How do you decide when you’re done with a game, more specifically those games that don’t really have a defined ending. For example, I’ve been playing Train Fever, I don’t think there is a defined win condition. So I’ve decided to run the game from the year 1800 to the year 2000.
The other option would be to just get sick of it and declare, “I’m done!”
Thoughts?
It’s a difficult one.
It depends on the game. For instance Forza 7 has a main campaign but after you finish it it’s not really finished and there’s still a ton to do. Still my time is limited so I called it a day.
With PUBG I decided to call it a day for now because I got a chicken dinner (beat everyone else) but I still itch to play it some more and probably will.
Other times like with games that have no true ending I’ll play until i’m tired of the game or I know I need to move onto the next because there are so many games to play.
I tend to play a game till everyone else is gatvol
Altho I have now stopped jumping on the bandwagon of all the new games or next ooooooooooooooooooh shiny
I rather replay older games I love, find indie games no one else plays.
I don’t have an unlimited budget. So Im done with a game when I get bored - aka when I start watching tv whilst playing a game then I know its time to stop.
Hmmm, a very interesting question indeed. I think I stop playing open-ended games like that once I get bored and want to move to the next game. What I’ve found is that I tend to not complete games at all. There are way too many games that I started playing and never finished, only to move onto something that doesn’t have an end state.
I don’t think i can ever finish a game lol, years ago i “finished” the cod mw campaigns, but here i am playing them again, i though i was done playing war3 and fable the lost chapters the first time i completed them, but i have played them both again multiple times and somehow still manage to find small changes in how i finished them that i never got the first time.
The only time i see myself finished with a game is if the amount of effort it takes to complete the game is more than the amount of fun i have with the game. Also if it is a game that really only works with finishing it once, for instance there is no need to play the south park games again since i know all the gags and that was basically the only reason i played it.
And then games that were just boring, games i complete just for the sake of completing them and then not caring for them for the rest of time (the most wanted remake comes to mind)
If its a sandbox game like Minecraft for instance I will have a general goal in mind of what I want to build , for everything else once the campaign / story is done its done, that goes for things like skyrim etc…