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10:44 AM on 09.21.2009

I kind of go through this phase with games sometimes. I will play the living hell out of it, and then just stop playing. There is absolutely no reason for this, I enjoyed the game(s), put multiple hours into it and for one reason or other I just drop it.

This isn't a discussion about the game I'm going to be bringing up, just the situation itself. I started to play FFXII months ago, I wanted to really get into an rpg or something that I can just put a lot of time and work into and I ended up doing that. I did a TON of the side quests, the hunts, farming items, looking for weapons, etc, etc. I got up until the very last point of the game, right where the castle/ship thing is above the main city, I don't even remember what it was called because it has been so long. At that point I was like 'Ok, I do this later' ... that never happened. I never went back to the game, haven't played it since and just haven't had the desire to turn it back on.

Now, there was nothing wrong with the game (in my opinion of course) that happened to make me do this, I was enjoying the game, having fun with the side quests/hunting and just grinding things out. But for some reason I just stopped and I have no desire (at this point) to go back to it any time soon. I have definitely done this with other games, but it never had to do with the specific games not being good or frustrating, it just ended up happening. And I have absolutely no idea why.

I definitely do want to finish the game, but I just don't feel like it for some odd reason. But I guess the good thing is that I did enjoy the game? Who knows?

Any have similar experiences?



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I definitely do this, and my only advice for getting around it is to simply wait. I had a huge period of time where I didn't want to play Tales of Vesperia after getting about 15 hours into it. I still liked the game and wanted to finish it, but whenever I got around to playing some games, ToV was never one of them. Then, one day, something just clicked, and I went back to it. I think it was just finally the right time.
That sums up my experience with every RPG I have in my collection. I enjoy Lost Odyssey, but I have yet to beat it. Same goes with Final Fantasy XII. I started it a long while back, and started a good run with it but then one day I stopped playing and never went back to it. I haven't even gotten past the second act of The Witcher, out of the 10 or 20 or so times I decided to pick it back up. Even with the games I have already completed, I try to go back and finish them again for the experience of it all, and yet I quit about midway through.
All the time!

Games that i've gone through but still haven't beaten are numerous, it's not the fact that i hate playing them, i just put it down when i'm done with a sit through and never pick it up until months later.

It happens to the best of us :(
Fallout 3. That game is just too damn long for it's own good.

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