I'm becoming an agentic videogame player

Yeah I used to force myself to finish games even when I was no longer having fun with them.

Now though
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Been doing that for a quite some time. And yeah, it's a real eyeopener if you've discovered "this newfound freedom" after having been unknowingly bound. I also do it with games overly addictive.
 
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In the book world, they call this "DNF'ing" a book. DNF = Did not finish.

I do that all the time with books, videos, and games.

I read once that only about 20% of readers finish a book. I think the percentage is similar for games.
 
Wait till you get to the final phase, where you can see a game is just more of the same before launch and you simply don't play it all.

The money and time ive saved to do other stuff. Nothing of value was lost for not playing ac shadows this year 🤣 if anything my life is better for it
 
I'm getting better at it. I've put down more games this year than I would have in the past.

Time is the only currency that truly matters. Just want to be careful that I still give the games I play a fair shake before dropping them
 
Feeling forced to beat a shitty game sounds horrifying, glad you managed to get rid of that sentiment.
 
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If I put 5+ hours into a game, then I got my monies worth. Sometimes I just don't have the time, or I'm not enjoying the game much.
 
That's good news OP.

Hopefully you don't come to a point in the future where you make a thread asking people how to focus on just one game.

That seems to be the biggest issue when people constantly drop games, as doing it sort of activates the same attention span issues that a lot of social media scrolling activates already.
 
Started doing that more this year. Replayed Lies of P to prepare for the DLC and I only made it to the first boss of that. Was just tired of it. Same for Oblivion Remastered. 17 hours in and decided to just put it down for good despite having fond memories of the original (nostalgia is a hell of a drug).

Started Pacific Drive, Amnesia: The Bunker, Dying Light: The Beast, and Nine Sols this year, playing for a few hours of each before quitting. Wasn't feeling them. Deleted quite a few games from my Steam Library that I will just never play.
 
Never been like that
Completionist, Backlogs, hardest difficulty. Who cares? Im here for whatever is fun and enjoyable, not a chore. If i do all that and im having fun- great, otherwise its a mix.
 
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I'm the same these days. I literally just had this with Ghost of Yotei last week. I had a lot of fun with it, but when I got to around the 15-16 hour mark and realised I still had probably 15-20 hours of game left, I dropped it and moved on as the repetition started to really set in.

I don't really think those type of open world games are for me at this stage as they are just too long and I have too much else going on. I'm finding that 15-20 hours is the sweet spot for game length for me personally when playing single player games. I can make some exceptions for RPGs depending on how good the game itself is.
 
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