Habit of not completing games I buy. Help?

[Rontemon]

I have a bad habit of never completing games I buy.

Most games I buy on sale and never really gotten to completing them. I play them for a few hours, then buy a new game and move on to the next game and this cycle continues.

To date, I have only completed a few games like:

1) Dark Souls (Can't wait for Dark Souls 2)
2) All Final Fantasy games on PS1
3) Diablo 2 and Diablo 3.

Most of the games on my games library are just there.. Yeah..

Why? New games keep coming out and I keep moving on to the next game before I actually finish the previous game I bought.

I feel like I get more excitement from researching a game on youtube and looking at game reviews. When I finally do get the game. The hype dies down and I move on to the next unreleased game to get a hype on.

Anyone else facing a similar problem?

[Selfdestruct264]

I have exactly the same problem. Especially if I buy Game Packs like the Humble Bundle. Maybe I need to ignore any new games coming out for a year or so until I play the games I already have.

[MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™]

Honestly there is no point completing most games, the endings are never worth it, luckily youtube allows you to watch the ending if you want.

I used to complete games, but after a while I realized there was no point, it was grinding just to grind, if you stop enjoying it, then yea, don't do it.

[Meatbug]

Things that might help:

• Buy games as a gift and only activate, when you are about to play it. Don't activate any other game, unless your done.
  
• Sort your games in categories eg. make a category called "playing" (can only contain 3 games max or so) and one with new games. don't install the new ones unless you're about to play them and your finished with one of the games in "playing"
  
• just buy games you are really interested in...i mean...really interested!! for the rest: wait for sales or just don't buy, it's not like they will vanish (with few exceptions maybe).
  
  I mean, it doesn't seems like you stop playing because the other games are bad, its just that there are other games that distract you.
  So you would need to do something against that distraction.
  
  The more you own and didn't played yet, the more distraction there is/will be.
  

[earthprime163]

I used to have this problem - then I realized that Games aren't going anywhere. I mean, what is the harm in not buying the next big game and instead stick with the games you have until you beat them? Its not like Steam is only selling big games for 1 week. You'll also save money because the big titles will drop in price over time.

[MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™]

Well mainly you realize you are just playing the same game over and over again with slightly different graphics lol

[NotCristian]

I'm pretty sure this a problem a lot of users have.

[Lt. Wiggles]

I have this problem for sure

[Rimfrost]

I think it's an experience/age-related issue. When I was younger I got really excited by games and could 100% almost anything and just continue playing a game forever and it was still fun. Nowadays nothing excites me anymore. Games are simply fun now, nothing more. There's nothing like "Wow, this is so cool!", or similar reactions/feelings towards game any longer. Basically the only exciting thing in life now is to see some real great extreme metal band live. And that's about to fade out as well.

I think you've played so much that you've done everything already. You've felt and experienced all those awesome feelings and they don't quite do it for you anymore. It's like being used to a certain kind of drug, after a while you have to take more to get the same rush.
You have to find that one, special game of games which will rock your world as if you were 10 years old again.

[Silv3r9]

I have the same problem but I stopped caring a long time ago.

Imho. Only a few games are good enough to keep me interested and motivated to actually finish them while many others are just disposable, irrelevant and part of the wash, rinse, repeat cycle of playing for a short time, getting bored and moving on to the next one.

I guess that is the natural result of the saturated market where it feels like we are trapped under an constant avalanche of new releases plus all the sales/deals and bundles available at any given time. Heck, anyone can have an obscene game library nowadays and not give a royal hoot about 90% of them.

Not long ago buying and finishing a game was a big deal and new releases/bundles didn't come every 24hr flipping hours - now...meh!

[MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™]

Well its not just game releases, its an entertainment avalanche. How many "great" tv series do you have backlogged? Have you watched breaking bad yet?;) Never mind movies.... so yea, less motivation to finish..but also perhaps lower tolerance for bs.

[Shasow]

Force yourself to play only one game at a time. Before moving onto the next game, uninstall the previous.

[Tanya Degurechaff]

#firstworldproblems,

[Strangepowers]

I dunno, self control?

[Selfdestruct264]

Originally posted by ThatUndeadLegacy@Youtube:

#firstworldproblems,

Best Answer yet!!!! #KingsyetFeelImpoverished
I usually buy games after they are a year old: Ex. BF3 a month before BF4 came out. I just cannot justify $60 or even $30 for a game...

[Ailes]

Play different games, maybe. All the ones you've listed are RPGs afaik (never played Dark Souls), and those often have prolonged playing times and are sometimes catered towards more hardcore-ish players, they sometimes get stall and repetitive inbetween possibly increasing the chances for you to drop them. Focus on shorter, story-based games that suit more the casual minds too, that don't torture you with excessively overdesigned mechanics and bad old design habits such as backtracking. And maybe don't touch multiplayer games, they are extreme time sinks too.