You guys, too?
Basically, when I come close to the last quarter of a game, I spend so much time perfecting the character stats/ammo/items/whatever that I get bummed out over it, loose the immersion and never see the end.
Latest additions to the "95% club" include Shadows of Mordor, Witcher 3 and MGS-V ...
(Not completing MGS-V makes me sad, though - I've rarely encountered a game with that much "pull". Not since I turned 20, that is ...)
... and now I need a fresh fix. Any suggestions?
Eh.. that's usually not it for me. It tends to be the draw of other things that gets me into other games and away from whatever I was playing. I'm one of those people who can only do the same thing over and over for so long. My room mate and sit down for like 6 hour+ marathon sessions of a game. I usually get bored after an hour. Or in the macro terms, I get bored playing the same game usually well before reaching the end of those 60+ hour games. Or if it's a game with options, I'll get into one class or whatever for a while, then want to try another. I'm the classic altoholic. It was easier to stay with a game back when there were a lot fewer options... But these days, with major RPGs coming out on a regular basis, dozens of MMOs competing for my attention, MOBAs, battle arena games and oddball games like Minecraft.. not to mention my non-computer gaming hobbies all competing for my attention... it's actually a rare and special game that can keep me locked in for very long.
I see ... Then and again, you probably fall between
"Core- and Hardcore-Gamer" on the spectrum (that I didn't knew existed until a short while ago ...), something I haven't
really allowed myself to plunge into since roughly 2004.
With me, it's more that the more I fall in love with a game, the more I don't want it to end - and hence I tend to progress ever slower the closer I come to the finishing line. Trouble with this tendency is that I kill my infatuation, because it becomes repetitive, and the immersion become ever harder. Curiously, I've neverever re-played a game ... I guess it's like re-reading your favorite book? Sure, it's the bestest(est) - but you already know it inside & out?
Another thing I (try to) force myself not to do is looking up Tweaks & Tricks - because nothing kills the
"OhLookatAlltehPRETTYYYYY!!!!" faster than understanding in perfect detail how every single NPCs will react to every conceivable input (Though, truth be told, the "not looking up shit" is about as easy as "
Simply not hitting quicksafe" ...)
Altoholic - Never seen the term before (Yes, I really
am old ...), though it seems to be more of an RPGer-thingy. I'm a bit more into the Shooter-ethos, i.e. perfecting a human skill in my own brain through gratuitous amounts of mindnumbingly stupid repetitive tasks. It took me a long time to enjoy RPGs, and I can't enjoy round-based ones - reminds me too much of the boardgames of my childhood (Boardgames are
SHITE when you have
nothing but boardgames ...)
BLAHFARBLURGHLLLLLETMETELLYOUALLABOUTMYSELFAAARRRGLLH - I still need a suggestion for my next infatuation? (!?) (!!!????)
You recommending MGS-V was spot-on, btw ... MOAR!