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I generally, for the most part...

Play games to beat them 30 85.71%
 
Play games to beat but fail to do so 1 2.86%
 
Play a chunk and move on 4 11.43%
 
Play the tutorial and fall off 0 0%
 
Fail to boot up many games 0 0%
 
Fail to purchase many games 0 0%
 
Fail to browse games 0 0%
 
Only read about games 0 0%
 
have no interest in games 0 0%
 
Total:35
LegitHyperbole said:
Leynos said:

I always start a movie and quit after 10 min. Who ever finishes a movie like really?

You joke but Teophy stats say it all. The average is 30% completion. I've seen games fall well below that but only a few that exceed it significantly like TLOU pt2, Astrobot or Spiderman 2. Dragons Dogma 2 for example has an 11% completion rate. 1 outta ten people. Many fall off after the first hour or two, a 30 percent fall off. Hell, many people fail to pop the trophies for first boss encounters and even trophies that have one for starting the game can dip below 90% meaning 1/10 people boot up the game to unlovk the trophy list, look at the settings and go, nah, I'm not feeling this one. I've seen that go below 70% before. So yeah, gaming is a different beast but if we had stats of people falling off of films there's a reason Netflix counts 2 mins as a watch time per user. 

Man, this is some autistic shit. I'm sorry. 

What's the completion rate for TLOU Part 2



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IcaroRibeiro said:
LegitHyperbole said:

You joke but Teophy stats say it all. The average is 30% completion. I've seen games fall well below that but only a few that exceed it significantly like TLOU pt2, Astrobot or Spiderman 2. Dragons Dogma 2 for example has an 11% completion rate. 1 outta ten people. Many fall off after the first hour or two, a 30 percent fall off. Hell, many people fail to pop the trophies for first boss encounters and even trophies that have one for starting the game can dip below 90% meaning 1/10 people boot up the game to unlovk the trophy list, look at the settings and go, nah, I'm not feeling this one. I've seen that go below 70% before. So yeah, gaming is a different beast but if we had stats of people falling off of films there's a reason Netflix counts 2 mins as a watch time per user. 

Man, this is some autistic shit. I'm sorry. 

What's the completion rate for TLOU Part 2

58% on ps4. Almost 60% which is phenomenal for a game that length. There are very few games that get that high. I can only think of a handful and they're usually first party Sony games like spiderman 2, God of war '18, Uncharted the lost legacy or short visual novels. 



LegitHyperbole said:
IcaroRibeiro said:

What's the completion rate for TLOU Part 2

58% on ps4. Almost 60% which is phenomenal for a game that length. There are very few games that get that high. I can only think of a handful and they're usually first party Sony games like spiderman 2, God of war '18, Uncharted the lost legacy or short visual novels. 

TLOU2 is what I can say is a true divisive game. Not mixed reception, but truly divisive 

The ones who hate it make it feel like it's the wrost thing ever done 

The ones who like think it's a masterpiece of storytelling with a good gameplay. I'm in this group



Of course. Why wouldnt you?



LegitHyperbole said:

I know one thing, I'm never beating Returnal the game is too hard. I thought I was a skilled gamer but this is pretty intense.

Yeah I think I got stuck at biome 3 and haven't gotten back into it



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Mnementh said:
Leynos said:

I always start a movie and quit after 10 min. Who ever finishes a movie like really?

Sorry, this is a bad analogy. A movie is two hours, maybe three. And even for movies, especially long ones I did actually drop them if they suck.

But do you watch a show to the end, even if the first two episodes were shit? Probably not.

Many games nowadays are more akin to a series in length than a movie: you have many 100 hours games and only few two hour games. And let me tell you: I actually finished a lot of the two hour games I played. Again, A Short Hike is a good example. But 100 hour games? I did not finish a lot of them. I never finished any Assassins Creed game. That may be partly because for me the story part was usually boring, while I liked some of the regular gameplay, so I played it as long as it was fun and then stopped.

The thing that makes me wonder more: why are so many people here so committed to finish a game that stopped being fun tens of hours ago? No wonder people start to hate gaming. Why do you force yourself to endure that, do you hate yourself so much?

For me it is the intention of purchase. If I buy a movie ticket and go into the movie theater, you bet I am going to watch the whole thing to the end. If I buy a game I will probably play the game to the end. But I don't buy games that I won't enjoy. I have fun playing it til the end so why wouldn't I finish it?

If I get the game for free or try it at a friend's house, I probably won't play it to the end. I tend to not like the games gifted to me or what's available for free on services.

If I buy an entire tv show set of episodes, I will probably watch it to the end. It is very unlikely I ever buy something that would be worth dropping after 2 episodes. If I got it as part of a service, then I am more likely to drop it and watch something worth watching, because I didn't choose it.



Farsala said:
Mnementh said:

Sorry, this is a bad analogy. A movie is two hours, maybe three. And even for movies, especially long ones I did actually drop them if they suck.

But do you watch a show to the end, even if the first two episodes were shit? Probably not.

Many games nowadays are more akin to a series in length than a movie: you have many 100 hours games and only few two hour games. And let me tell you: I actually finished a lot of the two hour games I played. Again, A Short Hike is a good example. But 100 hour games? I did not finish a lot of them. I never finished any Assassins Creed game. That may be partly because for me the story part was usually boring, while I liked some of the regular gameplay, so I played it as long as it was fun and then stopped.

The thing that makes me wonder more: why are so many people here so committed to finish a game that stopped being fun tens of hours ago? No wonder people start to hate gaming. Why do you force yourself to endure that, do you hate yourself so much?

For me it is the intention of purchase. If I buy a movie ticket and go into the movie theater, you bet I am going to watch the whole thing to the end. If I buy a game I will probably play the game to the end. But I don't buy games that I won't enjoy. I have fun playing it til the end so why wouldn't I finish it?

If I get the game for free or try it at a friend's house, I probably won't play it to the end. I tend to not like the games gifted to me or what's available for free on services.

If I buy an entire tv show set of episodes, I will probably watch it to the end. It is very unlikely I ever buy something that would be worth dropping after 2 episodes. If I got it as part of a service, then I am more likely to drop it and watch something worth watching, because I didn't choose it.

You equalling paying for it = being fun. I cannot see into the future. I cannot see if a game is fun, a movie is fun, a show is fun, until I try it.



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Mnementh said:
Farsala said:

For me it is the intention of purchase. If I buy a movie ticket and go into the movie theater, you bet I am going to watch the whole thing to the end. If I buy a game I will probably play the game to the end. But I don't buy games that I won't enjoy. I have fun playing it til the end so why wouldn't I finish it?

If I get the game for free or try it at a friend's house, I probably won't play it to the end. I tend to not like the games gifted to me or what's available for free on services.

If I buy an entire tv show set of episodes, I will probably watch it to the end. It is very unlikely I ever buy something that would be worth dropping after 2 episodes. If I got it as part of a service, then I am more likely to drop it and watch something worth watching, because I didn't choose it.

You equalling paying for it = being fun. I cannot see into the future. I cannot see if a game is fun, a movie is fun, a show is fun, until I try it.

Not necessarily 10/10 fun. But I like to get my money's worth. I can have fun with 99% of my purchases.



Mnementh said:
Farsala said:

For me it is the intention of purchase. If I buy a movie ticket and go into the movie theater, you bet I am going to watch the whole thing to the end. If I buy a game I will probably play the game to the end. But I don't buy games that I won't enjoy. I have fun playing it til the end so why wouldn't I finish it?

If I get the game for free or try it at a friend's house, I probably won't play it to the end. I tend to not like the games gifted to me or what's available for free on services.

If I buy an entire tv show set of episodes, I will probably watch it to the end. It is very unlikely I ever buy something that would be worth dropping after 2 episodes. If I got it as part of a service, then I am more likely to drop it and watch something worth watching, because I didn't choose it.

You equalling paying for it = being fun. I cannot see into the future. I cannot see if a game is fun, a movie is fun, a show is fun, until I try it.

Well why would you buy a game you dont think looks like fun? You buy it in hopes its as good as it looks and beat it.



KLXVER said:
Mnementh said:

You equalling paying for it = being fun. I cannot see into the future. I cannot see if a game is fun, a movie is fun, a show is fun, until I try it.

Well why would you buy a game you dont think looks like fun? You buy it in hopes its as good as it looks and beat it.

Again, I don't know before what if it will be fun. My impression before buying is more influenced by hype and advertisement - like all of us. Sure, I try to read the tea leaves and crow bones to get if a game or a show will be good, but they aren't always right. I decided to go a lot indie, with lower investment I can try out more different stuff. Better than trying to assuage if the big AAA game is another mediocre safe experience or actually a big step forward - but the marketing will always tell me it will be great.

Last edited by Mnementh - on 03 December 2024

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