Just curious. I was wondering if anyone here beats (or have beaten) games that they didn't enjoy at all. Out of stubbornness, or just plain to get to the credits and say "I beat it" with bitterness all over your body. If you are the kind of person that boughts a game and until you don't beat it, you don't resell it back to the store, or keep it.

In my case, yes. I've had my share of them; probably the worst offender has been L.A Noire. Halfway the game I had no motivation, no particular interest about anything anymore, and certainly, I wasn't having fun (which is the main purpose of a videogame, to enjoy it; not necessarily out of fun, but something that grabs you and keep you motivated to go on). Right now I'm playing El Shaddai, and so far there's not a lot of things I've enjoyed either. I like the visuals, but those are secondary when the plot is so muddled (I understand they won't tell you everything in the very beginning, but man, those are some ridiculous intros) and the gameplay is so restrictive linear and plain...boring.

Last one: Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. At the very end I did enjoy it, (cool story, and solid gameplay) but man, did I had to made my way through a lot of painfully annoying missions and recolecting those freakin' pieces of Metal Gear's. I gave up twice on that game, and the only thing that brought me back was that guilty feeling of "fuck, this is the only Metal Gear game I haven't beaten".

I make it a point to finish all games I start, even if they're bad. Otherwise, I can't really offer an informed opinion. Plus I feel compelled to beat them :P

I don't think so. I'm pretty close to the end of L.A. Noire but I couldn't finish it. The cases just seemed to get kind of bland.

On a side note, I really enjoyed Peacewalker. Well, Other than Chico, that little fucker.

We think alike I have in mind that I gotta beat it, no matter what. But I don't feel compelled once I finish it...

The first two cases as a detective are pretty interesting. But once you get past them, it's the same, all over again. And again. There's no twist, no different gameplay, not anything. Even If you keep failing when asking the witnesses, you just go on with some clue the character miraculously finds. You can mess up in some cases, but it's not like the game punishes you or anything.

Yup. FF XIII. It's pretty much the only one I've done that with, too.

Halo 3. I was bored and it was there. Found the whole thing bland and underwhelming. Better than homework at least.

True. I also felt like your partners got progressively worse. And the fact that you're pretty much universally hated towards the end of the game doesn't help.

I've written quite a lot of reviews over the years.

That means yes, I've completed games I thoroughly detested.

Rarely do I finish a game I don't enjoy. If it's bad, my mindset is to trade them in as quickly as possible before the value goes down more. I did that with LA Noire, which was an extremely boring game to me.