that longest game thread got me thinking about my condition. i suffer from endophobia. I almost always get right to the end of a game and for some reasons i cant bring myself to finish it, i have a number of games in my collection (skies of arcadia, Dead Space, no more heros Xenosaga ect).
It should be a real phobia I get it with comics, manga, and books I never finish them cause I'm enjoying it so much I don't want it to end.
With video games I over think things and want to be a perfectionist all the time mainly not finishing games with character building which are my favorite kind of game. Like for fallout 3 I planned out my perfect character for days but it was so tight trying to do it that I gave up I would of done it if I wasn't trying to max every thing out at the same time.
Skyward sword I kept on delaying the final battle with demise by finding all the goddess cubes, and do side quest. But it wasn't really a fear, I just didn't want it to end cause then I'd have to wait another 3-5 til the next game : (.
i remember i got to the final save point in final fantasy 9. i fucking loved that game but i never got around to finishing it.. then my psx memory card fucked up and there it went >.> i guess i gotta d/l the ps3 version to finish it lol
I can't think of any games I never wanted not to finish. I really quite enjoy a satisfying conclusion, the thrill of having gotten to the end credits and thus proven I am amazing and brilliant. That said, a lot of games I haven't finished at all - my "to finish" collection builds up tenfold yearly - and I've never thought of games as things to be "completed," so I guess I'm in two minds about it.
I guess since I can always start again from the beginning of every single game ever made... it's never occurred to me that I could ever be "done" with a game. I constantly crave new experiences, anyway; I buy games at a rather rapid rate, so... no, I don't think I've ever liked a game badly I've ever wanted it not to end. There are a few games I'd like to see continue, though... *cough* Half-Life *cough*
*three hours in. Finishes last skyrim quest.*
*thinks about what he just did*
"Damn, five years till the next one"
But oh well, its more of a "fear of having nothing of interest to do"
*back to minecraft*
I'm kind of like that. i get tired of a game after a while. then after it's sat on the shelf for a long time, i go back but don't pick up where i left off. i start over. then i get bored of it before finishing, and put it down again. i have many games that i've played the first 1/2, 3/4, three or five times but never finished.