one last time and this time...fell in love. Witcher is an example that keeps coming up from people
Because i don't want to play majong in the yakuza series ;(