Poll of the Day > When you wait too long to play a video game and you lose interest.

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Because too much time has passed. I've got mario and luigi bowser's inside story which released 10 years ago on the DS that I never completed. But now I'm just kinda over most video games and can't go back to handheld DS.

This seems to happen more often with a backlog of video games. Eventually too much time passes and you just never play it. That ever happen to you?
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There's still games on the 3DS I want to play but the Switch has spoiled me.

Cruddy_horse posted...

There's still games on the 3DS I want to play but the Switch has spoiled me.

Having an actual decent screen makes 3ds look like such ass
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But the switch looks pretty huge to play as a portable.
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saspa posted...

But the switch looks pretty huge to play as a portable.

It's significantly more cumbersome to be sure, and unless you have a purse you pretty much need a carrying bag. But I'm not really one to use the full extent of the portability anyway as I don't like to bring 3 digit $ items around with me.

But playing in bed at home is so much nicer than the 3DS.

Cruddy_horse posted...

saspa posted...

But the switch looks pretty huge to play as a portable.

It's significantly more cumbersome to be sure, and unless you have a purse you pretty much need a carrying bag. But I'm not really one to use the full extent of the portability anyway as I don't like to bring 3 digit $ items around with me.

But playing in bed at home is so much nicer than the 3DS.

While I do have a carrying bag, you can fit it in certain pockets...
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Honestly, I don't beat a lot of games, even games I like because I can play them all day for a coulpe days or so, then I take a break, never get the urge to jump back in for awhile, forget the story or what I was doing and just start over. Took me the last couple years to finally beat FF Tactics and Legend of Dragoon.
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darcandkharg31 posted...

Honestly, I don't beat a lot of games, even games I like because I can play them all day for a coulpe days or so, then I take a break, never get the urge to jump back in for awhile, forget the story or what I was doing and just start over. Took me the last couple years to finally beat FF Tactics and Legend of Dragoon.

I do this a lot, as well... I do go back to them more often, though. But then I feel like I have to restart to know what I was doing. And how and stuff... I actually have to finish Legend of Dragoon. I start it so often. And get far. But never quite finish. Ive been thinking about it a lot for the past week, as well...
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I do have a huge backlog, but a game's age isn't really a factor. Although it's a pain to hook up older consoles to play.

I want to play Dragoon again but battles take so long that it's a pain. I only beat it the one time.
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I don't buy many games and I only buy the games as I plan to play them.
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I never used to have that problem. The closest I came was with Vice City, where I watched a friend of mine play my copy of the game first, so my motivation to play it was pretty much killed. But I still managed to go back and play it a couple years later.

Now I probably have about a dozen games in my backlog where they're sitting right there on my shelf, packaging completely unopened, yet I never feel in the mood to play them. I usually wind up either playing a new game when it comes out, or going back and playing Minecraft or Stardew or old Bioware games or something.


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This happened to me with Final fantasy 12. The game is so difficult it forced me to grind for a week or two early on. By the time ingot to a comfortable level with my characters, Id completely forgotten about what was going on in the story and just lost interest.

Its a shame because the battles were fun
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Yes, but only with games I intended to purchase, not actually purchased. Here are a few:

Aion: The Tower of Eternity
Battlefield 3
Zelda: Skyward Sword
Overwatch
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usually i've started a game but got distracted by something else (a new game coming out, or life keeping me busy) and end up losing interest. i've still yet to beat lost odyssey because of that. also gotta finish golden sun dark dawn, hyrule warriors, final fantasy 13-2 and lightning returns.
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FrozenBananas posted...

This happened to me with Final fantasy 12. The game is so difficult it forced me to grind for a week or two early on. By the time ingot to a comfortable level with my characters, Id completely forgotten about what was going on in the story and just lost interest.

Its a shame because the battles were fun

Instead of grinding for levels you could have just done the dustia leveling trick.
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saspa posted...

FrozenBananas posted...

This happened to me with Final fantasy 12. The game is so difficult it forced me to grind for a week or two early on. By the time ingot to a comfortable level with my characters, Id completely forgotten about what was going on in the story and just lost interest.

Its a shame because the battles were fun

Instead of grinding for levels you could have just done the dustia leveling trick.

what leveling trick is that? never heard of it. could use it to play through the game again, since it won't be as fun a second time getting high level enough for some of those later hunts.
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mooreandrew58 posted...

saspa posted...

FrozenBananas posted...

This happened to me with Final fantasy 12. The game is so difficult it forced me to grind for a week or two early on. By the time ingot to a comfortable level with my characters, Id completely forgotten about what was going on in the story and just lost interest.

Its a shame because the battles were fun

Instead of grinding for levels you could have just done the dustia leveling trick.

what leveling trick is that? never heard of it. could use it to play through the game again, since it won't be as fun a second time getting high level enough for some of those later hunts.

Oh it's pretty well known, at least I think so. It was one of the first things I saw when I went to the game's page 10+ years ago. Basically you can get Vaan to level 40ish at the very beginning of the game before getting any other party member. Subsequently, your entire party ends up at 40+ from the very beginning of the game. Pretty much one of my favorite game breakers of the vanilla ps2 version, along with the Zodiac spear replicating trick. The dustia leveling trick is still in the ps4 version last I heard.
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saspa posted...

mooreandrew58 posted...

saspa posted...

FrozenBananas posted...

This happened to me with Final fantasy 12. The game is so difficult it forced me to grind for a week or two early on. By the time ingot to a comfortable level with my characters, Id completely forgotten about what was going on in the story and just lost interest.

Its a shame because the battles were fun

Instead of grinding for levels you could have just done the dustia leveling trick.

what leveling trick is that? never heard of it. could use it to play through the game again, since it won't be as fun a second time getting high level enough for some of those later hunts.

Oh it's pretty well known, at least I think so. It was one of the first things I saw when I went to the game's page 10+ years ago. Basically you can get Vaan to level 40ish at the very beginning of the game before getting any other party member. Subsequently, your entire party ends up at 40+ from the very beginning of the game. Pretty much one of my favorite game breakers of the vanilla ps2 version, along with the Zodiac spear replicating trick. The dustia leveling trick is still in the ps4 version last I heard.

oh... i'm already well past that part and i'm not starting over. when I got the ps4 version I basically got all the way to the end of the main story before I quit playing. i've done it before on the ps2 so I didn't quite have the drive to finish, especially since I find the zodiac version a tad harder. fairly sure I easily beat the final boss at the level i'm at now.
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Ah that's alright, I think it's really only for people like me who actually like being super overpowered in video games. Not necessary, just a fun exploit within the game.
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saspa posted...

Ah that's alright, I think it's really only for people like me who actually like being super overpowered in video games. Not necessary, just a fun exploit within the game.

i'm just still salty over my memory card corrupting before I beat yizmat on the ps2. don't think I have it in me to grind to that point again. think I had gotten like 20 percent of his health off before that happened. if you recall you could leave the fight and save your game and return to it later which was my strategy so I didn't get too frustrated.
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FrozenBananas posted...

This happened to me with Final fantasy 12. The game is so difficult it forced me to grind for a week or two early on. By the time ingot to a comfortable level with my characters, Id completely forgotten about what was going on in the story and just lost interest.

Its a shame because the battles were fun

I had a similar problem, but it was less mechanics, and more that I kept spending most of the early game waiting for the story to get interesting or for the main characters to become worthwhile or likeable, and it never happened. That combined with the MMO-lite mechanics just numbed me with boredom until I eventually stopped playing and moved on to .hack instead, and never went back to FF.


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FrozenBananas posted...

This happened to me with Final fantasy 12. The game is so difficult it forced me to grind for a week or two early on. By the time ingot to a comfortable level with my characters, Id completely forgotten about what was going on in the story and just lost interest.

Its a shame because the battles were fun

damn i've never had to grind like that in 12. and I did plenty of grinding for some of the late game hunts
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mooreandrew58 posted...

saspa posted...

Ah that's alright, I think it's really only for people like me who actually like being super overpowered in video games. Not necessary, just a fun exploit within the game.

i'm just still salty over my memory card corrupting before I beat yizmat on the ps2. don't think I have it in me to grind to that point again. think I had gotten like 20 percent of his health off before that happened. if you recall you could leave the fight and save your game and return to it later which was my strategy so I didn't get too frustrated.

I know what you mean, and interesting coincidence, I also had save file corruption with the ps3's yellow light of death on a final fantasy game (FF 8) when I was so close to finally beating it, and it made me so pissed that I didn't play for like 3 years. I actually just beat the game a few months ago after making my peace with the whole affair and starting from scratch, this time being even better than before and learning from my mistakes.

With FF 12 the thing about the Dustia leveling trick is that you can do it in one sitting since Vaan is alone in the party and gets all the EXP, and I think Dustia gives out like 1000 exp per battle or something, so since Vaan is alone in the party his exp shoots up considerably and then all the other party members match his level since they're joining for the first time. That's personally why I liked it. Also the ps4 version of 12 is nice since it's the zodiac version so that's hopefully like a new way to play the game.
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Its specifically open world and rpgs for me. I start doing a bunch of side quests a third of the way through the story and just lose interest. I was having a lot of fun with DQ11 and Horizon Zero Dawn, but six months later they've both been shelved.

I finish games before I move on. This means I don't get a backlog too. Although with that said I have exchanged Kingdom Hearts 1.5, 2.5 and 2.8 for Kingdom Hearts: The Story So Far so I can have the whole collection on the PS4. This has been unopened for a while as I'm playing another game at the moment.
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saspa posted...

mooreandrew58 posted...

saspa posted...

Ah that's alright, I think it's really only for people like me who actually like being super overpowered in video games. Not necessary, just a fun exploit within the game.

i'm just still salty over my memory card corrupting before I beat yizmat on the ps2. don't think I have it in me to grind to that point again. think I had gotten like 20 percent of his health off before that happened. if you recall you could leave the fight and save your game and return to it later which was my strategy so I didn't get too frustrated.

I know what you mean, and interesting coincidence, I also had save file corruption with the ps3's yellow light of death on a final fantasy game (FF 8) when I was so close to finally beating it, and it made me so pissed that I didn't play for like 3 years. I actually just beat the game a few months ago after making my peace with the whole affair and starting from scratch, this time being even better than before and learning from my mistakes.

With FF 12 the thing about the Dustia leveling trick is that you can do it in one sitting since Vaan is alone in the party and gets all the EXP, and I think Dustia gives out like 1000 exp per battle or something, so since Vaan is alone in the party his exp shoots up considerably and then all the other party members match his level since they're joining for the first time. That's personally why I liked it. Also the ps4 version of 12 is nice since it's the zodiac version so that's hopefully like a new way to play the game.

Hey I actually quit 8 too and came back years later. Different reason though. Couldnt be bothered to learn the junction system and couldnt beat ultimecia. Got to her 4th form though and she had started her final speech. Anyways the battle had been so tough I quit. Didnt help I never leveled up half my party. Probably why I'm ocd on keeping all my party memebers the same level in jrpgs now
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That was actually the reason I quit FF 8 the first time (and I'm sure many others were the same) because I had no interest in learning the weird junction system. It's why the second time I was forced to quit was so frustrating, I had finally learned how to break the game utilizing triple triad (FF 8 is basically a card game with some rpg on the side) and then all of a sudden my system shuts down.

But 3rd time was the charm so everything worked out in the end.

You got all the way to the end though, weird to stop there. I stopped at disc 3 due to the moon events. It's funny but actually in FF 8 the lower your party members' level the better, due to the level scaling in the game. It's junctioning the right spells that's the most important. But yeah that's what the game is like. Not quite like a traditional jrpg in terms of gameplay.
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Sorta. I have a lot of games that I planned on playing but never did. Not so much because of age. More like I bought a bunch of RPG's since I used to play them a lot. Then realized I don't have time for 80 hour games. Then some other stuff I was not in the mood to play before packing up that collection to focus on another.

saspa posted...

Because too much time has passed. I've got mario and luigi bowser's inside story which released 10 years ago on the DS that I never completed. But now I'm just kinda over most video games and can't go back to handheld DS.

This seems to happen more often with a backlog of video games. Eventually too much time passes and you just never play it. That ever happen to you?

Funny, I also lost interest in that game early on.

I've been doing this more lately though. Last fall I had 4 active games and just decided to take a break from all of them. I still haven't really gotten back into it.
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