What is your game attention span?

[Shadow1980]

I typically stick with a single game at a time, and I might play a couple of hours a day on average. As for dropping games before finishing them, I have done so for weeks or months before eventually returning to it. Sometimes it's because I get sidetracked by other things and fell off the game because something else grabbed my attention. Sometimes it's because a game is just too long and overstays its welcome and I want to move on to something else. Even if the core gameplay is good, a game that just goes on and on and on with seemingly no end in sight will eventually make me tired of it.

As for how long it takes for a game to really grab me before I give up on it, given how drawn-out and protracted games have become over the past 20 years, maybe an hour or two. That seems to be how long it takes to get a good feel for the game. Past that, if it doesn't grab me I'm not going to slog it out for another 40-60 hours. For example, a friend of mine kept insisting I play Mass Effect. I gave it a try, but I simply could not get into it. The setting & story looked interesting, the art style was decent, but I simply could not get past the gameplay. The combat just felt too clunky and I wasn't deriving any enjoyment from it. It just didn't click with me. After a couple of hours, I tapped out. My friend kept insisting "It'll get better as you level up," but I'm not the kind of person who has the patience to deal with a game where "It gets good after the first 20 hours! Trust me, bro!"