How do you decide when to drop a game?
If you are halfway through, do you finish despite the sunk cost, or quit because you aren't having fun?

>>712757014 (OP)
I finish it anyway. I feel like I can't judge a game until I see everything it offers.

I drop games mostly because I have severe attention deficit

i take a week break from the game then if I'm still not in the mood it gets binned

>>712757014 (OP)
Softlocks, if i have to use a previous save or replay the whole shit, i'm not playing it anymore or ever.

>>712757014 (OP)
Quit and come back later

>>712757014 (OP)
Quit but id refund well before needing 6 hours to tell if i hate this game.

>>712757265
>play BotW and TotK to near 100% (didn't collect every single korok)
>they fucking suck
>mfw
It's nice to be able to be specific about why you hate something. Helps you identify and explain the things you love.

>>712757014 (OP)
I get near the end, realize I solved the game a while ago and I haven't been having much fun, then I can't be bothered to finish it off.

>>712757014 (OP)
I get busy and then enough time passes for me to lose my bearings and it feels like it'd be a chore to pick it up back up and relearn everything.

>>712757359
This.
Funny how many RPGs suffer this fate.

>>712757014 (OP)
I usually don't decide, I just never go back to the game because I don't want to play it

I finish like 3% of the games I play, if that. There are too many games for me to get stuck on a game I'm neither having fun with or feeling invested in finishing.

>>712757359
filtered

I dropped the batman arkham game after like 2 hours because the combat was ass.

Basically, I just quit.

>>712757014 (OP)
Im so close to dropping reverse collapse but I cant tell if Im just not at the bit where it "gets good" or if its legitimately just overrated.

>>712757014 (OP)
I dropped the greatest JRPG ever halfway through because it sucked.

>>712760071
The stealth and puzzle maps are there to teach you how to play the game properly in the later maps where not utilizing stealth mechanics will get you slaughtered. Also to be really fucking mean sometimes. Expect them to get worse.

>>712757014 (OP)
IDK Anon, im not a psychologist

ive played Noita(that cheap indie pixel game) 300+HRs b4 looking at a wiki & am still playing it & enjoying it
but i stopped playing BL3 within 15+ HRs because it was total dogshit to my perception (i loved BL1 & 2 tho; 150+HRs)

pay me if u wana do a study....., i suppose it's just burnout
BITCH

>>712757014 (OP)
Picrelated got old pretty quick for me

>>712757014 (OP)
Any time I decide to "push through" or "give a game a chance" I regret it. There are some games that had to grow on me, and ones where I did put it down and pick it up later, but the ones that were actually worth it (like Outer Wilds or Nine Sols) would at least have something in them that made me want to pick it up again

>>712757014 (OP)
I dont force myself through games I dont enjoy
Gave up on Lies of P after 10 hours

Oblivion remastered after 50 hours because I fucked around with sidequests until I got bored without even going to Kvatch

>>712757265
FPBP

>>712757014 (OP)
If I didn't finish it at that point I would feel like a quitter and that feels like shit.

I don't decide to drop it, it just happens as I'm busy in life with other things or a new game I've wanted to play comes out and takes my focus.

>>712760258
>Also to be really fucking mean sometimes
yeah the game seems to hate the player. The turret/trap tutorial level put me off really hard when it gave me an A/B option and one will brick you if you pick it since you cant outrange the turrets at the end which is like a half hour of progress lost chipping away at turrets and mines.

Honestly I think my problem is I dont savescum and the game really wants me to savescum

>>712757014 (OP)
If I don't like it I drop it. Doesn't matter if it's 5 mins or 5000 hrs.

>>712757823
Can you list a few things so I can add them to my repertoire

>>712757014 (OP)
I'm trying to decide right now whether or not to drop Hollow Knight, I'm 30 minutes in and don't know if I can stomach another 40 hours of exploring this world when I could play a tighter Metroidvania with a better map.

>>712757014 (OP)
The combat was janky and I did not like art
I decided to quit after an hour and a half

I play games until right before the final boss and then I quit and never play them again.

>>712757014 (OP)
i dropped expedition 33 at the last boss because the game crashed so i just googled the ending. i dropped bioshock infinite at the last boss because i fell through the floor. every other game i drop in 30 minutes

>>712760728
There will be a lot of "gotchas!" where you basically had no way of knowing that action could have fucked you up without sitting around and observing the patrol routes for a few turns. Also tons of things you'd never know without looking them up, like that turret/trap level has a secret bypass you can do to get around having to time Mendo and Jefuty getting through perfectly. It's malicious frequently for sure. Stockholm syndrome is how I would describe my enjoyment for this game. I thought it'd be worse on a replay with all the puzzles but turns out by the end of it you just learned how the developers think so it's pretty smooth. I did both playthroughs on Challenge+ but I used what checkpoints the game gave me.

>>712757265
This. I played Zestiria twice (once on the highest difficulty) and grinded out for double and triple stack skills because I was morbidly fascinated by how shit it was compared to all previous Tales games.

the millisecond i stop having fun i immediately drop the controller on the ground and walk away, wiping the game from my memory

>>712761072
Reddit Knight is slop, just play Portrait of Ruin again

>>712760162
Earthbound was made to be emulated and played on x5 speed while grinding xp. Without that I would've dropped it too

>>712761043
The combat in general is not very good. Specifics to that boil down primarily to the enemy AI and design. Nothing in the game is very fun to fight. They're too predictable and never seem like they're actually out to, you know, kill you. It's like fighting basic Resident Evil zombies for 30 hours, except with no fear of running out of ammunition, which is ironic considering the durability mechanic, but it's ultimately a non-issue since you can just walk away from fights. There's very little context where an enemy actually gatekeeps you from anything.
I can go into more if you want, but that's the bulk of the gameplay right there.

Never. I always finish every game that I start, if only so that I can cross it off my mental checklist.

>>712757014 (OP)
>do you finish despite the sunk cost
>despite
Why can't ESLs understand common phrases?

The first 2 hours of a game should tell you if you're going to like it.

>>712757014 (OP)
I've had countless games where I picked up and dropped them more than a handful of times, and then I just play them years later and thoroughly enjoy them and finish them, not really sure what it is but it's especially the case with RPGs

>>712757014 (OP)
If I don't feel like playing it I don't play it.

>>712757014 (OP)
I rarely drop a game but if I do I do it rather quickly, normally it's easy to tell if I'll have fun with a game or not

>>712762828
Sorry we're butchering the King's language ol' chap.

>>712757014 (OP)
For me one of the drastic cases was shining resonance refrain. I tried really hard to like the game but the most I could get from it after 3 attempts was that its a janky arpg that makes walking simulators look fun by comparison. no amount of cleavage window could justify how bad that game is.

>>712757014 (OP)
I generally keep going for a while after it gets boring and then end up dropping the game anyway

>>712757265
I just judge a game once I complete the main progression, if a game doesn't strongly compel me to do side content I won't bother

>>712757014 (OP)
I am very selective when it comes to the games I will play, I will look at images and videos of the game, if I like what I see then I will play the game.

By doing this, I have a very high chance to not drop a game, even then sometimes I drop them because something else that I was looking forward to releases and forces me to stop playing.

>>712757265
I only did this once with dq11 and my opinion didnt change, shit game

>>712757014 (OP)
I just get bored and drop it, little blog ahead, I have 1000 hours in underrail and I've never beaten it, I always get bored halfway through to the point I I'm playing on dominating (hardest to a joke) at this point, right now doing another run and I'm at the expedition, it always ends like the same, I get bored after finishing the expedition at level 17-18

>>712757265
>I feel like I can't judge a game until I see everything it offers.
I can. Finished Xeno X on Switch, didn't feel like doing all the sidequests. I'm done with it. DONE. It was alright too.

Usually I just don't think about it anymore and forget to keep playing.

>>712757014 (OP)
>How do you decide when to drop a game?
sometimes i stop because the game is shit and unfun, not story gameplay or anything worthwhile for me so i use my time for the better, that is the ideal but most of the time i stop playing because i reach 1/4th of the way through and then life fucks me in the ass for a month and i never pick it up again, i have like 5 games that i stopped playing midway because of this across the last year
>do you finish despite the sunk cost
because of not inspite of.
that was my mentality long ago but i stopped because it's stupid retarded and faggots here who tell you "NOOOOOO this game is different :,(,,, it gets better in 20 more levels trust me :,(,,,,, it will be worth it" are deranged and shouldn't be engaged, I'm still stuck with a shitty gacha """game""" because of them and it feels like a job, whoever designed gachas should be tortured to death. if the game didn't catch your interest for a while and you gave it a fair shake then immediately drop it and run the opposite way of anyone telling you "it's a hidden gem made by a secretly genius tortured savant type individual who's the savior of mankind" or somesuch

>>712757014 (OP)
I made the mistake of pushing through a game I wasn't enjoying once, it turned out as you would expect. never again.

Fucking those gaslighting shits in the starfield general

>>712757014 (OP)
I play a ton of games, so I drop a ton of games, and I filter them out 3 times
>does the game instantly control like dogshit? dropped
>does the game fail to hook me in the first 5 minutes through gameplay? dropped
>after playing for an hour or two, I decide if the gameplay is scaling in complexity, or at the very least, the other aspects of the game are progressing, if not, dropped
If I play the for over an hour and I think it's a 7 or higher, than I finish
with the exceptions of games who randomly decide to tell the player to go fuck themselves halfway through
>>712761491
tldr: this

>>712767471
>I made the mistake of pushing through a game I wasn't enjoying once
>never again
>Fucking those gaslighting shits

The latter. If I'm not having a good time I've got plenty of other vidya and not vidya things I can do that I enjoy.

>>712757014 (OP)
If I don't enjoy it and have other things to play
Its really easy - you stop playing and then just don't want go back to it the next day and the next day...

>>712757014 (OP)
How much theres left, how long will it actually take to get there (harder games take longer because repetition), how tired Im of it (in my jrpgs I never do the last dungeon/boss because I just want it to end), etc

The general goal is to get to the main story ending. If I like the game, I will do more if there is post game and additional content. If the game becomes a complete slog and feels miserable to play, I will stop. Or if I get distracted by another game, but that's why I try to have one or two games to play at once, and maybe one other game I can come back to whenever, usually something like AoE2.

If I'm close to the end I normally say fuck it and finish it.

The only game in recent memory I straight up dropped half way through because I just stopped and said "Wait a minute...this shit isn't even fun" was Last Remnant

>>712757014 (OP)
What usually happens is I eventually I hit a barrier. What this means is, a frustrating part of a game or a part that takes more effort than usual. If I like the game, I'll try my hardest to push through it. If I don't like the game enough, this is usually the dropping point for me.

>>712757014 (OP)
If I really want to like the game then I might keep playing even if I start to get bored, but I still probably won't finish it if it's a longer game. If it's some game I picked up on a whim then I usually drop it the moment I find myself getting bored. There's no reason to play a game if you're not enjoying yourself, and forcing yourself to finish a game you're not enjoying will likely just make you like it even less after you finish.

I got a pretty good sense for if it's shit from the get go but if I'm bored I usually just stop. I do fall for story investment traps every once in a while where if the story is good I keep going despite shit gameplay. Heed my warning and do not play the kiseki series past Ao no Kiseki because it gets real shitty real quick.

>>712757014 (OP)
When you decide it isn't worth your time? What a stupid question.

>>712757014 (OP)
Sometimes it just happens. I dropped Alien Isolation right at the home stretch because I was at the time a burnt out corporate wageslave and I was just never in the mood to finish it even though I loved the rest of the game.