Do you play games to beat them?

[KLXVER]

Mnementh said:

KLXVER said:

Well you know what looks fun based on previous experiences with a similar game. Sure its not always clear, so you have to take a chance, but the intention when buying a game is to enjoy it and beat it. If its not fun, then you stop playing it. Buying a game just to see if you like it makes no sense. You buy it, play it for 2 hours, you love it and then stop playing it because you bought it ONLY to see if you would enjoy it. Thats just weird.

Again: I try to gauge if it will be fun, but nobody can tell me that works. It is probably a point of expectation. A game that works and is polished... but bland - that is not a game I will finish. And a lot of AAA games are exactly that: include a lot of stuff that is great on paper, have good graphics, work as intended - but don't grip me. Marketing obviously paint a different picture. And you can't tell me it is different for you. There is an old saying, that 90% of everything is crap. Which is true, because we scale our expectations with the best. People these days still read Lord of the Rings from Tolkien, but thousands of other authors that wrote at the same time are forgotten, because they were not as good. The only difference today is that you often are still caught in hype. So with trying to pick you poison you may avoid 50% of the mediocre crap, or even 90%. That still means half of the games you play are crap. People get often bamboozled by pretty graphics or big worlds or whatever, but I am an old gamer who plays for some time, and I can often have more fun with older experiences with shitty graphics and less content. Because the core of the game is fun.

Im not sure what you are arguing at this point. You buy a game in hopes that its good, that you will enjoy it to the end and beat it.(Unless its a game without an end of course like multiplayer games and MMOs.)

If you are buying games and play it for a bit just to see if they are fun or not, then I cant relate to that.