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Yeah that’s definitely how I am. I can tell what’s coming and so I maybe just lose the “need” to complete the game.

I did that with Morrowind finally last year and just had an amazing time playing through it all the way.


Yeah same here. I have found myself playing almost entirely sandbox games these last few years. Where there isn’t really and end goal (or at least one I’m not required to complete) and I just get to build something or manage resources, etc.


Yes, same here. I have the last mission (I think, “Meet Hannako at Embers”) in Cyberpunk still to do and I pick it up and do a handful of side quests every few months. Maybe I’ll finish it, eventually.


I can count on one hand the number of games I’ve finished in the last 4-5 years. Off the top of my head

  • The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
  • Spider-Man (PS4)
  • Red Dead Redemption II
  • L.A. Noire
  • Middle Earth: Shadow of War

Games I stopped playing:

  • Horizon: Zero Dawn (PC)
  • Cyberpunk 2077
  • Disco Elysium (I know. right.)
  • DEATHLOOP
  • Spider-Man: Remastered (PC)
  • Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey
  • Divinity: Original Sin II
  • Dying Light 2
  • Half Life - Alyx
  • Boneworks
  • The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
  • Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (I think I did complete this game once when I was 14 or so)
  • Kingdom Come: Deliverance
  • Fallout 4 (I did complete the story to this a long time ago but I wanted to give it another go a couple years back)

RDR2 is actually one of the few games I have finished in the last few years.


I struggle to finish story-heavy games
I'm not sure why exactly, but I just struggle to finish basically any game where there is a heavy focus on story. I seem to get about 90% of the way through them and then just stop playing abruptly. I think sometimes I do that because I just play too much in too short of a time, so I burn myself out on it unintentionally because I'm just enjoying the story so much up to that point. Other times I seem to be able to tell where the story is going and I don't like it, usually because it's tragic and I don't want to experience the tragedy I know is coming; It's like this sense of dread overcomes me and I struggle to continue. Other times still, I seem to just know the end is coming and I don't want it to end so I put it off and then forget that I was almost done with it. Does anyone else do this? I feel bad for having not finished a ton of different games, even the ones I was really enjoying at one time.
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