I struggle to finish story-heavy games (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by wutamisposedtodo@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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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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[-] wutamisposedtodo@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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)

[-] Hank@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I played Horizon: Zero Dawn once and kinda dropped it after a few hours. Came back a year or so later and got into it just for a bug preventing me reaching the final stage. Fuck that game.
Also Mass Effect Andromeda bugged out after like half the game to the point I had to restart. Didn't touch it anymore. Then I played the OT remaster (which didn't allow me to proceed to the last ten minutes of story because some progress saving bullshit or something similar, can't say for sure anymore). After that I replayed Andromeda and liked it as a ME game although it's pretty mid but then my TV broke and I didn't replace it as I'm kinda not needing my PS because I became way more active. Would be nice to finish a ME story for once tho.