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Do you always finish games you started? I am overwhelmed with the amount of available games.
I have a huge problem with playing games until I finish them and I don't know how to change that. It's a rare ocurrence for me to finish the game because I usually get distracted with other games, so I make break and after the break I don't remember plot or how to play properly which discourages me to pick it up back again especially if I was already like 20 hours in the game. I want to enjoy games like I did 20 years ago where getting a new game was special but now the amount of cool games and their availability makes me feel that I am missing out therefore I usually switch from game to game just to try it.
Sorry if all of the above looks like a some kind of babble but I am not a native speaker :D
It's always been extremely rare for me to actually finish a video game. I love games, but I have a short attention span and, as I grow older, more responsibilities and less time.
I prefer to think of games in terms of Dollars per hour of entertainment. If I spend $50 on a game and get 10 hours of enjoyment out of it, then that's good value for money to me. Whether it was a 10-hour game or a 100-hour game, I can be satisfied with the fun I had and not feel obligated to finish it. If I tried to force myself to finish a game I was no longer enjoying, it'd turn into an unpaid job.
100% this for me as well. I used to use movies as a baseline. $15 or so for 2 hours, right? And movies can be good or bad. I mean, now it’s a little bit of a dated analogy but my internal cost/benefit grids have yet to be updated.
Anyways, if I pay $60 for a game and get 4 hours out of it, I’m ahead. If it’s a keeper, then I’m hacking the system. If it’s a free-to-play and I love it, then I’m basically Neo in the Matrix.
I use the same move ticket baseline sometimes, although, in my mind nice tickets still cost $10, even though these days it's more like $15 or more depending on the theater. If a videogame costs me less than $5 per hour and I enjoyed myself, then I feel like it was a good buy.
Yes this is exactly why I had to step back from my MMORPG for a while as it lost its fun and started to feel like a responsibility. I do miss the friendships I had made but some became toxic. Covid was a weird time and losing myself in video games for a bit was nice but I got a bit too lost!
I also don't necessarily play a game to "finish" it. I go at a pretty leisurely pace no matter the title, so I'll complete AAAs with straightforward campaigns, from DOOM to Tomb Raider to Portal 2, in about twenty-five hours. I guess 25hrs is my base unit of Money-Worthiness. :P
But for my 2k+ hours in Skyrim, I've never even gotten halfway through the main campaign, let alone come close to actually "completing" the game. And open-worlders that aren't RPGs, e.g. GTA, Yakuza, Witcher 3 etc. are more like buffets than single meals you're meant to finish, anyway.
I also rarely finished games, but I'm not ashamed of that. Recreational time is limited, and if you aren't actively enjoying what you're playing, I don't see any problem moving on to something else, especially if it's already in your library. You can always go back if you want. The game isn't a person, and you don't owe it hours out of your life.
I've been gaming since I was way too young, and I've struggled with the same issues now that I'm older (lack of time and focus, access to too many games). What helps me is:
I'm not gonna say it works perfectly - since 2020, I played 85 games, and I tagged 13 of them as 'DNF but want to', 12 as 'DNF' (so, no intention of going back to finish them), and 8 as 'replay' (started but didn't vibe with it in the moment). (Yes, I keep a spreadsheet because I'm a massive nerd.) But at the moment, this is how I make sure I have the most fun - I don't force myself to finish anything, I'm picky enough that my selection is high quality (which makes it more likely for me to be completely drawn into the game from beginning to end), and I try to focus on one thing only. I have 18 games on my list that I thoroughly enjoyed, with this same feeling of being a kid who gets sucked into a good game, and that's just in the last three years. Three of those I didn't even finish. :)
I certainly resonate with your thoughts here. Partially out of frugality, partially out of my instinct to avoid hype, I tend toward really curating what I buy (be it gaming or any hobby/entertainment). So in the last year, I've purchased 4 Nintendo Switch games, 7 Steam games, and one on GOG. I got some free games on Epic, and had gamepass for a couple months.
That's still a lot of games, but it means that each one I treat intimately, in a way. It's easy to treat them as disposable, which I often do*, but I think my strategy is akin to listening to well-recommended albums from people I trust, rather than flipping on the radio. That clunky metaphor makes my bones feel both old and pretentious, but it's what makes sense to me, in the moment. Given the overwhelming number of games at our disposal now compared to thirty years ago, and gaming not being my "main" hobby, I'm less interested in trying out a wide swath of games than I am immersing myself in a game or two at a time.
*I rarely 'push' myself to finish a game that I'm not enjoying, because there's so many other games I want to play at any given time. I also try not to overthink what I paid for the games, in part because I get them on sale as often as possible, but I also don't want to feel some invisible money counter hanging over my head while playing. Enough of my life is commoditized as is, I don't want to feel pressured to enjoy something just to suck all the dollars I can out of my happiness.
So while you've got a one at a time rule, I have a two at a time rule, which is roughly the same thing I do with reading: usually boiling down to serious versus Light. So I'll read Cosmos while also reading a Discworld novel. Or Sartre and LeGuin, though that pairing is less contrasting. So I'll do the same with games. A Mario game and Prey, or a grand strategy game and Nier, or Outer Wilds and Pokemon. Just something to have two different moods I can pick from, but without falling prey to the analysis paralysis of seeing the hundreds of games I've collected over decades playing.
On your note about keeping a spreadsheet of games you've played, you might like backloggd.com. It's a neat little site where you can track games you've finished, shelved, won't finish, want to play, etc. You can write reviews for them too.
I have been using howlongtobeat to track my playthroughs of games. What features do you like on backlogged?
Idk I just like the interface. Back in 2020 I started keeping journals of games I had beaten with a score out of 10, then I found Backloggd and it was just kind of a nicer way to do it than a word doc lol. I think they're working on an app and the ability to import your Steam library to your backlog too which I would really like
Didn't know you could use HLTB for personal logs, Backloggd lacks clear time data which is a bummer, but I always just googled the HLTB if I was curious about clear times.
Ooh, gotta check that out, thanks! :)
Hopefully without sounding like I'm too pushy - it sounds like we're of similar mindset and taste, it would be really nice to take a peek at that list to see if there are any gems I've missed.
Can't share the list unfortunately, but here's all the games that I have tagged as hidden gems (this is not updated, so they might not be all that hidden any more):
Black Mirror II
The Final Station
A Mortician's Tale
Minit
Not Tonight
Hustle Cat
Sagebrush
The Initiate
Gorogoa
Sayonara Wild Hearts
INFRA
What Never Was
Neo Cab
SoulSet
The Painscreek Killings
Guacamelee
Deadly Premonition: Origins
In Other Waters
Spiritfarer
The Forgotten City
Paradise Killer
Voxelgram
Eternal threads
I have this issue for the vast majority of games. I think the main issue at hand for me is the story. When I’m deeply invested and want to see what happens, I don’t feel like switching games. Sometimes I find myself doing side missions to extend the amount of time I can play for, and others I hurry through the main story so I can say I finished.
I played over 100 hours on Persona 5 because I really enjoyed the story, the gameplay, the interactions, everything. Same with each of the trails of cold steel series.
Just try to find a game that is interesting to you and avoid any news articles about other cool, fun games so you won’t be tempted to switch.
If all else fails, it’s not the worst thing in the world to not finish a game. You still have it there just in case you want to go back later!
If I'm not having fun for a longer period of time I have no problem dropping a game. Happens most often with open world games where my completionist mindset lets me leave no stone unturned and I end up burned out on the game long before I'm close to beating it.
Of course if the story is good I'm able to force my way through and just ignore side content but I've found most games are just "OK" in the story department. Depending on the complexity of a game I've found it useful to just look up a guide to quickly push through as well.
I've also found that sometimes I just don't vibe with a game, either in general or just with my current mood when starting it. Happened most recently with Hi-Fi Rush, played the first level, could see it was a good game, but just wasn't vibing with it so dropped it for now.
I think that having such a large backlog has made me a lot more likely to drop a game too. I'm totally fine with trash games, I find myself in the mood for them sometimes, but with so many great games out there it can be hard to spend time on a 6/10 game when I have multiple 9/10 games I could be playing.
No. When I was a kid I tried to, as I had very few video games due to a lack of funds, and a lot of time in which to play that lower number.
But these days? I have more money to spend on games than time to play it, so it's hardly worth forcing through a game I'm no longer enjoying just to complete it.
This hits the nail on the head for me. As a kid, I played what I had because I couldn't get anything else. So even if I didn't particularly enjoy a game, I'd still push myself to play it when I otherwise wouldn't have because it was all I had. These days, my wallet affords me the discretion I lacked as a kid. If a game isn't respecting my time, or if I'm just not interested in it, I can move on. Unfortunately this has caused me to be impossibly picky about the games I enjoy and as a result, most games I pick up I drop within 10 hours
If it's a game with a storyline like ARISE or Grounded I will finish the storyline to get closure that way and maybe go back for achievements as I'd like.
If it's a game with Lore and mor open ended I don't worry too much about finishing just enjoying what I can.
I do not have completionitist but my husband does so he will dedicate a lot of time towards particular achievements and questing all the quests. He takes breaks and does more mindless games every once in a while so the game he's focusing on doesn't lose its fun. However the fun for him is getting the challenging parts done and at times that can become very daunting and frustrating.
Only a Sith speaks in absolutes, so I don't finish all the games I start, but the games that I get past 20 hours are almost always finished. If it can get me to the 20 hour mark it's a "good" game in my opinion and I'll finish it. There are some caveats, like if there's a unnecessary grind late in the game that'll have me quit it before finishing, but that's usually the case for me.
Nope, it's a constant problem for me. It's multiplied by all the physical games I have in my collection as well. It's always a special moment when I actually play fully through a game and finish it, but anymore it's a rarity. My biggest problem is that I always get sidetracked by side quests/collectibles/achievements/whatever. On top of all of this, I've got kids just now coming into games themselves, a job, other hobbies, and just a mountain of responsibilities & bills to handle, that I just don't have much time to game for myself much anymore, so it's hard to even invest a good amount of time into any single game without feeling I'm neglecting some other aspect of my life.
My Steam Deck kind of helped at first, but it's just created a new platform for me to not have time to play games on and fall behind. At some point life gets less complicated, right? Entropy actually goes down over time, right?
We're definitely talking about single player games right? In that case, I finish the full story mode or the campaign 90% of the time if its a game I actually enjoy.
If I don't enjoy the game, which becomes apparent after a few hours of play, I uninstall it and don't look back to it ever to try and finish it.
In case of games I enjoy, I might move on to a different game, but I'll have it in my mind that I didn't finish it and I'll eventually get back to. The game deserves it is what my mind keeps telling me. Also, that need to know what happens down the plot is a driving factor too.
Adding to that, I was brought up with this mentality by my elder brother that I shouldn't buy a game if I haven't finished the ones I'm currently playing (and it's mostly one or two games at a time). If however, I have bought a game due to a running sale or something, I tend to think this way that if the game is not installed, it's almost like I don't have it - since it's not installed yet. I'll install it when I finish the ones I'm playing.
Edit: expanding a little further. Currently it's hard to find time to finish many games, and I have slid to a phase where I don't buy the recent titles all that often. Usually games I buy are at least a few years old, lol. This gives me a space where I don't have to play the same games my friends and peers are into at that moment. So I take my own time getting to games.
However, I do play some multiplayer games, namely dota 2 and sometimes CS:Source, and this is where I put drill down my flag and I won't move it elsewhere. Also however, I shift to playing Don't Starve and the F1 titles (if I have bought it). No rush to play other multiplayer titles, I can only afford so many with time, energy, and financial investments.
It is very hit-or-miss with me whether or not I will finish a game, but I find that the ones I do finish I will eventually play and finish multiple times because for them to grab me enough to play them to completion then they had to be doing something right.
A recent example is both Red Dead Redemption games. I have played both from beginning to end (excluding all of the 100%er side things) multiple times, albeit with gaps of at least a couple of years between playthroughs of each one. I just get engrossed in that world. I was the same with the Mass Effect Trilogy and most of the GTAs too.
Then on the flip side there are games that I enjoyed playing and are of super high quality, but for whatever reason they just didn't grab me hard enough to finish them. The one that immediately comes to mind is the PC release of 2018's God of War. I enjoyed my time with it, but kind of just burned out on it about an estimated halfway through the main story, if what I read online is to be believed. I might come back to it later, but the problem there is that by then I won't remember anything that happened earlier in the game.
Well I dropped PS4 version of God of War halfway and I now can't come back because I remember literally nothing besides Kratos and Atreus. FML.
I'm a big fan of the big open world adventure/RPG games (Jimminy whatever type a la The Escapist) so it depends on what you define as finish. I don't think I've ever played one to 100% collecting every tchotchke they have laying around, but I don't enjoy doing those meaningless achievements. That's the key thing I think, the point is to enjoy yourself while playing them, and hopefully enough to get your money's worth out of them. What that entails is up to you, and you shouldn't feel guilty about not finishing a game if you decide not to, you should only do so because you want to. A good game will keep you interested in it so that you want to get to the end, or explore that new area or whatever else, but if it doesn't then I think it's more a fault with the game than yourself.
If I've chosen to play a game, it's usually because it's critically acclaimed and I know it's worth my time, or it's short. I look up the time to complete on HowLongToBeat).
I have ~1400 games in my library. I know I'm not going to be able to get through all of them, but I do want to try as many of them as possible. I aim to play games till credit roll, and rarely do I 100% a game or retire it.
I just gave up on Ghost tsushima at the (i assume) last second...
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I assumed the Khan was the end of the game and it kept 'one more time'-ing it as he would evade or run away after the battle.... its 1am, ok he's dead, its finally over... right? cut scenes... and then i have to battle my old mentor Lord Shimura... but those dumb bushido blade wanna be battles.... one of my many little gripes w/ the game.
I didn't like those battles, so i just turned off the game, assumed it was the last thing. uninstalled and removed the disc and on to the next thing.
Did not enjoy most of that game. I've played enough "assassins creed" games in the past almost 20 years... the sub weapons were terrible implemented, the 'targeting' system (how many times i just shoved a sword next to someones face), and for the love of god... using R2 for every damn thing.. want to pick up that supplies? or jump out the window? or get on your horse? who knows! The basic combat was enjoyable, but then forcing those boss fights w/ a different game, and no sub weapons... its like when they made you play a racing level in those PS2 james bond FPS games... this is not what i wanted to play, i wanted to sneak around and assassinate
I almost always finish the games I start -- but there are instances where I'm several hours in and don't feel a pull to keep playing. In those cases, I'll uninstall and never think about it again. There are some games I definitely play out of spite, like Redfall: I finished that game but definitely did not enjoy the last 10 or so hours I put into it.
I tend to complete most things I start, even if I don't like them: books, movies, video games. I'm a writer and an editor, and I find that it's helpful for me to have a full understanding of the work in order to critique it for my own benefit. What did I like, what did I not like and why?
I think finishing games mostly depends on age and real life obligations. I consider myself an avid gamer gaming is my main hobby, however with that said how i play games now and how i used to play them is very different.
When i was young i would finish almost all games i even dove deep into EVE online which is the greatest time sink ever invented imo.
Nowadays i appreciate games whose main gameplay loop is limited to 10-30 minutes think of games like CSGO, insurgency sandstorm, or hunt showdown. You start the game you play a round that lasts 30 minutes at worst case and if you have more time you might play another round or two. But the key point is in that 30 minutes i've have gotten the full experience and enjoyment of the game. I do enjoy other games too but most likely i will never finish them before moving to the next game.
Absolutely positively not. It’s a problem that exists in every facet of my life. I have a hard time spending energy on any one thing for extended periods of time. Working on it.
I’m also overwhelmed, my Steam wishlist currently has 235 games. I will NEVER play 235 games.
This is normal so try not to feel bad about it. We're living in a time where there's an endless firehose of media assaulting our free time. Between video games, music, podcasts, tv series, movies, books, the web, social media, etc., it's impossible to keep up with everything that piques our interest. I don't have a perfect solution, but I try to be really selective and just enjoy my time with whatever it is I've chosen to consume and not worry about missing out on the other stuff since I know even if I had 1,000 lifetimes it still wouldn't be enough to enjoy it all.
As for finishing games, I normally set out to just enjoy myself with it and that usually means I'll end up finishing the game, but in the cases where it starts to feel like a chore I'll just watch the ending on YouTube and move on to the next thing.
I have completed less then 25% of my games that I start.
Some games that I play don't have "ends" like Minecraft or MMOs that I've played.
Other games I'll get to literally the 99% mark and start another play through trying a different character/weapon/build. In some games like the Fallout series I'll try an an "evil" playthrough that I invariably scrap 20 hours in only to try "evil" again after trying another "good" character attempt/build.
Some games I get frustrated at the sheer absurdity of the final boss. (You know the type, you need to shoot it 100x with the best weapon or 300x with the next best but it will one shot you just by looking in your general vacinity)
A very few number of games I just don't want to see end.
I try not to start too many games simultaneously, so that I have more incentive to finish the ones I choose. If the game don't catch my attention in the first hour of gameplay, I abandon it without much guilt.
Nope. I used to, but over time I broke myself of thinking about it like that. Games aren't work. There's no obligation to finish them. And plenty simply don't hold interest that long, it's just how it is. Cherish the stuff that holds your attention and move on from what doesn't, is how I tend to be with it.
Heard.
They are your games. They are supposed to make you feel good, help you relax/escape/enjoy yourself.
I say there's nothing wrong or wasteful in not finishing a game. Real life is hard enough, don't add unnecessary pressure.
I waited a while for red dead redemption 2 to go on sale, bought it, and hardly played it. Right now I'm digging MechWarriors 5 but I'll likely find something else before I finish the campaign.
I have alwayw started a new game and eventually stopped playing it in favor of a new one in the future. This was my gaming mentality for ~20 years. I had so many games I have started and haven't finished at the same time. Enetually I abandoned all the games and started from fresh to abandon them again.
I bought Switch Lite in February 2020. This was my first console after PS3 Slim that I bought in it's living cycle still, not after the end of life. It was then that I promised to myself that I will play only one big game at a time. Since then I finished Breath of the Wild, Witcher 3, AC Black Flag and the other one where you play the opposite faction, one (and my first!) year in Stardew Valley doing a LOT of stuff, Wasteland 2, Diablo 3 (once with one character) and some more games I don't remember. I clocked around 1000 hours on Switch in two years.
I hae also finished Cyberpunk 2077 and Mafia Definitive dition on my PC.
Then I got Steam Deck and I kept the promise I made to myself. I finished Oblivion clocking 200 hours, I finished all Syberia games, I have finished Divinity: Original Sin EE recently. I have abandoned X: Reunion after around 30.hours because I didn't like it that much. Now I play Borderlands 1.
I keep a few smaller games on the side when I need to take a break from the big one. Those are not story based. Some examples are Into the breach, FTL, racing games like Assetto Corsa, Creeper World games (do some random maps)...
Nope, and I don't care about "having" to finish a game either.
I want to enjoy my hours of gaming and when it stops I go do/play something else.
One of my most favourite games is RimWorld and I've met end conditions on it less than 5 times. But I've put about 4000 hours into it.
I recently finished cyberpunk 2077 and Jedi survivor but before that I can't remember the last game I finished and even those were maybe 50-60% completions. I'm not a trophy hunter.
If a game gets repetitive just to pad hours I'll usually quit and watch a summary, play through, and/or cinematics on YouTube.
As others have pointed out, for me it's very much an opportunity cost, I have a job and kids so my time is not unlimited like it was when I was a teen or young adult.
This immediately made me think of Bravely Default on the 3DS, when it basically made you play the whole game through a second time to progress beyond a certain point. Fuck that busywork.
It’s very rare for me. The game has to be very good for me to even want to finish it, and even then a lot of games drop the ball with their endings by either ramping up the difficulty too high (something especially common in RPGs) or by not providing enough new content towards the end so it just starts getting boring.
And more than anything I have limited time, which further strains my attention span.
I want to say that I squeeze a reasonable amount out of any game. I certainly play them to completion if they have one, unlike say Civ where the whole point is to play again and again. But here I am having recently bought Civ 6, Humankind, Weird West (free), Horizon's Gate (from seeing it recommended on Tildes) and Doom II on Steam for good measure, while away from my desktop and having installed a GBA emulator on my crappy laptop and a couple of games on my phone.
All this while I generally have only 1-2 hours for gaming on any given day.
I play a lot of Japanese games on the XBOX and I know I frequently reach accomplishments that 5% of people do. I quit Elden Ring between the first and second boss, it didn’t help that I had a difficult astrologer build. For me the positive aspect of gaming is that it is like visiting another world, like going on vacation, and sometimes I get the most of it if I don’t play games all the way through.
One model I have tried is realistic driving games where it is really frustrating to play long sessions but where if I make a few attempts at a track a day I make progress efficiently.
For me, driving games are usually a 'zen mode' kind of thing where I put on podcasts or sometimes music and just drive. Admittedly though I don't play anything super realistic, Forza Motorsport/Gran Turismo is as realistic as I get and those are still simcades.
I just sort of zone out when I'm playing driving games, I don't know if I could sit there and just listen to engine noise for hours on end. But it works for me, I've finished more of them in recent years by playing this way.
I usually finish every Game i play. There is only very rare situations which lead to me abandoning a Game, for example the Game frustrating me too much or me simply not enjoying the Game. I also only rarely buy Games and if i do, it's mostly some Indie Rouge-likes, where "completing" is often just unlocking everything, which either doesn't take too long or forever (looking at you Binding of Isaac).
No and it’s one of my biggest annoyances. Ironically I tend to not finish the games I actually really like. It’s almost like I’m afraid to end the experience. Then I’m afraid to pick it back up after such a long break as I feel I’ll never get back to the headspace I was in when I was originally playing it where it was all fresh. So they often stay unfinished.
Lately it’s also been manifesting as not even starting games I bought and really want to play because of the anxiety I won’t finish them anyway. It’s almost like a toy collector so enamored with his prized collection that he keeps them boxed so they forever stay “pristine”.
It borders on pathological, honestly.
I get small victories from time time as I recently restarted and finished Dishonored and the entire Mass Effect trilogy back to back. That was a huge win for me. I love love love those games.
You perfectly described what I feel. I dropped BOTW right before final battle and still haven't completed it even though I loved it.
Do you have ADHD? I wonder if it’s an ADHD thing…
I have no idea. Never had any issues or diagnosis like that.
Ah, maybe it's just a normal thing. I tend to think everything I do that's odd is because of my ADHD since the symptoms can be wild sometimes between people, although there's a lot of common ground too.
Usually. I love the games I play, and I’m trying to finish them all.
As long as j get a good amount of time in where I feel like I got my monies worth I'm good to just stop playing.
The last time I checked my "Steam game completion %" it was like below 10% and I have roughly 200-300 games in my library.
It wasn't until a few years ago that I took some adderall for a long drive over night because my buddy told me "It'll keep you awake" and it had the opposite effect, then 6 months later I mentioned it to my wife offhand and she said "You realize that's because you probably have ADHD, right?"
Since that epiphany and more, I've realized I REALLY struggle with completion in all areas, even my favorite hobby (Gaming). I'm working on it, trying to identify the things that keep me from completing games, but most of the time I see it just being a chase for dopamine when the game I'm currently playing isn't providing enough anymore. Completion provides it, but I have to get there to get the hit.
I agree with many in here that not completing games or media isn't inherently "Bad," but it is a sign of something "bad" for me. I need to get a little better at identifying the things that keep me from completing and I need to exercise restraint when I see myself jumping to the next thing, because there may be a reason and it might not be a great one... or I might just be bored.
Not always, but far more than I used to. I used to jump around from game to game similar to how you're describing and rarely stuck with games long enough to finish them, in part due to how easy it's become to access so many digitally.
I started keeping a spreadsheet of games I own and/or want to play, and I use it to keep track of what I'm playing. It helps keep me on track. I just follow a few simple "rules":
I never pressure myself to finish a game I'm not enjoying. But since I started following these rules and keeping my sheet maybe 4-5 years ago, I've probably been finishing 5x as many games every year. Probably more than that, even. It's not about forcing myself to finish games I hate; it's about keeping myself on track instead of jumping around to 50 different games in a week. I'm far more deliberately about which games I choose to play, and which games I choose to stop playing.
I don’t even always finish sentences I’ve
Looking at my PS4 trophy and game completion table, I've not completed any games, ever.
The last game I remember completing including all secrets was Super Mario World on SNES. I definitely completed Mario Kart too.
Games are just too extensive these days. Trophies are nigh on impossible to complete, although I have a mate who regularly bleats on about Platinums he's achieved. He's 38 with no kids, and a LOT of free time as he's self employed and does 30 hr weeks. With enough time and dedication yeah, game completion would be higher but there's too many games and not enough hours.
If you’re enjoying the time when you are playing the hand then I don’t really see that as a problem.
I probably finish about 40% of the games I try (60% if you only count games I’ve bought and not stuff like gamepass) and then will go back eventually sometimes years later and finish around another 5-10%.
It’s honestly never bothered me as games are there to enjoyed and entertaining, if I’m no longer enjoying it why would I continue playing? You should never feel obligated to play a game, at that point as others have said it’s basically become a job.
Also games have changed over the past 20 years not just you, they’ve general become longer as well as greedier, trying to demand all of your time with fomo mechanics and daily bonuses so I try to avoid those types of games or at least disengage with that side of the game.
If the issue is more I want to play all these games right nowand feeling overwhelmed as opposed to losing interest in a game what I do rotate between a max of four, usually two or three, games of completely different genres/ types so I regularly rotate between them. This stops me getting fatigued of then or forgetting what I’m doing but I’ll still just organically stop playing one if I’m not really enjoying it/ a lot more into the others.
The final thing I’d say is that you’re not missing out by not playing everything at release. The games will all still be there. A lot of the games I play are 10, 20, 30 years old and I haven’t missed out on anything by playing them now instead of at release.
Instead I think it’s awesome and really cool that even if nobody ever released another game I’d still have enough amazing new to me games to fill the rest of my life!